I was unaware the Rusty was taken to the hospital. Squeaky reports he’s doing well.

Back on Monday, we had a pretty good discussion going about hate crimes. Frequent Lean Left commenter LarryE expands on this theme:

The usual (flawed) understanding of “hate crimes” legislation is that it would make the hate itself, rather than any actions based on the hate, the crime. It’s that misunderstanding that leads people to fear that “hate crimes” will lead inexorably to “thought crimes,” to people being prosecuted strictly for their opinions.

The thing is, I don’t know of anyone who’s proposed anything approaching that, i.e., proposed a law to make hate itself illegal. “It’s now illegal to be a bigot.” Besides the Constitutional issues, it’s absurd on its face to seriously entertain the notion of being able to simply outlaw racism or ban sexist or homophobic remarks or whatever – or at least it’s absurd to think any such law would actually achieve any of those ends or even be enforceable. So let’s drop that particular misconception and focus on the real argument, one which, as is explicit in the very phrase “hate crimes,” refers to “crimes motivated by hate.”

The whole thing is worth a read.

At The Hill:

Details of the compromise were still incomplete late Wednesday, but a bill is to be introduced Thursday that would narrowly enforce a June Supreme Court decision rejecting the District’s decades-old handgun ban.

A vote on the bill could occur this week, but is more likely in September. Such a delay could give opponents of such a deal time to organize against it.

Republicans have filed a discharge petition to bring a broader D.C. gun-rights bill, sponsored by Ross, to the House floor. The goal was to capitalize on the Supreme Court decision and put pressure on conservative Democrats to buck their leadership on the issue.

Looks like that pressure NRA was putting on Pro-Gun Dems earlier is paying off.

Apparently, you get offers of organs.

Mayors dogs killed in drug raid. This one is a bit odd. Seems the mayor had 30 pounds of weed mailed to him:

“My government blew through my doors and killed my dogs,” Calvo said. “They thought we were drug dealers, and we were treated as such. I don’t think they really ever considered that we weren’t.”

And a bit of like you and me only better:

“You can’t tell me the chief of police of a municipality wouldn’t have been able to knock on the door of the mayor of that municipality, gain his confidence and enter the residence,” Murphy said. “It would not have been a necessity to shoot and kill this man’s dogs.”

Well, now that this has happened to somebody important, maybe something will be done about it.

One of the UU guys that stopped the shooter left a comment at Walls of the City.

Bitter on why a professional web presence should matter to NRA.

I should note that the offending blog is offering good coverage of the National Matches at Camp Perry.

NRA’s Wayne LaPierre on HopeChange!

I wouldn’t say I support McCain, so much as I oppose Obama.

Transadvocate:

feeling torn between my affiliation with both what i’ll call “gun culture” and the “trans community™”.

Like Chris said:Only on the interweb, could you find such a group of people arguing with each other.

Mike’s latest acquisition.

A good read on carrying a concealed handgun in our neighbor state. And restaurant carry.

Sebastian has thoughts.

I thought it was a parody. But it turns out it really is Barack En Vogue Obama’s new ad.

These people really, really scare me.

Sticking with bad movie sequel themes.

NRA has a statement:

Shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the District of Columbia’s gun ban, the District, Mayor and City Council are being sued again over the District’s thinly veiled attempt to continue its restrictions on firearm ownership. D.C. residents Dick Anthony Heller and Absalom F. Jordan, Jr., in conjunction with lawyers for the National Rifle Association (NRA), filed a complaint against the District of Columbia and Mayor Adrian Fenty challenging D.C.’s Firearms Control Emergency Amendment Act of 2008.

Kinda puts to rest the conspiracy theories about how NRA didn’t want Heller to win so they could stay in business, eh?

Mark Souder:

Considering the Supreme Court’s broad decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, I’m surprised that The Post would continue to raise the tired old canard of home rule [...]

Moreover, when Congress chose to delegate home rule to the District in the 1970s, it specified that legislation enacted by the District must be “consistent with the Constitution of the United States,” and it “reserve[d] the right, at any time, to exercise its constitutional authority as legislature for the District, by enacting legislation for the District on any subject.”

The time is now for Congress to step in to protect the rights of law-abiding Americans.

Local man who is a felon is challenging his arrest for having a gun. Unfortunately for him, this guy is a killer, a felon, and had a machine gun hidden in a wall. Oh, and that whole bit in Heller about how it should not be read as invalidating laws banning felons from possessing firearms.

Seems that Paul Helmke, Keith Olbermann, and Kevin Drum are all butthurt because the NRA (which actually has members, resources, and stuff) engaged in a bit of deception.

Now, what is funny is that I’ve seen no evidence that Mary was actually working for NRA. But we’ll see.

PGP is equally nonplussed about the whole thing.

The other amusing bit is that this shows a serious weakness in the anti-gun groups. They simply will take whoever will join (including bigots, UFO nuts, and those prone to violence). If you have a pulse and time, they’ll take you. However, a group that actually has operating capital and actual members has a pretty developed election process to weed out that sort of stuff.

I find it amusing.

People say to me Hey, Uncle, don’t you find these dirty tricks to be, well, dishonest? Sure. But then the anti-gunners have staked all their political capital on being dishonest (assault weapons, blood in the streets, and a whole host of other pants shitting hysteria they peddle). So, don’t really mind so much. They are my enemy. I want them destroyed. And any lawful means will do. And I like seeing their tactics of deception used against them. It’s some fantastic irony.

I’d love to know what sort of inside dirt Mary has on these groups.

From an insurance company.

Joe Horn walkthrough.

So, a pro-gunny infiltrated an anti-gunny group:

Mary McFate was a prominent gun control activist. Mary Lou Sapone was a freelance spy with an NRA connection. They are the same person. A Mother Jones investigation.

This is the story of two Marys. Both are in their early 60s, heavyset, with curly reddish hair. But for years they have worked on opposite ends of the same issues. Mary McFate is an advocate of environmental causes and a prominent activist within the gun control movement. For more than a decade, she volunteered for various gun violence prevention organizations, serving on the boards of anti-gun outfits, helping state groups coordinate their activities, lobbying in Washington for gun control legislation, and regularly attending strategy and organizing meetings.

Mary Lou Sapone, by contrast, is a self-described “research consultant,” who for decades has covertly infiltrated citizens groups for private security firms hired by corporations that are targeted by activist campaigns. For some time, Sapone also worked for the National Rifle Association.

But these two Marys share a lot in common—a Mother Jones investigation has found that McFate and Sapone are, in fact, the same person. And this discovery has caused the leaders of gun violence prevention organizations to conclude that for years they have been penetrated—at the highest levels—by the NRA or other pro-gun parties. “It raises the question,” says Paul Helmke, the president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, “of what did she find out and what did they want her to find out.”

She’s apparently quite a busy lady.

Update: From our s00per seekrit gun blobber meeting, Thirdpower says:

She became a leader of Pennsylvanians Against Handgun Violence and later a board member of Ceasefire Pennsylvania.

So they had a mole, a bigot, and a UFO nut.

Heh.

Update 2: Sebastian:

Hey Peter, Doug… Paul is a Republican. From a very pro-gun state. Haven’t you found that to be a little suspicious? Just sayin.

Double heh.

In your face

So, a bunch of smug people decide every once in a while to clog streets and intersections in major metropolitan areas. The folks at Critical Mass want you to know how hip and green they are so much so that they’re willing to be total assholes about it. So, like a bunch of open carry activists, they decide to be a minor curiosity to your otherwise uneventful day. Now, I appreciate the plight of the Heck’s Angels but can you guys be, say, less douchebaggy about it?

In New York, such douchebaggery got one Heck’s Angel face-planted. Now, being a douchebag is typically not a face-plant worthy offense. Still, I can’t help holding back a minor giggle while wagging my shaming finger at the officer involved. Said officer who should be charged with assault.

ChrisB in comments regarding a bunch of gun nuts having a debate with the transgendered:

Only on the interweb, could you find such a group of people arguing with each other.

Praise be unto Al Gore for his internets.

During traffic stops. I’d like to see Nagin in the same cell as Fenty.

Another case of criminals posing as police raiding a house.

Toy guns from the past that you’ll never see made today.

You’re both wrong: Real men carry single-action CZs.

It’s like five months ago all over again.

Back in February, Chris wrote an epic primer entitled So, you want to buy a 1911? A basic primer.

To which, PDB wrote the much shorter Glock Primer.

Now, Xavier has penned A Guide To Your First 1911.

And Ahab has a guide for Glocks/Beretta/etc.

Heh. Every thing old is new again.

But they all come back.

Kim has announced he’s giving up blogging. Again.

What can be done to Fenty?

Personally, I’d like to see some upstart FBI agent arrest him for deprivation of rights under color of law.

Tom in comments:

Hate crimes are, in a very real sense, a form of terrorism, because the target is much wider than just the people you directly attack/harm. You’re attempting to intimidate or otherwise “send a message” to an entire group. In a certain sense, the people you kill are the collateral damage, while the survivors are the intended victims.

I concur. That said, you’ve established motive. Should be used as evidence to prosecute. Case closed.

Now, do I think a hate crime should carry excessive sentences? No. Because you’re then punishing thought. Look what the Hell is happening in Canada if you want to go down this road.

I don’t think Tom disagrees.

Another issue with hate crimes is they seem to be crimes that can only be committed by white men.

Aunt B. says it can be considered domestic terrorism.

And all you people who are saying the church shooting was Rush Limbaugh/Bill O’Reilly/Karl Rove/Insert Right Wing Bogeyman’s fault are morons. And you people seeking to reinstate the fairness doctrine for this reason are totalitarian morons.

SM has links to some of the Heller 2 court documents.

My body, my choice!

Often referred to as Guns At Work, though this is a blatant fabrication.

The guns in your car bill in Florida has been upheld.

Greg has some issues with the law and an analysis.

My thoughts are it goes too far to solve a problem. You see, before, if you had a gun in your car and your employer didn’t want it there, that was a crime. It’s own special crime as opposed to something like, say, trespassing, which should have cleared it up. Now, employers can’t keep you from doing it at all. Personally, I’m torn. Sure, a parking lot is an employer’s property. But my car is my property.

A reminder that Gun Blogger Rendezvous 3 is coming up October 9 – 12.

Kynn has apologized. It’s a start.

Kynn asks: Why do you carry a gun to church?

Same reason I carry one anywhere. Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

Tam in comments:

A government capable of keeping me perfectly safe is no government I’d wish to live under.

Chris Lugo’s nonsense is making the rounds (here, here and here). Curt wonders why we TN bloggers aren’t covering it.

Lugo is kind of a joke. Even our local progressives are tired of him astroturing all the open progressive forums (say, is that a crosspost?); newsgroups; gmail groups; and local boards with his peace, love and dope.

Like your embarrassing aunt who gets hammered at all the family functions, you just kinda look the other way after a while.

Than some Tennessee whisky* on the back porch with a nice Gurkha Master Blender accompanied by the sounds of nature.

* Jack Daniels is for posers.

For those interested, this thread is still going on. For those not, look monkeys.

I was invited to be on Squeaky and Ahab’s internet radio show Gun Nuts to talk about guns and church. I had to decline for a couple of reasons.

1) I have a voice made for blogging.

2) 11 is like way passed my bed time.

In a recent post, I did a couple of things. One, I made the point that attacking a group of people (gun nuts) based on prejudice was inappropriate. Two, I made fun of Kynn’s appearance, which is attacking a person.

I’m pretty sure Kynn understands my first point now given that (though I did not know it at the time), she belongs to a group that is often attacked (often physically) based on prejudice. Well, I hope she does.

However, making fun of someone’s appearance is bad form. For that, I apologize.

A shotgun/maglite in one.

I have no use for one but, damn, that’s cool.

Oh, wait. A bird gun.

I’m certain the Brady Camp is now feeling the righteous indignation from those demanding we not politicize this event! Bueller?

Update: and there’s that whole lying about how the shotgun fires three shells at a time. That would make it a machine gun.

Bitter has some.

As a reasonably successful (though I’m in a tight niche) blogger, I get lots of emails, chats, carrier pigeons, seeking links and promotion and whatnot. Here’s a handy guide on how to not get me to link to you ever:

First, automatically sign me up for your newsletter. That’s right. I love getting newsletters I never, ever signed up for. I love it like all other spam. And that’s exactly how I treat these. I label them as spam in gmail. Gmail remembers that and also uses that to classify your item as spam by other readers.

Send me your off-topic press release plugging a political candidate or political position. This is particularly effective when you can read my blog and tell pretty quickly that I find that particular candidate to be a shit head and that particular position to be retarded.

Similarly, put me on your mass email list. At least then, I take solace in the fact that I am part of a larger group of similarly annoyed people.

Send me an email every time you post something. You’re at least one step below spam in that you’re at least adding a personal touch to it. But, still, not a good plan. Occasional emails are good. Sending me one every time you have a funny story about your cat, not so much.

Up next, send me a link to your post on an issue/current event without even checking my site to see if I already covered it. Wow, not only are you annoying me, you’re also not even taking the time to read my site before annoying me.

Be a dickhead. If anyone dares disagree with you, become a frothy mouthed twit. Delete comments and call other peoples’ moms’ names. Of course, in this case, you could have a future working for the Brady Campaign. This will typically get you one link but it will be the last.

Ask for a spot on the blogroll, after all you were nice enough to link me! First, blogrolls don’t generally generate a lot of traffic. Second, no. I read what I read and that’s in my blogroll. Sorry, but if I put a link to everyone who asked, my page would be too long to load. Thems the breaks.

Ok, you’ve finally convinced me to read. So, now is a good time to drop off the face of the earth and not update again for like a month. That ensures I probably won’t be back next time.

And, no, I don’t mean you. I mean that other guy.

On a more serious note, how to get a link is pretty easy:

1- Buy an ad, guaranteed to work every time; unless you’re a truther or other total douchebag.

2 – And this requires some effort: plug your post not your blog. And don’t plug every post you ever write. For instance, I’m more likely to link to something if the email goes something like:

Hey Uncle,

I noticed you were talking about X. Well, regarding X, I think Y . . . (then some detail)

3) Piss me off. Say something so irretrievably stupid that I simply cannot resist the urge to tell everybody on the internets how much smarter than you I am.

4) Leave insightful comments here. If you do, your name will usually show your URL. And I’ll think to myself Self, that is one smart cracker. I better check him/her out.

So, there you have it.

And, again, I don’t mean you. I mean that other guy.

Via Larry, the Gun Doctor is offering free duracoating.

If any of you use him, tell him I sent you because I think I want a pink Glock.

If this is legitimate, it looks like Traveler’s Insurance canceled a policy because the policy holder owned an assault rifle.

Breda and her hubby went to the national matches. Cool pics.

Robert is there stealing their pens.

Here’s NRABlog’s Camp Perry Live Blog.

Of pure evil.

Police in Florida are lining up to get nationally recognized permits as part of the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act of 2004.

Kel-Tec PLR

We must all stop manbearpig.

Women of the IDF.

See here. That’s what I was talking about here.

Quote: so I went over there and attempted to reason with them.

And failed. Apparently, not only is there confusion regarding what I said but there is also confusion about what constitutes reason. You see, I did not argue that a gun would have helped in this shooting. In fact, I said the opposite. Quite easy to dismantle an argument that you’ve made up yourself.

And, regarding your target, focus on your front sight and gently squeeze the trigger. From the paper target shown, it looks like you’re snapping the trigger.

Heller is suing DC once again because their new laws aren’t much better than the old ones.

On the church shooting, I have only posted information as I got it. The only post I did in which I wasn’t relaying some bit of info I found and was giving my opinion was when I noted why I carry at church. Some, of course, took this to mean that I was blaming victims because they chose not to be armed; or that I live in fear; or that I was saying that if one person had been armed this could have been prevented; or that I’m delusional; or gay. These people are all idiots. But I digress. I suppose it’s because I’m a gun blogger that a few folks expect that or something. They expect it so greatly that, even when it’s not here, they see it.

Anyway, my thoughts on the actual event are that a gun would not have made one lick of difference either way. The lunatic walked in and got off 2.5 shots. His third reportedly hit the ceiling because he was busy getting physically restrained by some brave men and women at the church. He was getting his ass kicked by pacifists.

The only difference another citizen with a gun would have made in this particular case is that instead of going to jail for three hots and a cot, Jim D. Adkisson would be going to the morgue.

The people who subdued him did so quickly and bravely. And hats off to them for that!

But kinda creepy.

Beats the 30 ft tall inflatable gorillas I keep seeing on Alcoa Highway.

From undisclosed sources but, apparently, the shooter’s wife attended that church and she had an order of protection out against him.

Michael Silence:

In a 10 a.m. press conference I just watched, Knoxville Police Chief Sterling P. Owen IV said Jim D. Adkisson singled out the church for its support of “liberal” and “gay” issues.

Yup. Looks like some homophobia. Also, police recovered 76 shotgun shells. He got off three of them before being subdued.

After our local shooting, some items:

The KNS has issues with comments: My publisher sent me several emails over the weekend about complaints about hateful, invective, acidic and just generally mean-spirited reader comments on our newspaper Web sites.

On me: Maryville Gun Blogger blames the victims (without explcitly [sic] saying so he really didn’t and you are a goddam [sic] commie for suggesting it).

Talk about politicizing: Wouldn’t surprise me if he had an Obama sign in his front yard.

Greg McKendry took a shotgun blast to protect those behind him. He died a hero.

Why would you ever need one?

via David.

Ahab has video.

Remember that case in Roane County? Well, it ended in mistrial.

This morning’s local talk radio interviewed a lady who was at the church during the shooting. She stated that the shooter got off the first shot, then the second, and the third shot was into the air because people were already taking the shooter down. She said the whole shooting part took less than five seconds.

Also, reports are coming out about the shooter, Jim D. Adkisson. Apparently, he didn’t like churches or Christianity. And one of his neighbors called in local talk radio this morning to say that the guy had, in the past, expressed anger at the fact that the Bible was confusing and contradictory. Maybe. But I think the Bible is pretty clear on that whole shall not kill thing.

Michael Silence has a round up of news, including that police found a letter from the shooter that may detail exactly why this crazy fuck is a crazy fuck.

Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations on guns.

Stirring it up a bit:

In all that faggoty advertisementese is no objective explanation why I would choose this gun over, oh, say, a Glock 17, which happens to cost half as much, hold twice as many rounds, weigh half as much, shoot just as accurately, run more reliably out of the box, and is assembled from armorer friendly parts that do not require skilled fitting. The last point bears repeating: There are no parts on a Glock that cannot be changed in about 30 minutes by a user who has a hammer, screwdriver, and a punch.

Guess what this gun is?

Nicky has more on Mark Edward Marchiafava.

A report detailing the steps.

We must stop the senseless slaughter of Teletubbies.

More senseless Teletubby violence.

They can’t be turning in guns because in Chicago guns are illegal. And I love this:

A big effort was under way Saturday to get guns used in deadly violence off Chicago’s streets.

I would lay 10:1 the no gun turned in can be traced back to a crime. Though I do agree with this:

Collecting guns is a start

It is, indeed.

Rich and Lissa are getting hitched.

Meeting math.

Madman has returned to blogging. Though, I have to confess, I wish he’d take up drugs instead of World of Warcraft.

In addition to being violently angry, this person cannot read. Of course, if I looked like this, I’d probably be angry too.

Update: I wonder how this gal(?) will react when tomorrow the Brady Campaign releases a presser that dances in the blood of the dead? Think we’ll see the same righteous indignation (and fabulous hair color!) then?

Update: Blood dancing already under way.

And don’t bother commenting at the first link. I’ve been told Reasoned Discourse^tm has already broken out. Personality and looks! Someone snatch this filly up!

Update: Being told it’s a dude. And here’s the comments he (srsly?) doesn’t want you to see.

In Knoxville. One dead. Five injured.

The Mrs. often asks why I carry to church. It’s because shootings keep happening at churches.

Here, kids are learning gun safety.

Shot in gun free Britain?

That they don’t allow guns on college campuses.

This story was relayed to me by my wife. It was relayed to her by my mother in law, who apparently could not stop laughing while telling the story.

The grandparents (Mommo and Daddo) and kids pull up to a red light. The light turns green. The car in front of them does not go. Daddo waits a bit then honks the horn to let the guy in front know he should pay attention. After Daddo honks the horn, The Second says Beep beep. Junior says When that happens in Daddy’s car, he says fuck and damn.

Careful what you say and when you say it.

Belt-fed, nerf machine gun

Soon to be banned in England.

I’ve said before that, post-Heller, I’m glad Fenty is an idiot. I am also thankful that Daley is an idiot too:

“Chicago’s gun ordinance was not invalidated by the . . . decision. Three prior Supreme Court decisions have found that the Second Amendment does not apply to states and municipalities,” Georges said. “The decision did not change that case law.”

Really? Name them.

No, really. Good thing they have these gun buy backs or people in Chicago might be getting shot..

JT Bolt:

Why do gun manufacturers monkey around with the trigger style? Do they sit around a big boardroom table smoking cigars lit with $100 bills saying, “how can we ruin the trigger on the NEXT product we release, gentlemen?” No. They have some reason. That reason may be dubious, as Jeff Cooper would say, “an answer to a question nobody asked,” but there is still a method to the madness.

Nah. It’s ’cause their dudes and dudes like to monkey with stuff. Just because.

Regarding double actions (real double actions, not those made up safe actions and such), they do have a couple of advantages. Such as if your round doesn’t fire, you just pull the trigger again. And the heavier or longer trigger pulls tend to be harder to accidentally tug on.

First habanero of the year. I diced this one up and put it in the wife’s white chicken chili:

Mmmmm.

You’ll put your eye out.

Heh.

So, John Edwards’ alleged love-child can’t be talked about.

And media donations favor Democrats 100 to 1.

Careful, they watch back.

So, in NH, it looks like there was a law passed and someone has been convicted of not threatening a public official. You see, threatening them was upgraded to a felony. And talking sternly to them is now a misdemeanor:

It was always illegal to threaten a public official, but what was in the past generally considered a misdemeanor in most cases was also upgraded under the new law to a Class B felony. The change makes jail time more likely for those convicted of threatening the current and former governors, legislators, judges and a variety of other public officials and their families — even if the public official has no reasonable fear for his or her safety.

That leaves open an awful lot of room for abuse.

In your face!

Open carry in Michigan. Wonder why they point out the mostly white men thing.

KDT: AR15’s suck.

Tam: Bite me, fan boy!

I’m reminded of this blast from the past:

1. The AR is a temperamental, finicky tool that will only cycle through a full magazine when blessed personally by the pope, plus it shoots a round that won’t even stop a well-fed hamster. The AK can be filled with concrete and it will still fire 10,000 rounds without a stoppage. Plus, it shoots a man’s round.

2. The AK is so inaccurate that you couldn’t hit a barn from the inside with a full magazine. It was made by communist slaves who used rocks to assemble the receivers, in the dark. The round has such a curved trajectory that you have to aim at a target’s hat to hit his feet at 150 yards. On the other hand, the AR is a precision weapon that can hit a match-head at 600 yards consistently, and should have night vision, IR, a red-dot scope, a tactical sling, and a tactical flashlight, making you a single-man ninja army.

Barbara Barrett:

Since a severely mentally ill man rampaged through Virginia Tech last year, killing 32 people before turning a gun on himself, Congress and several states have been working to tighten rules on who can legally purchase a firearm.

But a push in the U.S. Senate would remove from the national background check the names of 115,000 veterans who have been declared “mentally defective” — and would prevent the Department of Veterans Affairs from adding any more names unless the agency goes through a judicial system.

The problem, says the senator behind the efforts, is that the veterans were added not because they were a danger to themselves or to others, but because they were assigned fiduciary guardians by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

“This is a constitutional issue,” said Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina, the top Republican on the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee. “The (national database) is for criminals, not for folks who have troubles handling their own financial affairs.”

His bill would allow the agency to submit only the names of those who have been declared dangerous by a judge, magistrate or other judicial authority.

Odd case where a man leaves his guns with police for safekeeping. Now, the police won’t return them.

So, a guy who is an illegal alien; member of a violent street gang; violent felon; firearms violations; and frequent member of the catch and release program kills some one. And it’s the gun’s fault.

Kel-Tec.

Poll here. Poll seems pretty close.

By Michael Reitz.

In Roane County a couple years back, a police officer and his ride-along were killed by two brothers in a gun fight. Most folks (including me) thought it was just a couple of dumb rednecks being stupid. Anyway, now that the trial is underway, something ain’t right.

You have witnesses testifying that the police officer’s ride-along (who was not a police officer) fired the first shot. Now even if that didn’t happen, I’ve been on ride-alongs before. They don’t let you carry a gun nor do they give you a badge.

You have other witnesses saying the police officer made threats against the two brothers hours before while caressing his service weapon.

Now, you got evidence indicating that one of the two brothers was shot in the back with a police service weapon.

Something ain’t adding up. I’m not making any accusations but I’ll be damned if I speed through Roane County anytime soon.

For some reason, I can’t get the embed to work here, so I’ll send you over here.

So, there’s a bit of a kerfuffle because the Tennessee GOP’s annual fundraiser will be closed to the press. It’s an event that requires a ticket. So, be a good capitalist and buy a ticket if you want to go. Assuming they’ll sell you one.