And we know how I feel about the dentist.

Conversation with hygienist in regard to the voice recognition gizmo that records numbers that somehow correlate to gum health.

Hygienist: I became a hygienist because I can’t count.

Me: I became an accountant because I can’t count. Or do math.

Hygienist: You’re an accountant? You don’t act like an accountant.

Me: I don’t feel like an accountant.

I blame the gas.

My wife also decided to call during the cleaning. I answered AAWWWAAWWW (hello). She said Oh, you’re at the dentist. At first I thought you were being kidnapped.

22 conversions for Sigs. Of course, for less money you can get their Mosquito, which is a whole gun.

Can ya’ll do me a favor? Email Bill Hobbs at billhobbs@tngop.org a copy of this post?

Thanks.

Pics here. What kinda dog is that?

Plaintiffs’ Motions to Strike Answer, and for Summary Judgment, Filed

As a non-lawyer, I don’t know what that means.

Weer’d Beard in comments:

Guns are like gays, they seem really scary, but once you get to know one you feel pretty foolish for being afriad

Heh.

In what has to be one of the more gruesome crimes I’ve ever heard of, a man on a bus full of people stabbed another man 50 or 60 times and then decapitated him. Then walks up the bus displaying the head. Wow. And:

Sgt Colwell said the “brave” behaviour of the passengers and driver probably prevented anyone else from being hurt.

So, let that seep in a minute. 50 or 60 times and then decapitated him. 37 passengers and a bus driver nearby. How long do you suppose it takes to stab someone 50 or 60 times and then decapitate them? And none of the 38 others intervened? Brave?

Now, it’s easy to play Monday morning quarterback but, Jumping Jesus on a Pogo Stick, I cannot imagine why no one tried to intervene.

Update: In comments, Paul tells us that it was reported the driver attempted to intervene. Good on him.

Or stupid Brady Campaign. You pick.

JR says Google locked him out of his account for being a spam blog.

Update: Insty reports Dr. Helen has suffered the same fate.

Update & Bump: War on Guns too.

One more: Leftwingcracker too. For a second, I thought they were picking on gun blogs.

Sorry, no conspiracy. Just general ineptitude.

A guy from where Great Britain used to be goes to a gun show.

NRA has a presser.

Thirdpower notes what the bill does. One bit is to repeal the District’s ban on semi-automatic handguns. Which is good. Currently, my Kel-Tec is considered a machine gun in DC.

To the folks belly-aching about the Democrat involvement, tough. They control the house and bills don’t get voted on unless they say so.

Means count. Not 28 pages of personal info.

Looks like NRA will attend our little shindig.

I thought the protection of lawful commerce in arms act was supposed to prevent lawsuits against gun dealers? Even if they’re getting sued because someone walked out of their store with a gun that they did not sell them.

Lots of National Match blogging over at Blackfork.

Biggest guns in history. Well, maybe.

S&W 52.

Via Yahoo News. Condolences to the families of the victims. Here’s hoping they get the bastard quickly.

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.