So, Al Gore waited until there was only one left and endorsed him. I mean, who could have possibly predicted that a Democrat would endorse another Democrat?

Video of The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership trying to weasel out of Helmke’s concession.

So true:

Politicians never accuse you of “greed” for wanting other people’s money — only for wanting to keep your own money.

I’ve talked before about how anti-gunners suffer some sort of belief in mysticism because they think inanimate contain evil spirits that drive otherwise ordinary folks to commit bloody rampages. Yet, they naturally (like everything else) project those feelings on gun rights folks.

Well, looks like they also like to occasionally exorcise those evil spirits.

When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like nails:

Whenever you propose a new law, imagine what the results would be if that law was enforced by your worst enemy or the stupidest person you know.

Well, one of those two seems to be in charge now.

In Idaho:

The last day of the party’s state convention went long and at times got nasty. In the barn-like Bonner County Fairgrounds, where politics will give way to a horse and mule expo next week, GOP delegates battled faulty microphones and disparate views in a fight for the party’s soul.

Semanko was pushed to victory largely by an eclectic group consisting of supporters of former Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul and social conservatives who want to shift the party to the right.

Against civilian contractors?

The guns of Heat.

Remington 1740.

Robert Mugabe:

We shed a lot of blood for this country. We are not going to give up our country for a mere X on a ballot. How can a ball point pen fight with a gun?

In the AP:

The guns case — including Washington, D.C.’s ban on handguns — is widely expected to be a victory for supporters of gun rights. Top officials of a national gun control organization said this week that they expect the handgun ban to be struck down, but they are hopeful other gun regulations will survive.

How many are saved by firearms each year?

Getting positive press in New Jersey? Wow. Photo gallery here.

Five police shootings in five days? Unpossible!

Jesse Jackson decided to fight gun violence by trying to shut down a gun maker who is not responsible for gun violence:

Vowing to intensify his campaign against gun violence, Rev. Jesse Jackson held a protest rally Saturday at a Lake Barrington semiautomatic rifle manufacturer.

Leading 80 supporters to the remote industrial park that houses D.S. Arms, Jackson said assault weapons were turning Chicago into a war zone.

Call me crazy, but I just don’t think thugs in Chicago are using $5,000 rifles to commit crimes. And hats off to DS Arms for standing up to them.

Smart money says Heller opinion will be released Monday, June 23. Got plans?

AC interviews Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam regarding future political aspirations, namely governor.

This is the part where, as promised, I remind everyone that Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam is a member of Mayors Against Guns. Mayors Against Guns is an anti-gun group headed by NYC’s Michael Bloomberg. It is funded, in part, by the anti-gun Joyce Foundation. Barack Obama was on the board of directors for Joyce for eight years, doling out money to fake grassroots gun groups.

Past coverage of this group here, here, here, here, here, and here.

While Paul Helmke has pre-conceded Heller, the VPC predicts it will go their way 9-0.

I missed VPC blog.

IZH Drozd MP-661K Blackbird by IZH-Baikal

Piedmont machine gun shoot.

An illustrated guide to guns he wants to ban.

The local newspaper interviews Randy Neal of knoxviews.com fame.

George Bush hates white people.

Update: Yet years from now, there will be no Iowans still in FEMA camps.

Via insty.

which wouldn’t really be a finale

Holy crap. Did not expect that.

Breda scores another.

Tam questions the deification of Tim Russert in the press.

Obviously, she doesn’t recall that time when Russert manned a Sea-Doo armed only with the jawbone of an ass and single-handedly invaded Normandy. Then he and Barack Right Said Fred Obama’s uncle liberated all those Jews. I remember it like it was yesterday.

In a post on what to watch for in Heller, Kevin says:

There’s something wrong with a system that essentially demands that you break a law before you can challenge its Constitutionality.

Indeed.

At the LA Times:

NRA’s political clout is waning

With 2nd Amendment rights expanded and Democrats reluctant to tackle the issue, gun control isn’t the GOP weapon it used to be. The rifle group, in essence, is a victim of its own success.

Eight years after a national debate over gun control helped keep Democrat Al Gore out of the White House, the National Rifle Assn. and its Republican allies are launching a new campaign to defeat Barack Obama.

But this time, the issue that GOP strategists once relied on to provide crucial votes in close elections has lost much of its political punch.

Hmm. I seem to recall some historically anti-gun candidates sucking up to them recently (9iu11iani). And who is vying for the anti-gun endorsement? No one.

The NRA may have become a victim of its own success.

And they list those successes. Seems their clout is still in tact, if you ask me.

BTW, I find it amusing that the LAT felt it had to spin NRA’s success as a negative.

A superdelegate Member of Tennessee Democratic Executive Committee (whose vote counts 10,000 times more than yours) says that Barack I don’t need all of you to believe me, just twelve Obama may have ties to terrorists. I shit you not:

Fred Hobbs, a state Democratic Party Executive Committee member representing part of Davis’ district, said he understands why Davis is not endorsing Obama and is “skeptical” of the Illinois senator himself.

“Maybe [it’s] the same reason I don’t want to — I don’t exactly approve of a lot of the things he stands for and I’m not sure we know enough about him,” Hobbs said when asked why he thought Davis wasn’t endorsing Obama. “He’s got some bad connections, and he may be terrorist connected for all I can tell. It sounds kind of like he may be.”

Update: Our local Cybernaut chimes in.

Update 2: Sean says not a superdelegate.

David Hardy:

Brady Campaign goes on to cite what they could push for, and could hope to pass constitutional muster: universal (i.e., private sale) background checks, AW bans, “curbing large volume sales,” i.e., one gun a month.

Leaving aside whether those would pass muster … how does the Brady Campaign hope to survive on them? I’d wager that a LOT of its contributors give only because they believe those are stepping stones to things more significant, a “good start” rather than an end. If they faced a reality in which everything would stop with background checks, an AW ban, and one gun a month — that they’d never get beyond that — they might well bail out.

Sebastian:

If I were Peter Hamm or Paul Helmke, I’d be thinking there surely has to be other places in the D.C. establishment where they can put their skills and talents to more effective and creative use.

Since the anti-gunners are all on the payroll, I suppose the Brady Bunch will have to start getting funds from the Joyce Foundation.

Update: More thoughts here.

And great minds think alike.