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People wonder why I prefer to remain pseudonymous (even though quite a few folks know who I am), this is one reason:

This is some real Mayberry shit over here, except Goober and Gomer are in charge and Earnest T. Bass is off leash and off his meds.

I’ve been doing this blogging thing for six years and I’ve never seen anything like it. The harassment of me and others at this site, threatening emails, invasion of my privacy, people showing up on my front porch, reporters and others trying to get me to “out” people — it’s a regular three-ring circus and you can’t tell which clowns to trust.

The worst I’ve had to deal with is a geography grad student who likes to use my name when he posts comments here. Oh and ATF. The latter were far more pleasant.

Update: Related thoughts on anonymity and blogging from a blogger who is not anonymous.

Here’s Hillary’s flyer calling Obama a gun grabber.

Pot, this is kettle. Come in. Over.

I did not know that the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership traveled back in time to get the Gun Control Act of 1968 passed:

The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence is responsible for three sensible laws that shouldn’t be negated by the Supreme Court. The 1968 Gun Control Act lists the kind of individuals that should never be allowed to buy or own guns.

I knew Ronnie Barrett was an insidious time-traveler but not the Brady Bunch.

I found this little gem at KnoxViews. It seems so innocuous and reasonable. Yet if you take the time to read it, you will find an important message.

What is that message? And more importantly, why should you care?

Judge Alex Kozinski: The parties are advised to chill

In the AJC.

She says that Barack The Quicker Picker-Upper Obama can’t be trusted. Someone should remind her who her husband is. You know, the most anti-gun administration we’ve ever had.

I wonder how this is playing with the shit people and white niggers? I wonder if they’re bitter?

Update: Video doctored

Step 1: Make assertion that focuses on a small group of people or one of many points made by said group:

Such “insurrectionist” philosophy is common among a small but vocal group of gun rights supporters. Insurrectionists assert that unrestricted access to guns of every kind is an essential element of freedom.

Step 2: Apply said assertion about a small group of people or their position on a larger scale or to a larger group of people:

If this insurrectionist logic were to be embraced by the Supreme Court, however, our democracy would be severely degraded. Such an interpretation of the Second Amendment would make even the most modest gun control legislation unconstitutional.

In short, make argument. Then point out why that argument is bogus. And you can be a writer for HuffPo.

They’re really getting into this blogging thing.

Well, except our kids and dogs.

Random conversation at my house.

We got new neighbors. I met them a bit ago and they have three dogs. They were telling me about their dogs, of which they are quite proud. Seems their dogs are a cross between a Pomeranian and a Chihuahua. I was telling my wife about the dogs and what they were a cross between. But, as I told her, I couldn’t recall what they were called (other than mutt). And then I said: If I were naming them, they’d be called Pomerhuahuas because that’s just fun to say. And Chimeranian, in addition to not being fun to say, sounds like a mythical beast.

Turns out, I was wrong on both counts and they’re called Pomchis.

Fox: A college student apparently called 911 from her cell phone shortly before she was killed but a dispatcher hung up, failed to call back and never sent police to investigate, authorities said Thursday.

Complete with crappy video of already debunked talking points

Another one down:

Well this video will mark the end of my gun-control blogging career.

Of course. Because you lost. At every opportunity, you simply could not hang. As a commenter there said:

It is unfortunate but not a great surprise that this gun control blog is ending. As has been noted here and elsewhere, gun control rhetoric thrives best in the absence of actual debate.

Indeed. Their failure is a recurring theme.

I mentioned this guy back in February when he first started.

Via Wachel (who also fisked her own post) and Phelps, comes a fun game:

Suppose you were elected Temporary Supreme Dictator of America.

What are 10 laws you would pass/repeal or government programs you would create/tear down? (Assume that you are in office for however long it would take to do these things and that any changes you make will remain in place after you leave office.)

Kinda similar, but we played this game before only it was presidentin’ not dictatin’. But, here goes:

1 – Disband the ATF. All agents and employees will be allowed retain their current position and salary once they arrive at the border to guard. May as well do something useful.

2 – End social security, medicare, and medicaid. Yeah, we all like to feel good about helping people out and all but you’re bankrupting our country (in 2005, those three things were over 40% of the budget). Of course, we can’t just end it outright lest some people would be royally fucked. So, effective now, people entering the work force will stop contributing to all three. Begin the phase out thusly:

Everyone who has a supposed fund in social security will be paid their cash balance. At this point, I will point and laugh at Congress who will finally have to admit what I’ve been telling you since I started this blog which is that there ain’t no fucking money in an account for you.

Continue funding medicaid/medicare for those over the age of 30. Everyone else, put on your big boy pants and deal.

Sorry, thems the breaks but you’re killing us.

3 – End the war on drugs and release the prisoners. Ok, just the non-violent prisoners.

4 – Repeal the 17th amendment. Fire all senators, reps. Redraw district maps so they make sense (i.e., your district will probably be shaped like a damn square). Hold elections for senators and reps. Gerrymandering will be a crime punishable by death.

5 – Any law passed by congress and signed into law will automatically expire four years from its passage. All laws currently on the books expire four years from today. You want to keep them, you got work to do.

6 – Flat tax. All accountants/tax lawyers who suddenly lose marketable skills can report for border duty along side former ATF agents.

7 – No more immunity for government employees. Limited immunity for things that are normal course of business for them. For egregious violations of the public trust, these employees can be held personally liable (I’m looking at you, Nifong, who I think should be under the jail).

8 – Stealing from Phelps: jury trial for eminent domain and asset forfeiture proceedings.

9 – Pass a law mandating that judges inform all potential jurors that they have a right to nullify.

10 -Executive order repealing all executive orders.

That ought to be enough flame bait for ya.

Update: Either 11 or an addendum to number 4 – From jon in comments: let congress know that we mean that commerce clause shit. It means regulate commerce not regulate anything that happens to incidentally be a part of commerce.

PSH makes the news:

the many cultural and political forces pushing us to behave like a nation of hysterics.

As a nation, we will collectively shit our pants at the drop of hat. Often, for no real reason. Kinda like how we collectively lose our shit whenever a pretty white girl is abducted.

Related: Never tell me the odds:

Each year in the United States, there are 26-30,000 deaths by firearm. As of 2006, Roughly 55% of them are suicides (the number varies greatly year to year, between 40% and 60%).

Of the remaining 10,000 to 18,000, somewhere between 60% and 80% (depending on the year) are one felon killing another (according to the FBI).

The number of non-felons killed (other than suicides) using a gun in the US is anywhere from 2,000 to 7,000 a year (again, highly variable year to year). About 20% of those are accidents, and 80% are murders. Of those murders approximately 80% were committed by people with felony records.

Read it all.

Heh.

Classic Subguns.

Barack Pia Zadora Obama has been distancing himself from Wright faster than Hillary can take up a regional accent. But know, he’s got a new adviser: Reverend Michael ‘Snuffy’ Pfleger. You remember him? He said we should kill gun dealers.

This time, in Pennsylvania.

US v. Hayes. Short version: guy is convicted of battery in 1994. Someone decides it was domestic violence, even though that’s not what the charge was. Lautenberg Amendment passes in 1996 and retroactively prohibits the guy from owning arms. Police search his house and find an old lever action. Prosecution ensues. He wins at the circuit court.

More from David, Sebastian, and the other David.

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I often wondered why there wasn’t a 22LR plinker with a magazine capacity higher than 10 on the market. Turns out, there used to be and, frankly, they should start making it again. Via Kim, we learn that Magnum Research wants your opinion.

Apparently, blogging about poker or porn stores breaks comment functionality. Well, it did. It has now been fixed.

And this is why I hope for a special place in Hell for spammers and their ilk.

You don’t know how many times this happens to me. Someone is giving me directions somewhere. And they say something like take 129 South from 411. Or You know, where Old Niles Ferry crosses 129 South. And I’ll say Huh? No idea what you’re talking about. And then they’ll say something like You know, take 411. There’s a light by a Citgo station. Make a left there.

And then it hits me: They mean make a left at the porn store. And then I say Oh, you mean make a left at the porn store. They look at me perplexed, as if they never noticed it was there. And I usually say something like How can you miss it? It’s got signs like 30 feet tall that say X X X ADULT SUPERSTORE and ADULTS ONLY and until recently it was painted bright red?

You know, when I mention the porn store, I’m not saying that you go there. I’m just pointing out that it’s a big landmark and it’s impossible for you to not know that it is there. So, why are you acting that way? Are my fellow Maryvillians so uptight that they can’t even acknowledge the porn store?

Any way, it always cracks me up.

BTW, I’ve talked about our local porn store before and his fight with the local authorities. See posts here. Turns out, the old owner has sold it because now the big signs that say X X X ADULT SUPERSTORE now have NEW OWNER plastered on them. And the new owners put up siding and stone as opposed to the former bright red paint. It almost looks respectable. Or at least, less offensive.

Man, everyone is making them these days. Check out Kahr’s 380.

His Mayors Against Guns campaign isn’t going so swimmingly, despite his ads. NYC’s lawsuit against gun makers was smacked down yesterday and Bloomberg learned that, despite what he may think, the laws of the US do apply in NYC.

Buck up, Bloomy. This is the easy part. The hard part is going to come after Heller and citizens of NYC decide they want to challenge the onerous gun laws there.

John Duncan:

It seems rather elitist to me for people who maybe have degrees in this field to feel that because they’ve studied it somehow they know better than the parents what is best for [their children].

Terminal Ballistics as Viewed in a Morgue. Sample quote:

there’s no such thing as an “attempted suicide” with a .44 Magnum.

Labrat is blogging about boobies, tits, and melons.

You forgot jugs, racks, and knockers.