Now, I poke fun of Barack Smurfette Obama by always giving him a random middle name to make fun of the fact that we can’t mention his middle name without being called racists. But I’d never go that far.

Sebastian on why we need castle doctrine: Because when you’re cleared of any wrongdoing in a self-defense case, the scumbag ought not be able to sue you.

It must be that the NRA is a shill for Republicans.

Let’s ask Bill Richardson, who you’ll recall some discussion of getting NRA to change its position of not endorsing during primaries.

Come to think of it, if Richardson was still in the race, I’d pull the lever for him over McCain.

Thirdpower notes that Illinois State Police refuse to release FOIA requests for Steven Kazmierczak’s Firearms Owner Identification Card. He was the NIU shooter. The state AG recommended it be released. Now, it could be standard operating procedure to break the law and not comply with such a request. Or it could be that they’re covering their butts since they approved a FOID for a person who may have been prohibited by law from owning a firearm.

Marko wrote the excellent Why The Gun Is Civilization. It shot up all over the internet and was mis-attributed to a marine major. Heck, even Neal Boortz read it on the air and attributed it incorrectly. But now, the gun-toting scientologists are using it in their advertisements.

Apparently, and I found this quite interesting, the stolen and mis-attributed version omits one word.

On the bright side, I guess Marko is kinda famous.

They’ve set up a youtube channel and are really pushing this fictitious gun show loophole thing. They’re also reminding everyone that McCain buys this gun show loophole nonsense.

Hot chicks from Kit.

Women and guns at Virginia Commonwealth University.

The AP reports that Wal-Mart has reached an agreement with Mayor Bloomberg’s group. From what I read at first in the AP bit, it looks like Wal-Mart has just agreed to continue following federal law. No big deal. Then, another report said Wally World would set up its own trace system to do what FBI and ATF already do. And now, reports are that they will film gun sales.

Ahab says it’s a registry.

NRA statement here correctly notes it’s a bunch feel good hooey that will accomplish nothing.

Sebastian has their contact info and has written a letter.

It may not sell a lot of product but it’s the basis for about 65% of all sitcoms.

Barack Monosodium Glutamate Obama was neck and neck with Hillsy last week. Now, Hillsy is rumored to be up 20 points.

When asked why, Obama replied with I dunno, you dumb cousin-humping redneck.

R. Neal on the guns in bars bill:

Yes, that’s just what we need. More yahoos with more guns in more places.

Yes, because everyone with a permit to lawfully carry a firearm is a yahoo. Been writing Obama’s stuff?

Anyway, most of our neighbor states have such a provision and no increase in violence at restaurants has been reported.

When Barack Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt Obama isn’t reading from the script, he can really pull some boners:

So I said, well ya know, when you’re bitter, you turn to what you can count on. So people, ya know they vote about guns or they take comfort from their faith, and their family, and their community, and they get mad about illegal immigrants who are coming over to this country, or they get frustrated about how things are changing. That’s a natural response.

So, if I understand this correctly, his attempt to correct his first gaffe results in him repeating the gaffe again?

Seen at Jeff’s:

Gun control is the only kind of policy that we have where the proponents of it will point to its utter failure as evidence that we need even more of it.

Fine for selling realistic looking toy guns: $800K

They had one in Memphis. It resulted in some traffic and drug violations. I feel safer.

Something you don’t see every day.

Shorter St. Petersburg Times editorial: Be reasonable, you crazy mother fuckers!

Seriously, they think calling people zealots is going to win friends and influence people?

An armed society is a polite society.

Via USC, comes this piece in the AJC. And a slideshow here.

Meet the Ninja Dognapper.

As part of Hillsy’s anti-crime plan, buried at the bottom: Other provisions would target identity theft and online child exploitation. Clinton also renewed her call for reinstating the assault weapons ban, which expired in 2004.

The rest of her plan is full of other pipe dreams as well.

This time, from Doug: Gentlemen’s Top Cuts combines sexy women, sports, hot wax, trimmers, scissors, shampoo, massage, beer and general pampering in classy environment for men.

To Terry Frank who will be blogging at WBIR. Other bloggers will be joining WBIR as well.

Bloggers now working with the media? It’s official: bloggers are now part of the problem!

At the Tennessean:

House Speaker Jimmy Naifeh’s recent actions on self-defense votes in the Tennessee General Assembly were hypocritical and ignored the will of tens of thousands of law-abiding Tennesseans.

Here’s why. Speaker Naifeh enjoys round-the-clock security detail courtesy of Tennessee taxpayers — even in restaurants and bars. But yet he believes that “regular people” neither deserve, nor need, the God-given right to self-defense in restaurants.

The truth is, Mr. Naifeh isn’t the first politician to claim to be pro-gun but then vote against gun rights. He joins the ranks of Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and Al Gore who made bogus claims supporting the Second Amendment while voting against the rights of law-abiding men and women. Speaker Naifeh uses talking points distributed by Washington, D.C., gun-control groups to convince people that improving the self-defense rights of law-abiding Tennesseans would increase crime. If you’re having a flashback, it is because those were the same bogus predictions that were offered during the right-to-carry debate more than a decade ago.

But the facts paint a different story. According to FBI statistics, since right-to-carry legislation swept across America, crime rates have decreased. Furthermore, the 34 states that have restaurant carry laws, including six of Tennessee’s eight border states, report no problems in this area. In fact, not a single state has proposed a repeal of its restaurant carry law.

Defeating Naifeh, IMO, should be a priority for gun right folks in TN. Unfortunately, defeating Naifeh in his district is almost impossible. Beating him as speaker is likely the way to go.

How’s that working?

A new one in Milwaukee?

Some people load the magazines backward.

Folks are making a big deal out of Hillary’s pretty empty attempts at catering to the gun vote (see here and here). Look at it this way guys, at least she’s pandering to us. Barack Barack Bo-Back Banana-fana fo-fack Fee-fi-fo-fack Barack Obama called us bitter.

Update: And today’s he who shall not be middle-named joke came courtesy of Unix Jedi.

I was out yesterday and didn’t get a lot of the goings on. However, it seems that Barack Clampett Obama said something stupid. Nothing new really but the difference this time being that it was just run of the mill stupid and not communist stupid.

Anyway, Hillsy pounces: Pennsylvanians don’t need a president who looks down on them. Ouchie. She’s not dumb enough to say that. She might think it though. I think Bill Clinton was right when he didn’t say Obama cannot win.

Tomorrow, there is a bass tournament held by the Knox County Sheriff’s Office to benefit D.A.R.E. Seems to me that under Tennessee’s gambling statutes, this would be illegal.

More on TN gambling laws here.