AC has some stuff at the Nashvhille Post. And he didn’t even have the decency to email me about it.

As we said all along, the guns being smuggled into Mexico are not bought at gun shows. They are also being bought illegally. And there’s our buddy Tom Mangan again.

Your bigotry is showing.

A prominent lefty blog talking about the gun rights crowd, in one short post, manages to use:

Wild west
Saying we want to arm everyone
Postal workers
Gun owners are dangerous

All that’s missing is saying we have small peckers. And, remember, it’s right wingers who are the bigots.

And this is why they lose elections, even when, as this guy does, they say they’re generally on our side.

Jay gets his video on.

Sig 556.

Via everyone, The Metropulse’s new web page does not suck. Still, it has no RSS feed that I can find and, as such, will remain unread by me.

Heh.

Maineshark in comments to a thread referenced earlier:

Firearms don’t “magically” defend you against attack.

What firearms “magically” do is make a 90-pound woman physically equal to a 300-pound male rapist.

I’m such a bad member of the Triangle of Death. I didn’t even know Wayne LaPierre was coming to Kingsport.

Look out! Bears.

A couple of major gun stories going on in Tennessee. The first is this bit from Tom Humphrey on handgun carry permit data:

House Speaker Jimmy Naifeh and the Legislature’s newest member, Karen Camper of Memphis, combined today to keep handgun carry permit records open to the public, after a subcommittee initially supported making the records confidential.

The Criminal Practice Subcommittee voted earlier today to approve a bill requiring the Department of Safety to keep secret the names, addresses and other information on handgun carry permits.

In typical Naifeh fashion, he had to bend the rules a bit to kill the bill:

After hearing reports of how the bill was approved, Naifeh this afternoon brought Camper, newly sworn in as successor to the late Rep. Gary Rowe of Memphis, into the subcommittee meeting and introduced her as a new member who had been assigned to serve on the committee.

Sontany then moved to reconsider the vote approving the handgun carry bill. That was approved and Coleman made a motion to postpone consideration of the bill until 2012 – in effect, to kill it. That motion carried on a 5-4 vote and the bill is now dead.

Voting to kill the bill were Naifeh, Briley, Coleman, Camper and Sontany – none of whom were present for the vote approving the bill. Voting to approve the bill were Reps. Eddie Bass, D-Prospect; Fincher, Judd Matheney, R-Tullahoma; and Eric Watson, R-Cleveland.

After the maneuver, Naifeh displayed to a reporter a certificate showing he has completed the gun safety course necessary to obtain a handgun carry permit for himself. Naifeh said he has a 9 millimeter Smith and Wesson semi-automatic pistol that he plans to carry after obtaining a permit.

Make certain you contact your reps. The second bill is the restaurant carry bill that Naifeh killed, like he does every year:

Naifeh last month joined the same panel to vote against several other gun bills, including proposals to allow people to carry their weapons into restaurants and state parks, authorizing faculty and staff at public schools and universities to carry handguns on campus and to give people voluntarily hospitalized in mental institutions the right to obtain handgun permits after seven years.

Naifeh continues a pattern we pro-gunnies know well. He’s done it before and will do it again.

Gun owners in Tennessee should work to have him removed as house speaker. And to make his defeat during reelection a top priority. It is unlikely that significant pro-gun bills will pass as long as this man is in charge of the house.

Update: more here.

One of my female readers (yes, I have a couple), emailed me regarding the post in which I complained about my wife’s purse:

It is MY EXPERIENCE that even while you men complain about the size of our purses, we are often asked to HOLD your things because we have room for them!

I’m constantly being asked by my boyfriend to put his camera, keys or something or other in my purse, because he doesn’t have room in his pockets!

I respond with:

I don’t complain about the size just the fact that she carries too much crap and can’t find any of the crap she carries. If I needed insulin, I would under no circumstance keep it in my wife’s purse.

A couple of times, I’ve pimped Gentlemen’s Top Cuts. Barry decided to tag along and my sooper seekrit sources say he has an invite forthcoming.

Meanwhile, KAG says she doesn’t get it. But, it turns out, she does get it she just doesn’t approve:

This sounds incredibly lame to me. What sort of guy is going to actually pay to have his hair cut at this place? I suspect Gentleman’s Top Cuts’ clientele (sic) will end up consisting largely of men who spend much of their time playing video games in the basement apartments they share with their cats, located underneath their moms’ houses – guys whose actual dating/love lives are so sad that it actually gives them a thrill to have their split ends lopped off by a stranger in a bikini.

Wow. Sexist much? I find this quite funny since in the preceding paragraph she chastises Gentlemen’s Top Cuts for being sexist as she thinks, and man it takes a logical leap, the name is a reference to pieces of meat. As opposed to a reference to, say, another prominent chain of salons.

Of course, there could be something to her video game reference. Heh.

Basically, Gentlemen’s Top Cuts is applying the Hooter’s concept to hair cuts. Men don’t go to Hooter’s for the overpriced beer and the crappy wings. They go to check out the women and watch the sports on HD TeeVee. It’s not hard to get, really. I mean, you take a proven concept and apply it to something else. Something KAG is familiar with.

I confronted her on her bout of misandry here.

It amuses me how some folks are a bit too prudish about the whole selling sex thing. It reminds me of the various anti-gay arguments which basically all boil down to Ick!

Barack Humu­humu­nuku­nuku­āpua`a Obama on concealed carry:

I am not in favor of concealed weapons. I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations.

Of course he does. He’s from one of two states that have no provision for carry. 48 states do and they’re, by and large, safer than Chicago.

Sarah will lose: Well, a week or 2 (or 3) ago for my English project, we were asked to pick topics and debate on them. My topic was gun control laws should be tightened and I was on the yes side.

Because everyone should be able to defend themselves.

So, Paul Helmke of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership is hopping on board the colored guns are evil and designed to kill our children bandwagon. Now, the anti-gunners have done a lot of really, really stupid things but his is probably the dumbest one yet. Seriously. Think about it. They’re encouraging laws banning paint.

Sebastian has more here (with pics) and here’s a description of the Duracoat process, which is considerably more than just paint.

Can a minority group make you racist?

Cool: Shelby County already has more than double the number of handgun permit holders compared to the rest of Tennessee’s counties.

More stats there. Knoxville is slacking.

A teller at a bank in NC was shot. That cannot happen because carrying weapons in banks is illegal in NC. Via xrlq.

Turns out Congress’ half-assed attempt at banning internet gambling by making it unlawful for banks to process transactions to gaming sites is unclear, vague, and almost impossible to implement.

And, as is usually the case, Congress passed a bill it doesn’t understand.

You remember Wintemute? He’s the guy who walked around a gun show, completely unfamiliar with gun laws, and opined that he thought he saw some illegal stuff. And that was considered a study. Seriously. He was supposedly checking out anonymous, undocumented gun sale, which would be mostly impossible to do.

Anyhoo, he’s back. His piece relies on anti-gun hack Hemenway as well. It’s amusing how these anti-gun hacks get together and then reference one another as though that lends them credibility. Anyway, Ahab’s on it.

Update: more.

Shorter version of this piece from the Brady Campaign’s former lawyer: We know we just got our asses handed to us but, c’mon, this could be a springboard for reasonable gun laws we can all agree on, you crazy-ass gun nuts.

I mean, seriously, how else would you take this: in a spirit of conciliation and compromise rather than extremism.

Meanwhile, the Violence Policy Center says that they win because anti-gun briefs were more diverse and pro gun briefs were all written by the gun lobby. Only trouble is they’re either lying or can’t do math.

An amusing website. The refer to Oleg’s work as Anti-gun control propaganda.

Ahab found an anti-gun group in Indy. Wow. With Tam and Og and Roberta near by, that group is in some serious trouble.

Reader Red Dog’s STI Spartan!

I know. Today is April 2nd and this should have been posted yesterday. But actually this is a true story.

CNN founder Ted Turner argued that inaction on global warming “will be catastrophic” and those who don’t die “will be cannibals.”

Even more shocking is that the mass cannibalism will happen in only ten to thirty years.

Not doing it will be catastrophic. We’ll be eight degrees hottest in ten, not ten but 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.

Audio clip

Details here.

A while back, I linked to Gentlemen’s Top Cuts which is a salon for men that features scantily clad women. The have a blog here with pics and video of the scantily clad women. I guess I sent them some traffic and they noticed. So, they offered a free haircut and manicure. I’m going this Saturday and will apparently be their first customer.

I guess I’ll just get a trim since I got a haircut last week. A pretty drastic hair cut too.

The anti-gun shill group American Hunters and Shooters Association has said of Barack Herbert Walker Obama:

” ‘The gun vote matters,’ says Ray Schoenke, founding president of the American Hunters and Shooters Association. And in Pennsylvania, he says, gun owners who follow key Washington legislation aimed at limiting ownership are moving in Obama’s direction because of his support of past legislation to prohibit the use of federal money to confiscate weapons during a disaster like Hurricane Katrina. It’s the only major difference on gun positions between Obama and Clinton, according to gun advocates, but it’s enough for groups like Schoenke’s to give the Illinois senator a passing grade.

“Schoenke, whose group takes a moderate approach to guns, such as endorsing gun show background checks, says Obama’s support for the legislation suggests that the senator is high on individual rights. He also says the issue could be a key one in Pennsylvania, where Obama is chipping away at Clinton’s lead.”

Shoenke’s group does not take a moderate approach to guns. They are a shill group designed to make Democrats not look anti-gun. And Obama is not at all high on individual right to arms hand has been anti-gun his entire career.

We must close the butcher knife at Macy’s loophole.