Point/Counterpoint

 “Six months ago today, Ashli Babbitt, a 110-pound woman with nothing in her hands, not a rock, not a stick or a bat, was shot dead by a still unknown Capitol Hill police officer. Her death has been ruled a homicide. Yet, we have very little information about her death. Our fake news media has asked no questions or sought information about this tragedy. So, I have. And now President Trump has joined me in seeking the truth. [More]

Laurie Roberts of AZ Central (a Gannett Publication) thinks Babbitt got what she deserved and is glad she's dead and that anyone questioning her killing "dishonors" the Praetorian Guard. Thanks, Laurie! I was wondering what kind of diseased statist mind would make victim-blaming excuses for anonymous government executioners of white people and you've cleared that up perfectly.

[Via Henry Bowman]

UPDATE:

Identity of Ashli Babbitt Killer Confirmed — Careless Capitol Police Lieutenant Is Being Protected by Democrats, Pelosi and Deep State FBI

[Via bondmen]

Better with Biden

 "They never saw the sun": Lawyers describe overcrowded conditions for children in Border Patrol custody [More]

I don't suppose the obvious solution of only letting foreign nationals who are lawfully admitted cross the border and returning those who break the law to their point of entry isn't anything but a "racist" and "xenophobic" pipe dream?

[Via Henry Bowman]

UPDATE:

Photojournalist: Biden gives media “zero access” to border operations [More]

So naturally, CNN Newswire via NBC News focuses on: 

After years of bashing the news media, some Republicans and right-wing media outlets have suddenly morphed into press advocates.

 No, they're just asking for accurate reporting using the same criteria for all. Unlike the "kids in cages" lie.

UPDATE:

ABC's Martha Raddatz to illegal alien who crossed the border: "Would you have tried to do this when Donald Trump was president?"

Illegal alien: "Definitely not."

Raddatz: “Did you come here because Joe Biden was elected president?"

Illegal: “Basically” pic.twitter.com/OsxvdG8xO0

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) March 21, 2021

The Nuclear Option

Idaho State University Lost Enough Weapons-Grade Plutonium to Make a Dirty Bomb [More]

WarOnGuns has obtained exclusive footage:

via GIPHY

[Via Henry Bowman]

Freaky Friday

 "(Paris) dropped the gun, and it fell, and it went off to my knowledge. And then when she picked it up, she picked it up by the barrel and it went off. That's all I know ... It was not a suicide. It was just a freak accident." [More]

I also believe her when she says she doesn't know who the gun "belongs" to. If we're talking "legally," she probably doesn't.

[Via Henry Bowman]

UPDATE: This is what happens when children are left ignorant through the "commonsense gun safety" practice of avoidance. I expect it to disappear soon. 

[Via WiscoDave]

We're the Only Ones Darwin-Awarded Enough

Darwin said having the head of a state agency focused on providing services to the poor ... carrying a gun and badge “does seem strange, yes.” [More]

Yeah, whoever heard of needing to defend yourself against that demographic?

The larger point of a bureaucracy being armed to the teeth evokes the words of Mr. Mason:

Who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers.

And yes, funny that word used to describe much lower numbers collected by private citizens was never brought up...

[Via Henry Bowman]

Speaking of Potatoes...

Prince Charles wants furloughed workers to pick fruit and vegetables... [More]

The people are revolting!

[Via Henry Bowman]

Meanwhile, Over at the Democrat's Gulag

Gosar Visits Department of Justice and D.C. Detention Center to Demand Answers Regarding Political Prisoners [More]

That's exactly what they are.

In America.

And the "good Germans" approve.

[Via Henry Bowman]

Big Brother is Watching You

 Billed as the most secure phone on the planet, An0m became a viral sensation in the underworld. There was just one problem for anyone using it for criminal means: it was run by the police [More]

You gotta wonder how many people "in power" are kept in check by blackmail.

[Via Henry Bowman]

Entirely Preventable

The Bedford County Sheriff's Office said 56-year-old Mark Edwin Turner was charged with felony malicious wounding, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, and possession of a firearm by a felon. [More]

So he'd already proven he couldn't be trusted without a custodian?

[Via Henry Bowman]

With Friends Like These

It all started when I complained to a good friend of mine on the left...One of my Facebook friends, a lefty atheist from my state who I’ve been friends with on Facebook for years...[More]

I think I see what her problem is.

[Via Henry Bowman]

The Shape of Things to Come

'Trump Supporters Targeted' - Gunshot Fired Into Arizona RNC Field Office  [More]

I sure wish you hateful right-wingers would tone down the rhetoric.

[Via Henry Bowman]

The Onion Outdoes Itself

George Floyd’s Family Petitions United Nations to Help Disarm Police in the United States [More]

Hey, it won't be my neighborhood that burns.

[Via Henry Bowman]

Did Hell Just Freeze Over?

Or did a CBS station just recommend gifting gun range passes...? [More]

[Via Henry Bowman]

Desperate for a Cause

GoFundMe is currently collecting money for Dallas Salon owner Shelley Luther despite the fact money raised would be outside their own Terms of Service. [More]

The faithless elector strikes again!

#StayAtHome Suprun must be bored following his own advice and desperately looking for something to snitch and bitch about.

Something about "unless such activities are expressly authorized by the appropriate governmental authority" strikes me as exactly backwards of the way things should be.

[Via Henry Bowman]

Paradise Lost

Montana town bans guns entirely in public places [More]

Don't it always seem to go

That you don't know what you've got

'Till it's gone?

That and Californication.

[Via Henry Bowman]

A Patty Hearst Waiting to Happen

 PRIVILEGE: Wealthy Manhattan woman arrested by police for rioting, causing over $100,000 in damage [More]

I'll bet Mommy and Daddy have gotten her the finest New York legal representation money can buy.

[Via Henry Bowman]

The Self-Incriminator 3000

LocationSmart Demo Tool Leaks Real-Time Location of Everyone in the U.S. [More]

Hey, if you're not doing anything wrong,what's the problem?

Besides, they'll know if you are.

Say, gang, I've got a swell idea!

[Via Henry Bowman]

We're the Only Ones Untraumatic Enough

 A Maryland police officer convicted of raping a woman after offering her a ride home from a bar and assaulting another woman will not have to serve any prison time after a lenient judge ruled the rape victim did not suffer any 'psychological injury.' [More]

Judge Truffer will probably never be given an empathy test beyond the reputational disrobing he's getting from disgusted citizens...

[Via Henry Bowman]

Somebody Step on a Duck?

 

[More]

Here's the backstory ICYMI.

If it looks like Democrat dirty tricks, walks like Democrat dirty tricks, and sounds like Democrat dirty tricks...

[Via Henry Bowman]

Hoist on Their Own Petard

It doesn't strain the imagination to surmise that the prospect of splitting up Google Search and its ad businesses wasn't well received in Mountain View. And Amazon's executives probably aren't too welcoming of a proposal to bar the company from selling directly on its own marketplace. [More]

A government big enough to "regulate" your enemies is big enough to "regulate" you.

I would not look for a sudden change of heart and newfound "conservatism," though. After being publicly sodomized by DOJ, Bill Gates went all Stockholm Syndromed for Big Government on us, and I expect Bezos 'n Zuck et al. to embrace the haze.

[Via Henry Bowman]