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Obvious Headline of the Day

“Norway’s tough firearms laws prove easy to ignore” I’ve been watching some of our opponents over the weekend coming to terms with how this happened. How did he get the gun? You know, we’ve been telling you it doesn’t work. Either way, one thing is certain, Norway’s gun laws are about to get much tougher.

Even as an opponent of gun control, if you asked me what kind of potential killer gun control would be most likely to deter, I would have suggested mass shooters, since they usually come from law abiding backgrounds, and may not have the black market connections to illegally obtain firearms. But that doesn’t appear to be the case. These kinds of mass killings seem to happen in countries with strict gun laws as readily as those in countries with relatively free gun laws. The death tolls seem to be generally higher in the more restrictive countries as well.

Einstein or Marylyn Monroe?

Go have a look at this image, and then take off your glasses. This has been making it’s way around, and I thought it was pretty neat. I’m not actually near sighted enough without glasses that I see the alternate image, so I had to blur my eyes a bit.

Leave Gun Safety to Experts

~~CSGV would like to think they know a thing or two about gun safety. They do not. Otherwise they would not be promoting~~ [UPDATE: Completely misread this tweet. CSGV isn’t promoting it, they are having it pitched to them.] This product is dangerous:

So let me see if I understand how this product works. The bar goes through the trigger guard? Brilliant! What could possibly go wrong? They warn you not to use it to store loaded weapons, but the fundamental design is flawed and unnecessary. It is, without a doubt, completely inferior to a product like this, which is what I’d recommend if you have children in the house. It has the added advantage of being able to safely store a loaded firearm. I believe trigger locks are inferior and dangerous for the same reason. Cable locks are great for child access prevention, if used properly, but not so great for theft prevention.

Warnings about not storing loaded guns or not, someone is going to get injured if this product is widely adopted. It’s a bad idea, and these folks should be ashamed of themselves for promoting it.

51 Senators Oppose UN ATT

This basically spells doom for the possibility of ratification of the UN Arms Trade Treaty. I don’t think there was any possibility that the Senate would have ratified, but it’s good to have them on record, regardless. The real danger of the UN treaty is not so much that the blue helmeted troopers would come during the stealth of night and take your guns, but that the rest of the world would refuse to allow firearms to be exported from their countries to the Untied States, due to the fact that the United States lacks sufficient international controls. That’s an awfully large percentage of the available civilian stock.

Note that both Chris Cox, and Wayne LaPierre, have been spending time at Turtle Bay. If anyone doubts the intent of the governmental and NGO interests pursuing this treaty, just look at the reaction to the Canadian proposal to exempt hunting weapons:

Gun-control advocates following the treaty negotiations blasted Canada’s stance, calling it a “poison pill for treaty negotiations.”

Remember, they don’t care about grandpa’s deer gun. Yeah right.

Law Dog on Canton Video

“As a law enforcement professional my-own-self, I state here and now that that man makes me ashamed of my chosen profession.“

PA Senate Republicans Screwing Us Again

Capitol Ideas is reporting that Senator Joe Scarnati, the top Republican in the PA Senate, has put the brakes on privatizing the state liquor system. He believes the PLCB needs to be given a chance to act more like a private business. You know what makes private businesses act like private businesses, Senator? Competition.

I’m getting to the point I’d rather vote out these soft Republicans in the Senate and replace them with Democrats. What good are they?

I don’t care what your mama’s thinkin’…

… everybody knows that beer ain’t drinkin’.

This was apparently official policy in Russia until just now.

No More TSA Nude-O-Scope

Apparently a software upgrade is taking care of the issue:

After complaints from travelers the TSA earlier this year began testing at four airports software for the full-body scanners that instead uses a generic body outline and highlights the area where any anomaly is detected, eliminating the actual image of the passenger.

This deals with my primary concern about these things. I’d also want to know that there’s no way an agent can pull up the image, and that the image is not stored. I don’t really give a crap if a computer analyses an image of me. Now the only concern is the long-term effects of the radiation.

Someone should probably FOIA specs for this software upgrade to ensure everything is as advertised. You know, someone like the media, who’s supposed to hold the Government accountable. Or something like that. Hard to say that with a straight face these days.

Which Side Law Enforcement is On?

Chris Cox recently did an interview with FOP President Chuck Canterbury, where he noted:

Cox: â€œYouâ€™ve also spent a lot of time reminding members of Congress that FOP members are gun owners who support the Second Amendment. In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, you said â€˜I take a back seat to no one in my reverence for the Second Amendment.â€™â€

Canterbury: â€œThatâ€™s correct. I meant it then and I mean it now. Our members and your members share many of the same beliefs about guns and crime. Many department chiefs are political, and they go with the anti-gun line, especially in the big cities. But our members in the rank and file know the reality on the streets.â€

Apparently that has our gift-that-keeps-giving opponents twisted up in knots:

Yeah, he does, doesn’t he,Â Ladd and Josh. It must really be a difficult thing, being on the wrong side of history. For a while I thought I might end up there myself, so I can sympathize. But for now I’m going to enjoy the schadenfreude of watching you come to terms with the lies and distortions you hucksters have peddled over the years coming back to bite you in the ass.

More on the Canton, Ohio Situation

Dave Hardy has some thoughts on the legal aspects of the Canton, OH, police department situation. It’s quite interesting. One thing to ponder is that what this situation essentially creates, is a great example of how coming down on like a ton of bricks on the wrong kind of person (in this case, concealed carry permitees) can cause some amazing resources to be marshaled against you, including some very talented attorneys contributing ideas to the people who are ultimately going to be suing your ass.

I’m going to bet, when all is said and done, Canton, OH police officers are going to be treating permit holders much differently in the future.