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It’s Brady Scorecard Time

According to Ace, the Brady’s have their state score cards out for the year 2007. You can find the 2007 rankings here. I notice they are no longer using grades, but are instead scoring and ranking. I’m guessing probably because so many states scored so poorly, all those Ds and Fs were an embarrassment to their effectiveness.

Pennsylvania is listed 26 out of 100 points, and has a state ranking of 10. I am highly disappointed in this! Surely we can do worse. I am honestly embarrassed by this high score. Clearly the Brady’s aren’t evaluating concealed carry laws, or we’d surely have scored lower.

California ranks as number one, with New Jersey following up behind. Ahead of Pennsylvania are CT, MA, MD, NY, RI, HI, and IL. Delaware is ranked 11, and tied with Michigan. Congratulations to Oklahoma and Kentucky for coming in dead last. Now we all know where the bar is.

UPDATE: The Tennesseans are rubbing it in: “SEVEN points, bitches! w00t!” Yeah, yeah. I can carry in restaurants, parks, forests, and universities so :P

Gun Safety I Don’t Have a Problem With

Over in neighboring West Virginia, they want to require gun safety training as part of PE classes.Â I wish I got to shoot in my PE classes.Â We did do archery, but that was it.

One wonders whether other groups that claim to be for “gun safety” are willing to get behind a measure such as this?Â My guess is no.

Hat tip to Of Arms and the Law.

The Three Steps of Heller

Go read this excellent analysis of the Heller case over at Concurring Opinions.

Hat tip to Instapundit.

The Mississippi Food Police

We’re all aware that some jurisdictions have passed bans against trans-fat, in an effort to force people to eat healthier food, whether you want to or not (for your own good, you see). Well, it would seem the Mississippi Representative W.T. Mayhall wants to take it one step farther and just ban restaurants from serving fat people.

I think it’s high time we start voting these food fascists out of office before we hear “Drop the donut sir! Drop the god***n donut now!”Â I can only imagine that’s next.

How Our Government Works

Read this, and be amused.Â I was.

No Chicken Pin!

Apparently I was supposed to note that I should get a pin on last week’s score, so this week I didn’t get my chicken pin.Â Â No fear though, because this week I also shot 10 chickens in a row, and was careful to note it properly this time, so next week I will have my chicken pin.

Sorry for the slow posting, tonight was Silhouette obviously, and also… Lost is back!Â Which means I watch after coming back from shooting metal animals.

Georgia Alert

Looks like HB89 has had some pro-gun amendments attached to it today that include:

further allowing concealed carry permit holders to carry in recreational areas, wildlife management areas, and public transportation;
allowing concealed carry permit holders to carry in restaurants; and
creating a stricter time line for various stages of the concealed carry license application process.

This amendment was tacked on by Representative Tim Bearden, and would appear to contain several of the measures that were in HB 915.Â This sounds like a positive development, but NRA is alerting that people need to contact their representatives in order to ensure passage.

Media Hatchet Job

Bruce lets us know about a Boston news program designed to make it look like gang bangers are going to gun shows and buying guns cash and carry.Â There’s a video preview linked if you haven’t already eaten dinner.

Don’t Tase Me Dad!

Apparently the dad who beat his kid to death over an Xbox has some competition for the vile parent of the year award:

The father of an 18-month-old child is off to jail for four years after being found guilty of using a stun gun on the boy. His reason for using the 100,000-volt Dragonfire, which resulted in muscle damage to the kid’s heart, was because he wanted his son to be “the toughest cage fighter ever.” Yeah, the toughest heart-damaged, cage-fighting 18-month-old ever.

Crazy.

I’m glad I won’t be the only one …

… holding my nose come November.Â Read the whole thing. Even for those who are predicting this will be the end of the republic, I don’t see any reason to open up the vein and help it bleed out faster by handing the election to Hillary or Obama.Â I think The Republic will survive John McCain, and will, at the end of eight years, be better off than it will be under Obillery.