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Category: Guns and Gun Rights

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Friday links

Published September 16, 2016 11:13 am by Claire
  • Federal appeals court judge says “mental health” ban on gun ownership may violate the Second Amendment. (Yes, you and I know it’s not only a matter of “may.”) (H/T PT)
  • Missouri joins the constitutional carry movement over the objections of its governor. (Tip o’ hat to L.A., who doesn’t like that last line any more than the rest of us purists do.)
  • Now, is the only kind of politician worth a damn.
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    • Midweek links

    Published September 13, 2016 2:26 pm by Claire
  • Unidentified tourists (or identified journalists and politicians speaking for non-existent tourists) get so upset by a “black guns matter” sign that they cry, “Whaaaaa whaaaa!” and flee the town.
  • We the deplorables. (Yeah, not v*ing for Trump, but the identification of who Hillary and nearly every other politician really finds deplorable is spot on.)
  • Two via Kit Perez: More evidence that the unaware and innocent are more likely to be harmed by omni-surveillance
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    • Weekend links

    Published September 10, 2016 5:35 pm by Claire
  • Twenty-nine strategic lessons from people who’ve been there. Business-oriented. But some good lifehacking material there, too. (Tip O’ hat to Shel.)
  • Alan Gura examines the court after Scalia — and explains why the next “conservative” justice may not help save the Second Amendment.
  • John Hinckley is now free to walk among us — as long as we live in the gated community where his mommy resides. I’m no shrink, but Hinckley always came across to me more as a spoiled rich boy throwing a tantrum than an authentic crazy person.
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    • Friday links

    Published September 9, 2016 9:56 am by Claire
  • Now this is something. Cracked, which is normally entertaining as all get out but relentlessly anti-gun, points out the five biggest reasons “gun control” in the U.S. is a lost cause. Decent points they make, too.
  • Looks as if last Friday’s attempt to dump those FBI/Hillary documents invisibly before a holiday weekend is backfiring, reflecting even more on the fibbies than on Hillary. It’s clear that FBI agents were ordered to go incredibly easy on the crook. And Comey’s once sterling (though never deserved) reputation for being an honorable man has gone off the cliff it edged toward when he first announced (I paraphrase), “She’s guilty as sin but she’s a Clinton so she gets a pass.”
  • Is it a sign of progress that the media now reports on an LP candidate’s gaffe with speculation about whether it will sink his obscure candidacy? It has certainly led to some great laughs in major media Gaffeland
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    • Shoving us at gunpoint toward the cashless society

    Published September 8, 2016 5:24 am by Claire

    Talk of forcing us into a cashless society has been around for decades. It’s very easy to tune it out as old news, something that’s going to remain a statist pipe dream forever. But it’s time to take this very, very seriously. The stage has been set. We’ve got central-bank desperation. Negative interest-rate policies. A police/surveillance state in which cash is more important to the authorities than any actual crimes committed. And the increasing ruthlessness of first-world states everywhere. We’ve got an atmosphere in which the desire for privacy is itself considered a sign of criminal intent. Now the faux-intellectual…

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    Monday-that-falls-on-a-Tuesday links

    Published September 6, 2016 6:03 am by Claire
  • Per Adam in comments: “Inside the Federal Bureau of Way Too Many Guns.” How the ATF traces guns used in crimes since the mean old NRA has denied it a full computerized record. (Actually an interesting article, though it would have been better with some recognition of why that computerized database is verboten.)
  • Ah, but The Atlantic has something much easier to track, even though it could fill just as many large cardboard boxes: the scandals of Hillary from Whitewater to Bengazi.
  • With science fiction’s Hugo awards having become so politicized that a coterie of social justice pecksniffs will deny v*tes to great writers, artists, and editors merely because they’re supported by a rival (and more freedomista) coterie, The Dragon Awards arise. No cliques. Just fan voting. And of course that makes it “sexist,” “racist,” and … well, you know the drill.
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