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Sign the petition.

I’m sort of a First Amendment absolutist, but the First Amendment starts out with “Congress shall make no law . . . .”

The First Amendment applies to the State.

There is no legitimate reason for media to romanticize nutcases. “Nutcases sell commercials” is not a legitimate reason.

The hostage situation in Midland City, Ala. is over.

At a press conference Monday evening, authorities offered the first few details about the end of the small-town saga, which had stretched nearly a week.

Steve Richardson, a special agent with the FBI in Alabama, confirmed to reporters that the kidnapper, Jimmy Lee Dykes, was dead, and that the small boy Dykes had held in an underground bunker since last Tuesday was at least physically unharmed, and being treated at a local hospital.

Teach your children, politely.

A Florida man armed with an weapon that had once been banned under federal law forced his wife to watch as he strangled one of his sons and then shot a second before turning a gun on himself.

Via Raw Story

It’s all just a smokescreen of whatever will cloud the issue today.

Chauncey Devega highlights the strategy of the silliness over defining “assault rifle.”

In their efforts to derail sensible public policy about gun violence, one of the canards offered by the Gun Right is a fixation on what constitutes an “assault rifle.” The amount of energy expended on this issue has become the equivalent of the TV show King of the Nerds where fine points about esoteric knowledge (of what is ultimately questionable value) are fought over until exhaustion.

Please do follow the link and read his entire post.

Josh Marshall:

I just found out that last September the NRA published an official list of gun enemies including the ADA, AMA, ADL, Mel Brooks, Chaka Khan and hundreds of other domestic gun enemies.

The full list is at the link. You’ll be surprised at some of the persons and outfits on it.

That’s “polite.”

Not “bright.”

An Oregon man who was said to be “familiar with guns” accidentally shot himself with a holstered weapon that he was openly carrying at an Internet cafe in Eugene on Thursday.

Eugene Police said that a 26-year-old man was in the Indras Internet Lounge restroom at around 3 p.m. when his holstered gun discharged and hit him in the thigh. Five people were in the business at the time of the shooting.

She listened to the sheriff:

An intoxicated woman in Milwaukee says that she fired a weapon during an argument with her niece because she had heard Wisconsin Sheriff David A. Clarke’s radio ad saying that citizens should get “in the game” and arm themselves instead of calling 911.

A criminal complaint obtained by the Journal Sentinel indicated that 36-year-old Makisha Cooper had told police that she was following Clarke’s advice that “simply calling 911 and waiting is no longer your best option.”

You can’t make this stuff up.

A Lynnwood man accused of repeatedly shooting his 4-year-old stepdaughter with an Airsoft pellet gun was charged Thursday with second-degree assault.

(snip)

The grandmother took the little girl to Providence Hospital in Everett, where she was examined. Her grandmother and hospital staff counted more than 36 marks on the little girl’s body.

The girl told detectives that Tedder became angry when she woke him up early, so he shot her with the pellet gun, according to documents filed in Snohomish County Superior Court.

While I was attending to family business (probate stuff) today, I gather there were additional outbreaks of politeness amongst the gunnuttery contingent.

No doubt the NRA will attribute this to a leftist conspiracy to undermine their talking points.

Contradict Me explains at the link.

Politeness is breaking out all over the South and West today.

Good old Golden Rule Days,
Readin’ and Ritin’ and Marksmanship,
All to the tune of a thunderstick.

Jeez oh man, you can’t make this stuff up.

Addendum, Later That Evening:

In related developments, Bob Cesca points out that

A Gun Won’t Make Your Penis Larger

but omits mentioning that it makes you a bigger pr–oh, never mind.

It’s not about freedom. It’s about sales.

Welcome lost strangers with courtesy:

Friends of Diaz, of Duluth, told Channel 2 Action News that he and others were trying to find a friend’s house, but their GPS instead led them to the home on Hillcrest Road, off Indian Trail Road.

After seeing the car in his driveway, Sailors came out of his home, went back inside, then came out again with a gun and shot in the air, Yeson Jimenez, 15, told Channel 2. Jimenez said he and his brother were in the car with Diaz, along with a female passenger.

Diaz tried to drive away, but Sailors shot again, striking Diaz in the head, according to police.

Aside:

I got a dollar to a doughnut that there’s an element of “driving while brown” in this, too.