Snowflakes in Hell

I have to congratulate the Boston Beer Company, makers of Sam Adams, for choosing to open a new brewery in Pennsylvania rather than Freetown, Massachusetts.

Bit of advice for Deval Patrick: When business is fleeing Massachusetts for Pennsylvania, man, you have a real problem.

In regards to Bryan Miller’s new blog, one of my readers, tkdkerry, comments:

Well, he finally changed the “boys” to “guys” and “fellas”.

My female girlfriend, who has her Virginia Concealed Handgun License, and who carries a SIG239, might take offense to gun rights advocates being referred to as “boys”, “guys” or “fellas”. Don’t forget about Tam, Zendo Deb, Denise, Squeaky Wheel, or Kit.

Careful about offending the feminist gun nut crowd there Bryan :)

Joseph gets two links today.   This one for a quote from a US Attorney, who no doubt is eager to tout his prosecution of a whacky militia type, but done under the absurdities that are the National Firearms Act:

The mere possession of an AR 15 semiautomatic rifle with a barrel less than 16 inches is a crime of violence, he said.

So does that presume there’s nothing violent about having a 16 inch AR-15?    Get that folks?   Have a 14.5 inch M4 upper, violent nut case, 16 inch upper, you’re a OK.   Sounds a lot like the Canadian nonsense about pistol barrel lengths I linked to earlier.   See, we have our own nonsense too.

This could be one of our folks, but the possibility of this kind of thing happening is exactly why I think it’s important to engage the gun control movement publicly.  We don’t get to do this in the regular media.

It’s good to see that gun control is not such a settled issue in The Great White North, that things like this are still a bone of contention.  Canada is a great example of why anyone who thinks they will stop with licensing and registration is a fool.

“The risk that a legal handgun becomes an illegal handgun is not a hypothetical risk. It’s established,” Bryant said, pointing to the Toronto police figure that 30 per cent of crime guns are stolen from legal owners and 70 per cent are smuggled.

To Bryant and company, it means that getting rid of legally owned handguns in Canada would reduce a significant number of handguns from getting into the hands of criminals.

If it were up to Ontario and Quebec, Canada would already have a handgun ban.