Snowflakes in Hell

I wanted to blog this earlier, but Wyatt beat me to it.  It takes a certain kind of cold hearted son of a bitch to decide the lives of people doing their jobs is worth less than the money they are transporting.

If any good can come out of this, it’s that people who choose to be gunmen, and go about armed, need to be serious about their skills, and be prepared to do what they have to do.  There’s always the possibility of a bad guy getting the drop on you, but I hope others will be on alert, and the next confrontation will result in dead scumbags.

Anyone notice a common theme in these South Florida articles is John Timony?  It would seem not much has changed since his days of crapping all over the Pennsylvania constitution when he worked for then Mayor Rendell.  Dwight Evans wanted to bring him back, if elected mayor.   No thanks.

I kind of wonder if the trend toward more police officers being shot has something to do with there being fewer police officers on the streets?  You would think with less backup around, criminals might get a little more bold, and individual officers would have to handle dangerous situations with less resources available than when there are more cops.

Hat tip: SCC 

I’ve said that Ed Rendell has never met a tax he wouldn’t like to raise.  Job killing corporate taxes for Pennsylvania are already among the highest in the nation.   Rendell is proposing a 3% tax on businesses as part of his health care initiative, which would make Pennsylvania and even less attractive place to do business than it already is.

Oh well, at least I don’t live in Michigan.

I’d be mad as hell.  Having an M.D. after your name doesn’t give someone an excuse to be a condescending busy body.  Puritanism is alive and well in The Bay State, and it would seem gun ownership is the new scarlet letter.

I appreciate this kind of honesty and integrity coming from academics in the media.  I also loved this:

This term, the Supreme Court may finally take up the Voldemort Amendment, the part of the Bill of Rights that shall not be named by liberals.

Also see Dave Hardy and Call me Ahab

You have to wonder if this sentiment is related to a string of faulty and dangerous products from China.

You might want to go read what Thirdpower has to say. It seems they want to put age limits on FOID cards.

Thirdpower points to a sad situation in gun free Chicago that illustrates the problems with trying to legislate social problems out of existence; the kind of folks who have gun accidents in their household are generally the kind who aren’t going to pay much attention to the law anyway.

I think we agree with our opponents on this issue that people should be responsible about keeping their firearms away from small hands, but we believe the solution is education rather than legislation.

Dave Kopel has a pretty good article on gun control in Burma over at Volokh. Go have a read.

Speaking of Burma. David Codrea has an interesting variation on the “Burma-Shave” viral marketing campaign.

I’m not going to criticize the Brady Campaign for having someone else manage Paul’s blog. That’s par for the course in these kinds of matters with non-profits. But for the sake of staying on message, I’m rather surprised that they show someone else posting on behalf of Paul Helmke:

I’m going to guess dpennington is Doug Pennington, detailed here by Buckeye Firearms Coalition:

Recently I was notified by my friend Dan Gettlefinger that just the very sort of disinformation piece I have been talking about ran in the Cincinnati Enquirer. The author, Doug Pennington, is a former Cincinnati resident now living in Washington D.C. and an employee of Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. His article was prompted by an op-ed penned by a Vietnam War vet named Charles Donabedian.

None of us, I think, really believed that Paul did his own blog entires; that’s what staff is for. But you’d think they’d know enough to avoid these kind of careless oversights. It’s one thing to understand Paul doesn’t really manage his own blog. It’s another thing for us to know who actually does it.

Looks like Cam Edwards is starting up another blog to highlight the “Deal of the Day” feature on his show. I will be adding that to my RSS feed. Hopefully you all will check in as well. I have to admit that I only occasionally have to time to listen to the show, so having that in blog format is certainly helpful.

The “Deal of the Day” feature highlights the failure of our criminal justice system to get criminals off the street, and actually, you know, punish them.

Go take a look at this video of Fred Thompson.   Can someone tell me whether one of these kids is playing with padding from a bra?  I’m just wondering.

Now, I have to tell you.   If I’m 65, and I’m hitting that, I’m doing pretty well in life.  And that’s not to lend credibility to the trophy wife meme.  Jeri, unlike some other candidate wives, has the brains to back up the looks.  And at least she doesn’t seem to be calling Fred on a regular basis while he’s making speeches.

See the rest of the interviews here, via Glenn.