Snowflakes in Hell

Classical Values has a pretty good post up on former domestic terrorists, who are now respected academics, and are claiming their former terrorism was just a joke.  Ha ha ha.

NRA will be hosting a Grassroots Workshop this year at the annual meeting in Louisville.  I would like to direct you toward the bottom:

Please also plan to attend the “In Their Own Words” Special Session. This session will consist of a panel of your fellow NRA Members discussing their personal grassroots experiences. There is no registration for the “In Their Own Words” Special Session, and as with the Workshop, it is FREE to attend! The “In Their Own Words” Special Session will be held Saturday, May 17, at 2:00 p.m., in Room B104, of the Kentucky Expo Center, located at 937 Phillips Lane, Louisville, 40209.

I will be a speaker at this special session.  I will be presenting an introduction to gun blogging.  If anyone at the Annual Meeting wants to attend, you should sign up.  I will be giving the talk under my own name rather than my assumed name here.

Tam thinks “Y’know, if only this vapid, content-free crap was more crisp and colorful, I’d totally watch it?”  I have been pondering dropping cable TV for a long time because I never watch it, and it’s horribly expensive.  There are only a few programs I watch, but I’m not sure I like them to the tune of 80 bucks a month.

David E. Young e-mails that he has a page up commenting on the pro-DC briefs filed in the Heller case.   Oral arguments are going to be held in this case March 18th, which is coming up pretty quickly.

Everyone should read this account of a person who’s questioning why he’s lost his right to bear arms after a non-violent conviction as a young man, and after many years of being an upstanding citizen, is unable to protect himself or his family.

There exists, as part of the Firearms Owners Protection Act of 1986, a process by which people convicted of certain crimes can petition ATF to have their firearms rights restored.  The idea of this was so that people who have been convicted of non-violent offenses could have their right to bear arms restored, if they had kept their noses clean in the intervening years.  In 1992, Congress cut off funding for ATF to be able to process these applications.  For the sake of guys like Jay, I think Congress ought to reconsider funding this program, even if they want to stipulate that it not be used to restore rights to people convicted of violent crimes.

A tale of two news stories.   First, from CNN:

A gunman broke into the Jewish seminary about 8:30 p.m., spraying automatic-weapons fire, authorities said. Most of the victims were students in their teens and 20s, medical officials said.

At least nine others were wounded before an off-duty Israel Defense Forces officer fatally shot the gunman, Jerusalem District Police commander Aharon Franko said.

Now From Haaretz:

A student at the Jerusalem yeshiva where eight people were killed in a terrorist attack Thursday evening shot the gunman who opened fire inside the religious school’s crowded library, neutralizing him before a soldier killed him with an automatic rifle.

Yitzhak Dadon said he climbed onto the roof of a nearby building, armed with a rifle, and waited for the gunman to emerge.

What CNN doesn’t tell you is that everyone is “off duty” IDF in Israel.  Can’t feed the idea that letting concealed carry license holders carry while attending university might actually help stop mass shooters now can we?  The Israelis don’t seem to have any illusion about how to make colleges and universities safer from mass shooters.  Why do we persist?

Rustmeister points out a blogger who has problems parsing english sentences.  You can imagine which english sentence he’s talking about.

Still answering e-mails from last night.  Silhouette was crowded, so I got back late.  Then had to watch Lost.  This morning work is kicking my ass again.  Lots of bureaucratic stuff to deal with in addition to actual work.  Happens every once in a while when the senior managers feel like they aren’t in charge, whatever that means to them (usually wasting people’s time with meaningless garbage).  I could take up blogging full time if I got into senior management, as I think collecting a paycheck to blog would do a lot less damage to productivity then pretending to contribute something.  We’ll see how things go after lunch.