Snowflakes in Hell

Word is that the San Francisco gun ban is dead letter.  The California Supreme Court has spoken.  Good news.  At least until they repeal preemption in The Golden State.

Bitter has her list of blogging hotties, so I’m allowed to have mine, dammit!  Here’s my top five.

• Breda - Who says librarians can’t be hot?  Gun toting librarians, even hotter!
• Kit - John is a lucky, lucky man.  Just click on the site to see what I mean.  Yeah, the AR-15 is nice too.
• Dr. Helen - As charming and intelligent as she is beautiful.  Glenn is also a lucky guy!
  
• Megan McArdle - I like smart women, and tall women, and she’s both!
  
• Bitter - I don’t care what the gun control people say, boobs with guns are a great combination.

It’s been my careful observation that the conservative/libertarian side of the blogosphere has better looking women than the lefty blogosphere.

It’s original, and I like it.  It would probably make Bloomberg and Paul Helmke crap their pants too.

After the Greg Rotz incident, there was a movement by certain Franklin County officials to convince the legislature ban guns in polling places in Pennsylvania.  I’m glad to see that is going nowhere fast.  Philly would have just passed and enforced it as an ordinance, preemption be damned!

By the way, Gun Truth is Greg Rotz’s blog.  We welcome him to blogging and wish him success.

UPDATE: More here

I would have thought we gun bloggers should have crushed this meme successfully, but we haven’t.  Look a this.

Today, our campaign announced the membership of our Pennsylvania Sportsmen and Sportswomen for Obama Steering Committee.  Avid hunters and anglers from around the state, the committee members lauded Obama for his understanding of and respect for Pennsylvania’s hunting and fishing traditions and his strong record on conservation.

Oh, you mean protecting hunting and fishing by shutting down most of this Nation’s gun shops?  Or by screwing pistol hunters by banning their firearms?  Or by banning all semi-automatic firearms?  Is that how he supports hunting and fishing?  By voting against a bill to prevent gun manufacturers from being sued out of business by cities like Obama’s home of Chicago?

Let’s see who the Democrats are who are going to actively help dupe their fellow Pennsylvanians into thinking Barack Obama is their friend:

Frederica (Freddie) Antram, Paul Antram, Michael Aumiller, Arnold Brion, Robin Cole, John Fetterman, State Rep. Marc Gergely, Scott Harrison, Terry Havener, Kenny Jackson, Jeff Knisely, Richard Lanzoni, Tom Maglicco, Steve Naylor, Joe Rossi, Brian Stoltz, Dominic Surra, State Rep. Dan Surra.

These are individuals and politicians who are putting party above principles.  Let’s make sure that no one buys the snake oil they are selling about Obama.

Caleb has been doing a lot of podcasts.  I have a personality that is really best suited to the written word, but I’ve been thinking about doing one just to see how it goes.  It wouldn’t be a regular feature.  What do you think of podcasts?

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Of course, I’d have to think of a topic too.  I wouldn’t want to bore anyone.

Kids having accidents with guns is worthy of national news.  Accidents with bathtubs?  Not so much.

Jeff Soyer reports of an effort to end preemption in California, since it’s been successfully used to toss San Francisco’s ban on guns.  There are many laws that are properly done at the state level, and regulation of firearms is one of those.  Surely the laws of #1 Brady Campaign ranked State of California aren’t inadequate?

“California is one of the leading states in gun control legislation, so yes, I think this bill could be model legislation that other states would look into to address the gun violence problem.” - Armando Viramontes, Legislative Aide to Berkeley Assemblywoman Loni Hancock

They’ll never stop.  No law will be adequate until you’re disarmed, dead, or doing time.

I see they are still using their tried and true methods.

Lynne Abraham is actually going after criminals in Phialdelphia.  This is good work from her office, and the kind of thing gun owners will support.  Now we just need judges who will be willing to send these people to prison for a while if they are convicted.  Note that one of these guys falsely reported a burglary to cover his illegal sales.  If the criminals are already reporting their firearms stolen, exactly what is this “Lost and Stolen” law going to do again?

Tam has a great essay assessing the damage.  I am no fan of the 17th myself, but tend to believe the pesky progressives were bound to create leviathan with or without it.  If we didn’t have the 17th amendment, I still believe we’d have a large and expensive federal government, but it would likely have been more difficult for the federal government to amass the power that it’s managed, and it probably wouldn’t have been able to amass so much of it.

The real problem is that our culture worships at the altar of democratic governance.  Power to the people, and all that.  Not enough stop and think that maybe the people, when they act collectively through voting, are actually pretty collectively stupid.

You can’t be so desperate as an organization to raise your profile that you’re willing to go to lengths like this.  I’d say this is a new low for the Brady Campaign, but sadly it’s not.

It’s hard to believe this got covered in a Philadelphia media outlet in a way that didn’t make us all look completely insane.  The only quote from the anti-gun people:

“We have no quarrel with legitimate club owners and sportsmen,” CeaseFirePA executive director Joe Grace said. “I don’t know the particular gun club in South Philadelphia, but I believe he’s right.”

Makes you wonder if Joe Grace will extend that courtsey to opposing the insane and unlawful “assault weapons” ban that City Council is considering, which will ban many common sporting guns.  One also wonders whether Battette Josephs will show up to give Jimmy Mastroddi a piece of her mind for “raffling” off a gun in her city.  Either way, it’s a good article from Philly Metro.  It’s a shame that the mainstream Philly papers can’t seem to treat gun owners this fairly.

The Georgia Restaurant Association is freaking out about the bill to get rid of many gun free zones in that state:

Ron Wolf, head of the Georgia Restaurant Association, said his biggest concern is the possibility of more violence.

The bill would allow guns only in restaurants that serve mostly food and bans patrons from consuming alcohol if they are carrying a gun. But Wolf said that is nearly impossible to enforce.

“Are waiters now going to have to ask everyone who orders a drink if they’re armed?” he asked. “Our position is simple. We think it’s inappropriate.”

The legislation also allows restaurants to ban guns, but they must post a sign outlining their policy. Those that do would risk alienating potential customers, said Ron Fennel, director of governmental affairs for the Georgia Hotel and Lodging Association.

“We think it’s worthy of a veto,” Fennel said of the proposal.

Cry me a river.  In Pennsylvania, we not only don’t have any kind of restaurant ban, it’s perfectly legal to have a beer with dinner while packing.  And guess what?  We don’t have problems with drunks roaming the streets shooting guns at people.  Who would have guessed, most LTCF holders are responsible, and aren’t the type of people who are going to risk losing their license by carrying while intoxicated.

Last week I mentioned a symposium being held at Duquesne University today from 3-5PM.  Here’s another story about some of the speakers who will be attending.  I’m looking for an intrepid reader who might have time and desire to be my eyes and ears at this, and either report back to me a reasonable summary, and notable quotes, or if you feel up to it, a guest entry.