Pro-gun rights

 Very few of those charged appear to be affiliated with highly organized extremist groups, and many are young suburban adults from the very neighborhoods Trump vows to protect from the violence in his reelection push to win support from the suburbs. [More]

Well, yeah, it's not like you get an Antifa Life Membership with a subscription to the magazine.

That's what we call "AP style."

 Senate panel delays vote to subpoena Twitter, Facebook CEOs as some Republicans waver [More]

I wish I could remember who said "There is no more worthless creature than a centrist Republican."

That and "Republicans: They thirst for death."

[Via Jess]

 14-year-old among 7 fatally shot in Chicago this weekend - Thirty-three people were shot over the weekend, seven of them fatally. [More]

Forget it, Jake. It's Chi-Town.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's Labour Party Wins Landslide Election [More]

The canary is firmly entrenched in the coal mine.

And get ready for more.

My only personal experience with New Zealand is learning that, just like our homegrown DSM, theirs is also comprised of ignorant liars.

[Via Michael G]

 Not a Joke: Los Angeles Actually Votes To Form 'Unarmed Response' Teams To Answer 911 Calls [More]

Don't worry -- Nury Martinez won't be riding along.

I wonder if the union is going to tell the council what they can do with themselves.

[Via Michael G]

 “I probably own more firearms than your average Arizonan,” he told another interviewer. [More]

I bet Lon Horiuchi does too. That hardly makes him "one of us."

Tell us more about your Chicom obligations?

[Via Michael G]

 I am disappointedly surprised at the number of supposedly activist gun owners I see concluding the Honey Badger Intolerable Act is the fault of people "flaunting shouldering."

First off, as I quoted here, ATF itself advised a Colorado police department:

“[W]e have determined that firing a pistol from the shoulder would not cause the pistol to be reclassified as an SBR," ATF’s Firearms Technology Branch Chief replied. “Generally speaking, we do not classify weapons based on how an individual uses a weapon. FTB has previously determined that the firing of a weapon from a particular position, such as placing the receiver extension of an AR-15 type pistol on the user’s shoulder, does not change the classification of a weapon. Further, certain firearm accessories such as the SIG Stability Brace have not been classified by FTB as shoulder stocks and, therefore, using the brace improperly does not constitute a design change.”

Actually, that should be second off. I shouldn't need to tell anyone here what first off should be.
I really needed to restrain myself from indulging in a stream of obscenities in this one.

In response to my Honey Badger FOIA request:

Well, that was surprisingly quick.
And now we wait.

 If the left is willing to violently beat supporters of Donald Trump in a public setting when they don’t have power, how emboldened do you think they will be with the knowledge that the executive power to enforce the laws is in the hands of their allies? [More]

It seems to me the only places they do that are where they do enjoy political control. And 99% of the opportunities to do that could be eliminated if people who didn't have to be in those areas stayed out of them.

[Via Michael G]

 Students will no longer be graded based on a yearly average, or on how late they turn in assignments.  [More]

Yes, why burden them with racist real-world expectations, especially when teachers union and administrative public trough feeders have enjoyed incompetence and nonperformance benefits for years?

Besides, how else will we build a militant sense of unearned entitlement?

[Via Michael G]

What is driving gun violence in KC? The community answer: Lack of trust in police [More]

They did it! They missed the barn!

[Via bondmen]

 The leader of an armed standoff with federal authorities at an Oregon wildlife refuge and his allies have exploited COVID-19 fears to build a dangerous network of militia members and other far-right factions, according to a new report by two groups that track extremism. [More]

You mean two leftists bedwetter groups templating off SPLC and ADL?

And what act of dangerous criminal violence has Ammon Bundy been convicted of again? Nothing, you say?

If anything, his caravan invaders advocacy makes him more a creature of the left in my book, or at least their useful idiot. I wonder how many of his reported 20,000 members know that?

I expected better from Judy Thomas, too, and that's a pity.

[Via bondmen]

 Police say somebody in a small SUV started shooting at families Friday night, injuring seven people, including four kids. [More]

I'll go out on a limb here with the acknowledgment that I could be proven dead wrong: Tell me this was not gang-related, and probably committed by recent arrivals with cartel ties. That and shooting anyone this way is crossing the line, Chief Cost.

And while this will no doubt be fodder for those who want to disarm the rest of us, note the carnage could have been a lot more "successful" but for ""One of the workers at the stands saw this happen and returned fire at the vehicle," convincing the attackers to respond rationally by leaving.

[Via bondmen]

 A Key Largo man already facing felony charges over accusations he pointed a handgun at a group of people riding on a golf cart in his condo complex in May now faces an additional charge of owning a bump stock, a device that allows a semiautomatic rifle to rapidly fire almost like a fully automatic weapon. [More]

Looks like there are plenty of "thanks" to go around...

And:

Calls to ban them came from even many staunch pro-gun owners’ rights advocates...

Name one. I guarantee you I'll find other betrayals.

[Via bondmen]

 “He said he was going to kidnap me and slash my throat and he needed my address because I needed to see the hangman — me and everyone who, something about tyranny,” Whipple said. [More]

Just lovely. Thanks, @$$hole.

[Via bondmen]

 Former St. Louis County director of diversity and inclusion sues St. Louis County [More]

Yeah, just think of all the value she added!

[Via bondmen]

A Whole Stack of Texas ID's Was Allegedly Being Scanned and Used at a Predominantly Black Early Voting Location... [More]

 It sure looks like shenanigans by Democrat election workers being given cover by a Democrat DA and a Democrat judge...

[Via Jess]

 The lawsuit accuses the city of harming local business owners by allowing the existence of Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP), a self-declared autonomous zone that was established and occupied by racial justice protestors from June 8 to July 1. [More]

See, presenting them as "racial justice protestors" injects editorializing into what is being presented as "news."

Let's hope the businesses don't become targets for revenge violence, or if they do, no one gets seriously hurt but the intimidation is enough to have the feds show they're serious about protecting federal court proceedings.

[Via Michael G]

 People Marching With Antifa Attack Conservatives at Rally Against Big Tech [More]

Damn violent white nationalists!

[Via Michael G]

 The Democrats May Not Be Able to Concede [More]

That must be why they keep priming us that Trump will refuse and need to be removed by force.

Forgive my cynicism, but we are, after all, dealing with The Atlantic.

[Via Jess]