Blood and Carnage

That’s what the New England Journal of Medicine is predicting in the wake of Heller.  Yeah, because prior to Heller, criminals were too busy thinking “Sorry guys, it’s a collective right.  We’ll have to wait until it’s individual before we go commit armed robberies.”  But the study does conflate the suicide and homicide numbers.  It also depends on the Loftin study, which has been thoroughly debunked.

The hysterics post Heller have been absolutely unbelievable.  It’s full tilt in the media for the meme that guns do nothing but kill; they aren’t used for sport, and they aren’t used for self-defense.  No.  They cause crime and suicide.  The suicide angle seems something particularly hounded on for some reason, I’m guessing because they know crime rates won’t go up, so they are banking on suicide rates inching up, so they might have a leg to stand on.

I’ve Heard This A Lot

The speaker of the Tennessee House lied about having a concealed firearms permit.  Patrick Murphy, who is my Congressman, claims to have one, even though he signed onto McCarthy’s HR 1022 assault weapons ban that would outlaw most semi-automatic firearms.

In Pennsylvania, there’s no way to verify a claim of having an LTC, but I think it’s safe to assume that any anti-gun politician claiming to have a concealed firearms permit is lying to you.

Machine Gun Art

I’ll bet it never occured to my friend Jason that he could become a contemporary artist using nothing but his M11 machine pistol and a caseload of 9mm:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZu19hE70hI[/youtube]

Maybe now we can raise a first amendment argument for machine gun ownership ;)

UPDATE: Linoge actually beat me to this one.  He’s actually on my RSS feed, but it doesn’t always embed videos, so I must have just missed it.

Enforcement Day

The City of Philadelphia has begun to enforce one of the gun laws that were not thrown out.  It should be noted that the laws that remain were not upheld, it was ruled that the National Rifle Association did not have standing to challenge the remaining three laws.  The city will begin enforcement of the Lost & Stolen Reporting Requirement only, at this point.  Anyone arrested under this ordinance will have standing to challenge the law under Pennsylvania’s preemption statute.  Any police officer or prosecutor enforcing this law is opening him or herself up to the possibility of lawsuits.

Like You and Me, Only Better

A Pennsylvania State Senator retaliates against the Game Commission after his kid has a run in with a game officer.  Game wardens are law enforcement officers under Pennsylvania law.  They wear uniforms and carry guns.  It is unlawful to have a loaded long gun in a vehicle in Pennsylvania (loaded pistols are fine with a license).  What I definitely would have appreciated from the Senator, is some help repealing this stupid law.  But no, we’ll crap on the game wardens because they messed with my kid who was breaking the law.  Will he jerk the game commission around if I get caught with a loaded rifle in a car?  Yeah, didn’t think so.

Mouse Gun

When we hear the word mouse gun, we generally don’t think of a .44 revolver.  Apparently there are people out there stupid enough to think that.  Clayton Cramer argues that this woman falls into the category of “people that shouldn’t have guns”:

A point that I often make to reporters–and they are usually surprised to hear me say this–is that not everyone should have a gun. There are people who the law prohibits from having guns–and I agree, such as violent felons. There are also people who the law does not prohibit, but whom I discourage from owning guns.

Well, it looks like this woman made great Brady fodder too.  I think I’ll stick to using my .44 on the hiking trail, and to shoot little metal animal shapes.  As for mice?  Well, I love cats, but Bitter is allergic.