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Author: Kim du Toit
Quote Of The Day
From La Bella d’Italia, responding to requests from France and UK to send troops to Ukraine:
“You can go — not with my soldiers.”
Could I love Giorgia Meloni any more?
Perennial Speedbump
Oh FFS… how many more times am I to be subjected to this linguistic atrocity?
“I was sat with Maura Higgins and Danny Jones at the star-studded BRITs Afterparty…”
No; you were seated OR you were sitting next to these people.
Of course, this comes from the Daily Mail, so expectations are low. Even so…
“I Thought This Country Spawned The Fucking Language, And So Far Nobody Seems To Speak It.”
Truer words were never spoken.
Mugshots
Came across this rogues’ gallery of all the villains leaders of the EU (click to embiggen):
Of course, I only recognized a few of them, EUPres Ursula van der Leyen over on the right, the dwarf Zelensky in the middle (but unless things have changed, Ukraine isn’t a member so WTF?) but anyway…
Then on the left of the pic are our two heroes: my girl Giorgia Meloni from la bella Italia, and Viktor Orban of Hungary:
Giorgia, as always, looks lovely and stylish because Italian duh, and ol’ Viktor looks like he bench-presses an 18-wheeler every day before his breakfast of rusty nails ‘n blood — a manly man, especially when compared to his chinless counterparts among the rest.
Take out those two (and throw in that filthy Commie Keir Starmer from the UK), and you could pretty much just machine-gun the rest. The world, and certainly Europe, would be a much better place for people to be.
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Unbelievable
Not that we should believe anything that Josh Sugarman’s Violence Policy Center ever says, but even for them, this is egregiously terrible:
“More Than 2,500 Non-Self Defense Deaths Involving Concealed Carry Killers Since 2007, Latest Violence Policy Center Research Shows”
Yeah, except that the data shows no such thing — unless you lie, twist and conceal data which negates your premise, that us.
When you discount all of the categories that don’t match VPC’s horrid headline—suicide, murder/suicide victim, cases still pending, accidents and cases still under investigation—the final total is 625 over a 17-year period. Do the math, and it equals 36 a year, equal to about two holiday weekends in Chicago. (Of course, this assumes that VPC’s figures are even close to being correct.)
And they pretty much aren’t. Considering that only a (shamefully) small percentage of gun owners carry concealed, I wouldn’t even believe that annual number of three dozen.
The only problem with bullshit like this — Sugarman would call it a feature, not a bug — is that the numbers will be uncritically used by The Usual Hoplophobic Suspects — media, Congress, etc. — to bolster their demands that All Guns Should Be Confiscated, Right Now.
Uh huh. Dream on, assholes.
Appropriate Age
As Colorado continues to turn blue — from Californian expats, and not from the cold — we have situations like this one:
On Friday, Colorado House Democrats approved a measure, HB25-1133, which would raise the minimum age for purchasing rifle and shotgun ammunition to 21 years and require that ammunition be stored behind the counter at retailers that sell it.
The battle against young adults’ Second Amendment rights is extensive, with many states and even the federal government debating and enacting laws that restrict the right of 18-, 19- and 20-year-olds to keep and bear arms. For every other constitutionally protected right, Americans are nearly universally regarded as adults at 18 and afforded protection under the Constitution.
It’s really quite simple. If 18-year-olds are old enough to be drafted, sign a contract, get married (or get abortions) without parental consent, and vote: then they are entitled to full Second Amendment rights as the adults they are.
Oh by the way: as adults, they should be allowed to consume booze as well. Adult privilege, in terms of the law, is kinda like virginity. You either have it or you don’t.
And it’s long past time that we acknowledge that fact, under the law.
That said, if people think that 18-year-olds can do this, but not that, depending on the opinions and prejudices of politicians and moralists, then we should just go ahead and overturn the 26th Amendment and restore the age of majority (and the voting age) to 21 and have done with it. (Oh, and make the 18-20 age group ineligible for the draft and ban them from driving, while we’re there. Let’s at least be consistent.)
No?
Then the current age of majority should preclude any and all restrictions under the Equal Protection clause, no matter how popular or how we choose to address the topic of “immaturity”.
Fucking busybodies can all go to hell.