“The spice salt must flow.” – Dune, probably all of them.
When my enemies are in pain, I never rub salt in their wounds. That would be adding in salt to injury.
Why salt mining? Because it’s fun and profitable to mine the salt from the tears of the Left.
I have carefully curated memes and Tweets® about the recent Supreme Court victor on the Second Amendment. Why? It’s Friday, and we should celebrate. Yes, I know about the Senate bill that passed, but I think this is fundamental.
And more fun. So, these are as-found, on the ‘net. They aren’t quite in random order, take the first two, for instance . . .
I think we fought a war about something similar?
Sounds like a feature, not a bug.
Funny how that freedom thing works? You can see that every day here in Modern Mayberry.
Sounds like someone needs a nap.
I’m sure with strict gun laws, NYC is safe?
Oops.
I worry about a woman with a dangerous assault uterus.
Muskets? I’m thinking she doesn’t understand what she means . . .
Why, yes, I think that British-born and educated billionaires are exactly who I want to lecture me on my rights. Again, didn’t we fight a war over just this? Here’s my response to Mr. Rothschild:
Preet, phone home.
You see, in this world there’s two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig.
Il Buono
One of my favorite movies.
Heh hehe – I hear it in Clint’s voice.
Piers Morgan has a single digit IQ
Dunno – I have no idea what his opinions are except for this one. I do know he’s a tool.
The SCOTUS ruling basically says that “may issue” States, (all 9 of them : https://www.usconcealedcarry.com/resources/terminology/types-of-concealed-carry-licensurepermitting-policies/may-issue/) must switch over to “shall issue” laws, which are already in effect within in 41 States anyway. For all the sound and fury, the ruling affects less than 20% of the States…and “only” 90 million citizens, or less than 30% of Americans. Mostly the 70 million in CA, NY and NJ.
The thing to really focus on here is Keith Olbermann. He is leading the chant to not just pack SCOTUS with liberals, but to DELEGITIMIZE IT ENTIRELY. This line of thinking is only gonna spread when the Row v. Wade ruling comes out. The danger of the people wanting to delegitimizing an entire Branch of the US Government is extremely dangerous. It could even lead to, say, CW2.
https://www.newsweek.com/keith-olbermann-supreme-court-twitter-rant-reactions-1718631
If it leads to CW2, the left may begin to understand the 2A.
Stop teasing us, Ricky.
This is like threatening a pride of lions with a raw side of beef.
It’s all headed that way . . . but Olbermann is a “literally who” – a sportscaster with anger issues.
I wonder how the left will react if red states jump on board with KO and just ignore the SCOTUS rulings about gay marriage.
It’s hilarious – what’s written in the Consititution in plain letter law versus something made up out of whole cloth . . .
I think the funniest lines I’ve heard are those equating this decision to making our country the wild wild west.
Man, that cracks me up. It’s usually said by a mayor or governor ruling over a deep blue, gun restricted area that is literally the wild west, with gunfights claiming dozens every weekend.
If your really look into it, you’ll find the wild west was probably safer than any ‘hood in a blue city.
Really looking into stuff is my gig.
https://medium.com/@marcodpatricio/how-violent-was-the-wild-west-a76783411462
TL;DR: The concensus (here and also in the abstract of Dykstra’s paywalled article from 2009) is that population sizes were too small to support accurate statistics. “The data always tells the story we want it to. And as for Dodge City? Would it really have been more dangerous than any modern city? The truth is, it never got big enough for us to know.”
In the 1880s, Los Angeles, a sleepy little pueblo of a few tens of thousands, was regarded as the most egregiously bloody outpost on the Left Coast, with nearly a murder a day.
Today, most years, in fact L.A., with a hundredfold more population has – wait for it – a murder a day.
The difference, in the “wild” west, was that over 50% of the victims were the bad guys, because their would-be victims could shoot back. And the ones they caught alive, they hung.
In an average year, cops kill maybe 2-10% of crooks.
Citizens whack something like 80% of them.
Capital punishment takes out 0.000001%.
Bring back the Wild West, I’m begging you. It was a safer place and time.
An armed society is a polite society. – St. Robert of Heinlein
Yeah, Chicago comes to mind. And Baltimore. And . . .
*uck your facts about cities with MASSIVE Gun Laws ON the books not working, BUT, BUT, BUT, My FEEEEEEELINGS……
Liberal arguing point summed up.
SO WHY DO WE ARGUE with them? Mutual fapping maybe? Your just SELF ID’ing yourself as a target for later more direct actions.
With Red Flags Defacto law of the land anyone can find themselves visited by a nice stacked deck (both in lawfare and firepower) at O dark 30.
An unhappy girlfriend? A SWAT Call in from an DOX on your posts?
Leftist DO stuff, We talk about stuff. Words without actions is bloviating. Ask the Supreme Court Justices about their safety at their homes recently. I suppose the Democrats didn’t NEED to use “Direct Action” on them this week.
Even our founding fathers had to hide firearms from the British to prevent sudden raids from disarming us. The shot heard around the world was a last ditch effort to slow the British enroute to a major Gun and ammo grab. Just saying.
Protect your families, find trusted friends, All Killhouse rules apply #5 Always be working, there is always something you can do to improve your situation.
I have stopped having political discussions with Leftists. Done arguing. They even give up when met with logic, but it doesn’t change a thing.
The thing that gets me is that both red and blue want the power to wield death but excoriate the other rather than discuss their underlying similarities.
According to the CDC, in 2019 there were 39,707 gun deaths and 629,898 abortions. 60% of the gun deaths were suicides so “only” 40% (say, 16K people) were people who did not consent to getting shot. All 630K aborted fetuses did not consent to being aborted. So for every gun homicide, there’s 630/16 = 39 abortions. Yet it’s the pro-life offices that are getting firebombed.
https://aleteia.org/2022/06/15/over-40-attacks-on-churches-and-pregnancy-centers-as-supreme-court-ruling-looms/
This is what you get when the propaganda is oh-so-carefully slanted to equate “abortion is about choice” instead of “abortion is about dead fetuses”.
https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1534511580427104257
I personally find this all rather intellectually dishonest. Not that you can reason with those wearing makeshift bikinis (which seem increasingly rare here on WW&W, so here ya go – you’re welcome!!! 🙂 )…
https://twitter.com/riseup4abortion/status/1534409523867287552
Okay!!!! Hint taken!
Guns kill! All by themselves! But especially in the blood-soaked hands of quiet, taciturn, trad White cis-hets who only wanted to be left alone! They must be stopped, before we devolve into a nation of law-abiding citizens!
But wait! There’s more!
I demand my right to abort my unborn child! They had it coming for inconveniencing my chaotic, social justice crusade! My right to slut without consequences must not be infringed! It says so, right there in that Constitution thingy! Think of the children! No, wait, don’t do that…
Cog-diss so bright it shines. Cog-diss so glaringly obvious you might think that even the left should catch a glimpse of it from time to time.
Because the Left is a death cult – and you can’t properly kill a nation if they are armed (see Monday’s post) and abortion is, perhaps, their greatest sacrament.
I haven’t read the newest law passed by the ruling class in D.C., but think the ruling by the Supreme Court on Second Amendment rights will take the teeth from it. Of course, the effort to destroy the court will become stronger, but considering how many people are desperate for relief from the economic madness, the effort will be fraught with danger.
Next is the sound of Progressive brains boiling with emotional distress. Roe V Wade is overturned, and those wanting violence to push their cause will act quickly. In the near future, such things will be curtailed with well placed rounds.
That’s right – the Court (that they long loved) is now no longer legitimate. Ha!
Any of us who have been following gun law arguments for a few years have seen every single one of these arguments so many times it’s tedious. Every Single Time another state goes to shall issue or constitutional carry we get the same “there will be blood in the streets!” cries, despite the fact that it has NEVER HAPPENED. And yet we get the same crap this time.
The first few times I saw the “Women’s bodies have less freedom than guns” (or today’s “a uterus has less freedom…”) it was funny. Now it’s all cliche’.
The only line in here I’ve never seen was your line about an assault uterus. I think when I was 20 I would have paid to see that.
I assure you, you don’t want to put one of those in the hands of an 18 year old.
I thought it was common knowledge that your smarter criminals get concealed carry permits before embarking on a crime spree.
And insurance for their cars, and they always make sure they follow every law. Except for the one that they inadvertantly break that was in no way their fault.
Apart from all of the intricately reasoned arguments about gun rights and restrictions, all I needed to see was my state law in Maryland that says you “must have a good and substantial reason” to carry a concealed handgun. Implicit in that is, “tell us your story, and some anonymous bureaucrat will interpret the Constitution for you.” There are a bunch of other conditions for the issuance of the permit, but the others are logically testable, not subjecting the individual to capricious judgement.
Yeah, and that’s what a corrupt government likes.
https://i.imgur.com/I5DV0Bs.png
Submitted for your amusement.
I love it! I can hear it in his voice.
Okay, time for a little heresy. The Nine Nazgul just announced two “big” decisions. They completely contradict each other.
One the one hand, they say Alabama can make its own laws concerning baby-killing. This is a proper decision on their part, getting rid of a bit of “results-oriented” jurisprudence that lefty just loved: Roe.
On the other hand, and going against the celebration by my friends here: they also say that the state of New York cannot have the gun laws that they want.
What the hell? I wish they’d make up their minds.
I will admit that their gun-law decision had a tiny little scrap of justification that Roe never had: they can claim “the incorporation doctrine.” This “doctrine” would be unrecognizable to the Founders, and has led to the legal incoherence under which we live today.
Let New York make the laws it wants. They can make abortion compulsory, and outlaw flipping rubber bands. Their laws are horrible. It would suck to be a New Yorker. But New Yorkers have remedies. Replace the legislators. Move the hell out. Whatever.
And, to be consistent, let Alabama make the laws it wants. Let them outlaw baby-killing. Let them make open carry compulsory. Many Alabamans wouldn’t like that. They have the same remedy available as New Yorkers.
I’m not a “Make America Great Again” guy. My version is “Make America States Again.”
End of heresy. Thank you for your forbearance.
Because you seem to never have heard of them…
AMENDMENT II
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
AMENDMENT IX
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
AMENDMENT X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
AMENDMENT XIV
Section 1.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Well, McChuck, I wish you could have been a little more condescending. Try harder next time.
Because you seem not to have read my comment, allow me to inform you that amendment 14 has indeed been made, erroneously, the basis of what has been called the “incorporation doctrine.” At the time of the enactment of 14A, and up until the 1920s or so, it was widely recognized — in case law — that the Bill of Rights does not apply to state laws. Considerable twisting has been done since then. The fact that it’s happened doesn’t make it right.
2A was meant to say that the federal government was not to infringe. If 2A means that NO ONE can infringe, then tell me: if you wish to enter private property — a friend’s house, a church, a school, whatever — where the owners or proprietors forbid firearms, do you wave 2A at them?
This terrible decision is really about the centralization of power in DC. I live in Indiana, a state in which you don’t need a carry permit — simply being a living, breathing non-felon is your “permit.” This is an arrangement that suits me very well. But if DC gets to control everything related to firearms … “Nice constitutional-carry state you’ve got there. Be a shame if anything … happened to it.” As for New York, it’s a deep-blue shithole to me. But their gun laws don’t affect me, unless I’m foolish enough to go there. Which I’m not.
With centralized power, everybody has to have the same laws, from sea to shining sea. And I’d suggest that we’re not going to like those laws. The feds have already infringed the crap out of our right to keep and bear, etc. Think they’re gonna stop?
We’ve all been laughing, and properly so, at these Trigglypuff harpies, living in Califruitopiia or Taxachusetts or such similar places, losing their shit at the idea that it might become harder or impossible to kill a baby in a place they don’t live in anyway. What’s the difference between that, and us getting all grumpy because people living in a hellscape that we’re smart enough to stay away from can’t get a carry permit?
Let Lefty live xir way, and let me live sanely.
It’s not condescending when you miss the forest for the trees that hard.
States can’t make their own gun laws because the Founders pre-empted that option with the BoR.
On purpose.
This is a feature, not a bug.
So that neither Indiana nor NYFS can infringe a natural pre-existing right with state laws.
NYSRPA just reset things to the level they were in circa 1783, for all practical purposes (though there is going to be a lot of lawfare between last Friday’s D-Day and an eventual VE Day.)
And private property is where your rights are moot. Try free speech uninvited in your neighbor’s living room at 3AM, and see how far you fly before you hit the street. Probably without bouncing.
The latter phrase “Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” in the DoI sprung from “Life, liberty, and property” in contemporary writings of John Locke.
As Casey Stengel used to advise people, “You could look it up.”
If you’re going to make sage observations, more Stevie Hawking, and less Stevie Wonder.
Just saying.
Simpleton. There is zero contradiction in the two decisions. With regard to Roe, the Blackmun court issued a decree that overturned all state legislation even though there is basis in the constitution to do so. No authority was ever granted to the federal government to have a say in abortion and the constitution explicitly declares that all powers not granted to the federal government are reserved to the states or the people.
The NY gun case is the opposite. The constitution explicitly declares that the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Every state accedes to this declaration. Requiring a permit to exercise a right is clearly an infringement.
You are like every other abortion supporter or anti-gun idiot espousing illogical gibberish while suffering the delusion that your emotional utterances are reasoned.
Understood – but what’s written in the Consititution in plain letter law (right to keep and bear arms) versus something made up out of whole cloth (abortion) . . . combine with the 10th Amendment? That right isn’t listed, so it belongs to the States, or the People.
I just love watching the communist libtards heads explode!
Me, too. I love the smell of their tears.
Hopefully the government’s stamp of approval on Sodomite marriage will be overturned as well.
I think Thomas has the votes for that.
“…a loaded Abrams tank”
It worked for Jim Rockford, er, Garner.
These people are truly mentally ill.
They are.
The Virginia State Constitution says, word for word, exactly what the Federal Constitution Second Amendment says. And yet, here we are with laws that definitely infringe on law-abiding gun owners’ rights, including the clearly unConstitutional Red Flag law. As for same-sex marriages, Virginians voted overwhelmingly by referendum to amend the State Constitution to preclude such marriages, yet our newly elected Democrat Attorney General (under Baby-killer Northham’s administration) filed a Friend of the Court statement supporting the appeal that ultimately allowed it. This was just TWO WEEKS after he swore to uphold the State Constitution.
Is it any wonder that all three top governmental positions in Virginia are now Republican? If only we can flip Abigail’s House seat (7th District) in the fall….
Time to push back. Swap ’em out.
“In an average year, cops kill maybe 2-10% of crooks.
Citizens whack something like 80% of them.”
If only this were true we would no longer have a crime problem in this country. I assume, however, you mean “out of the criminals who are killed while committing a crime”.