Family Circus? Come on. Doonesbury? D’uh. But Family Circus is as political as Shantal Monique (if slightly more authentic-looking). Well that’s the way it should be. I mean Family Circus should be apolitical. (I wouldn’t mind if Shantal walked back the whole Playboy pneumatic bleached blond thing.) Anyway, “Some of the nation’s best loved cartoonists are calling on Congress to not back down and take action to enact common sense gun laws that will prevent violence and save lives.” A little late there, guys. Saying that, it’s nice to discover cartoonists’ pro-gun control bias well ahead of Christmas book-buying season. Oh, and that’s Julianne Moore and Philip Seymour Hoffman providing the narration.
I can’t wait for the Supreme Court to overturn the NFA laws and the Hughes amendment. Any day now… Or not
I LOVE MY MOSSBERG MMR!! This review (and the review for the MMR itself) are what led me to buy mine.
Absolutely perfect rifle, IMO. I don’t care about a forward assist (a modern precision-built rifle shouldn’t need one), and I don’t take issue with the trigger or grip, as the reviewer did.
The Mossberg MMR is the best rifle on the market for under $1500 retail. Hands down.
How many more vague, feel-good videos from people who don’t have a clue what they’re talking about?
Get used to pictures like these, we are still in the 1st 4 months of The Obama 2nd term, 3 years and 8 months remain. If you think the nation will not continue to suffer, in ways far worse and far more intense, you have another think comming.
Wrap cables around the legs until it trips? Smash it’s head between two sequoia logs?
Oddly enough, I haven’t read any of these for many years. Doonesbury is the worst, and was first to be put on ignore, sometime around 1980. I would recommend taking a look at Day by Day, and Hope n Change cartoons.
Thankfully, the police were there in time to talk about it afterwards.
The police prevent crime. They cannot prevent crimes. They were originally successful in the former. It took an armed citizen for there to be ultimate success in the latter.
This is coming from Snoop? Isnt marijuana illegal (sans medical use)? Anyone that knows snoop knows that he smokes ALOT. It being illegal doesnt stop him does it?
Well done, Rabbi. As has been said, it will have no effect on the dedicated gun-haters, but can reach the gun-ignorant who are being bamboozled for political manipulation.
If the practice of repeating a lie often enough leads to it being accepted as the truth, then repeating the truth often enough will lead to lies being recognized as lies.
So I’d be correct in assuming that Snoop, his bodyguards and all his associates will now cease carrying firearms?
How about a nice television PSA featuring all the aforementioned individuals stating as such. Betcha Bloomie would pay for it.
Mo Willems…NOOOOOOOOOOO!
Very disappointed.
He’s coin-operated and was paid to be the new face of anti-gunners for folks of his ilk.
A full list of agencies devoted to stopping narcotics cant stop him or anyone from getting weed, just like a background check cant stop someone from buying or stealing a gun illegally. What good would a more intrusive pain in the ass check do? The one we have works just fine.
Yes, you should quick get out there & do it before it hits you,(reality) & the speeding bus thats about to run over your pot addled jaywalking ass, dipshit, Randy
The staties bullied him into taking down the photos. Fortunately we still have access to Google cache:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Awww.getonhand.com%2Fblogs%2Fnews%2F7743337-boston-bombing-suspect-shootout-pictures
My guess is Hollywood and Youtube being the most probable reference sources. Books and Magazines (check out Amazon for anything to do with SAS and special forces and their tactics) are other possibilities. And, they might have talked to some veterans of the Chechnyan wars of the 1990s. How the Chechnyans repulsed the first attack on Grozny was a tactical masterpiece, but then most of the Chechnyan fighters had been trained by the Russian Army so they knew how the attack would proceed.
Unarmed white US intellectuals on a PNG island. Guess their talking skills didn’t dissuade the natives, huh? But she hopes her story will inspire other women to just say ‘no’ to rape. That’s all ya gotta do.
Pretending they even get suspects, good luck getting anyone to testify. PNG makes the USVI look like an open society.
Yeah, $4.2M would certainly help me move on with my life. OTOH, settling this quickly means they probably left money on the table. I wonder what the lawyer’s cut is.
Not to agree with Snoop’s message at all, but did anyone listen to what he says at 12:15?
“I’m not even speaking to guns, I’m speaking to gun violence. It’s a big difference. I don’t mind the guy having a gun that’s protecting himself that knows how to use it. He’s supposed to. I’m talking about these idiots with these guns that’s shooting up these schools, shooting up these public places, that have no heart or no nothing, no, no feelings for the people that they’re shooting. It’s not fair, it’s not fair to these people that walk into these venues or walk into school where a little kid goes to school to learn and has to get shot. That ain’t cool, that hurt my heart man, to see that. And I’m fed up behind that.”
Not to suggest that one should look to Snoop for advice on such things, but Snoop is talking more about the people than the guns. When he says put some restrictions or some ramifications on it, he is, in part, agreeing with a lot of us here; talking about making the consequences such that they aren’t worth it for your average Chicago gang-banger.
He’s not pro-gun by any means, or someone who we’d commend even if he were – but he doesn’t seem to be forgetting the criminals and the crazies here at least.
We members of the bar want to thank the fine officers of Los Angeles for making a sincere effort toward promoting full employment for lawyers. Grazie mille. And I really mean the mille part. Or in this case, mille.4.
If Johnnie Cochran was alive, it would have been $10 million.
Looks like a lose / lose situation to me. LAPD looks like idiots, lawyer makes 1 million plus, city and taxpayers lose a cool $4.2 million.
Awesome piece, Nick, much enjoyed – many thanks.
Great Stuff Nick!!! Fashion advice was funny! My cargos are a female doggie to iron with all them pockets and seams so I send them to the cleaners – perfection for 5-bucks a shot. I also found that when walking around with heavy pockets the ones with the pockets on the sides were a lot less comfortable than the ones with the extra pockets on top of the regular front pockets. I found them at Cabela’s (their brand 7-pocket hikers).
Keep these reports coming, the whole thing is terrific and some of the best content here.
Suggestion, gotta lay off the bubba burgers and fries, maybe a jog or a bike ride 3-times a week. I used to compete in sporting clays, and although we didn’t run with guns, matches took a couple-three hours of walking around with a lot of weight in 95 degree heat. The loss of weight and increased cardio from the bike rides resulted in a lower pulse rate, and I credit that with an extra 2-3 birds per round, which is a gazillion for the top class in sporting clays.
Yet another image change. I’m enjoying this thread just for that alone.
(yes, the “hope for the best” crowd astonishes me. )
Saw this coming. I don’t think anyone is surprised. Guess I will get back to writing my representatives.