The 1% Solution

For the first time in U.S. history, more than one of every 100 adults is in jail or prison, according to a new report documenting America's rank as the world's No. 1 incarcerator.

And remember: They hate us because we're free.

We're the Only Ones Returning to the Scene of the Crime Enough

Today marks 15 years since the Branch Davidian standoff began at Mount Carmel when the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms attempted to execute a search warrant at the compound. Gunfire was exchanged, resulting in the deaths of four ATF agents and six Davidians.

...[F]our carloads of federal agents left the compound this morning after paying their respects to the ATF agents who died a decade and a half ago.

I guess the bright side is, while "four carloads" of BATFUers are giving themselves a paid day off on the taxpayers' dime, they're not out there victimizing anyone. I also notice there's nothing about paying respects for the 76 people, including two pregnant women and 21 children, 12 under five, who weren't "Only Ones."

Cavalry Arms Update

As of right now, there are no new headlines to link to, nothing on the Cavalry Arms website and no BATFU braggadocio on their site.

From AR15.com comments:

innocent_bystander

Just talked to Russ.

The comments on the KTAR website are completely foreign to them.

Posted :: 2/28/2008 8:16:56 PM

Those would be the comments by "Rose J".

As disclaimed before, everything that's coming out about this is raw. In the absence of any real investigative work with credible sources (and we've seen how ignorant, shallow, easily distracted and hysterical the "Authorized Journalists" on scene have already been with this story), treat everything as just information gathering, with very little that's verifiable.

Expect the business to be circumspect. With this hanging over my head, I'd be inclined to not say anything to anybody unless through my attorney.

If you're new to this story, here are the WarOnGuns posts to date:
The BATFU Horse and Pony Show
Cavalry Arms Update: "Seize Everything"

We're the Only Ones Going Up/Going Down Enough

Ocean City police have obtained an arrest warrant for a deputy sheriff from Virginia in connection with an alleged rape.

Police say 31-year-old Zachary Taylor of Ruther Glen, Va., met a 22-year-old woman Sunday at a night club. Taylor is accused of taking the intoxicated woman to his hotel room, raping her, then leaving her in an elevator.

Forgive me for committing the chauvenistic heresy of entertaining questions, but after reading this excellent expose by Heather Mac Donald and looking at the circumstances of this story, I'm left wondering if he is truly "The Only One" whose behavior needs to be examined here...

[Via Ben R]

We're the Only Ones Beating Our Meat Rap Enough

Here's an update on a story from my neck of the woods. Last December, a Cop...got pissed at the owner of a meat market for not putting hot pepper flake in his jerky. The argument escalated until the Cop pulled his gun on the store owner.

We discussed this jerk...uh...jerky a while back.

And naturally, his fellow investigating "Only Ones" wanted to clear their trained professional and file charges against the guy who brought a box of venison to a gun fight.

[Via xilch2004]

A Bright Idea

Despite a congressional mandate banning the sale of common incandescent light bulbs by 2012, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is warning that their compact fluorescent replacements are not safe to use everywhere.

The EPA says breakage of the energy-saving, mercury-containing CFLs can cause health hazards, especially for children and pregnant women, suggesting use of the bulbs over carpeted areas should be avoided. If bulbs break over carpeted areas, the cleanup may require cutting out pieces of the carpet to avoid toxic exposures.

I know it's not gun-related, but it certainly is freedom-related, bowing to the globalist ManBearPig alarmists.

Joe Farah at WorldNetDaily suggests the way to fight this is with a bumpersticker campaign.

Not me. I'm wondering what would happen if someone took one of these beasties, broke it into pieces, stuck it in an envelope and mailed it to his representative who voted for it, along with a note telling him they don't know how to legally dispose of it, so since he supports the law, he can deal with it.

What, it would not only be dangerous unless done in a very carefully controlled manner, plus it would violate postal regulations, and hazardous materials/waste regulations, and probably anti-terrorist laws? Gee, then in my fantasy scenario, I'd better make sure the protagonist does this with safety precautions and anonymously. For the same six bucks Farah wants for his bumpersticker, my fictitious character could probably-- in a speculative fantasy scenario that's not actually being proposed--come close to buying a bulb, a bubble wrap envelope and postage. And in this fictional speculation, they'd probably need latex gloves to keep fingerprints off everything, and make sure the enevelope and stamps weren't licked to leave DNA traces, plus figure out a way to address the note and envelope so they wouldn't be traced back to their printer or handwriting...

Good thing this is all an exercise in fantasy. But it does make you wonder--if it's a threat to the government why is it not a threat to the people they're forcing this on?

Look for American businesses to get closed down with massive noncompliance fines once this monstrosity--which is really a forced purchase from China deal--is implemented.

And please--nobody act out the fiction speculated on here: It would really be an impossible-to-ignore protest if people started doing this by the hundreds or even thousands, so the government would do its best to come down heavily and with full force on anyone they caught.

Off We Go Into a Wild Blue Blunder

[T]he Air Force is “tightening restrictions on which blogs its troops can read, cutting off access to just about any independent site with the word ‘blog’ in its web address.” ...Sites like The New York Times, however, will be allowed because they are “established, reputable media outlet[s].”

See, that's because the USAF is a government entity and The Times, well, they're "Authorized Journalists," so it's not like they have an agenda or anything.

Best to keep 'em unquestioning, I guess.

On the off chance this might work, here's the TinyURL address for WarOnGuns--perhaps that'll help bypass this.

In the mean time, let's do some asking around. We've learned from past experience, just because Reuters (an "established, reputable media outlet") says something is true doesn't necessarily make it so.

[Via 45superman]

This Day in History: February 29

The commanding Officers of brigades are to order all the Spears, in the several posts, and redoubts, to be examined, clean'd and collected in the proper places, and make a Return of the number fit for service in each brigade, and where deposited.