In The Mailbox: 04.19.24 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | April 20, 2024 | No Comments

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts, including a Glorious Double-Scoop Post Tax Season Rule 5 Sunday!
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Those were better days.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Anti-MAGA Cowardly Judge Merchan
Twitchy: While Euros Sleep, Americans Flood X With Things Incomprehensible To Them, Biden’s Cannibal Story Has Infuriated Papua New Guinea Academics, and Fast Food Prices Skyrocket In California After New Minimum Wage Law Goes Into Effect
Louder With Crowder: Girl Scouts hosting an “empowerment” seminar run by a “throuple” influencer to teach GIRL SCOUTS about empowerment, Hospital Demands All New Cancer Surgeons Take An Oath Dedicated To DEI, and Stephen A. Smith has bad news for Democrats: Trump “was telling the truth” Black voters like him because of his indictments
Vox Popoli: The Death Spiral of the Big Two, Ejected by the Beast, The Literal Thought Police, Disappointment, Guaranteed, and The World We Lost
According To Hoyt: The Cat Ate My Homework, For the Boys…and Men, and How Do You Know?
Upstream Reviews: Superversive Spotlight – Karl K. Gallagher,
Postcards From Barsoom: An Immolationist In Chapel Perilous

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Man Pining for Chick to Like Him, also, The Aim of Life
American Conservative: Trump Apocalypse Hysteria Is Spiraling Into Madness, also, Mike Johnson Should Grow a Spine or Leave
American Greatness: Mayorkas-Linked NGO Caught Distributing Fliers to Illegal Aliens Directing Them to Vote For Joe Biden, The Battle Begins: Trump’s Trial Tests American Justice, Supreme Court Rejects Black Lives Matter Appeal, Holds Leader Liable for Violence, and High School Student in North Carolina Suspended For Three Days For Using the Term ‘Illegal Alien’
American Thinker: The Deep State’s Accelerating Attacks On Trump Show A Consciousness Of Guilt, Karl Marx Conquers American Medicine, Betrayal and the Democrats, and Student Loan Forgiveness: Morally Reprehensible and Legally Invalid
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday, Animal’s Daily Recreational Use News, Animal’s Hump Day News, Animal’s Red Thursday News, and Rule Five Mining Road Friday
Babalu Blog: Unemployed doctors in South Africa criticize government’s purchase of enslaved doctors from Cuba, As Cubans starve, dictatorship holds international rum cocktail contest, winner from Greece got $10,700 prize, Reports from Cuba: The Cuban government/military’s businesses in Angola, and Hershey, Cuba: The sweetest ghost town in Cuba
BattleSwarm: Billions Disappear Into Black Hole Of California Homeless Programs, Samsung Snags $6.4 Billion For Texas Fabs, Australian Muslim Stabs Priest, Yelling “Allahu Akbar.” We May Never Know His Motive, Hollywood Out of Ideas, Money, Jobs, and LinkSwarm For April 19
Behind The Black: Blue Origin completes delivery of the two BE-4 engines for ULA’s second Vulcan launch, Boeing to reduce staffing for SLS due to overall delays in Artemis, Analysis of Io’s atmosphere suggests it has been volcanically active for its entire 4+ billion year history, FAA to now require that reentry spacecraft get landing license before launch, SpaceX launches 23 more Starlink satellites, and Today’s blacklisted American: Former Trump lawyer, already disbarred in California because he took Trump’s case, now blackballed by his banks
Cafe Hayek: Marxist Economics Is Dumb, On the Injustice of Conscription, and Shrinkflation!
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: To the Great Surprise of Many, also, Will You Take One Hump, or Two?
Da Tech Guy: Style vs Substance in the Navy, Media malpractice on the Dexter Reed police shooting, The U.S. and the Middle East: A record of failure, Under the Fedora Catching Up, and Israel Strikes Back, Iran and Biden hardest hit
Dana Loesch: Programming Note,
Don Surber: The war on Lucky Charms
First Street Journal: Crazy people are dangerous, also, Why does The Philadelphia Inquirer, which won’t publish mugshots of real criminals, make deliberate exceptions for police officers convicted of crimes?
Gates Of Vienna: Darmanin Orders the Protection of French Jews, Tomorrow Belongs to Me, Germany Thwarts Rich Chinese Migrants, The Emir of Sint-Joost Fails to Stop NatCon, and The Road Back to Slavery
The Geller Report: Jihad Rep Ilhan Omar’s Daughter ARRESTED and SUSPENDED From Barnard College For Jew Hatred Protests, Biden Regime Removes Title IX Protections For Women in Sports and Gives It To Men in Women’s Sports, SECOND ANTI-TRUMP JUROR DISMISSED, Senate Democrats Block Israel Aid Bill, and Hamas-Tied CAIR Urges Attorney Generals, Prosecutors to Lock Up Journalists Exposing Hamas Supporters
Hollywood In Toto: Alan Ritchson’s Tough Guy Talk Rings Hollow. Here’s Why (UPDATED), Netflix’s Rather Celebrates Disgraced CBS News Anchor, Civil War – Raw, Original and Utterly Pointless, Abigail Is Too Bloody Dumb for Its Own Good, and Night Shift Offers Bates Motel-Brand Chills
The Lid: Feds are Using ‘Data’ from Temperature Stations That No Longer Exist to ‘Prove’ Global Warming, NASA Eliminates all White People from Planned Mars Mission, and Half of State Attorneys General File Lawsuit Against Joe Biden’ s Destructive Electric Vehicle Mandates
Legal Insurrection: Ilhan Omar’s Daughter Arrested at Anti-Israel Protest at Columbia University, WHO and Media Collude to Dial Up “Bird Flu” Fears to Maximum Level, Third of Stanford Students Find It Acceptable to Use Violence to Silence Speech, Berkeley Anti-Israel Activist Claims First Amendment Right To Disrupt Dinner Event at Dean’s Home, NPR Pearl-Clutching Continues As Woke Staffers Demand ‘Public and Direct’ Debunking of Uri Berliner’s Essay, and Sociology Prof Claims ‘Attacks’ on Higher Ed DEI ‘Threaten Democracy’
Nebraska Energy Observer: Civil War and More, The Biden Wars, and the New Depression, Scattershot Friday, and Wow, folks!
Outkick: WNBA Star A’ja Wilson Says She’s Not Jealous Of Caitlin Clark, EXCLUSIVE: West Virginia Girls ‘Step-Out’ Of Track & Field Meet To Protest Transgender Competitor, Joy Reid Blog Complains About Lack Of Black Players In MLB, Ignores Lack Of Diversity In NBA, New Era Of College Sports, As NCAA Approves Unlimited Transfers That Could Lead To NFL-Like Roster Cuts, Paul Skenes Getting Frustrated With His Limited Workload, But Pirates Are Playing It Safe, and TikTok Star Alix Earle Goes Topless For Magazine Cover Shoot
Power Line: Thoughts from the ammo line, Why Biden Can’t Win, Why Trump Might Win, and Join Me Monday for Earth Day!
Shark Tank: Steube Leads Over 60 Republicans In Bill To Counter Iran-Backed Terrorists
Shot In The Dark: Hot Gear Friday – The Swiss Army Guitar, Clearing The Decks 4/19 Edition, The DFL Bounces The Rubble Of Rural Minnesota Healthcare, Ripple Effect, News To Me, and Religious Radio
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – Not Just For The Terminally Ill Anymore; Easy To Kill In California; Nearly Half Of Canadians Want To Kill the Mentally Ill; Killing The Suicidal, also, Firing Line Friday: Should the United States Disarm?
This Ain’t Hell: USAR major defrauds Gold Star families out of millions, Teen assaults elderly Army veteran, steals his car, Valor Friday, Guardsmen related shooting being investigated, Russian saboteurs accused of plots that included potential attacks against US military facilities, and How’s that Gaza Aid Pier coming along?
Transterrestrial Musings: About That Guy Who Flambed Himself Outside The Courthouse, About That Pier In Gaza, It Begins, Anti-Semitism, and Quotations From Chairman Maher
Victory Girls: Democrats’ Dilemma: Jews v Pro-Hamas Voters, Democrats Now Own Border Problems After Tanking Mayorkas Impeachment, and Tree Pronouns And Furries In School, But What About Phonics?
Volokh Conspiracy: Laws Requiring Social Media Firms to Host Content they Prefer to Exclude Violate the Takings Clause, also, Lawsuit Alleging School District Wouldn’t Inform Certain Parents About Their Children’s “Sign[s] of an LGBTQ+ Identity” Dismissed for Lack of Standing
Watts Up With That: Wash Post admits reality: ‘Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power’, The Insane World of Intersectional Climate Change, The Incredible Dumbness of Biden’s War on LNG, Part Deux, and Rise And Fall of The German Economy… Energy Debacle Leading to Economic Meltdown
The Federalist: Trillion-Dollar Deficits Explain Why Inflation Keeps Hitting American Families, RNC Removes ‘Bank Your Vote’ Website, Plans Overhaul Of Early Voting Initiative, Automatic Voter Registration Exists To Keep Democrats In Power, So Why Aren’t Republicans Fighting It? Democrats Just Blew Off Impeachment Of Alejandro Mayorkas, And Republicans Will Do Nothing About It, Exclusive: All Things Considered, Lawmakers Say It’s Time To Defund NPR, Two Years And $113 Billion Later, D.C.’s ‘America Last’ Crew Has No Plan For Ending The Russia-Ukraine War, and Instagram’s Selective Blurring Of Nudity Falls Woefully Short Of Protecting Kids
Mark Steyn: On the Verge of Revolution: John Malkovich’s The Dancer Upstairs, Taxman, When Contempt Is Necessary, Unrecognizability by Design, Muscle from Brussels, and On the Auto Ban

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In The Mailbox: 04.19.24 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | April 19, 2024 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

This has been a long and tedious week, and I’m damned glad it’s over.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

My general reaction to this week’s news

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Germans Don’t Want Electric Cars,
EBL: NPR’s Uri Berliner finds that whistle blowers are not welcome on the left, Dickey Betts, RIP, Canterbury Tales, and Separated at Birth: NPR’s CEO Katherine Maher and…?
Twitchy: Leaked Video Shows Biden’s “Spontaneous” Wawa Visit Was Scripted Down To The Cashier Tip, Dumpster Fire In Waiting – Colbert To Broadcast Show Live From The DNC In Chicago, and, Occasional Cortex Rages At Barnard & Columbia For Suspending Pro-Hamas Protesters While X Points & Laughs
Louder With Crowder: Someone thought Joe Biden holding hands with children and taking them away would be a good photo op, Flyers are being handed out to illegals crossing the border instructing them to vote for Joe Biden, Pro-Hamas protestors f*ck around, find out what happens when you block traffic in Florida, and Here we go: Official calls for INDEFINITE driving ban to fight climate change
Vox Popoli: BRICS Justice, More Than Just Theater, No, God is Not Going to Bless You, The Swiss Demand Neutrality, The Unholy Trinity of Evils, and Damn the Drones, Full Speed…RETREAT!
Upstream Reviews: Mecha – A Cannon Anthology, It Came From The Inbox Episode 2,
Postcards From Barsoom: The Brief & Unlamented Rule Of The British Isles’ Brown Ministers,
Ammo.com: Guns In The Home Statistics,

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Baldilocks: Being Ready To Go,
CDR Salamander: The Demographics Of The Russian Way Of War, also, Diversity Thursday
Dana Loesch: House Speaker Fight 3.0 Heats Up, NY Sends An Innocent Man To Prison Over His 2A Rights, Warhammer Falls To Political Pandering, also, Uncle Bosie Got Ate By Cannibals
Don Surber: Ceasefire? FJB, The Lynching Of A President, and As DEI dies, equality rises

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Crazy People Are Dangerous (and Pennsylvania Democrats Are Crazy)

Posted on | April 18, 2024 | No Comments

Kevin Boyle has a master’s degree from Harvard University. He’s also a mentally ill criminal from Philadelphia who is currently a Democrat serving in the Pennsylvania legislature:

A Pennsylvania Democrat providing a critical vote for his party in the state House is on the lam after allegedly violating a protective order related to abuse, authorities told The Post.
Philadelphia police issued a warrant for state Rep. Kevin Boyle on Tuesday after the 44-year-old Democrat, who has struggled with mental health issues but is still on the ballot for a primary election next week, broke the Protection From Abuse Order, a department spokeswoman confirmed Wednesday afternoon.
Democrats control the Pennsylvania House of Representatives by a razor-thin 102-101 majority, meaning his votes in absentia allow the party to pass legislation for the time being.
“We tried to address this situation this morning by asking that Mr. Boyle be placed on leave,” Republican caucus leader Rep. Bryan Cutler (Lancaster) said. “The Democrats are insisting that not only he’s not on leave, but he is in fact eligible to vote.”
“You’ve got an individual who has an arrest warrant out who is either a fugitive from justice and waiting to be processed, or they are in communication with him about his votes and therefore they are harboring him and should communicate that to law enforcement,” he added.
The Philadelphia congressman had his security access to the state Capitol in Harrisburg revoked earlier this year following a bizarre and drunken outburst in which he harassed patrons at a bar in February.
That “ghost vote” even enabled state House Democrats to vote on Boyle’s behalf Wednesday for a motion allowing him to continue doing so.
Boyle was also arrested two years ago for breaking a protection from abuse order filed by his now-ex-wife, but those charges were later dropped and in 2022 he wrote to his constituents about having suffered a psychotic episode.
He was later treated at a mental rehabilitation center, with his older brother, US Rep. Brendan Boyle, saying in a statement that his brother had “made a full recovery” before plunging back into the abyss of his illness.
The situation has been a “nightmare” for the Boyle family, he told the Philadelphia Inquirer on Wednesday.
“Kevin’s family, close friends, and several colleagues have done everything possible to get him to enter into treatment, but we have been frustrated by a system that gives little power to the loved ones of an adult with a serious mental health condition,” he said.
“For the following two years he was completely healthy and exhibited no symptoms whatsoever,” he added.
“He was thriving at work, won reelection overwhelmingly and rose to become the chairman of an important state legislative committee. We genuinely believed his mental health issue was in the past.”

But he’s still a Philadelphia Democrat, correct? Have you been paying attention to Philadelphia lately? No sane person would live in that miserable crime-ridden city, so how can his brother say that Boyle has “exhibited no symptoms whatsoever”? Did I mention Joe Biden got 81% of the vote in Philadelphia? My advice is just build a wall around Philadelphia and call it the State Hospital for the Criminally Insane.

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Let’s Play ‘Spot the Missing Word’

Posted on | April 16, 2024 | No Comments

Alameda County District Attorney
Pamela Price to face recall vote
— KNTV-TV (NBC)

Alameda County DA Pamela Price
to face recall vote
— KGO-TV (ABC)

Recall effort against Alameda DA Pamela Price secures enough valid signatures for election
— KPIX-TV (CBS)

What do you think these three stories by the major network affiliates in the San Francisco Bay area have in common? Let’s see . . .

CTRL+F “Democrat” = 0 results

CTRL+F “Soros” = 0 results

So these three news organizations did not think it important to inform their audience that the embattled district attorney is a Democrat, nor that her campaign was funded by George Soros. These facts are not insignificant, nor is their omission from major media news coverage accidental. Over the past eight years, Soros has directed millions of dollars to “criminal justice reform” projects, including campaign contributions to left-wing Democratic candidates for local district attorney offices: “Soros has funded, directly or indirectly, over 75 district attorney races across the country since 2016.” The current woes of cities like Oakland are a direct consequence of this activist agenda.

Soros has also funded numerous media projects, which goes a long way toward explaining why the media avoid mentioning Soros, except to accuse conservatives of “conspiracy theories” when we insist on pointing out his influence. But speaking of conspiracy theories, do you know what other district attorney was funded by George Soros? Alvin Bragg, the guy who is currently got Donald Trump on trial in New York for an utterly bogus charge. And in 90% of their coverage, the major networks never even mention that Bragg is a Democrat. Just a coincidence . . .

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In The Mailbox: 04.16.24 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | April 16, 2024 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Scheduled to be on call 10-6 in case they need me.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Too late now.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: World War Obama
357 Magnum: Google vs. Free Speech, The British National Health Service – Third World Conditions
EBL: Fallout, HMS Titanic Sinks, and Did Joe Biden greenlight Iran’s assault on Israel?
Twitchy: J.K. Rowling Pulls ZERO Punches In Straight-Fire Thread Defending Detransitioners, Alvin Bragg Seeks To Punish Trump For Violating Unconstitutional Gag Order, and Josh Hawley Totally Flusters Sec. Granholm For Lying About Stock Ownership
Louder With Crowder: Brian Stelter deconstructs why everyone calls him a potato, blames Fox News, also, An illegal migrant can’t speak English, so he uses a translator app to rob a bank
Postcards From Barsoom: The Best Reads Of 2024 (So Far), also, Of False Flags, Fatwas. FEDtalks, Furious Gales, & UFOs
Stoic Observations: Special Effect, The New Space Age,
Going Orthogonal: Based Book Sale Followup
Draw & Talk Comics: Launching My Sexy Witch Academia #2 Wednesday!
Defending The Wood Perilous: Education Is Not The Answer, also, Shapers Of Worlds V Kickstarter

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: China’s Steady Game, also, Victory & Failure In The Great American-Israeli Eastern Mediterranean Range Day MISSILEX Of April 2024
Dana Loesch: Last Week In Legal – Movement Everywhere Edition, also, Get Out Of The Road,
Don Surber: Tranny Keep Your Gun
Michele Catalano: Thirty years of Sarah McLachlan’s Fumbling Toward Ecstasy, also, to all the record stores I’ve loved before
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Revenge of the (KKK) Nerds
STUMP: Sumo Sunday!, What Is Truth?

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FMJRA 2.0: A Winning Week

Posted on | April 15, 2024 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

SOTD
Much to my surprise, my Senators went to Philadelphia and swept the Phillies, but then went down to Baltimore and lost two of three. Well, 4-2 is better than nothing. Still, we’re tied with the Twins at the bottom of our division with an 11-16 record 7 1/2 games behind Pete’s Brewers, and we’re heading for Wrigley to face the 9-15 Cubs.
I put in eleven hours beating on peoples’ taxes today, so Rule 5 Sunday is going to be Rule 5 Monday. Or I might just postpone it until next week and do a double scoop. We’ll see how I feel tomorrow night.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Fly the Curly W flag!

What CNN Didn’t Tell Its Audience About the Police Shooting of Dexter Reed Jr.
First Street Journal
American Free News Network
Flopping Aces
EBL
A View From The Beach
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Rule 5 Sunday: Stellar Blade
Animal Magnetism
Flappr
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‘I Was Hearing the Voices Again’
The Daley Gator
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FMJRA 2.0: Adrift Somewhere In The Anacostia River
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In The Mailbox: 04.08.24
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In The Mailbox: 04.09.24
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In The Mailbox: 04.10.24
EBL
A View From The Beach
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America Cries Out in Agony: ‘If Only Norm Macdonald Were Still Alive Today!’
EBL
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Total Eclipse = Total Insanity
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In The Mailbox: 04.12.24
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Iran Attacks Israel: Biden to Blame

Posted on | April 13, 2024 | No Comments

Iran launches unprecedented
drone and missile attack on Israel
— Axios

Iran’s state-run news agency says
Iran has fired ballistic missiles
at targets inside Israel
— Associated Press

Iran launches hundreds of suicide drones
in ‘significant escalation’ against Israel
— New York Post

At this time — 7:45 p.m. ET Saturday — it’s unclear what the situation is in Israel. Some reports say Iran has launched both drones and missiles, while other say only drones were launched. The usual “fog of war” makes it difficult to be confident in the accuracy of the various reports, but one thing is certain: This is entirely Joe Biden’s fault.

Israel was secure, and the world was not on the brink of Armageddon, before Biden took office. “Never underestimate Joe’s ability to f**k things up,” as Barack Obama famously said about his veep.

Notice I said “before Biden took office,” rather than “before Biden was elected,” because we all know the Democrats stole that election, but if you’re one of the alleged 81 million people who “voted” for Biden, then this is all your fault, too. Predictably, everything has gone to hell.

Paid for with pallets of cash delivered to Iran by Obama and Biden. https://t.co/ObICmFImZ2

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) April 13, 2024

This is why you don't say such idiotic things.

They come back to haunt you. https://t.co/5fHoiAdwN3

— Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D. (@neoavatara) April 13, 2024

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)

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Biden’s Gun Control Policy Won’t Work

Posted on | April 13, 2024 | No Comments

Most media accounts of what Joe Biden did this past week assert that his administration has “closed the gun show loophole.”

Except, of course, there was no such thing as a “gun show loophole.” It’s a propaganda phrase invented by the anti-gun fanatics who want to prevent law-abiding citizens from defending themselves.

“Every year, thousands of unlicensed gun dealers sell tens of thousands of guns without a background check, including to buyers who would have failed one — domestic abusers, violent felons, and even children. This single gap in our federal background check system has caused unimaginable pain and suffering. Today, as the head of the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, I am proud to say that all gun dealers must conduct background checks no matter where or how they sell.”
— Kamala Harris

Who are these “unlicensed gun dealers,” ma’am? Here is a brief explanation of what the so-called “loophole” is:

To sell guns commercially, whether from a store, at a gun show, out of your house or out of the back of your van, you need to be federally licensed as a dealer. This sales permit is called a Federal Firearms License, or FFL. Any sale an FFL holder makes must be to someone who passed the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) check on the day of the sale, and that is true whether the sale is in a store, at a gun show or out of the trunk of a car.
To buy a gun from a licensed dealer, regardless of the setting, you have to show a government-issued photo ID, you have to fill out a form that requires your identifying information, and you must answer a series of yes/no questions about your criminal background, whether you are the actual buyer and your citizenship status. The dealer will then call NICS to process your background check, which normally takes 10 to 90 minutes, depending on request volume and whether you have a common name. . . .
If you go to a gun show, basically all of the tables showcasing guns are manned by FFL dealers who have to process background checks, as they are “engaged in the business of dealing guns.” If you are commercially selling firearms, you are “engaged in the business of selling guns,” and if that’s the case, you’re a dealer and therefore need to be licensed. So, in practice, there isn’t much of a gun show loophole — at least not the way gun-controllers want us to believe.
If you are engaged in the business of selling lots of guns without an FFL and without background checks at a gun show or online, that isn’t a loophole; you’re committing a federal crime.

What the “loophole” rhetoric is actually about is an attempt to classify almost any person-to-person transfer of a weapon as a transaction requiring a background check, and essentially classifying people as criminals for selling a gun to their friend, relative or neighbor. In other words, if I’ve got a rifle and need some cash, while my buddy has $400 and wants to buy my gun, I would have to go to a licensed dealer and get him to do a background check on my buddy. The Biden rule would classify all firearms owners as potential weapons dealers and make it a federal crime for you to ever sell your guns to anybody.

Meanwhile, however, the Biden administration isn’t prosecuting actual criminals who violate existing federal law:

A 2022 report indicated that 42 percent of rejected firearms background checks were denied due to prior felony convictions. The report also indicated that in 2017, 12 of 12,000 people denied a gun purchase were prosecuted. It is a federal felony for a prohibited person, like a convicted felon, to attempt to purchase a firearm – and yet, in the most recent year for which data is available, the federal government prosecuted 0.1% of the attempts. That’s a bad joke.
In this, as in so many things, the Biden administration is indulging in a useless, ineffective virtue signal. This law and this rule will have no visible effect on crime . . .

This is what Democrats and their media friends will never tell you — they are against putting criminals in prison. They want to put Donald Trump in prison, but they don’t want to put criminals in prison, because most criminals are Demorats (which is why most Democrat-controlled states allow convicted felons to vote). Why is violent crime out of control? How are convicted felons getting guns? Is it because, as Vice President Harris would have you believe, “thousands of unlicensed gun dealers sell tens of thousands of guns without a background check”? Or is it because criminals steal guns? Anybody can research this question, but journalists employed by the liberal media won’t do that, for some reason.

Who is shooting whom? Simple question — how many shootings are there in America every year, and who are the perpetrators? Are most shootings committed by Trump voters and NRA members? Is it because of the “gun show loophole” that these criminals are armed? Or is it because the criminal justice system is a revolving door that keeps putting repeat offenders out on the street? As I say, anybody can research these questions, but nobody at CNN is ever going to do that work.

‘He’d rather be dead than
go back to prison,’ says mother
of man killed in Sparks standoff

Anthony Wade was 34 when he died March 29 in Sparks, Nevada, after shooting a cop who pulled him over for a traffic violation. Police on Friday released video of the incident, during which Wade fled after shooting the cop, crashed his car, ran on foot, broke into two different homes where he attempted to hide out, and ambushed police when they came after him. Anthony Wade was a convicted felon who, as such, was prohibited from owning firearms. He’d been a criminal his whole life:

Wade’s criminal history started when he was a juvenile, according to court documents.
Those records are sealed, but were referenced when Wade pleaded guilty in 2009 to burglarizing a house when he was 18. The 16- to 72-month prison sentence was waived as long as Wade kept out of trouble.
But five months later, Wade was found drinking in a downtown Reno motel room with other underage kids. He was arrested under the alias Jamal Jerome Smith. During the arrest, he assaulted a police officer.
Wade pleaded guilty and his probation was revoked. He was sent to the Northern Nevada Correctional Center in Carson City to serve out the original burglary sentence of up to 72 months plus six months for the assault.
Jamal Jerome Smith again shows up in arrest and court documents in 2020 for a 2015 armed robbery at a Sparks nightclub. That case was eventually dropped, with prosecutors citing a lack of admissible evidence.
There may be other cases where Wade was a suspect and a criminal record that spans other states, according to Kendall Holcomb, public information officer for the District Attorney’s Office. . . .
Debra Wade said she knows the investigation will show her son was at fault for firing first. But she saw in her son a man trying to get his life back together so he could have a better relationship with his three children.
He was living with her and collecting disability.

“Collecting disability”? What disability did he have? But never mind that. Instead, we need to ask, where did Anthony Wade get that gun? Did he save up his disability checks to make that purchase? Did he buy it through the “gun show loophole”? Or is it more likely that Anthony Wade, the convicted burglar, stole that gun during a burglary?

You won’t see this story on CNN. They’re not going to ask questions that undermine the narrative about “Gun Violence Prevention.”

NEW: Governor DeSantis responds to a reporter's question about the Biden Administration attempting to "close the gun show loophole." ??

DESANTIS: There's no gun show loophole. This is propaganda. ?

"Clearly they don't have legislation … so it's another example of Biden… pic.twitter.com/PRpg3LdPob

— Christina Pushaw ? ?? (@ChristinaPushaw) April 12, 2024