Not a Part of The Solution

Mocking the idea that maybe there's a solution that we haven't thought of yet. Nice. Go Read It

The Law of Averages is True

There really are pro-gun celebrities. I guess they just don't get as much airtime for those views.
Go read it.

The Dog Ate My Homework, er, Plastic Pistol

Philip Bump over at The Atlantic Wire tries, and fails, to print a pistol.
Go read it.

Pay No Attention

to the man behind the curtain, says President Obama at Ohio State. Here are a few of the juicy tidbits

And that’s precisely what the Founders left us — the power, each of us, to adapt to changing times. ...
To conquer fascism and disease; to visit the Moon and Mars; to gradually secure our God-given rights for all of our citizens, regardless of who they are, or what they look like, or who they love.

why does he get to say, "secure our God-given rights" when he's the one trying to take them away? Oh, that's right, he has the bully pulpit and we're just the peons who dare to challenge him.

The founders trusted us with this awesome authority. We should trust ourselves with it, too. Because when we don’t, when we turn away and get discouraged and cynical, and abdicate that authority, we grant our silent consent to someone who will gladly claim it.
So you can’t give up your passion if things don’t work right away. You can’t lose heart, or grow cynical if there are twists and turns on your journey. The cynics may be the loudest voices — but I promise you, they will accomplish the least. It’s those folks who stay at it, those who do the long, hard, committed work of change that gradually push this country in the right direction, and make the most lasting difference.

Amen to that. Wait, he meant the opposite of what I mean. Go back and reread that paragraph. It's quite telling. Silent consent and claimers of power have gotten us to this point. Rugged individualism will only serve to sink us deeper into the rights-stripping quicksand. Standing united we can regain the rights we have lost.

I think about how we might perpetuate this notion of citizenship in a way that another politician from my home state of Illinois, Adlai Stevenson, once described patriotism not as “short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.” That’s what patriotism is. That’s what citizenship is. 

Defenders of the Second Amendment need to remember all these words. Go read the full transcript.

Meet The New Liberator

Same as the old Liberator. Only this time it may do more simply by being possible than by being in the hands of resistance. 
The folks at Forbes got a few nice photos of it in addition to their story.

(credit: Michael Thad Carter for Forbes)

It's impossible to take away ideas and Cody Wilson is doing his level best to get the idea of what is possible into the minds of the people. Let's hope this file gets circulated before it is already made illegal by power hungry tyrants who want everyone robbed of their natural-born rights.