Brady Frivolous Lawsuit Fail

Another one of their lawsuits designed to harass firearm companies has failed and they're going to have to pay legal and court fees in response.  Their argument was that an online retailer should know the mental state of their customer.  They don't say how, just that they 'should'. Here's the real part though:

the Defendant’s knowledge of the risks posed by their products in the wrong hands and (v) common sense, lead to the undeniable conclusion that the Defendants knew, should have known, or knew that it was substantially certain that selling Holmes dangerous materiel would create a foreseeable risk of death or injury.

 “Defendants should have known that the accused killer posed a risk with guns, thousands of roundsof ammunition, a 100-round drum, body armor, and tear gas, as would have been evident in a traditional sales transaction involving human interaction”

So iow, bulk ammo dealers should assume that anyone buying ammo in bulk is going to go on a shooting spree and that retailers should have a detailed list of everything their customer owns.  That's their argument. This is the real mental statel of 'gun control', to assume that firearm owners are just ticking time bombs waiting to have enough stuff to go around killing people. 

And they wonder why the PLCAA was passed.  Every lawsuit the Brady's file should end this way until THEY are the ones bankrupted.   So far no mention of this on their FB page.

Advertising Win

Have to love when keywords generate ad links:

Karma

So someone throws a bash as a 'going away' party for a guy going to serve time in DOC.  They advertise it all over the internet.  A bunch of Chicago thugs show up and start shooting up the place.

So I'm going to take some shots in the dark on this (pun intended):
Celebrating a criminal and his lifestyle
Betting there was lots of alcohol/drugs involved (along w/ serving minors)
Gambling

No FOID's, CCW, or any form of legal possession of firearms

Anyone else see how else this can divest from the anti-gun narrative except that three of those shot will be touted as 'child victims of gun violence' w/o presenting any of the details?

Update: from a Brady email:   Show them that you care about the 48 children and teens who are shot by guns in our country every day.

Just like the poor innocent souls above.

Normal Chicago Weekend Headline

Four Dead, At Least 13 Injured in Weekend Violence 

A few of the residents are starting to get a clue instead of blaming the NRA:

Chatman’s mother, Patricia, read a poem she wrote for her son.
“I didn’t think it was right to live your life so reckless. Now I’ve got to live with this necklace,” she said.

Movie Review: Cinderella (2015)

 

Went w/ a school field trip to watch this movie and have been looking forward to it for some time. I wasn't disappointed.  This is, for all intents and purposes, a live action version of the classic 1950's Disney animated film with less focus on the mice although they're still present and semi-sentient. The visuals of this movie were jaw-drop stunning.  The evil step-mother and step-sisters you hated the moment you saw them and the sisters' screechy voices just added to it.  Cate Blanchett turned her performance of Galadriel on its head by being a heartless widow driven to advance by any means. Overall it has the same youthful innocence that the live action Peter Pan did.

About the only thing I wasn't sure about was the casting of Helena Bonham Carter as the Fairy Godmother.  IMO it just didn't fit w/ the rest of the caricatures.

Definite rental for the kids and very likely a purchase.

4.5/5 stars.

Irony

Article touting poll by anti-gun group on how much people oppose CCW 'without a permit' uses a picture from a pro-CCW rally numbering about 5,000 attendees on the same day that same group was in Springfield.  

 

I just find that bizarre and encouraging at the same time,

Why they would use that picture I still can't figure out.  I mean I know that they have manipulated photos of Bloomie's Notown group's rallies numbering about 200 folks, mostly paid shills since there is no 'membership'. Baffling.

And then think about the poll itself.  CCW W/O a permit.  They're reduced to fighting CCW W/O A PERMIT.  That's how much they've lost.

Speaking of rallies and the slow collapse of gun control,  in an email received from the Brady Bunch, they tout their last 'success'... The first and only nowhere near "Million Mom March" rally in Washington DC.  15 yrs ago.  A year and a half after their  "single largest national demonstration in support of sensible laws to save kids in our nation’s history!"  the organization had collapsed, was looking at an investigation for tax fraud, and merged w/ the Brady Campaign.

Gun Show Weekend: Champaign, IL

where: Fluid Event Center, 601 North County Fair Drive

when: Saturday 9am - 5pm, Sunday 9am - 4pm

I'll be there w/ bells on. All the way in the back. Make sure to ask for me. 

More .@CSGV Slander

So a guy who's happily married and runs a pro-rights organization of hundreds, if not thousands of actual members is apparently a social misfit w/ no friends:



Unsurprisingly, their own misfits crawl out from under their bridges to continue the verbal diarrhea.



Not to far away from openly calling for firearm owners to wear some sort of symbol on their clothing so everyone can recognize a sub-human.

Chicago vs IGOLD

Thousands of law-abiding firearm owners, countless w/ CCW licenses, descend on the capitol of Illinois to lobby their legislators for better firearm laws.  Not a single violent or disruptive incident recorded. The staff at PCCC and many Capitol police say IGOLD attendees are among the most polite and clean.

Nary a single mention on the news of this, one of the largest political events there during the year.

Over the same time period in Chicago, however, a city which is still trying to make itself entirely a 'gun free zone' w/ bans, the most CCW restrictions etc. , generates this headline:

2 killed, 12 wounded in shootings since Wednesday morning

and the crime ticker on the side is full of more. No CCW's or even FOID card possessors in sight.

Yet people like Ladd Everitt of the CSGV, who vocally opposes much of the BOR, call IGOLD attendees 'traitors' and 'insurrectionists' for daring, DARING to demand legislators listen to the will of the people instead of moguls like Bloomber.

Which side does he support?