Tuesday Links - 19 July

Gun Free Zone starts us off with Uvalde Report. This is actually much sooner than I expected to see any report out of Uvalde.

“There is no one whom we can attribute malice or ill motives. Instead, we found systemic failures and egregiously poor decision making.”

Wow. Harsh words but nowhere near the anger I feel for the cowards that stood hiding from the shooter while children died.

Gun Free Zone - Theodore Dalrymple explains the hiring of Sam Brinton

Imagine you are an experienced engineer or scientist at the DOE.

I have worked with these guys. Believe it or not, many of them are conservative. Engineers and hard physical scientists tend to be because our work is grounded in reality and data.

The Other McCain - Historic Thoughts on ‘Our Democracy’

In the ensuing 233 years, many Americans have lost their fear of a tyrannical authority. Indeed, some of our “elite” seem to love such authority, which they hope to control for their own tyrannical purposes, and these elites have lately gotten into the habit of using the phrase “our democracy” as if there were a consensus agreement in favor of the nebulous concept this phrase is meant to express. Specifically, the elites who endlessly blather on about “our democracy” claim that it is threatened by Donald Trump and his supporters, so that “our democracy” can only be safe if 74 million voters are effectively disenfranchised.

Irons in the Fire - What? A watermelon is another lying bastard?

The Greens would rather people freeze in the dark than tell the truth.

Lone Star Parson - Butchers And Liars

When has the left gone too far? When it insists that the surgical mutilation of children has become a moral necessity.

Again from The Other McCain - ‘White People Don’t Ride the Bus’

Probably my old buddy Patrick would say, “See? Didn’t I tell ya?” But just try to imagine the media reaction if the roles were reversed in this Queens case, and three white people had beaten up a black person while making hateful comments like that.

Pirate's Cove - EV Makers Starting To Notice The Use Of “Forced Labor”. That is the Left's euphamism for Slavery.

It’s a long, long piece, but, come on, we all know China is using what’s essentially slave labor, and, at the end of the day, the climate cult will not care beyond making a few speeches, because Saving The Earth From Burning Up is more important to them than actual human rights, since, really, the climate cult shares the same Authoritarian beliefs as China. It goes well with the child labor in African nations so the climate elites can drive EVs.

And again from The Other McCain - Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

If you’re looking for family entertainment, skip the amusement park and just go to the zoo, where at least the dangerous animals are inside cages.

Impro Guns - Skeletons. As always, click thru for the photos.

A spooky shotgun carried by a Brazilian watch merchant.

And finally from Tam at View from the Porch: That’s not how any of this works.

Actually, neither the bad guy nor the citizen who cut his rampage short brought a gun into the mall illegally.

Carrying a gun into the mall is not a violation of any Indiana law nor any local ordinance in Indiana, no matter how many “NO GUNS“ signs they post.