I have pinned this post to the top of my blog. It is to remind people of what many of our opponents want. Alison Aires wants a tyrannical government. They want summary execution for private possession of firearms.
This is why we have a Bill of Rights. This is why I created Boomershoot.
Via email from Rolf:
All gun control is stupid as a means to reduce violent crime and unconstitutional. Banning 3D printed guns is extra stupid.
Never forget:
One thing that humbles me deeply is to see that human genius has its limits while human stupidity does not.
Alexandre Dumas
Circa 1865, Grand Dictionnaire Universel du XIXe Siècle: Français, Historique, Géographique, Mythologique, Bibliographique, etcetera, Volume 2, Entry: Bêtise, Quote Page 650, Column 1, Published by Pierre Larousse, Paris. (Google Books Full View)
I used to have this mental illness where l thought logical arguments could help reason with someone.
maro @ProofofMaro
Posted on X, April 13, 2026
I’m still suffering from the same illness. Sometimes I think I am cured and then a relapse happens.
In the thread for the above post there is the following meme. It makes the suffering from this illness just a little bit easier:
The Second Amendment protects the rights of law-abiding citizens to own and use AR-15 style semiautomatic rifles for lawful purposes.’ Just last year, the U.S. Supreme Court made clear in a unanimous opinion that the AR-15 is “both widely legal and bought by many ordinary consumers.” Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc. v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos, 605 U.S. 280, 297 (2025). See also Garland v. Cargill, 602 U.S. 406, 429-30 (2024) (Sotomayor, J., dissenting) (AR-15s are “commonly available, semiautomatic rifles.”). Unfortunately, Virginia appears poised to infringe on the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens to enjoy and use AR-15 rifles for lawful purposes by making it a crime to purchase and sell them. This Civil Rights Division will seek to enjoin any attempt to infringe the right of law-abiding Virginians to acquire constitutionally protected arms that are possessed by literally tens of millions of Americans. See Snope v. Brown, 145 S. Ct. 1534 (2025) (Kavanaugh, J., statement respecting denial of certiorari).
In addition, laws that require constitutionally protected firearms owned by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes to be maintained in an inoperable state are unconstitutional. See D.C. v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570, 630 (2008) (“[T]he District’s requirement … that firearms in the home be rendered and kept inoperable at all times … [is] unconstitutional.”). We are aware that the Virginia General Assembly has forwarded to you several bills that, if enacted as currently written, would mirror the unconstitutional restrictions struck down in Heller 18 years ago. There are also other provisions contained in those bills that otherwise prevent lawful use of constitutionally protected arms for self-defense.
In all, the General Assembly has forwarded to you over 20 bills that restrict Second Amendment rights. I urge you to reconsider allowing any bill that would infringe on the lawful use of protected firearms by law-abiding citizens to become law. In an effort to avoid unnecessary litigation, the Second Amendment Section stands ready to meet and confer with attorneys in the Virginia Attorney General Office. Your counsel may contact Acting Chief Andrew Darlington at Andrew.Darlington@usdoj.gov. The Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens shall not be infringed.
Harmeet Dhillon
Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division
Posted April 10, 2026 on X
It is thrilling to have a Second Amendment Section of the Civil Rights Division, let alone them writing, “shall not be infringed.” It is not an 18 USC 242 event, but it is still Enjoy Your Trial time.
See also the complete letter:
In experiments using a mouse model of colorectal cancer, researchers observed an extraordinary outcome after administering E. americana through a single intravenous injection. The treatment completely eliminated tumors in every case, resulting in a 100% complete response (CR) rate. This level of effectiveness was far greater than what is typically seen with established cancer therapies such as immune checkpoint inhibitors (anti-PD-L1 antibody) and the chemotherapy drug liposomal doxorubicin (chemotherapy agent).
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
April 10, 2026
Naturally Occurring Bacteria Completely Eradicate Tumors in Mice With a Single Dose
Looking at the “future directions” in the article, I found it odd there was no mention of moving toward use in treating human cancers. Perhaps other scientists will pick up on this and see if it works in humans.
Section 1715 of title 18, U.S. Code, is unconstitutional as applied to constitutionally protected firearms, including handguns, because it serves an illegitimate purpose and is inconsistent with the Nation’s tradition of firearm regulation. See N.Y. State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111, 2129–30 (2022).
The Department of Justice may not, consistent with the Constitution, enforce section 1715 with respect to constitutionally protected firearms. The Postal Service should modify its regulations to conform with this opinion.
T. ELLIOT GAISER
Assistant Attorney General
Office of Legal Counsel
January 15, 2026
Constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. § 1715
I wonder why the legacy media has not been talking about this. Are they drowning their sorrows in cheap boxed wine? Have they finally decided gun laws are now a lost cause?
But as Copilot told me:
The OLC opinion is a quiet admission that the 1927 handgun‑mailing ban was never compatible with the Second Amendment — it simply took a century for the government to say it out loud.
If a man wants to cum on his girlfriend’s face because he saw it in porn, and she doesn’t feel like getting her face cummed on, we cheer go-girl and frown at the man for even watching porn at all. But if a woman wants her boyfriend to buy her flowers because she grew up being fed this action in movies, and her boyfriend doesn’t feel like it, we have no sympathy for him. We are horrified even at comparing the two things. It’s obvious to us that porn should not influence what happens in sex, but we have been so immersed in romance-porn that the idea of buying flowers for a woman is seen as what romance ought to be. The romance narrative has become romance, and rejecting the narrative becomes rejecting romance itself. We have lost the ability to distinguish!
Aella
April 9, 2026
The Other Porn Land – by Aella – Knowingless
I love how Aella can see alternate realities and express them in ways that make me laugh and almost whoop for joy at the twisting of everyone’s view of the world.
The same sort of things applies to gun ownership. “Guns are icky and only criminals have them” versus “Everyone should have guns and know how to use them because they are tools for self-defense against criminals and tyrants.”
Framing matters. Media and your peer groups dominate the positioning of the framing. Try to see through framing and get a grasp on the true reality. Seeing things other people cannot see gives you a huge advantage. We cannot all be Aella or Elon Musk, but we can do better than what we currently do. Realty is tough, really, really, tough.
People on the right who have been mentally modelling the world since they were kids, constantly updating and revising their mental model so that it’s able to reliably anticipate basic functioning of the world around us, so we can navigate the world without being blindsided all the time; have trouble internalising this:
- leftists don’t abide by the principle of non-contradiction
- they do not understand the world through abstract or ideal first principles which they then apply universally, in a predictable and stable manner
- like situations are therefore not alike
- everything is its own thing & has no bearing on anything else
- noticing patterns is racist hateful and evil so they stopped doing that a long time ago, pattern recognition is haram
Every position they hold is a unique stance that they imbibed from the media. They don’t start from an abstraction and think critically to rach their conclusion. They literally watched Colbert and had it drilled into their brain. They don’t have first principles or universal values. They do what they are told. Because it benefits their coalition to do so. That’s it.
That’s their whole worldview and it’s why they don’t flinch when they contradict themselves. They don’t have an “ideology” arrived at through abstract reasoning or critical thinking, they’re part of a cult that does everything humanly possible to prevent them from ever thinking about anything for any reason. They regurgitate the party line and experience affirmation and inclusion from their peers when they do. So they keep doing it. It’s that basic. They are Pavlov’s dog.
Aimee Terese @aimeeterese
Posted April 7, 2026 on X
I can see this being true for a high percentage of the people on the left. Those who are also known as “useful idiots”.
But there are also those who are rational, deliberate, and carefully choose their words and actions. These are the Lenins, Castros, Pol Pots, Mao Zedongs, Sanderses, Schumers, and Clintons of history — the folks who promise progress but somehow always end up needing more of your land, your money, and your compliance, all enforced under pain of death.
Researchers at Flinders University have concluded that the global human population surpassed Earth’s sustainable carrying capacity more than six decades ago, entering a prolonged period of ecological overshoot fueled by fossil energy and accelerating resource consumption. The peer-reviewed study, published in Environmental Research Letters, applied ecological growth models to more than 200 years of population records and found that a shift to a “negative demographic phase” began by 1962, roughly eight years before a measurable global biocapacity deficit emerged in 1970. The findings add quantitative weight to a growing body of evidence that civilization is operating well beyond the planet’s regenerative limits.
Everett Sloane
April 7, 2026
Study suggests humanity has exceeded Earth’s long-term carrying capacity
Now that Paul Ehrlich is gone and his book The Population Bomb has been proven dramatically wrong, of course someone else has to take up the cause. Genocidal tyrants everywhere can now use this as another excuse to murder tens of millions of people.
On Dec. 1, 2025, Washington reported 706,046 active CPLs. On April 1, that number had plummeted to 696,015. The alarming decline has been explained by many gun owners, saying they’ve either left Washington for more Second Amendment-friendly environs in Idaho, Texas, Oklahoma and elsewhere, while others have decided to carry without a CPL because they refuse to pay the state to exercise their right to bear arms, which is specifically protected by both the state and federal constitutions.
Dave Workman
April 3, 2026
Wash. CPL Numbers Decline; Gun Owners Flee, Others Refuse to Renew – TheGunMag
I think the Washington state gun laws will be straightened out by the Federal courts in less than five years. But the taxes and crime situation will probably continue to deteriorate. So, with that in mind I am working on an escape plan. I can’t leave right now because I need to save up money for retirement. Underground bunkers in Idaho are expensive.
The underground bunker be completed soon (only a few more days of work). I will then start counting the days until I can retire and have the option to leave Washington state as well.
Are you thinking of fleeing the tyranny of your state too? I’m giving free tours of my underground bunk to people attending Boomershoot this year (the first weekend of May). It would give you something to think about…
There is more than a little truth to this.
Brits surrendered their firearms in 1997.
Less than 30 years later, they’re being arrested for Facebook posts.
That’s not “safety.” That’s the speed of tyranny once a government knows its citizens can’t push back.
When people are disarmed, the state no longer fears the people. And when governments have zero fear of the people, they do whatever the hell they want.
Stacy is Right @PoliticalStacy
Posted on X, April 4, 2026
From later in the same thread:
The average American today lives better than John D. Rockefeller did in 1926. That is not an exaggeration. It is a fact.
Rockefeller could not fly across the country in five hours. You can for $200. He could not video call his family from another continent. You do it for free. He had no antibiotics, no MRI, no air conditioning in July. He could not carry every book ever written in his pocket. You are reading this on a device that does all of that and more.
Americans throw away 30-40% of their food. Not because they are wasteful, but because food is so abundant that waste is affordable. Your car has climate control, navigation, and safety systems that did not exist at any price a century ago. Your home has heating, cooling, refrigeration, and entertainment that emperors could not have imagined.
None of this was voted into existence. None of it was redistributed from the rich. It was created by free minds operating in what remains of a free market. Every comfort you enjoy today is the product of a man who thought, invented, produced, and traded voluntarily.
This is what the remnants of capitalism still deliver, even while it is being dismantled. Imagine what a fully free society could build.
The Rational Animal 🤔 @theobjectivist
Posted on X, April 3, 2026
I have nothing to add.
Today, I moved 2,000 pounds of chemicals from my brother’s shed to the Boomershoot explosives production facility:
There are some chemicals left over from 2025 so there will be plenty of targets this year.
I also inventoried other supplies, checked the functioning of the mixers, scales, and timers. I’m going to have to purchase two new heat guns. They are used to heat the shrink wrap plastic used to keep the targets (cardboard boxes) closed and dry. The last heat gun has reached it’s end of life.
It is going to be another great event. Boomershoot is the first weekend of May and is only four weeks away.
Sign up here.
This year’s big shooting event is May 1, 2, and 3. It is a smorgasbord of shooting goodness. You do not need to participate every day. Choose the events you want. See Boomershoot.com and the entry site for details.
I finally have the registration up and running on a new host.
Registration for last year participants opens tomorrow Sunday 4/5/2026 at 12:00 PM (noon).
Everyone else can sign up Monday 4/6/2026 at 12:00 PM (noon).
The link for registration has changed. The new link is https://boomershootentry-ete9hdakg8hnd7g0.westus2-01.azurewebsites.net.
To learn more about Boomershoot go to https://www.boomershoot.com/
We should not underestimate the prevalence of microplastics. They are everywhere—in our rivers, our lungs, and even in our blood. But researchers tracking this global pollution crisis may have inadvertently contaminated their research samples. The protective lab gloves they wear are shedding microplastic-like particles that tamper with their numbers.
The culprit, according to a University of Michigan study, is a soap-like residue used to pop disposable gloves out of factory molds. Even a light, dry touch sheds thousands of these false-positive particles onto lab equipment. Because this residue can produce a very similar vibrational signature to common plastics under a lab laser, scientists have been accidentally counting microplastics from their own lab gear as environmental pollution.
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The University of Michigan researchers mimicked typical lab handling across seven glove types. Across common nitrile and latex gloves, they found an average of roughly 2,000 false positives per square millimeter, with some glove types exceeding 7,000.
Two to seven thousand per square millimeter! That is 1.3 to 4.5 million per square inch.
SAF fully supports Secretary Hegseth’s decision to enable our service members to be able to carry personal firearms on military bases, with any denials requiring a written explanation. SAF believes any “gun-free zones” are constitutionally questionable, and also create soft targets that are enticing to criminals and others bent on violence.
The fact that military bases, of all places, have been under such restrictions has long been perplexing to us. Serving your country should not require the wholesale abandonment of the Second Amendment right of armed self-defense. It’s excellent to hear that this dangerous policy is finally changing.
SAF @2AFDN
Posted on X, April 2, 2026
Listen to it straight from the “horse’s mouth”:
My inclination is that service members should not have to ask permission to bring personal firearms on base and carry when off duty, but I would be willing to listen to an argument in opposition to that assertion. Perhaps some military bases have reasonable justifications for such a policy.
MIT researchers have mathematically proven that ChatGPT’s built-in sycophancy creates a phenomenon they call “delusional spiraling.”
You ask it something, it agrees. You ask again, and it agrees even harder until you end up believing things that are flat-out false and you can’t tell it’s happening.
The model is literally trained on human feedback that rewards agreement.
Real-world fallout includes one man who spent 300 hours convinced he invented a world-changing math formula, and a UCSF psychiatrist who hospitalized 12 patients for chatbot-linked psychosis in a single year.
ampMario Nawfal @MarioNawfal
Posted on X, March 14, 2026
When a computer can literally drive you crazy without you being aware of it you know we live in interesting times.
For decades, the mullahs have killed not only women they deem dishonorable because they are unveiled, but also homosexuals. They systematically murder their own people whenever they speak their minds; they murder dissidents — most recently, apparently more than 30,000 of them in a matter of days. With the same ruthlessness and efficiency, the regime in Tehran organizes violence internationally. Together with its terror networks, from Hamas to Hezbollah to the Houthis, the mullah dictatorship is perhaps the most effective and cruel source of terror in the world. They operate in European societies in particular, deliberately spreading hatred and violence in ways that erode our liberal constitutional order and strengthen extremist movements.
The aggressor in Iran — one that poses an existential danger to us — has for years been systematically pursuing nuclear weapons. Nothing — no agreement, no appeal for peace, no presidential handshake — has so far been able to stop it.
For four and a half decades, Western politicians have hesitated to take effective action against this terrorist state, which murders its own people and destabilizes open societies. It was in our European and democratic interest that America and Israel have finally taken joint action to weaken the Iranian regime. Whether the goal is regime change, the removal of 400 kilograms of enriched uranium, simply reducing the hydra-like network of the mullah elite, accelerating an overthrow through popular revolt, or a combination of all these elements — I cannot judge. Some say a first important objective has already been achieved. Iran has been set back by years. We have gained at least one thing: time.
Now Europe needs to stand with the U.S. to make use of it.
Mathias Döpfner
March 31, 2026
Opinion | Why Europe is wrong to think Iran is ‘not our war’
The Islamic extremists of Iran have been telling the world they would destroy Israel for decades now. Never actually saying they would use nukes, but the words hinted at it. And as they created longer range and more accurate missiles and drones in great quantities at some point you have to take them seriously. One can certainly make the case that Iran was serious and if allowed to rearm would again enable their proxies and expand their reign of terror.
If only in geography it is closer to being Europe’s war than ours. And they have had their share of Muslim terrorist attacks over things as innocent as cartoon drawings of Mohammad.
The blocking of the oil transportation affects them far more than the U.S. And the whole Iran/Russia collaboration is more of threat to Europe than the U.S. The French have been talking about getting involved in a war with Iran since at least 2007 (only the last link is still valid). But talk is cheap and at this point it would seem it is only talk.
And like France from 2007, Döpfner call for action is probably nothing but talk as well.
Your “horrifying if you believe in the First Amendment” drivel is the exact cognitive blind spot these cells exploit…weaponizing free speech as a get-out-of-consequences card for those who piss on it with bullets and bombs.
Brandenburg v. Ohio carved it out decades ago:
protected speech stops cold at incitement to imminent lawless action that actually happens. They didn’t just talk; they executed.
The Constitution doesn’t shield arsonists, shooters, or terror enablers any more than it shields Al-Qaeda sympathizers handing out bomb manuals.
This verdict isn’t chilling dissent; it’s lethal accountability, the kind that deters the next cell of ideologically poisoned fuckwits from turning public facilities into kill zones.
So spare me your performative horror, you fucking idiot.
The jury saw the pathology for what it was. The FBI built the case on it. And the law cut them down.
Cry harder, sweetheart.
LHGrey™️ @grey4626
Posted on X, March 14, 2026
This was in response to:
It is interesting this person believes the First Amendment protects the destruction of government property and shooting a police officer with an AR-15. They must have crap for brains. With that broad of scope for the First Amendment, just imagine what the Second Amendment must protect. Why, it must protect the use of artillery dropping HE on the U.S. Capital or some such thing.
For decades, one of the biggest factors that would limit the ability of attackers to target companies has been the lack of resources. In other words, they simply didn’t have the time, talent, or ability to look everywhere at once. It’s not a secret that if you look beneath the surface, every single company is a mess on the inside, but because of how complex the environments are and how much time it takes for attackers to do reconnaissance, oftentimes what actually keeps companies from getting breached is the lack of resources on the attacker side.
With AI, that is soon going to go away. Attackers are not bound by corporate governance or acceptable-use policies deciding which models can or cannot be deployed. They will use every model available, every autonomous agent, every form of automation that allows them to enumerate infrastructure, map dependencies, generate exploits, and test hypotheses at a scale that was previously impossible. The cheaper LLMs become, the lower the cost of attacking will be, and the higher the volume of attacks is going to become. This shift is going to fundamentally change the economics of defense. When attackers gain near-unlimited reconnaissance and experimentation capacity, companies won’t be able to rely on reactive security. Very soon, hoping that vulnerabilities and misconfigurations remain undiscovered will stop being a strategy.
Ross Haleliuk
March 3, 2026
Anthropic won’t kill cyber, but it may kill some companies
My manager walked over to my desk today and said, “We are putting together a ‘tiger team’ to work on a grand plan for reshaping how we do cyber security at <company name>. How do we restructure the way we work in an AI world? Would you like to be on that team?” My immediate answer was, “YES!” He started to tell me a little about what he had in mind. I reached across my desk and picked up a heavy plastic object and showed it to him. “What is this?, he asked. “This”, I explained, “Is a patent I got over three years ago for what I think you are describing.”
Our first ‘tiger team’ meeting is tomorrow. I’m looking forward to it.
A couple of months ago I was talking to a Cyber Security Analyst friend at Mandiant (formerly, they were purchased by Google a few years ago). We talked at AI at length. It is very disruptive for cyber security. I asked, “Will the defenders or the attackers benefit the most from AI?” His answer was, “The attackers. There just isn’t any real doubt about that.”
Perhaps he is right. But I know the defenders can put up a good fight. Probably the biggest obstacle is that large corporation have difficulty moving fast. AI is exceedingly nimble and corporations with petabytes of daily data to manage have a tremendous amount of inertia. For all intents and purposes, the attack surfaces are stationary compared to an AI attacker.
Suppose a single evil AI or a skilled nation state compromised all major infrastructure and went for maximum destruction. The amount of damage done would boggle your mind. For a starter, imagine almost no electricity or communication, with zero water and waste disposal. Equipment is not just shut down, it is destroyed. Natural gas lines are not just turned off they are over pressured and ignited. Sewer systems are not just stopped. They pump sewage into the streets or even into buildings. Refineries have “high energy events.” The water behind dams is released in a manner to breach downstream dams. Self-driving cars turn into land-based Kamikazes. Cell phones batteries explode. There are 10,000 airplanes crashing into buildings in hundreds of U.S. cities.
If something connects to the Internet, it becomes a weapon.
We live in interesting times.
I wish my underground bunker in Idaho were complete.