Category Archives: Quote of the Day

Stopping Active Shooters Better than the Police

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You’d never know it from watching television, but civilians stop more active shooters than police and do so with fewer mistakes, according to new research from the Crime Prevention Research Center, where I serve as president. In non-gun-free zones, where civilians are legally able to carry guns, concealed carry permit holders stopped 51.5 percent of active shootings, compared to 44.6 percent stopped by police, CPRC found in a deep dive into active shooter scenarios between 2014 and 2023.

Not only do permit holders succeed in stopping active shooters at a higher rate, but law enforcement officers face significantly greater risks when intervening. Our research found police were nearly six times more likely to be killed and 17 percent more likely to be wounded than armed civilians.

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If we truly care about public safety, we should acknowledge the proven role that responsible gun owners play in stopping violent attacks — rather than avoiding the truth for the sake of an anti-gun agenda.

John R. Lott, Jr.
March 11, 2025
Study: Concealed Carriers Stop Active Shooters Better Than Police

Of course. What else did you expect?

How Did This Happen?

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People need to learn to protect themselves instead of giving up their liberties to the government in exchange for a “sense of security.” Everyone dreams of a world without killing or murder, but there are those out there that wish harm on their fellow human beings. Disarming everyone on a college campus, or anywhere for that matter, only turns people into targets for a murderer like Cho.

Robert G. Ridgell
September 11, 2007
Letter: Gun control may not be the answer | Opinions | collegiatetimes.com

I don’t have anything to say about the content of today’s QOTD.

What I find most interesting is the date. This letter to the editor did not show up in my Google alerts until March 25, 2025.

How did this happen?

When I’m wearing my tin-foil hat, I can believe Google deliberately blocked pro-gun content from their indices. Then, recently, as the political winds changed direction, they decided to remove the restrictions, and the pro-gun content was indexed. The alert then fired.

When I take off the hat and look for other instances of old pro-gun articles showing up, I can’t readily find any.

Nuclear Escalation

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US intelligence has concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin may resort to nuclear escalation in the event of failures in the war, Bloomberg reports.

According to the media outlet, the warning about the possibility of Putin using nuclear weapons is included in the recent report from the Director of the US National Intelligence, published on March 25.

Kateryna Shkarlat
March 25, 2025
US intelligence suggests that Putin may use nuclear weapons: What is known

Progress on my underground bunker in Idaho is far too slow.

Democratic Party Favorability Rating at a New Low

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Former Clinton pollster Mark Penn said Friday on Fox News that crucial voter groups are fleeing the Democratic Party.

The Democratic Party’s favorability rating plummeted to a new low of 29%, according to a CNN/SSRS poll conducted from March 6-9. During an appearance on “Hannity,” Penn said he was shocked at the current state of the Democratic Party and said he’s never seen its rating this low in decades.

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Democrats have formed a resistance to oppose President Donald Trump’s policies, specifically targeting the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), headed by Elon Musk, which has reduced federal agency workforces.

The creation of DOGE, which aims to cut government expenditures, has ignited fierce Democratic Party resistance, but it has also garnered significant support from the American populace.

Mariane Angela
March 22, 2025
Former Clinton Pollster Stunned as People Flee Democratic Party: ‘I’ve Never Seen Anything Like This’

I have to wonder if these people are joining the Republican or Libertarian Parties, or the one of the Communist/Socialist/Marxist parties or just dropping out.

We live in interesting times.

Pathetic

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I’m sorry about the micropeen, bud.

SoundsLegit @BBludau130
Posted on X, October 26, 2023

It’s not only another Markley’s Law Monday; it is another science denier (see also here)!

This is just pathetic. We need a higher quality of troll to make things interesting. Give me a minute. I will probably make another post that is more interesting.

What Type of Sand?

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Reacting to a call by 14 perennially anti-gun House Democrats that President Donald Trump remove Kash Patel as acting head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms suggested the group “pound sand.”

 Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
March 20, 2025
CCRKBA TO DEMS WANTING KASH PATEL REMOVED AS ATF DIRECTOR: POUND SAND

Preferably, sand that is an ore for one or more of the metals, copper, zinc, or lead. We need more ammunition.

Another Progressive with a Clue?

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Progressive-led cities like Seattle, Smith argues, are killing Democrats’ brand with fringe rhetoric and well-publicized failures on crime, drugs and homelessness.

And yet, Smith says, he’s seen “a fierce resistance on the left side of the political spectrum to even consider the possibility that they should adjust some of their approaches.”

Smith’s crusade — which has upset some local elected officials and activists — is attracting national attention as Democrats debate why they lost and their best route out of the political wilderness.

After Trump defeated Kamala Harris in November, Smith told The Wall Street Journal “the extreme left is leading us into a ditch.”

In a recent New Yorker profile, Smith blamed his party’s woes on the “new left,” whose policies “have utterly and completely failed.” He singled out King County for funding programs with a leftist bent, including one that describes its work as fighting “cis-hetero patriarchy” and a move toward “getting rid of the criminal justice system.”

Jim Brunner and Daniel Beekman
March 19, 2025
Rep. Smith’s crusade against Democrats’ left wing gets attention, flak | The Seattle Times

Smith is my representative in the U.S. House. It appears he has a clue on at least a few topics. However, I don’t expect him to make a meaningful difference in their political direction. I’m seeing him and his colleagues in a future “ditch” of their own making. They just can’t help themselves.

Daily Ice Baths

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Rutgers Health researchers have made discoveries about brown fat that could pave the way for helping people stay physically fit as they age.

A team from Rutgers New Jersey Medical School found that mice lacking a specific gene developed an unusually potent form of brown fat tissue, which extended lifespan and increased exercise capacity by approximately 30%. The team is now working on a drug that could replicate these effects in humans.

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In the meantime, techniques such as deliberate cold exposure can increase brown fat naturally. Studies have found such efforts to produce short-term benefits that range from enhanced immune system function to improved metabolic health, but Vatner said none of the studies have run long enough to find any effect on healthful aging.

He added that most people would prefer to increase brown fat levels by taking pills rather than ice baths and is optimistic about translating the newest finding into an effective medication.

Rutgers University
March 17, 2025
Exercise in a Pill? Brown Fat Discovery May Extend Lifespan and Boost Fitness

Hmmm… I don’t think taxpayers should be subsidizing healthcare. But there doesn’t seem to be a good way out of it at this point. But this gives me an idea.

In order to receive taxpayer subsidized healthcare, I think people should engage in a healthy lifestyle. This would help to minimize their burden on taxpayers. No recreation drugs (this includes tobacco and alcohol). Healthy foods. At least moderate exercise. Wearing seat belts when traveling. Fire extinguishers in your home. Maintaining a healthy weight. No high-risk recreational activities. Etc., etc.

And now, there is another item we can add to the list of requirements!

One of the qualifications for subsidizes should be wearing no more clothes than that needed to prevent frostbite. Of course, this would require repealing all laws against public nudity. I don’t have a problem with that.

The alternative would be verification of their daily ice baths. I don’t have a problem with that either.

Too Timid to Play with Kindergartners

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U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) and Tim Sheehy (R-MT) introduced the Protecting Americans’ Right to Silence (PARTS) Act to cut government red tape and ensure gun owners and businesses are not unfairly targeted by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF). The bill modernizes outdated federal regulations on firearm suppressors, providing much-needed clarity to manufacturers, retailers, and law-abiding gun owners.

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he PARTS Act would clarify that a silencer refers to a complete device or a single principal component, rather than an assortment of parts that could be used in its construction.

Additionally, the bill would streamline the purchase of consumable silencer parts, such as wipes, without requiring additional ATF paperwork, ensuring gun owners can properly maintain their lawfully owned suppressors.

Bill Cassidy
U.S. Senator for Louisiana
Cassidy, Sheehy Introduce Bill to Protect Gun Owners from ATF Overreach | U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy

What the hell!!!

The courts could throw out the entire NFA by the beginning of Vance’s first term. And the elimination of the ATF seems to be a minor stretch goal shortly after that. I’m planning on my grandchildren having the option of participating in high school machine gun competitions.

And this guy is so timid that he wants to just clarify that silencer wipes don’t require any paperwork? Are there any modern-day suppressors that even use wipes?

Cassidy needs to get in touch with reality. As it is he is too timid to play in a kindergartner T-Ball league.

An Interesting Twist

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Lets suppose for a minute that suppressors become available through vending machines and at WalMart. No tax stamp, just cash or credit card.

I can see municipalities across the country adding regulations requiring suppressors at outdoor public ranges where housing developments have popped up in the recent past.

How would you like to see a potential multiverse wherein suppressors go from prohibited to required? Is that not just as oppressive a dictate from government? Would we not have the NRA and FPC running campaigns against mandatory suppressor use? “It adds an unreasonable financial burden on our 2nd Amendment right to require suppressors…”

Or maybe this is how we pitch it to Liberals. “You know… I have this way to make all guns more expensive, and the RKBA crowd will simply love it! As a matter of fact, they’re proposing it now. Hear me out…

Mike Hines
Via email on March 14, 2025

I laughed out loud.

It would be an interesting change of perspective to be in court fights insisting requirements to possess are unconstitutional. We could always offer the compromise of government subsidies. Of course, such subsides must be funded by taxes on those who registered as being gun free. And those registries would, of course, be public records available to everyone.

Satire?

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And don’t forget these weapons of mass murder help people with small penises feel like men

Woke Mind Virus (@mousepoop)
Posted on X, August 21, 2023

It is possible this is a satire account. I am just not quite sure. Still… it matches the pattern. Therefore, it’s not only another Markley’s Law Monday; it is another science denier (see also here)!

Improving the Speech of Mice

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In a quest to understand complex speech, scientists inserted what’s been dubbed a human “language gene” into mice. Remarkably, the genetic tweak had a profound impact on the little rodents’ ability to squeak, revealing astonishing clues about the evolution of vocal communication.

Mouse pups that had the human version of the language gene showed different vocalization patterns from their buddies with the usual version mice have. When calling for their mother, their squeaks were higher pitched and featured a different selection of sounds than usual.

Tom Hale
May 13, 2025
Scientists Put A Human “Language Gene” Into Mice And Curious Things Unfolded

While I find this interesting and quite remarkable, I also find it a little creepy. It’s not that I worry about mice talking to me as I am setting trap for them or anything. I’m not even sure why it bothers me. But it does.

What if they put this gene in chimps and/or other apes?

Thoughts?

A Rule with Broad Application

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Most scientists are button counting bottle washers.

Almost all science reporting is complete dreck. If journalists could understand science, they probably wouldn’t be journalists.

McChuck
March 14, 2025
Comment to More Data Supporting Our Universe is a Black Hole

This quote is great for several reasons. The first paragraph originates from a character in the Robert Heinlein book, Time Enough for Love: The Lives of Lazarus Long.

Most “scientists” are bottle washers and button sorters.

Related:

H. L. Mencken’s Law:
Those who can — do.
Those who can’t — teach.

Martin’s Extension:
Those who cannot teach — administrate.

Also:

It doesn’t take much effort to realize the application of the second paragraph has extremely broad application. Substitute almost any profession for “science” and observe how well it works.

I did this substitution as I worked downward through the list occupations. I found it worked quite well for nearly everything down to and including “whoring”, “financial fraud”, and “serial killing”.

The Party of Hate

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For today’s Democrats, nothing matters more than hating Trump. That, my friends, is a crucial point in all of this. Hatred of Trump has become their go-to position on just about everything; it is what energizes them, motivates them and dictates what they say and do.

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Instead of coming up with fresh ideas to show why they’re a reasonable, more rational alternative to Trump, what they’re doing is showing anyone paying attention why he won.

Democrats think Trump is the enemy. But the truth is, they are their own worst enemy.

Bernard Goldberg
March 12, 2025
Opinion: Democrats’ hatred of Trump makes them their own worst enemies

My view of the Democrat party is that they define themselves by what they hate. It may have started earlier, but at least since the U.S. Civil war they hated Republicans because they were going to take their slaves away. Then they hated people with dark colored skin because, “Those uppity blacks think they are just as good as white folk.” Then LBJ convinced the party the votes of the blacks be bought*.

As Democrats warmed up to and passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Senator Dodd (D) introduced the precursors to the Gun Control Act of 1968. These were Senate Bill 1975 in 1963, “A Bill to Regulate the Interstate Shipment of Firearms”, and Senate Bill 1592 in 1965, “A Bill to Amend the Federal Firearms Act of 1938”.

Democrats, in general, have hated gun owners ever since they started pretending to be defenders of blacks.

I would like to believe that they have a limited amount of hate. If this were true, then as their hatred for Trump, Musk, and MAGAs increased the hatred of gun owners would decrease. But as the legislative record shows, the hatred has spread and increased in intensity rather than focused.

As I have said before, “Gun owners are the ni**ers of the 21st Century” and “the anti-gun bigots are the KKK of the 21st Century.” See also Bigotry is alive and well. And Quote of the day—Dinesh D’Souza.

Perhaps, all this hatred has finally caught up to them.

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Emotion Driven Theatrics

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Giffords’ pivot to actual theater matches their overall approach of using theatrics to push gun control laws that do little to hold criminals accountable for their crimes and instead only penalize law-abiding Americans seeking to exercise their rights to keep and bear arms and the lawful and highly-regulated industry that provides for the exercise of that Constitutional right.

It all makes more sense now.

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The Giffords gun control group’s call from theater pitches is just that – theatrics. It won’t lead to safer neighborhoods. It won’t lead to more violent criminals being locked up for committing acts of violence. It won’t protect families, homes or businesses from those choosing to ignore existing laws and instead harm innocent lives.

The theme is similar to Everytown for Gun Safety’s recently launched high dollar ad campaign, which mocks the hard-working and law-abiding Americans who comprise the firearm industry. Everytown, of course personally funded by billionaire gun control stalwart Michael Bloomberg, spared no expense to create a glitzy caricature of the firearm industry, repeating tired and inaccurate tropes about who is buying firearms today and who safeguards the Second Amendment right to do so.

Needless to say, these ad campaigns and the theatre pitches haven’t yet and won’t put any meaningful dent in the occurrence of violent firearm crime or the criminals who commit heinous crimes.

Larry Keane
March 7, 2025
While Gun Control Plays Theatrics, Firearm Industry Pursues Real Solutions for Safer Communities • NSSF

Via JPFO.

The anti-gun side has emotion driven theatrics. We have data, philosophy, and SCOTUS.

The Rats are Leaving the Ship

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ActBlue, the primary online fundraising platform for Democratic candidates, is experiencing significant internal upheaval as at least seven senior officials resigned late last month.

The departures coincide with an ongoing investigation by congressional Republicans, raising concerns about the organization’s future and its ability to continue as the party’s dominant fundraising tool.

Anthony Gonzalez
March 8, 2025
Democrat Fundraising Group ActBlue Faces Internal Chaos

This could be interesting.

I hope they enjoy their trials.

Abolish Firearms Background Checks

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The idea of undergoing and passing background checks as a prerequisite to exercising the Second Amendment should have never been a thought even in the darkest corners of the most communist minds of the most radical left-wing ideologues, not only because it violates the rights of American citizens but also because it puts undeserving Americans in legal jeopardy and in physical danger.

According to the Government Accountability Office, in 2017, the NICS background check system denied 112,090 people the right to purchase a firearm. Of those 112,090 denials, only 12,710 were investigated. We have to ask ourselves: If over 112,000 people were denied but only 12,710 investigations took place, wouldn’t that be clear evidence that the system is failing and falsely denying good people their right to keep and bear arms?

It gets worse.

That same year, and from that group of 112,090 denials, there were only 12 prosecutions for the crime of attempting to purchase a firearm. Now the anti-gun crowd says, “See, we stopped 12 mass shootings!”

There are problems with that argument.

Dan Wos
March 6, 2025
Should firearms background check system be abolished? | Buckeye Firearms Association

I agree background checks should be abolished. But from a political capital perspective this should be prioritized near the elimination of restrictions on machine guns. It isn’t going to get much traction in the near future.

Nothing to Contribute

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There you go again, denying your urgent need to prop up your squashed penis with a weapon.

JAY carreon (@JAYcarreon6)
Posted on X, July 8, 2023

It’s not only another Markley’s Law Monday; it is another science denier (see also here)!

Obviously, he has nothing of value to contribute to the conversation. It should come as no surprise his account has been suspended.

A Canadian’s View of The Second Amendment

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When I was travelling through the South over the past month, I was told by several hosts that they all carry guns. They confirmed that they do not tolerate the nonsense that Jews face elsewhere. America: Never ever give up or water down your Second Amendment. It is the means by which you maintain your freedom from all enemies, domestic and foreign.

Gad Saad @GadSaad
Posted on X, March 7, 2025

Dr. Saad is the psychologist author of the bestselling book, The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense. I listened to it and liked it. I follow him on X and find his sarcasm quite entertaining. He taunts the Canadian censors with his criticism of woke ideologies.

His childhood history as a Jew in Beirut likely influences his views on the right to keep and bear arms.