New York Court Holds Stun Gun Ban is Not Unconstitutional, in Contravention of Caetano

Herschel Smith · 30 Mar 2025 · 2 Comments

Dean Weingarten has a good find at Ammoland. Judge Eduardo Ramos, the U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York,  has issued an Opinion & Order that a ban on stun guns is constitutional. A New York State law prohibits the private possession of stun guns and tasers; a New York City law prohibits the possession and selling of stun guns. Judge Ramos has ruled these laws do not infringe on rights protected by the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution. Let's briefly…… [read more]

Marquise Love Turns Himself In

BY Herschel Smith
5 years, 8 months ago

The thug who issued the beat-down of the innocent driver a few days ago (I refuse to link or embed the video again), took to social media to try to state his case and raise money.

In a post on SnapChat, Love insists he did nothing wrong.

“Might go to jail for murder tonight for a racist when all I did was fight him,” Love purportedly wrote, according to an image obtained by The Sun.  “Look it up on Twitter put money on my books and come see me.”

He writes like a first-grader.  Anyway, he turned himself in.

A 25-year-old man surrendered to police Friday in the beating of another man caught on video during a confrontation that unfolded near a downtown Portland demonstration last weekend.

Marquise Love turned himself in and was booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center, police said. He’s accused of felony assault, coercion and rioting and is being held on $260,000 bail.

[ … ]

Haner is home and recovering from multiple injuries. Some 3,700 people had donated over $136,000 to an online fundraiser in his name as of Friday morning.

No, he did nothing wrong.  He merely “fought him.”  Give him some money.  He failed to mention that the victim was sitting idle in the street hoping that no one else would assault him.  The victim didn’t fight.  The victim didn’t do anything.  He failed to mention that he did nothing to earn any money people might give him.

That’s part of the problem.  “Keese Love” should be dead and facing his maker right now from jacketed hollow points being shot into his vital organs (with a followup to his brain just for good measure).

That’s the way to handle thugs like this.  All prison will do is convert him to Islam, teach him to be a better criminal, and make him even more dangerous.

Have I mentioned that I don’t believe in the rehabilitative “justice system” before?  The state doesn’t rehabilitate men.  Only God can do that.

There Is A Difference Between Inflicting Wanton Animal Cruelty And Hunting

BY Herschel Smith
5 years, 8 months ago

Via reader Ned, BLM news.

Black Lives Matter supporters ran over a raccoon twice before beating it to death with a baseball bat in a horrific and senseless act of animal cruelty before posting the video online and saying people should “worry about the police killing Black people” and “treating us like animals.”

“James Blue”, the person who filmed the violence, attempted to justify the animal cruelty by saying that “Black lives matter” and “Only white people worry about animals.”

The disturbing incident took place in New York City, as onlookers watched and cheered the sickening attack on a defenseless animal.

The alleged niece of one of the perpetrators replied “Worry about the police killing Black people” before dismissing the brutal and unnecessary killing of the raccoon, saying “only white peoples worry about this.”

That difference in practice is called the “ethical kill.”  All legitimate hunters care about that.  An ethical kill means you kill with minimal pain and suffering, and you process the animal you just harvested for food.

The difference in people is called a conscience that hasn’t been seared.

On to another issue, is there any doubt they would do this to people?

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Mail-In Ballots For Dead Men

BY Herschel Smith
5 years, 8 months ago

So my wife comes home from work today after taking to a colleague.

Her colleague received a mail-in ballot from the DNC for her elderly father.  He is so elderly, in fact, that he’s been dead for 25 years.

Virginia Will Not Fall

BY Herschel Smith
5 years, 8 months ago

Gutsy lad.  And for anybody who has criticism of anything about these guys or the way they’re doing it, I don’t see anyone else out there doing what they’re doing.

Well Hello Again Seth Jones – Did You Slither Out From Your Hole Again To Push More Gun Control?

BY Herschel Smith
5 years, 8 months ago

We have a history with Seth Jones.  Yes we do.  He told us that the right wing in America is the real security threat.  Not Antifa, not BLM, not CAIR, not the Muslim Brotherhood.  He slithered out from his snake hole again with this piece (via reader Cris).

First, based on the tactics of domestic terrorists, enacting stricter legislation to ban some types of guns (such as assault rifles) and further strengthening background checks could help prevent some would-be terrorists from getting access to weapons. Firearms are—by far—the most common weapon for fatal attacks by far-right, far-left, and Salafi-jihadist extremists. Based on data from the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), the number of firearm background checks for gun purchases has spiked to its highest level ever in 2020—reaching nearly 4 million in June 2020. The pervasiveness of guns—including automatic weapons—is particularly concerning in the United States’ ultra-polarized political climate. In addition to guns, other types of weapons—such as vehicles, melee devices, incendiary devices for arson attacks, and the components for homemade explosives—are also widely available.

Yes.  The far right.  Automatic weapons.  Suitable for panic-stricken Mom’s against so-and-so to carry in front of Congress.

So that’s the way it is, Seth?  The existence of Antifa because of open borders, crap taught in the public school system, and the failure of the inner city due to government subsidies causing fatherless families is now the reason du jour for more gun control?

Is the current failure of America your replacement for Obama’s Fast and Furious, also meant as a pretext for the same?

Go crawl back into your hole.

America’s Original Sin—Racism

BY Herschel Smith
5 years, 8 months ago

Robert S. Harvey writing at Education Week.

As schools fumble to talk about America’s original sin—racism—well-meaning white teachers (and some Black folks) often assume that cultural relevance equals applauding individual progress.

You schmuck.  I hate nothing worse than people pretending to be something they’re not.

Jesus was a good man and great example – countries can have original sin – God loves everyone and we’re all just brothers and sisters in the family of God – and so on with the claptrap.

If you believe those things you’re not a Christian.  Jesus is God (No, He didn’t become a god because of his obedience or anything else – He was always God).  Countries cannot have original sin.  Jesus was clear in John 8:44-45.

Original sin has to do with the federal headship of Adam.  The WCF.

I. Our first parents, being seduced by the subtilty and temptations of Satan, sinned, in eating the forbidden fruit. This their sin, God was pleased, according to His wise and holy counsel, to permit, having purposed to order it to His own glory.

II. By this sin they fell from their original righteousness and communion, with God, and so became dead in sin, and wholly defiled in all the parts and faculties of soul and body.

III. They being the root of all mankind, the guilt of this sin was imputed; and the same death in sin, and corrupted nature, conveyed to all their posterity descending from them by ordinary generation.

IV. From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good, and wholly inclined to all evil, do proceed all actual transgressions.

And I’ve been clear.

” … the Biblical doctrine is, as Deuteronomy 24:16 makes clear, one of individual responsibility … guilt cannot be shifted to others or passed on to the people around a man.  Guilt is non-transferable; a disposition or nature can be inherited, but not guilt.”

One man’s sin does not redound to another man’s sin.  And no, I’m not going to give anyone “reparations.”

So if you believe any of these false doctrines, call yourself something other than a Christian.

And to Mr. Harvey, you’re an impostor.  Stop [mis]appropriating my theology.  I don’t appreciate it at all.

The 17 Best New Versatile Riflescopes Put to the Test

BY Herschel Smith
5 years, 8 months ago

At Outdoor Life.

There are some well known makers like Vortex, Zeiss, Leupold and Primary Arms.  Let me know what you think.

I would really like to have had them review the Arken Optics EP4 4-16X50.  Rex reviews it here, at least the unboxing.

PSA Loses Customers, Maybe?

BY Herschel Smith
5 years, 8 months ago

Well, this is a drag.  Big mistake indeed.

Antifa Boi Does Guns

BY Herschel Smith
5 years, 8 months ago

Occasionally, something so good passes my way that I must share it for the sake of humor.  Something makes me wonder if the boi has ever worked on a machine of any kind.  He really should go volunteer at a farm and work on tractors, trucks, machines, etc.

Good Lord, what an effeminate clique of little bois America has raised.

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Herschel’s Dictum

BY Herschel Smith
5 years, 8 months ago

Via reader Fred.



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