Modern Rifleman

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[Modern Rifleman @ModernRifleman]

As the per curiam opinion recognizes, this is a conjunctive test: A weapon may not be banned unless it is both dangerous and unusual.

- Samuel Alito, Caetano v. Massachusetts

#firearms #2a #guns #guncontrol #shooting #gunsense #nra

[Dan Burmawi @DanBurmawy]

Islam is not an ethnicity. It is a belief system that spans continents, languages, and cultures.

Its adherents include Bosnians in the Balkans, Nigerians in West Africa, Persians in Iran, Malays in Indonesia, Arabs in Yemen, Turks in Anatolia, and an increasing number of converts in Europe and North America.

There is no single racial profile for Islam because Islam is not a race. It is an idea.

Over the past few decades, Islam has been recast as a racial identity rather than a religious or ideological system.

In the public imagination it has been compressed into a single visual stereotype: brown, Arab, immigrant, hijab-wearing, permanently marginalized.

Ideas can be debated, ideologies can be criticized, religions can be scrutinized.

But races can't.

Once Islam was reframed as a racial category rather than a belief system, criticism of its doctrines could be dismissed as prejudice against people rather than disagreement with ideas.

Criticize violent Islamic doctrine, and the accusation becomes racism, the charge becomes Islamophobia, you are accused of bigotry.

The discussion is no longer about the substance of the claims. It is about the identity of the critic.

In this way, Islam was quietly placed in a protected category normally reserved for race.

And once that happens, an ideology acquires the one thing every ideology seeks: immunity from scrutiny.

[Modern Rifleman @ModernRifleman]

@bmahan745 @mkhammer @DoctahDean Ha right? ND beating the vaunted Georgia Bulldogs wasn’t even a full year ago. SEC fans and alums seem to think this is the pre-NIL/portal era. That dominance is severely diminished now that everyone pays players.

[Modern Rifleman @ModernRifleman]

One can only hope

[Brett McMurphy @Brett_McMurphy]

"The bowl system we know now is offically dead," a bowl executive told @on3. "RIP. It was a nice run while it lasted."

[Modern Rifleman @ModernRifleman]

@jon_stokes GPD Win 4 is an almost direct knockoff of the form factor with some cool additional features (a keyboard!) that make it a pretty neat Windows handheld. Fairly spendy though.

[Strxwmxn @strxwmxn]

Candace Owens coming out as a Nazi apologist is the plot twist we’ve all seen coming.

[Yehuda Teitelbaum @chalavyishmael]

Isn’t it remarkable how the so-called "anti-war" crowd, Dave Smith, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and the rest of Grifter Inc., bend over backwards to "understand" Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?

They are very careful not to defend it outright. Instead, they explain it. They contextualize it. They empathize with it.

They tell us that Russia felt threatened. That NATO expansion was provocative. That no country would tolerate a hostile military alliance at its border. They invoke the example, again and again, of how America would respond if Mexico joined a military pact with Russia. And they conclude, quite calmly, that in light of that, Russia’s invasion was unfortunate but understandable.

Over one million people are dead. Cities have been leveled. A sovereign country was invaded. Entire regions were turned into killing fields. And yet somehow, to this crowd, Russia’s actions are not pure aggression. They are not insanity. They are not evil. They are the natural outgrowth of feeling unsafe.

Now shift to Iran. A regime that openly calls for the destruction of the United States. A regime that funds terrorist proxies on nearly every continent. A regime that tried to assassinate former U.S. officials, including a sitting president. A regime that is enriching uranium to levels just short of a nuclear weapon. A regime that has been chanting "Death to America" longer than most of us have been alive.

This time, the script flips.

Now we are told that confrontation is unthinkable. That deterrence is unnecessary. That Iran is not really a threat. That this is all just neocon fearmongering. We are told to believe that diplomacy will be enough, that the Islamic Republic does not mean what it says, and that America is being paranoid.

So let’s get this straight.

Russia, a nuclear power with a conventional army, invades its neighbor, and the woke right says it makes sense. They do not like it, but they understand it.

Iran, a fundamentalist theocracy with a history of international terrorism, chants for our death and works toward a nuclear bomb, and the same people say America is overreacting.

Russia feels nervous, and we are expected to empathize. America receives open threats of annihilation, and we are expected to show restraint.

One country wages war because it claims to feel encircled, and we are told this is reasonable. Another country prepares for war because it has been directly threatened for fifty years, and we are told this is warmongering.

What exactly are the rules?

Because if they are that national interest is valid for Russia but not for the United States, then this is not anti-war commentary. It is anti-American propaganda pretending to be realism.

They will justify the deaths of millions because they "understand" how Russia felt. But they refuse to understand why America might not want nuclear weapons in the hands of a regime that burns its flag, funds global jihad, and literally threatens to wipe Israel off the map.

At some point, the pattern speaks louder than the words. And the pattern is this. Every country is allowed to act in its interest except America. Every threat is understandable except the ones made against us.

It is not a consistent worldview. It is not a peace strategy. It is moral inversion dressed up as foreign policy.

And people are starting to notice.

[NoSoMo @NoSoMo]

Here's the aim points for the GBU/57 -- Ventilation shafts completed as shown in 2009. Initially the strikes may appear random. They were clearly direct hits in precise locations. Look closer at the holes and you can see the square shafts.
@ronnieadkins @vcdgf555

[Barstool Irish @BarstoolIrish]

Thanks for coming to south bend lil bro @IUBarstool

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

The Henry Jackson Society, a prominent UK-based think tank, has determined that the Gaza death toll has been substantially inflated to malign Israel by falsely portraying it as targeting civilians. Their comprehensive analysis reveals that Hamas has deliberately included thousands of deaths from natural causes, among many other improprieties within their reported figures. Furthermore, the society has firmly accused international media outlets of swiftly accepting and propagating these exaggerated numbers without adequate verification. These decisive findings cast serious doubts on the accuracy of casualty reports and highlight a targeted effort to defame Israel on the global stage.

Key Findings :

1.Misclassification of Male Fatalities as Female
Analysis of Gaza Ministry of Health (MoH) data reveals frequent misclassification of male fatalities as female, including individuals with male names like “Mohammed” being recorded as women. This skews the narrative to suggest that women and children disproportionately suffer, influencing media coverage and international opinion.

2.Adults Misreported as Children
Discrepancies show adults reclassified as children, such as a 22-year-old listed as a four-year-old and a 31-year-old listed as an infant. These distortions inflate child casualty numbers, creating an emotionally charged narrative and undermining the credibility of the fatality data.

3.High Proportion of Fighting-Age Male Deaths
Most fatalities are men aged 15-45, aligning with the profile of combatants. This challenges claims of disproportionate civilian targeting. Evidence, including spikes in male deaths reported by families rather than hospitals, suggests many classified as civilians may be combatants.

4.Inclusion of Natural Deaths
Fatality data lacks accounting for natural deaths, which average 5,000 annually in Gaza. Reports also include cancer patients and victims of internal violence or misfired rockets as war casualties. These practices inflate the civilian death toll, distorting the conflict’s true impact.

5.Underreporting of Combatant Deaths in Media
Media analysis shows only 3% of coverage mentions combatant deaths, with outlets like BBC and CNN relying on unverified MoH figures. For instance, over 17,000 Hamxs combatants are estimated to have been killed, yet this remains largely excluded, shaping public opinion with incomplete data.

Via: @inside_IL_intel

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

Maybe, just maybe, intersectional identity politics isn’t a winner. People want to be respected as individuals and not just as a block of voters based on race, ethnicity, and sex organs.

[Christina Hoff Sommers @CHSommers]

Campus intersectionality was never about kindness, mutual understanding, human dignity, or individual liberty. Those are ideals of liberal humanism, which identitarians explicitly reject. But what happens when large numbers of young people are freed from the niceties of the liberal tradition & trained to divide the world between privileged & oppressed? Conventional notions of right and wrong & good and evil fall away. And deranged death cults like Hamas, or even al Qaeda & ISIS — can be seen as downtrodden people of color valiantly fighting the Oppressor West— by any means necessary.

[Aizenberg @Aizenberg55]

🧵Critical Thread. Close review of Gaza casualty figures reported by UN OCHA based on daily Hamas “Ministry of Health” numbers proves they are FALSIFIED. Women & children are grossly inflated. This is easily proven but media ignores. See detailed expose below: 1/

[Jay 🕋☪️✈️ @jay_kobbe]

Israel cares more about Palestinian lives than Hamas / Jordan / Egypt / Saudi / any fucking Arab nation

[Modern Rifleman @ModernRifleman]

@BurkaQoob @RepSlotkin @SavetheChildren Ironic given the “war pigs” tweet I replied to. Remember, none of this would have happened if Hamas had stayed home on 10/7. Hell, even the PA is cursing them for it. You’re celebrating and defending a culture that revels in death and hate and celebrates false “martyrs”

[Modern Rifleman @ModernRifleman]

@BurkaQoob @RepSlotkin @SavetheChildren Moreover, is a 15 year old still a “child” if he’s holding a rifle? Seems to be a bit of a problem given Hamas’ willingness to arm what most of the civilized world would consider minors or children.

[Modern Rifleman @ModernRifleman]

@BurkaQoob @RepSlotkin @SavetheChildren Will do. They’re wrong if they’re getting statistics from fucking Hamas, which I guarantee is where it’s coming from. For crying out loud, its the same group who said 500 died when their own rocket hit the hospital. Actual intel later comes out saying it was more like 50-100…

[Modern Rifleman @ModernRifleman]

@BurkaQoob @RepSlotkin There’s legitimately no way 4,000 Palestinian kids have been killed by the IDF. No one paying attention believes it and no one with any self respect believes numbers put out by Hamas’ own health ministry, which itself has been caught fabricating death tolls on numerous occasions.

[Modern Rifleman @ModernRifleman]

Bingo. Some societies and cultures have grown over the last few centuries. Some… not so much.

[Modern Rifleman @ModernRifleman]

@yamphoto @TreyYingst @latimes @latimesphotos This is such trash to be pushing. Throwing anything at an armored vehicle in an active combat zone is juat stupid and a 15 year old could easily be a combatant considering how Hamas operates/recruits. In a culture obsessed with martyrs, I guess he got what he/they wanted.