How black Baltimore drug dealers are using white supremacist legal theories to confound the Feds

The "Flesh-and-Blood Defense":

As officers of the court, all defense lawyers are really on the government's side, having sworn an oath to uphold a vast, century-old conspiracy to conceal the fact that most aspects of the federal government are illegitimate, including the courts, which have no constitutional authority to bring people to trial. The defendants also believed that a legal distinction could be drawn between their name as written on their indictment and their true identity as a "flesh and blood man."

Don't forget the incidents of gun deaths in Baltimore.

Instapundit has a great post up on this insane incident which includes an email response from a reader claiming that part of the reason police are "hot-headed jerks" is because they "deal with hot-headed jerk citizens on a daily basis as a regular part of their job."

I happen to agree with this statement, but he takes it a lot further, essentially making excuses for cops acting badly. This is the topper:

Police officers get lots of training on how to deal with citizens, while citizens get zero training on how to deal with police.

My response is simple:

1) You're right.
2) SO WHAT?

Honestly, that's one of the most ridiculous things I've read in a while. Cops act badly because citizens don't get trained to interact with them properly?

That is utterly stupid.

What happens when you forget to remove the Boresight?

Neighbor killed after threats, home invasion

A Prairie Creek resident shot and killed a neighbor who had kicked in his door Tuesday evening and tried to assault him, police said.

Johnny Hawthorne shot Mekin Kantaphone with a handgun once in the head in self-defense inside Hawthorne's home, Benton County sheriff's Capt. Mike Sydoriak said.

The prosecuting attorney's office will decide whether the shooting was justified, Sydoriak said.

Kantaphone, 34, sent threatening text and voice messages to Hawthorne, 25, earlier in the day, he said.

There are allegations that the shooter was having an affair with the shootee's wife. The shootee's brother tried to keep him from going in, but he couldn't.

Demarcationville:

What happened seems clear to me: Conover annoyed the cop by taking his picture. When Conover refused to delete them, the cop got angry and arrested him. (After all, the photos might have been taken with the intention of policing the police - and how dare a mere mortal citizen do this? ) After the arrest, the officer scrambled to find some law, any law which would back up his actions.

The officer said he thought Conover was pointing a laser at him. But, um, if he thought it was a laser why did he tell him to delete the pictures?

Via Michael Silence and Instapundit.

Was out of town and missed it, but Illinois Carry and Freedom Folks have coverage. Looks like things went decently well.

Via Uncle.

John Lott points out that CCW applications are up nearly 5% this year in the Lone Star State.

Linkzookery, GunPundit style:

Florida considering adding gun safety classes to school curriculum
To spice up their choices for physical education.

Connorsville, Wisconsin, Gun Control
Actually seems to be a fairly reasonable infringement. You'll have to go look.

Carnival of Homeschooling #132: Let's Go To The Ice Cream Parlor!
This week at the Daily Planet.

UPDATE: Nice. Thanks to my ongoing technical issues, about a dozen links were lost. I've been out of town over the weekend and just noticed. Sorry.