Watch what happens when Guns are banned in Australia

Ol' Remus

Some weekly goodies

The hatred of America is open. The desire to undo American constitutionalism is explicit. And this exposure will only accelerate in the coming months and years, as the left realizes ever more acutely that its days as an accepted political faction are numbered, and it is forced to take increasingly drastic and sudden measures to achieve its brutal aims before the clock runs out, says Daren Jonescu in this article, Conservatives Have a Secret, at American Thinker.
(Hat tip: PW, reader and friend of Woodpile Report)

All governments, no matter how constituted, are implacably hostile to their subjects' possession of the means of resistance. The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is words on a page. It is not self-enforcing.
Francis Porretto at bastionofliberty.blogspot.com

We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals and our banks destroy the economy.
Chris Hedges at Zero Hedge via reader MG

Redoubt - If you want to be safe in life, move to places that the government can't be bothered to provide you help in. These places tend to be clean, safe, prosperous, healthy and sane. At least until the government finds out that evil monoculturalists are trying to live this way without them.
Texas Arcane at vault-co.blogspot.com

Benchmark - The day is coming when a 3D printer will replicate itself completely in one step.
Ol' Remus at woodpilereport.com