Posted in

Becky Margiotta: I’m a veteran who has spent my entire life around guns. Here’s why I’m advocating stricter regulations.

by Jonn Lilyea••261

Someone sent us a link to the latest gun-fag’s mental masturbation on the Second Amendment. This one is Becky Margiotta. She says she’s an expert because her father bought her a shotgun when she was 12 years old and she hunted, you know, because that’s why there is a Second Amendment – for hunting with your father. She goes on tell us how she was a West Pointer and a company commander;

Following graduation from West Point, I commanded two Special Operations companies – small forces structured to complete the most physically and politically challenging missions. Multiple times a year, year after year, we underwent recertification on the weapons that were most central to our mission. Going to the range was treated with the utmost of gravity and military discipline. There was no joking around on the range. Every single round of ammunition was accounted for every single time.

Another veterinary dietician who wants us to think that she was a top tier door kicking special forces operator.

I left the Army after completing nine years of service. Right around that time, the shooting at Columbine High School happened. I was heartbroken and horrified to hear how the weapons I had trained to use so carefully – including weapons that don’t belong in civilian hands – had been used in a school to end the lives of 13 innocent children and educators.

Funny, according to Wikipedia, there were no weapons that she had trained so carefully to use in the shooters’ arsenal;

On the day of the massacre, Harris was equipped with a 12-gauge Savage-Springfield 67H pump-action shotgun (which he discharged a total of 25 times) and a Hi-Point 995 Carbine 9 mm carbine with thirteen 10-round magazines (which he fired a total of 96 times).[35]

Klebold was equipped with a 9×19mm Intratec TEC-9 semi-automatic handgun with one 52-, one 32-, and one 28-round magazine and a 12-gauge Stevens 311D double-barreled sawed-off shotgun. Klebold primarily fired the TEC-9 handgun for a total of 55 times, while he discharged a total of 12 rounds from his double-barreled shotgun.

Columbine happened right smack dab in the middle of Bill Clinton’s “assault weapon ban”, which didn’t seem to slow the pair. In fact they broke all kinds of laws to accomplish their dastardly goals – they took firearms on school grounds, they were in possession of firearms that someone else purchased for them, and, oh, yeah, they murdered people which isn’t legal.

The reality is that we know a lot about how to prevent gun violence. For example, we know that in states that require a criminal background check on every gun sale, lives are saved. Many people who commit mass shootings have a history of red flags – and we know that disarming people who have demonstrated that they are a threat to themselves or others helps reduce firearm suicides.

Yeah, well, all states require criminal background checks for gun sales – it’s been that way since before she was a West Point cadet.

As a veteran, I’m intimately familiar with the destructive power of firearms. And, I know how important it is to make sure they don’t fall into the wrong hands. I also know that many Americans look for leadership from veterans on issues like gun violence prevention.

That’s why I’ve joined with fellow veterans and Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun violence prevention organization, to launch the Everytown Veterans Advisory Council. The Council will enable military veterans to play a critical role in ending gun violence in America, providing advice and perspective to policy work around the country.

More than anything, Americans want folks who will tell them the truth about guns, and, Becky, you ain’t it. Any veteran who joins with the Bloomberg folks at “Everytown” isn’t doing what’s best for America, only what’s best for the nanny-class.

How’s about we start with forcing prosecutors to enforce the existing laws instead of forcing the law abiding gun owners to comply with even more useless restrictions to their Constitutional rights.

But making our political gatekeepers do their jobs is harder than writing more laws, isn’t it?

You might also like

Washington Post; when statistics don’t work, change the parameters

Fake News? Could Well Be.

Shocker! NY residents aren’t registering their rifles

261 thoughts on “Becky Margiotta: I’m a veteran who has spent my entire life around guns. Here’s why I’m advocating stricter regulations.”

  1. Probably mentally-disabled from taste-testing too many spoiled MREs…

    1. With a picture of Dear Leader O’Bumbles on her FB page to boot. That along with the rainbow flag on her page should tell you everything you need to know about her.

      1. I noticed from the same Fakebook page that she is also a big fan of our Claymore’s beloved Daily Kos.

    2. Her sexuality is irrelevant.

      Her lies are the subject of discussion and in need of clarification, or retraction.

  3. Another touch-freely, sign-up-for-my- seminar, we’re-saving-the-world type that we are all better off without. I would say that this is Bateman’s counterpart but I’m not at all certain they are different genders.

  4. Sorry Pal, I served in the Marine Corps as a Communication Specialist. I touched my M16A1 once a year for Qualification. That did not make me an expert. Since I have seperated I have shot extensively, to include competition shooting, hunting and carrying for self defense. Does this make me an expert, no, but it puts me head and shoulders above you.

    I fire more rounds in a month than I did in the entire time in the Marine Corps. The Second Amendment is not about target shooting or hunting, it is about citizens being able to defend themselves from an over reaching government.

    You don’t agree with owning firearms, fine, don’t own one. You are not taking my rights away from me without a fight. I hope and pray it is a fight in the realm of law. Because if you try confiscation, it might not go the way you think.

    My two cents.

        1. SJ would you believe the first weapon I was ever issued in basic at Fort Carson in 1959 was a 1903 Springfield? We later were issued M-1’s and that’s what we qualified on.

          Springfield’s actually stayed in service until the 60’s and were used in Vietnam as sniper rifles.

          1. We had M-1’S, BAR’S, Thompson subs and Browning .30 Cal Light MG’S on board the OKIE 3. I imagine when she went over to Viet Nam things may have changed but I do not know since I left in late 1966.

          2. I can believe it and I’d even believe they issued you brown boots and dye kits. A few years before my time, but I saw it at Leonard Wood. We trained and qualified with M1s at Polk in ’63.

          3. Good lord…I was born in 59…

            With that said, somewhere along the line we 19E’s managed to qualify with M16A1’s at sunny Ft Knox, Kentucky back in 1979. We also managed to qualify on M60A1’s as well :).

            I am fortunate enough to have my Grandfather’s M1903 Springfield, which I think is a very straight shooting rifle, for a weapon built in 1933 (according to the serial number). My boys think its way “old school” to still use the original sights, since everyone knows scopes and lasers are the shizzz nowadays. 🙂

              1. Had to qualify with an M-1 on the old KD range at Ft. Douglas, UT. The 1000 yd. line doomed me to only making sharpshooter.

        2. SJ; The BLT Marines we had on board had M14’S and wore OD green at the time.

        3. M-14 here, too. There were also a lot of funny looking metal things lying around the ranges that I later learned were clips for the M-1. Some of them weren’t even rusty.

      2. I started basic training with A1’s who’s handguards were so loose they’d come off while rucking.

        Then they gave us A2’s that were so new they still had the packing grease (I can’t spell what its actually called), which sucked given the drill sergeants took us out to the sand pits and smoked us with them.

        Then allowed us to clean them…

          1. Thanks. I fuck up that spelling so bad even spell check goes “what the hell man”.

          2. Beats the hell out of the used axle grease my Mosin Nagant was packed in. At least cosmoline can be removed. That garbage rod will never be clean! Shoots straight, though.

        2. Take them to the shower with you and clean with warm soapy water (the same you wash with). Works great. FTR, I qualified on and carried M16A1 for the first 8 years I was in uniform, saw my first A2 when they started shipping them in to us in the middle of Operation Just Cause as combat replacements. I also carried an M1911A1 until I was a Captain, never liked the M9 Beretta–nice pistol, but 9mm doesn’t seem worth the effort…:)

            1. Gasoline works great on clothing. Just ask the knucklehead lady living in a 4 story OMD across the street from Station 1 (HQ) washing her clothes with gasoline in the bathroom tub. Call went out as an odor of gas. I think the call went out as a general but not a still alarm. AHH those were the days in the LBFD. I forgot to mention the Long Beach LEO emptying his jet ski gas next to the gas hot water heater. The Dept was marching in the Memorial day parade when the general was banged out for a report of an explosion. First due arrived with a red faced man standing next to the knocked over wall. Lucky he had left to do something.

              1. Stupid people: preventing boredom among firefighters in America since 1750.

                My personal favorite among fire stories is the couple that moved to my mountain hometown from the beach in the dead of winter, thought they could dump their hot pellet stove ashes in the trash, and were surprised as all hell when the attached garage was fully-involved and extending to the second floor of the house at 3:00 in the morning. We rolled up and found them both bare-ass naked next to the Battalion Chief’s ride (it was 12 degrees)—the Chief was first at scene and went iron-lung to the second floor to get them out. Probably good that he did, too since the second floor was already charged with smoke and ceased being survivable as we rolled up. That fire actually resulted in several funny stories…

                Best stupid medical aid story was the dipshit who shot through his own hand and hit his wife in both kneecaps while trying to disassemble his Springfield XD .40-cal.

                1. TOW; Glad you mentioned the XD,.40. I switched over to their XDE .09MM from my XDSC .40. /Grin
                  P.S. we could really swap some fire stories.

                  1. Snakeshot round, luckily for her. Took a chunk the size of a quarter out of the dipshit’s hand and peppered her on both kneecaps, though the left knee was shielded somewhat by the right. I told them both how lucky she was that it was only snakeshot. Anything more solid and she’d never walk again, assuming she kept both legs.

          2. Weapons in the shower? Back then we weren’t even allowed weapons in the latrine.

            I figured out years later that it may have been a ploy to get the weapons clean. The sand stripped the cosmoline, and then the CLP cleared the sand.

            Eventually.

            1. When we were at Fort Drum for our two weeks, we used the immersion heaters to clean out the M-16 barrels due to the corrosive primers that were used in the 5.56 Rds.

            2. We used immersion heaters to clean out the M-16 barrels due to the corrosive primers that were used in the 5.56 Rds. This took place at Fort Drum, Camp Smith and Fort Dix during Live fire and qualifications.

            3. we used immersion heaters to clean the M-16 barrels due to the corrosive primers that were used in the 5.56 Rds. This took place up at Fort Drum, Camp Smith and Fort Dix during our two week camp time plus weekend qualifications.

            4. gotta love the smokey bears. the fuckers are nothing if not inventive, huh?

              also showed you exactly how far sand and grit could really get into those places that are nightmares to clean spotlessly. a useful lesson for weapons maintenance, to be sure.

            5. I used the shower trick many times. It was just something you never wanted to say aloud, especially to the armorer.

              When I was in, SNCOs were even allowed to transport weapons in their POVS.

              Don’t tell the libs that tho, they’ll never understand why there weren’t murders galore because of it.

        3. I had an A2 in basic training, but when I got back to my National Guard unit I had an A1. Then I went active duty and got a M60. When I PCS’d to Ft Campbell in 97 I got an A2 again and then finally got a M4 in 99. My M4 was so new that I also had to spend forever cleaning the Cosmoline off of it.

      3. That’s what I was initially issued; an A1. I even used it for competitions and can still remember the serial number.

      4. My M16A1 in basic training (1987) was manufactured by GM. Said so right there on the magazine well. Loose handguards. 1/4″ of play between the upper and lower receivers. I’m convinced it was a veteran of Viet of the Nam.

    2. But, I thought Marines are riflemen first.
      I thought you guys did tactical ranges all the time regardless of MOS….
      That you all are like infantrymen.

      1. The Marines ARE riflemen first, Yef. That was straightened out earlier this month.

        Pay attention, willya??

        Reading for comprehension is necessary at all times.

        1. Sounds like a guy with a broken taint, Ex… he’s gotta snivel about something.

      2. THAT’S IT Yef, STOP huffing the floor wax, empty the trash can in you CO and 1SG’s Offices and MAKE SOME COFFEE, PRONTO before you go back to buffing the hallways AND DO NOT be late for Police Call or Motor Pool cleanup, hear me?

      3. I was Signal but the Army says I’m an expert rifleman. Even gave me a badge that says so.
        Na na na-na na!

    3. In the first year I was a Cowboy Action shooter, I likely fired over ten times more ammo than I did as an Army officer, and I spent many hours a day on ranges while attending the SAS Close Quarter Battle Course when I served in the 10th SFG(A). I would really like to know what “Special Operations” companies she commanded, since females were not allowed to serve in combat units in 1999 when she says she left the Army. Also, at that time no females were allowed attend either Ranger or Special Forces schools. Just another embellisher who is as full of shit as the proverbial X-mas goose.

      1. I think the answer lies in this quote;

        “… small forces structured to complete the most physically and politically challenging missions.”

        Probably some type of psywar or civil affairs type escorted by real soldiers on her mission of bringing the native women into the 20th century. Her subsequent civilian “career” would seem to back that up. Doesn’t sound “butch” enough, though.

  5. Ok, what Special Operations Companies did she command?

    “I remember learning that the 5.56 mm ammunition used in assault rifles is intentionally designed to slow down upon impact so that it can tumble through the victim’s organs and inflict maximum casualties.”

    For the love of goats. When will this lie ever die?

    I am going to agree with her about the TEC9. That piece of garbage should not be in anyone’s hands.

    “Evil flourishes when people with privilege – people like me – engage in conceptual debates about protecting ourselves from government tyranny (good luck against a drone strike) when every day we lose 96 of our brothers and sisters.”

    So she is cool with drone striking US Citizens in California? Or she thinks we should not back against it? Somebody help me here.

    She needs to take her liberal think tank and give it a good flush.

    1. “I remember learning that the 5.56 mm ammunition used in assault rifles is intentionally designed to slow down upon impact so that it can tumble through the victim’s organs and inflict maximum casualties.”

      As soon as somebody spout this line in any conversation about firearms, I rhetorically turn away and ignore anything else they have to say on the subject…

    2. I agree that she doesn’t have the expertise that she claims. Her claim that she “learned” the 5.56 is designed to cause extreme damage is a bit far, but not an outright lie. Many people, including those in the military, are “taught” about the rounds ballistic capabilities which does include a proven tumble effect which causes extreme damage. The military won’t outright admit to this being a benefit because it would violate the Geneva Convention, but to assume it never crossed the minds of those testing and approving the weapon is naïve.

      The current generations of M16 have gone to limited lengths to stop the tumble effect. M16A1 had a 1 in 14 twist, and on a 20in barrel that didn’t leave much spin on the bullet so when it struck, it would tumble. More current models have upgraded to 1 in 7 or 1 in 9 twists providing more stability and slightly better penetration power, but the tumble shock is still present.

      I find most of her claims outright ridiculous, like leading Spec Op teams or that she is an “expert” in any weapon platform. But the one about tumble is closer to true than not and backed by science.

      1. Nah. The M855A1 EPR (enhanced performance round) penetrates like the proverbial hot knife on butter. That tumble effect thing is an urban legend.

        What was really happening when the original M855 5.56x45mm “green tip” round struck a soft target, was that due to the relatively high velocity of the round and high kinetic energy concentration, it would create hydrostatic shock and temporary cavity displacement making the terminal phase of its ballistic flight very interesting.

        Me, personally, I see my M4 as a rapier, only capable of making deep, deathly and precise little holes on my enemies, as opposed to a 7.62x51mm or higher weapon system which would be like a broadsword, capable of cutting people in half, so to speak.

        2. Yef, it’s not the broadsword.

          It’s the two-handed Claymore that does that! The ballistic force of a broadsword can’t compare with the ballistic force of a Claymore.

          Just ask Claymore if he shows up.

            1. KE = 1/2M * V^2

              KE= Kinetic Energy
              M= Mass
              V=Velocity

              It’s an unforgiving Bitch

            2. If The eternally late Daniel Bernath attempt to overturn the law of gravity as unconstitutional, why can’t Yef tilt at the proverbial windmill?

        3. Sadly you are closer.

          I’m gonna ignore the logical fallacy that you created yourself with the whole Geneva Convention thing and just go straight to ballistics. Every bullet when it hits something will yaw. Military bullets (spitzer) are designed to separate on impact, which they do nicely creating two larger wound channels and often some smaller ones. This has zilch to with the design of the rifle.

          The barrel twist rate changed because the military shifted from 55gr bullets to 62gr bullets. Different bullets require different twists to stabilize. Why on earth would the military design a round that was barely stable? They would not because you couldn’t hit anything reliably.

          If you want unstable bullet that tumbles, shoot a 62gr or larger bullet in a twist rate designed for 55gr (1:13). After about 100 yards it will be tumbling I promise you.

          Shock, (hydrostatic shock) is caused by the compression of tissue at high speeds impacts, not tumbling.

          TLDR: All bullets yaw in a fleshy target. the M16 was designed to cause casualties. That is why we carried rifles instead of potato guns.

          1. It is better to wound than kill.
            It takes more of the enemy’s resources to treat the wounded than the dead.
            This was taught in Basic. It is the reason for Ball ammo vs hollow points. An enemy soldier screaming in pain does more for discouragement than a dead body.

            1. That’s only true for as far as it goes. If I’m wounded, and I can still scream, I can still shoot.

              Not that I will, but I could.

        4. Me, personally, I see my .444 Marlin as a mighty cannon only capable of making deep, deathly and imprecise huge holes in Moose.

          The Maine Moose lottery is this Saturday!

          1. 26Limabeans,

            Is that .444 a crew served weapon?

            😉 Nice rifle! I hope the lottery-gods bless you, if so, watch out for them “Mooses”, as you know, they are like the North American version of a Hippo.

            1. I spent an entire afternoon in a tree because Mr. Moose did not like me fishing in his section of Snake River.

            2. Anybody who doesn’t respect the moose as a dangerous animal that can and *will* kill you with ease is best removed from the gene pool.

              I remember my own introductory encounter. Motivated by a genuine fear for my life, I asked my Uncle if we should shoot in self-defense. “With what you’re carrying, boy, you’ll just piss him off!”

              1. One lovely day after I had taken a Moose, we went out for some Partridge hunting in the afternoon. An enormous bull Moose appeared at the bottom of a field and sauntered towards us. I stood next to group of trees while my partner held out an apple for the Moose. He took from my partners hand and walked off.
                There is no animal in the Maine woods that will harm you unless you are down and injured or get between them and their babies.

      2. I’ve seen a fair amount of wounds…can’t say I’d call any of them humane. Whatever hits the body tends to hit things within the body (like bones), producing secondary projectiles and fragmentation.

        If the person survives, that’s only the beginning of what will likely be the most miserable time they ever experience in life.

        In the end, its fukking war.

        1. At the end of the day, all rifles, pistols, shotguns, etc are weapons. Their secondary use of hunting, target shooting, pest control are of no consequence.
          The 2A is about the citizenry’s right to self preservation by armed insurrection against a tyrannical government.
          If I want H-Bomb tipped, quadruple hollow points that pass through all organic material, that’s my prerogative.
          I’d like to see the ‘conversation’ with the antis couch in words that will trigger the f out of them. And yes, pun definitely intended.

        2. I don’t know who’s right on this tumble argument but I first-hand witnessed the damage the M-16 could do. When our platoon-sized patrol was pinned down by a two-man, Viet Cong machine gun, one of the other squad leaders flanked their position and dumped two mags on full auto into them from less than 20 feet away. They were unrecognizable as human-they looked like two piles of raw meat with black cloth stirred in and major broken bones sticking out at weird angles. And the two piles were actually smoking.

          It gave me much more respect for the M-16 which was actually new to me at that point.

      3. I was under the impression that the 5.56 “bullet” as it went down range, beside the spinning, the rear of the projectile jogged/rotated in a circle a little larger than it’s diameter. I hope I got it right. People think when they hear tumble that it means that the projectile travels heads over heals like one would throw a stick from the vertical position and it would look like a vertical pin wheel. I hope I didn’t lose it on this one. Sometimes it’s hard to explain something in writing.

    3. “I remember learning that the 5.56 mm ammunition used in assault rifles is intentionally designed to slow down upon impact so that it can tumble through the victim’s organs and inflict maximum casualties.”

      Spoken like someone who has never shot anybody in combat. From my experience and what others have also told me is that unless you hit a bone getting shot with a 5.56 is a lot like getting stabbed with an icepick. I’m sure someone with vastly more medical experience, like ID SARC, can elaborate or inform me if I’m wrong and that would be appreciated.

      1. I’ve seen the “icepick” effect from a single 5.56 bullet, but I’ve also seen massive tissue loss, fractures and distortion as well as widely opening a body cavity also from the single bullet type of incident.

        It can vary widely since shooting a person is much different than shooting a block of gel or hunk of dead flesh.

        One of the first 5.56 injuries I saw was a hand injury from an ND…looked like the hand had been opened by an escaping alien and twisted severely. Saved the thumb, but the patient required the amputation of 3 fingers and extensive follow on surgeries.

        Flesh, bone, muscle, fascial planes, fluid cavities, gear, position etc. all have effects that make any real wound subject to otherwise unpredictable effects.

        A Marine shot in the anterior abdomen had the bullet pass along the tough fascia between the skin and muscle and exit through his back. It looked like he basically got drilled through and through, but surgical exploration showed the bullet tracked around in a semi-circular fashion and never traversed the abdomen in a linear front to back manner. That was a Soviet(Cuban)round of some sort though, but an interesting wound none the less.

        The Marine was shot off of his scout motorcycle in the process and was obviously, overall extremely lucky.

  6. color me impressed. cuz I’m just dying to know exactly what two special operations companies SHE was commanding if after 9 years she got out around the time of the columbine shooting.

    so tired of this shit.

    Jonn, Ex-PH2, CH, AW1ED, Hondo, et al: is there any way you could start a thread or topic on any SV especially related to these everytown veteran’s counsel types? I can’t help but think that most all of their backgrounds are going to be, shall we say, specially massaged.

    1. It has to Psyops. We all know how speed they are.

      I still recall them sending a captain that got relieved from command over there just to get rid of him. He got passed over for Major and would have gotten booted from the Army but wouldn’t you know it, 9/11 hit and the next board promoted everyone.

      1. Her LinkedIn keeps it generic (Army Officer) but word through the grapevine is that she was USACAPOC, most likely Civil Affairs.

        1. Oh wow, now I’m really impressed. Heart breakers and life takers I tell you. There they were deep in the shit in the Green Zone pasting leaflets to the the walls of the porta-potty.

          1. Most of the CA folks we were deployed with didn’t do that much work.

            Just sayin…

        2. Wow, she was Psyops or civil affairs, just like our forgotten Berzekely boi Civil Affairs officer, Commissar. There is nothing quite as skilled at trigger-pullin as someone trained to advise foreigners on how to run an occupation civil government. I’m guessing the only time this woman ever handled a firearm was once a year for qualification; and that assumes some NCO didn’t pencil whip it for her so she could hang with her girlfriend.

    2. That was my first thought. I find most of these guys plastering themselves all over the media have either extensively stretched the truth on their military background, or just made it up all together.

    3. We have a wealth of SV political candidates that are being not-elected, e.g., Spodofora, because they fabricate and exaggerate. All politicians inflate themselves to sell the product (them).

      We already have a nearly entire category of people like that. This one is just another addition to the pile.

      1. true enough, but I wondered at a different sort of concept. politicians are liars just because of the nature of their job; if they’re not kissing babies they’re stealing their candy. what I was after was a category of these people who profess to be one of us, but are placed in positions specifically to “advise”, knowingly using their perceived experience and knowledge at things that are decidedly not in our best interests.

        it’s one thing to lie. it’s another to use your experience as a weapon or enhancement against your fellow citizens, some of whom are either innocently ignorant or too blatantly stupid to know better. that sort of behavior brings shame on the individual but casts a shadow over the rest of us.

        it’s selling out your brothers and sisters, and I think it should be spotlighted even more than those who simply lie for personal gain.

        1. V I Lenin was a master at finding those he termed useful idiots to further his goals.

          It appears from his various biographies that he looked first for “true believers” in the marxist utopian fantasy and from among those sought the ones who believed themselves to be victims–but not actual victims.

          The modern politician–particularly on the progressive platform–appears to always be on the hunt for faux victims who are dedicated to their status as victims and true believers in the cause to exploit for their goals.

          The perfect weapon, of course, is the faux victim acolyte who has no honor and no integrity. Such a person will tell any lie, falsify any situation, and defraud anyone in the hope of some crumbs from their political masters.

  7. Becky Margiotta, IMHO YOU ARE A NO-GO at this Station in life, I myself am an Army Vet with THREE overseas tours and I’ve likely fired more rounds in one pre-deployment training than you did in your entire Military Career. If Gun Control Laws were the panacea for violent crime that you and your fellow brain dead moonbats claim them to be them places like Chicago, NJ, California and Mexico would be crime-free Utopias. Just look at the Gun Control Laws in [Formerly] Great Britain along with the stabbings they have there now, and their pudding-tame candyassed solution? Knife Control Laws. You lose and you’re little more than just another useful idiot to your handlers.

    “How’s about we start with forcing prosecutors to enforce the existing laws instead of forcing the law abiding gun owners to comply with even more useless restrictions to their Constitutional rights.”
    That makes sense which makes that solution a total anathema to liberal moonbats, let’s not forget that they are allergic to facts, common sense and logic like hippies are to soap, warm water and honest work!

  8. Not bad looking, for a dyke. Her West Point service was a waste of money, I am grateful that she no longer impairs military service.

      1. It needs to be a lot higher and tighter before I’ll salute and call her Maam.

    2. Whoever judged her worthy of a Commission needs to have their own heads examined!

  9. If disarmament is so freaking great why doesn’t a state completely disarm, including LEOs.
    And I don’t have 96 brothers and sisters, unless you’re talking about the Military. I’ll grant you the argument that 96 die a day with the aid of a firearm (no such thing as ‘gun violence’ btws), how many of those ‘96’ is an act of harm directed towards the shooter, ie suicide. The antis LOVE wrapping that number into the argument like it belongs AT ALL.
    But we’re expecting higher order thinking from perpetual children…

    1. FAR MORE people die every day in traffic accidents BUT we don’t hear moonbats screeching for more Car Control Laws, do we?

      1. No, because driverless cars are going to be available to everyone soon and they are obviously much safer than human-driven cars.

        1. Utopia is within sight.
          That means it’s also within small arms range.
          “Gunner, dumb shits in the open, cyclic, expend all rounds”

      2. And even more people die every day from medical malpractice/mistakes. When will doctors and nurses be banned?

    2. Someone tell that cow I’m not her sister. She can go pound sand up her ass sideways.

    2. Oh, that IS interesting, isn’t it?

      We must make note of it and keep it up front.

    3. Who fucking knew she was gay??????

      That was a no brainer. Queer, gun-fag, Obama voter, and ex-Army embellisher.

      Special Operations Companies…my ass.

    6. More lies on her part. DADT came about before she put on 1LT.

      Drama queens gotta drama queen.

  11. Where is that “Special Forces Commander” DD214 at? The one that shows all of that “extensive training on weapons”? Yea, the one that shows all of those “politically challenging????” missions…. whatever that is

    1. She said Special Operations…lotta territory under that umbrella that don’t earn a Green Beret.

      Psyops, Civil Affairs, Wing…all the support types that do a lot of necessary work but aren’t GBs. Special Forces…only if ya earned the Green Beret. She’s likely just riding the nomenclature to her advantage, but not necessarily lying.

      1. I bet she’s about as truly qualified and competent as that pain in the ass from UC Berzerkely that got himself banned.

      2. I work at SWCS(A) and about the only person I never hear preface their job with “Special Operations” is the Librarian. 🙂

        1. I ‘operated specially’ once.
          Had to do 200 hours of community service.. , those poor kids will never be the same.
          What would be the harm identifying the unit to which she belonged?
          What is she hiding?
          Any of her Soldiers got a SITREP?

            1. My ex told me for the entire 13 years we were married that I owned and operated the short bus… I guess that’s why when I volunteer at the local school the special ed kids love it when I show up in their classroom. 🙂

        2. I say I was Special Operations support,somebody had to work on the bikes and boats

        3. I’ve done “Spec Ops”, I’ve worked around/with SEALs and MARSOC.

          Never will you EVER hear me call myself or refer to my service as Special Operations.

          Ever.

          I pushed the cone, made the water, spun the ‘trons through the cables, and shimmed for Jesus. And that was hard enough.

    2. She claims she commanded some kind of “special forces” unit during the mid 1990’s?

      I’ll go out on a limb and say she’s not being forthright in describing her past duties.

      She’s probably referring to her role in some kind of Civil Affairs unit.

  12. Proof once again that West Point can stumble when attempting to produce quality leaders…

    1. West Point Class of 1987 here…they actually stumble quite often, but no more than any top ROTC program. Believe me we own this, but it still stings when idiots like this or 1LT(P) Rapone pop up and “West Pointer” is the first data point noted…

      1. Perhaps, but unlike ROTC, West Point seems to either produce excellence or excrement, nothing in between.

        ROTC seems to produce that steady 75% performer we all love and adore as commanders….

        LOL

  13. “I commanded two Special Operations companies – small forces structured to complete the most physically and politically challenging missions.”

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

          2. Actually, she has a wife and a couple of kids (likely via turkey baster), per one of her self-serving on-line bios.

  14. She doesn’t know squat about gun violence because she doesn’t know squat about violence in the first place. She knows nothing about the causes of violence and if you tried to pin her down (gross!) about it, she’d waffle, then blabber, and then change the subject.

    The only difference between the Columbine HS event and the Oklahoma City event was the means by which violence took place.

    Otherwise, they were exactly the same thing:
    many people in a closed environment
    no warning of any kind
    trapped victims
    a means of mass destruction, regardless of type used
    intent to do extensive harm to as many people as possible

    That applies to Columbine, Oklahoma City, the Florida high school, the bombing of London and Dresden, the concentration camps that the Nazis ran, the commie gulags under Stalin, and the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

    This bitch needs to learn to shut her ignorant yap right now. She is purposely ignorant and arrogant about it, too.

    I just despise people like this walking sack of damp, smelly socks who think they can lecture me or anyone else because – well, they’ve had all this experience (doubtful, bitch, prove it) and they just know better and they’re superior to the rest of us Mud People.

    Seriously, who died and made this cow God?

    Okay, rant over. I need breakfast.

    1. SHE FAILS to realize that NEARLY ALL OF the mass shootings in recent years took place in Gun Free Zones which guarantee murderous cowards a free fire zone chock full of unarmed VICTIMS.

      1. You’ve heard the only saying, “There’s liars, damn liars, and statisticians.”

      2. she knows that. I’m betting she also knows that nearly all of the mass murderers are fellow travelers in the moon bat progressive thought prison.

        It is not a lack of knowledge that motivates such people. They are not ignorant.

        They are dishonest.

    2. Purposely ignorant. There’s a ton of truth right there. That’s my new phrase. Thanks!

  15. For most people, being in the military makes them weapons experts much like driving a car makes people Formula One race car drivers. This woman is an Obama era SJW who’s desperately seeking relevance. That’s all that’s going on here.

    1. I also see her as a Trump Acceptance Resistance Disorder Operative, a TARDO.

    2. Can’t find a job that pays her what she thinks she should get, instead of what she’s actually worth paying.

      Remember, politics is free money because it comes from YOU, the taxpayers.

      1. Becky Margiotta is of the type that one would want to buy for what she’s really worth, turn around and sell her for what SHE THINKS she’s worth and then you could retire to a life of luxury!

      2. Well, that, and it’s okay to be a lesbian if you want to run for political office now because SJWs!!!

        Ever wonder how she might react to dead animals delivered by the cat bumming food on my front steps?

      2. Oh man, I have dreams about watching Field Hockey. Women in skirts chasing each other around with cudgels.

  17. I retired after 20 years in the Corps. Shot expert 7 times on three different rifles (A2, A4, and M4). With iron sights and with RCO. Not to mention the 8 experts with the M9. Also spent my last 18 years with secondary MOS of coach/CMT. I put rounds down range ONCE a year as a professional Marine and qualified God knows HOW many PIGs in putting steel on paper. Yet I KNOW once of the Recon guys I served with is more versed in the art of war than me and expended WAY more brass than me on one pre-deployment range ex. Moral of the story: stop using “I’m a Vet, I know more about weapons than YOU” excuse, it’s unbecoming.

    1. In Recon all that shooting at least partially makes up for all the periods of being tired, cold and wet. 🙂

      1. SARC,

        I’d see the companies coming back from field ops on Fridays (or getting ready to go out TOO the field….) in their ghillies and the first thought was “better them than me”. 2hrs of shooting in 3-4 days…..and 4 hrs cleaning back in the rear. Nah…

        1. You left out the parts about getting rid of ticks and fleas and the baby snakes that find their way into pockets, never mind the strong desire to inhale a bowl of chili and a cold beer.
          Those things are important, too, you know.

  20. Dammit, and I just got my First Alert Dyke Detector back from the cal lab; spiked again.

  21. I want to know what range she was at if it was a solemn, dignified event.

    As for learning about the ballistic qualities of the ammo, come on. The military is more of a “the pointy end goes forward” and “the orange tipped ones glow” type of training organization.

    1. I actually had a troopie ask me how the orange paint made the bullet glow. I told him that atmospheric friction ignited the paint. CO nearly shat himself laughing.

      1. I told my trooper that no one else sees it glow, he must be seeing things

        The joke ran all day with the entire battalion acting like they did not see the tracers…had this kid convinced he was hallucinating…

        I know…bad sergeant major…heheehheheehehehehe

    2. You didn’t tell him it had just come out of a hot oven???

      Seriously, there are so many, many jokes there….

  22. “I’m a veteran who has spent my entire life around guns”

    Not yet honey, not yet.

    1. Spent a life around guns? HELL, I did my first gun build at about age 13, a Hawken .45 Caliber Kentucky Rifle kit. I LOVED shooting that and may the burglar who stole it spend a painful eternity in hell!

  23. “As a veteran, I’m intimately familiar with the destructive power of firearms”

    As a veteran, I’m intimately familiar with the destructive power of politicians and people like this gunfag.

    1. May I add, “As a Veteran I am intimately aware of the oath I took to uphold the WHOLE Constitution of the United States of America, regardless of my personal feelings.”

    3. As a veteran, I’m extremely familiar with the sale pitch language used by both military recruiters and politicians.

      I’m also intimately familiar with the destructive power of people who make up stories to get what they want at the expense of other people. And Becky is one of those people.

  24. She was a “Veterinary Dietitian”? What did that entail, picking out the correct kibble for the dog handlers?

    1. Maybe it was up to her to decide if the dogs ate Ken-L-Ration, Alpo or Gravy Train each day? Either way they were eating Horse Tonsil and Cow Sphincter Delight mixed with corn!

    2. In addition to its usual animal care mission, the Army Veterinary Corps has the mission of inspecting and assuring the health and safety of Army food and rations; so if that was her specialty, she checked and inspected a lot of Army food shipments, DFACs, MREs, etc. It doesn’t sound very “Special Operations” to me, but whatevers…

    3. Veterinary dietician sounds like exactly the kind of high-speed tactical specialty that would put her in charge of special operations, as she claims.

  25. Wow. “Every single round of ammunition was accounted for every single time.” Who was counting the rounds as they went downrange? 1,2,3..shit, lost count!

    1. Well, that’s the theory. If she had spent more time with us lowly dogface soldiers instead of lofty Special Operations types she would have learned that “No brass or ammunition, Sergeant!” was only a hollow promise.

    2. Anybody who has ever spent time as an ammo NCO on a range can call bullshit on that claim.

    3. We accounted for every single round in that we returned no empty boxes of unspent ammo. A bucket of brass and a future superfund site full of lead.

      1. *Tool, therapy, vibrational, w ergonomic grip, 1 ea. NSN #awholeshitloadofstupidassnumbers

  27. Why do they feel the need to give their resume? Just make your points and let them live or die by their merits.

    1. because the points have no merit.

      It is the argumentum ad verecundiam (appeal to authority) fallacy in action

      While establishing bona fides as an expert may be an important component of testimony in court or producing peer reviewed material, it is almost always an indicator of propaganda wrt any opinion based areas such as politics.

      No one likes to be lied to, but for many, the lies of “experts” are comforting.

      I personally call such people “useless oxygen thieves”, but that is probably being too descriptive.

  28. “Following graduation from West Point, I commanded two Special Operations companies”.

    The bullshit is strong with this one.

    1. Amen brother. All she commanded after West Point, was her dykeometer looking for queef.

    2. If you read it carefully …she says she did so prior to Columbine happening in 1999. Ummm… DoD officially BANNED women in combat in 1994… OOPSIE

  29. She reminds me of the women that in their youth pose for Playboy or compete in the Miss America pageant, or were Disney darlings.

    Then, when beauty and opportunity fade they lash out and protest the very thing that made them notoriety. In her case, I imagine she was celebrated for being a female soldier but eventually others came along and she was old news.

      1. perhaps, but is more likely is that they were simply better.

        Better leaders
        Better followers
        Better Soldiers.

        She was replaced by better models and instead of being embarrassed and working harder, she got pissed and is having a life long tantrum like a 3 year old.

    2. Kind of like the poor sorry assholes of either sex who can’t wait to relive their sole glory days as the high school quarterback, cheerleader, or private in a long-ago war because they have used that as an excuse to do nothing since. Harsh but true.

  30. Every now and then I read things portrayed by the writer as somehow deep and meaningful that are the most dreadful and meaningless tripe.

    “Evil flourishes when people with privilege – people like me – engage in conceptual debates about protecting ourselves from government tyranny (good luck against a drone strike) when every day we lose 96 of our brothers and sisters”

    That paragraph is so stupid it should make her have a migraine for having written it. So it is “engaging in conceptual debates” that causes evil to flourish, not the evil actions of evil people?

    Wow. So stupid. So retarded.

    Straight past shower curtain mildew to toejam with that one.

  31. You won’t learn much about her past by searching Becky Margiotta. You need to search Becky Kanis. She was featured in Trump’s immediate predecessor’s “Champions of Change” WH page which says that Butch became a founding member of a West Point LGBTWTFBBQ group in 2008, after leaving the service in 2000 b/c she couldn’t deceive any longer about her Island of Lesbos residency. She was with the Signal Corps, at least initially.

      1. LGBTWTFBBQ. That’s a lot of virtue signaling. Glad we sent this one to Special Ops.

      2. I’m betting there was no wisdom there…we both know the Signal Corps better than that!

        LOL

  32. Well, I’m not an Army veteran. I’m just a gun nerd. Never been professionally trained and qualified, but had enough teaching from others, research, practice, etc. that I’m pretty confident that I’m both more familiar and more proficient with the AR-15 family of rifles, and most other firearms (she might have touched a .50-cal, M240, or the like at some point; I have not) than she is. I will venture so far as to say that my shooting skill, technical proficiency, and overall knowledge exceed hers by a substantial margin. And I started shooting at a much younger age than she did, not only with my Dad, but with my Grandpa, uncles, and older cousins as well. Does that make me an expert? I don’t think so.

    But it does give me a solid leg to stand on when I say that Becky Margiotta is full of shit. She’s like that jackass a year or two back who tried to subtly misrepresent himself as a doorkicking Green Beret by saying he ran a Special Operations unit, but was actually in a support unit attached to SF, then when called claiming that he never actually said that he was a doorkicker despite have deliberately implied that he was. What was that prick’s name? I can’t remember. Whatever, fuck that guy. Anyway, West Point or not, I get the feeling that Margiotta was likely the kind of officer that NCOs just had to endure with no hope of straightening out. She’s clearly dishonest and considers herself an expert on topics about which she knows very little, so I can only imagine how miserable it must have been to have her in a position of authority.

  33. Sorry, Blecki. Not an expert, you play one on the internet (after all EVERYTHING on the internet has to be true, riiiiiiight?), but did you stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night? What you are is a self appointed “expert” with an agenda who waves military service as if it automaticly confers expertise in all facets of weapons and weaponry. Sorry, it does not. You know something about guns, but I strongly doubt you know jackshit about wound ballistics (although there are some pretty decent texts out there on the subject from the Army ISR). I’ve seen a whole lot more gun trauma than you have Blecki, and the solution is to strongly enforce the laws on the books not add even more useless regulations to what is already there. Ms. Diesel Dyke hasn’t deigned to asnwer a single question put to her on the Facebook machine about her “Special Operations Command Experience”. What’s the over/under on a scrub of her page or a sock puppet putting in an appearance here?

  34. Its all about her.

    Curious as if she is setting up a political run or another endeavor.

    As to the bullet comments, have I seen some crazy shit (damage). A lot of it was based on size of round, distance, proximity, whether it hit bone, number of rounds impacted, where they impacted, etc.

    2+2 = 4.
    4 = Dead.

    1. My experience was, there were dead enemy and wounded prisoners. More dead than wounded was the order of the day.

  35. Maybe “Spec Ops” Ms.Margiotta should take a couple of Margarita shots and just chill out.

  36. Didn’t West Point teach about the 2ND A and how it came about. I wonder. There were a couple of retired Generals on TV who did say that we civilians should not own “Assault” Rifles. Hey didn’t the British Red coat Generals think the same thing back around 1776. No control if the populace ARE armed. Control over the populace if they are NOT armed.

    1. Still didn’t have control over the populace.

      Boston Tea Part, protested the Tax Stamp Act.

    2. Officer are typically massive fucking hypocrites and control freaks that don’t trust their own troops with weapons. It’s why when I hear some military officer be very anti gun it doesn’t surprise me, but you better believe they’ll want guns and or people with guns guarding them even if the “threat” is only their own troops. I saw it all the time in the Corps and it was disgusting horse shit. Really no different than the lords of centuries ago in which disarmament and control was a necessity to keep them in power over others.

      1. I don’t know where you have been, but there are many of us who would beg to differ with you. I spent weeks on end in the field with about 100 armed enlisted men, most of the time I was the only officer with them (my platoon sgt.’s were acting platoon leaders due to the shortage of junior officers). I trusted them, and they trusted me. But then again most officers in the Army and the Marine Corps are not experienced trigger-pullers, so unless they also happen to be firearms aficionados, they have had limited range time.

        1. Whatever. There are always exceptions, but what I said stands. The hypocrisy and control over others is common within the officer ranks.

          And yes, most officers are more dangerous to others when handling weapons another great hypocrisy when they themselves believe nobody else can be trusted or safe with a firearm.

          1. Well, I think you are missing the point that an officer in a command position has controlling others (his subordinates) as a fundamental part of his job description. Sorry to hear you had to experience less than stellar officers. Most of us who were RA Infantry officers with Ranger tabs could out march, out shoot, and out navigate most of our enlisted men. We also didn’t ask them to do things we couldn’t or wouldn’t do. In addition, we made sure to take care of our men while accomplishing the mission. I am not going to comment about Marine infantry officers one way or another, because I don’t know any, but I can’t believe their training was devoid of leadership as a focus.

            1. Word.

              Actually, most Infantry USMC Officers I have been around were solid folks.

              And to your point, 300+ PT, Airborne as an E-1, EIB as an E-2, Ranger Tab as an E-3, and so on. One has to lead from the front and never forget where they came from.

              But it seems that most folks think that Officers sit behind a desk all day and have no clue about what the ranks are about (even though some of us came out of them).

              Yeah.

              But when we do sit at that desk, we have BUBs, CUBS, Intel briefs, we have to sort out bullshit, spellcheck, pick up slack and cover asses, hand out punishment and sit over CM’s (unpopular at all levels), take heat rounds from the BC and higher, fake the funk at O-calls and such, stay reasonably sober, pay for our own shit, hold ancillary positions, plan OPORDS and PT/training schedules, work way longer hours, and last but not least: get blamed for everything!

              1. Word, brother. As a 2LT in the 2/509th Inf., I never had a day off duty for eleven weeks straight. Many days were 14 hour work days, since we only had two officers in my rifle company.

      2. When you show up to a unit and there are three AD’s on the first field problem, you might think twice.

        No keep in mind that these AD’s were from a CSS attachment, but the same applies.

  37. God, I am so sick of these people. Now to take the rest of the day as leave and go to the range. Only so that I may enjoy inflicting emotional distress on this muncher due to the fact that “the weapons I had trained to use so carefully – including weapons that don’t belong in civilian hands” are in the hands of this Old Git.

  40. Is “Becky Margiotta” a pen name that she uses, or some nickname that she uses instead of a real name? I couldn’t find that name in the Army White Pages.

      1. Didn’t see your comment before I posted the one below. I saw that above post before making the follow on.

    3. No hit on Becky Kanis either. If you guys find another name that she used, let me know. :mrgreen:

      1. What search engine are you using? I got a lot of hits c/o Google for Becky Kanis.

        1. I was talking about Army White Pages. I found potential real name. “Becky” is a short version of a full name. Kanis appears to be her “maiden” name, as it’s listed as her last name on Army White Pages.

    4. I ran the search again, assuming that “Becky” could be an abbreviation for a fuller name. I got a hit for a captain that’s a veteran.

  41. http://www.porcelainonsteel.com/2009/10/the-honored-role-series-part-2-becky-kanis-%E2%80%93-armed-service-and-social-service/

    “In 1991, Becky graduated West Point and was commissioned a lieutenant in the Signal Corps. She served in various positions of increasing responsibility. As a Captain, Becky commanded a company in the 112th Special Operations (Airborne) Signal Battalion stationed at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina. This battalion provides communications support to various units within the U.S. Army Special Operations Command (USASOC), namely Army Rangers and Special Forces units.

    The unit has also been involved in every wartime mission assigned to USASOC in the 20th century, including operations Just Cause in Panama, Desert Storm in Kuwait, Task Force Ranger in Somalia and Uphold Democracy, the aborted mission to liberate the people of Haiti.

    Becky recalled the defining moment as a company commander. One of her platoon leaders approached her prior to a morning run and bluntly asked her if she was gay. Becky was flabbergasted.

    Being a lesbian was never an issue for Becky or her soldiers. She did not lead with her sexual identity as her defining quality. She led with strength, determination, and focus on her soldiers and the mission. But she knew she did not lead with honesty. She consciously had to hide her orientation for fear for being outed and kicked out of a job she loved.”

    2. I’m sorry 112th had to deal with this woman. And as much as I respect the 112th and the friends that served in it, it ain’t special ops.

    3. As soon as she said “special operations company” I figured it was either 112th Signal battalion or 528th Support Battalion. Both battalions fall under USASOC. Up until about 1993 both wore the green beret as well (as they fell under Special Forces Command.)

      IIRC most of the personnel in the 112th weren’t even airborne, at least when I was there from 1992 – 1996 (which would seem to correspond with Margiotta’s time there.)

    4. “One of her platoon leaders approached her prior to a morning run and bluntly asked her if she was gay. Becky was flabbergasted.”

      Yeah, lemme just throw the bullshit flag right there.

  42. She could be A # 1 Duke of New York for all I care. The Constitution is clear as day regarding the government not being able to infringe. All gun laws are unconstitutional.

    If freedom is too scary and you desire to be a little tyranny go recommission and rule over people that have to obey your shit and micromanage them all you want. That’s not how it works outside of the military.

  44. A West Point graduate who thinks hunting is the sole justification of the Second Amendment to the Constitution she was trained and educated to defend and protect. Might as well just close the dam place down. I learned more about the Constitution and its background at a community college.

  45. “Going to the range was treated with the utmost of gravity and military discipline. There was no joking around on the range.”

    I call shenanigans. Soldiers will play grab ass no matter where they are at. Last time I checked a combat zone was the “utmost of gravity” and there are plenty of pictures of Service Members online as well as on my camera and laptop of them being goofs outside the wire, whether it be riding a donkey or taking pictures holding RPGs.

  46. Perhaps this silly broad needs a real-world lesson in the source of real-world violence. An up close and personal visit with a bunch of Latinas who belong to a gang might be educational for her.

    As it is, I have issues with her claim about West Point – she says 11th class, which would be 1986, but she graduated in 1991, for instance. Some issues there, because if you start school in the fall of 1986, you will graduate in 1990, not in 1991.

    Has to be some way to find out the real stuff and set it straight. But I have some other things to work on. Hmmmm….

  47. So here’s the deal, Becky Margiotta:

    If you don’t want to own a gun you have the right to not own one. But telling anyone else that they should not have one makes just as much sense and any of us telling you that you should own one.

    So just who do you think you are telling anyone what they should own? Who annointed you to such a ridiculous position? You are not so special, in spite of your claims, that you get to decide how other citizens should or should not exercise their Constitutional rights.

    Own or not own firearms – it’s a very personal decision. You only get to make that decesion for yourself. Seriously – it really is just that simple.

  50. I have too Becky……….and none were locked up. Nobody shot family members or strangers. All were members of the NRA, as I am.
    NOBODY is putting a gun to your head, pun intended, to make you buy and own a weapon.
    Putrid Portland is circulating a petition and enough signatures and it will end up on the ballot in Nov.
    Problem is since Multnomah Co has the largest population and most rabid liberals in Orygun (Lane also, dizzy Eugene) they no doubt will get the signatures.,
    Portland tried earlier to ram a bill through and it was doing fine until county sheriffs found out.
    ALL but 2 stated they would not enforce citing the 2nd. It did not even make it to the floor for a vote.
    None of the sheriffs were recalled (Multnomah and Lane were the only holdouts)

    Finally, I knew a few half-ass military during the years I was on active duty, so the fact you are a vet means ZERO to me

Comments are closed.