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Category: Gun Grabbing Fascists

  • Out of the Mouths of Libidiots . . .

    . . . on rare occasion comes God’s honest truth – either by accident or design.

    This past Sunday Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-CA, appeared on multiple national news shows.  She was promoting new Federal legislation banning “bump stocks”.

    During that appearance, subject of the recent Las Vegas mass shooting came up.  Feinstein was asked if there might “have been any law passed that would’ve stopped” that recent massacre.

    Her answer,  rephrased in simple English:  “No”.

    And that wasn’t a slip of the tongue, either.  Feinstein reiterated essentially the same answer on another news program later in the day.

    Gee.  So Feinstein is promoting yet another gun control law that she knows won’t have any significant effect when it comes to preventing gun crimes.  No surprise there.

    No, what shocks me is that Feinstein – who never met a gun control measure she didn’t like – actually admitted something anyone with common sense already knows.  To wit:  gun control laws . . . don’t prevent gun crimes. All they do is limit the rights of law-abiding citizens.

    There’s simply no way to anticipate and prevent the actions of a loon – or a terrorist – if they keep a low profile and act within the law while planning their criminal acts.  The Las Vegas shooter did exactly that.

    Libidiot politicians telling God’s honest truth.  Perhaps the Millennium truly is at hand!  (smile)

  • Bump stock politics

    Bump stock politics

    No one acts like bump stocks existed before Sunday when actually they’ve been around for years. It was the Obama Administration Justice Department that approved the device, and no one got upset when that happened, not Democrat gun-grabbers nor Republicans. I watched YouTube videos of demonstrations when they first came out and I wasn’t impressed. I was always a marksman and prefer to aim at a target rather than “spray and pray” that I hit a target.

    Some dork was on Fox News this morning and said that bump stocks belong in the military inventory. I’m pretty sure that the military wants nothing to do with the device.

    But the NRA and Republicans are throwing the bump stocks under the bus. According to The Hill, the Trump Administration is “taking a look” at a bump stock ban;

    Earlier Thursday, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders indicated the administration would weigh the proposals but stopped short of supporting a ban.

    “We know that members of both parties and multiple organizations are planning to take a look at bump stocks and related devices,” she said. “We’d like to be a part of that conversation.”

    According to their website, Slidefire, the folks who make bump stocks is overloaded by orders for their product;

    Funny, but phony Vietnam veteran, The Dick Blumenthal took to the pages of the Hartford Courant to complain about Congress not taking guns from law-abiding citizens;

    The death toll is staggering and unacceptable: 30,000 every year. A mass shooting nearly every day. Congress is complicit in this mass slaughter through its incomprehensible inaction. I will not abandon the fight to make America safer and better.

    In the coming days, my Democratic colleagues in the Senate and I will offer commonsense, serious solutions to addressing the scourge of gun violence. These include legislation I will introduce to close background check loopholes and measures to keep guns out of the hands of domestic abusers. Wednesday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and I introduced a “bump stock” ban proposal to stop sales of mechanisms that convert semi-automatic assault rifles into fully automatic machine-gun like weapons. These carnage force multipliers should be banned.

    A “mass shooting” every day. I’m expecting him to take up the “93 million gun violence deaths every day” of the Virginia carpetbagger governor. When Democrats offer “common sense” solutions, expect them to try to regulate things that have nothing to do with the safety of your family.

    The NRA and the Trump Administration have already decided that bump stocks are on their way out, but you can bet that Blumenthal and Feinstein are coming for your scary, black guns, too. Say goodbye to your bayonet lugs and grenade launcher mounts. Those “things that go up in the back” are history, too. No more “Ghost Guns” firing their bullet clips for you.

    From Townhall;

    “This must stop,” [The Dick Blumenthal, valor thief] said. “It is positively infuriating that my colleagues in Congress are so afraid of the gun industry that they pretend there aren’t public policy responses to this epidemic. There are, and the thoughts and prayers of politicians are cruelly hollow if they are paired with continued legislative indifference. It’s time for Congress to get off its ass and do something.”

    “Do something” – legislate. Never mind that there are thousands of laws and regulations that the enforcers aren’t utilizing – write some more.

  • Stop Blaming Guns For What People Do

    As always, hysterical articles about gun laws and gun violence have erupted, right on schedule, in regard to the episode of pure evil in Las Vegas on Sunday evening.

    It’s always the fault of guns first, as if they have some unknown ability to animate themselves and just start shooting. I have yet to find any place on Earth that has robot guns in place. Even the Terminator had to go to a store to get his/its hands on ballistic weapons, and walked away disappointed that he/it couldn’t get a bolt-action laser bullet-firing rifle. “Just what you see on the shelf,” said the shopkeeper. And let’s remember that the  Terminator used a vehicle to ram his/its way into the police station, then proceeded to use a pump-action shotgun to blast away at everything in sight while the heroine hid under a desk. Oh, yeah — that all took place in California. The irony is blatant.

    Of course, politicians (especially DiFi) jumped right up out of the woodwork, brought their puppet Gabby Giffords front and center along with Shotgun Joe Biden, and wailed about ‘Stop gun violence’.

    As I recall, when Nichols and McVeigh set off a truck bomb in Oklahoma City, no one hollered ‘ban medium-sized rental trucks!’ or started a campaign to stop truck bombings. No one wailed, jumped up and down and pointed, and thumped a podium proposing banning rental trucks or legislation to take multipassenger transport planes out of skies and go back to driving horses and buggies or using a passenger trains only mass transportation system.

    Those were one-offs, right?  No, they weren’t. We know better, because we can find plenty of plane hijackings if we try. How about the PanAM Lockerbie bombing?

    Frankly, you couldn’t get me on a passenger flight now, for a good reason. The last time I flew any commercial flight anywhere was the fall of 2000. The guy next to me was an obnoxious gasbag who decided my reserved seat was his and wouldn’t give it up until I offered to get the flight attendant. The flight out was bad enough, but the return flight was worse. I used to like flying. You can’t get me near a commercial flight now. I’ll walk first. And it’s gotten worse since the events of 9/11/2001, because people seem to have become even more obnoxious and bad-mannered. Maybe it’s being in a captive environment that does it.

    I looked around for the volume of laws on the books that relate to gun control. At the Federal level, there are already nine in place. The number at state level varies from state to state. Why is “more gun control laws, there aren’t enough!” the first thing uttered? Why? Pure, unadulterated, intentional ignorance. Ask those morons how many laws are already in place. Corner one of them about it.

    What happened on Sunday in Las Vegas has absolutely nothing to do with guns, any more than parking a rented truck loaded with a homemade bomb near a federal building has anything to do with rented trucks or flying a plane full of passengers and fully-fueled into a skyscraper has anything to do with airplanes. Nor does it have anything to do with the crowbars and other things used by a beast like Ted Bundy to brutalize and kill women over a period of some 20 years.

    We have to face who and what we are. WE are a violent species. We are predators, first and foremost, not herd animals, whether the politicos like that or not. And believe me, they don’t like it. They do not view any of us as individuals. I blame most of that on the media, which panders to the false narrative that we are, indeed, dumb herd animals. WE aren’t dumb. THEY are.

    Nor are we, as Americans, likely to submit obediently to being told to go live in “special” places and wonder what’s going on while more and more of us are brought in by cattle car to join us. Read up on the revolt at Sobibor. Not everyone went quietly. Some of those rebellious souls used guns they had taken away from their Nazi guards. We’re more likely to be those guys at Sobibor than the sheep that Stalin, Hitler, Mao Tse-Tung, and Pol Pot slaughtered by the millions.  I have no idea how many people Saddam Hussein killed off but he can rightfully be added to that list, along with his two offspring.

    You can pass all the idiotic legislation you want to but until politicians stop using puppets like Giffords and Brady as poster-children for their need to be control freaks, and take a hard look at how dysfunctional they themselves really are, nothing will stop the violence.

    You cannot legislate it out of existence. You can heavily punish the offenders. You cannot legislate the Paddocks and Bundys and despotic dictators out of existence.

    In the meantime, the screeching and scrambling to pass more laws, the ignorance about current legislation which is more than adequate, and the lackadaisical attitude that pervades the HERDS of people who just don’t believe anyone could possibly want to hurt them (seriously, ask one of them) are the real problem.

    We do NOT need more gun laws. There are plenty on the books. We do NOT need more legislation. We need more public awareness of what is already in place.

    We do NOT need a news media environment that squawks and points about gun violence, pesters already-rattled victims for interviews like the carrion eaters they are, and gathers like groupies at a head-banger concert when these events take place. That needs to be stopped right now. The blood lust they display is appalling.

    I blame the news media for what happened in Las Vegas – all of it.

    We need to do whatever is necessary to get people to stop being careless slackers about their surroundings. Please tell me why some stupid young woman thinks it’s okay to be out jogging after midnight, wearing headphones, when personal violent crime is rising in Chicago, and she is assaulted, beaten and raped. And then she wants the city to pass laws against that. The sheer stupidity about this that I see in people between 18 and 45 is astounding. And their rebuttal is “Why shouldn’t I be able to go jogging at midnight in a bad neighborhood? Why would anyone hurt me? I’m so nice!”

    Whether you own weapons or don’t, WE need to argue the opposite side of that coin that has political animals jumping right in front of TV cameras with their puppets, and make it clear that there is enough legislation in place already. It hasn’t stopped anything. The world is a harsh, violent place that wants to terminate your existence by any means.

    If we are going stop this, we have to stop blaming inanimate objects for what WE do and take responsibility for it.  And blame the news media for everything – all of it.

  • That gun control discussion again

    More than 50 people were killed and hundreds were injured in Las Vegas last weekend, so now it’s time to have that one-sided discussion on gun control again. Mr Paddock, the shooter, confined himself to the gun laws in preparation for his dastardly deed, so now we have to hear all of the old canards about “gun show loopholes”, “universal background checks”, “silencers” and how the NRA is the root of all evil in the world.

    First, Jimmy Kimmel, there is no “gun show loophole”. If you buy a gun from a licensed gun dealer at a gun show, you are still subjected to NCICS background checks. I know – I’ve bought two scary, black, semi-automatic guns at gun shows and went through background checks both times.

    If you buy from an unlicensed seller, he won’t make you go through background checks, but he wouldn’t make you go through background checks if he sells the gun to you at his yard sale, either. The FBI interviewed criminals in prison about how they acquired their guns and less than 1% of them admitted that they bought the guns through private sales at gun shows.

    On his show the other night, Kimmel said that 70% of Republicans want background checks. Of course they do, I want background checks. There are already universal background checks and I want that system to remain in place. I don’t want people with criminal backgrounds to own or possess guns. That’s easy.

    What Kimmel and his crowd want as far a background checks is a NCICS check for private sales, because sales through a dealer are already subject to background checks. That will never happen. No one is going to drag their neighbor to a gun dealer and wait the half hour to go through checks when all they have to do hand over the gun in exchange for money. Neither is the guy who sells guns illegally to criminals out of the trunk of his car in a dark parking lot going to force them to go through NCICS. He doesn’t make them fill out the BATFE paperwork, either, nor does he keep a record of his sales.

    Why are we even talking about so-called silencers? They don’t silence anything, except in the movies. They’re called suppressors for a reason.

    And bump-stocks aren’t all that easy to fire accurately. Paddock probably killed a lot fewer people because he couldn’t aim well enough with his stupid bump stock. Think about it – how do you maintain a stable firing stance when the rifle jumps back-and-forth against your shoulder?

    He fired at aviation fuel tanks near him and only hit the huge stationary targets twice. The only reason he was at all successful at causing casualties is because he was firing into a packed crowd of 22,000 people. He could have thrown rocks.

    I could have created hundreds of casualties with one of my bolt-action rifles if I had 22,000 folks packed into a relatively small area a few hundred yards away.

    The only way to have prevented Paddock from causing his massacre would be to outlaw all guns, and that’s really what the “gun control” crowd wants. He passed background checks, there’s nothing in his past that would justify denying guns to him, so the only solution is to forbid the sales of guns. That’s why we have the NRA to represent the millions of Americans in the halls of Congress who are members and who don’t, generally, commit crimes.

    The media is back to their bullshit blaming bayonet lugs and grenade launcher mounts for mass killings. If you morons want to have a discussion on gun control, at least take the time to learn what it is that you’re discussing.

    “Do something – anything” is not an effective plan to reduce gun crime.

  • McAuliffe’s lies

    McAuliffe’s lies

    Virginia’s Governor Carpetbagger Terry McAuliffe told a Black Lives Matter activist and podcast radio host, DeRay Mckesson, that the state police had conducted raids before the events in Charlottesville last weekend, and that they had found weapons caches that had been stashed around the city.

    According to REASON, the state police admitted that they conducted searches, but that they had found no such caches;

    “The governor was referring to the briefing provided him in advance of Saturday’s rally and the extra security measures being taken by local and state police,” [Corinne Geller, a spokesperson for the Virginia State Police] tells Reason. “As a safety precaution in advance of August 12, such searches were conducted in and around Emancipation and McIntire Parks. No weapons were located as a result of those searches.”

    The Virginia State Police also disputed McAuliffe’s claims that Virginia State Police were underequipped to deal with the heavily armed militia members at Saturday’s rally.

    “The governor was referencing the weapons and tactical gear the members of various groups attending the rally had on their persons,” Geller says. “I can assure you that the Virginia State Police personnel were equipped with more-than-adequate specialized tactical and protective gear for the purpose of fulfilling their duties to serve and protect those in attendance of the August 12 event in Charlottesville.”

    This is right up there with his remark that 93 million Americans are killed everyday from gun violence.

    Reason also points out that an interview that McAuliffe did with the New York Times after the events in Charlottesville, had to be heavily edited when McAUlliffe falsely claimed that 80% of the protesters were armed with semi-automatic weapons. “You saw the militia walking down the street, you would have thought they were an army,” he said.

    Virginia deserves a truthful executive in the governor’s mansion and Syracusan Terry McAullife is not truthful – he’s more interested into scaring his constituency with his lies.

    Thanks to AnotherPat for the tip.

  • Gun control in Nova Scotia

    I think I wrote about this recently, but it probably needs to be said again;

    Kyle Earl Munroe was arrested early last month when three men broke into the home where he was staying in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Munroe and his mate were able to take a firearm from the thieves and shot at them with the thieves’ own gun.

    Police later located one of the suspects, who had non-life-threatening gunshot wounds.

    Now Munroe is charged with attempted murder, intent to discharge a firearm, intent to discharge a firearm when being reckless, careless use of a firearm, improper storage of a firearm, pointing a firearm, possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose, unauthorized possession of a firearm, possession of a firearm knowing that possession is unauthorized.

    “Right now they’re just pending charges,” said spokeswoman Chris Hansen at the Public Prosecution Service.

    Munroe is banned from any contact with two named individuals, must attend court as ordered, keep the peace and be of good behaviour, not leave his residence except for essential activities such as work or medical appointments, remain in Nova Scotia, not consume drugs or alcohol, not possess a cellphone or pager, have no weapons, and answer the door to police when they check at his home.

    Yeah, gun control is mostly about the control part.

  • Court spanks DC’s “good reason” CCW licensing

    Court spanks DC’s “good reason” CCW licensing

    According to the Washington Post, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit blocked Washington DC’s concealed carrying permitting system that required gun owners to prove that they have a “good reason” for needing to carry a weapon concealed in the city, you know, other than the fact that they live in a crime-ridden cesspool.

    “The good-reason law is necessarily a total ban on most D.C. residents’ right to carry a gun in the face of ordinary self-defense needs,” wrote Judge Thomas B. Griffith, who was joined by Judge Stephen F. Williams.

    “Bans on the ability of most citizens to exercise an enumerated right would have to flunk any judicial test.”

    The court’s rejection of the District’s permitting system is the latest legal blow for city officials who have been forced to rewrite gun-control regulations ever since the Supreme Court in 2008 used a D.C. case to declare a Second Amendment right to gun ownership. The ruling follows proposals from Republican members of Congress that would require the District to honor concealed-carry permits from other states in the wake of a June shooting at a GOP congressional baseball practice.

    From Fox News;

    John R. Lott, Jr. of the Crime Prevention Research Center called the decision huge.

    Right now, there are about 124 concealed handgun permit holders in D.C., Lott told Fox News. “If D.C. were like the 42 right-to-carry states, they would have about 48,000 permits. Right now D.C. prevents the most vulnerable people, particularly poor blacks who live in high crime areas of D.C., from having any hope of getting a permit for protection.

  • You don’t believe liberals want to take your guns?

    You don’t believe liberals want to take your guns?

    In my email today from the NRA is an article those of you who scoff at the idea that liberals want to confiscate our guns may find enlightening:

    Back when Mark Glaze was executive director of Michael Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns, and later Everytown for Gun Safety, he went to great lengths to portray his master’s anti-gun positions as moderate. Glaze used the typical gun control advocate refrain that his groups were merely seeking “commonsense” gun laws. The anti-gun campaigner used every opportunity to remind his audience that he was from Colorado and the son of a licensed firearms dealer. When discussing Colorado’s magazine ban and private transfer restrictions in 2014, Glaze assured that the laws improved safety, but that the “Second Amendment is going to be protected.”

    Earlier this month, Glaze finally dropped all pretense of moderation and acknowledged his and his associates’ radical anti-gun goals. Writing on behalf of a new gun control group called Guns Down, Glaze endorsed mandatory firearm owner licensing, alluded to a “government buy-back” for commonly-owned semi-automatic firearms, and called for restrictions that would prevent even the law-abiding from accessing guns.

    In a departure from Everytown’s messaging, Glaze downplayed the importance of background checks, claiming that they “alone aren’t the answer.” According to Glaze, “To truly tackle the gun violence epidemic, lawmakers must go further – after the guns themselves.”

    Glaze’s central thesis, and Guns Down’s organizing principle, is that there are too many guns in private hands the U.S.; regardless of whether those guns are lawfully or unlawfully possessed. This oversimplified view of gun ownership harkens back to the handgun prohibitionist messaging of the 1970s and 80s.

    In other words, just as with healthcare, where liberals want to decide who gets treatment in their socialist utopia, they want the same authority to decide who should possess a gun. Want to bet those of you with those “unhealthy” conservative views would not be among those selected to keep and bear arms?