Category: Gun Grabbing Fascists

Last week, Rahm Emanuel declared a commitment that Chicago, Illinois will remain a sanctuary city for illegal aliens. It’s laughable because as of yesterday, 3992 Chicagoans were victims of gun violence – there’s no sanctuary anywhere for the people who already call Chicago their home. Just this last weekend, 68 were shot and eight were killed.

So far this year, Chicago police report 4,000-plus shootings and over 700 homicides, the vast majority in poor, predominantly black neighborhoods.

“The poverty that exists throughout the city of Chicago, throughout the county of Cook and the state of Illinois is deplorable,” said Cook co. Cmsr. Richard Boykin.

“There’s an inextricable link between poverty and violence,” said State Sen. Kwame Raoul, (D) Chicago.

So, if poverty is the reason for the gun violence, I’m guessing that all of the victims were rich? The government’s social nets make sure that everyone in government-subsidized housing has a big flat screen TV and a microwave, but there’s no money for food and clothing? Poverty doesn’t explain away gun violence.

A large unarmed law-abiding population trapped under conditions in which they are unable to defend themselves does explain part of the problem. Also, a corrupt city government that supports a moronic culture of violence and lawlessness helps explain it, too.

A Chicago congressman’s grandson was shot dead over stylish sneakers, for God’s sake.

The Associated Press reports that State Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis granted a motion by Remington Arms lawyers to dismiss the lawsuit by Newtown, CT families to punish Remington for manufacturing the rifle used by a shooter to kill 26 people at an Elementary school nearly four years ago.

The families were seeking to hold Remington accountable for selling what their lawyers called a semi-automatic rifle that is too dangerous for the public because it was designed as a military killing machine. Their lawyer vowed an immediate appeal of Friday’s ruling.

The judge agreed with attorneys for Madison, North Carolina-based Remington that the lawsuit should be dismissed under the federal Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, which was passed by Congress in 2005 and shields gun makers from liability when their firearms are used in crimes.

Advocates for gun control and against gun violence have criticized the law as special protection for gun makers.

The people responsible for the murders are all dead – the shooter and his mother, the owner of the weapon – so this is nothing more than a scramble for the cash. The survivors are doing nothing more than the politicians did when they tried to use the tragic event as an excuse to punish legal gun owners. They are sullying the memory of the deceased.

This is the dumbest shit ever written. The fellow John B. Alexander claims to be a Vietnam Special Forces officer, and honestly, I don’t care. John B. Alexander is an idiot for writing his piece at the Huffington Post entitled “ISIS And The NRA: Similarities Abound“. I don’t plan on taking a lot of time bothering to answer this garbage, but we’ll see how that turns out.

So, how are the two organizations similar?

– Institutionally, both organizations are remorseless about the deaths of victims
– Both use fear and intimidation to obtain their objectives
– Both assume their ideology is superior to the wishes of the majority of citizens
– Both have intensely loyal followers
– Both recruit and indoctrinate members who are ignorant of the basic facts
– Both are relatively small organizations that have impact far beyond their size
– Neither organization will apologize for the harm they cause

How are they different? Well, the NRA doesn’t send it’s membership out to terrorize innocent people by chopping off their heads. In fact, I’ll bet that hardly any of the deaths that are illegal and committed by criminals is not committed by NRA members. However, every single death attributed to ISIS was committed by it’s membership.

The NRA has created no victims – criminals create victims, and the NRA doesn’t approve of criminals having firearms, so how can the NRA be remorseless about their victims?

The NRA has yet to burn victims alive in cages to obtain their objectives. The majority of Americans believe in the 2d Amendment.

Hillary Clinton has “intensely loyal followers”, too, so what’s your point?

Tell me I’m “ignorant of the facts” to my face.

How, exactly, does the NRA cause harm? They represent the millions of members who want to keep their guns. That’s like blaming the ACLU for deaths caused by bullying because the ACLU supports the First Amendment.

A legitimate criticism of the article is that even if modest gun control legislation were to be enacted, it would probably have little effect on the shooting violence level in America; at least in the short term. The seemingly intractable problem is that there already exist an estimated 300 million guns in the U.S. It is also acknowledged that most gun owners do not commit crimes or intentionally shoot others. However, too many gun owners do.

Yeah, well ALL of ISIS’ members commit crimes against humanity while gun owners who belong to the NRA do not, generally speaking. In fact, I’d love for Alexander to name even one NRA member who committed a mass shooting. He cannot.

According to his bio, “His latest book is UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities.” Wiki says about Alexander; “John B. Alexander (born 1937) is a retired U.S. Army infantry officer and colonel and a leading advocate for the development of non-lethal weapons and of military applications of the paranormal.” Apparently, he was involved in staring at goats.

He should stick to writing about space aliens and leave the social commentary to people with actual brains.

Thanks to David for the link.