Category: Gun Grabbing Fascists

The Hill reports that the Democrats are going into the election thinking that, for once, their gun control message can help them win the election. So convinced that Democrat-turned-Republican-turned-Independent Nanny Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City who sought to regulate the size of the sodas New Yorkers drank and whether or not they could give their babies formula instead of breast-feeding, is speaking at the Convention tonight with his wallet wide-open to candidates willing to relieve Americans of their Second Amendment rights.

The heightened focus on gun reform marks a shift –– some might say a gamble –– for Clinton and the Democrats. The party rejoiced after enacting an assault weapons ban under President Clinton in 1994, but when the Republicans trounced them at the polls later in the year, many attributed the defeat to the gun debate.

In similar fashion, Al Gore was stung for embracing gun reform as he sought the White House in 2000, losing several states –– including West Virginia and his home state of Tennessee –– where voters were exceedingly wary of his gun positions.

That track record has left some conservatives practically drooling at the thought that Clinton would make gun reform a major issue of this year’s campaign.

For some reason, Democrats think that the sit-in they staged on the floor of the House earlier this year was some big milestone moment. I guess they didn’t notice that most of Americans were laughing at them;

Asked if the Democrats will stage something as dramatic as another sit-in when Congress returns to Washington in September, Lewis left the door wide open. “It’s possible,” he said.

Rep. John Larson (D-Conn.), who also helped organize the sit-in, said the tactic was devised with November in mind.

“We had the sit-in so that we would be able to define this issue and the difference between the two parties,” Larson said.

I honestly don’t think that gun control is the issue that Democrats think it is. They’ve poisoned the debate using complete morons to get their message out and Americans noticed that. Bloomberg’s money hasn’t changed any elections. the sit-in was a joke to most of America (except maybe in the Democratic Underground echo-chamber forums). It may end up being the issue that energizes Americans to vote for Trump.

In Stevens Point, Wisconsin, detective Tony Gischia came home to find 30-year-old Charles Jameson pouring a flammable liquid around inside the detective’s house. The detective ordered Jameson to stop and he didn’t. Jameson began pounding on the detective with a frying pan. When Jameson wouldn’t stop, the detective shot Jameson who died from the bullet wounds. Afterwards, police found two guns in Jameson’s car outside the scene of the crime. It turns out that the guns were purchased by Jameson’s friend, Paul Korbisch;

Paul Korbisch was charged after investigators determined he helped 30-year-old Charles Jameson get two guns by signing for the weapons when Jameson couldn’t because of his criminal record and buying them with “mostly (Jameson’s) money,” according to a criminal complaint.

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Korbisch told investigators he did not know anything about Jameson’s plan to use the firearms in the home invasion and instead believed they would be used for target shooting, the complaint says.

Of course, that doesn’t matter. Korbisch was sentenced this week to six months in jail and 30 months on probation for buying the guns for Jameson – a straw purchase. That surprises me because the gun grabbers have been telling me that we need more laws to make straw purchases illegal, yet here this fellow gets arrested and sentenced for that crime. Maybe he needs more jail time, but the fact remains that he bought guns for a known criminal and was arrested for that and he won’t be able to do that again and isn’t that why we need laws? Existing laws work when prosecutors use those laws.

This morning we read from the Washington Times that a federal court has ordered the City of Chicago to pay nearly a million dollars for the court costs of the National Rifle Association;

The NRA had challenged a Chicago law banning gun sales within the city limits that a federal court ruled unconstitutional in January.

The Times says that this is the second time that the demand has been made on the city.

It seems to me that the city’s confiscated funds from taxpayers might be better spent on actually fighting against criminals rather than fighting to take rights away from the few remaining law abiding citizens.

But, it’s easier to write new laws than it is to enforce the old ones. That’s how legislators keep their jobs.

The President took the opportunity yesterday to turn a memorial service for the fallen officers in Dallas into a campaign against the Second Amendment when he told the assemblage “We flood communities with so many guns that it is easier for a teenager to buy a Glock than get his hands on a computer or even a book“.

Of course, only someone who hasn’t bought a legal gun lately would make such an idiot statement. Someone who hasn’t bought a computer or a book.

The President’s remarks do nothing for the memory of the slain officers, and nothing for the rights of Americans who legally own guns, nor does it do anything for inner-city youths who need books and computers. He just gave them an excuse to fall further into poverty and crime.

Of course, it was a bald-faced plea for stricter background checks, as if the transfer of guns in inner-cities are being conducted by legal gun dealers and most of those transfers are already illegal by current laws. Stricter background checks won’t affect those transfers from the trunks of cars and in darkened alleyways.

For example, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana yesterday, a 13-year-old, a 17-year-old and a 20-year-old were arrested after they burglarized a pawn shop there and stole six guns.

Investigators recovered two of the stolen handguns from 23-year-old Trashone Coats, who allegedly purchased them illegally on the street, police said. He was charged with illegal possession of a stolen firearm.

How was he arrested? Because he had already broken laws by buying a firearm on the street. I don’t see teenagers breaking into pawn shops to steal books or computers.

By the way, the thieves intended to kill cops with their ill-gotten firearms.

I know it seems impossible, but apparently there was room for Governor Sparkle Pony Brown of California to tighten gun laws there, according to ABC7;

Gov. Jerry Brown signed six stringent gun-control measures Friday that will require people to turn in high-capacity magazines and mandate background checks for ammunition sales, as California Democrats seek to strengthen gun laws that are already among the strictest in the nation.

Brown vetoed five other bills, including requirement to register homemade firearms and report lost or stolen weapons to authorities.

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In another attempt to slow reloading, the governor signed a bill outlawing new weapons that have a device known as a bullet button. Gun makers developed bullet buttons to get around a California’s assault weapons ban, which prohibited new rifles with magazines that can be detached without the aid of tools. A bullet buttons allows a shooter to quickly dislodge the magazine using the tip of a bullet or other small tool.

The New York Times hails Brown for exploiting two terrorist attacks to restrict gun owners even more than they were already. Laughingly, they call Brown a “moderate Democrat”.

Even as he signed six measures, Mr. Brown, a moderate Democrat with a history of resistance to some measures of gun control, vetoed five others that he described as overly regulative. Among them was a bill that would have restricted gun purchases to no more than one per person in a 30-day period.

“My goal in signing these bills is to enhance public safety by tightening our existing laws in a responsible and focused manner, while protecting the rights of law-abiding gun owners,” Mr. Brown, who himself owns guns, said in his signing message.

The enactment of the legislation leaves little doubt to the standing of California, which in 1989 became the first state to ban assault weapons, as a leader in gun control at a moment when Congress has rebuffed such efforts and numerous Republican-led states are moving in the other direction. States like Texas, in the name of promoting safety, have in recent years expanded the locations where people can carry concealed weapons, including bars and college campuses.

Nothing that the governor signed yesterday would have prevented or reduced casualties in either the San Bernadino or Orlando terrorist attacks. France and Belgium have similar and more restrictive laws, but they don’t stop terrorist attacks there.

It’s strange that Brown would sign legislation that puts restrictions on gun owners, but doesn’t sign laws that would make victims of thieves report the crime.

Fresh off their catered nap period the other day on the floor of the House, Democrats are calling for a “day of action” during their July 4th break, in order to pressure the House GOP to pass more regulations against law-abiding gun owners according to The Hill;

Their suggested tactic: almost anything.

“Whether it [is] a press conference, roundtable, or telephone town hall, we encourage you [to] host an event showing that Democrats in Congress will keep up the fight against gun violence,” the lawmakers wrote. “Local partners including survivors, law enforcement and faith leaders can be excellent partners and can help carry our message even further.”

The Democrats’ lengthy and unruly sit-in, unprecedented in recent congressional history, was a direct response to the refusal of Republican leaders to consider tougher gun laws in the wake of the June 12 shooting massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, where 49 people were killed and another 53 injured by a single gunman.

The Democrats are pushing two separate proposals: One to bar gun sales to those on the FBI’s terrorist watchlists; and another to expand background checks on prospective buyers.

They learned that if they can keep up the pressure and make a bunch of useless noise and throw out empty threats, sooner or later someone will cave, like that year-long whine-fest they had about the Confederacy. It was the Confederacy that caused that animal in Charleston to shoot those people in church. But, oddly, it’s not the Islamist extremists of ISIS that caused the animal in Orlando to kill those people in a nightclub.

Passing legislation that only the law abiding obey will not stop gun violence. I know some folks have high hopes, for example;

I guess young Eva doesn’t realize that she was in the center of Washington, DC – in the center of some of the most restrictive gun laws in the country – and she’s still scared of loud noises. What gun laws would protect her and her fellow DC-ians from loud noises? What gun laws that aren’t already in effect in that city? As I’ve said before, guns were effectively banned in the city in 1974 and the Metro PD still takes nearly 2,000 illegal guns off the streets every year – 42 years later – because law abiding citizens of DC abide by the law and the criminals don’t abide by the law.

Those Democrats who sat on the floor of the House and think that’s work are trying to nullify two amendments of the Bill of Rights – gun ownership and due process. The Fifth and Fifteenth Amendments both stipulate that “[N]or shall any person . . . be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law . . . ” But they want a rule that deprives Americans of their 2d Amendment Rights with a couple of simple keystrokes on a computer that adds their names to a watchlist and they have no chance to contest it. It used to be that liberals wanted more freedom for citizens, but this must be a new kind of liberals.

The truth of the discussion is that Republicans are sticking up for the people who will abide by laws, while Democrats want to disarm law-abiding citizens, leaving the criminals and terrorists armed. Their “day of action” should be aimed at the prosecutors who won’t hold criminals accountable for their crimes rather than at the legislature to write new laws that prosecutors won’t prosecute. But, it’s harder to enforce laws than it is to write new laws that won’t work.

The New York Daily News reports that fewer than 45,000 New Yorkers have registered their scary-looking black guns out of an estimated million actual modern sporting rifles in the State.

“What these numbers expose is that, if there are people who are wilfully [sic] ignoring the law, that means tens of thousands of gun owners are not complying with a law that is supported by New Yorkers,” said Leah Gunn Barrett, executive director of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, citing a May poll commissioned by her group that showed state residents support key provisions of the SAFE Act.

Under New York law, failure to register an assault weapon by the April 2014 deadline can be treated as misdemeanor offense, punishable by “forfeiture of the weapon” and up to one year in jail, according to the New York State Police.

Under a different statute, the situation can also be treated as a low-level felony, punishable by up to four years in prison.

Yeah, well, the governor and the legislature made them criminals with a swipe of their pens in the dead of the night, like they were hiding something. I hope they are more than a little discomforted by that thought while they try to sleep at night. The article continues that local law enforcement has been less than willing to enforce the Legacy Governor’s law.

In fact, several local police departments and county sheriffs, mostly in pockets of upstate New York where hunting is popular, have been accused of not enforcing parts of the SAFE Act and refusing to encourage local residents to register their assault weapons because their officers were opposed to the law.

According to The New York Times, several upstate towns and villages have even passed resolutions denouncing the law.

When the paper that pays Gersh Kuntzman a living wage tried to get a statement from the Legacy Governor, he deflected their questions to the state police – they didn’t respond either.

I’d say that New York State is in rebellion – I wouldn’t recommend to the Legacy Governor that he try to take extreme measures to enforce his ill-considered laws or he might find out what a real rebellion looks like.