Category: Gun Grabbing Fascists

There has been loads of asshattery on the internet since the tragic Oregon shooting, like this half-wit from Chicago Now, no less, who says that we should rescind the 2d Amendment to make the country safer. More than 2300 people have been shot in Chicago this year so far in one of the most heavily regulated areas of the entire country.

The Baltimore Sun comes right out and titles their opinion today “Repeal the Second Amendment“, you know, as if that would make us all safer tomorrow morning.

Then this crap from liberal Raw Story that’s entitled Armed vet destroys gun nuts’ argument on mass shooters by explaining why he didn’t attack Oregon killer. That’s not what the story about John Parker does, actually. He didn’t want to go charging into a scene about which he knew nothing and possibly end up being a target for SWAT, who would also be newly arrived on the scene. He showed cool and calm reasoning, certainly not what one would expect from a “gun nut”. You know, just like the rest of us who get lumped into that category.

The New York Times published a piece entitled “27 Ways to Be a Modern Man” which is really a bunch of foo-foo BS, but down there in number 25, after telling us how we should consider buying a shoe horn and drink only regular colas, it says that “The modern man has no use for a gun. He doesn’t own one, and he never will.” So those of us who own guns are ashamed that we don’t live up to the image of a “modern man” at a newspaper where squeezing the testosterone out of everyone on the staff couldn’t fill a thimble.

CNN reports that the president is “Physically sick” because he’s been unable to grab guns. The New York Times reports that John Hanlin, the sheriff now leading the investigation into the horrific shooting at the small community college warned Oregon legislators that the laws that they passed in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting wouldn’t do anything to affect crimes or keep guns out of the hands of criminals.

That’s really what it’s all about – government can only do so much. Jeb Bush is being criticized for his fairly inelegant statement that “stuff happens”, but yeah, stuff does happen. Let’s say that it’s actually possible to retrieve every legal gun in this country, the 300 million that are out there, does anyone honestly think that the criminals will meekly comply with the new law? Their guns are already illegal because of existing laws and I don’t see a rush of folks turning in their illegal guns to the nearest constabulary. Will stuff really stop happening with new gun laws?

Let’s say that we passed a law to force all private sales of firearms to be subjected to background checks – every grandfather who gives a war relic to a grandson, every father who buys a shotgun for his son’s birthday must first subject the receiver to a NICS check. What will that change? The FBI says that interviews they conducted with criminals indicates that less than 1% of the guns that they used in commission of their crimes were bought at gun shows or from legal owners. Mostly their guns are purchased in back alleys and dark parking lots – those sales aren’t likely to be reported even with a new law. Criminals don’t mind breaking laws – that’s why we call them criminals.

The only people the President, the Baltimore Sun, Raw Story, the New York Times, that neck beard in Chicago want to regulate are those folks who will follow the law, the folks who already bend over backwards to jump through the legal hoops to own a firearm now – the folks who aren’t making “stuff happen”, the John Parkers of the country who shelter in place and secure their immediate surroundings.

The president should stop making himself “physically ill” – he can only do so much and he’s done all that he can, if his real goal is to not interfere with legitimate gun owners’ rights, you know, like he says. Governments can’t regulate what is in peoples’ heads. The government can only get out of the way and let the law abiding citizens control their immediate surroundings. They could even try to make prosecutors do their respective jobs in the law enforcement realm for a change, rather than blame legal gun owners for every real nut job who thinks that being a mass murderer buys them a place in heaven.

The Hill reports that the legacy governor of New York. Andrew Cuomo, the fellow who shoved the state’s SAFE Act down New York voters’ throats in the dead of the night, says that he’d “love” to see Democrats shut down the Federal government over gun control;

“It should be that high a priority. It is really sad and tragic and discouraging,” Cuomo said.

“It is such a failure of our political system and frankly such a blatant failure of the elected officials of this country,” he added.

Cuomo said the 2016 presidential field should make resolving gun violence a major part of their campaigns.

“I would like to see Hillary and the vice president and whoever else is in the race from both parties talk about the issue of guns,” he said.

I agree with him, in fact just him saying that makes the chances for a liberal in the next Presidential election a little tougher. You’ll notice that none of these gun grabbers are being specific about what they want to do in regards to guns – just broad, sweeping emotional rhetoric.

The truth is that there is enough gun control in this country. There is no “gun show loop hole”. There is no “internet loophole”. I’ve bought firearms on the internet and at gun shows and every time, I went through background checks. Every. Time.

So tell me, Andy, how can new laws prevent gun violence? How can we keep guns out of the hands of people whose first crime in their entire life is a mass shooting? If the Left is going to stand firm against putting people in the NICS system who should own guns, how will you make laws stiffer.

Even in New York City, arguably with more gun control that the rest of the state has had an increase in violent crime since the SAFE Act went into effect. Cuomo, of course, blames Vermont and Pennsylvania for gun crimes in his state because they have more liberal gun laws (in the traditional sense). He has no proof – only feelings.

That’s pretty much what we get from that side of the aisle. The president put on his angry face the other night, Emanuel put on his angry face earlier this week after 52 people (more than 2300 this year) were shot in Chicago last weekend, and now Cuomo puts on his angry face. Like a bunch of spoiled little kids. they don’t really care about the safety of the American people, what they care about more is the votes that they can get from the low-information voters.

I read a comment yesterday from a woman who said that we should find a way to ban machine guns. When is the last time a machine gun was used in a crime? The 1930s maybe. Like Chris Christie banning .50 caliber rifles in New Jersey – no .50 caliber has ever been used in a crime anywhere. But let’s not allow the facts to get in the way of an emotional debate, shall we?

If you missed the news, 52 more people were shot in Chicago this past weekend, bringing the annual total to more than 2,300. Despite the fact that most of the people in Chicago aren’t allowed to own guns there. Emanuel told reporters that he was going to work towards “cutting off people’s access to guns” according to this video.

I think they’ve already done that pretty effectively – which is why the criminals have free run of the streets with their illegal guns. Maybe they can make it illegal to illegally posses firearms.

Well, the gun grabbers have won in San Francisco. It seems that the last gun shop in the city will close because the burden of regulations has made it almost impossible for them to continue, according to Fox News;

The proposed new city regulations, which could only be aimed at High Bridge Arms, would have required the shop to take and preserve video of all transactions and turn customers’ personal data over to police on a weekly basis. General Manager Steven Alcairo said the shop’s owners finally threw in the towel after years of what they consider being unfairly targeted with burdensome rules and regulations. Past regulations have required the shop to bar ads and displays from its windows and install cameras and barriers around its exterior. The shop has 17 cameras as it is, and turns video over to police on request, he said.

“This time, it’s the idea of filming our customers taking delivery of items after they already completed waiting periods,” Alcairo said. “We feel this is a tactic designed to discourage customers from coming to us.

So, it looks like San Francisco will soon be free of gun violence because they drove the last stalwart gun dealer out of business.

Ladd Everitt, spokesman for the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, said the proposed regulations are not onerous and said “video evidence is a critical component in bringing lawbreakers to justice.”

Yeah, so are police reviewing videos for criminals? Are they even glancing at the gun registration forms when they begin a manhunt for murderers or thieves? No, they’re not. Everything that they do after a NICS check is mental masturbation so people feel safer, kind of like the body scans at TSA checkpoints. That’s what government does best – give the illusion of safety at the cost of our freedoms.

So good job, San Francisco, when you figure out a way to video those gun sales in back alleys and dark parking lots, let me know.

Thanks to Bobo and Andy11M for the links.

The Hill reports that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, while upholding the city’s long gun registration, struck down some of the new laws that the District of Columbia wrote to mitigate the damage done by the Supreme Court to their attempts to take away gun rights of it’s citizens in 2008.

The court then struck down four requirements that force gun owners to bring the gun they’re registering with them, re-register a firearm every three years and pass a test on D.C. gun laws. The court also did away with a rule that prohibits gun owners from registering more than one pistol within a 30-day period.

“We agree with Heller that the District has not offered substantial evidence from which one could draw a reasonable conclusion that the challenged requirements will protect police officers; but we think the District has pointed to substantial evidence that some of the requirements — but not others — will promote public safety,” Judge Douglas Ginsburg wrote in the opinion of the court.

The District is proud of it’s gun control record, you know the one that has cost thousands of it’s citizens their lives over the past four decades. As of yesterday, the homicide rate in DC is 40% higher than it was last year, so they’re doing a bang-up job. The homicide closure rate for the Metro Police Department was only 70% last year, so the only justice citizens can find is in gun ownership, if the Nanny State will get out of their way.

Former governor of Maryland and mayor of Baltimore Martin O’Malley, who is currently running for the Democrat nod for President next year, took to the pages of CNN to promise the American people that he can reduce gun violence in the United States by requiring background checks for private sales and fingerprint records of every gun owner in the country. Also he says that he’ll make you lock up your gun so your children can’t get to it (neither will you be able to get to it when a criminal breaks in your home).

It’s time for that to change. If I am elected president, I will make reducing and preventing gun violence one of my 15 goals to rebuild the American dream. And right now, I am putting forward a comprehensive policy plan for cutting deaths from gun violence in half — homicides, suicides, and accidents — within 10 years.

My plan starts with expanding safeguards to all gun purchases, whether from a licensed dealer, online posting, or private sale. Under my plan, a background check would be required for each and every gun purchase. And every person seeking to purchase or transfer a gun would have to obtain a fingerprint-based license, including completing safety training and a waiting period. Without such protections, it will remain far too easy for criminals to legally buy guns.

OK, I have a question, a couple of questions, actually. All the way back to Jared Loughner’s shooting of Congresswoman Gabby Griffords, the perpetrators of the mass shootings in the news have all been through the background checks system. So how will fingerprinting them help?

Also, the only reason to register all guns as a law enforcement measure is to actually visit gun owners and get their alibi for not being at the scene of a gun-related crime. Has that ever happened in the history of gun control? The only other reason to register guns is to know where they are when it’s time to confiscate previously legal guns.

O’Malley says that he’s going to make you lock up your guns in your homes, too. Of course, the only way to regulate that is like they do in Norway – have unannounced visits and inspections by law enforcement to insure that you’re complying with the law, you know, in violation of your civil rights.

O’Malley actually believes that by making law abiding citizens adhere to new regulations will reduce gun violence in this country. He actually thinks that requiring criminals to register their guns will work. You, know, when a criminal is arrested, they take his fingerprints, and it doesn’t stop him from committing crimes, does it? So treating lawful gun owners like criminals will work?

There’s some incoherent jibber-jabber at the Washington Post about how Americans responded to a Pew poll that they want more gun control by mandating background checks for private sales and creating a federal database to track gun sales. I get the feeling that the people who responded to the poll didn’t understand the question. I’m wondering, mostly, how creating a federal database would make us safer.

For example, last night in DC there were six shootings. Now, if gun registration is a law enforcement tool, did the DC police check on all of the registered gun owners in the district to see if they had an alibi for the shootings? There are only a handful of legal gun owners in the District, so it wouldn’t take long. Right? Yeah, well, needless to say, the DC government didn’t contact their residents who legally own guns as part of the police investigations.

So, really, what does gun registration do to make us safer? All it does is tell federal authorities where the guns are, you know, if they ever decide to come and relieve us of our firearms and our Second Amendment right. Creating a federal database just makes the gun grabbers feel better about themselves, it doesn’t do a damn thing to make us safer.

The poll also says Americans want that everyone buying a gun in a private sale should go through background checks. The intent of course, is to make it illegal for someone to get a gun who couldn’t pass a background check, which is illegal now anyway. I’m pretty sure that those guys who sell guns in a dark alley or a parking lot will start taking it seriously when private sales require background checks.

Also, Pew found that Americans think that there should be laws banning the mentally ill from buying guns. Um, yes there are laws in that regard already, it’s just that the gatekeepers aren’t doing their jobs. So, see there’s something in the poll that the people want that is already in place, but the government, the health care profession, law enforcement, the judiciary just aren’t doing their jobs. I don’t see the Washington Post coming out for more enforcement of existing laws. Because it’s easier to write more laws that only the law-abiding citizenry will take seriously, than it is to enforce existing laws on criminals.