Category: Gun Grabbing Fascists

This Francis Wilkinson person wrote in Bloomberg News that, even though there are “many” responsible gun owners, others are not and don’t keep guns out of the hands of children. Of course, he needs some shocking statistics;

According to Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action For Gun Sense in America (both supported by Michael Bloomberg, the founder and majority owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent of Bloomberg News), from December 2012 to December 2013, at least 100 children died in unintentional shootings.

I’ll concede that even one is too many, but seeings how there are an estimated two hundred and seventy million guns in the hands of private legal owners, 100 would seem a little low, in fact, it would make most Americans proud of their countrymen for keeping the number so low. But, you know, given his sources for that 100 children, I’d have to find another set of numbers before I’d believe it.

Wilkinson clearly has an axe to grind. Looking at his body of work at Bloomberg, he’s one of those guilt-ridden liberals who hate everything about America, particularly conservative America. I even found an article he wrote at Huffington Post where he claims that “Guns are for White People” and his conclusion arising from buying gun magazines. Despite the fact that with 270 million guns out there, I’m sure there a black person or two who legally own firearms – in fact I know a couple of them.

So he clearly has a blind spot when it comes to guns and the second amendment. He continues with his latest rant and guns within reach of a statistically miniscule number of children and he characteristically blames the NRA.

While kids have been killing themselves and others, the gun movement has been working to expand gun culture in public schools. The National Rifle Association has long had its Eddie Eagle program, educating the very young in gun safety (and, not incidentally, gun familiarity). After the Newtown massacre, NRA leader Wayne LaPierre characteristically demanded guns in schools.

Imagine that! Someone who voluntarily teaches gun safety in schools at no cost to the taxpayers. That’s outrageous! Oh, by the way, Mr. Wilkinson, even though the NRA wants more guns in school, they don’t advocate leaving the guns laying around within reach of the students – ideally, those guns in schools would be in the possession of legally-licensed and trained professionals. Do you even know any?

LaPierre is a cheerleader for dystopia because scaring people out of their wits is the essence of his job. Yet the armies of Adam-Lanza-like zombie killers have failed to materialize. Instead, we have only a relentless series of stupid gun deaths, many due to people who were too reckless to be responsible gun owners in the first place. The federal government has no comprehensive tally. But if you follow Twitter feeds such as that of Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts, you can watch the fatalities mount.

Yeah, well, if you followed the Twitter feed of This Ain’t Hell, for more than three years we’ve published, nearly daily, local new articles about legal gun owners who have protected their children and themselves from criminals with gun. That’s more than a thousand, and it probably just scratches the surface of the number of those types of incidents – because we depend on local news producers to think the story is important enough to publish. More than a thousand stories about armed citizens doing for themselves what the government can’t do for them. Good guys with guns.

Mr. Wilkinson, you should go pound sand, please.

Donald Montgomery, a Navy veteran and a retired police detective has filed a lawsuit against the State of New York claiming that the new SAFE Act went too far when New York State used it to confiscate his firearms, according to the Daily Caller;

Montgomery’s woes began on May 6 when he sought treatment from his primary care physician for insomnia, which he said he had been experiencing following a move from another state.

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Staff there diagnosed Montgomery with “Depression; Insomnia” and he was prescribed medication and told to report back to his primary care physician if symptoms worsened over the next several days.

Montgomery went back to the hospital on May 23 with the same complaint. He stayed at the facility for 48 hours.

Though Montgomery voluntarily sought treatment, he alleges in the suit that staff at the facility erroneously listed him as an involuntary admission — a designation that appears to have put the SAFE Act’s wheels in motion.

A clerical error, a checked box, cost Montgomery his constitutional rights.

“Nurse’s notes” from Montgomery’s stay show no documentation of mental health issues.

“Patient has no thoughts of hurting himself. Patient has no thoughts of hurting others. Patient is not having suicidal thoughts. Patient is not having homicidal thoughts,” the notes read.

A psychological assessment labeled him “mildly depressed,” but otherwise determined “there is no evidence of any psychotic processes, mania, or OCD symptoms.”

The SAFE Act is so tightly wired that a little insomnia triggered the loss of Constitutional rights for a vet/cop. I guess taking guns from people is more important than giving people who need help a little breathing room.

This pointy-head professor at the Yale School of Medicine, Kimberly Yonkers, writes in the pages of the Washington Post that it’s “dangerous” to blame mental health for gun violence in the United States;

The elimination of severe psychiatric conditions would not solve our problems with gun violence. Despite the sensationalism of shootings that occur in schools or against police officers, they are infrequent events compared to the totality of gun violence.

And while individuals with severe psychiatric disorders like schizophrenia or bipolar illness are more likely to engage in violent behavior, the frequencies of cases of these disorders are small. And the vast majority of people with severe and persistent mental illness are non-violent. According to one distinguished study, we would see only a 4 percent reduction in gun violence if mental illnesses were eliminated.

Yeah, well, closing the “gun show loop hole” would prevent only 1 percent of criminals from getting their grubby paws on guns according to the FBI, but that doesn’t stop the gun grabbers from whining about the need to close up that boogeyman.

And while the frequencies of the cases of mental disorders appearing in society, the frequencies of those mental disorders showing up in investigations of mass casualty shootings is close to 90%, at least, in my recent memory. Tucson, Aurora, Sandy Hook, etc….

Gun violence is 20 times more prevalent in the United States than in other highly developed countries.

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In sum, the American mental health-care system is just about on par with other high resource nations, but the United States has a dramatically higher rate of gun violence.

And if you take out the guns that are already illegal, wielded by people forbidden by existing laws to possess a firearm, that rate falls off substantially. The highest rates of gun crimes are in cities like Washington, DC, New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles…places that already have strict gun control laws. Legal gun owners who obey the laws aren’t committing the gun crimes.

As I said, the high profile shootings that the media likes to talk about are almost always committed by mentally deficient people. Some of them find easy access to guns because people like Ms. Yonkers wants us to ignore them as potential threats to society. She wants to tighten restrictions on legal, law-abiding, mentally-capable gun owners (with her eye on taking guns out of the hands of all people) instead of taking down the engines of the media-driven call to make all guns illegal – the mentally ill.

But it is time to recognize that adequate treatment for people with a mental disorder is a distinct problem from gun violence.

So why can’t we put them in NICS system and prevent them from buying guns?

If one accepts the data from CNN’s Gun Violence Project, over 80 people die from gun violence in a 24 hour period. How long do we have to wait before meaningful changes in legislation that reduce access to guns?

Conservatives want to reduce gun access to the mentally ill, while Yonkers wants to reduce the number of guns available to the rest of us who don’t have mental problems. Ms. Yonkers, you’d have more credibility if you would find out how many of those 80 deaths every 24 hours were committed with illegal guns in the hands of people who are already restrained from gun possession by current laws. My feeling is that number would fall significantly. And your credibility would rise accordingly.

Hondo sends us a link from the Christian Science Monitor which reports that more Americans support gun rights than support more gun control according to a Pew Research Center survey;

The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center, conducted Dec. 3-7 among 1,507 adults, also finds a shift in attitudes about whether gun ownership in this country does more to protect people or put people’s safety at risk. Nearly six-in-ten Americans (57%) say gun ownership does more to protect people from becoming victims of crime, while 38% say it does more to endanger personal safety. In the days after Newtown, 48% said guns do more to protect people and 37% said they placed people at risk.

Gun grabbers said, after the murders at Newtown, that we needed to have a discussion about guns in this country. Of course, before there was a discussion, some Governors shoved irrational gun controls down the throats of their constituents. In the rest of the country, there was a real discussion and Americans have determined that more control is not necessary;

Over the past two years, blacks’ views on this measure have changed dramatically. Currently, 54% of blacks say gun ownership does more to protect people than endanger personal safety, nearly double the percentage saying this in December 2012 (29%). By contrast, whites’ views have shown less change: 62% now view guns as doing more to protect people, up from 54% in December .

Apparently, President Obama was right, we did need to have a discussion about guns. Good thing that we had one, ain’t it? Good thing that he didn’t get his way, good thing that the Senate didn’t get their way, good thing that we can have discussions without them.

I want to thank the gun grabbers for their irrational chatter about “30 clip magazines”, rifle sling swivels that launch grenades and their “Ghost Guns”. Their incompetence in the discussion is what turned American opinion against them. Personally, I hope they keep yammering and proving that they have nothing to add to the discussion except hyperbole and conjecture. Their irrational fear of pistol grips, flash suppressors and bayonet lugs is their undoing.

Reuters writes that 200 state legislators from 50 states have joined a cute little alliance with a cute little name; American State Legislators for Gun Violence Prevention founded by a New York State legislator, Brian Kavanagh, from Manhattan’s East Side. he’s a lifelong resident of New York City, so I’m sure there are no West Virginia delegates there listening to him, because he doesn’t know how things are outside his little cocoon there in Manhattan. He’s also a big DeBlasio supporter. Guns scare the shit out of him, so I’m sure his body guards must keep theirs out of sight.

Kavanagh told a news conference the group would focus on state-level gun control reforms, including the prevention of interstate gun trafficking and tightening background checks on buyers.

Congress has “failed in its responsibility” to prevent gun violence, said Jose Rodriguez, a Democratic state senator from Texas.

“We can’t continue in the same path that we’ve been in as a country,” he said.

Yes, so how many of the high profile gun crimes in recent years would have been prevented by more stringent background checks? Beuller? How, exactly would Mr. Rodriguez make up for Congress’ failures? What is wrong with the “path” that we’ve been on?

Lawmakers from eight states were at the news conference, including Virginia, Alabama, New Hampshire and Kansas. The only Republican lawmaker was state Representative Barbara Bollier from Kansas.

Whew! I thought they were serious for a minute. Republican governors run 31 states (probably all states that allow me to carry a concealed weapon) and legislators, especially just the Democrats, have to get legislation past them. Oh, yeah, Republicans control 35 State Senates and 33 State Houses. But, hey, Brian Kavanagh and his little buddies feel better about themselves and isn’t that what it’s really all about? Keep speaking truth to power, there, Bri, that power you’re speaking truth to, is the People, by the way.

Police Chief Norm Jacobs of the Beloit, Wisconsin was bitten by the “good idea fairy” apparently and he wants to reduce gun crimes by asking citizens to volunteer to have their homes searched by the police for guns, according to NPR;

He…hopes the program will encourage people to think about gun violence as an infectious disease like Ebola, and a home inspection like a vaccine to help build up the city’s immune system.

“Gun violence is as serious as the Ebola virus is being represented in the media, and we should fight it using the tools that we’ve learned from our health providers,” he said.

Jacobs said he hopes some searches will result in the discovery of guns they didn’t know were in their own homes. He said that there’s also a chance they’ll find guns linked to crimes.

“That’s really what we’re looking for,” he said. “Maybe we’ll find a toy gun that’s been altered by a youngster in the house — and we know the tragedies that can occur there on occasion.”

It’s pointless, absolutely pointless. Does the chief think that criminals will call and ask the police to search for their guns? Who doesn’t know if there is a gun in their house? And, oh, yeah, let’s do it in the name of the children under the guise of protecting them from their toys. I know where all of the guns in my house are stored, I don’t need someone from the government to point them out to me. But then, the residents of Beloit aren’t all that bright anyway;

Melisha Holloway’s 20-year-old son Raymond…was killed in April. Holloway said too many young men have given up on school.

“Pretty much all those kids and young men just need to be is educated,” said Holloway. “You have a lot of them that barely read at a fifth-grade level yet they’re 25 year-old-men. But they know how to work a gun. There’s something wrong with that picture.”

Yeah, there is something wrong with that picture, mostly it has to do with parenting and succumbing to a corrupt culture. The police searching houses without guns in them isn’t going to help. The lack of parenting and the culture came from an over-arching government in the first place and surrendering to even more government meddling like this isn’t going to cure the problem. But, hey, at least they’ll all get to feel like they “did something, anything” to fix the problem.

Thanks to Dan for the link.

That fellow Robert Bateman, the least infantry man in the world, recently retired from the Army, and he made the mistake of leaving the United Kingdom and returning to the country whose Constitution he was sworn to defend. It took no time at all for him to have the bejesus scared out of him by an American carrying a gun in public in the State of Virginia where that is legal;

Really? A gun, at Sunday Brunch? Are you seriously that afraid of the 75-year-old farming couple, the only other people in the restaurant, who probably raised the daughter who babysat you 30 years ago? Or is it the middle-class transient family of three, with the baby, us, who frighten you? I mean, really, there were eight people in that restaurant at the time.

Then, over the next hour, as the 30 or-so retirees and perhaps 20 more obviously in for a post-Church-service special Sunday Brunch folks came in, I came to realize how absolutely delusional the fellow must be. What kind of idiot carries a gun in a family restaurant for family brunch? Well, that would be one of the folks influenced by the NRA-approved “Molon Labe” movement.

I’m pretty sure that Bateman was one of the brainiacs who recommended that our troops in Afghanistan shouldn’t be armed around our allies so as not cause those allies to think the US troops didn’t trust them – you know the same troops who ended up being casualties of those green-on-blue attacks in recent years.

Then on top of that, the man who was carrying the firearm in public, was also tattooed with the words “Molon Labe”, which I’m sure sent Bateman into another frenzy, because you know, from Bateman’s perspective, words are more powerful than actions;

“Molon Labe” what? “What the heck is that?” you might rightly ask. I mean, that is not even English. Is it some kind of foreign terrorist organization?

Basically, the Greek phrase is supposed to mean something like “come and take our weapons” and it was supposed to be the message that Spartan King Leonidas sent to the Persian king Xerxes before the Spartans were wiped out at Thermopylae. It’s supposed to be a defiant phrase from the pro-gun movement to the panty-waists – like Bateman. I have a cap and my Sig Sauer Spartan has the phrase engraved on the slide, because mostly I own scads of firearms just to piss off the Batemans of the world and every time someone tries to take my guns, I buy three more. Bateman had to make a real stretch to find some hypocrisy in the phrase;

See, in choosing this quote and this situation, the “freedom lovers” are quoting the absolute ruler of the most rigidly controlled military state in the ancient world. Leonidas was the co-king of Sparta, a state in which the individual had almost no rights, which held a massive population (the “Helots”) in subjugation and slavery, and where all able-bodied men were completely subject to the will of the leaders. In other words, the exact opposite of freedom.

Bateman makes a rookie historian mistake by judging an ancient culture with our current values, rather than judging it in the context of it’s own time. Stank-ass hippies are well-known for that.

The Greeks had the best thing going in the world at the time – it wasn’t perfect but they were happy with it – more happy than they would have been with their necks under the Persian sandals. You know, just like we’re happy with the Constitution the way it is now, more happy than we would be if the Batemans of the world had an opportunity to rewrite it.

Since we get to read Master Bateman’s sage words once again, we can safely assume that he made it out of the Sunday Brunch without being shot by the American exercising his Constitutional right to protect himself and his family – I’m pretty sure that Master Bateman, the pudgy bulletheaded nosy creep hasn’t been shot by a lot of law abiding gun-owning Americans since he decided of his own free will to return to this country, despite our gun laws. So Molon Labe, MFer.