Category: Gun Grabbing Fascists

The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham has established a new set of rules for the area they’re calling Nineveh, according to the UK’s Telegraph. And right off the bat, they’re establishing gun control that would have the US administration drooling at the thought;

“No drugs, no alcohol and no cigarettes allowed,” it added.

No public gathering other than those [organized] by ISIS will be allowed at any stage. No guns will be allowed outside of [ISIS’] ranks.

They probably like the “no cigarettes” part, too. That moaning you hear is the Brady Bunch and the Mayors Against Guns having a mutual orgasm during their circle jerk. Bloomberg is their pivot man, in case you didn’t know.

Gee, I wonder why they’d go after guns in the beginning of the birth of their Caliphate like that? Well, it could never happen here. AmIright?

LTC Robert Bateman, the least infantry man in the world, says that the shooting in Las Vegas was the last straw – he’s coming back to the US and take your guns;

No. I am coming home. I need to be there and be part of the solution. Moms Demand Action is getting some traction, but they can use the lean-in of a few U.S. Army Airborne Infantry Rangers. I am only sorry that I did not stand up to this threat to our nation before. I am sorry. I was busy.

I have been overseas in Afghanistan and in NATO nations for half a decade while the insanity of the National Rifle Association expanded and exploded, and the NRA became, essentially, the tool of death in the United States. They made mass killings normal.

Well done, NRA. But this shit is too much.

Um, Mister Bateman, I don’t see any connection between the tragedy in Las Vegas and the National Rifle Association – you know, that association of millions of Americans who happen to be lawful gun owners. What’s Moms Demand Action got? Tens, Twenties? I’m sure you and your wetted panties will be welcomed. Especially because you think you’re an infantryman – an infantryman who hasn’t been infantry (as the rest of us understand the word) since you were a Second Lieutenant.

So I will come home, and perhaps some of those 3,000 nutjobs who sent me hatemail might want to meet up, because I am more than fricking willing, you whining, little boy-toys who need guns. So many of you have threatened me that I am literally booked, but any of you who feel you have been left out, go ahead. Book a date. You bring your gun to try and convince me that you are not a complete and total idiot, and if you bring a gun, let us see which tool works best.

Wimps need guns. Come and get me.

Another internet tough guy. No one here has threatened you, by the way. But, you know, being a tough guy on the internet attracts folks who are willing to cash the checks that your alligator mouth writes for your hummingbird ass. Wimps are internet tough guys.

The opinions here are only those of somebody that thinks a “Patriot Movement”—one which executes police officers—is not working in the service of the nation. They are only the opinions of someone who believes that “Tea Party members” who shoot policemen in the head— executing them at point blank range and then declaring that the “revolution” is starting before placing a Don’t Tread on Me flag atop the dead bodies of the police officers you just killed in cold blood—are not good.

If you can connect those two whack-a-doos to the “patriot” or “Tea Party” groups, you can have at ’em. But stop hiding behind the least infantry career in the world. I mean, the Moms Demand Action might be impressed with your creds, but the rest of us are convinced you’re blowing smoke. You and your twisted, wet panties better stay in Europe. By the way, did you get outraged at the shootings in gun-free Brussels or about the three mounties who were slaughtered in gun-free Canada?

But, you know, maybe a Ranger can straighten this whole thing out. Especially if you join the Moms. Don’t forget to take your parasol, princess.

Rahm Emanuel, the mayor of Chicago, shows that he really has his finger on the pulse of gun crimes in his city according to an LA Times article sent to us by ROS;

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has proposed a slate of tough gun control measures that would subject gun shops to strict monitoring, including video surveillance of all purchases, in an effort to stem violence in a city beset with an unusually high number of gun deaths.

The restrictions came after a federal court order in January forced Chicago to end its ban on gun sales in the city and gave officials until July to put in place regulations before the ban is lifted.

The Emanuel administration in a report released this week makes a case for Chicago gun shops to videotape all sales, ban gun shops in 99.5% of the city and limit each gun buyer at a store to one purchase a month, except for relics and returns. Gun sellers would be subject to quarterly audits.

In addition, gun shop workers would have to pass background checks and be trained to spot fake or “straw” purchasers, such as a male gang member getting a girlfriend to buy his gun because he’s ineligible.

Yeah, because that’s where male gang members are getting their guns – from gun dealers. Why don’t they mandate that criminals video their sales out of the trunks of their cars, too, I mean that would have about as much effect as these new laws. And then they could have all of the illegal gun dealers go through a quarterly audit.

Why don’t they limit gun dealers to one sale a month, while they’re at it. On top of that, when criminals break into the gun shops that are packed in all right next to each other, require those gun thieves to video themselves and leave an SD card of their crime on the counter.

I’m sure he’ll get reelected because he’s doing “something” to stop gun crime even though it’s completely useless.

So after what-his-name in Santa Barbara stabbed three people, ran over some more with his BMW, and then shot three more, somehow it’s all white males who are to blame for it, says Micheal Moore, through mouthfulls of some greasy food;

“Nearly all of our mass shootings are by angry or disturbed white males,” he continued. “None of them are committed by the majority gender, women. Hmmm, why is that? Even when 90% of the American public calls for stronger gun laws, Congress refuses — and then we the people refuse to remove them from office. So the onus is on us, all of us. We won’t pass the necessary laws, but more importantly we won’t consider why this happens here all the time.”

Let’s just ignore all of those people of color involved in shooting in Chicago and Detroit and along the border who murder other people of color by the dozens every day across the country. Nice call, Mikey. If Congress hadn’t included the crazy stuff about the private sales and gun shows, that bill might have passed in the Congress. And maybe if those northeast liberals hadn’t tried to backdoor gun registration it might have passed. But, if it had passed, it wouldn’t have kept what-his-name from having guns this weekend in California – some of the toughest gun laws in the country.

Meanwhile, that phony Vietnam vet, the Senator from Connecticut, Dick Blumenthal wants to revive the gun control legislation from last year;

“Obviously, not every kind of gun violence is going to be prevented by laws out of Washington,” he said.

“But at least we can make a start and I am going to urge that we bring back those bills, maybe reconfigure them, center on mental health, which is a point where we can agree that we need more resources to make the country healthier and to make sure that these kinds of horrific, insane, mad occurrences are stopped.

Sure, if you want to tighten up police and mental health professionals and the way they don’t report encounters with the crazy, I’m all for it. But we all know that you people (and by that “you people” I mean the guilt-ridden white liberals from the northeast) won’t stop there. It’s easier to regulate the law abiding gun owners than it is to regulate gun violence, so that’s what will happen. We’ll pass some “big f’n deal” bill and slap ourselves on the back for ‘doing something” whether it works to reduce gun violence or not. “Or not” is preferred so we can write more legislation to keep Congress in their jobs.

Chris Martinez was a victim of what’s-his-name, and his father came out to blame folks who had nothing to do with the shooting;

“Why did Chris die? Chris died because of craven, irresponsible politicians and the (National Rifle Association). They talk about gun rights — what about Chris’ right to live?” he continued. “When will this insanity stop? When will enough people say stop this madness, we don’t have to live like this? Too many have died. We should say to ourselves — not one more.”

What about my right to live? It wasn’t the NRA that wrote odious legislation, it wasn’t the NRA who had a knee jerk reaction and had to “do something” like Colorado, Connecticut, New York, Maryland and California which all wrote laws that only affected folks who obey the laws. California made it’s residents feel safer when actually they weren’t. Point to one part of the legislation that failed in Congress last year that would have prevented what’s-his-name from killing three people with a gun, three people with a knife or injured those people with his car.

What Martinez, Moore and Blumenthal really want is to disarm all of us and leave us unprotected from the criminals. That’s the only thing that would have stopped what’s-his-name, unless we make liberals abandon their idiocy about protecting the rights of the infirmed at the expense of the rights for the rest of us.

I see LTC Robert Bateman is trolling the blog again this morning, reawakened by the latest news of that fellow in Santa Barbara who killed a half dozen people and injured a half dozen more. Bateman feels vindicated by every shooting incident, you know being an expert in violence. But, reading the Washington Post this morning, he shouldn’t feel even a tinge of vindication. The gunman, whatever his name was, has been treated for mental problems for years and should have been reported on the national database as a mental defective;

When some young women neglected to smile at him at a bus stop one day, Rodger wrote, he splashed them with his Starbucks latte. When he saw a cluster of undergraduates frolicking happily in a park another day, Rodger grew so jealous and angry that he loaded a Super Soaker water gun with orange juice and sprayed them.

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Last month, the 22-year-old wrote, his mother was so concerned about his well-being after seeing some of his videos on YouTube that she contacted mental-health officials, who dispatched sheriff’s deputies to check on him at his apartment in Isla Vista, an enclave near the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Had the officers sensed something awry during their April 30 visit, they might have searched Rodger’s home. They would have found his three semiautomatic handguns, dozens of rounds of ammunition and a draft of his 137-page memoir-manifesto. They would have read about his plot for a “Day of Retribution” — when, as Rodger wrote, he planned to “kill everyone in Isla Vista, to utterly destroy that wretched town.”

But, actually reporting the nut would have caused scores of lawyers and mental health professionals to spring to his defense. So Bateman and those lower functioning liberals go to their first instinct; ban the gun, you know, even though half of the fellow’s victims were stabbed to death.

And the folks in Washington are seizing on the incident to revive the gun control debate, but they’re not thinking about the causes of this – there is plenty of gun control already, there is enough gun control that if everyone had actually done their job, this gunman shouldn’t have had guns in the first place. But, aside from it being completely his fault, mental health and law enforcement failed measurably in their duty to society.

This was California, which has more gun control than many parts of the country, but it’s the cogs in the system that have to work together so that the gun laws work. It’s been the same in the mass shootings across the country. It’s not the gun laws that don’t work, it’s the humans in the system who are failing society.

But, it’s easier to regulate law abiding Americans than it is to regulate the criminals and sociopaths.

“He was able to make a very convincing story that there was no problem, that he wasn’t going to hurt himself or anyone else, and he just didn’t meet the criteria for any further intervention at that point,” Brown said. “Obviously, we certainly wish that we could turn the clock back and change some things, but at the time the deputies interacted with him, he was able to convince them that he was okay.”

The last two times we read LTC Robert Bateman’s tripe in Esquire, he went after guns in the American culture. This time, he turns on American gun owners because he claims we’re all homicidal cretins;

A few months ago when I wrote my first article here about America’s cult of the gun, the cultists themselves took notice. What I got in response was, at last count, more than 3,000 hate mail letters, 2,300 just in the first two weeks, and so far 19 death threats.

Statistically, that’s pretty good, actually. 19 death threats out of 3000, if those numbers are accurate, is only .6%. Here’s a sample, and, knowing that Bateman is a huge drama queen, I have to think that this is the worst of the 19 he claims that he received;

“Your interview with Esquire was an act of treason. You should be tried and hung. If the rope fails a bayonet inserted at the base of the skull stirring up what little brains are there would suffice. Get fucked commie.”

Now, I wouldn’t send an email like that, but it’s pretty tame as death threats go, because the author says that Bateman should receive a trial before he’s hung. None of the death threats that I get are quite so charitable.

There are more examples of crazed gun owners…like Alex Jones who confronts a man who claims his daughter was killed by an assault rifle (not by a crazed gunman who slipped through the cracks of the mental health system, but by an inanimate object), and another woman who was squirted by a lone squirt gunner.

I’m not Alex Jones, nor am I lurking in someone’s bushes with a squirt gun. But somehow we all are in Bateman’s tiny, closed mind. I should probably add that the few times he came here to engage our readers, he got no death threats, nor did he mention the civil manner in which the readers of TAH wrote to him, but that would have ruined his plea for sympathy at Esquire.

I have an 11-month-old daughter. Her house will not have guns, and I will never, ever, allow her to go to a home where there are guns. That is my DIVESTMENT plan, and I suggest it to all of you. You should know the parents of the children your children play with. Ask them the simple question, “Is there a gun in the house?” If the answer is “yes” then your kid never goes there. Period.

Personally, I wouldn’t want any progeny of this Bateman scold in my house, so it’s no big loss. But it’s odd how he thinks that it’s some kind of punishment to deny us the presence of his child and his family in our own house.

Down in the comments, where the real ‘tards live, is this Thomas Cleaver fellow;

Oooh, pretty tough isn’t he? One of those crazies from the Vietnam War who saw so much blood that it doesn’t bother him anymore. Well, unless you look at his presence around the web, where he claims he was an enlisted aviation sailor during Vietnam. I wonder how many ‘Cong he had to kill close up aboard ship.

He also writes at that hippie-assed The Rag Blog with the rest of the pot smokers still looking for something worthwhile to do now that the Iraq War has ended for us. But, see, there I go – attacking the messenger and paying no attention to his message. but that side of the “discussion” have no real facts, so it’s perfectly acceptable for them to make shit up.

You know, like Bateman telling us that he’s an infantryman when that is barely true – an infantry lieutenant colonel without a CIB after nearly 13 years of war. A lieutenant colonel who hasn’t served in an infantry unit since he was a lieutenant.

The Washington Times reports that Hillary Clinton doesn’t think you should be able to take your guns out in public, according to what she told the National Council for Behavioral Health conference in Oxon Hill, MD.

“I think again we’re way out of balance. I think that we’ve got to rein in what has become an almost article of faith that anybody can have a gun anywhere, anytime,” Clinton said. “And I don’t believe that is in the best interest of the vast majority of people. And I think you can say that and still support the right of people to own guns.”

The Democratic-controlled Senate voted against legislation pushed by President Barack Obama last year that would have expanded background checks for firearm purchases to gun shows and online sales. The legislation came in the aftermath of the deadly Sandy Hook elementary school shootings in Connecticut.

Well not anyone can own a gun to begin with, Hillary. Only the law abiding citizens. And even us law abiding citizens can carry just anywhere. We’re restricted from carrying in government and law enforcement buildings – anytime. Some states forbid folks from carrying in establishments that serve alcohol. Not here in West Virginia, but other states do. I’m not aware of any shootings in West Virginia in bars or restaurants.

The problem isn’t law abiding citizens who have passed background checks and taken the training required for concealed carry permits. The gatekeeper, the National Identification Checks System, suffers from garbage in, garbage out. If the unbalanced people aren’t entered into the system, they’re going to get guns.

[Clinton pointed] to recent shootings that involved teens who had been playing loud music and chewing gum and a separate incident involving the typing of text messages in a movie theater.

Last I checked, teens aren’t allowed to have guns, so her point is mute. Restricting legal gun owners won’t change that, will it? Well, at least you know the future of gun laws in the first few months of a Clinton Administration, if she’s dragging out this tired subject this early in her campaign.