Category: Gun Grabbing Fascists

Our favorite 2d Amendment journalist, Emily Miller of the Washington Times writes today that the dark forces of the gun grabbers are planning to mark the anniversary of the tragic shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School with another run at using the horrible events of that day to push more gun control legislation.

The White House and such groups as New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Mayors Mayors Against Illegal Guns, the Brady Campaign and Organizing for Action have been meeting for a weekly “Gun Violence Table” to coordinate strategy, according to a report in Politico.

The White House Office of Public Engagement, which is part of Valerie Jarrett’s fiefdom, is working with these gun-control advocates to plan events to commemorate the horrible shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, when 20 young children and six educators were killed

Never let a good tragedy go to waste. But, of course, the lesson of Sandy Hook doesn’t exist. Adam Lanza was prevented from buying a weapon by existing laws, so he killed his mother and took her guns. The gun control legislation that the gun grabbers want to enact will punish legitimate gun owners, not the Adam Lanzas of the world. Miller continues to address the real problem;

[J. Michael Bostwick, M.D., a Mayo Clinic psychiatrist] believes the current FBI background check system is not working to screen out mentally ill from gun purchases because many states are not putting mental health records into the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).

He said that three million people have been committed to mental health hospitals but only 200,000 of those people are reported in NICS. “As a result we cannot feel comfortable that we have a system in place to put away all the mentally ill people in hopes of preventing these crimes,” said the doctor.

Gun grabbers talk about “closing gun show loopholes” that don’t exist or have a negligible effect on crime (2% of criminals use weapons they acquired through private sales). They want to ban things and they don’t really want to fix the problem – keeping potential criminals from being able to purchase firearms and all of the scary-looking things they use to frighten the public.

Congratulations, Virginia, you’re about to elect Terry McAullife as your governor. He’s stumping through Virginia today with Bill Clinton, you know the guy who McAuliffe loaned a couple of million bucks so Clinton could buy a house in New York State and then his wife could run for the Senate. Here in the DC area, we’ve been inundated with McAullife ads, mostly about how his opponent is against abortions, but lately, the McAullife campaign got a load of Bloomberg bucks from the anti-gun nut who is running New York City into nanny-statism.

The funny thing is; you can’t find McAullife’s anti-gun anywhere on the internet – I even looked on his website and it’s not there. Isn’t that a little bit strange? Politico writes a little about the ad;

With imagery of the gunmen in three recent shooting sprees, including the one at Virginia Tech, the ad’s narrator says, “The gun show loophole. It means anyone can buy a gun without a background check. The dangerously mentally ill. Criminals. Endangering our families.”

Yeah, while those words are being read pictures of the Virginia tech shooter, Seung-Hui Cho, the Aurora Colorado shooter, James Eagan Holmes and the Sandy Hook shooter, Adam Lanza are flashed on the screen. And the words themselves are a lie. There is no real gun show loophole – I’ve bought two guns at gun shows and both times I went through the same background checks that went through when I bought guns at dealers’ stores. So I don’t know what a “gun show loophole” is, unless they mean the same loophole that allows people to sell guns at their yard sale.

As we’ve stated before, even the Bureau of Justice Statistics admits that less than two percent of criminals were arrested with guns they bought at gun shows or flea markets. And none of the three in the ads bought guns at gun shows.

And Republicans and the NRA want to limit gun sales to “the dangerously mentally ill”, but it’s liberals, like Terry McAullife, who won’t let “the dangerously mentally ill” be included on the national ID check system.

From another Politico link;

McAuliffe is unapologetic about his support for stricter gun laws, including an assault weapons ban, universal background checks, limiting the size of magazines and preventing people from buying more than one gun a month. He would unquestionably be a close Bloomberg ally should he win.

So, Virginians are letting one New Yorker select another New Yorker to be their governor. Neither of whom particularly care about Virginia or Virginians. Judging by the ads I’ve seen on my local TV, the whole election is going to be decided by how easy it is to kill the unborn and how hard it is to buy weapons for protection of the law abiding post-born.

Good job, Virginia.

Our favorite Second Amendment journalist, Emily Miller of the Washington Times went to the National Cathedral in Washington, DC today where some gun grabbers made a spectacle of themselves by forging tools out of gun parts trying to make some kind of statement about gun violence. I’m sure the idea sounded better in their empty, pointy heads. Miller interviewed some of the gun grabbers;

“This is a public health crisis,” the longtime liberal activist [Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund] said. “The NRA has blocked gun violence research, so most parents don’t know that having a gun in the home puts themselves and their children in more danger.”
These garden tools were made out of illegal guns during an event at the Washington National Cathedral on Sunday, Oct. 20, 2013, in Washington.

“The NRA and the gun manufacturers are selling guns to people by making them believe it will make them safer!” she railed. “The gun manufacturers are even marketing guns for 4- and 5-year-olds.”

I asked where she saw those advertisements for guns for preschool children. Mrs. Edelman paused and then told me to call Josh Sugarman, a radical anti-gun proponent who founded the Violence Policy Center.

Yeah, that makes sense – spending marketing dollars on people who won’t be eligible to purchase your product for at least 16 more years. I guess they figured that the “marketing to kids” strategy worked so well against the tobacco industry that they can use it against Big Guns, too.

The NRA didn’t block the Center for Disease Control’s research and the CDC concluded that almost all of Ms. Edelman’s conclusions were wrong. But, I guess she missed that report because it got almost no press in the liberal media. Or, more likely, she just ignored the inconvenient truths of the report.

I’m wondering why the Leftists were wasting their breath in DC, with the police department’s overt approval (since it’s illegal to have even parts of unregistered guns in the city). Hardly anyone in DC owns a gun legally.

According to the Washington Times, there are a dozen or so gun control bills on Governor Jerry Brown’s desk which would not only keep California in the fore of gun grabbers’ paradise, it charts new territory in the business of gun grabbing. Apparently, one of the bills would outlaw lead bullets;

To put the lead bill in context, about 95 percent of all ammunition sold in California contains lead. The alternative is metal bullets, some of which can pierce police armor and are banned by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Critics say the bill would effectively end hunting as a sport in California.

“If California outlaws lead bullets, the federal government already outlaws everything else, so there’s nothing left for hunters to use,” said California Assemblyman Brian Jones, a Republican from Santee. “It basically outlaws hunting.”

Another bill from the California Senate goes further than even New York’s SAFE Law passed earlier this year in regards to semi-automatic rifles;

If he signs Senate Bill 374, which bans all semi-automatic weapons with a detachable magazine, including hunting rifles, Mr. Brown is likely to set in motion a lawsuit, said Long Beach attorney Chuck Michel, who represents the National Rifle Association’s California affiliate.

“This bill is proof that the slippery-slope argument is valid,” said Mr. Michel. “We hope the governor sees how particularly ill-advised this bill is, but if he signs it, the NRA will have no choice but to challenge the law.”

Meanwhile, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence is lobbying the governor to sign the bills while praising legislators for passing “an unprecedented number of life-saving measures to keep our communities safe from gun violence.”

I guess that means that even my little Charter Arms AR-7 survival rifle would be illegal with it’s huge .22 caliber bullet and the dangerous eight-round magazine, since it’s both magazine-fed and semi-automatic. I bought it in 1983 to protect myself on Belton Lake from the rattlesnakes who would take a break in my boat while they were crossing the lake. I hope they don’t find out that my bolt-action Remington Model 700 also has a magazine or they’ll go after that one, too.

There is some push-back in the legislature, but with Democrats holding a supermajority in both houses, sailed the legislation through easily;

“If [Gov. Brown] does sign them, I think that we’re going to see an outcry brewing,” said [Republican Assemblyman Brian Jones]. “These are hard-working families, a lot of whom happen to be union, and they’re hunters, they’re sportsmen, they’re honest, law-abiding gun owners who feel like their Second Amendment rights are being attacked. And they don’t like it.”

I guess it’s just a race among the governors to see who can be the most liberal -that’s liberal in the modern sense, not the traditional liberty-loving sense.