Category: Gun Grabbing Fascists

Well in the time between studying for my test in M6 class I ran into this. It seems that a person by the name Heather Whaley from Moms Demand Action. In the video she calls Senator Corker office and acts completely crazy. See for yourself.

So yea, that happened. I mean calling a US Senator while pretending to have a mental illness and demanding to own guns is a GREAT way to have a across the board talk right. And plus who can argue with this video has someone firing a AR-15 with the shells labeled with the different mass shootings. Oh and pay no attention to the fact that Combine is cited even though that is when the 1994 Assault ban was in effect.

This is the demands that the posted.

Moms Demand Action was founded to demand action NOW to:?

1) Ban assault weapons and ammunition magazines that hold more than 10 rounds.
2) Require background checks for all gun and ammunition purchases.?
3) Report the sale of large quantities of ammunition to the ATF, and ban online sales of ammunition.
4) Make gun trafficking a federal crime with serious criminal penalties.
5) Counter gun industry lobbyists’ efforts to weaken gun laws at the state level.

Which I left them this reply which we shall see how fast they ignore answer it.

1. Assault weapons have been banned for awhile since you cannot buy a full auto weapon.
2. The 1996 weapon ban that expired under Bush did not prevent Combine.
3. Will the background checks be deposed of after they are complete?
4. The same ATF that allowed guns to go to Mexican Drug gangs even when the dealers warned them about it.
5. how about enforce the ones we have first before making new ones.

The New York Times reports that Senators Manchin and Toomey are working behind the scenes to breath life back into the gun bill that failed last week in the Senate.

Senators Joe Manchin III, Democrat of West Virginia, and Patrick J. Toomey, Republican of Pennsylvania, have been talking in recent days about how they could persuade more senators to support their bill to expand background checks for gun buyers, which drew backing from only four Republicans last week.

“We’re going to work it hard,” Mr. Manchin said Thursday, adding that he was looking at tweaking the language of his bill in a way that he believed would satisfy senators who, for example, felt that background checks on person-to-person gun sales would be too onerous for people who live in rural areas far from a sporting goods store.

Yeah, well, that’s not the only reason guys. The bill includes a recordkeeping requirement for gun dealers who perform the background checks for private sales. It was the only part that Chuckie Schumer wouldn’t let go during his negotiations with Manchin, so for that reason alone, I oppose the bill – the fact that Schumer won’t negotiate it away tells me that it’s part of a grander plan ending in national registration.

As I told Manchin in a fax this evening, I liked the part where CCW license holders could avoid background checks, but if Schumer is adamant about maintaining records of sales, I’m willing to sacrifice that convenience and continue to oppose the bill.

The Republicans, Senators Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire and Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, are discussing ways they might support the bill, which would criminalize the shipping or transfer of guns to someone who is barred from possessing a firearm.

What? That’s not illegal now? I’m pretty sure it is, I’m positive that I read something in the US Code about it last time I read the damn thing, a few weeks ago when I was looking at something else. But if I’m wrong and it’s not in there, it damn well should be, but without all of the accoutrements about restricting legal gun owners.

Andy sends us a link to some idiot crap at The New Yorker by John Cassidy in which he takes the bombs out of the hands of the Tsarnaev brothers and gives them evil, scary black gun instead;

What would have been different?

Well, for one thing, the brothers would probably have killed a lot more than three people at the marathon. AR-15s can fire up to forty-five rounds a minute, and at close range they can tear apart a human body. If the Tsarnaevs had started firing near the finish line, they might easily have killed dozens of spectators and runners before fleeing or being shot by the police.

At first, Cassidy had written than an evil, scary black gun could fire 45-rounds/second, but then he corrected it to read 45 rounds/minute. His note of the correction is at the end of the article. I’ll give him that one, though. I’ve written things wrong in the past a time or two – my fingers have their own brains sometimes.

But, Cassidy is under the impression that somehow the brothers could smuggle a rifle under their jacket – obviously he doesn’t know that a standard AR 15 is about a meter long. A little hard to conceal, especially when you’re pulling it out from under your coat in a crowd – then your rate of fire drops to about two rounds before you get your ass beat with the rifle by your intended victims. These weren’t grade school children. That’s probably why the brothers didn’t use their hand gun as part of their plan. They wanted to get away.

Then Cassidy goes off on how we would react to a mass shooting rather than a bombing, because we’re, as a culture, accustomed to mass murders by firearms. He assumes that the vote in Congress might have gone differently on the background checks/prospective gun grab – and he says that it should have, because somehow we four million members of the NRA would have shut our mouths as an expression of our collective guilt over something that clearly the millions of Americans who own guns wouldn’t have been involved. And oh, yeah, we wouldn’t have suspected Islamist terrorists, because mass shootings are the modus operandi of crazed white guys.

That assumptions falls apart when you look at the target – like I said in the opening hours of the tragedy, Islamists target crowds of people while crazed white guys with guns usually look at making a statement about their target – WHAT they’re attacking, not just random people milling about on the street.

Then Cassidy tries to make a vacuous case that AR15 rifles are WMDs;

Finally, there’s the question of what would have happened to the Tsarnaevs after they had been caught—that’s assuming one or both of them had survived the attack. Just for the sake of argument, let’s say things had developed pretty much as they did, with Tamerlan, the elder brother, being killed, and Dzhokhar, the younger brother, being wounded and captured. Would the government have charged him with conspiring to use “weapons of mass destruction,” a count that could lead to the death penalty? And if they had done this, what would it have meant for the future of assault weapons? Once they’d been classified as W.M.D.s, would that have not made a difference to the public debate about how freely available they should be?

Now, this is discussion about phantom guns that weren’t actually used in an actual shooting, but somehow they were “freely available” to our criminals. The gun that the Tsarnaev did have wasn’t legally purchased by either of them, so how are the guns that they used in Cassidy’s fantasy “freely available” in this scenario?

Yes, this is only a counterfactual exercise, which, like all such riffs, shouldn’t be taken too literally.

But, taken not too literally, it is just wishful thinking on Cassidy’s part. He just wants to scare people with something that didn’t happen the way he wanted it to happen. I guess he couldn’t help but take advantage of a tragedy, turn the facts on their heads and make an idiot statement about scary black guns and demonize those of us who pay the NRA to represent our interests in Washington.

So, Governor Christie of New Jersey has proposed stuff to add to New Jersey’s voluminous gun regulations and apparently he has caught the “do something” bug according to the Courier Post;

The proposal calls for expanding government-funded mental health treatment, requiring parental sign-off before minors can buy or rent violent video games and mandating would-be gun owners show government-issued IDs.

The governor also recommended banning the sale of Barrett 50-caliber semi-automatic sniper rifles. But his plan doesn’t address classroom security or propose limits on magazine capacity.

Now, tell me what banning .50 caliber rifles will do to make the streets safer. How many crimes have been committed with one of those beasts? A Barrett weighs almost 30 pounds and costs over $9000 – so how many lives will be saved, Governor? The first paragraph says that this is a plan to “curb violence”. It’s a true sporting rifle – only folks who are fans of long range shooting invest that kind of money in them. And I’m sure there aren’t that many sold or owned in New Jersey anyway.

And, by the way, every time I’ve bought a weapon, I’ve had to show my driver’s license to prove that I’m a resident of the state in which I’m buying the gun. I hope he didn’t break his brain thinking these proposals up in order to do something, anything.

An ad for this keeps popping up on my Facebook thingie;

I guess we’re the “ideological fringe” that needs to be defeated because we don’t want to be told what we can buy. Or maybe Markie is just mad because his attempt to own an AR15-style rifle was thwarted by the very same people he sought to demonize.

How many times do we have to tell these cranks that the “big money” that the NRA throws at Congress is OUR money and they’re doing what their 4 million members pay them to do – pay for our influence.

By the way, I got three more 30-round magazines for the Ruger today. I forgot I’d back-ordered them – I guess the logjam is breaking. Now if I could only find some .223 ammo for them. I stocked up on 5.56mm green tips, but I need .223 now – .223 that doesn’t cost $1/round.

The President, yesterday, after being handed a defeat in the Senate in regards to the gun control bill, surrounded by families of the victims of Sandy Hook who had been staying in Washington the entire week at your expense, said that yesterday was “a pretty shameful day in Washington”. I’d say it was the last day of a pretty shameful several months. The President claimed that people were swayed in the “national discussion” by lies. I’d respond that the American people weren’t swayed by lies.

Early in the discussion, we had the Los Angeles Police Department parading around inert fiberglass tubes that they had bought in a gun buy back program proclaiming that America was safer because they’d removed “RPGs” off the street, when all they had really done is get scammed by someone to buy trash.

The Chicago Tribune compounded that lie by trying to scare their readers by telling them that AR15 rifles could readily accept grenade launchers on the sling swivel. No one is buying grenade launchers, there are not “bloopers” flying around our streets. Who has been killed by grenade launchers? The President said outloud to contributors that Adam Lanza used a “fully automatic” in Sandy Hook, which is absolutely false.

Then there was that idiot, Congresswoman Dianne DeGette, who we’re told is one of the Congressional experts on magazines, who doesn’t even know what magazines are or what they do. Robin Kelly, running for Jesse Jackson, Junior’s recently vacated seat in Congress, told us that concealed carry didn’t help the people in that Aurora theater – you know the “gun free zone”.

VoteVets was telling us that criminals can buy AR-style rifles with “no questions asked” without the current gun control legislation that was defeated yesterday. That’s absolutely false.

Mark Kelly, the husband of Gabrielle Giffords, after buying his own semi-automatic pistol, decided to buy an AR-style, supposedly to see how hard it is to buy one, but he already knew how hard it is to buy one, because he’d just bought a handgun – a semi-automatic handgun of the same type which had wounded his wife. But he was trying to demonize a rifle. And then he was denied the ownership of the rifle because the gn dealer had determined that he was going to be a straw purchaser – you know, as a gatekeeper to gun ownership like he’s supposed to be.

Then we’ve got Joe Biden telling women to buy a shotgun because it’s easier to shoot than a rifle. And telling them to just fire their shotgun off periodically to scare away criminals. Biden also admitted that no new gun grabbing regulation would change anything in the country but that we had to do something, anything, and do it now.

And a newspaper in New York State publishes the names and addresses of legal gun owners in their county, as if they are criminals of some sort.

The administration said over and over again how their new regulations wouldn’t lead to a national registry, but Chuck Schumer admitted in public that national registration was his ultimate goal and that background checks would lead to that. So, after all of the lies we were told over the last several months, who the Hell is going to believe anything this administration and Congress tell us?

No,the NRA didn’t defeat this bill, it was the morons who were chosen to get out in front of the “national discussion”, which wasn’t a discussion at all. It was a huge propaganda campaign – that had confiscation at the end of the campaign.

I’ll admit that I liked the part of the bill that allowed CCW permit holders to avoid background checks, and I liked the part about veterans getting some protections from the bureaucrats at the VA, but those were camouflage for an odious bill, and the Senate did the right thing.

By the way, Feinstein’s “assault weapon ban” went down in a 40-60 vote defeat. But, that won’t stop them from trying to revive it the next time something happens like Sandy Hook with some more victims to be paraded in front of cameras for more knee-jerk legislation.

Carey sends us the 12 Finest Examples Of Left-Wing Frustration After The Senate Voted Against Gun Control. Crybabies, it’s their own fault.