Category: Gun Grabbing Fascists

The Senate is set to vote on the Harry Reid gun control bill tomorrow. The gruesome gun grabbers trotted out their dead yesterday to justify their votes against the rights of Americans, says the Washington Post;

On Tuesday, the subject of gun control — and emotional reminders of gun violence — overtook Washington. Relatives of those killed in December’s mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., made solemn visits to senators’ offices on Capitol Hill. On the Senate floor, Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) mentioned his father’s death by a self-inflicted gunshot.

Not that background checks would have prevented any of the “big three” incidents that seem to haunt the gun debate in Congress, but for some reason, Reid related his father’s death to a three-day waiting period. I guess his father wouldn’t have shot himself if he’d had to wait three days. I don’t what that has to do with background checks, but I know if my son was a draft-dodging whiner, I’d have probably killed myself no matter how long I had to wait.

No one is mentioning whether the current legislation contains provisions for storing the data from universal background checks, but since that’s Tom Coburn’s sticking point and he hasn’t said that he’s supporting the legislation, I’m guessing that provision is still in the bill.

The Washington Times says that WV’s Joe Manchin and PA Republican Pat Toomey are supporting the legislation, so I’ve been faxing my Senators today.

Mr. Manchin, West Virginia Democrat, and Mr. Toomey, Pennsylvania Republican, both have “A” ratings from the National Rifle Association, potentially giving the the deal the kind of political weight needed to achieve a bipartisan vote capable of overcoming a filibuster.

The details of the package aren’t yet clear and will be announced later on Wednesday, according to NBC.

I’m sure the details won’t be complete enough, but my Senators know that I oppose any stockpiling of background check records. And I don’t know what the Post is talking about here;

A bipartisan group of senators has struck a deal to expand gun background checks to all commercial sales — whether at gun shows, via the Internet or in any circumstance involving paid advertising, according to Senate aides familiar with the talks.

I’ve bought some of my weapons at gun shows and on the internet and I’ve gone through background checks every time, so I guess I don’t know what the Hell anyone is talking about anymore. And I don’t think they do either.

By the way, for West Virginia residents, the state Senate is considering legislation today that would exempt CCW license holders from background checks when they purchase weapons. You might want to tell your Senator that you’re tired of going through background checks every time you turn around.

It looks like that could now be the case in the People’s Republic of New York.

A lawyer in the Buffalo area is reporting two cases where handgun ownership permits were suspended purportedly because the permit holders were taking anti-anxiety medications.  The attorney is representing either one or both of the individuals involved in those cases.

Presumably, these individuals were taking their anti-anxiety medications because their physician had prescribed them.

Full details are not available, so there may be other factors involved.  But even so, this raises a number of troubling questions:

• Who told police that these individuals were taking anti-anxiety medications?
• Absent other factors indicating risk, isn’t such notification a violation of privacy laws concerning information contained in personal medical records?
• Is the use of a medication alone sufficient reason to suspend a constitutional right?  If so, which ones? How about other medications, like opiate pain killers prescribed post-surgery?
• How many police officials in NY take anti-anxiety medications?  Are they now being removed from their jobs, since firearms proficiency is a key element in performing the duties of law enforcement?
• Are other professionals in occupations with public health and/or safety responsibilities (e.g., doctors, nurses, pharmacists, bus drivers, etc . . . . ) going to have their professional credentials suspended under similar circumstances?
• What about spouses and other family members?  Do their permits get suspended if anyone in the household is taking a “prohibited medicine”?

Looks to me like “somebody’s got some ‘splainin’ to do” here, Lucy.  And, frankly, I hope that ‘splainin’ is done by the idiot(s) who made this stupid decision – while they’re standing in line at the unemployment office.

That almost certainly won’t happen – this occurred in the People’s Republic of New York.  But it should, and one can hope.

Old Trooper sent us a link to PoliceOne which surveyed over 15,000 verified field law enforcement officers on the “national discussion” we’re not having about guns. the upshot is that most police officers stand with less restrictive gun laws as a means to deter crime. They also overwhelmingly state that the proposals currently wending their way through the various legislative bodies across the country won’t have a major or even minor impact on crime.

Almost 96% responded that limiting magazine capacity to ten rounds won’t reduce crime. 71% responded that banning the sale of certain weapons won’t impact the crime rate. Only 11% said that the White House’s current proposals would moderately or significantly make police officers safer. Only 18% would enforce the legislation currently being written if they were in a leadership position within their respective agencies. Given eight choices, 40% concurred that more permissive arming of civilians would do more to prevent crime than the other choices – less than 2.5% chose tighter restrictions on gun ownership and legislative weapons bans as options.

So, how does that fit in the “national discussion”? I mean it is a discussion, right? It’s not a monologue. So will Chuckie Schumer and Dianne Feinstein consider this comprehensive poll of a huge number of law enforcement professionals, or will they just continue on with their idiot gun grabbing ways? You know what my guess is.

Yesterday, in Salem, OR, a Cuban refugee from Castro’s communist Cuba, Manuel Martinez, scolded his local government when they tried to pass more gun control legislation telling them that “You don’t don’t know what freedom is because you’ve never lost it.”

From Daylight Disinfectant;

Mr. Martinez escaped the brutal Communist regime in Cuba in [1959]. His testimony included how citizens under Castro were first disarmed by legislation similar to that being shepherded along by Gun-Grabber in Chief Floyd Prozanski. Defenseless, many Cuban Citizens were later summarily slaughtered.

The folks at the NRA send us a link to their lastest video, “Power Breeds Arrogance”. Navy SEAL, Dom Raso dissects Nanny Bloomberg’s blather this week;

The Hill writes that McCain says that he doesn’t understand why a slew of Republican Senators are planning to filibuster the Reid Gun Control Bill thats’ coming to the floor this week, apparently. Aside from there being a whole voluminous list of stuff that McCain doesn’t understand, I have to agree with him a bit. But first;

“I don’t understand why United States senators want to block debate when the leaders said we could have amendments,” McCain added.

A number of GOP lawmakers, including Sens. Rand Paul (Ky.), Mike Lee (Utah), Marco Rubio (Fla.), and Ted Cruz (Texas) wrote to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) vowing that they would “oppose the motion to proceed to any legislation that will serve as a vehicle for any additional gun restrictions.”

I know Republicans are heartened by the reaction of the public after Rand Paul’s 13-hour filibuster and I tend to think that filibustering the gun control vote won’t turn out as well for them as it did for Paul, and besides, I want a vote on gun control.

I know the Washington Post is optimistic that the vote will result in universal background checks and finally close that non-existent gun show loop hole that everyone is saying this week killed those kids in Newtown. But, I don’t think it will happen, actually. I just want a list of gun grabbing Fascists to publish. A list of gun-grabbing Fascists that won’t have jobs next year.

In fact, I’m a little disappointed that Reid doesn’t have the testicular fortitude to bring the Feinstein bill to the floor, too, because like Reid, I don’t think it will pass and do more damage to the Democat’s majority in the Senate than a plane crashing into the Capitol. But, I’m pretty sure that among America’s gun owners, the list of whom is growing every day, the damage has been done, just by having the one-sided “national discussion” and the Democrats showing their collective ass.

So while I agree with McCain that there should be a vote without a filibuster, he’s being a pussy about it.