Category: Gun Grabbing Fascists

Wayne LaPierre correctly pointed out this weekend that millionaire Michael Bloomberg, who the Washington Post calls “one of the 10 richest men in America” is trying to “buy America” with his millions as he spends the money on trying to impose his New York City nanny-statism on the rest of the country. The courts have already ruled that Bloomberg’s regime oversteps the bounds of what government should do, when he tried to limit the size of beverages there.

Wayne LaPierre as quoted in the Washington Times;

“He’s going to find out this is a country of the people, by the people and for the people, and he can’t spend enough of his $27 billion to try to impose his will on the American public,” Mr. LaPierre said. “They don’t want him in their restaurants, they don’t want them in their homes, they don’t want him telling what food to eat, they sure don’t want him telling what self-defense firearms to own, and he can’t buy America.”

Bloomberg has tried to tell New Yorkers what they can eat, he even has tried to tell women what they can do with their breasts in the privacy of their own homes. It’s the worst kind of statist behavior – one millionaire imposing his will on Americans – as if he is the embodiment of C. Montgomery Burns of the Simpson cartoon.

Bloomberg shows his total delusion in a quote from the Washington Post;

“I don’t think there’s ever been an issue where the public has spoken so clearly where Congress hasn’t eventually understood and done the right thing,” Bloomberg said on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” adding: “I think we are going to win this. Celebrating in advance isn’t the right thing to do. We’ve got to go out — we’ve got a lot of work ahead of us.”

Yeah, well, when you don’t tell the public what you really want, you’ll get the response that Bloomberg obviously is banking upon. Sure we all want 100% background checks, but when Bloomberg and Schumer fail to tell people that their idea of background checks leads to defacto registration. That there’s no way to prevent criminals and the mental defects who use guns illegally from getting their hands on guns because all of their legislation only threatens punishment for formerly legal gun owners and traders.

And criminals aren’t going to do background checks during their back-alley, car trunk sales anyway. So what’s their answer? Nothing but crickets, because easier to write laws that restrict the rights of the law abiding than it is to write laws that actually protect someone – all to bow down at the “do-something” altar of liberalism.

Yeah, I don’t like the idea of being dictated to by a millionaire New Yorker who is surrounded by armed body guards. But that’s me.

Ex-PH2 sends us a link to an article about this, the latest video ad from Nanny Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns crowd;

the video has a dingus with a gun sitting on the tailgate of his truck and his kids playing in the background – because he’s just like us. I always sit on the tailgate of my pickup with my gun, don’t you? Well, anyway he tells us how he’ll fight for his gun rights and then he says that “background checks have nothing to do with taking guns away from anyone”.

But then, Goober, tell me why the new background checks provision of that bill in the Senate requires that there’s a method for keeping records of those background checks and purchases? If it was a about background checks, after a buyer’s eligibility to own guns has been established, why would anyone need an archived copy of the purchase?

Bloomberg and his minions claim that 86 percent of voters support background checks. Sure, put me in that number, too, I support background checks for 100% of gun purchases, but I don’t support keeping a record of those purchases. I also support background checks for every purchase in a back alley or out of the trunk of a car – but nothing in this bill will stop criminals from transferring guns. The only people who will take the time to go somewhere and have a background check performed will be the law abiding citizens. And the only reason for keeping a record of those purchases is to eventually register guns and eventually confiscate guns.

Goober on the tailgate doesn’t understand the bill, and neither do those 86 percent of voters that Mayors Against Illegal Guns touts as the reason the Senate should pass the bill. By the way, the illegal guns that those mayors oppose, they’re your guns, after the Bloomberg crowd makes all guns illegal.

I read the Senate’s bill yesterday, but I’ll be darned if I can find it again. The most odious part of the bill is expanding background checks to private sales. Well, that and it mandates a record of those private transfers – that’s got Chuckie Schumer’s fingerprints on it, because he’s admitted in the past that background checks will lead to universal registration. From the Associated Press;

Reid said that during Congress’ upcoming two-week break, he hopes senators will strike a bipartisan compromise on broadening background checks. Without a deal, he indicated the gun bill would include a stricter version approved this month by the Senate Judiciary Committee and authored by Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., expanding the system to virtually all private gun transactions with few exceptions.

“I want to be clear: In order to be effective, any bill that passes the Senate must include background checks,” Reid said in a written statement.

It also establishes a fee for whoever is going to end up doing the background checks, it’s not clear in the bill who that will be, although it hints that it will be through licensed dealers.

But, I’m sure the criminals will all completely conform to the new law, because they always do. There won’t be any more alleyway sales of guns because the criminals will be just as eager to go to a dealer or the police to complete their background checks. By the way the bill also outlines the repercussions for folks who have a gun stolen and don’t report it within 24 hours.

You’ll be happy to know that you can pass your gun to your kids when you pass as long as it’s in your will or a trust. You’ll also be able to loan your gun to someone as long as you know they’re cool, and you can give one to your spouse without a background check as long as you know that spouse is otherwise eligible. I can’t because my wife isn’t a US citizen, so….

There was a dipshit convergence in New York City today when the self-proclaimed smartest man on the planet teamed up with the biggest crybaby nanny on the planet – Joe Bite-Me and Michael Bloomberg met the families of Newtown once again for another gruesome press conference. From the Washington Times;

“For all those who say we shouldn’t and can’t ban assault weapons, for all of those who say the politics is too hard — how can they say that?” Mr. Biden said. “When you take a look at those 20 beautiful babies and what happened to them, and those six teachers and administrators.”

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“For all those who say we shouldn’t or couldn’t ban high-capacity magazines, I just ask them one question — think about Newtown,” he said. “Tell me how it violates anyone’s constitutional right to be limited to a clip that holds 10 rounds instead of 30, or in Aurora, a hundred. This is a false choice being presented to the American people by those who are taking on our position here. Look, folks, we have a responsibility to act.”

Wanna talk false choices, Joe? You’ve already admitted that a scary-looking gun ban will accomplish nothing, that a ban wouldn’t make us safer, that the only reason you’re pushing for disarming law abiding Americans is because you feel a need to “do something” – your words, you ignorant little toad.

Then they drag out the families of the victims, like this Neil Heslin who lost his son in the carnage at Newtown;

“No child deserves to be murdered, brutally slaughtered the way these children were”.

And those of us who oppose the ban on guns just because their appearance scares some people aren’t saying that they deserved their fates. Neither do the millions of law abiding gun owners who don’t commit these terrible crimes deserve to be punished for the acts of a handful of criminals. It’s intellectually vacant to conflate legal gun owners with the criminals and to insinuate that eventually all of our guns are going to jump out of our safes and start indiscriminately killing children.

The false choices are those choices being offered by the Gun-Grabbing Fascists to mollify the perpetually frightened and the ignorant.

The little, liberal, gun-grabbing weasels are running scared. Here’s a copy of a MoveOn.org email a friend forwarded to me:

Dear MoveOn member,

This is the nightmare scenario:

“Reid guts Senate gun control bill.”1

“Tuesday’s developments are a major win for the powerful National Rifle Association.”2

“[Assault weapons] ban’s chances of survival now are all but hopeless.”3

“[A]nother major element of the president’s gun policy proposal could be joining the assault weapons ban in the scrap heap.”4

After months of promises that, in the wake of Newtown, this time would be different, congressional Democrats, led by Majority Leader Harry Reid, are on the verge of caving on the three most critical gun violence prevention proposals: universal background checks, a ban on assault weapons, and a ban on high-capacity magazines.

What’s looking most likely to end up in the final bill? A provision encouraging guns in schools. (Emphasis theirs)

You just have to love it when the leftist fringe like MoveOn is wetting their pants because their big gun-grabbing opportunity, built on the graves of those poor child victims at Sandy Hook, has vanished into thin, Washington D.C. air, gaining them nothing. These people are beyond the point of ever being shamed by their ghoulish willingness to use the deaths of innocent children to further their left-wing causes. And of course the primary purpose of the email was to solicit donations.

The term, “Beneath contempt,” comes to mind.

Crossposted at American Thinker

From our buddy, JammieWearingFool, Legacy Governor Cuomo has decided that his law restricting firearm magazines to seven rounds isn’t practical since there’s no such thing (well, except for standard 1911-style magazines – but I think even those have been generally expanded to eight rounds) so he has to remake the law;

As a result, he said, he and legislative leaders were negotiating language that would continue to allow the sale of magazines holding up to 10 rounds, but still forbid New Yorkers from loading more than 7 rounds into those magazines.

“There is no such thing as a seven-bullet magazine,” Mr. Cuomo said at a news conference. “That doesn’t exist. So you really have no practical option.”

You’d almost think that they don’t know what they’re talking about, either while they were writing their law or now. So, let’s recap, shall we? First they didn’t realize that they had restricted magazine capacity for the police and police retirees, now they’re coming to the realization that no one makes magazines for their specifications, although we’ve been telling them for weeks.

I’m still wondering what they meant when they said something about arresting a homeowner who is “found” to have more than seven rounds in a magazine. Are they going to start searching homes, or is that on tips from their new hotline for snitches with axes to grind with the neighbor?

I’ll bet lawyers are moving to New York State in droves.

MCPO Ret. – TN sends us a link to the story of Benjamin M. Wassell, a Buffalo resident and former Marine and Iraq War veteran who will be the first person prosecuted under New York’s Legacy Governor Cuomo’s SAFE Act. He tried to sell weapons to a state police undercover fellow, one weapon had multiple modifications that made it illegal under the old scary-looking weapon ban, but the second weapon only had a pistol grip which is a single feature which makes it illegal under the new law. To make matters worse, the undercover cop told Wassell that he was a felon.

“My son served two terms in Iraq and was wounded twice. He was a sergeant in the Marines. He’s a good man. He’ll do anything for anybody. What they’re doing to him is very unfair,” Dianne Wassell said.

Patrick Hurley, his father-in-law, said that it is hard for Wassell to accept that he is now on the other side of the law.

“This is tearing him up. He’s very patriotic. He has no criminal record,” Hurley said.

I really wish I could summon some sympathy for Wassell, but, unless he was doing this to get arrested and punished to challenge the law in court, he was completely wrong. Especially because he thought the guy he was selling the guns to was a felon which goes against everything I believe in. Yes, the SAFE Act is bullshit regulations that won’t do what it’s name implies, and it’s a liberal knee-jerk emotional response to tragic events and simply the Left emoting in their pants, but selling a weapon to a convicted felon is never OK. Never.

ROS sends us a link to NPR’s “All Things Considered” (another media thing I miss daily) where they interviewed the Vice-Moron and he told them that the only folks who worry about their gun being confiscated are the “black helicopter crowd” says Politico;

“The idea that you register your guns – it may make logical sense to say this, but there isn’t a constitutional right to own an automobile. There is a Second Amendment Constitutional right to own a weapon: the right to have and bear arms,” he said in an interview with NPR’s “All Things Considered.”

“When you go to registration, it raises all the black-helicopter-crowd notion that what this is all about is identifying who has a gun so that one day the government can get up and go to the house and arrest everyone who has a gun, and they’ll cite Nazi Germany and all that.”

Yeah, he says all that, but then he doesn’t bother to allay those fears that he’s coming for our guns. He just tells the audience that he’s been through all of this before, you know, as the smartest man on the planet, and that he’s pretty confident that he’ll get another opportunity to ban scary-looking black rifles for their purely cosmetic frightening features that cause Leftists to emote in their pants.

My experience…is that this doesn’t necessarily happen in one fell swoop….We are going to continue to push for logical, gun safety regulations. Eventually the will of the people is going to prevail and we’re going to keep at it.

Yeah, well, we already have “logical gun safety regulations”, Joe, and the whole “will of the people” is just wishful thinking. If the people really wanted more regulations, Harry Reid would have put the bill in front of the Senate for a vote already.