Category: Gun Grabbing Fascists

Yes, the turd actually said that on his Thurseday show. According to The Blaze and Leah Barkoukis at Townhall, Schultz got that from our illiterate friends at Mother Jones, and so soon, we’ll have the trolls stating the same intellectually vacuous crap.

The problem with Mother Jones’ research is that they defined “mass shootings” as four or more people killed. Unfortunately for the Left, armed law-abiding civilians on the scene of shootings has the effect of stopping the shootings before they reach Mother Jones’ minimum standard and skews their “research”.

The Weekly Standard lists several examples, and it’s certainly not a complete list. We here at TAH see examples at least weekly of folks who have saved themselves, their property and their families from gun-wielding criminals.

Bloomberg reports that Jefferson Wayne Schrader, a Vietnam veteran, sued when the FBI turned up a 45-year-old misdemeanor conviction and used it to deny a recent shotgun purchase during his National Instant Criminal Background Check.

The assault occurred in Annapolis, Maryland, while Schrader, then 20, was serving in the Navy and encountered a member of a street gang who had previously assaulted him, according to his complaint.

Schrader punched his assailant and was convicted of common- law assault and battery and fined $100. The court imposed no jail time. Schrader went on to serve a tour of duty in Vietnam and received an honorable discharge. He had no other brushes with the law, except for one traffic violation, he said in his complaint.

Schrader said that prior to 2008 he had bought guns from dealers at least five times without encountering difficulties with background checks.

“I’ve been buying and selling guns all these years and I didn’t know anything about this,” he said today in a phone interview. “It’s a very poor decision. It sounds like they’re making it up as they go along.”

Alan Gura, Schrader’s attorney, said that a further appeal is likely. “This is not something that ends today,” he said in a phone interview.

Yeah, that’s just ridiculous. Pretty boy David Gregory is walking around free as a bird after committing a recent gun crime and a veteran is still paying for a non-gun related crime decades after he paid the price.

This is from the NRA statement in regards to their “discussion” with the Biden Commission;

We were disappointed with how little this meeting had to do with keeping our children safe and how much it had to do with an agenda to attack the Second Amendment. While claiming that no policy proposals would be “prejudged,” this Task Force spent most of its time on proposed restrictions on lawful firearms owners – honest, taxpaying, hardworking Americans. It is unfortunate that this Administration continues to insist on pushing failed solutions to our nation’s most pressing problems. We will not allow law-abiding gun owners to be blamed for the acts of criminals and madmen. Instead, we will now take our commitment and meaningful contributions to members of congress of both parties who are interested in having an honest conversation about what works – and what does not.

This is my shocked face.

It’s not Biden’s intention to do something as much as it is to appear to be doing something. Of course, the Federal Government can’t do anything constructive about school shootings, but the one thing they can do is make more useless laws against those who would abide by the law.

We’ve seen the hand-wringing crowd troll through this blog over the last few weeks and they’re so intellectually vacant that the only thing they can do is parrot the call for banning scary-looking weapons. Even Gabby Giffords, whom I used to respect has taken up the gun control mantle by prostituting herself and blaming the NRA for making gun control a “third rail” issue.

The thing that the Democrats forget is that the NRA represents over 4 million voters. It’s not a lobby for the gun companies, it’s a lobby for gun-owning American voters. Do the Democrats remember what happened to them in the 90s when they made guns an issue? Giffords says that she wants to match the money that the NRA pours into campaigns, but money doesn’t always equal votes.

CNN’s iReports, the same people who made Joshua Boston’s open letter to Diane Feinsten famous, print a response to Boston’s letter from some anonymous person who claims that he/she is also a Marine. Not a four-tour combat Marine like Boston, but a journalist, a Marine nonetheless;

When I read about the open letter…I couldn’t help but feel temporarily ashamed of also sharing the title of former Marine. Boston defiantly refuses to register his guns even if laws are passed requiring him to do so. In this refusal, he comes off as tone-deaf and unsympathetic to the victims of mass shootings in Newtown, Aurora, and so many other places. His ranting letter is paranoid exhibition of one concerned not with preventing the deaths of more innocents, but of maintaining his rights to own devices of war. I want to set the record straight, not all Marines are so insensitive to the recent tragedies, or ignorant about the need for arms restrictions.

While I did not experience combat, I served in Afghanistan as a Marine, exiting the service as a Sergeant in 2008 to enter college. My experiences in the Marine Corps of course led me to train with semi and fully automatic weapons, and yet, I have no desire to own these weapons now that I am out of the service. I can’t see why any civilian needs semi-automatic, high-capacity weapons designed to kill as many people as quickly as possible, and I support a ban of future sales in addition to a retroactive ban that would force Joshua Boston to relinquish his weapons.

Boston’s attitude towards authority is frankly disgusting and his open letter is wrong in both its assumptions about why the gun-control debate has become heated, and the reasons why we should care about his opinions at all. It implies that because he served in Iraq and Afghanistan as a Marine, that he can choose which laws to obey while at home. This is of course, incorrect, and gives other veterans a bad name. Regardless of his personal beliefs about gun-control, Boston should obey the law, or stop using the title of Marine veteran so proudly.

The article headline calls Boston “gun worshipping Marine veteran”. I haven’t seen anyone “worship” guns, per se. But, ya know at least Boston attached his name to his letter, he didn’t cower behind some indecipherable screen name. When someone asked me if Boston had really been a Marine, I was able to verify it. Not so with this dude/chick.

What gets me is the people who say “I don’t own guns and I don’t think anyone else should either” or “no one needs high capacity magazines”. They’re the same sort of people who cheer for the tax hike on richer Americans. Personally, I don’t see the use for video games, or Airsoft gear, or NASCAR, or any of a thousand things that I think are stupid. But, I’m not trying to take those things away from people.

Some other anonymous dingus took exception to my comment about people not needing Porsches or Ferraris saying those cars aren’t used to kill large numbers of people. Neither are my guns, which I bought legally and are locked up in my gun safe until I want to use them. You probably also don’t understand why I enjoy cigars – that’s your problem.

“Confiscation could be an option. Mandatory sale to the state could be an option. Permitting could be an option — keep your gun but permit it.”

— Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D-N.Y.

Yeah, he was allegedly talking  last week about a new potential ban on “assault weapons” (whatever the hell those are) might work in NY.  But everyone knows that’s merely a convenient “stalking horse” for their real agenda:  gutting the 2nd Amendment.

But he’s apparently not alone.  As Jonn noted here a few minutes ago, it looks like that “great scholar” Biden is also considering recommending the POTUS practice legislation via Executive Order on this issue.  I’m guessing Joe the Scholar is recommending that since he knows chances of getting any kind of meaningful Federal gun control law passed anytime soon are about the same as those of a June or July snowfall in Phoenix, AZ.  Even many of his Democratic colleagues aren’t that crazy.

But what does the Left have to lose?  When you can’t get what you want legally, illegal subterfuge is just about all you have left.