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Category: Gun Grabbing Fascists

  • Scores of dead in CT

    The Hartford Courant reports that there are 27 dead including 18 children at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT where a single shooter opened fire with a couple of handguns. Fox News reports that at least one of the guns was a Glock, you know – those handguns which have minds of their own and inspire fear among gun control advocates. The other was a Sig Sauer.

    Fox also says that the gunman had a “.223-caliber rifle” so he couldn’t have been using the terrifying AK-47. MSNBC says that no one has mentioned the rifle to them. But, the MSNBC reporter just said that there was no word if the shooter used “high capacity ammunition clips”, so I’m not sure if they know the difference between a pistol and a rifle.

    MSNBC broadcast news is reporting that another person has been apprehended in regards to this shooting. Other news sources aren’t confirming the “second shooter” theory.

    Of course, some folks can’t wait to get in their shots against gun rights;

    Frum Dork Fuck

    Alex Pappas at The Daily Caller has some more reactions from the Liberals on Twitter. Twitchy records more knee-jerk reactions from the usual suspects.

    White House Press Secretary Jay Carney on the shooting;

    “There is, I am sure, will be, rather, a day for discussion of the usual Washington policy debates, but I do not think today is that day.”

    Well, when they have that discussion, remember this; I went to the range yesterday with several of my weapons. Among those weapons was a Glock (with a large capacity magazine) and two .223 caliber rifles, also with large capacity magazines. I had about 1,000 rounds of ammunition. I drove by at least two schools on my way to the range in Maryland. None of my weapons jumped out of the truck and began shooting up those schools, neither did I.

    Whoever this shooter was, (MSNBC says his name is Ryan Adam Lanza, 24 years old – his mother was a teacher at Sandy Hook and she was found dead at the school) he broke several laws to accomplish his grisly task today. How is it possible to write more laws to prevent something that was already steeped in illegality?

    ADDED: Our buddy, Blanka, sends a link from USAToday in which they mention that Lanza was “dressed in military style assault gear”. That’s not what caused the incident, either. I was wearing Multicam – the style of uniforms Army troops wear in Afghanistan – at the range yesterday, and I wasn’t even tempted to shoot another person. The MSNBC reporter said that Lanza was wearing “dark” clothes “with pockets” – so we should be banning pockets now, I suppose.

  • Reimer and Chiarelli on the troops’ guns and suicide

    For some reason, retired generals Dennis J. Reimer and Peter W. Chiarelli thought they had something important to say today in the Washington Post. They decided that we wanted to hear from them on the subject of the troops’ guns and disguised it as concern about the suicide rate;

    One of the most effective measures of suicide prevention is to ask those perceived to be under duress: “Do you have a gun in your home?” If the answer is yes, we might then suggest that the individual put locks on the weapon or store it in a safe place during periods of high stress — things that any responsible gun owner should do.

    Unfortunately, that potentially lifesaving action is no longer available to the military. A little-noticed provision in the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) has had the unintended consequence of tying the hands of commanders and noncommissioned officers by preventing them from being able to talk to service members about their private weapons, even in cases where a leader believes that a service member may be suicidal.

    Why would a commander need to know if a soldier had a gun in their home unless it was that commander’s intention to relieve that soldier of his weapon? Because, instead of asking a soldier if he owns a gun, a commander would simply need to tell that soldier that “if” he owned a gun, perhaps he should lock it up away safely. Asking me if I own a gun would only force me to lie.

    How many hypothetical circumstances do commanders present to their units in weekly safety briefings? Why not just tell the entire unit to lock their guns away safely – if safety briefings work, like commanders seem to think they do, that should be sufficient.

    As we’ve discovered here, less than half of suicides committed with a gun are committed with a personal weapon. So it seems that commanders would do well to keep soldiers at risk away from their service weapons. In fact, if the statistics are to be believed, they could cut suicides in half by doing that. So why aren’t these two generals advocating for that action rather than pursuing privately owned weapons – if all that needs to be done to prevent suicides is to take weapons from the troops.

    Will commanders also be asking the troops if they have a length of rope or razor blades at home? If the soldiers reply in the affirmative, will they be advised to lock their ropes and razor blades somewhere safe?

    I guess it’s just easier to blame the troops’ guns than it is to just get them the treatment they deserve.

  • Costas: The Worm Squirms

    Bob Costas, is demonstrating more feints and jukes than the NFL’s best running backs and probably wishing he could have a replay of his Sunday night miss-step. In commenting on the murder/suicide of Kansas City player, Jovan Belcher, Costas, who appeared to call for stricter gun control measures in his half-time editorial, got sacked in his own backfield last night by Bill O’Reilly. Costas, whose fearful demeanor in his appearance on O’Reilly’s show, indicated that he was most likely on a corporate-called play of penance, dictated and demanded by his network masters, was far too easily trapped in his own end zone by former quarterback, O’Reilly, with a quite simple play.

    Costas had earlier opinionated to another news source that the presence of a gun in the hands of any legally licensed carrier during the recent Colorado theater shooting would have made no difference in outcomes. O’Reilly then asked Costas, eyeball to eyeball, as across a third down and very short line, that if he had been in that Colorado theater, would he have preferred to drop to the floor seeking shelter from the gunfire or would he rather have been legally armed and able to stand and respond to the threat. After a few seconds of verbal ducking and weaving like the best of those NFL running backs he covers, Costas finally realized that O’Reilly had him cornered in his own end zone and admitted that had he been in that theater in Colorado, he would have gone to the floor.

    What an admission from someone who feels free to pontificate to the rest of us about the evils of gun ownership. And there are many of us with whom Costas, who self-admittedly would grovel on the floor hoping someone else with more manhood and courage would save his sorry, shaking, little liberal butt, shares no cultural identity. We are the ones who would have sorted through the panic, identified the threat, and then quickly directed counter-fire upon that threat while Costas was peeing all over himself on that gosh-awful sticky theater floor.

    I’m not often a fan of Bill O’Reilly but this time he scored beautifully, making this little liberal worm, Costas, squirm as he was held over the searing fires of real life truth in every-day America. What Costas must live with is that a very large percentage of the millions of Americans who watch his broadcasts will now do so with the knowledge that he’s a sniveling, diminutive coward, always dependent on better men to protect him. He must forever wonder with what contempt he is being viewed when he interviews those brave, fierce warriors who comprise the National Football League.

    Edited version crossposted at American Thinker

  • Yes, Bob Costas is a jerk

    I guess I was the only person on the planet who missed Bob Costas’ 90-second rant yesterday on one of your sports games shows. Apparently he decided during a half-time show to preach about gun control, clearly stepping outside his lane, just because some dude named Jovan Belcher shot his baby momma and then shot himself;

    In a segment about 90 seconds long, Costas paraphrased and quoted extensively from a piece by a Fox Sports columnist.

    “You want some actual perspective on this? Well a bit of it comes from the Kansas City-based writer Jason Whitlock, with whom I do not always agree, but who today said it so well that we may as well just quote or paraphrase from the end of his article,” said Costas. “‘Our current gun culture,’ Whitlock wrote, ‘ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience store confrontations over loud music coming from a car will leave more teenage boys bloodied and dead. Handguns do not enhance our safety. They exacerbate our flaws, tempt us to escalate arguments, and bait us into embracing confrontation rather than avoiding it.’”

    After praising the column, Costas said: “In the coming days, Jovan Belcher’s actions and their possible connection to football will be analyzed. Who knows? But here, wrote Jason Whitlock, is what I believe. If Jovan Belcher didn’t possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.”

    Now, I don’t know who Jovan Belcher is, nor do I care. I’ve had loaded weapons in my house since before the day I was married and I’ve never shot my wife. Of course, I don’t play any of your sports games, so that might be why. But, ya know, if we have to be preached to every where we turn about the evils of uncontrolled guns, pretty soon we’re going to turn our TVs off. I’d start turning Bob Costas off now, except that I never turned him on, so….

  • Bloomberg’s posse of gun-grabbing criminals

    Emily Miller, our favorite gun-rights journalist at the Washington Times, reports that the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) did a little research into the background of New York Mayor, Nanny Bloomberg, and his posse of gun-grabbing city government leaders in the Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG). They’ve found numerous felony convictions among those wolves in sheep’s clothing;

    Among them are Gary Becker of Racine, Wisc., who was sentenced to three years in jail for felony child enticement and attempted sexual assault of a child. Detroit’s former mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, assaulted a police officer and perjured himself. Sheila Dixon, who hosted Mr. Bloomberg and his MAIG conference in her city of Baltimore, Md., was convicted while in office of perjury and embezzling funds.

    Larry Langford of Birmingham, Ala., got 15 years in the big house for a staggering 60 counts of bribery, fraud, money laundering and tax evasion. The hypocrisy award goes to the late Frank Melton from Jackson, Miss., who violated his own city’s gun possession ordinances.

    From SAF’s press release;

    “In short,” [SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M.] Gottlieb explained, “many of these elitist politicians can no longer own firearms. The crimes they were convicted of suggest they are public enemies rather than public servants. No wonder they want to take guns from law-abiding citizens!”

    “Perhaps Bloomberg should worry about background checks on his colleagues, rather than law-abiding gun owners,” he suggested.

    […]

    “While Michael Bloomberg has been campaigning to turn gun owners into criminals,” Gottlieb said, “the criminals in his own ranks were engaged in such activities as tax evasion , extortion, accepting bribes, child pornography, trademark counterfeiting and perjury. One was even convicted of assaulting a police officer.

    “And these people have the audacity to smear law-abiding gun owners as potential criminals, simply because they exercise their constitutional right to keep and bear arms,” he concluded. “He should pay more attention to what his friends are up to than worry about the gun owners he’s been trying to demonize.”

    It’s no wonder that they want to disarm law-abiding citizens – they’re not leading law abiding citizens, but their own cabal of criminals who want to prey on a defenseless and complicit citizenry.

  • When dumb people discuss guns

    Our buddy, the Armorer had this linked to his Facebook wall. I’m going to call it Not Safe For Work because it will cause you to yell and scream and throw stuff which might make people pigeon hole you into the “crazy vet” thing.

    Yes, they claim that there are heat-seeking incendiary bullets that could cook a deer when you shoot it. Of course, they want to keep it out of the hands of terrorists, but not the people who you and I would call terrorists. I’m pretty sure that the NRA wouldn’t fight a measure that would limit the use of incendiary, heat-seeking bullets, if there was such a thing.

    I’m sure that the “incendiary device” they’re talking about is the tracer ammo that shows a shooter where his bullets are going. The only thing I’ve seen on the tip is the color marking that denotes to the shooter that he’s firing tracer ammo. There’s no device in the tip. Yes, I’ve seen tracers start grass fires in very dry climates, but it couldn’t cook a deer. And what the Hell this dumb bitch thinks is a “heat-seeking device”, well, it doesn’t exist to my knowledge.

    It’s really too bad that there wasn’t a reporter at the press conference who could call those idiots out on their stupidity. I really don’t need a .50 cal rifle for anything, but just knowing that the moron hippies are this scared of me owning one, makes me want one real bad.

  • Nanny Bloomberg refuses NG help because of their guns

    Lorraine and Country Singer send us a link to our buddy, Gateway Pundit, who links to Fox Nation which reports that Nanny Bloomberg rejected help in the recovery of Hurricane Sandy from the National Guard because the only people he wants on the streets of New York with guns is the New York Police Department;

    Mayor Bloomberg has snubbed Borough President Markowitz’s impassioned plea to bring the National Guard to Hurricane Sandy-scarred Brooklyn — arguing that approving the Beep’s request would be a waste of federal manpower and turn the borough into a police state.

    “We don’t need it,” Mayor Bloomberg said on Wednesday during a press update on the city’s ongoing Hurricane Sandy cleanup. “The NYPD is the only people we want on the street with guns.”

    Yeah, because if New Yorkers are going to get shot, I guess he wants them shot by local boys.

  • Another bullet tax proposal

    Jerry920 sends us a link to an article about yet another municipality which thinks that a bullet tax is a good idea. This time it’s Chicago;

    Preckwinkle’s office estimates the tax will generate about $1 million a year, money that would be used for various county services, including medical care for gunshot victims. Law enforcement officials would not have to pay the tax, but the office said it would apply to 40 federally licensed gun dealers in the county.

    Yeah, it’ll generate a million bucks, unless gun owners and bullet purchasers drive a few miles in any direction and buy their bullets outside of Cook County. Dingus.

    “We think that’s an appropriate thing to do, especially in the light of the gun violence we struggle to deal with in our criminal justice system and our public health system,” she told a local newspaper editorial board this week, according to a transcript of the meeting provided by her office. “The legal gun shops in suburban Cook County are a conduit for crimes in Chicago. There’s no way around it.”

    Why don’t you just ban legal gun shops instead of burdening them with more bureaucratic BS? You know what else is a “conduit for crimes”? Mothers. After all, they give birth to people who might someday commit a crime, maybe you should tax babies. That might bring in even more revenue – well unless people start having their babies in another county. Dingus.