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Category: Gun Grabbing Fascists

  • Obama coming for our guns

    ROS sent us a link from Fox News, and VTWoody sent us a link from Hot Air (see how I did that linking thing, Hot Air?) about the Obama Administration “working on gun control ‘under the radar’”;

    During the meeting, President Obama dropped in and, according to Sarah Brady, brought up the issue of gun control, “to fill us in that it was very much on his agenda,” she said.

    “I just want you to know that we are working on it,” Brady recalled the president telling them. “We have to go through a few processes, but under the radar.”

    Of course, we reported months ago that this administration has decided that instead of wading through a messy legislative process in Congress, they’ll try to legislate from the Oval Office by presidential fiat. Hot Air confirms that;

    Ever since the Clinton years, they have avoided gun control like the plague, and the courts have taken a libertarian view of the Second Amendment. How many of the incumbent Democrats in the Senate want to defend Obama on his power play to impose gun control by executive fiat in the dark? How will that fly in places like Missouri, Nebraska, and West Virginia? How about in open seats like Virginia’s, which Democrats hope to hold?

    Yeah, gun control was a deciding issue in the 2000 and 2004 elections, so I really hope they try this.

  • Loughner not competent to stand trial

    A federal judge ruled, after an outburst from Jared Loughner in the court room, that the little worm isn’t competent enough to aid in his own defense according to the New York Times;

    The ruling by Judge Larry A. Burns of Federal District Court means Mr. Loughner will be sent to a federal psychiatric facility until Sept. 21, when a hearing will be held to determine whether he understands the 49 federal charges against him and can help in his defense.

    He was competent enough to practice some measure of marksmanship, he was competent enough to hide his intentions, he was competent enough to point the gun and pull the trigger and hit his intended targets. He was competent enough to resist when he was tackled during his rampage. He was competent enough to convince Pima County LEOs he wasn’t a threat to anyone.

    But now since it’s time to face the consequences, suddenly he’s incompetent? I guess it’s the gun’s fault…and, oh, the high capacity ammunition.

  • Brady Campaign: more gun laws will protect Americans

    Paul Helmke, CEO of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, laid out his vision for making Americans safer from gun violence;

    There need to be tougher gun laws, local law enforcement needs to be strengthened and there should be restrictions on civilian access to high-powered weapons with extended magazines…

    Notice there’s nothing in that set of proposals which demand that courts and police enforce existing laws. There’s no money for the Brady Campaign in demanding that the Department of Justice and district attorneys prosecute criminals for breaking the laws. The Brady campaign can only raise money from contributors by scaring them into believing there need to be new laws. They’re lobbyists for a special interest…that’s what they do.

    And all of their proposals affect law abiding citizens, not criminals. Criminals will always get what they want, they don’t care about new laws.

    Helmke claims there are 32 gun-related deaths everyday, not mentioning that most of those deaths are criminals shooting each other.

    The same goes for John Rosenthal, founder of Stop Handgun Violence who is putting up a billboard on the Mass Turnpike which will count the deaths of “children” by firearms. Most of the “children and teenagers” he’s counting are violent criminals who don’t feel a need to follow gun laws.

  • Sweden’s rising gun smuggling problem

    From everything I’ve read about Swedish gun laws, they’re very restrictive. The purchaser must join a gun club, take a training course, have five years clear of an arrest record, present a certificate from the gun club of their training and a year of experience to the police department who will eventually give a permit. Then you have to store your weapon at home in an approved, secure cabinet – the police can enter your home to inspect your weapon storage without a warrant and revoke your permit and confiscate your weapon with no compensation on the spot.

    So with restrictions like that, they should have no problems with weapons, right?

    Not really. Apparently they have a smuggling problem;

    While only 12 weapons have been seized by Swedish customs to date this year, the problem is far more extensive with a large number of unrecorded cases, according to a report by Sveriges Radio (SR).

    “We are talking about the post, containers, rail goods, trucks and commercial vessels. There is a huge flow. There are many channels and we are not even close to being able to control everything,” said Lars Bäckström at the Swedish customs to SR.

    Swedish cities, primarily Gothenburg and Malmö, have been the scene of several shootings in recent months.

    Witnesses to a shooting in a Malmö car park on May 11th described the killing as an “execution” in what was apparently a hit with links to organized crime, an increasing problem in both cities.

    Police fear that the greater availability of illegal weapons could be behind the rise in gun crimes in Swedish cities with the number of weapons seized increasing from year to year.

    Are you kidding me? Do you mean that the criminals aren’t abiding by the draconian gun laws? I find that hard to believe. What’s harder to believe is that Sweden doesn’t share a border with the US yet still have a smuggling problem. I thought it was only those cowboys in the US who export firearms illegally to poor underdog nations which are only trying to be peaceful.

  • Daley’s gun-grabbing hypocrisy

    The Washington Times editorial staff tells us today that exiting Chicago Mayor Daley who done his damnedest to keep private citizens from having handguns with which to protect themselves from criminals in Illinois, has demanded the protection of five armed body guards for his retirement years;

    Mr. Daley, who will enjoy a lavish pension of $184,000, will have several handguns protecting him at all times – no paperwork required. The Chicago Sun-Times reported that the mayor demanded five bodyguards, highlighting the hypocrisy of the gun grabbing elite.

    Of course it’s not new that the elite like the idea of firearms in the hands of their employees but not yours, but it doesn’t hurt to highlight their hypocrisy. Just last month, Daley begged the Illinois State Legislature to not impose concealed carry laws on municipalities like Chicago – whose citizens need their own protection most.

    So Illinoisans should beg their legislators to forego any taxpayer expenditures for Mayor Daley’s protection to return the favor.

  • Wasserman wants your name

    Caught up in the toxic anti-gun-owners rhetoric at a Miami rally, Representative Debbie Wasserman, (you know which party) declared in public “We should know who has a gun and it should be in a database,” as if you gun owners are like convicted sexual predators who have to register when they move into a neighborhood.

    As an excuse for her overblown outburst, CBS News explains that Wasserman is a friend of Gabriel Giffords, the victim of gun violence in Tucson earlier this year. That’s exactly why she should keep her mouth shut. Too much of a connection, if this were a trial and she was a judge, she’d have to recuse herself.

    Of course, we know that a criminal could search such a database while reconning for his next crime and determine where he’d be safest by targeting a non-gun owning household. But Wasserman probably has armed security, so that doesn’t matter to her.

    Also, a criminal who wants a gun could search the database and find a gun owning household to rob.

    Emotional outbursts from the gun-facists don’t help the debate.

  • Des Moines Cityview outs gun owners

    Old Trooper sent us a link to an article in the Wireupdate concerning the breech of privacy of 5200 gun owners in Iowa by the Des Moines Cityview newspaper, when for purely sensational reasons they published both online and in print their names and addresses;

    “With nearly 5,200 applications to carry already this year, it’s safe to say that plenty of people, including your neighbors and friends, are now “packing heat.” Cityview author Jared Curtis wrote before naming all the residents.

    “Publication of that list would tell the criminal class where the guns are, which could be useful to two different sorts of lawbreakers: gun thieves who want to know where the guns are and burglars who want to know where they are not.” Stossel concluded.

    According to Polk County Sheriff’s office 5,195 applications for a permit to carry were received by the department so far in 2011.

    Irony being what it is, I tried to find Jared Curtis’ address and it’s not listed in any of my databases. I guess he’s a little sensitive about his privacy.

  • That whole civility thing

    Cortillaen sent us a link to a Warner Todd Huston post on Big Government about a Pennsylvania State Representative who asked a colleague on the floor of the legislature if he would mind if she could blow his brains;

    In open debate, right on the floor of the House, [Pennsylvania State Representative Margo Davidson of Philadelphia] said, “If the gentleman from Butler County stood yelling, knowing that he’s a gun-toter, and I felt threatened, would I be protected under court law if I blew his brains out.”

    After this outrageous utterance, the Pilly Inquirer’s John Baer reports that Rep. Davidson was so pleased with herself she “giggled.”

    Of course, the debate was about expanding Pennsylvania’s “castle doctrine” – the rights of law abiding Pennsylvanians to protect themselves with those evil firearms. As Huston says, imagine if a Republican white male had said the same to a black woman.

    It’s nice to see that Democrats are taking advantage of this new age of civility since the shooting in Tucson which was supposed to be the gun control crowd’s 9-11.