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Category: Gun Grabbing Fascists

  • Help needed….to piss off some liberals.

    Tonight I attended an anti-gun event at ASU put on by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Freedom..err I mean Gun Violence. The purpose of the event was to organize opposition to Senate Bill 1467, which would allow students and faculty with concealed carry permits to carry firearms on campus. There was the typical anti-gun rhetoric which isn’t even worth repeating. Of course, the opponents of concealed carry on campus can still not name one violent incident involving firearms on one of the thirty campuses that allow  concealed carry.

    Anyways, one particularly vile professor was encouraging people to vote in a poll to support or oppose concealed carry on campus in order to show that students and faculty don’t support allowing guns on campus. The problem is that the majority of the people attending the event were not students or faculty at ASU, yet they were still being encouraged to vote in the poll. Very well… two can play that game. Accordingly I ask that you all literally take seconds to vote in these two polls:

    http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GunCharter Alternate: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/H26L35L

    http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GunZMT25LG Alternate: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GunSafeCampus

    Normally, I find these unscientific polls a little silly. However there was a State Senator and several members of the Arizona Board of Regents that were using the results of these poll to bolster their arguments against concealed carry on campus. So please, my fine young TAH readers, help Operator Dan piss off some liberals and vote in those two polls.

  • Modesto neighbors to hire private security

    500 residents of a Modesto, CA neighborhood decided they can’t depend on the police to protect them now, so they plan to hire a private security company to do the job for which they already pay taxes.

    The residents are members of the College Area Neighborhood Alliance.

    “I don’t know the feeling on an armed patrol. That may becoming a little bit drastic,” said neighbor Dave Jones. “I don’t feel the need for it yet.”

    Residents must first approve the plan to bring in armed security guards and at least 500 residents will have to pay $25 a month for the patrol.

    Old Trooper sent me the link with the comment that I’d enjoy the comments. Most of the comments are the type you’d expect; if you clowns hadn’t let the government take your guns, you wouldn’t need a hired security force. But I especially liked this comment from a Canadian;

    John

    If you american conservative moneybags opened your wallets a little, maybe poor people wouldn’t be forced to steal??
    In Canada we have a safety net for everyone including the rich. By looking after our less advantaged, the rich are much safer here.
    BTW- we don’t want your rich. They only blow up the banking system with their greedy selfserving ways.

    Yeah, I’d rather deal with crooks in Modesto than liberals in Canada.

  • Gun laws in NYC work

    A criminal in NYC was forced to kill with a knife and a car during his day-long spree this weekend according to the NY Daily Times;

    The knife-wielding madman who killed four people during a day-long rampage of stabbings, carjackings and hit-and-runs was nabbed in Times Square moments after he knifed a straphanger.

    “They had to die,” Maksim Gelman, 23, confessed after being tackled by two transit cops and an off-duty detective about 9 a.m. yesterday, sources said.

    Of course, none of his victims were armed, in accordance to the draconian gun laws in NYC, so Gelman could continue his spree secure in the knowledge that all of his victims were defenseless. Thank you, Mayor Bloomberg.

    Thanks to Old Trooper for the link.

  • Swiss Fear…well, nothing

    The Swiss are on the verge of changing forever. For no good reason, they’re participating in a referendum to force their militia members to turn their issued militia weapons into a central armory instead of the traditional gun cabinet in their homes as they’ve done for centuries.

    And why would they change the Swiss character as it’s been for centuries? For no good reason. The article cites one shooting incident ten years ago and points at the 300 suicides/year as sufficient reason. 300 out of a population of 7 million.

    Backed by a broad coalition of nongovernmental organizations, center-left and center-right politicians, and women’s groups, the initiative was born in large part in reaction to a series of shooting incidents, particularly the 2001 spree at a government building in Zug that killed 14 people.

    Friedrich Leibacher, who killed himself after the massacre, used a commercial version of the Swiss army‘s SG 550 assault rifle — a gun still commonly found throughout the country in cupboards or under beds, the Associated Press reported.

    So it wasn’t even his issued weapon, but a similar one he had purchased. The article also doesn’t mention how many of the suicides are committed with the issued weapons. Basically, the whole country is scared (well, more than half of the country) is scared.

    Scared of nothing. It’s like they all yelled “Boo” at once and scared themselves.

  • Guns and class

    In this morning’s Washington Post, Paul Duggan does his level best to make gun ownership in DC an issue of class since his attempts at making gun ownership immoral have failed;

    In the 2½ years since the U.S. Supreme Court ended the District’s handgun ban, hundreds of residents in Washington’s safest, most well-to-do neighborhoods have armed themselves, registering far more guns than people in poorer, crime-plagued areas of the city, according to D.C. police data.

    Well, maybe that’s because the “people in poorer, crime-plagued areas” 1) can’t afford to legally purchase handguns and then jump through hoops of registration the city has arrayed in front of them, 2) already own illegally purchased and unregistered guns, or 3) don’t own anything worth stealing.

    Of course, the Post has to make it look like a class thing to shame the rich liberals into abrogating their responsibility to protect their families and property. Yes, crime in Georgetown and Chevy Chase is infrequent, that doesn’t mean it never happens. And it only happens to the unprepared.

  • Guns in NY, AZ and SD

    While his city can’t perform basic functions like removing snow and trash, NY’s Mayor Bloomberg is sponsoring sting operations across the country at gun shows in Arizona. Somehow, Bloomberg is convinced that Arizona residents shouldn’t be able to purchase guns. The vacuousness of Bloomberg’s reasoning can be found at Think Progress;

    Last month, Jared Lee Loughner shot 19 people in Tuscon, AZ — including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), a federal judge, and a nine-year-old girl — with a semi-automatic pistol equipped with a previously illegal high-capacity magazine. Only days later, a Crossroads of the West gun show was held in Phoenix, and investigators from New York City were on hand to see if they could purchase guns and high-capacity magazines without background checks.

    Yeah, except that Jared Loughner passed a background check. So what’s their point? And the illegal “high capacity” magazines weren’t illegal during the assault weapon ban like the emptyheads at Think Progress and the NYC’s mayor office.

    Meanwhile in South Dakota, legislation is working it’s way through the process which requires all South Dakotans who aren’t otherwise forbidden to own handguns to purchase one six months after they become 21;

    The measure is known as an act “to provide for an individual mandate to adult citizens to provide for the self defense of themselves and others.”

    Rep. Hal Wick, R-Sioux Falls, is sponsoring the bill and knows it will be killed. But he said he is introducing it to prove a point that the federal health care reform mandate passed last year is unconstitutional.

    So whether it passes or not, it’s win-win.

    Thanks to Brian for the South Dakota link.

  • The inevitable looms

    Spigot and Old Trooper send us what we all knew was coming. The President didn’t mention gun control the other night because he’s got a special occasion planned for rolling out his gun control plan plan. From Newsweek;

    [I]n the next two weeks, the White House will unveil a new gun-control effort in which it will urge Congress to strengthen current laws, which now allow some mentally unstable people, such as alleged Arizona shooter Jared Loughner, to obtain certain assault weapons, in some cases without even a background check.

    So a Glock is an assault weapon now? One way to strengthen gun laws is to force agencies to enforce them.

    Tuesday night after the speech, Obama adviser David Plouffe said to NBC News that the president would not let the moment after the Arizona shootings pass without pushing for some change in the law, to prevent another similar incident. “It’s a very important issue, and one I know there’s going to be debate about on the Hill.”

    Yeah, can’t let a tragedy slip by without exploiting it for purely political reasons. Loughner bought the gun legally, so the only way to prevent people from buying guns legally is to make guns illegal. Unless I missed something.

    The White House said that to avoid being accused of capitalizing on the Arizona shootings for political gain, Obama will address the gun issue in a separate speech….

    Yeah, waiting a week or so ought to help him avoid being accused of waving a bloody shirt because us ritards will probably forget about Tuscon by then.

  • Bloomberg, MLKIII want gun loopholes closed

    Associated Press happily announces that New York’s mayor Bloomberg and Martin Luther King III have joined forces to swat at non-existent flies;

    The group introduced a national campaign to close loopholes in gun control laws. The campaign wants to ensure that a background check system includes the names of everyone prohibited from buying guns.

    Supporters also want every gun sale to go through a background check.

    Um, what loopholes? Those loopholes through which law abiding citizens buy guns legally?

    See background checks work, you dillholes. They don’t work when local law enforcement doesn’t bother to put in some names of troubled individuals like Jared Loughner. Pima County authorities for whatever reason didn’t arrest Loughner for making death threats, nor did they turn him over to mental health professionals so they could put Loghner’s name in the system which would have caused red flags to pop up when his name went through the NICS.

    Bloomberg makes it sound like Loughner slipped through cracks in the gun laws. Loughner slipped through cracks in the professionalism of Pima County LEOs.

    Don’t write more laws and don’t confuse the electorate. Make law enforcement enforce the law.