ROS sent me this video, with the advisory that she has a crush on Joe Zamudio;
There are millions of responsible gun owners like Joe who only draw their gun when they have to draw it. He says he had his hand on the butt of his gun and the safety off when he approached the guy he thought was the shooter, yet he made the man disarm without drawing.
I feel safer just knowing Joe is out there.
I love it when gun control is a national issue. These posts just write themselves.
Justin Linkins at the Huffington Post doesn’t intend to scare his readers, but look what those bible thumping, gun clingers are doing now. They’re buying more guns.
Hey, everyone. Not to unnerve you, but apparently, days after a madman went on a murdery rampage with a Glock in Arizona, Arizonans are heading to gun stores in droves to purchase the very same weapon used by Jared Lee Loughner. It’s as good an example as anything to demonstrate that there really is no such thing as bad publicity, only an implacable, gnawing cynicism that permeates our existence and sends us, sobbing, into a fetal position.
Yes, Arizonians went out Monday and bought a hundred more guns than they did January 10th, 2010. Of course, they bought twice as many Glocks as they did last year. And since it was a Glock 19 that made Jared Loughner shoot all of those people Saturday, you should be unnerved.
And 100 people is a drove I guess. 100 people out of 5,130,632 or .0019 of the population of Arizona. Did I mention it was a Glock which is programmed in Austria to kill Americans, the birthplace of Hitler? Oooooo, scary, huh?
But the reason that people are buying these guns is because they always wanted one and they just pushed up the purchase date because the irrational Left is known for banning shit that doesn’t have shit to do with the shit.
I’m guilty of it, too. I ordered more ammo Monday. My closet is stuffed with ammo now, but I bought more because it might be in short supply soon. See that’s real shit. Being scared of a handgun is irrational, being scared that there’ll be a shortage of guns or the little metal high capacity thingies that fly out the end of guns is realistic.
Well, here’s a HuffPo commenter with all of the shit you need to determine why you shouldn’t have a gun;
HUFFPOST SUPER USER
And however true! That if this does drive up sales…! A person can be sane today for the purchase, but doesn’t mean they dont have problem down the line, issue at work, family, friends, with live [life?] and decide to use their weapon in a bad way. If anything if that happen hopefully is on themselves. Furthermore, not every gun owner will turn out bad, clearly. But more guns just exposes more people to have one that may not of before and those already got or some to have more…And more for what?
There has to be a line or reason and sensibility.
He continues further on;
Its a lot of either mential instability, OCD, fetish, insecurity or brainwash...I’m sure more words can be added.
Its like being rich…to the point of how many cars and vacations home to you really need?
And if you get shot from behind, at long distance or before you can draw…what has all the time and money been spent for?
I hope that clears it up.
In the wake of the Tucson shooting this last weekend, some Arizona legislators are considering loosening gun laws which the Washington Post already considers too loose;
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik …is critical of two bills, House Bill 2001 and 2014, which would allow any college faculty member and those who have a proper permit to take their guns on campus.
Sen. Ron Gould says, “We ran a similar bill several years ago in the Senate and it was after the Virginia Tech shooting.”
Sen. Ron Gould, who supports both bills, says he wants to prevent that from happening again and says determined individuals are going to carry and use their gun regardless of laws against it. “We can’t put guns back into Pandora’s Box and seal it back up because once it’s open, you can never close it again.”
The reader who sent us the link (an Arizona resident) says
And to answer those who claim more guns equals more crime, one can still offer up the example of Kennesaw, Georgia.
In 1982 Kennesaw passed a local ordinance reading in part ‘every head of household residing in the city limits is required to maintain a firearm, together with ammunition therefore.’
There is reasonable evidence that the passage of this law was partially responsible for decreased crime in Kennesaw, which enjoys crime rates less than half the national average per capita despite a population boom of over 300% in the last 20 years. (statistics found here , and here .)
A good article detailing the statistics, with a comparison to a comparable city in Illinois which enacted a complete gun ban, can be found here.
With this header on their front page of their webite, the Washington Post has clearly decided that it was weak gun laws and heated political rhetoric that killed six people in Tuscon the other day. In another article, Washington Post “reporters” disregard the fact that Pima County Law Enforcement did their best to keep Jared Luchner’s name out of any data base of criminals;
In recent years, Loughner has had run-ins with the police and military over alleged drug use, and gun-control activists said that the federal government isn’t doing enough to prevent drug abusers from getting firearms.
“The law says that drug abusers can’t buy guns,” said New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg, who also co-founded a gun-control organization of mayors. “Even though Jared Loughner was rejected by the military for drug use and arrested on drug charges, he was able to pass a background check and buy a gun.”
I did a criminal background check on Lochner Sunday and found one dropped unspecified charge from a neighboring county and a ticket for running a stop sign in Tucson. Nothing about the threats he’s supposedly phoned in around the county. The problem isn’t with the gun laws or background checks, it’s with the people who are supposed to be entering this information into the system so they can’t buy guns. The people who should be prosecuting offenders.
The Post continues;
Loughner bought the shotgun within a year of his rejection for enlistment in the U.S. Army and within a year of his arrest for possession of drug paraphernalia, according to court records and military sources.
The implication, of course, is that the military should have alerted local police…but the local police are already aware of his drug use…what would have changed? Well, besides the ACLU crawling up the Army’s ass for releasing private information.
The solution would be that the police be forced to arrest everyone who breaks the law all of the time. Good luck with that one.
The Cholla Jumps claims that Sheriff Dope-nik and his deputies created Mr Clean the Gunman Version here. I speculated as much this morning. If you can bear to watch the Olbermann video in TSO’s post below, even Olbermann mentions the fact that the Pima County Sheriff’s department has had to deal with Loughner in the past.
Because they didn’t do their job and make his mental problems part of his record, Loughner was able to buy a gun and murder six people. Like I’ve been saying, our current gun laws are sufficient to protect us if law enforcement is willing to enforce the laws.
Dingus Representative James Clyburn thinks we need to “rethink parameters on free speech”;
He wants standards put in place to guarantee balanced media coverage with a reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine, in addition to calling on elected officials and media pundits to use ‘better judgment.’
‘Free speech is as free speech does,’ he said. ‘You cannot yell ‘fire’ in a crowded theater and call it free speech and some of what I hear, and is being called free speech, is worse than that.’
How can we have parameters on free speech and still call it free speech? What we need parameters on is truthful speech. Like Clyburn telling Ed Schultz that reading the Constitution on the floor of the House drove Jared Loughner to the shooting on Saturday. That doesn’t seem like Clyburn’s parameters on free speech would include mine.
There is one blessing to come out of this shooting;
U.S. lawmakers put off much of their work for the week….
Whoever it was that wasn’t authorized to talk to Associated Press and toldthem that Loghner popped hot on a piss test was wrong, apparently, according to Time.
Indeed, Army officials say Loughner actually passed a urinalysis designed to detect drug use. “He didn’t fail a drug test — he admitted to excessive drug use,” an Army official says. The confession was so clear that the military had no choice. “He admitted that he smoked marijuana to such an extent that we said, ‘No thank you.’ We’re not going to accept a habitual drug abuser into the Army.’”
Whatever it was, the Army dodged a bullet. They’d have been on the hook for this guy’s medical bills for decades.
The gun control fascists are already hard at work to get your gun. From Politico;
One of the fiercest gun-control advocates in Congress, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.), pounced on the shooting massacre in Tucson Sunday, promising to introduce legislation as soon as Monday targeting the high-capacity ammunition the gunman used.
McCarthy ran for Congress after her husband was gunned down and her son seriously injured in a shooting in 1993 on a Long Island commuter train.
“My staff is working on looking at the different legislation fixes that we might be able to do and we might be able to introduce as early as tomorrow,” McCarthy told POLITICO in a Sunday afternoon phone interview.
Gun control activists cried it was time to reform weapons laws in the United States, almost immediately after a gunman killed six and injured 14 more, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, in Arizona on Saturday.
Can someone tell me what “high capacity ammunition” is? Maybe one of you low-capacity journalists can fill us in on your little manufactured code words. If you can’t speak the language of the issue, why even pretend you know what you’re talking about.
I guess the Left forgets that the main reason Al Gore and John Kerry lost their presidential bids last decade was because of restrictions gun owners anticipated if they had been elected. So yeah, go ahead, add more regulations instead of enforcing current laws.
It’s odd, legally speaking, that Democrats have already convicted law-abiding US citizens of gun crimes before this Loughner douche has been convicted.
