Someone sent us this video clip from their local news coverage of the student protest against guns today in Nashville, Tennessee;
Yes, if you shoot a deer with an Armalite-style Rifle, the deer will explode according to this person who got lost looking for a barbershop. The reason that this class of people are called students is because they don’t know everything, as this youngster demonstrates perfectly.
Go back to class.
I know this has been all over the internet and the broadcast news programs and you’ve been bombarded every 30 minutes with images of frightened school children fleeing the smoldering bomb. What? You haven’t? Well, here it is now.
A teen was arrested in Pine View High School in the city of St. George when a bomb in his backpack began smoking. He’s also suspected of raising an ISIS flag at another school. From Associated Press;
No one was hurt Monday after the backpack was found in a common area of the school by a student who reported it to a teacher.
The boy was arrested and booked into a detention center on charges of manufacture, possession, sale, use or attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, St. George police said in a statement.
No one was hurt, no damage was reported and the school reopened Tuesday morning for classes. Police did not describe the homemade bomb in detail but said it “had the potential to cause significant injury or death.”
“Based on our investigation we can confirm this was a failed attempt to detonate a homemade explosive at the school. It was also determined that the male had been researching information and expressing interest in ISIS and promoting the organization,” police said.
So why isn’t the story more popular? Well, there’s no blood, so the media doesn’t care and it doesn’t involve firearms, bombs are boring, especially when they fizzle and don’t kill and maim. No crying white mothers.
If the little terrorist MFer had only used a gun, especially a black, scary-looking gun with lots of accessory rails and a bayonet lug.
A bomb only highlights the fact that it’s people not guns that are a danger to kids in schools – can’t put that on the news.
Mick sends a link to 13 News Now which reports on Congressional Candidate Karen Mallard, who is, apparently, worried that her husband is going to shoot up a school with his AR-15 rifle, so she hacks off part of the barrel, you know, as a political stunt;
Well, after folks “gunsplained” to her that she just created a “short barrel rifle” (SBR) which is regulated by the National Firearms Act of 1934 and that she didn’t get the permission from her local law enforcement to create the rifle and then paid the $200 tax to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, you know, like us law abiding gun owners have to do, she got a little worried and scolded folks;
And yes for all the NRA trolls out there, I finished the job according to regulation and turned it over to the police. Why are you more outraged about me taking a gun out of circulation than about our children being murdered in our schools?
She can take all of the guns she wants “out of circulation” as long as she keeps her grubby little dick-beaters off of my guns. None of my guns will ever be used in a school shooting. Some of them I’ve owned for more than thirty years and I’ve never harmed anyone with my privately-owned guns.
Mallard really didn’t do anything except that she made sure no one in her household can shoot people with that gun. But, it was only to convince folks to vote for her, anyway, so it really doesn’t matter.
The linked article above says that the BATFE is investigating the candidate. I’m not holding my breath until I see her in a courtroom, though.
By the way, she did that thing I mentioned last night “I grew up in Wise County, surrounded by guns. Our family had guns my whole life. We use them for hunting, for protection, and recreation.” I’ll bet she has a Black friend, too.
The Washington Examiner reports that Connecticut’s Governor Dannel Malloy told FOX61 that the National Rifle Association is a terrorist organization.
“They act quite frankly in some cases as a terrorist organization,” said Malloy. “You want to make safer guns? We will boycott your company. That’s who they are. That’s what they do.”
Malloy said the NRA is a different organization than what it used to be.
I don’t know what he means by making safer guns, but I have to think that the governor means “smart guns” which is an inexact science these days. I don’t expect him to know that, because the governor uses words he doesn’t understand – like “terrorist organization”. I don’t remember any reports of the NRA using car bombs to get their point across. None of the recent shooters were NRA members. No enemies of the NRA are being burned alive in cages. These are things that terrorist organizations do.
The NRA, however, merely represents five million members in the halls of Congress.
Jennifer Baker from the NRA, released the following statement in regards to Malloy’s terrorist remarks:
“ The NRA is comprised of over five million law-abiding citizens many of whom are teachers, doctors, policeman, farmers , moms and dads residing in Connecticut. So let’s be clear Governor Malloy just called tens of thousands of his constituents terrorists.
He’s used to that, though. His recent gun regulations made thousands of his constituents criminals overnight.
Adam Weinstein complains in the Washington Post that pro-2d Amendment folks are guilty of “gunsplaining” to the gun grabbers and we make it impossible to have a discussion on gun control.
While debating the merits of various gun control proposals, Second Amendment enthusiasts often diminish, or outright dismiss their views if they use imprecise firearms terminology. Perhaps someone tweets about “assault-style” weapons, only to be told that there’s no such thing. Maybe they’re reprimanded that an AR-15 is neither an assault rifle nor “high-powered.” Or they say something about “machine guns” when they really mean semiautomatic rifles. Or they get sucked into an hours-long Facebook exchange over the difference between the terms clip and magazine.
Has this happened to you? If so, you’ve been gunsplained: harangued with the pedantry of the more-credible-than-thou firearms owner, admonished that your inferior knowledge of guns and their nomenclature puts an asterisk next to your opinion on gun control.
It can feel infuriating, being forced to sweat the finest taxonomic distinctions between our nation’s unlimited variety of lethal weapons. I know this feeling acutely, having covered gun violence critically for the better part of a decade and having just buried an old mentor, killed in the Parkland massacre.
Yeah, well, the problem is that the gun grabbers want to regulate firearms and they don’t really understand the things that they want to make illegal. The most egregious example is this exchange between Tucker Carlson and Congresswoman Caroline McCarthy who wants to regulate barrel shrouds for some reason;
She ends up calling the barrel shroud “the thing in the back that goes up”.
Now, to prevent teachers from being armed in the classroom, the gun fascists are complaining that the ammunition for the AR-style rifle leaves the barrel at three times the speed of the standard 9 millimeter ammunition. That’s true but at the range of a few feet, the difference is negligible. It doesn’t make the teacher more vulnerable. But, that’s the scare tactic employed in order to make it seem more rational to forbid the sale of black rifles.
Gunsplaining, though, is always done in bad faith. Like mansplaining, it’s less about adding to the discourse than smothering it — with self-appointed authority, and often the thinnest of connection to any real fact.
Well, then, the Left needs to get up to speed on the discussion. I hate explaining everyday that there is no “gun show loop hole”, that a bayonet lug doesn’t make a gun more dangerous. That there are already “universal background checks”. That gun registration has never prevented a crime.
[W]e need to take away the incentives for gunsplaining, for spurning conversation in favor of condescension. Can that happen anytime soon? I’m not optimistic — not as long as the pro-gun camp continues to suppress debate with heavy rhetorical firepower, instead of just shooting straight.
The main incentive for “gunspalining” is the total ignorance of the gun grabbers who don’t even know what it is that they want to seize from the law abiding public.
Adam Weinstein hates guns. Every time he tries to write about guns, he explains that he owns guns – it’s like a racist who explains that he can’t be racist because he has a black friend.
If you want us to stop “gunsplaining”, know what is that you want to jerk out of my hands. Quit trying to outsmart yourself. Well, unless you don’t want to tell us what it is you’re trying to do.
By the way, Weinstein is the chief editor at Task & Purpose – stop sending me links to that dumpster fire.
Chicago’s CBS Local News reports that the DuPage County Pioneer Valley Sportsman’s Show held at the county’s fairgrounds has banned the sale of AR-style rifles and bump stocks as well as canceling gun raffles in response to a few gun control nuts who started protesting there this last weekend.
The Huffington Post reminds us about the non-existent “gun show loophole”;
Gun shows from South Carolina to New Mexico have become targets of protesters since the Parkland massacre. Unlicensed private sellers at such events can take advantage of the “gun show loophole” in which they can skirt federal laws that must be followed by licensed dealers and stores. Federal law does not require unlicensed private sellers at gun shows to check a buyer’s identification, perform any background checks or even record sales.
The federal government also doesn’t require private sellers at a folding table in their front yard to check a buyer’s identification or conduct a NICS check. Nor do they require a private seller in a darkened parking lot selling from the trunk of his car to check a buyer’s ID or conduct a NICS check. Every time I bought a firearm at a gun show, I went through a NICS check. So what’s your point, gumball?
From The Washington Post;
Frank Cesare — of the Pioneer Valley Sportsman’s Association, which has hosted the show for more than 40 years — said the decision followed complaints the group received after the Parkland shooting and as gun-control advocates planned to protest.
“We did the ban to try to calm the situation down and show them we are willing to work with them,” he said, referring to the protesters.
Yeah, the gun control fascists don’t want to “work” with anyone, they just want you to follow instructions.
I’m sure that the DuPage County organizers will return to their previous policies soon, you know, after they discover that interest has waned every time they acquiesce to the protesters at the expense of their clientele.
CNN decided to take retired Lieutenant General Mark Hertling to the range. LTG Hertling was an armor officer, also trained in Air Defense Artillery. He has six Bronze Star Medals (all for merit, not a one for valor). He was awarded a Purple Heart in Desert Storm according to Wiki – I don’t know how that happens to a major who is the Squadron S-3 in a Cavalry unit, but there it is.
Somehow he earned a Combat Action Badge while he was the Commanding General of the 1st Armored Division in Iraq. If your commanding general is involved in a combat action, something has gone wrong.
You can tell by his shooting stance that he’s not real familiar with firing an AR style rifle. He’s pretty dramatic at making the recoil look stronger than it really is.
I’m at a loss to explain what “full semi-automatic” means.
I don’t own AR-style rifles to look “cool” or “look like a soldier”, General. I was cool before I owned one and I was a soldier while you were still a cadet.
He says some ignorant bullshit about people who want should be able to buy them, but the rifle should be kept out of the “wrong hands”. I guess he wants to be on the council that determines “wrong hands”.
According to The Hill, President Trump seems to want to forego Fourth Amendment protections “against unreasonable searches and seizures” in dealing with guns;
President Trump on Wednesday voiced support for confiscating guns from certain individuals deemed to be dangerous, even if it violates due process rights.
“I like taking the guns early, like in this crazy man’s case that just took place in Florida … to go to court would have taken a long time,” Trump said at a meeting with lawmakers on school safety and gun violence.
“Take the guns first, go through due process second,” Trump said.
Trump was responding to comments from Vice President Pence that families and local law enforcement should have more tools to report potentially dangerous individuals with weapons.
Yeah, no. It happened to me a few years ago when the now deceased Dan Bernath filed a restraining order against me, claiming that my wheelchair-bound ass was spotted outside his home in Oregon harassing him, on a day that I was actually on the other side of the country in the White House at a Medal of Honor ceremony.
Bernath called ahead to the local constabulary and convinced them that I was a dangerous and armed veteran likely to shoot them when they served me on the RO. None of that was true. But, because the RO was out of Oregon, I had no way to recover my weapons through due process.
Luckily, the local sheriff agreed and returned my rather large collection of guns and ammunition to me after being prompted by my state legislature delegate. The restraining order was vacated eventually, because an Oregon judge has no jurisdiction over a citizen of West Virginia when he’s never been in Oregon.
Now, if law enforcement had brought me in front of a judge before they took my weapons, that would have satisfied my 4th Amendment protections. It would have been a pain in my ass, but at least my rights wouldn’t have been violated.
By the way, anyone thinking that they can put me through that again have another think coming. I’ve discussed it with local officers and we have an understanding.
But, taking guns without due process can lead to harassment of gun owners by gun grabbers. The president and his advisors should put more thought into this.