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Category: Gun Grabbing Fascists

  • DC cop brings gun to a snowball fight

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    A man who identifies himself as “Detective Baylor” in the following video, was brutally attacked and forced to draw his weapon on 14th and U Streets yesterday in order to quell a vicious hurling of precipitation formed into odd-shaped, never-before-seen clumps;

    Pussy.

    Funny how the government in DC, which fights all the way to the Supreme Court to prevent it’s citizenry from owning firearms, reaches so quickly, and so unreasonably, for their own weapons.

    Here’s a video of the event the “detective” sought to quell;

    The Washington City Paper reports that it wasn’t even the cop who got hit, but rather his personal unmarked vehicle, a Hummer (no penis issues there, huh?). So he pulls his gun.

    Again. Pussy.

  • Just making stuff up

    On the front page of the Washington Post is the link to an EJ Dionne piece that says that gun owners want more gun laws, despite what the NRA says;

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    The opinion piece is about a Luntz poll. Says Frank Lutz;

    The survey, which will be released soon, wasn’t conducted by some liberal outfit but by Frank Luntz, the Republican pollster lately famous for providing talking points against the Democrats’ health-care bills.

    “I support the NRA,” Luntz insists. What he doesn’t go for is the “slippery slope argument” that casts any new gun law as the first step toward confiscation. “When the choice is between national security and terrorism versus no limits on owning guns,” Luntz says, “I’m on the side of national security and fighting terrorism.”

    So, naturally, the poll is going to reflect Luntz’ opinion. But, far from the Washington Post’s assertion, this is what the people polled wanted regulated;

    In his survey of 832 gun owners, including 401 NRA members, Luntz found that 82 percent of NRA members supported “prohibiting people on the terrorist watch lists from purchasing guns.” Sixty-nine percent favored “requiring all gun sellers at gun shows to conduct criminal background checks of the people buying guns,” and 78 percent backed “requiring gun owners to alert police if their guns are lost or stolen.” Among gun owners who did not belong to the NRA, the numbers were even higher.

    Yes, I agree that people on terrorism watch lists shouldn’t buy guns and that there should be a national data base available for gun show sales and stolen weapons – but let’s get the technology done first before we start writing laws.

    It’s hardly a call for the restrictive gun purchases that Dionne and the Washington Post want enacted, but Dionne says this is proof that the NRA has lost touch with it’s membership (out of millions, a few hundred were polled) and that Congress should take this as a cue to enact more restrictive legislation.

  • The Swiss model in defense of our 2d Amendment rights

    Old Trooper sent us this video about the Swiss model of a national defense force;

    I think it was interesting that the gentleman in the video still had his father’s and grandfather’s rifles from their time in the service. Four generations of battle rifles.

  • Army seeking panelists with keen eye for the obvious

    The Washington Post reports this morning that the Army is forming a panel of experts to investigate Nidal Hasan’s career and to recommend ways to avoid the massacre at Fort Hood getting a repeat performance;

    “Casey is looking at a panel that will look longitudinally across Hasan’s entire career to figure out how did this happen and what can we do to stop it from happening again,” said the Army official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the announcement of such a group remains pending.

    Now, I’m not privy to any special information, but I’m pretty sure there are some missed signs here (unless emailing radical imams with the full knowledge of the FBI has a meaning I don’t understand) and I’m pretty sure that it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to point out how the Army, and the Feds in general, could have avoided the 13 counts of premeditated murder.

    The Dallas Morning News reports that Hasan had approached his superiors about prosecuting some of his patients for war crimes;

    Fort Hood massacre suspect Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan sought to have some of his patients prosecuted for war crimes based on statements they made during psychiatric sessions with him, a captain who served on the base said Monday.

    I’m torn on that – while I agree that war crimes should be prosecuted, it’s disturbing that Hasan was willing to surrender his patients’ rights to do so. That will probably prevent a lot of patients from being honest with their counselors. The Dallas paper uses it as a excuse to be lenient with the thirteen-time murderer;

    The revelations add to a portrait of Hasan as a man at odds with many of those around him — emotionally, religiously and ideologically.

    I still stick to my original theory that Hasan was a malingerer who’ll use religion and PTSD as an excuse in his trial. I just know a malingerer when I see one.

    Claymore sent us a link to a Democratic Underground thread in which the DUmmies are more than willing to take away returning veterans’ guns until they prove themselves worthy of owning a gun. Of course, the strongest proponents of relieving veterans of their rights claim to be veterans themselves.

  • Those “benign” emails

    How can there be benign emails between an Army Major and a radical imam who encourages terrorism? (USAToday link)

    The personal website for a radical American imam living in Yemen who had contact with two Sept. 11 hijackers is praising alleged Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan as a hero.

    One U.S. official said Monday that the government had discovered electronic communications that showed Hasan had reached out to the imam, Anwar Aulaqi, in the past. But investigators said late Monday there was no indication Hasan was directed to attack or had help in the massacre last Thursday.

    The posting Monday on the website for Aulaqi, who was a spiritual leader at two mosques where three Sept. 11 hijackers worshipped, said American Muslims who condemned the attacks on the Texas military post last week are hypocrites who have committed treason against their religion.

    From Fox News’ Special Report;

    If those emails are so benign, why can’t we see them? I’m telling you that since the Army’s Chief of Staff thinks that losing our diversity is more tragic than losing 13 soldiers, I want to see those emails. I don’t trust the government’s judgment when it comes to my security lately.

    By the way, the Chicago mayor blames you gun-clinging fundamentalists for the actions of an Allah-clinging fundamentalist according to Gateway Pundit.

  • Times notes DC gun owners not committing crimes

    This morning, Jennifer Maas at the Washington Times notices that one year after the Supreme Court ruling that overturned the decades-long ban on hand guns in the District, no legal owners of handguns have been accused of any gun-related crimes. Compared to the illegal gun owners who have commited about 180 murders over the last year and nearly 2000 illegal guns have been seized by police, according to the DC Metro Police.

    During the year residents have been allowed to register guns, preliminary police statistics say violent crime and property crime have gone down citywide — a modest decline that even the most ardent gun rights advocate would have difficulty attributing to legal gun ownership. Police also say they have seized more than 2,000 illegal guns from D.C. streets in the last year.

    Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, said the fears of gun-control advocates — that having more guns would lead to increased gun violence — were unfounded.

    “All the handgun bill people’s predictions have proved to be wrong,” Mr. LaPierre said.

    I’d point out that, not only were the gun grabbing crowd wrong about legal gun owners, they were also wrong about illegal gun owners. The Times claims that 500 guns were registered in the District, but police seized four times as many from criminals. Crimes are committed by people who won’t register their weapons. Funny how I have to make such an obvious statement.

    The District still has a way to go as far their restrictions go;

    Peter Hamm, spokesman for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, said the District’s new gun regulations are “sensible.”

    “We think the District has adopted sensible gun laws. If every jurisdiction in the U.S. had reasonable laws and common sense laws … we would be fine with that sort of system,” he said.

    Litigation is pending over the gun restrictions the District implemented in the wake of the Supreme Court decision.

    Yeah, if the Brady Bunch thinks DC’s laws are sensible, there’s room for improvement.

  • GAO enters gun debate

    The Wall Street Journal‘s Evan Perez reports this morning that the Government Accountability Office announced that “most” of the guns used by criminals in Mexico come from the United States;

    Drug-related murders have more than doubled in number to 6,200 last year from 2,700 in 2007, according to the GAO study, a draft of which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. The study is set to be released Thursday.

    Mexican officials have pushed for the U.S. to enact tougher gun laws and to help restrict arms smuggling as Mexico attempts to battle drug cartels on its territory.

    “The availability of firearms illegally flowing from the United States into Mexico has armed and emboldened a dangerous criminal element in Mexico, and it has made the job of drug cartels easier,” said Rep. Eliot L. Engel, (D., N.Y.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere….

    Ya know what’s funny (not funny, ha-ha) – we’ve been asking Mexico to tighten up their side of the border and help stem the flow of people and drugs for decades. Now that the Mexicans are reaping what they’ve sown along the border, they expect us to change our Constitution to help them. And of course, the Democrats are willing to bow and scrape to them.

    I own several weapons that Democrats would classify as “assault weapons”. Some I’ve owned for decades. I’ve never committed a crime with them, and the rifles were never even pointed at another human. I suspect most gun owners can claim the same responsible ownership.

    So why are we the ones who have to relinquish our rights? Just like those of us who’ve always provided health care for our families are now being told to pay for the irresponsible. Funny how law abiding people are always the ones who have to abide by more and more laws.

  • Gun grabbers shift into high gear

    The Washington Times‘ S.A.Miller reports that those gun grabbing fascists are seizing on the shooting at the Holocaust Museum yesterday as evidence that laws need to tighten against law-abiding firearms owners;

    They said it highlights the need for lawmakers to reconsider efforts to ease the District’s tough gun laws and allowing firearms into national parks.

    D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray said the shooting underscored the need for strict gun laws in the nation’s capital.

    “It’s all the more reason why, though, District of Columbia gun legislation should be not used as a bargaining chip by those in Congress who would use our city for political gain while compromising safety, particularly when it involves our right to a vote,” said Mr. Gray, at-large Democrat.

    First of all, von Brunn is a resident of Maryland, so DC’s gun laws wouldn’t have prevented him from possessing a gun. Secondly, shotgun ownership is illegal in the District already, according to the Metro cop I talked to in the Fourth Precinct a few years back before I brought my own weapons when I moved to the District.

    Thirdly, von Brunn probably didn’t own the weapon legally – he was a twice-convicted felon. There are already laws preventing felons from owning guns.

    “It is dangerous to force more guns into places that American families expect to be gun-free and safe,” [Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence] said.

    Anyone expecting DC to be “gun-free and safe” for their families lives in a pod underground. There are already 28 unsolved homocides in the District this year. There have been 58 homicides, and almost nine hundred illegal guns recovered in the District so far this year.

    The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence said the museum shooting was part of a pattern of escalating gun violence in America.

    “What we are seeing play out in tragedies across our country is the mixing of the insurrectionist idea with increasingly weaker gun laws,” the coalition said in a statement. “In shooting after shooting, we have seen individuals disgruntled with government gain easy access to firearms despite criminal records and troubling mental health histories.”

    And how would writing more regulations and laws for gun control prevent criminals from getting guns illegally? And notice that it’s people who are “disgruntled with government” – coded language for “wingnuts on the Right”.

    There are already sufficient gun laws, what we need is enforcement. Whoever gave von Brunn his gun should be punished right along side von Brunn, but we can be pretty sure it wasn’t transferred legally. So these intellectually vacant gun grabbers ought to focus on common sense enforcement instead of trying to pass laws that won’t be enforced.