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Category: Guns

  • Biden wants new gun laws, but can’t enforce the old laws

    This is fairly unbelievable – if wasn’t that moron, Joe Bite Me, I wouldn’t believe it. According to the NRA, when they had their meeting with Bite Me last week, they were given five minutes to present their case to Plugs Mumbles, and among the things they proposed was vigorous prosecution of existing laws. Biden’s response was that the government doesn’t have the resources to prosecute existing laws;

    Vice-President Biden said, “And to your point, Mr. Baker, regarding the lack of prosecutions on lying on Form 4473s, we simply don’t have the time or manpower to prosecute everybody who lies on a form, that checks a wrong box, that answers a question inaccurately.” That’s right: Biden said the administration just doesn’t have time to prosecute crimes (felonies punishable by up to a 10-year prison sentence) under existing laws, but is proposing a host of sweeping new laws.

    So, basically, that’s why they want to take all of our guns away from us, because they’ve created a system that they can’t manage properly, so their solution is to punish us for their incompetent boobery. And they put the biggest boob they can find to handle the punishment of those of us who have complied with the law.

    The whole gun control thing has revolved around keeping guns out of the hands of people who aren’t competent or otherwise shouldn’t be armed, but the simple form that we all have to fill out and sign, the stopgap to keep criminals from purchasing guns, you know criminals, people who don’t answer questions truthfully, and all they have to do is not answer questions truthfully. And the government, which makes us take the time to fill out the forms and do the NICS check, isn’t going to bother taking the time so see if the form was filled out correctly.

    Thanks, Bite Me. Any other useless crap you want to shove down our throat?

  • LBs

    Some advocates for liberal causes are simply naive but well-meaning people.  They’re rather like the “useful idiots” of whom Soviet leaders spoke:  they mean well, but their efforts are ultimately destructive.

    But some of them are, bluntly, nothing but lying sacks of excrement who should be exposed as exactly that.  For brevity, I’ll simply refer to them as “lying bastards”, or “LBs” for short.

    Want an example?  Take a look at “The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence”, for one.

    It seems that this particular group of LBs has decided to go after Georgia Representative John Barrow.  They’ve done so by selectively editing some of his former campaign ads to remove significant parts – omissions that significantly change the meaning of the original.

    Here’s one example of what these LBs did.  In the Congressman’s original ad, he says “I’m John Barrow, and long before I was born, my grandfather used this little Smith & Wesson here to help stop a lynching.”

    In the LBs’ version, the quote is “I’m John Barrow, and long before I was born, my grandfather used this little Smith & Wesson here.”  The rest – which is kinda pertinent, in my opinion – is omitted.  And then the lying bastards cut to a video montage of coverage of the Sandy Hook school shooting.

    Both videos are available in the article cited above.  Take a look for yourself if you like.

    Talk about a hatchet job.  But that’s neither new nor surprising when it comes to causes supported by liberals.  Remember NBC’s deliberate selective editing of the George Zimmerman’s 911 call in the Trayvon Martin case?

    Being a LB isn’t limited to gun control advocates.

  • LoHud removes map of gun owners

    Dominick and Hondo sent us links to the story that the Journal News of the Lower Hudson River region has removed their interactive map to the homes of legal gun owners in their region. They claim that it’s not because they were scared or anything, but because they’ve made their point and the map is beginning to become inaccurate;

    The newspaper wasn’t caving to public pressure, and the decision wasn’t an acknowledgment that it made a mistake, Hasson said. In fact, she said, many community members applauded publication of the permit data.

    “Our decision to do so is not a concession to critics that no value was served by the posting of the map in the first place,” Hasson said.

    “Nor is our decision made because we were intimidated by those who threatened the safety of our staffers. We know our business is a controversial one, and we do not cower,” Hasson said.

    “But the database has been public for 27 days and we believe those who wanted to view it have done so already. As well, with the passage of time, the data will become outdated and inaccurate,” she said.

    Yeah, false bravado. They had no real point to begin with. If they were really brave, they’d publish an interactive map to the homes of people with unregistered weapons. That would take take some real journalistic skills, though, and we won’t be seeing any of that coming out these folks whose only skill is filing a FOIA to get the names of people who have no intention of breaking any laws.

  • That “public safety” vs. “do something” dilemma

    In New York, it seems that legacy governor Cuomo rushed his emotional knee-jerk gun ban through the legislature too fast because they didn’t exempt large capacity magazines for the police officers, and now he has to clarify the ill-considered bill, according to Fox News;

    “Police officers possessing ammunition clip with more than seven bullets are not in violation of this law and they never will be, period,” Cuomo spokesman Matthew Wing said.

    While the new law did not include an explicit exemption for police, the old law which capped the number of rounds in a magazine at 10 bullets did. Technically, the new law likely would not override that exemption.

    But some lawmakers were concerned there could be confusion. Graf said if the governor’s office does not craft an amendment explicitly exempting officers, he will.

    “If (Cuomo) didn’t do this the way he did, he wouldn’t be so embarrassed today,” said Graf, complaining that lawmakers had very little time to read and digest the bill before it was muscled through the legislature and signed into law.

    Personally, I think the NYPD needs lower capacity magazines – remember the gun man at the Empire State Building who had no one to gun down because all of the pedestrians within range had been gun downed by the police?

    Several miles north of Albany, near Burlington, Vermont a local range operator has disinvited the city’s police from usage of his private range because of the new legislation passed in Burlington, says USAToday;

    The club’s executive board “can no longer support the City of Burlington with such a prejudice against our club and its members, and has voted to suspend the City’s use of our range for its law enforcement. This action is effective immediately,” Boivin wrote in the letter, dated Tuesday. It was provided Wednesday to The Burlington Free Press.

    “We hope that the council reconsiders its actions and redirects its efforts towards perpetrators of violent crimes and security issues,” Boivin wrote.

    The city’s exclusion from the range likely would affect how and when officers train with firearms, Burlington Police Chief Michael Schirling told the Free Press on Wednesday night.

    “Training facilities are limited in the area,” Schirling said. “It’s unfortunate that a polarized discussion of this nature has this kind of impact.”

    Yeah, it’s unfortunate that private citizens aren’t rolling over and just doing what is being dictated to them. We talked about the city council when they decided to draft a gun ban for the city while most of the citizens who showed up for the meeting opposed the new legislation. The council plowed ahead anyway, and now they find out that there’s a price to pay for their intransigence.

  • Obama’s gun plan

    So, his big anticipated speech was pretty much like I said it’d be – his executive orders threat turned out to be a bunch of stuff he should have been doing already, well, except providing incentives for schools to hire cops to patrol schools (I guess that’s only nutty when the NRA says it out loud);

    1. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal background check system.

    2. Address unnecessary legal barriers, particularly relating to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, that may prevent states from making information available to the background check system.

    3. Improve incentives for states to share information with the background check system.

    4. Direct the Attorney General to review categories of individuals prohibited from having a gun to make sure dangerous people are not slipping through the cracks.

    5. Propose rulemaking to give law enforcement the ability to run a full background check on an individual before returning a seized gun.

    6. Publish a letter from ATF to federally licensed gun dealers providing guidance on how to run background checks for private sellers.

    7. Launch a national safe and responsible gun ownership campaign.

    8. Review safety standards for gun locks and gun safes (Consumer Product Safety Commission).

    9. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal law enforcement to trace guns recovered in criminal investigations.

    10. Release a DOJ report analyzing information on lost and stolen guns and make it widely available to law enforcement.

    11. Nominate an ATF director.

    12. Provide law enforcement, first responders, and school officials with proper training for active shooter situations.

    13. Maximize enforcement efforts to prevent gun violence and prosecute gun crime.

    14. Issue a Presidential Memorandum directing the Centers for Disease Control to research the causes and prevention of gun violence.

    15. Direct the Attorney General to issue a report on the availability and most effective use of new gun safety technologies and challenge the private sector to develop innovative technologies.

    16. Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes.

    17. Release a letter to health care providers clarifying that no federal law prohibits them from reporting threats of violence to law enforcement authorities.

    18. Provide incentives for schools to hire school resource officers.

    19. Develop model emergency response plans for schools, houses of worship and institutions of higher education.

    20. Release a letter to state health officials clarifying the scope of mental health services that Medicaid plans must cover.

    21. Finalize regulations clarifying essential health benefits and parity requirements within ACA exchanges.

    22. Commit to finalizing mental health parity regulations.

    23. Launch a national dialogue led by Secretaries Sebelius and Duncan on mental health.

    But I’m waiting to read the Executive Orders before I have my final say on those things.

    So, he wants Congress to recertify the Assault Weapon Ban and get rid of magazines over 10 rounds and I don’t think either will happen, unless those RINOs haven’t got the message yet. If they do pass, we’ll have no one to blame but the Republicans, because we’ve been expecting this from the Democrats for four years now.

  • NRA: Stand & Fight; America Speaks For Itself

    The NRA has released their second in a series of videos; America Speaks For Itself. Make sure you pass it around ahead of the President’s press conference.

  • TSO at the SHOT Show

    SHOT Show

    While we’re breathlessly awaiting the President’s dog and pony show, where he trots out a crowd of children who wrote him letters begging him to make them safe (I’m sure they weren’t encouraged to do so by their teachers), our correspondent, TSO is at the SHOT Show in Las Vegas this weekend. I snagged the photo above from his Facebook posting last night.

    CBS News reports that 60,000 people are out there this weekend. TSO teases me by meeting people I know through emails without any photos, so I’m thinking he sucks as a live-blogger.

    Foundation spokesman Bill Brassard Jr. told The Associated Press on Monday the organization stopped accepting media applications when it was swamped by requests following the Newtown shooting. At the time, the foundation issued a statement saying family, friends and acquaintances were affected by what it called a terrible tragedy.

    Nothing motivates the media like dead children. I did an interview last night with the Christian Science Monitor which was hoping that I’d give them answers about scary-looking weapons by doing an imitation of Alex Jones or scream out “Red Dawn is real”! I think she was disappointed, so you probably won’t get to read my answers. I’ve done a bunch of interviews like that in the last few weeks. I guess I write like I have an inner nutjob.

    But the President will have his little parade of tears in about two hours, and I’m just waiting for that. Personally, I think all of the talk about executive orders is just to get us wound up so that when he makes his proposal, it will seem tame compared to what we expect. All he can really do is enforce the laws that they’ve been ignoring to this point. I also think that he’s winding up this gun control issue so we forget about his poor performance on the economy and so we’re not paying attention to Benghazi and al Qaeda in general.

  • More Citizens Prevent Crime

    Here’s a few more stories I’m betting you won’t hear much about on the nightly news:

    Hollywood, FL: a gas-station clerk puts a would-be robber away – for keeps. A second would-be robber escaped initially but was captured by police afterwards.

    NE Miami-Dade, FL: a robber attempts to ply his trade and runs into an armed resident.  The robber does not survive the encounter.

    San Antonio, TX:  a resident hears noise, grabs his gun, and goes outside.  There the resident confronts two thieves ransacking his SUV in an apparent attempt to steal it.  One would-be thief survives; the other does not.  No charges are expected against the resident.

    In each case above, an armed private citizen – acting lawfully – protected his life or property, preventing a felony in the process.

    But remember, folks:  according to our liberal brethren those guns are nasty terrible things whose only legitimate use is hunting.  You don’t need them to protect yourself, your loved ones, or your property.