{"id":38724,"date":"2013-12-04T16:45:15","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T21:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38724"},"modified":"2013-12-08T16:31:40","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T21:31:40","slug":"bateman-on-guns-its-time-to-shut-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38724","title":{"rendered":"Bateman on guns &#8211; it&#8217;s time to shut up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several of you have sent us a link today written by Lieutenant Colonel <a href=\"http:\/\/bearingarms.com\/attacking-the-wrong-robert-bateman\/\">Robert Lake Bateman<\/a>, who does happen to be an infantry officer and is currently assigned to HQ  ARRC in the UK. His article in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/blogs\/politics\/bateman-on-guns-120313?fb_comment_id=fbc_649940115057212_6243529_650062641711626#f22948ec84\">Esquire<\/a> is pretty much what we expect to read from hippies at Enquirer, but not from an infantry officer who has sworn to protect and defend the Constitution. Basically, he wants you to own only weapons which were last modern in the late 19th century;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The only guns permitted will be the following:<\/p>\n<p>    a. Smoothbore or Rifled muzzle-loading blackpowder muskets. No 7-11 in history has ever been held up with one of these.<br \/>\n    b. Double-barrel breech-loading shotguns. Hunting with these is valid.<br \/>\n    c. Bolt-action rifles with a magazine capacity no greater than five rounds. Like I said, hunting is valid. But if you cannot bring down a defenseless deer in under five rounds, then you have no fking reason to be holding a killing tool in the first place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you think that gun ownership is limited to hunting, you have no f*cking reason to be participating in this debate, Bobbie.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We will pry your gun from your cold, dead, fingers. That is because I am willing to wait until you die, hopefully of natural causes. Guns, except for the three approved categories, cannot be inherited. When you die your weapons must be turned into the local police department, which will then destroy them. (Weapons of historical significance will be de-milled, but may be preserved.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, when you die, your gun dies with you. Never mind that you&#8217;ve invested thousands in your collection and you&#8217;d hoped it would be part of your legacy for your children and on down the line like Americans have done for genrations, Bobbie says &#8216;no&#8217;, so you can&#8217;t, and just because some woman shot another person over the results of a sports match. It&#8217;s not her fault, it&#8217;s all of us. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Police departments are no longer allowed to sell or auction weapons used in crimes after the cases have been closed. (That will piss off some cops, since they really need this money. But you know what they need more? Less violence and death. By continuing the process of weapon recirculation, they are only making their jobs &#8212; or the jobs of some other cops &#8212; harder.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I say we stop buy back programs, because they don&#8217;t do anything anyway except those  those cheapo Saturday night into drug cash for users. But, Bobbie, in his infinite wisdom, thinks they work, so he wants to expand the program;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> We will initiate a nationwide &#8220;buy-back&#8221; program, effective immediately, with the payouts coming from the DoD budget. This buy-back program will start purchasing weapons at 200 percent of their face value the first year, 150 percent the second year, 100 percent the third year. Thereafter there will be a 10 year pause, at which point the guns can be sold to the government at 10 percent of their value for the next 50 years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, because that&#8217;s what the DoD does so well &#8211; operate social welfare programs. Dumbass.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We will submit a new tax on ammunition. In the first two years it will be 400 percent of the current retail cost of that type of ammunition. (Exemptions for the ammo used by the approved weapons.) Thereafter it will increase by 20 percent per year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Taxes are always a solution. Personally, I have several years worth of ammo to maintain my training for the day Bobbie decides to come for my guns.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The major gun manufactures of the United States, less those who create weapons for the federal government and the armed forces, will be bought out by the United States of America, for our own damned good.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Because the Federal Government always knows what&#8217;s best for us and always acts in our interests, right, Bobbie? Take healthcare for example. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s come to my attention that little Bobbie Bateman has taken to threatening people who disagree with him. Threaten me, Bobbie.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>These opinions are those of the author and do not reflect the United States government, the United States Department of Defense, the United States Army, or any other official body. As for the NRA, they can sit on it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They can&#8217;t sit on it while you have it jammed up your ass, Bobbie, you pole-smoking Leftist freak. Like I said, he&#8217;s got his Hello Kitties underoos bunched because some halfwit woman shot someone over the outcome of the Alabama game the other day. Millions of gun owners didn&#8217;t shoot anyone that day, including me, but apparently Bobbie Bateman wants to punish the tens of millions of gun owners because one was a moron. Do you think someone that stupid will turn in their guns so Bobbie will stop wetting his panties? Seriously? <\/p>\n<p>Shut up, Bateman, you&#8217;re just another hand-wringing pussy from the Left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several of you have sent us a link today written by Lieutenant Colonel Robert Lake Bateman, &hellip; <a title=\"Bateman on guns &#8211; it&#8217;s time to shut up\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38724\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bateman on guns &#8211; it&#8217;s time to shut up<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-grabbing-fascists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}