Yesterday I saw this sign on a door:
I was struck by all the ambiguity. How many different plausible interpretations are there? Here is my first cut at the set:
I’d be ok with Beto trying to take guns if he promises to do it personally.
Kender MacGowan
Facebook post.
September 14, 2019
[H/T Basil.
I see two ways this working out:
Regardless, it’s pretty funny to think about.—Joe]
Apparently @TheBabylonBee is now hard news. I wish them the best in this new phase.
Chris Knox
Tweeted on September 14, 2019
[This was in regards to this Tweet from The Babylon Bee:
Insane Guy Shouting He’ll Buy Back Your Stuff With Your Own Money Becomes Popular Democratic Candidate https://t.co/RDWqCvKcBa
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) September 14, 2019
It is, of course, a reference to Beto saying that as POTUS, if given the chance, he would demand a “mandatory buyback” of all privately owned AR-15s.
I agree with Knox. The Babylon Bee has been a great satire site and I will miss the humor. But if the skill they have demonstrated continues in their new endeavors they will do well and I also wish them the best.
At a recent shooting match I asked a few people what they would do if Beto got his way. The near universal response was a laugh and them saying something similar to, “What AR-15s? I don’t have any AR-15s.” Also mentioned was something to the effect of a “Tragic boating accident.”—Joe]
Via email from John Hardin:
Now that’s funny right there, but unless you are a gun owner you probably won’t get it.
Johannes Köpl @JohannesKoepl
Mit diesem genialen Trick kann man leicht einen Schokoriegel in ein US-amerikanisches Kino schmuggeln!
Translated:
With this ingenious trick you can easily smuggle a chocolate bar into a US cinema!
That’s very clever! I might try that sometime. However, I’d leave a round in the chamber and have a spare magazine on my belt for a quick conversion to full functionality.
Can gun-owners be faulted in believing when a liberal man marries a liberal woman, it’s a same-sex marriage?
Yitzhak Goldstein
July 22, 2019
Henny Penny Builds A “Safe” Gun
[While probably not strictly true it’s certainly directionally true.—Joe]
I have it on good authority that conflating Special Forces with Special Olympics in the presence of a half dozen or so Spec Ops people has the potential to be hazardous to your health.
The person who tested this hypothesis told me he was concerned he might be killed for couple of minutes. He managed to talk his way out of the situation without injury but does not recommend others attempting to repeat the experiment.
To the best of my knowledge the reverse conflation has not been tested. I would like to suggest this is a new field ripe for original research with a lower potential for health hazards.
It would violate ex post facto constraints but we can fantasize about it. And it might be fun to suggest it to your local SJW.
I probably like this more than I should.
Some ignorant anti-gun people seem to think the AR in AR-15 means “Assault Rifle”. Some trolls deliberately say that just to get people worked up and to waste their time.
I’d like to definitely set the issue to rest with this post. The AR in AR-15 does not mean “Assault Rifle”.
Here, for present day applications, is the definitive definition of what AR means (given appropriate legal constraints):
H/T to Phoenix @Phoenix81977532.
Liberals Unable To Pass Background Checks Necessary To Buy The Guns They’ll Need To Take Guns Away From Law-Abiding Gun Owners is satire, but most of the points are completely valid. For example:
“And I know it’s gonna work,” Harris said, “because we’ll be taking guns away from law-abiding citizens. Obeying the law is what they do. It’s not like we’re trying to take guns out of the hands of criminals.”
Via Boomstickbiker @Boomstickbiker:
I could see this having potential for some home defense situations but in the more general case I’m going to stick with semi-auto small arms.
Democrats have made vows to place extreme restrictions on guns, but they keep running into a problem: Many of their ideas can’t go into effect because of an early addendum to the Constitution. They’re now calling this the “Second Amendment loophole.”
“We just want to get guns off the streets,” Cory Booker, one of 583 presidential candidates, told the press, “but this Second Amendment loophole makes it so we can’t do that. We need to close that loophole.”
The way many gun control advocates would like things to work is, if they read in the New York Times about a particular gun model they think is scary–like an AR-15 or a semi-automatic or a glue gun–they could then just go ahead and ban it and start taking it from people. Normally things would work this way with anything else, but thanks to the Second Amendment loophole, they can’t just ban guns because they feel like it.
The Babylon Bee
Democrats Vow To Close Dangerous Gun-Buying Loophole Known As ‘The Second Amendment’
June 17, 2019
[Via a text message from daughter Jaime.
There is so much truth and enough non-truth, which could be a deliberate lie in real life, you have think about this some before concluding it is satire.—Joe]
Via a tweet from 2ANow ❌ @2ANow:
It’s a humorous thought, but even with those conditions, and actually, especially with those conditions present I would not license my guns.
Via a retweet by SAF (@2AFDN on Twitter) we have this from @SandraSentinel:
It’s logically consistent. Therefore, if you are in support of banning guns to stop violent crime you must also be in support of banning pencils to stop people from getting bad grades. You may have already observed this but they do not follow this course of action.
One must therefore conclude that the reason for their desire for banning guns has nothing to do with the stated goal of reducing violent crime. It must be something else such as a desire to control people.
Another alternative which has legitimate application in many cases is that anti-gun people do not confine themselves to logical thought processes. One Marxist professor I talked with even express pride of being able to break free of such constraints.
I got a chuckle out of this (via November Papa Charlie @rcst) as a potential response to someone exercising Markley’s Law:
I’m not so thrilled about the statement in absolute terms. There are lot of other advantages I would rate just as high from associating with women who aren’t social justice warriors.
Via someplace on Facebook:
YOU KNOW YOU ARE FROM WASHINGTON STATE WHEN:
You know the Vitamin d deficiency struggle is real.
You know how to pronounce Sequim, Puyallup, Sammamish, Enumclaw and Issaquah.
You avoid driving through Seattle at all costs.
You know what a Geoduck is.
You consider swimming an indoor sport.
You see a person carrying an umbrella and instantly think tourist.
Your lawn is mostly moss and you don’t really care.
Honking your car horn is for absolute emergencies.
You’re EXTREMELY picky about your coffee.
“The mountain is out today”, isn’t a strange statement.
While out of state you just tell people you’re from Seattle since that’s the only known city in Washington according to the rest of the world.
You remember Almost Live.
You’ve eaten in the Space Needle, and while it was delicious, you’re never paying $50 for a meal in the sky again.
You rarely wash your car because it’s just going to get washed by the rain tomorrow.
You’re used to the phrase “No, not DC” when telling out of staters where you’re from.
Northface is always in fashion.
You take a warm coat and a hat with you for a day at the beach.
You have mastered the art of doing everything in the rain, because, well, Washington.
You play the “no you go” at four-way stop.
You have had both the thought of how beautiful Mount Rainier is, while simultaneously accepting that it will probably kill you someday.
You get a little twitchy if it’s been more than a week since it last rained.
You believe Twilight ruined Forks.
You can say Humptulips, Lilliwap and Dosewallips without giggling.
Add Mukilteo, Snohomish, and Snoqualmie to the list of places you can pronounce correctly. And in Barb’s case she fought Moss War 2015, and finally won in 2016.
When you consider that most people figure out how to ask a question before leaving grade school, yet journalism is almost entirely populated by people who needed an additional four years of secondary education to crack that nut, it all makes sense.
RussianBot (@JamesWSchuler)
Tweeted on November 30, 2018
[It’s not entirely true, but it has a strong leaning in the direction of truth.—Joe]
