Monthly Archives: November 2022

Quote of the day—Mona Charen

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Other than murder, violent crime is not up. Did you know that? Violent crime is a key midterm voting issue, but what does the data say?

Mona Charen
Tweeted on November 5, 2022
[Visit this link for more context and appropriate attribution for these comments:

  • ‘Other than murder’ is the most hilarious caveat ever.
  • Other than that, Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?
  • Imagine being so f—ked up with TDS that not only do you sell out every policy you ever claimed to care about, but you actually write the sentence, ‘Other than murder, violent crime is not up.’ Other than murder? ‘Other than the iceberg & all the death, how was the Titanic trip?
  • Murder is by far the most easily visible and free from reporting biases crime. If murder is up, other crimes are too…they’re probably just being reported at lower rates. Also…murder is KINDA A BIG DEAL!
  • I can’t believe this still needs to be said but ‘crime is down except for murder’ is not a winning or persuasive argument.
  • If you’re not dead or don’t know a family member who has been murdered, things are great!

My contribution:

No wonder she doesn’t see a problem with restricting access to guns. She doesn’t see a need for self-defense. After all, it is only murder.

And her double down response to the criticism was almost as good as the original:

All crime is bad. I’m against it. But it is also a fact that perceptions of crime and actual crime are often out of sync. That may be true now. I found the Pew data surprising. That’s why I posted.

My response to this is to go slack jawed and walk away. Someone that dense is in danger of becoming a neutron star.

If this had been a fictional movie or book the editors would have insisted it be rewritten. She would not be a believable character in a work of fiction.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Erich Pratt

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Just like we warned politicians after the Bruen decision, fall in line, or we will force you to. We are excited to see Kathy Hochul finally served a plate of humble pie, and we are fully prepared to continue the fight should she again attempt to disarm the citizens of her state at a time when her party’s policies are only escalating the danger that everyday citizens face.

Erich Pratt
Senior Vice President of Gun Owners of America
November 7, 2022
GOA DEFEATS NY “CONCEALED CARRY IMPROVEMENT ACT” IN FEDERAL COURT
[See also:

    This is happening a little faster than I expected.

    I’m anxiously awaiting some decisions on the “assault weapon” and “high capacity” magazine bans. The bans on 18 to 20 year-old gun ownership sales should show up about the same time. After that it is on to suppressors, short barreled rifles and shotguns, and, eventually, full autos. What a glorious time to be a gun rights activist!—Joe

    Quote of the day—@AmyRangel

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    It’s a micro penis thing, the bigger the gun the smaller the…

    You know

    ❤️ @AmyRangel
    Tweeted on July 17, 2022
    [It’s not only another Markley’s Law Monday, it is another science denier!

    You have to wonder about these people. Did she do her own research and come up with different results? Or is she just another bigoted science denier?

    Via a tweet from In Chains@InChainsInJail.—Joe]

    Quote of the day—Leonard Williamson

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    I don’t think you’ll find any precedent in U.S. history in which a citizen has to go through so many hoops to exercise Constitutional rights. This is the first of its kind and, if it passes, it will wind up in court.

    Leonard Williamson
    Oregon trial attorney who specializes in firearms law
    October 31, 2022
    Opponents Setting Out Unintended Consequences of Oregon’s Gun Control Measure
    [Via email from Rolf.

    I almost welcome this sort of crap. The more outrageous the restrictions on our specific enumerated rights the easier it is to establish precedence and create a slippery slope in the correct direction.

    Also, when the time comes, it will make it easier to get convictions.—Joe]

    Americans Ron Paul wants disarmed

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    Via JPFO | Jews for Preservation of Firearms Ownership @JPFO_2A:

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    After Ruby Ridge, Waco, and many other lesser known incidents, I cannot immediately think of any reason to oppose this proposal.

    Quote of the day—Kevin D. Williamson

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    Saul Cornell, who is a professor of history when he is not writing for Slate, is engaged in intellectual dishonesty. He claims, as I note below, that a 1964 study of firearms lethality says something that it does not say (and, indeed, that it could not say, given its date of publication) in the course of trying to make modern sporting rifles sound scary for cheap propaganda purposes. Saul Cornell knows that this is false, and I know that he knows this is false, because I have told him, and he has acknowledged the fact in emails to me. But the claim remains unretracted. Retracting the claim would mean admitting that the source he cites not only does not say what he says it says about AR-style rifles, but that it in fact does not say anything about those rifles at all.

    Honest mistakes happen all the time in journalism. This is not one of those. This is a fabrication.

    Kevin D. Williamson
    May 25, 2022
    A Little More Saul Cornell
    [Gun control supporters lie. It is part of their culture. It has always been this way. It will always be that way. Without lies they have no hope of winning a public debate.

    If you have the time to read it there is far more information and justification for the case of deliberate lies by Cornell.

    Respond appropriately.—Joe]

    Applied Intelligence Mentorship Program

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    I recently received this. It was paid for by my employer:

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    I already knew something about most of the material covered. But it was nice to get a refresh and some additional information.

    I keep thinking I should be able to apply this skill set to our advantage in the gun rights domain. I’ve even discussed it with people who work full time in the gun rights community. No good application is apparent to us.

    Perhaps I just haven’t been looking at the issue from the correct angle. Thoughts?

    Quote of the day—Michael Beschloss

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    A historian 50 years from now, if historians are allowed to write in this country and if there are still free publishing houses and a free press, which I’m not certain of. But if that is true, a historian will say, what was at stake tonight and this week was the fact whether we will be a democracy in the future, whether our children will be arrested and conceivably killed. We’re on the edge of a brutal authoritarian system, and it could be a week away.

    Michael Beschloss
    Presidential historian
    November 3, 2022
    NBC historian warns of a future where ‘our children will be arrested and conceivably killed’ if GOP wins
    [Interesting…

    Is this the same GOP which (sometimes) wants to:

    • Reduce government power
    • Require presidents to get approval of congress to change the law
    • Enable ordinary people to own and purchase weapons to protect themselves from individual criminals as well as criminal governments
    • Enable free speech on social media

    It would appear one or more of the following is true about Mr. Beschloss:

    1. He is living in an alternate reality and only makes guest appearances here
    2. He is using some military grade mind altering drugs
    3. He is deliberately engaged in a “The Big Lie” propaganda effort
    4. Hi is engaged in the projection of his and his fellow political travelers intentions toward the GOP.

    I considered adding “extreme hyperbola” to make a point, but multiplying realty by 10, 100, or 1,000 times only results in a larger vector pointing in the wrong direction from what he claims.

    This is the kind of rhetoric used to justify mass killings and even genocide.

    The election is only four days away. Prepare and respond appropriately.—Joe]

    Quote of the day—Julia Gorin

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    Sexual and psychological insecurities don’t account for ALL men against guns. Certainly there must be some whose motives are pure, who perhaps do care so much as to tirelessly look for policy solutions to teenage void and aggressiveness, and to parent and teacher negligence. But for a potentially large underlying contributor, psycho-sexual inadequacy has gone unexplored and unacknowledged. It’s one thing to not be comfortable with a firearm and therefore opt to not keep or bear one. But it’s another to impose the same handicap onto others.

    People are suspicious of what they do not know-and not only does this man not know how to use a gun, he doesn’t know the men who do, or the number of people who have successfully used one to defend themselves from injury or death. But he is better left in the dark; his life is hard enough knowing there are men out there who don’t sit cross-legged. That they’re able to handle a firearm instead of being handled by it would be too much to bear.

    Such a man is also best kept huddled in urban centers, where he feels safer than he might if thrown out on his own into a rural setting, in an isolated house on a quiet street where he would feel naked and helpless. Lacking the confidence that would permit him to be sequestered in sparseness, and lacking a gun, he finds comfort in the cloister of crowds.

    Julia Gorin
    March 8, 2002
    The anti-gun male
    [Via Don in a comment to Quote of the day—Glenn Harlan Reynolds.

    It turns out I have quoted from this article before. Read the whole thing.—Joe]

    Quote of the day—J.D. Tuccille

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    The theft of “thousands of firearms, firearm parts, and ammunition” from the federal body tasked with enforcing firearms regulations on the private sector is just further evidence that the ATF has no good excuse for existing. Like so many other government agencies, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives should be abolished, and its employees sent into the world to seek honest jobs in the private sector, if anybody will have them.

    J.D. Tuccille
    October 31, 2022
    ATF, Enforcer of Gun Laws, Lost ‘Thousands of Firearms, Firearm Parts’ to Thieves
    [I’ve met some inspectors that seem capable of honest work and could probably find a job in the private sector. I say, give them a shot at productive work which benefits society.

    Those obviously hostile to the exercise of the specific enumerated right to keep and bear arms? I hope they enjoy their trials.—Joe]

    Quote of the day—Chris Enloe

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    “As the first Mexican-born American Congresswoman, I thought the Hispanic Caucus would be open in working together,” Flores said Wednesday. “This denial once again proves a bias towards conservative Latinas that don’t fit their narrative or ideology.”

    …

    The caucus is composed entirely of Democrats, and its bylaws explicitly prohibit Republicans from membership.

    Chris Enloe
    Octotober 27, 2022
    First Mexican-born congresswoman denied membership in Hispanic caucus because she is a Republican
    [Someone has a problem with diversity.—Joe]