Author Archives: Joe

Quote of the day—Paul Gosar

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With the destruction of President Trump’s solid immigration enforcement, and current disregard and violation of existing federal law, Mr. Biden has unleashed the most severe border and humanitarian crisis in United States history.

Paul Gosar
U.S. Representative to Congress from Arizona
July 23, 2021
Rep. Paul Gosar Sponsors Bill to Ban All Immigration Into US for 10 Years
[He has a valid point. But his proposed solution of banning all immigration makes no sense to me. Supposedly, “the pause is needed to help stem the current surge in illegal border crossings”.

I’m not sure how this is supposed to work. The existing immigration law is being ignored by 100s of thousands each month and somehow another law aimed at the people who are currently obey the law will do… what?

It would seem to me a more effective solution would be to prosecute the public servants who are failing to do their jobs in enforcing the current laws. Including, if appropriate, President Biden.

The legal immigrants I personally know are welcomed by me. They are smart, law abiding, and hard working.

I guess it doesn’t have to make sense. It’s just a proposed government law.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Dr. Shooty McBeardface™ @ShootyMcBeard

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If the #1A applies to radio, tv, and the internet, and the #4A covers electronic wiretapping & video surveillance,

…how can the #2A only apply to 18th century firearms technology?

Dr. Shooty McBeardface™ @ShootyMcBeard
Tweeted on July 24, 2021
[Because GUNS! Duh.—Joe]

Mass shooting info

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There are some interesting (read “contrary to the narrative”) statistics here.

Via Rolf.

The number of the beast

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On a recent drive to Idaho I had just finished listening to the audible book version of Heinlein’s The Number of the Beast* when I saw this:

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* Did you know he also wrote an alternate universe version of this book, which is about alternate universes?

ATF lunacy on pistol braces

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Via Rolf:

I listened to the first half and got irritated enough that I tuned out while letting the video run to the end to improve their metrics.

The current ATF and all the politicians who voted to give it funding should be prosecuted. Any employees found not guilty and have functional skills could apply for jobs at the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms chain of convenience stores.

Quote of the day—john @john76804114

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The constitution is pointless. It was meant to restrain govt. That didn’t work. The rights you have are the ones you take. In other words quit arguing about it and make machine guns in your garage.

john @john76804114
Tweeted on July 24, 2021
[I’m not sure I agree with this.

I’m incline to keep my car in the garage and have a nice shop for those sort of things.—Joe]

Quote of the day—sacrebleu14 / SA Hinchcliffe @sacrebleu141

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Pushing gun control is racist, misogynistic, and incredible fascist

And no one just carrying a firearm is a threat to anyone by such.

Whereas your demands to violate Human Rights, is a threat.

sacrebleu14 / SA Hinchcliffe @sacrebleu141
Tweeted on July 21, 2021
[I have nothing to add.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Goober

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Their hatred of guns is deeply rooted in their hatred of personal responsibility. The very idea that you might be responsible for your own safety is abhorrent to them. The very concept that the maintenance of personal freedom and responsibility might actually be worth living a more dangerous life is simply a repellent concept to them. They want to be kept. They want others to make their choices for them. They want to live the comfortable, gray, meaningless lives of a pet.

People that do not desire this are lamented by them, not because those people are wrong, but because those people demonstrate to them how absolutely pathetic they are, and they hate that.

Goober
July 21, 2021
Comment to Quote of the day—Tom Knighton
[One should be careful to not attempt “reading their minds”, but I believe there is a lot of evidence to support this hypothesis.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Roger Chesley

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Anti-violence groups in the commonwealth, spurred on by a national organization started by former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, have staked a claim for tens of millions of dollars in federal pandemic and economy-boosting money at the General Assembly’s disposal.

The fledgling Virginia Community Violence Coalition has made a smart, critical bid for $37 million of the $4.3 billion available from the American Rescue Plan.

Roger Chesley
July 21, 2021
Curbing killings also means changing culture
[$37 million of public money to infringe upon the specific enumerated right to keep and bear arms.

Respond appropriately.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Tom Knighton

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The fact that the bad guys in New York City, the city with the toughest gun control laws in the nation, were still able to get guns and use them in this very shooting should make it clear as day that something just isn’t adding up.

The only narrative this story advances is that gun control is a complete and total failure.

Tom Knighton
July 20, 2021
NY Shooting Not An Example For Gun Control Advocates – Bearing Arms
[It doesn’t add up if you were under the impression the intent of gun control is to reduce crime. There are some people who actually believe this. But long time politicians know better and have different motives.

It’s about creating a safe work environment for themselves and comrades, the criminals. This is well-known. Read The Gulag Archipelago. The USSR regarded thieves as allies in the building of communism because they were the enemy of property owners.

Appearances are that similar motivation is at play in the U.S. It’s certain it is not about violent crime control. Just one question demonstrates this.—Joe]

Quote of day—Lauren Boebert @laurenboebert

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What is truly telling is that the government is no longer afraid to admit they’re blatantly censoring our 1A rights.

Before, they tried to hide it. Now they brag. They feel like they can do anything now.

This is how tyranny starts.

Lauren Boebert @laurenboebert
Tweeted on July 17, 2021
[She is referring to the Biden administration announcement they are “identifying ‘problematic’ posts for Facebook to censor because they contain ‘misinformation’ about COVID-19.”—Joe]

Quote of the day—Robbin Hood @HadokenLineStep

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It on me at all times nor do feel rhe need to own anything bigger than sig because I’m not compensating for a micropenis

Robbin Hood @HadokenLineStep
Tweeted on May 25, 2021
[It’s another Markley’s Law Monday! Via a tweet from In Chains @InChainsInJail.

But he does need something compensate for his spelling, grammar, and punctuation.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Maj Toure @MAJTOURE

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When law enforcement became a growth industry, liberty minded free men became endangered.

Maj Toure @MAJTOURE
Tweeted on July 17, 2021
[Technically, this is probably true. But law enforcement as a growth industry is a symptom. Politicians, in defiance of their constitutional limits, creating all the laws which made law enforcement a growth industry are the source of the problem.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Dana Whyte

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President Joe Biden recently announced a plan to reduce gun violence and other crimes nationwide, but leaders in the Black community think it could do more harm than good.

Dana Whyte
June 29, 2021
NAACP concerned about Biden’s gun control plan
[Winning.—Joe]

Sign of the times

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On June 28th a nearby weather station posted a record shattering 114.6F.

Barb and I saw this on our morning walk on July 2nd:

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Close up:

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Most people in the Seattle area didn’t have A/C in their homes. Even multi-million dollar homes.

That is changing.

Quote of the day—Kevin Baker

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The Left projects in 70mm IMAX. Whatever they accuse you of, either they’re already doing it or wish they were.

Kevin Baker
Facebook comment on July 11, 2021
[Agreed.—Joe]

Quote of the day—John Ales AF @IAmJohnAles

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$1,000 per bullet.

That’s my solution.

John Ales AF @IAmJohnAles
Tweeted on July 12, 2021
[Apparently Mr. Ales has never heard of the 2nd Amendment or the black market. I blame government schools. Or he could just be evil.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Alan Rice

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This sounds like a blatant attempt to harass legitimate businesses. The Biden Administration is working overtime to make things difficult and inconvenient so that fewer people will want to engage in the business of manufacturing and selling firearms to law-abiding people.

Alan Rice
New Hampshire State Director for Gun Owners of America
Leak Shows ATF Preparing Operation Targeting Smith & Wesson and Others
[Via a tweet from John Richardson.

Their goal is more than “difficult and inconvenient”. The goal is elimination of the specific enumerated right to keep and bear arms…one step at a time.

Rice, almost for certain, knows this but a snapshot of the evidence in the current news doesn’t reveal the entire picture. So he makes the more easily supported claim for the soundbite.—Joe]

Good news

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Appeals court rules firearms dealers can sell handguns to 18-year-olds:

A 53-year-old law preventing federally licensed firearms dealers from selling handguns or handgun ammunition to adults under the age of 21 is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.

A divided panel on the Richmond, Va.-based Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a Virginia federal judge’s ruling upholding the federal Gun Control Act of 1968.

“When do constitutional rights vest? At 18 or 21? 16 or 25? Why not 13 or 33?” asked US Circuit Judge Julius Richardson in his ruling. “In the law, a line must sometimes be drawn. But there must be a reason why constitutional rights cannot be enjoyed until a certain age. Our nation’s most cherished constitutional rights vest no later than 18. And the Second Amendment’s right to keep and bear arms is no different.”

Richardson was appointed by Trump. The optimist in me believes Trump appointed judges will be the straw that breaks the back of nearly all meaningful gun control.

Quote of the day—President Joe Biden

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While there’s no one-size-fit-all approach, we know there are some things that work. And the first of those that work is stemming the flow of firearms.

President Joe Biden
July 12, 2021
Biden to Promote Plan to Reduce Gun Violence
[Citation needed.

Not only that, where and how do firearms “flow”? Do books and religion flow? Does he want to stem the flow of books and religion too?

How about saying something that makes sense? Then we can talk about information flow.

That he wants to stop or dam up the exercise of a specific enumerated right tells you all you need to know about his fitness for employment as a public servant.—Joe]