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New gun blog

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BrainBang.info is a blog about guns and psychology. It is brand new and already has some interesting and clever stuff. Here are some tidbits:

If the content keeps coming this will be good.

Quote of the day—New York Daily News

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New Yorkers surrender their weapons for the good of all or face jail time.

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Jerome and Graves pleaded guilty to misdemeanors and were sent back to states where the right to own a gun can trump the right to live.

New York Daily News
March 31, 2012
District Attorney Cy Vance deserves praise for pursuing gun cases–New York City is the wrong place for unlicensed weapons
[If surrendering weapons was for the good of all then why don’t the police do it?

You don’t have a right to live. That would imply someone could be forced to provide you food, shelter, and medical care. As always when someone says something is a right the first thing you should ask is, “At whose expense?”

What the New York Daily News ignores or is oblivious of is that you do have a right to defend yourself and that all members of the U.S. Supreme Court agreed there is a right to keep and bear arms. I expect their ignorance will be forcibly ended by the courts within a few years. Whoever wrote that opinion piece will then be dragged, screaming and kicking, into the 21st Century just as the KKK supporters had to be forced into respecting the rights of black in the 20th Century.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Ken

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Generally speaking, it isn’t “progressive” to want to repeal the Industrial Revolution.

Ken
March 18, 2012
Comment to Quote of the day–Helen Caldicott.
[But “progressives” aren’t progressive. They yearn to implement a proven failed political and economic system invented over 150 years ago. Perhaps it’s a mere coincidence but the rise of Marxism marked the end of the Industrial Revolution. “Progressivism” is the propagation of a lie that people desperately want to believe:

Therefore when a “progressive” wants to “repeal the Industrial Revolution” they are just being true to their nature.–Joe]

Quote of the day—Robert Verbruggen

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[W]hen a government has the ability to forbid gun ownership, it has the ability to render groups it dislikes helpless to defend themselves. Regardless of whether modern gun control accomplishes its purpose of reducing crime — and for the record, there is no evidence it does — a free society should fear a government with such power.

Robert Verbruggen
July 7, 2010
Gun Rights Are Civil Rights
[Via Proclaiming Liberty: What Patriots and Heroes Really Said About the Right to Keep and Bear Arms by Philip Mulivor.

For those so ignorant, stupid, or evil to claim “that can’t happen here” remind them it has happened here. Verbruggen explicitly points out that the end of slavery but the continuing repression of blacks in the deep south continued for many years was enabled by gun control. And don’t forget about all the people of Japanese descent who were sent to concentration camps in this country.

It can happen anywhere and therefore most restrictions on firearms must be eliminated. Gun control fails my Jews in the Attic Test.—Joe]

Blog problems

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As I have posted before I have had some problems with my blog crashing and had to make some serious changes in an effort to get the problem fixed. It was down starting about 4:40 (PDT) this morning until about 2:00 this afternoon.

One of the changes was a change in the IP address. If you have a DNS cache with the old value you will still see unexpected results. So if works from one computer but not another flush the DNS cache (reboot works) and it probably will fix the problem.

Memory wipe

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I’ve written programs to securely wipe your hard disk upon your command. I wrote a prototype ‘virus’ that wiped your newly installed hard disk on the first boot even if you had removed all previous disks, CDs, DVDs, and thumb drives. I have reduced permanent storage devices to their molecular components.

But to the best of my knowledge (if I wiped my own brain would I know?) I have never wiped a human brain clean of memories before:

While sex can be forgettable or mind-blowing, for some people, it can quite literally be both at the same time. The woman, whose case was reported in the September issue of The Journal of Emergency Medicine, was experiencing transient global amnesia, a rare condition in which memory suddenly, temporarily, disappears.

I guess I’ll have to just keep trying.

They don’t need us or their toys

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Life isn’t fair. I reached this conclusion when I realized women get 24×7 access to breasts and can have multiple/continuous orgasms. Now there is coregasms:

Women may not need a guy, a vibrator, or any other direct sexual stimulation to have an orgasm, finds a new study on exercise-induced orgasms and sexual pleasure.

The findings add qualitative and quantitative data to a field that has been largely unstudied, according to researcher Debby Herbenick, co-director of the Center for Sexual Health Promotion at Indiana University. For instance, Alfred Kinsey and his colleagues first reported the phenomenon in 1953, saying that about 5 percent of women they had interviewed mentioned orgasm linked to physical exercise. However, they couldn’t know the actual prevalence because most of these women volunteered the information without being directly asked.

Since then, reports of so-called “coregasms,” named because of their seeming link to exercises for core abdominal muscles, have circulated in the media for years, according to the researchers.

Sometimes I think the only reason they keep us around is to provide them with food, shelter, and something to taunt.

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Anti-gun brainwash

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Via Sebastian and Glen Beck this morning:

“Every day, every school, every level… Every day of the week and really brainwash people.”

This is who we have as the Attorney General of the United States. He apparently interprets “The rule of law” as “When I am the law I rule regardless of the Bill of Rights”.

Is it any surprise he is running guns to Mexico so he blame it on gun dealers?

Quote of the day—ThatLeftTurnInABQ

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I dunno, thinking about standing around waiting for your coffee and having to witness what happens to the banana in the process of being turned into a frappuccino, I can understand why some guys might want a little symbolic reinforcement.

ThatLeftTurnInABQ
March 4, 2010
Comment to Open Thread: Penis Substitutes At the Ready!
[It’s another Markley’s Law Monday!—Joe]

Crime control theater

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Solomon Friedman explains to House of Commons (Canada) how gun control, registration in particular, is “crime control theater”:

I’ve not heard the phrase “crime control theater” before but I really like it.

Multiple guess quiz on the 2nd Amendment

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I took a quiz on the 2nd Amendment and got 11 out of 12 answers correct. I missed one history related question that I guessed on. It shouldn’t be too surprising that I missed a history question. I much prefer shaping and even creating the future rather than documenting the past.

The quiz was very well done. They even got the wording on things like “The 2nd Amendment protects the right…” rather than “grants the right”.

I especially liked one option for the question, “What did the Supreme Court decide in the 2008 case?”:

Bank robbers, drug dealers, and mob enforcers must be given an opportunity to register their firearms with local authorities and then become eligible for a professional discount on licensing fees.

Quote of the day—Ry Jones

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As long as I’m above ground and I’m not getting rained on I’m doing great. Everything else is just gravy.

Ry Jones
March 17, 2012
[Ry was explaining to me how he kept his spirits up when unemployed for eight months and his financial situation grew worse and worse.

As I posted a few weeks ago Ry is now working at the same place I am and he is now on his road to recovery.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Wesley Pruden

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The Taliban position on peace is clear and unchanging; it would behead Americans wherever it found them.

Wesley Pruden
March 16, 2012
PRUDEN: A curious experiment in gun control in Afghanistan
[Yeah. That pretty much sums up my appraisal of the situation too.

With a little further inspection I realized this position isn’t all that much different than what anti-gun people have in mind for gun owners:

If a kid in a red state finds his daddy’s handgun and blows his head off, we’ll feel terrible (we’re like that), but we’ll try to look on the bright side: At least he won’t grow up to vote like his dad.

—Joe]

Quote of the day—Helen Caldicott

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Free enterprise really means rich people getting richer: they have the freedom to exploit and psychologically rape their fellow human beings in the process…Capitalism is destroying the earth.

Helen Caldicott
[The first part of the first sentence is technically correct but she (and most others) say it as if it were a bad thing.

500 years ago the worlds richest king, with all the wealth in his country, could not have purchased a zipper for his pants, an elastic waistband for his underwear, or a single Viagra pill. A bare-footed, half-naked man dancing around a bonfire with a bone stuck through his nose was nearly state of the art in medicine.

It was free enterprise, capitalism, that gave put zippers, elastic, Velcro, and Viagra within the reach of nearly anyone. An only slightly more select class of people can have state of the art handheld device which can deliver images at nearly the speed of light. Of course those images might be TSA pinups of your wife, your daughter “gone wild” dancing half naked in front of a bon-fire, or of your politician demonstrating the effectiveness of Viagra on his stainless steel pierced penis. But still, Velcro is pretty cool stuff.—Joe]

Boomershoot supplies

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Happy day!

This morning I finally found the name and phone number of the supplier I last used for Ammonium Nitrate. I called them and started the process to purchase a few thousand pounds. They even remembered me as “the guy that puts on Boomershoot”. Smile

A couple minutes after making that call I received a call from the trucking company delivering a shipment of Potassium Chlorate. It will arrive in plenty of time for Boomershoot 2012 as well. I’m so pleased. I was a little worried that the PC would just barely make it in time. It turns out when I asked the supplier for the estimated shipping date they gave me the estimated delivery date instead.

In other news, earlier this week I made arrangements to meet the Internet provider at “Mecca” to connect up a (relatively) high speed low latency connection at the end of this month.

I’m currently on vacation in Alaska visiting our daughter Xenia and getting a little extra time to work on my exterior ballistics program for Windows Phone 7. I think I might even have it ready in time for Boomershoot 2012.

Everything is falling into place quite nicely.

Quote of the day—Marianne DeAlessi

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Losing innocent children to gun fatalities can be eliminated with gun control.

Marianne DeAlessi
March 15, 2012
Argument for gun control
[What kind of fantasy world is she living in? Even ignoring the hundreds of thousands of children murdered by their own government using firearms many who might have been saved had there not been gun control the only “gun control” that could possibly achieve such a result would be the complete destruction of all firearms. And of course as the availability of firearms tends toward zero other types of violence tend to go up such that there is no net gain in safety.

It may be that she is suffering from Peterson Syndrome but if not then she should attempt to answer Just One Question before advocating for more gun control.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Philip Mulivor

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Today, responding to the anti-rights twaddle of daily newspapers is more and more like arguing with—for lack of a polite comparison—terminally ill mental patients. Having departed from the world of fact and reason long ago, and sliding ever faster toward their inelegant demise, newspapers simply have become distractions and decoys for gun-rights activists. It’s only from the force of habit that gun writers today bother to rebut the tired fallacies rehashed in the dead-tree media.

Philip Mulivor
March 14, 2012
Gun rights and the death of newspapers
[“Terminally ill mental patients.” I like that.—Joe]

A picture is worth how many words?

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Via email from Tony S.:

TSA Waste
Created by: OnlineCriminalJusticeDegree.com

Winning

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Via email from Stan E. is this video news report about a woman’s shooting league.

We offer the enabling of self reliance and determination.

What do the anti-gun people have to offer in response? Just dependency and victimhood.

Is it any wonder they are losing?

CBS segment on Glock

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Via email from author Paul Barrett:

This Sunday, the newsmagazine “CBS Sunday Morning” will air an extended segment on Glock — the pistol, the company, and the man behind them — based in part on my new book, GLOCK: The Rise of America’s Gun (www.glockthebook.com). Anthony Mason, CBS’s Senior Correspondent for Business and Economics, reported the piece. He attended SHOT Show, did some shooting with a Glock, and interviewed me. How do you think the network will handle the issue?

We shall see Sunday morning!

All best,
Paul Barrett

My guess is the anti-gun people (all 10 of them) will be more unhappy than the pro-gun people.