The turnout was very good, overflowing into other rooms with about six to one against the ban. The witnesses laid out concise arguments with good data and delved into the actual causes of mass killings.
Shawn Herrin
April 19, 2023
Blue State Shoots Down Ban On So-Called ‘Assault Weapons’
I’m surprised! Data and arguments of any type are usually pointless in opposition to gun grabbers.
After I got shot, laying in my hospital bed, I said to myself. “There will never be another person standing over me with a gun, holding all the power to determine if I will live or die”
I have never supported gun control since. It’s not gun control, it’s the power to control the defenseless.
UR a Smart Ass, Carl @Ur_a_Smartass_C
Tweeted on March 31, 2023
A lot of people have stories to tell about why they are “gun nuts” of some flavor or another.
Barb has hypothesized that my abusive and sometimes brutal grade school experience contributed to my interest in guns and self defense. I told a coworker about one of my experiences and he said, “If that were to happen today it would make the national news.”
I suppose Barb could be right. But I did not get emotional involved and buy my first gun until the Ruby Ridge incident occurred. That was long after the time when I could have legally purchased a gun and my own children were in grade school.
The inevitable consequence of the current Global Debt Bubble will be the Bankruptcy of the financial system and many of its participants.
The one Swiss and three US banks that just went under is just a foretaste of what is to come.
As the US and European banking systems come under pressure, The Everything Collapse will cause a collapse in financial markets of a magnitude that has never before been seen in history. Since the global financial system is a mesh which reaches every financial player in the world, from sovereigns to private individuals, no-one will be able to escape the The Everything Collapse.
Egon von Greyerz
April 16, 2023
FIRST GRADUALLY THEN SUDDENLY – THE EVERYTHING COLLAPSE
The author is trying to sell you gold. There is a strong potential for bias in the analysis and claims.
However, with the U.S. debt increasing by a trillion dollars per year it seems more plausible.
By removing the deterrent factor, and making it impossible for people to fight back if attacked in a public place, the City of New York and lawmakers in Albany have essentially given the green light to thugs for this kind of behavior. When you make it impossible for people to defend themselves, and then publicize it, you may as well declare an open season, especially against those most vulnerable to attack.
Alan Gottlieb
CCRKBA Chairman
April 17, 2023
CCRKBA CONDEMNS VIOLENT TIMES SQUARE ATTACK ON GAY COUPLE
This is not new information. This is well known. It applies to attacks on individuals. It applies to mass murders. It applies to everything in between.
It is long past time to prosecute those who create these environments..
While this is a decent joke (all good jokes have at least a grain of truth in them), at times this has been the literal truth:
Also, don’t forget, 7 in 10 felons register as Democrats
To help you understand why putting new gun control laws in effect will make you and your family safer, The Babylon Bee has compiled this helpful list.
- There were no guns in the Bible: If God thought guns would keep you safe, He would have created them a long time ago and written about them in His Word.
- It allows you to trust the government to protect your family: And the government does EVERYTHING well and efficiently!
- Firing a gun gives people PTSD, which kills at least 12 million families per year: We’re getting PTSD just writing this article. You don’t want it. Trust us.
- There will be less conflict when your kids are taken to be raised by the state: No one will get hurt, and everyone will be better off in the long run!
- If you take guns away, all bad guys instantly become good guys: After all, it’s the guns that are evil, not human beings.
- If you don’t have a gun, you don’t have to spend money on ammo, and that money can then be used to purchase more COVID masks to protect your family: Forget the threat of crime and violence — everyone knows COVID is the real danger!
- Everyone respects laws: Even criminals know it’s best to follow the rules!
See? Gun control isn’t so bad after all!
The Babylon Bee
April 17, 2023
7 Reasons Gun Control Will Make Your Family Safer
You can always count on the Babylon Bee.
Heard the Daily Caller and fellow travelers are ranting about my incorrect definition on-air of “AR” as in AR-15. Whatever. Point is, there is no place (other than sporting clubs and similar skilled settings) for assault rifles.
They’re substitute appendages.
Geraldo Rivera @GeraldoRivera
Tweeted on January 17, 2023
[It’s not only another Markley’s Law Monday, it is another science denier!
He almost seems proud of his ignorance. And, as is so boringly typical for anti-gun people, he resorts to the same childish insult.—Joe]
Oftentimes, the guns end up in the wrong hands. So, what do we do to make sure, hey, if you’re practicing responsible gun ownership, don’t leave your gun in an unlocked car. Don’t leave it unsecured in your car.
Gary Carter Jr.
Louisiana State Senator (D)
April 15, 2023
A large number of gun crimes are committed using guns stolen from unlocked cars. A Louisiana lawmaker now wants to hold those car owners liable.
Of course he wants to make the liable. Anything to increase the cost of gun ownership. It seems to me, under Bruen analysis, this is unconstitutional.
It is never about quickly locking up the criminals who have actual responsibility. For them, it is catch and release. By the time they go to prison they typically have been arrested many times:
This guy thinks it is entirely acceptable to blame the victim of a gun theft. I blame politicians like him.
So I was proud to be the most pro-gun pro-Second Amendment president you’ve ever had in the White House. I think that’s been acknowledged. And, with your support in 2024, I will be your loyal friend and fearless champion once again as the 47th president of the United States.
Donald Trump
April 14, 2023
Trump to NRA: I’ll Be ‘Your Loyal Friend, Fearless Champion’
Really? So let’s talk about bump stocks for about 30 seconds.
How do you know if a politician is lying? That’s right. His lips are moving.
I will give him credit for some great judges. But he is not loyal.
That’s something that people who support gun control measures need to understand: The war is lost. There is no conceivable way for things to change for the better within the next 20 to 30 years, short of a national divorce. There is no way to change hearts and minds of Republicans or the courts. There is no way to change who is in office in most states. There is no way to replace who sits on the courts quickly or change conservative disdain for stare decisis.
Brynn Tannehill
April 10, 2023
The Grim Truth: The War on Guns Is Lost
It is nice of him to admit this. Now if they would just just surrender and stop fighting a lot of money, time, and lives could be saved.
It is also revealing that he believes this is grim news and that somehow stare decisis was involved in declaring many of the existing gun laws are unconstitutional. I suppose that makes it easier to believe he and his ilk are not the baddies here. Delusions are often functional.
When a potential enemy starts to counsel you on the tools you should use to oppose him, he does this to his advantage and your detriment. And if he convinces you to disarm yourself, you have enslaved yourself and handed him the key to your chains.
Weapons of war belong *only* in the hands of the citizens of republic, who are themselves the government — and the government may employ what weapons its citizens gives to them, and only for as long as that government remains obedient to the citizens, not the other way around.
Don Kilmer
Tweeted on April 9, 2023
You could say that progressives have a different view of things than Mr. Kilmer, the U.S. Constitution, and I do. As Thomas Sowell says, we have A Conflict of Visions.
“The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.”
Well, if that’s the case, why don’t we just replace all our fire extinguishers with flamethrowers?
David Hogg @davidhogg111
Tweeted on April 8, 2023
This doesn’t really deserve an answer but I’ll supply one anyway. Guns extinguish bad guys better than flamethrowers extinguish house fires.
This is like someone, I hate to admit I’m related to, who once asked, “How can we call this a free country when health care is not free?”
I supposed he could be trolling, but I’m not convinced he is that smart. I’m going with stupid, insane, and/or evil.
One or more lawsuits challenging this legislation will almost certainly be filed within days, if not hours, of Gov. Jay Inslee’s signing. Ultimately, we expect this law to be nullified by the courts as a violation of the Second Amendment and Washington State’s constitution. In the meantime, of course, Evergreen State gun owners will continue to be treated like second-class citizens by the self-righteous zealots behind the ban, while the criminal element will remain undeterred and unencumbered.
Alan Gottlieb
CCRKBA Chairman
April 9, 2023
CCRKBA: ‘WASHINGTON LEGISLATURE PUTS POLITICS OVER CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS’
These criminals view the State and Federal constitutional guarantees of certain rights and SCOTUS decisions as bugs, not features.
Prepare and respond appropriately.
You don’t *need* a tiny penis to purchase an AR-15, but it works out well for Republicans.
Just another sarcastic bastard (@runsamuck2)
Tweeted on January 19, 2023
[It’s not only another Markley’s Law Monday, it is another science denier!
Perhaps it is a good thing I don’t identify as an Republican.
But, I think the correct observation to take from this is that @runsamuck2 hasn’t made it past the childish insult stage of intellectual development.—Joe]
Last Tuesday I took most of the afternoon off from work for a doctors appointment and then to drive to Idaho. I needed to be onsite to take delivery on 18” surveyors stakes used for holding the Boomershoot reactive targets and some other Boomershoot tasks.
About dusk, going 65 MPH on highway 26 west of Dusty, I hit a deer. Even though the radiator was pushed back, the left turn signal and headlight were flopping about, the driver door was difficult to open, the seat belt had retracted and locked (the indicator on the dash indicated the air-bag had deployed but had not actually done so), the car was still drivable. I made it on to my camping trailer near Boomershoot and successfully took delivery on the stakes and did most of the other business. A few days later the insurance company declared the car totaled, so I now have a new, to me, car.
I had planned to drive that car for several more years. Barb and I both loved the metallic blue color. The “new” car was what I could find on short notice which met my immediate needs. That was a high price to pay for a trip to Idaho.
Later, when talking with my cousin Alan, we discussed the interaction between people and deer. He has hit five and one of those was while on a motorcycle. He spent a few days in the hospital for the motorcycle. He went on to say that white-tailed deer cause the death of more people than any other animal in the continental U.S. I knew that the most frequent cause of vehicle accidents in Clearwater County Idaho was a collision with a deer, but I didn’t know they claimed more lives than any other animal in the U.S.
Alan’s claim is confirmed in this video:
It is almost as if they are attempting to get revenge for our hunting of them.
Update: These are sequential frames of the video. From the first frame until the last is 1.05 Seconds:
Last week I met with my cousin Alan to finalize a verbal agreement on the new target location for Boomershoot:
The area in red on the upper left used to extend down the hill for about 75 yards. Due to some changes in the Conservation Reserve Program (or the enforcement there of) we are unable to use this area anymore. At the suggestion of Bill W. (THANK YOU Bill, that was a great idea!), I negotiated the rental of the area to the right of that area on the hillside. That deal has been finalized and we are good to go for 2023.
Another thing previous Boomershoot attendees might notice is the area we call “The Tree Line”, at about 375 yards from the shooting line, has a lot fewer trees and no brush. Last summer Alan cleaned up the property line. This allows for better weed control and less moisture consumption.
Seattle claims to be working on the problems in the area Barb and I call Mugme Street:
First, they removed the tents. Then, they added police. But the problems on Third Avenue persisted.
A few months ago, officials spun up a new effort to try to bring order to the area of downtown Seattle that arguably most lacks it.
The Third Avenue Project uses a constant presence in a few key blocks to connect people on the streets with pathways out, and to curtail behavior that’s deemed problematic to others.
This is the second initiative started in 2022 to move people occupying the streets of downtown to more appropriate places, the first being the King County Regional Homelessness Authority’s Partnership for Zero, which seeks to end unsheltered homelessness downtown and in the Chinatown International District.
The dual approach is partly due to the urgency officials feel to help downtown recover.
We shall see.
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Rolf reports his high school reunion is coming up soon. It turns out my class is having reunion this year as well.
Rolf included a link to High school reunion shocker: They’re dying off! Which is interesting. The number from the article are:
To estimate the statistical death-rate norm for any class size, Polasky provided the following rough figures:
Even though his is not this year, I was talking to a cousin of mine a few days ago about reunions and he was saying about 40 or 44 percent of his class was gone. And while I don’t have the most current numbers for my class the number is uncomfortably high with another couple dying in the last six months. And I know the numbers from my last reunion are about 50 percent higher than this. In part, this is probably due a high percentage of logging and construction type jobs my classmates went into. That area of Idaho is also known at a “cancer belt”. I don’t think anyone knows for certain why, but the cancer rate in that area is higher than normal. The speculation I have heard discussed is:
I have enjoying the reunions but there is also a fair amount of sadness is seeing how many are now gone.
It’s more obvious than ever that no one is coming to save you. No candidate, no party, no movement. You need to save yourself.
Jon Gabriel
April 8, 2023
Hecklers at Trump’s arraignment have a lesson for us all
Via Ed Driscoll.
I want my own underground bunker in Idaho.
I wrote about plastic eating enzymes a few months ago and at first glance it looked pretty safe. But plastic eating bacteria is really scary:
Plastic that would last almost 500 years in a landfill can be broken down in a day by bacteria armed with FAST-PETase and turned into base units that can be reused.
I’m not a biologist. Can someone tell me how to practically contain such a bacteria such that it does not destroy civilization as we know it?