Via mNich @mNich_1138 and Chuck Petras @Chuck_Petras:
If anything, as public servants our law enforcement should be restricted from using all the weapons available to those whom they serve.
Restricted Weapons
Category Archives: Gun Rights
Who Will Scream Into the Void?
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Why do I have to keep telling these rabid gun humpers to eff off? I don’t GAF about their gunsplaining.
I want stricter #gunregulation and #AR15s off the street. I don’t GAF they aren’t automatics and y’all are all muted. I SUPER DON’T GAF.
Scream into the void, donuts. SCREAM.
ToutdeSuiteLaSinner @ToutSuiteSinner
Tweeted on June 5, 2022
It’s not only another Markley’s Law Monday; it is another science denier (see also here)!
It is very telling that she thinks her ignorance is nothing to be concerned about. Her willful ignorance will only cause her more pain.
After the Heller, and especially the Bruen decision, the only screams we will be doing are victory screams. The long-term screaming into the void will be by the likes of ToutdeSuiteLaSinner.
Schadenfreude can be so sweet.
Washington State Hazards
From: New map shows where damaging earthquakes are most likely to occur in US
Volcano’s, high taxes, high crime, and a high probability of damaging earthquakes. Seattle is not nearly as attractive as it was when I first moved here just out of college.
I knew about the occasional earthquakes and was thrilled to experience three of them. Now that I’m older, I know just how serious they can be. I would rather not wait around for “the big one.”
The nearest volcano, Mount Rainier, was sort interesting in an abstract way when I arrived. And it is an incredible mountain. It is awe inspiring to go hiking on it. And it seemed to be dormant enough to not worry about.
Mount St. Helen’s blowing up a little over 100 miles away made volcanoes much more real. It obliterated everything within a six-mile radius. And that is just the complete destruction area. There was more:
The deadly pyroclastic surge—a fast-moving, super-hot cloud of ash, rock, and volcanic gas—traveled as much 18 miles away from the blast. The hot lava, gas, and debris mixed with melting snow and ice to form massive volcanic mudflows that surged down into valleys with enough force to rip trees from the ground, flatten homes, and completely destroy roads and bridges. Rivers rose rapidly, flooding surrounding valleys. Ash fell from the sky as far away as the Great Plains. Two-hundred-and-fifty miles away, ash blanketed Spokane, Washington, in complete darkness.
Mount Rainier is about 50 miles to the south from where we live now. Previous mud flows from Rainier have traveled several miles north of where we live. Those flows were in the valleys. We live part way up the side of a mountain. Therefore, I’m not too worried about being directly and immediately impacted by the blast and mud flows.
But even with only some mild ash at our house, the infrastructure issues would be catastrophic because of mud and pyroclastic flows destroying roads, power lines, water lines, and sewage lines. The people issues resulting from a major Mount Rainier blast following the infrastructure destruction would affect everyone for hundreds of miles around. I would rather not have to directly deal with that.
The politics, and especially the gun laws, have gone from benign to oppressive. I can avoid a lot of the pain by leveraging my Idaho connection. But it is a constant source of irritation.
Living in the “Bellevue Bubble”, as Barb and I like to call it, certainly has its advantages. But I really need an option to bug-out if things become an imminent hazard.
Don’t be a Science Denier
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Thousands of gun shows take place in the U.S. each year. Gun control advocates argue that because sales at gun shows are much less regulated than other sales, such shows make it easier for potential criminals to obtain a gun. Similarly, one might be concerned that gun shows would exacerbate suicide rates by providing individuals considering suicide with a more lethal means of ending their lives. On the other hand, proponents argue that gun shows are innocuous since potential criminals can acquire guns quite easily through other black market sales or theft. In this paper, we use data from Gun and Knife Show Calendar combined with vital statistics data to examine the effect of gun shows. We find no evidence that gun shows lead to substantial increases in either gun homicides or suicides. In addition, tighter regulation of gun shows does not appear to reduce the number of firearms-related deaths.
Mark Duggan, Randi Hjalmarsson, and Brian A. Jacob
September 2008
The Effect of Gun Shows on Gun-Related Deaths:
Evidence from California and Texas
Don’t be a science denier. Support deregulation of gun shows!
Planning Against the Poor Planners
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If you survive the blast, and you survive the fallout, you’re going to have to survive the constant threat of mass home invasion from those whose disaster planning is just 3 days.
Tirno
December 19, 2024
Comment to Evidence of the Idiocracy
This is an excellent point. But once made, you realize there are going to be some exceptions. Maintain a large buffer zone between yourself and the hordes with poor planning. Doing this can minimize your risk of contact. The risk can be driven to almost zero.
Let time, distance, and others “thin the herd” before the Seattle hordes reach your underground bunker in Montana. Give yourself some good alarms and a thousand yards of open space in every direction. Then, with the right guns, ammo, optics, and shooting partners, you should not have a problem against the low life.
Of course, this is far easier said than done.
Can’t You Read?
Via Rachel Alexander @Rach_IC:
And the masked man’s response might well be, “Hey, you must be so stupid that you won’t miss your brain. BANG!“
“Gun free zones” just disarm the potential victims. We must get rid of them in all but the most obvious of sensitive places. I’m thinking of places like those with extreme fire hazards, prisons, extremely strong magnetic fields, etc.
Cut and Paste from the Playbook
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With just over one month remaining in his disastrous term, Joe Biden just couldn’t restrain himself from once again rolling out his one-size-fits-all gun control wish list in his statement from the White House. Demanding that Congress quickly pass universal background check (registration) legislation and ban so-called ‘assault weapons’ and ‘high-capacity magazines’ in response to this terrible crime is one of the stupidest, but expected reactions from a career gun prohibitionist whose history of gaffes is legendary.
Joe Biden knows 15-year-olds can’t legally buy handguns anywhere in this country, so a call for background checks is irrelevant. Police have recovered a handgun which was used in the shooting, so calling for a ban on semiautomatic rifles and their magazines is also irrelevant and dishonest. Indeed, such demands underscore just how irrelevant Joe Biden and his gun ban agenda have become.
Alan Gottlieb
CCRKBA Chairman
December 7, 2024
CCRKBA BLASTS BIDEN’S REACTION TO WISCONSIN SCHOOL TRAGEDY | Citizens Committee For The Right To Keep And Bear Arms
To be fair, I doubt Biden had any input into that statement. It is most likely some intern. Someone who does not know the difference between an AR-15 and a Glock 17. Of course, they know even less about the law. They just did a copy and paste from the “School Shooting” page in their playbook.
Household Gun Ownership Rates in the U.S.
How Many Households in the U.S. Have a Gun in 2024?
Spoiler for the states that interest me the most:
- Idaho: # 6 with 53%
- Washington: # 39 with 34%
- Kentucky (my youngest daughter lives here): # 12 with 49%
- Montana: # 1 with 64%
- Hawaii: # 50 with 8%
Of course, these numbers were via surveys. Respondents sometimes have an incentive to not tell the truth or not participate if they do own a gun. This will be represented as a negative bias in household ownership numbers.
Every Single Male Must be Wiped Out
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women are the only hope for this wretched world. But even women have been brainwashed by moids for too long theyve internalized the patriarchy and turned on each other, always begging for for male approval and validation. Its disgusting. I realize the truth men are iredeemable. radfem hitler was is fucking vindicated now. They cant be reformed or redeemed. Theyre a fucking scourge upon the earth. The only solution is to total exterminate them and every foid who worships these fucking parasites. Every single male must be wiped out, from babies to the elderty. Only then can women be free to create a new world, ill be a pioneer, ill be the first to take the first step. i dont care if theyr fathers, brothers, husbands, sons, teachers, police, and especially niggers or politicians.ive been craving to kill them all. This is my mission. only when their parasitic sludge has been expunged from this earth is when Then the world will be clean and women can start over. It’s the only way. in aproximately 10 mintue si should be dead, its strange but it feels good.
Abundant Life Christian School mass murderer in Madison Wisconsin
Via a post on X by Andy Ngo 🏳️🌈 @MrAndyNgo on December 16, 2024
So sad. So terrible. Such a waste.
Abusive father?
Toxic femininity?
Mental health issues?
All of the above?
At this time, the only thing we know for sure is that the human behind the trigger is responsible. A gun did not do this on its own.
They Always Resort to Childish Insults
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Oh, look at your little plastic girly guns in all those pretty colors! Those will definitely tell the world that you have nothing in your pants. Hahahahahahahahaha!
Koko Pup かわいくて強い💙 @therealkokopup
Posted on Twitter on December 15, 2023
It’s not only another Markley’s Law Monday; it is another science denier (see also here)!
When they don’t have a rational response, they always resort to childish insults.
Washington State May Get Even Worse on Guns
Via an email from Rolf:
The video appears to be entirely speculative. But see also this Gun group wants new taxes and permits for WA firearm sales • Washington State Standard:
Washington’s leading gun control group wants state lawmakers to make it tougher and more expensive to buy a firearm.
The Alliance for Gun Responsibility said Monday it will renew efforts to begin requiring state permits for gun buyers and will urge lawmakers to impose a new excise tax on sales of ammunition and firearms.
The group’s agenda for the 2025 legislative session also includes adding parks and public buildings to places where open carry of firearms is restricted, banning bulk purchases of firearms and ammunition, and improving oversight of gun dealers.
I wonder what the definition of bulk purchases of ammunition will be. Will a single brick of .22LR ammo (500 rounds) be illegal? My guess is yes.
Even with just the tax increase, if this happens, I expect to make significant changes in my behavior. I will move nearly all my gun activities to my underground bunker in Idaho. I will also be increasing my donations to SAF and FPC. This crap has to be stopped.
The Fault Lies with the Criminal, Not the Tool.
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The murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has renewed the debate over “ghost guns,” according to some news reports. More accurately, the usual control freaks are using the killing as a convenient hook on which to hang their authoritarian arguments. While there’s plenty to find horrifying in this crime, that alleged murderer Luigi Mangione made his weapon using a 3D printer isn’t one of them, no matter that a few people see in the act an opportunity to advance restrictive legislation.
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People make their own guns because they want them and somebody in power seeks to prevent them from possessing weapons. The result has inevitably been people who arm themselves in defiance of the law, using whatever tools and materials are available.
The murder of Brian Thompson would have been no less horrible if the weapon was a legally purchased firearm, a knife, an incendiary device, a club, or any other of the many means of destruction humans have historically wielded against one another. The fault lies with the criminal, not the tool.
And people, being clever and defiant towards authority, will always gain access to forbidden objects that they want, including weapons. They’ll do so even if they have to manufacture them at home.
J.D. Tuccille
December 13, 2024
Brian Thompson’s murder is being used to peddle ‘ghost gun’ bans
From a legal standpoint, people have long been making their own guns without restrictions. They did this long before and after the 2nd Amendment was written. That, among other things, makes it unconstitutional to impose a prohibition on them now.
From a practical standpoint, passing a law against private manufacture only creates a victimless crime and morally innocent “criminals”. It does nothing to prevent the person with evil intentions from committing their already prohibited evil acts. If they are willing to violate laws prohibiting violent crimes, the law fails to deter them. It only inhibits those who use homemade guns for lawful purposes. It does not deter genuine criminals.
Hence, we know those who advocate restrictions of homemade guns do so with the intent of harming innocent people.
Competing Hypothesis’s on Gun Attitude Flip-Flop
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The very individuals who have long championed gun control as a solution to gun violence are now celebrating the tragic killing of a CEO by someone who was radicalized and used a 3D-printed firearm. These same voices once lauded an attacker who nearly assassinated Donald Trump. Such reactions reveal obvious inconsistency, suggesting that their stance on gun violence are politically motivated rather than rooted in principle.
🔫UR a Smart Ass, Carl🔫 @Ur_a_Smartass_C
Posted on X on December 10, 2024
“… politically motivated rather than rooted in principle.” is a good hypothesis. I would like to contribute another hypothesis.
These are people who decide right from wrong almost entirely based on their emotions. Children who are victims of a mass shooter causes them to feel bad and this means guns must be bad. If someone they don’t like is murdered with a gun, then they feel good. This associates guns with their good feelings, and they have no wish to condemn the gun.
I think there is a more important point to be made here. There is a nothing but a thin veneer of civilization over these people. The threshold for them to accept the murder of someone is shockingly low. This can explain riots, lynch mobs, and genocide. Blood lust is a real thing and only barely suppressed in some people.
Prepare appropriately.
Respect
Via Dave’sNotHere @HonDavid76:
There is more than one way to gain respect.
This applies at many levels in the political hierarchy.
National Constitutional Carry
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I introduced the National Constitutional Carry Act to prohibit states from requiring a permit to carry a firearm.
No one should have to beg the government to exercise a constitutionally protected right anywhere in the country.
Let’s get this done!
Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie
Posted on X, December 7, 2024
Attack on the legislative as well as the judicial paths to sensible gun law reform. This is the way.
Gun Free School Zones Under Fire
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Overlapping school zones can make it literally impossible for people to legally carry firearms, and this is exactly the situation in Billings, and similar communities all over the country. People living in, or moving through these communities can be charged and prosecuted, permanently costing them their Second Amendment rights. Such restrictions clearly make the law unconstitutional.
Adam Kraut
December 6, 2024
SAF FILES 9TH CIRCUIT AMICUS BRIEF IN CASE CHALLENGING GUN-FREE SCHOOL ZONES – Second Amendment Foundation
These types of infringements have been in place for over 25 years. It is long past time for the courts to throw these laws out.
Remember Huffman’s rule of firearms law.
Canada Engaged in More Human Rights Violations
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Canada has taken significant strides in tightening its gun control measures, announcing the addition of 324 firearm models to its existing ban list. This move, revealed by Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc, aims to restrict access to firearms deemed unsuitable for civilian use, claiming they are more suitable for battlefields than communities.
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Interestingly, the Canadian government is also exploring possibilities of donating these newly banned firearms. Defense Minister Bill Blair stated discussions are underway with Ukrainian authorities about potentially transferring the guns to assist in Ukraine’s defense against Russia. “Every bit of assistance we can offer to the Ukrainians is one step toward their victory,” he emphasized, highlighting the intertwined nature of domestic gun control and international humanitarian efforts.
Evrim Ağacı
December 7, 2024
Canada Expands Firearms Ban Amid Ukraine Aid Proposal – The Pinnacle Gazette
As other people have point out, it is telling that the Canadian politicians want to confiscate their citizens’ firearms. They intend to give those same firearms to the Ukrainians so they can preserve their freedom. What does that tell you about Canadian politicians’ intentions for the citizens of Canada?
The U.S. should have imposed sanctions on the Canadian government for human rights violations decades ago.
Dead Battery for a Brain
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Small D energy right there, boyo!
Showing off your insecurities, is never ever sexy!
HELLSPAWN @IndictmentSniff
Tweeted on December 6, 2023
It’s not only another Markley’s Law Monday, it is another science denier (see also here)!
If I just glance at that quote I think it refers to a D-Cell battery that is nearly dead. Weird, huh?
Perhaps that is a good metaphor for his intellectual capabilities.
Firearms Do Not Wreak Havoc
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In the November 14 edition of the Miami Herald, in an article titled: Report: Majority of trafficked guns in Caribbean are from the U.S., shipped from Florida, reporters Jacqueline Charles and Jay Weaver claim a lack of restrictive gun laws in the United States cause high murder rates in Caribbean countries. From the article:
A new report from the U.S. government’s lead investigator on gun trafficking in the Caribbean area is confirming what region leaders have long said: Most of the firearms wreaking havoc in their vulnerable nations and being used in 90% of the homicides are coming from the United States.
Note the premise included in the misuse of the English language in the opening sentence: the firearms wreaking havoc.
Firearms do not wreak havoc. This is Orwellian distortion of the language. Firearms are inanimate objects. Firearms do not cause harm. Firearms do not have a will of their own. The correct usage would be: People in vulnerable nations are wreaking havoc with firearms. This is important. Semantics are important. You must correctly understand cause and effect if you are to solve a problem. If you confuse cause and effect, your attempts to solve problems will almost certainly fail. You will attempt to change an effect rather a cause. Occasionally, simply by chance, an action taken with the wrong assumption may line up with a real cause.
Firearms do not cause murders and violent crime. The evidence does not support this assumption. Firearms numbers vary wildly across the globe, and in the Caribbean. Firearms laws vary wildly across the globe and the Caribbean as well. Murders and violent crime vary wildly as well. There is no correlation between them.
People can sometimes find a correlation between firearms laws and murders/violent crime committed with firearms. This does not show firearms cause crime. It shows a truism. Firearms can be used in crime. Firearms can also be used to defend against crime. There is no good evidence to show a decrease in overall murders or overall violent crime when/where extremely restrictive firearm laws are implemented. If overall murder rates or overall violent crime rates do not decrease when firearms laws are implemented, the laws have failed in their stated objectives.
Dean Weingarten
November 22, 2024
GUN WATCH: Miami Herald Misdiagnoses Murder in Carribbean
Excellent points.
Great Words, But Still Just Words
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Why are there small lifeboats on gigantic steel ocean liners? Why do we spend thousands equipping our vehicles with airbags? Why do we wear seatbelts and place our infants in safety seats? Why do we build storm shelters under our homes? Why do we install ground-fault interrupter outlets by sinks and bathtubs? Why do we get painful inoculations? Why do we voluntarily undergo sickening chemotherapy? And why do we protect ourselves with firearms?
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Sadly, there are those who seek to usher in a sort of post-Constitution era where the citizens’ individual rights are only as important as they are convenient to a ruling class. Seeking ancient laws that may partner well with a present-day infringement on a right proclaimed in the Bill of Rights without reading it in conjunction with the aforementioned history is nonsense. The Statute of Northampton cannot in the least bit be used to vex the rights of Illinois citizens in the 21st century to keep and bear arms. The oft-quoted phrase that “no right is absolute” does not mean that fundamental rights precariously subsist subject to the whims, caprice, or appetite of government officials or judges.
Stephen P. McGlynn
U.S. District Judge of the Southern District of Illinois
November 8, 2024
Barnett v. Raoul
McGlynn writes some great stuff in declaring “assault weapon” bans illegal. But his “permanent” injunction was stayed upon appeal. It will probably take SCOTUS to put an end to this nonsense. For now, it is just words and not the force of law.