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Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal.
Friedrich Nietzsche
This is as true today as it was 130+ years ago.
Category Archives: Politics
Reducing Guns
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We need to focus on responsible behavior. We need to focus on safety. I’ll say again, we can’t have an officer in every situation to prevent gun violence. What we can do is work to reduce the guns that we have on the street.
Tammy Morales
Representative for District 2 in Seattle
August 21, 2023
Another mass shooting in Seattle sparks debate on police staffing, public safety
What she needs to realize is:
- “Work to reduce the guns we have on the street” is a criminal offense.
- If you do reduce the number of guns in the general population those guns will be from the hands of those who are generally law abiding. That makes guns in the hands of violent criminals all the more valuable because they can more easily use their illegally owned guns to intimidate and/or harm the law abiding who turned in their guns.
- Hence, reducing the number of “the guns we have on the street” will lead to an increase in violent crime.
But, as we all know, the real motive of gun control is not the reduction of crime. It is the increase of control.
It is About Control
I had to read several paragraphs in this article before I was fully convinced this wasn’t some sort of satire:
President Biden’s alcohol czar says Americans may be told by officials to have no more than two beers a week.
Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) George Koob told the Daily Mail on Thursday that the U.S. may follow Canada’s footsteps on alcohol guidelines.
Currently, American guidelines recommend men limit themselves to two drinks per day while women should only have one drink. The American recommendations are up for review in 2025.
Canada’s guidelines recommend only having two drinks per week.
Koob, who said he partakes of a couple of glasses of “buttery Californian Chardonnay” a week, said he was watching the Canadian “big experiment” with interest.
The feds have an “alcohol czar”? This is crazy stuff. They want to control everything! When will I wake up from this dystopian nightmare?
Defunding the Police
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I lived in West Oakland for three years 15-18. My fondest memory is the CHP helicopter flying overhead weekly blaring this message on repeat: Police Dogs Have Been Released, Stay In Your Home or You Will Get Bitten.
The third week in our house there was a gang drive-by on an apartment one block over, three dudes with AK’s did full mag dumps as fast as they could pull the trigger. The third shooter was a little slower than the other two so when they hopped in the car they drove off with out him while he finished his mag. Looked around and jogged off so nonchalantly I was startled. I soon understood why when the police showed up SIX minutes later.
East Oakland was pure hell, I would not travel there to get my pregnant wife Pollo Loco (which not getting was not an option!) without wearing lvl III body armour under my hoodie and carrying my illegal, not on the list, non-registered pistol.
And the best part, according to this article, that was THE GOOD period…
Benelli @disqus_9VxERuctzE
August 23, 2023
Comment to Sick and Tired in Oakland
I have nothing to add to this that everyone else is not already thinking. That’s right, they need to defund the police. That will fix their problems.
No, the ATF Cannot Legally Regulate “Ghost Guns”
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Political observers expect the Washington Post and the New York Times to carry water for Joe Biden’s Department of Justice gun control agenda. It’s surprising when the conservative National Review seemingly bends over backwards to defend the weaponized agency in a poorly researched and written piece.
On August 9, National Review published an item with the confident title “Yes, the ATF Can Legally Regulate Ghost Guns.” The ill-informed piece was written by a summer intern. If it was an unpaid internship, the publication got every penny’s worth.
NRA-ILA
August 21, 2023
National Review Wrong on ATF Frame or Receiver Rule
Words matter. And when those words are legislative law they matter even more. The ATF, and this summer intern, are ignoring and/or deliberately misreading the word of law.
Ignoring the word of law and/or deliberately misreading by politicians and judges should be a punishable offense. And in some cases it is. But of course, that law is there just to make us think we have some protection against those who use the power of government to deny us our rights. That’s not reality. The reality is, that ultimately, you have to defend your own rights. That is why we have the 2nd Amendment.
The left has thrived on destruction and decay
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The left isn’t wrong when they paint conservatives as natural enemies of “our democracy.” There is nothing conservative about the radically egalitarian system that governs the country, which turns politics into a race to the bottom, a game at which the left naturally excels. The left, in all times and places, has thrived on destruction and decay. The muddled, obese, foreign mass that is today called “the American people” has only a faint connection to the sturdy, adventurous Anglo-Saxons who founded the nation. Their values – freedom of speech, property rights, religious toleration, free enterprise – it is not surprising to find, are being trampled by the government we now have, which imposes tyranny from above with the support and legitimacy of “we the people,” or what has become of the people, below.
Matthew Boose
August 18, 2023
The Right Can’t Beat The Left At Its Own Game
You don’t have to read much history to discover this basic truth, “The left, in all times and places, has thrived on destruction and decay.” Their seeds are planted in troubled times, they grow roots with unhappy people, they carefully ferment anger and envy to build their mass, then when they show themselves as terrible weeds they repress and kill those who bear the fruit, grain, and flowers of society to retain their terrible monopoly on the nutrients of life and a healthy society.
Facts are Being Manipulated
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Tracking crime statistics – and more importantly, whether or not crime is rising or falling in the United States – is getting harder to do. That’s because nearly a third of America’s cities are no longer reporting crime statistics to the FBI.
This is more than just a problem for policymakers looking for data to address the cities most in need of assistance. It also means that some policymakers are demanding bad policy because they’re relying on incomplete data.
The Marshall Project reported that 31 percent of the 18,000 law enforcement agencies across the U.S. failed to report crime data to the FBI’s national database after transitioning to a new data collection system, according to the latest statistics from the FBI. That’s a slight improvement from 2021, when 40 percent of law enforcement agencies didn’t report crime data. Still, it’s a glaring blind spot, especially when that data is missing from some of the largest metro areas dealing with rampant, out-of-control crime.
Many of those cities also happen to be led by the loudest voices calling for gun control, defunding police and soft-on-crime policies. The trifecta means that gun control politicians are missing a third of the crime picture yet demanding 100 percent of the gun control. Typical behavior for zealots who favor government control over individual freedom.
Salam Fatohi
August 10, 2023
AMERICA HAS A CRIME REPORTING PROBLEM
This is concerning. Facts, such as these statistics, are important to us. They are probably not as important as the constitutional protections but they are important. They are unimportant to the antifreedom people unless the facts are in their favor. By failing to report the facts in the cities with the most gun control they can use them to their advantage.
Since the facts are being manipulated, we can hammer them with the fact they are manipulating the facts. Also, it may be we need to rely less on the facts and just hammer them with the legal protections of firearms owners.
Dark Days for Antis’
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When I first was getting involved with the gun rights issue (early 1970s), as I recall gun sales were about 3 million a year. Today it’s over 12 million. The antis’ time has passed.
David Hardy
August 4, 2023
Hurrah! Gun sales over a million a month!
I’m not sure their time has passed. But they certainly know there are dark days in their future.
We have to win the culture war as well as the legal war. Then we can win the political war. Gun sales and gun ownership rates will win us the culture war.
Flawed Logic and Contempt
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The flawed logic of this unconstitutional law is second only to the contempt for which the authors and Gov. Pritzker hold for the constitutionally protected right of the citizens of his state to keep and bear arms.
Lawrence G. Keane
NSSF Senior Vice President
August 16, 2023
Gun Organization Sues Illinois Over New Firearm Restrictions
I’m not sure. I could see the contempt ranking higher.
In other news, August is National Shooting Sports Month.
Biden Administration Demands Power to Censor
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President Joe Biden’s administration in a Monday amicus brief pushed the Supreme Court to rule against Republican-led states’ laws that prevent online censorship.
Florida and Texas have enacted laws to stop Big Tech platforms from censoring content due to viewpoint, and the Biden administration asked for the Supreme Court to review them, according to the brief. Specifically, the Biden administration requested for the Supreme Court to rule against the states’ laws and in favor of social media companies’ right to censor.
Jason Cohen
August 15, 2023
Biden Admin Pushes Supreme Court To Rule Against Red State Laws Blocking Online Censorship
Censorship, except for confidential and similar information, tells you everything you need to know about individuals as well as governments. If they demand the silence of others it means they are unable to defend their intellectual stance. I.E. they are liars and should be treated appropriately.
Mandated Freedom of Speech Training
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A Texas District Judge ordered Southwest Airlines to send three of its lawyers for religious freedom training after they fired a flight attendant who expressed religious views on social media.
District Judge Brantley Starr ordered on Monday that Southwest has to organize religious freedom training and send a short notice to all its flight attendants regarding the protections on religious speech, after a lawsuit filed by flight attendant Charlene Carter.
Jana J. Pruet
August 12, 2023
Southwest Ordered to Attend Religious Freedom Training
The backlash against wokeness is getting legal backing.
I wonder if other companies are picking up on the message?
I look forward to companies getting court mandated training on respecting people who exercise their rights under the 2nd Amendment.
Three Big Lies
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J6: Republicans stage insurrections without weapons. Their plan was to trespass in one building until they conquered the country.
George Floyd: Sometimes police officers casually and intentionally murder people in front of witnesses who are filming it.
The Big Guy: Didn’t know.
Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays
Xeeted on August 8, 2023
It is interesting how the framing of the facts changes things so much.
Another Shot Fired at Ferguson
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The Magazine Ban is a complete prohibition on commerce in ammunition magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds. The Supreme Court has three times answered the specific question of what historical traditions of firearms regulation can possibly support modern day bans on certain types of “arms.” Those cases establish that states can only ban arms that are “dangerous and unusual.” Magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds are neither.
Joel B. Ard
Ard Law Group PLLC
Attorneys For Plaintiffs
PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT
Via SAF MOVES FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN WASH. MAGAZINE BAN CASE:
The Second Amendment Foundation today filed a motion in U.S. District Court for summary judgment in its challenge of Washington State’s ban on so-called “large-capacity magazines” in a case known as Sullivan v. Ferguson.
Progress is slow, but we are firing some powerful “ammunition” in our legal war.
I just wish we were in a position to use 18 USC 242 in this fight. Until we are, we will always be doing battle with the forces of evil over this issue.
Quote of the Year!
If you were unfairly treated by your employer due to posting or liking something on this platform, we will fund your legal bill.
No limit.
Please let us know.
Elon Musk @elonmusk
Xeeted on August 5, 2023
Free speech absolutist? It sounds like it.
This is very cool if it results in the destruction of the cancel culture.
But, of course, it depends on what the definition of “unfair” is. Who is to be the judge of that?
NFA and GCA Will be Gutted
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Because of the Bruen decision we are going to see every gun law challenged, The NFA and GCA will eventually be gutted. I don’t think there will be a complete removal of both but they won’t look anything like they do now after @gunpolicy and GOA get done.
Scott Wilburn (@ScottWilburn138)
Tweeted on August 2, 20237
A persuasive argument can be made for this. If you are in a rational universe. I am far from convinced of the rationality of our legal system, let alone the entirety our country, world, and beyond.
Still, I know that if we do not try it is certain to not happen. So, I’m donating money every month to FPC and SAF. My goal is to have machine gun shooting sports in high schools in less than ten years.
Violent Criminals are Their Allies
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Zero tolerance doesn’t apply to stopping criminals. The Biden administration reserves that focus for the firearm industry.
Larry Keane
Senior vice president for government and public affairs for the National Shooting Sports Foundation
July 27, 2023
ATF has shut down nearly 2,000 gun stores since the implementation of its new “zero tolerance” policy
This is not news to most of us:
- Democrats Partner with Criminals
- Reaping what they have sown
- Quote of the day—Downtown Seattle Association
- Quote of the day—Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
They are just being more blatant about it.
The Phallic Symbol is Unattainable
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The phallic symbol is unattainable, yet firearms and, consequently, violence are used to promote white masculinity. Gun advertisements use phallic imagery and language that promotes toxic masculine ideals. Due to the demographics of gun owners, the majority of the consumers of these products are white men. These advertisers know their market well and accurately demonstrated the anxiety white men have in a world where they feel a loss of rights and/or privileges. By using imagery of the phallic symbol, the advertisers have used their consumers’ fears and anxieties in order to sell more firearms, which, in turn, can at least partially demonstrate the white male gun owner’s identity.
Jenna Bergman
August 11, 2021
Firearms and the Phallus: Using Guns to Reclaim Masculinity
It is not only another Markley’s Law Monday, it is another science denier!
And it is not just an attempt at a snarky comment on Twitter. This is an article in the Columbia Political Review. It is Columbia University’s undergraduate multi-partisan political magazine with a circulation of about 8,000.
It is such gibberish that I gave serious consideration to the hypothesis it is satire. I have since dismissed that hypothesis.
Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
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Government, almost by definition, DOES restrict our freedoms. Those polled aren’t wrong in the least for seeing it that way. The constant struggle is keeping this necessary evil contained to the minimum required for a functioning society.
Orgs like Everytown are part of a broad spectrum of authoritarian social engineers. They want people to be docile, preferably stuffed into cities, owning nothing, and restricted to a narrow Overton window of acceptable opinions and lifestyles. The Chinese social credit system is their model.
Guns are a threat to this (as is free speech, which is why that is also a target for them). Not even really guns themselves, but the individualist ideas they can awaken simply by accepting the natural right to bear arms. Because once you accept the natural rights framework, the Bloombergian government dystopia they want is unacceptable.
Notice how the very same people who want to ban guns also tend to want social media to censor more speech, want the government to tax everything they declare undesirable, want to punish thought crimes with a widening net of “hate speech” restrictions that shutter the Overton window, and constantly find new things they want banned.
This is also why they insist on federal gun laws. They know Boise or Manchester are doing just fine with minimal gun control laws, which drives them insane. It proves the problem in their violent cities is their own fault, and not due to gun rights. The authoritarians can’t allow such counterexamples to exist.
Control, control, control. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
Kostas Moros @MorosKostas
Tweeted on July 28, 2023
Right Wing Bias of Corporate Media
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The right wing bias of corporate media is nuts.
David Hogg
Tweeted on July 26, 2023
Delusions are often functional. Especially for anti-gunners like Hogg.
Others have things to say on this topic as well.
Orwellian
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The revenue officers we represent will continue to efficiently and effectively carry out their mission of helping taxpayers meet their lawful tax obligations through other means of communication,
Tony Reardon
National president of the National Treasury Employees Union
July 24, 2023
IRS halts most unannounced visits to taxpayers, citing safety concerns
This has to be the most Orwellian thing I have read outside of an Orwell book.
Via Stephanie who said:
“Knocking on someone’s door today is a different scenario than it was 10 or 15 years ago, and there have been significant reports from IRS employees where they have felt unsafe,” he said.
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I say it’s a step in the right direction. Thieves should always feel unsafe.