This is somewhat like a family reunion.
Carl Z.
December 31, 2014
[This was part of the note which Carl sent to me with his check for Boomershoot 2015.
It’s true. Many of the people who go to Boomershoot have been attending for many years and it’s the only time they see each other. It’s a very friendly and happy place. No real competition, just everyone turning money into noise, laughter, and smiles.
Be a part of it.—Joe]
DicklessGunNut @jgpetruna @Mark8065413 @KentAtwater @Frostviper @TANSTAAFL23 @BigFatDave @CJSmith7880 @gunmaster0702
AynRandsTeeth @AynRandsTeeth
Tweeted December 19, 2014
[It’s another Markley’s Law Monday! Via a tweet from Linoge @wallsofthecity.—Joe]
When I held my own gun for the first time in my life in this country, I felt empowered and for the first time, I felt free.
If the Communist government took my gun rights away, why are you limiting my gun rights in Colorado? Are you becoming communists? I hope not. I lived under tyranny for 24 years, I do not want to ever live under it again.
Lily Tang Williams
February 2, 2015
Testimony to the Colorado Legislature
[H/T to Catalina Kelly.
I don’t think the transcript is quite right but it is close. The part I quoted starts at about 3:40.
When you hear her voice it is even more powerful than the words alone.—Joe]
Essentially the vast majority of the existing population is already suffering to one degree or another under the present day rule. And they are doing nothing to free themselves from their oppressed condition. Other than the very small minority who will join the rebellion when hope surfaces with the insurgency, the majority will remain either neutral (meaning frozen in fear glued to their propaganda mind control devices) or will rise to defend their shepherd……or at the very least their meal ticket. The ultimate enemy of a revolution is not the oppressive government it is attempting to overthrow, but the general population it is trying to ‘free’.
Cognitive Dissonance
February 8, 2015
The Paradox Inherent in Any Slave Nation Revolution — Even When the Sociopaths Lose They Win
[This post has some interesting insights for those who yearn for a rapid revolution. A case can be made that successful revolutions (those that actually change things as opposed to merely substituting one tyrant for another) must occur in the cultural rather than at the point of a gun.—Joe]
Even though I was just commenting for laughs, and don’t really think all gun enthusiasts have tiny pee-pees (actually, they’re sociopaths), I was happy to be of service.
formerChild
February 12, 2015
Comment to How All Your Favorite Liberal Blogs Muffed The Yoga Pants Bill (Which Does Not Exist)
[This is what they think of you: If you are a gun enthusiast then you are a sociopath.
Good to know. Keep that in mind because it will be just one of the many justifications they would use as they herd you into the “education” camps.—Joe]
Universities are signal places for idleness, looseness, profaneness, prodigality, and gross ignorance. We are at pains to make them scholars but not men. To talk rather than to know which is true canting. We pursue false knowledge and mistake education extremely.
William Penn
From Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History)
[He was referring to the Universities of England in the mid 1600’s but it appears to me it could be said with a fair degree of accuracy about the universities of the United States today. Many of the professed elite are profoundly ignorant of the application of the subjects they teach in the real world.—Joe]
I’m not going to give my life for someone else. Someone else is going to have to take my life.
Scott Montgomery @BvuePD
Bellevue Washington Police Officer
February 10, 2015
Said during the presentation of Active Shooter Preparation at Newport High School in Bellevue Washington
[I went to this presentation half, maybe even three quarters, expecting the presentation to urge people to lockdown the building and hide under desks. This tactic was explicitly rejected.
I will have a full write up later today but the short version is that I was very pleased with what the police are now advising people to do in an active shooter situation.
They have explicitly rejected the concept of people acting like “sheep” and wait for the paid “sheepdog” to arrive and save them. Yes, he used “sheep”, “wolves”, and “sheepdogs” as labels. They are advising people think for themselves and mentally prepare to do what is best for themselves and other innocent life.
The above quote was given in the context of his mindset and that of his fellow officers when engaging an active shooter. And that should a private citizen have to fight they should have the same mindset.—Joe]
There are predatory people around, and if we don’t kill them, they will kill, rape, rob and do anything else to us that they feel like. I know. I’ve dealt with them. There IS no education or reform package that works on them short of death. The recidivism rate for sociopaths after death is given is 0%.
CombatMissionary
June 19, 2014
Comment to The Naive Idiocy of Teaching Rapists Not To Rape
[While a little bit simplistic there is a lot of truth in this.
The counter arguments include that there are sociopaths who are socially functional and don’t break the law any more than the population at large. And putting predators in prison reduces their predatory scope even doesn’t “reform” them.
That said when said predators are in the act of a violent crime using lethal force to defend against them, even if it results in the death of the predator, is a praiseworthy act. And a good argument can be made such an outcome is preferable to the predator going through the legal system.—Joe]
The next gun owner I meet who isn’t a complete douchebag, will be the first. #gunsense #tinycockclub #fuckthenra
Bacon @Baconmints
Tweeted on December 23, 2014
[It’s another Markley’s Law Monday!
Via a Tweet from BFD @BigFatDave.—Joe]
…[O]ne thing for sure is that this country needs to disarm along with the rest of the world. And, I do not mean just the citizenry, but the police and the military as well. Impossible, you say? No, but it would be difficult and will never happen unless people are willing to give up their greed, their lust for more than they need, their envy, their covetousness, and their gluttony.
In my view of reality there is no moral justification for the possession of firearms and I for one am sick of meaningless diatribes as: “Guns don’t kill people. People kill people.” It is a meaningless phrase because the truth has always been: “People with guns kill people.”
Samuel Thomas Nichols
January 26, 2015
Blowing in the Wind
[Via email from Bob S.
Wow! Even the military! And how is the military supposed to function without guns? Just explosives, biological, and chemical weapons?
While his view of reality is almost for certain distorted by his nephew being shot multiple times by the police you still should never let anyone get away with telling you that no one wants to take your guns.—Joe]
Rights, including the right to own firearms, do not need to explain themselves, and the bearers of rights do not need to justify the exercise of them. That is the very definition of a right. The burden of proof more properly rests on those who want to take rights away.
A. Barton Hinkle (@ABartonHinkle)
December 28, 2014
Opinion/Commentary: Gun-control advocates often lack firepower of facts
[Via email from Richard Feldman.
I have nothing more to add.—Joe]
@homebuilderpa cant wait till you shoot your wife, or kids, or neighbors…@ZeitgeistGhost @DaliDager @JoeHuffman @NRA
Sue Cozza @suecozza
Tweeted on February 5, 2015
[Many anti-gun people want you and your family injured or dead. Don’t ever forget that.—Joe]
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
Upton Sinclair
1935
I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
[This observation applies to a great number of career paths but probably more so than any to those paid by organizations such as The Brady Campaign, The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, Every Town For Gun Safety, and The Violence Policy Center.—Joe]
I can find no excuse – zero, none – that someone running for office or training to be a police officer hasn’t found the time to peruse the operating instructions for our Republic.
Got Constitutional questions? RTFM.
Archer
December 16, 2014
Comment to Filed for future use
[I have nothing to add.—Joe]
This needs to be enforced and standard on all guns. Not only does it make sure we don’t have unintentional shootings with children, but also completely eliminates gun resales. Standardizing this technology and reinforcing background checks is part of the way to cure American’s gun problem.
Marc Lane
2014
Comment on this video:
[The stupid is strong with this one. Every single thing he said is wrong.
But what do you expect from an anti-gun person? Ignorance and stupidity is their currency.—Joe]
The “Stupid Party” of dickless hairlipped mongoloid mouthbreathers w no dick.
Donnie Brasco @D0NNIE_BRASC0
Tweeted on December 19, 2014
[It’s another Markley’s Law Monday! Via a tweet from BFD @BigFatDave.—Joe]
I thank God there are no free schools nor printing. And I hope we shall not have these for 100 years. For learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world and printing has divulged them and libels against the best government. God keep us from both.
William Barkley
Governor of Virginia
1671
From Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History) by David Hackett Fischer
[One has to wonder if a similar attitude in our present government is the explanation for the poor quality of our schools.—Joe]
An advisory panel charged with looking at public safety in the wake of the deadly Newtown school shooting agreed Friday to include in its final report a recommendation to ban the sale and possession of any gun that can fire more than 10 rounds without reloading.
Associated Press
January 21, 2015
Newtown School Panel to Include Proposed Gun Ban in Report
[H/T to Kurt Hoffman and JPFO.
Don’t ever let anyone get away with telling you that no one wants to take your guns.—Joe]
We have to ban the production of guns & all war industry any nation who won’t gets sanctions and bans! Savages #PakSchoolSiege
Vindu Dara Singh @RealVinduSingh
Tweeted on December 16, 2014
[Don’t ever let anyone get away with telling you no one wants to take your guns.—Joe]
Six dead in Pennsylvania shootings. What will it take for the U.S. to ban guns? Another avoidable tragedy. #Sickening http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-30484534 …
Yorkie @pdherd
Tweeted on December 16, 2014
[Don’t ever let anyone get away with telling you no one wants to take your guns.—Joe]