Quote of the day—Matthew Yglesias

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Continuing to insist on new rules while shying away from enforcing existing ones, meanwhile, burns credibility with conservative voters, who see a left that’s eager to penalize their hobby and reluctant to punish criminals.

Matthew Yglesias
June 3, 2022
The flaw in the progressive stance on guns
[Via email from Chet.

Reading the entire opinion piece you can see he has a glimmer of self awareness about the weakness of the gun control position. But if he actually believes the 2nd Amendment, the specific enumeration of a basic human right, is just a hobby then he has no clue why so many people are opposed to restrictions on personal arms.

The mindset of the opposition is much closer to “people that wish to disarm me must be intending to inflect violence upon me and/or innocent people I care about.” This completely changes any attempts to get even minor concessions

Why would anyone grant someone they believe to be intent on murdering them to tie one hand behind their back? If, after saying “No!”, the person attempts to forcibly tie the hand it seems entirely justified to use lethal force to stop them.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Dr Ruth Marshall is Kicking Against the Pricks @wtfis2bdone

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Also, only a bro would be into 3D printing illegal guns. How many more symbolic dick substitions must we endure, ffs? I GET Y’ALL HAVE ANXIETIES. It’ll be ok, see a therapist.

Dr Ruth Marshall is Kicking Against the Pricks @wtfis2bdone
Tweeted on April 25th 2022
[It’s not only another Markley’s Law Monday, it is another science denier!

Childish insults versus SCOTUS decisions. I wonder which will prevail…

Via a tweet from In Chains @InChainsInJail.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Tom Gresham @Guntalk

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A well-educated public being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and read books shall not be infringed” does NOT mean only the well-educated can have books.

Tom Gresham @Guntalk
Tweeted on May 29, 2022
[This is a handy thing to remember.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Gwenie @GwenieThinks

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If black people start purchasing AR15’s today, gun reform laws will begin tomorrow!!!

Gwenie @GwenieThinks
Tweeted on May 27, 2022
[There are number of different things that could be going on here:

  1. Her projection is displaying her racism.
  2. She believes she can read the minds of gun owners (a sign of a personality disorder).
  3. Willful ignorance.
  4. Deliberate lying.
  5. Some combination of all of the above.

The last time I know of when the stated mindset had any traction was in the late 1960s (I’m thinking of GCA68). That was on the tail end of the KKK (100% Democrats with an oath you were not a “radical Republican”).

For many years now I have been teaching anyone that showed an interest. The demographics are far from old white men.

Whatever the problem with Gwenie’s brain function, she is clearly wrong.—Joe]

I like living in the future

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Faster please:

“It’s a permanent reset, as far as we can tell, and we think it may be a universal process that could be applied across the body to reset our age,” said Sinclair, who has spent the last 20 years studying ways to reverse the ravages of time.

“If we reverse aging, these diseases should not happen. We have the technology today to be able to go into your hundreds without worrying about getting cancer in your 70s, heart disease in your 80s and Alzheimer’s in your 90s,” Sinclair told an audience at Life Itself, a health and wellness event presented in partnership with CNN.

“This is the world that is coming. It’s literally a question of when and for most of us, it’s going to happen in our lifetimes,” Sinclair told the audience.

Quote of the day—Goldmoney Staff

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Roman silver and gold coins were the principal money for the known world. The US dollar is the world’s reserve currency today, and nearly all the other 170-odd government fiat currencies are aligned with or refer to it. An accelerating dollar collapse will take most of them down, just as surely as the Roman currency collapse propelled the world into the Dark Ages.

Goldmoney Staff
May 26, 2022
A Roman lesson on inflation
[I know people preparing for a version of the Dark Ages. IIRC, they were planning on surviving with mid-1800’s technology. Among other things they were making hard copies of important books which explained the everyday tech to make and preserve food, build homes and barns, raise farm animals, create and care for tools, etc.

If I were seriously concerned about a major reset I would target the late 1950s or early 1960s. This would be the era just before semi-conductors because tubes aren’t that hard to make compared to semiconductors. Internal combustion engines with electric starters and instruments should be doable. Oil wells and refineries, even if operating at much lower production levels, with output prioritized for agriculture production, processing, and distribution should be able to prevent a die-off that sends us back to the true Dark Ages. This preserves enough tech to get us back to present day capabilities before the highly skilled people are all gone.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Carl "Bear" Bussjaeger

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Perhaps the Constitution has only been an illusory paper restraint on government. But it has been a potent symbolic restraint on the people, preventing them from eliminating abusive politicians and government agents out of hand. I do not truly comprehend the willingness — nay, the eagerness of the Left to go there, to surrender that protection, given the likely consequences.

We’d be starting from scratch, with new rules written by the survivors.

Carl “Bear” Bussjaeger
May 29, 2022
SO YOU WANT TO REPEAL THE SECOND AMENDMENT
[Interesting observation.-Joe]

Quote of the day—ultra mega dark bunnygirl @RiflemanIIC

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Awesome bring bachelors in the stack!

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ultra mega dark bunnygirl @RiflemanIIC
Tweeted on May 30, 2022
[This was in response to the guy I quoted yesterday.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Rich Campbell @RCampbellmc58

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It’s time to come for their guns.

Rich Campbell @RCampbellmc58
Tweeted on May 30, 2022
[Don’t ever let anyone get away with telling you no one wants to take your guns.—Joe]

Background checks don’t work

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Via a tweet from Chuck Petras @Chuck_Petras we have this from Heidi Stevens @HeidiStevens13:

Holy. Shit. What a brilliant, horrifying cover.

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My response:

Thank you for pointing out background checks for gun purchases cannot, and do not, make the general population safer. This has been carefully researched and should be made common knowledge. Don’t let people be science deniers: https://fee.org/articles/california-s-background-check-law-had-no-impact-on-gun-deaths-johns-hopkins-study-finds/

See also: Background checks.

Quote of the day—Rep. John Kowalko

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I’ve got a suggestion for you and your fellow gun worshipers (sic), Instead of wearing a mask stick the barrel of your piece in your mouth. Maybe those 14 children killed in Texas would have been safer from the virus and you psycho, small-penis gun fondlers.

John Kowalko
Delaware state Rep. (D)
Posted on Facebook May 26, 2022
Dem State Rep. Goes On Fake-Fact-Checker Facebook Meltdown, Tells ‘Small-Penis’ Gun Supporters To Kill Themselves
[It’s not only another Markley’s Law Monday, it is another science denier!

Via email from Rolf.

This is what they think of you. They want you dead.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Kathy Griffin @kathygriffin

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It’s the semi automatic weapons. They have to go. My god, think of how low that bar is.

Kathy Griffin @kathygriffin
Tweeted on May 27, 2022
[Don’t ever let anyone get away with telling you that no one wants to take your guns.—Joe]

Optimism is associated with higher cognitive abilities

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Interesting:

Researchers were interested in investigating the associations of dispositional optimism and pessimism with cognitive abilities in adulthood. They found that young adults with higher dispositional optimism and lower pessimism had higher reasoning skills and higher pessimism was related to lower scores on memory tests for middle-aged adults.

Previous research shows that optimism is related to positive health and wellbeing outcomes, whereas pessimism is associated with health-related risks and maladaptive behaviors. According to intellectual investment theories, it is suggested that personality traits can affect cognition abilities. For instance, joy promotes creativity and negative emotionality activates people’s thought-action repertoire to prepare them for quick decisions in threatening situations. People with optimistic views tend to pay attention to positive information and believe they are capable of influencing their lives. On the other hand, pessimists tend to believe life events are caused by external forces and their own influence is inferior.

I hadn’t thought of that. I was well aware that pessimists can and do create their own self-fulfilling prophecies. This leads to them to successfully justify their pessimistic demeaner. But, higher cognitive abilities for optimists? That’s very interesting…

Armed citizens stop mass shooters

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Via SAF we have this FBI (alternate copy here) report:

ACTIVE SHOOTER INCIDENTS IN THE UNITED STATES In 2021

In two incidents,21 citizens engaged the shooter. In one incident citizens sustained injuries. • In one incident,22 seven employees exchanged multiple volleys of gunfire with the shooter, four of them during the final encounter resulting in the death of the shooter. Two people were killed (one customer and one employee) and two employees were wounded (one was shot in the arm and one in the leg). The shooter was killed at the scene by armed employees.

2021 witnessed an increase in incidents where citizen involvement impacted the engagement.23 In four incidents,24 citizens confronted the shooter, thereby resulting in the incident ending. • In one incident, two citizens confronted and tackled a shooter until law enforcement officers arrived.25 • In one incident, a teacher disarmed and detained the shooter (a student) until law enforcement arrived.26 • In one incident, an armed citizen shot and killed a gunman who had just ambushed a law enforcement officer.27 • In one incident, an armed employee shot and killed the shooter (an employee terminated earlier in the day).

Details:

On February 20, 2021, at approximately 2:50 p.m., an identified male, 27, armed with a handgun, began shooting inside the Jefferson Gun Outlet, Metairie, Louisiana. Two people were killed (one employee); two people were wounded (employees). The shooter was killed by armed citizens (employees) during an exchange of gunfire at the scene.

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On May 15, 2021, at approximately 7:15 a.m., an identified male, 26, armed with a semi-automatic rifle, began shooting inside and outside the Three Corners Townhouses (apartment complex), Fort Smith, Arkansas. One person was killed. The shooter was killed at the scene by an armed citizen

…

On June 21, 2021, at approximately 1:30 p.m., an identified male, 59, armed with a shotgun, began shooting in Old Town Arvada, Arvada, Colorado. One person (law enforcement officer) was killed. The shooter was killed at the scene by an armed citizen.

…

On October 21, 2021, at approximately 1:20 p.m., an identified male, 61, armed with a handgun, began shooting inside Agrex Elevator, Superior, Nebraska. Two people were killed (employees); one person was wounded (employee). The shooter was killed at the scene by an armed citizen (employee) prior to arrival of law enforcement

Quote of the day—The Editors at Scientific American

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The science is abundantly clear: More guns do not stop crime. Guns kill more children each year than auto accidents. More children die by gunfire in a year than on-duty police officers and active military members. Guns are a public health crisis, just like COVID, and in this, we are failing our children, over and over again.

The Editors at Scientific American
May 26, 2022
The Science Is Clear: Gun Control Saves Lives
[They have to lie to justify their beliefs and agenda. You only need to click on their own reference to discover the lie. Guns kill more children than auto accidents? Only if you consider 24 year old’s as children:

For much of the past few decades motor vehicle crashes were the most common cause of death from injury—the leading cause of death in general—among children, teenagers and young adults in the U.S. But now a new analysis shows that, in recent years, guns have overtaken automotive crashes as the leading cause of injury-related death among people ages one through 24.

They are intentionally lying in an effort to deprive an entire nation of a specific enumerated right. They should be prosecuted.—Joe]

Canadian cattle

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Just like a rancher dehorning their cattle to prevent them from hurting each other or their owner Canada does not allow people to carry knives for the purpose of self defense:

There are no limits on length. BUT, and this is a big but, the knife you carry must only be used as a tool (a.k.a. utility knife, hunting knife WHEN HUNTING, etc.). As stated above it do not conceal or have the intent to cause harm; this includes self defense!

This law is about intent. This means if you’re caught with a knife that’s concealed on your person while in a location you don’t require a knife to be used as a tool, you may be in for a bad time.

Example, walking through a dark alley at night with a utility knife in your pocket for protection sounds like a good idea. However if an officer of the law stops you and finds it, they can easily conclude there is no other reason for you to have it except for the intent to cause harm to another person.

Furthermore, this also means you can be charged with assault with a weapon even when defending yourself. Why, because the intent to use it for such an occasion is there before you even stepped out from your house.

Having “solved” all the “gun violence” in their country this must be what they consider as “common sense” prevention of “knife violence”.

Quote of the day—John Crump

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AmmoLand News has obtained a leaked copy of the 2019 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Industry Operations Manual.

The manual is the internal guide that the Industry Operations Inspectors (IOI) use when conducting federal firearms licensees (FFL) inspections. An IOI is not a special agent. They are an ATF employee assigned to carry out compliance inspections and audits of records that FFLs hold. While special agents are considered law enforcement and have the power to arrest, the IOIs work on the industry side of the Bureau.

The document is 190 pages long and gives an insight into what the IOIs look for during their FFL compliance inspections. The document lays down what the IOIs can and can’t do during their official visits. It includes when the IOI can run a NICS check on the FFL’s responsible parties. The document also covers when an IOI must refer a case to a criminal investigator. The IOIs cannot perform a criminal investigation.

The document not only goes into procedures used by IOIs during their compliance visits but it also covers the techniques that the IOIs will use during their visits to FFLs. The document also covers more mundane topics such as the ATF’s work from home policy and the use of government vehicles by the IOIs.

One of the interesting things about the IOI position is that IOIs are not allowed to carry firearms while working. This restriction even applies to those who have valid concealed carry permits. The IOIs are not even allowed to keep their guns in their cars.

The document will be an immense help to firearms dealers that are fighting against the revocation of their FFLs. Currently, FFL revocations are up by 500%. Under the current Biden administration, the ATF has targeted FFLs and has been revoking FFLs for the slightest infraction. President Biden calls these gun stores “rogue dealers.” By having a copy of the manual, these targeted FFLs can ensure that the ATF IOIs followed proper procedures during the inspections.

The IO Manual can also help in a criminal defense strategy of a gun dealer accused of criminal activity if the ATF employee improperly used their role as an IOI to collect evidence of illegal activity when they should have filled out a suspicious activity report. The manual makes it abundantly clear that IOIs are not law enforcement officers.

The ATF has stalled multiple Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests trying to get a copy of the Industry Operations Manual, leading many in the gun community to wonder why the ATF would try to prevent the manual from being distributed to the public. Some think that the ATF did not want the IO Manual to fall into the hands of criminal defense lawyers and FFLs.

John Crump
May 25, 2022
ATF Leak Exposes Industry Operations Manual
[Cool! The good guys get a break.—Joe]

Quote of the day–UR a Smart Ass, Carl @Ur_a_Smartass_C

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Any black person who fights for gun control is nothing more than a tool for their own destruction.

UR a Smart Ass, Carl @Ur_a_Smartass_C
Tweeted on May 23, 2022
[Carl has an interesting story to tell about his conversion from “a young gun control Democrat” to owning a safe (or three, I’m not sure) full of guns.—Joe]

Quote of the day—John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead

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Yet be warned: once you get snagged by a surveillance camera, flagged by an AI predictive screening program, and placed on a government watch list—whether it’s a watch list for child neglect, a mental health watch list, a dissident watch list, a terrorist watch list, or a red flag gun watch list—there’s no clear-cut way to get off, whether or not you should actually be on there.

You will be tracked wherever you go, flagged as a potential threat and dealt with accordingly.

If you’re not scared yet, you should be.

John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead
May 10, 2022
You’ve Been Flagged as a Threat: Predictive AI Technology Puts a Target on Your Back
[Prepare appropriately.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Julia Jacobo

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California water officials unanimously struck down a $1.4 billion plan to build a seaside desalination plant amid a water crisis sparked by megadrought and climate change.

The California Coastal Commission, which is responsible for protecting the state’s shores, voted Thursday to deny a permit to seawater desalination developer Poseidon Water to build a desalination plant in Huntington Beach.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom was among the supporters for the plan, which promised to produce 50 million gallons of drinking water a day. Steve Sheldon, president of the Orange County Water District, said the plant would make the county “drought resilient.”

Julia Jacobo
May 13, 2022
California panel unanimously rejects proposal for plant to turn ocean water into drinking water
[It is easy to make a case that these creatures hate humans.—Joe]