Only people who are inadequate below the waist need guns to make them feel like real men.
Ronald Kirchem
October 16, 2012
Comment to A new assault weapons ban?
[It’s another Markley’s Law Monday!
H/T to Sean Y. for the email!
Apparently Krichem was unable to come up with an intellectually sound response to those that explained why the “assault weapon” ban was bad law so he resorted to a position he was much more comfortable with—the retort of a ten-year old.—Joe]
Holy crap!
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That’s insane!
Barb L.
October 20, 2012
[This was in regard to first hand exposure to her first Boomershoot fireball.
I find her choice of words interesting. About 90% of time a persons first response is “Holy s**t!”. Barb, today in another context, told me she almost never uses foul language so I suppose that could account for the somewhat moderated response.
And yes, this is in regard to the event described by Barron. And yes, she was the woman involved who may have affected someone’s judgment.
I will say that I don’t remember all the conversation related by Barron but it’s close enough that it doesn’t matter. And even after the event I didn’t see it as all that big of a deal. But Barron tells the story in such a way that Barb and I were laughing uncontrollably as she tried to read it to me as I was driving back to the Seattle area.
I was concerned about the fire getting into the stubble field but the fire had dramatically slowed down by the time the gasoline had been consumed. And it was the easiest to extinguish of any of the five fireball fires that have needed to be fought. My shoelaces didn’t even get melted this time. Barb did find a piece of melted milk jug stuck in the sole of her shoe and her son Max brought home a “piece of art” that was created by the fireball out of a milk jug remnant.—Joe]
Utopian ideals always lead to dystopian reality.
Hobbes_Wayne
October 17, 2012
Comment to MILLER: Gun owners’ election–Ex-justice urges next Congress and president to restrict the Second Amendment
[I have a problem with absolute statements but I will agree there is a very high correlation between Utopian ideals and dystopian reality. This is particularly true when the use of force is required to implement the Utopian ideals. In these cases the correlation coefficient appears to be asymptotically close to 1.0.—Joe]
First, read the original post and the comments over at Oleg’s place.
There are some interesting comments, well worth reading, but they fail to see the bigger picture, I think. It took me a while to think of it, though it shouldn’t have done. I now see it as obvious.
Any widespread insurgency in America is really the kick-starter to global chaos, and for some of our enemies that is actually the plan – take advantage of a weakened and distracted America. Collapse the system into a new system. Twelfth Imam and all that rot.
So no.
We had best get our own houses in order, and look at our Progressive (incremental communist) neighbors as part of our country, which absolutely MUST hold together. “Last great hope for liberty” and “with malice toward none” come to mind. I hope you have your beliefs and your communication skills well-honed. You’ll need both, and by the way the latter doesn’t exist without the former – you know it.
Compromise with evil will get us nowhere and open warfare amongst us will get us all destroyed. That leaves us a very narrow, delicate path then, doesn’t it? Our enemies know it too. Interestingly, that applies to your personal life as well as your public life and the global situation.
Gun are a plague and I don’t think education is going to keep guns out of the hands of gang members. The solution is to prevent all people who shouldn’t have guns from getting them.
Let’s get serious, these are people who have guns, and the only reason to carry a gun is to use it. To kill people.
Michael Bloomberg
Mayor New York City
October 17, 2012
Bloomberg Opens Fire On Obama And Romney’s Gun Control “Gibberish”
[“Guns are a plague”? The last time I check gun ownership is a specific enumerated right. One could just as well claim books, newspapers, and religious texts are “a plague”.
He cannot be serious in believing the only reason for carrying guns is to kill people. Is that why his body guards and the police in his city carry them? People legally carry guns to protect innocent life. If Bloomberg cannot comprehend that then he has some serious mental issues.
If Bloomberg views a specific enumerated right as a plague then it would appear to me there are only two legitimate paths to take from here. 1) Bloomberg voluntarily enters a mental institution for treatment of his mental disorder(s); or 2) Federal prosecutors charge him with violation of 18 USC 242. In no way is Bloomberg fit for public office.—Joe]
If the ATF couldn’t keep track of 2500 guns it required FFL holders to sell to the drug cartels then it would seem that they would have zero moral authority to penalize FFL holders for losing track of a few firearms in the course of their business.
And the same should apply to the anti-gun organizations. Either they should be supporting investigation into and prosecution of those responsible in the ATF selling guns to the cartels as well as FFLs that lose guns or they should not support legal action against either.
Of course I’m expecting far too much from both the ATF and anti-gun organizations. I’m expecting morality, rationality, and consistency. I doubt they even know what those things are.
The first time, probably about 1970, I read Atlas Shrugged I was fascinated by it. Awesome book. But it was just a piece of fiction to me. In my mind at that time it could not possibly represent anything past, present, and probably not the future as being close to reality.
As I grew less naive, and particularly with the easy access to differing viewpoints via the Internet I realized there really are people out there that hate the economic/political system that enabled the greatest advances in human prosperity, human rights, and living conditions in history. And they don’t just want to “tweak” it a little in some false hope of making it better. They want to kill those that participate in the system. And furthermore they use the fruits of that system to advocate their hate:
@NancyWonderful @Our4thEstate Hanging profiteers should restore confidence, not the other way. Ah, what do I know?
I can’t even make sense of this. Whose confidence could possibly be restored by hanging those that make a profit? The confidence of communists? Don’t they understand that if the rule of law breaks down and “hanging profiteers” has no legal repercussions the “hanging of communists” will almost for certain also be without legal repercussions?
We don’t want to go there. The end result will be very grim.
It isn’t often that you see 50 or so felonies committed on a single webpage.
David Hardy
October 17, 2012
Ah, those peaceniks
[I wonder how many of those felonies will even be investigated, let alone prosecuted. My guess is zero.
It only matters if the target is the political left. Violence is considered an appropriate tool of political change when it is used or threatened by the left on their opponents.—Joe]
Did you see the smiles after connecting with the 650 yard boomer? I am of the opinion Boomershoot is a valid treatment for depression and should be covered by most health insurance.
I seldom purchase ads for Boomershoot because it mostly fills up with repeat participants, word of mouth, and web presence. But I received a call last week from the publisher of Western Shooting Journal and they made me an offer I couldn’t refuse. They offered me a 1/4 page in their 2012 ATLAS (affiliated with NW Sportsman Magazine) at a rate I could afford and put the ad together from info I provided.
Here is the result:
I like it!
In the end, criminals will never pay the tax, law-abiding citizens will rarely pay it, and the county will get little revenue. The only purpose it will serve is to let upstanding gun owners know their local government views them with disdain. The feeling, for good reason, is mutual.
Steve Chapman
October 13, 2012
Taxing bullets criminal: Penalizing the blameless for gun violence
[A case can be made that taxing a specific enumerated right such as firearms and ammunition is illegal just as taxing churches is illegal. This has yet to be challenged in court and I look forward to the discussion. It will be another front the anti-gunners have to fight on and one for which the First Amendment gives us strong guidance. And NFA 34 can be brought into discussion in a manner that has a better chance of success than a direct challenge to machine gun restrictions.—Joe]
Professor Antony Davis says a complete redesign of government is required and that the redesign must begin with determining the proper role of government:
I agree with nearly everything he says except for the claim that a redesign is required.
The original design of 1787 would solve this problem just fine. It also has no chance of being seriously considered in the foreseeable future.
H/T to Tyler Durden.
JPFO has reduced the price of their documentary video Innocents Betrayed. And there is more:
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As reported yesterday the Brady Campaign recently lost a long time employee.
Today David Hardy reports a clever challenge to Georgia’s ban on carrying in churches. It now becomes both a First and Second Amendment case. And he also reports that in Springfield Illinois, “a major theme in the election is which candidate is least likely to prosecute someone for unlawful carrying.”
I’ve mentioned this before, but this is further evidence the analogy holds, when the enemy is retreating is the time to press the hardest and you can gain the most ground.
We need to keep up as strong and as fast and broad of attacks as we can while they are weak. They need to be completely overwhelmed and driven into the dustbin of history. We have the potential before us to someday make the anti-gun organizations as weak and irrelevant as the KKK is today.
When I last saw Boomershoot Mecca, just before the Gun Blogger Rendezvous, there was 3000 pounds of Ammonium Nitrate just inside the door:
Barron with the Ammonium Nitrate (Barron is on the right).
Nine days ago Ry sent me an email with the picture below, a subject line of “2000 pounds of Tetris” with a message body of, “Was bored.”
Barron, Janelle, and I visited Mecca on Sunday and moved the remaining bags to the rear of the container, put the older Ammonium Nitrate on top and in front of the new, rearranged the tables, and cleaned up in preparation for a private party this weekend:
The biggest changes were the reorientation of the table with the mixers to be inline with the other tables rather than at right angles and the addition of a measurement table between the chemicals and the mixing table.
We also made a place to put my tent, sleeping bags, and some other bedding Maggie donated “to the cause” when she recently moved.
I also took pictures of the exterior so we could better visualize some repairs and improvements we are considering for next summer:
Barron tried to tease me about “Cleaning the place up for when my girlfriend comes to visit.” But we would have cleaned things up just the same even without guests coming next weekend.
Strapped and frapped on the left side of the window and a zombie family on the right.
And the car ahead of it has a Mitt Romney sticker on the trunk lid.
It is almost amazing that this was in Bellevue Washington.
I was informed today that the carrot cake I received for my birthday on Sunday does not qualify as desert because it doesn’t have chocolate in it. In fact because of the carrots and raisins it should be considered mostly a vegetable with fruit. That sounds entirely reasonable to me so I’m eating the second half of the cake tonight for supper.
What I don’t understand is why I gained two pounds after eating most of the first half Sunday and Monday nights.
It may be that we can mine the moon for hydrogen and oxygen. And to make it even more interesting is that it appears it is a renewable source. The sun creates the water on the moon:
The moon’s top layer of crushed rock and soil may hold far more water than previously estimated, according to a new study.
Most of that water can trace its origin to protons streaming from the sun, the researchers show, confirming in samples of lunar soil a mechanism for making lunar water that until now largely had been the province of theoretical models.
Getting water could be useful. Getting rocket fuel would be awesome!
The moon has an abundance of solar energy to break the water and/or hydroxyl down into H + O which is a great rocket fuel. The moon could be more than just a staging area for exploring and/or mining the asteroids and/or other planets. It could be a source of supplies.
The next question I want answered, “Is there a plentiful source of nitrogen and carbon available?” These are needed for an earth like atmosphere and as plant nutrients.
If N and C (and a bunch of other nutrients in smaller quantities) are readily available then crops can be grown for food. Once we have wheat farms on the moon we are snuggling distance from The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress.
I’m so tired of hearing about the second amendment and the Constitution. If you love guns just admit it like it’s a vice. It’s like alcohol or drugs or sex addiction or gambling. It’s just a vice. It’s something you like. It’s not good for you or anybody else. You just like it. But stop the bulls–t about the second amendment in the Constitution, because nobody needs a gun that fires 31 rounds.
Bill Maher
January 12, 2011
Bill Maher Heckled by ‘Tonight Show’ Crowd for Saying Conservatives Want to Kill People They Disagree With
[H/T Say Uncle.
Bill, It’s a Bill of Rights, not a Bill of Needs. And you don’t need to be bad mouthing the right to keep and bear arms. How about we just put you in prison for what you just said? Because if you can just dismiss and/or ignore it gives someone else free license to dismiss and/or ignore every other specific enumerated right. Life would be considerably less pleasant if the police could legally beat a confession out of you or you could be compelled into slavery as a eunuch and praying to Mecca five times a day. That endangers everyone. Maher, you are a threat to society and the human race.
But I don’t advocate putting Maher in prison or restricting his right to free speech no matter how stupid and dangerous it is in the long run. Because the danger to society is greater if we punish speech we don’t like as long as it doesn’t cause a clear and imminent danger to innocent people. And so it is with the right to keep and bear arms.
At least Maher admits he doesn’t have any respect for the Constitution. I wish he would have said, “It’s just a piece of paper.” Just to make it crystal clear what he is really saying. He’s saying he doesn’t want our form of government. He wants to live under a government that has no formal limits to it’s power. An all powerful government is just as valid as a government which respects our natural rights. He didn’t say it but you can read between the lines that he doesn’t want you to be able to advocate for the right to keep and bear arms. He is tired of hearing that such a right exists. Well, Mr. Maher, why don’t you move so some place where your natural rights to free speech and to defend yourself are not recognized. I’d like to suggest North Korea. I’m sure you will be much happier there.
And the right to keep and bear arms is a vice? Tell that to the people in the picture of this blog post. Oh, that’s right! They are all dead because they didn’t have any guns to defend themselves with. And a gun that fires 30 or more rounds would have come in really handy when trying to defend those people. Is the right to defend yourself or other innocent people a vice? I think letting your mouth run off without knowing what you are talking about is a vice. A protected vice.—Joe]
A big rat just jumped the sinking ship: Dennis Henigan has left the Brady Campaign.
Something to remember is that Henigan has long known that high gun ownership rates probably do not cause high violent crime rates. He has been working for a cause that, deep down, he has known was lie.
Thank you for leaving Dennis. This is another clock tick closer to my dream.
Perhaps with a few years of work for a different cause the half-truth Henigan label can be retired. For now I’ll just put it on standby.
