Thought I’d share a few gems that I found from the antis. First is this lame tweet from “Protest Easy Guns” (BTW their organization title pisses me off when I spend so much time wrangling bullshit gun laws and jumping through legal hoops to buy, keep, and bear my arms)
Fort Hood gunman, a conceal-carry licensee, faces death penalty for gunning down 13 people.
Look Nidal Hassan is a domestic Muslim terrorist, but not only was he not on any of the so-called “Terrorist Watch Lists” (which demands quotes because its full of non-terrorists, and lots of terrorists are not on the list) that the antis are pushing quite hard as a valid reason to deny rights. but he was an army major, and a psychologist. Never heard before that he had a carry permit, certainly his permit was NOT valid on Fort Hood when he started shooting innocent people in the name of his twisted religion. Not to mention that its kinda a crime to shoot innocent people. Gun control gets good people killed, FULL STOP.
And on the flip side there was this story pushed by the antis:
And he did, with three shotgun blasts to the back as they crossed his yard with a bag of stolen goods. He was never charged with any crime related to the killings.
The law that Horn was talking about is the “castle doctrine” statute, many versions of which are sweeping the nation.
Guy blasts a few robbers with a shotgun and kills them. Can anybody see a problem with this? Nobody is disputing that the departed were robbing homes at the time of their deaths, and nobody is disputing that the man who killed them did so to protect the neighborhood from these degenerate assholes.
Of course this anti-freedom goon decided to try to paint this as a horrific event and that Castle Doctrines and Stand your Ground laws are somehow bad things.
Wanna know what a bad thing is? The inner cities where the gangs rule the roost and have no fear of law enforcement. If they don’t fear the cops, let them fear the victims of their crimes. There is NO way that could be a bad thing.
But then again anti-gun people aren’t the most rational people around the table.
Looks like he got a Virginia permit in ’96.
Which you wouldn’t know if you only read what Protest Easy Guns linked, because the HuffPo piece makes no mention of it at all.
So a Virginia Resident permit that was no longer valid when he started living in Texas….not that I expect the antis to have ANY idea how the laws they don’t like work.
I mean why would you need to understand your cause?
Obviously having a CCW license is one of those branded-for-life things.
Once licensed, always a licensee.
It’s like being a felon. Hadn’t you heard?
So, according to the Antis, it would be okay if he strapped on a Homicide Vest and pushed the button?
Re: Joe Horn:
I’ve said it before — earlier this week, in fact, right after my truck was ransacked again — and I will say it again:
To those folks who say, “It’s just property, it’s not worth killing over,” I say…
The fuck it’s not. It’s a piece of you, and somebody taking it is a violation of your personal sovereignty that deserves to be swiftly and severely dealt with, with whatever means you can manage, up to and including lethal force. And I sincerely hope that those who don’t agree come home one day to find their homes ransacked and all their stuff gone. Maybe then they’d understand how it feels. (And if you get the feeling I am not particularly interested in “humane,” less-lethal ways of dealing with these creatures, you’re exactly right.) I remember voicing much the same sentiments after Joe Horn was acquitted, but to say that my feelings on the matter are stronger now that I am the one who was stolen from would be the understatement of the new century. It has always irked me greatly that some people would look down on those who would shoot someone for stealing their stuff. I feel the same way about that as I do the right to life — if you don’t have the right to protect your property with whatever means you can manage, then you don’t really have a right to your property. Which means you’re working to acquire stuff that criminals can take at will. Which makes you, in effect, a slave to the criminals. And the structure of the slavery system that we fought a war to rid ourselves of is different, granted, but the basic principle isn’t that much different.
Yep and righting the wrongs of theft is no small task. Insurance claims, police reports, possibly legal proceedings.
We had a landlord refuse to pay us for a $500 tank of oil when our lease ran out (We had paid the former tenant for the oil when we moved in though the landlord) as well as several other terms of the lease.
We walked away from it. Why? The amount of time and effort we’d need to spend in small claims court just wouldn’t justify the $500 plus whatever other less-clear damages we’d claim.
And that’s just contract violation, you don’t have the psychological effect of a blatant trespass as well as the violation of your secure bubble.
It is NOT a trivial thing, and I have NO problem with such bastards getting shot and KNOWING they are chancing a bullet for plying their gutless and evil trade.
Hassan also was heard to make several statements in support of jihadists in speeches he made to other psychologists and in private with other groups of officers.
It is the same politicial doctrine (liberalism) of which the antis adhere that keeps people quiet for fear of sounding racist or Islamophobic that kept Hassan off the radar of any official investigation. Not that an investigation by anyone “official” would have been effective, but it would have been on the right track – citizenry mindful of those who wish to kill as many Americans as possible.
A little bit about Joe Horn.
Yes, the 911 call made him sound cold blooded to some — others saw someone passionate about stopping crime.
But…
Their story isn’t quite complete. First, the thugs ran across the yard in the direction of Mr. Horn. Second, they didn’t stop when Mr. Horn yelled at them to stop. Third, they didn’t turn away until Mr. Horn started shooting-thus they were “shot in the back”. Fourth — a grand jury reviewed the situation and did not bring charges.
The antis fail to consider how many lives were saved by the actions of Mr. Horn. Given that the thugs broke into a home and were willing to attack someone to get away; how long would it be before they murdered to get into a house?
Why is it when a licensee stops a crime and they happen to be former military or law enforcement, THAT is all they talk about, like former LE and military are the only people that can utilize a firearm. Then, when an ACTIVE military member does something horrible they want to paint them as a licensee. Seriously, get some consistency.
From watching LE and Military friends shoot and talk guns, I suspect any LE or Mil that knows how to shoot well likely learned in the depths of a firefight or on their own time.