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Posted on February 12, 2014 by Weerd Beard

I know some people who are amenable to gun control who feel that way because they feel it would make us all safer. They have no malice in their support of various laws and proposals. I know this is true because I used to be one of those people.

Another thing that is true for these people is they are NOT invested in the gun debate in one bit. They haven’t spent much or any time shooting, they don’t know even the most basic laws, and they are either ignorant of disinterested in statistics.

Their affliction is curable, to the effect that if you lead a horse to water they will often drink. The few horses you DO lead to water but they REFUSE to drink aren’t really an issue because A) they likely won’t get involved at achieving their dreams, even if that simply means walking down to a local polling place, B) they are EASILY defeated in any form of debate helping bring others to the water to drink.

This post isn’t about them. This post is about the OTHER gun control proponents. We are talking about anti-rights activists, lobbyists, and politicians. These people want gun control PURELY out of malice. They have read the statistics, they have seen the debate, they may have even logged some time at a shooting range. When they talk about “Public Safety” they are openly lying.

Joe posts this video from a New York gun control discussion:

Here we have evidence that a full-on confiscation is on the table in New York. But they say “We aren’t coming for your guns!”…except they are! He’ll, Joan Peterson of the Brady Campaign and the Joyce Foundation is often VERY vocal about how she isn’t coming for our guns, or how much she hate’s the term “Gun Banner”…but she’s all in favor of door-to-door confiscation. (So long as you get a little compensation for your banned property)

She’s a liar. Gun Control advocates want one thing, blanket gun bans with no grandfathering. Period, full stop.

To accomplish this, they need registration, they need incremental bans, and they need barriers to ownership.

The first two are self explanatory. Registration means you can door-to-door confiscate, and punish and confiscate from anybody trying to conceal guns from the .gov. Incremental bans also just go over smoother than blanket bans. The didn’t ban all guns in 1994 (tho they sure wanted to), they banned a (then) small portion of the guns owned by Americans.

They want barriers for ownership so that the pro-gun side will find it difficult to recruit. There has been several times when I’ve taken new shooters to the range and they got bit by the bug. They started asking me how much their favorite gun might cost…then they asked me what the permits cost.

If this was Maine they could just drive to their local gun shop and BUY a gun. In Mass they need to take a safety class, fill out paperwork, and wait MONTHS to get the PERMIT that lets the WALK INTO the gun shop.

That has prevented MANY a gun owner from bothering. Same goes for “Insurance”, or demanding “Theft proof” storage, or mandatory safety classes.

These things all do NOTHING to benefit the gun owner, but it does make it less pleasant to BE a gun owner. If we can no longer recruit new shooters because the burden is too great to own a gun, we all but die out in a generation, and there will also be nobody to fight against them.

This is a DREAM!

They ARE coming for your gun, and they don’t want anybody to buy another gun EVER again.

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“Gun Death” Florida Beating

Posted on February 12, 2014 by Weerd Beard

In Florida where guns are “easily available”:

A 19-year-old missing woman who was the prime suspect of a homicide investigation into the death of her 52-year-old pizza shop boss in Kansas has been located in Florida and charged with his first-degree murder.

Brutal, and horrible, but not a “Gun Death”. Its the person, not the tool!

H/T Bob

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Oh the Stupidity of “Buy Backs”!

Posted on February 11, 2014 by Weerd Beard

So stupid!

Boston plans to launch a gun buyback program in a bid to reduce shootings following the death last week of a 9-year-old boy who was shot by his 14-year-old brother in an apparent accident, Mayor Marty Walsh said.

Walsh, who took office last month, said he was still developing a specific plan, including how much would be paid and how collection would work, with the city’s newly appointed police commissioner, William Evans.

“It’s a short-term solution,” Walsh told reporters on Saturday. “We need help from the community, we need help from these people to let us know where these guns are, who has these guns, so we can get them off the street.”

Except it doesn’t! Short term or long term, gun “Buy Backs” (quotes because these guns don’t belong to the city in the first place so they are simply BUYING them) don’t work.

Other major U.S. cities, including New York, Los Angeles and Philadelphia, run periodic buybacks, which aim to reduce the number of guns in circulation and to decrease accidental shootings and theft of guns, which are then used in crimes.

Except it won’t! This is the Broken Windows fallacy at its worst! It doesn’t reduce crime, but it DOES destroy wealth by wasting funds to pay people for junk guns, by destroying serviceable guns that can be sold for vastly more than the scrap they will become, and by wasting time of our officers both by paying them to do this crap, but also by keeping them off the streets where they could actually be stopping crime and bringing criminals to justice.

Pure stupidity!

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DGU: Even in California!

Posted on February 11, 2014 by Weerd Beard

Old woman not playing with invaders:

A California homeowner foiled an attempted home invasion Thursday when she grabbed her shotgun and fired near the suspects.

Police say two males broke into a home nearby and were able to steal a few items before targeting the 59-year-old’s home.

Carla, who did not provide reporters with her last name, told MyFoxLA.com that she woke up when her dog started barking.

She said she saw one man in her backyard and another waiting by the car. Carla’s 90-year-old mother was also inside the home at the time, MyFoxLA.com reported.

Dressed in her nightgown, Carla grabbed her shotgun and fired at the ground near one of the suspects.

“Hopefully this is going to tell these guys you know, I’m not a sitting duck,” she told MyFoxLA.com. “I’ve got a gun and I know how to use it,” she said.

“You have to at some point in time, take responsibility yourself for your own safety and that’s all I was doing,” she said.

Uncommon sentiments in California.

I would advise against warning shots like this, as even firing a shot into the dirt like this IS exercising deadly force, and the courts MIGHT argue that if you felt you could toss a shot away you weren’t in IMMEDIATE danger, still it looks like everything is working out for the best for this woman and her mother.

I don’t ever want to have to kill another human being, so the fact that a shotgun blast dissuaded these ruffians from whatever horrible things they had planned is 100% good in my book.

In the eyes of the law, things are a little different, so I personally would have loaded up the room-broom, called 911, and waited for them to attempt to breech the door, then fire center-of-mass.

The outcome wouldn’t have been as good at this case, but my chances in legal terms would be better.

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Images of the Antis: Blitz!

Posted on February 11, 2014 by Weerd Beard

The other day I fished my usual spot for images of the antis and found it to be brimming, so let’s just toss down a few!

Ahh the “Blood in the Streets” argument! Need I say more?

Well except gun registration HAS lead to confiscation of guns, both abroad and here in the US. While I’m not crazy about mandatory registration of cars, you can find plenty of stories of police actually using registration to solve crimes, can ANYBODY point out a case where gun registration has lead to a crime being solved?

Further I suspect the majority of car registration is simply used for taxation purposes.

Still if we can’t point to crimes being solved or benefits to public safety, but we CAN point to many cases of confiscation, why do you think antis are for this?

Here’s the latest saw of the antis that really gets my goat:

OK so what does this insurance actually DO? If your gun is used in a crime either you can be held criminally or not, and insurance doesn’t do much to deal with that. I’ve used car insurance when I’ve had an accident, but gun accidents are exceedingly rare, and gun accidents that aren’t criminal instances don’t really amount to much damage. I don’t see the benefit of a policy to pay for that $5 bucket of Spackle to fix a hole.

And of course you have to LOVE the idea that “Properly secured weapons CAN’T be stolen”. CAN’T, as in IMPOSSIBLE. Yeah, look at your favorite safe maker. Do they guarantee your goods won’t be stolen? Of course not! And while some big safes make it VERY hard for your average thief to crack them, we’re talking about hundreds to thousands of dollars.

What if you only have one or two guns? Should you be REQUIRED to buy a thousand dollar safe to protect $500 worth of guns? Plus your average bedside safe might keep your gun secured from unauthorized access, the safe can simply be hauled away by thieves who can then use all the tools and time they need to crack them.

Nothing is theft proof, and this “insurance” idea seems to be nothing more than a tax of gun ownership, and create a pay gate to prevent people from buying their first gun.

And last is a personal issue of mine:

First we have a nice false dichotomy. It is 100% legal to sell and transfer firearms to other lawful people. OxyContin is a Schedule II drug, and can only be given by a doctor’s prescription, and our “War on Drugs” is even limiting Doctor’s freedom to prescribe these drugs to people who could most benefit from them.

And yet we still have people abusing opiates, and crime rings and drug store robberies to fuel this market. Just make the shit legal and let people do what they want.

Their body, their choice, right?

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“Gun Death” Phone “Shelter”

Posted on February 11, 2014 by Weerd Beard

This is a sad and preventable one:

The frozen body of 19-year-old man was found in his pick-up truck outside his Ohio family home on Thursday as the Midwest suffers through weeks of freezing temperatures….Bitterly cold temperatures have shut down Ohio schools, facilities and government offices this month, with wind chills dropping to 40 degrees below zero including wind chill on some days.

On the day Mr Norris’s body was found temperatures were as low as zero degrees – and police are investigating whether he froze to death in the driveway of the Erich Drive, Willoughby Hills home.

Al Gore could not be reached for comment. Not a “Gun Death”.

H/t Bob

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“Gun Death” New York High Rise

Posted on February 10, 2014 by Weerd Beard

New York brags about their horrible gun laws. What they don’t talk about is their abundance of tall buildings:

A 19-year-old New York University student jumped 15 stories to his death from a dormitory early Monday morning and witnesses believe drugs were involved.

Drugs??? Wait drugs are even MORE illegal than guns in NYC! UNPOSSIBLE!!!

H/T Bob

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Guns: They All Break

Posted on February 9, 2014 by Weerd Beard

Ryan’s beloved model 60 shits the bed. Thankfully not when he needed it:

Bummer that his primary carry gun is offline, but he’ll have it back in service soon. This is why its good to have backups for all your “Go to Guns”.

Revolvers are brick shithouses, especially S&W and Ruger who make them TOUGH. Still anything that gets run hard, from guns, to tools, to cars, they’ll all break.

What’s nice about S&W is that when my 617 ran out of time on three chambers they fixed it quick at no cost but for shipping. The gun came back better than when I first bought it used!

I like revolvers, but there is no magic sword!

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