Zo covers it from the Christian side:
I’ll cover it from the secular stance. MAIG made up an anti-gun placement for Thankgiving that quotes Ronald Regan
But MAIG is is a “Progressive” Group, so they HATE Reagan, just like the “Progressives” hate conservative Christians. They pick-and-choose what they read, and how they interpret it and claim what they like is Holy and Sacred, and what they don’t like, is ignored.
Norway had one of the worst mass-shootings in history, still that’s a product of a land with massive gun control that empowers psychopaths. They don’t NEED a gun to do serious damage:
A knife-wielding man on Monday hijacked a bus in western Norway and killed three people on board, including the bus driver, the police said. The suspect, described as a man in his 50s, was arrested after the attack in Sogn and Fjordane County, the police said.
That would be a “Mass Shooting” if this had been a “Gun Death”. Still one can argue that in a gun control Utopia like Norway guns are hard to acquire, and the Norway shooter expended a LOT of effort to get the gun and magazines he used.
Meanwhile knives are EASY. What’s HARD is to have a good defensive tool when such a thing happens, leading to deaths like these, and empowerment of lunatics like this.
H/T Wallphone
Be safe and SMART out there, people!
When I’m shooting with new shooters, or even experienced shooters I will NOT put a gun in their hands unless I KNOW they can handle it. There isn’t a shooter out there that I won’t make their first gun a .22 Rifle, or a .22 full-size revolver.
Still those guns are EASY, and we might quickly scale up to a rifle in 7.62×39 or .45 ACP, but only once I see their form is GOOD. Form is EVERYTHING, and good form means even a small person can handle a fairly powerful gun, but with crappy form even an all-steel .38 Revolver, or 9x19mm will hurt you.
Unfortunately in this case it killed somebody. It could also end up killing somebody else if you let a round go over the berm, or bounce one off the floor of an indoor range ceiling. Know how to shoot, and shoot well before you start teaching new shooters, and then work UP new shooters.
One reason why I have a LOT of different guns is I like teaching new shooters, and having lots of guns means you can have guns that will interest new shooters, but also all the proper guns to work up into guns that will give them what they want.
Yeah, if you want to shoot a full-house .44 Magnum on your first day of shooting, you CAN DO THAT! Just it will NOT be the first few guns you shoot, and it may be a bridge too far.
Not sure if he’s bragging or just sharing, but Sean sent me this video of him cranking away with his Dillion 650 reloading press!
My Lee Pro1000 is officially dead, and I’m debating seeing if I can send it back to Lee for repair, or get the far superior (and more expensive) 650 to replace it.
Still this is what Joan Peterson would call a “Dangerous Arsenal”….and what any normal person would simply call “One Month’s supply”….less if you’re going to shoot a competition!
Thanks Sean!
The “Gun Death” zealots like to claim that if guns somehow don’t exist then anti-social aggressive people will settle their differences with “Harmless” Fist fights!
A Texas high school student who was air-lifted to a hospital after a fist fight in school Tuesday has died, a school official confirmed to CBS affiliate KHOU.
Police said emergency responders found the 15-year-old victim knocked unconscious and bleeding from the face Tuesday inside Canyon High School in New Braunfels.
Not for this poor boy, he was beaten to death by another student. Not a “Gun Death”, so not relevant when talking about violence in our schools?
H/T Wallphone
Thanks to Joan Peterson for finding this amazingly ignorant article!
political candidates seeking national office fear the gun lobby—especially the National Rifle Association—more than they fear gun violence. They have learned the lesson of what happened to Al Gore who ran for president in 2000.
Gore was more courageous than most politicians when it came to advocating gun control and many political analysts believe that his courage may have cost him a considerable number of votes in swing states such as Ohio, Florida, Colorado and Arizona. Some think it may have cost him the election. Since that time, no national candidate or aspirant for national office has dared to offend the gun lobby. Even after a congresswoman, Gabrielle Gifford, was shot, Congress refused to enact even the most reasonable of restrictions on gun ownership, such as a ban on assault weapons which are not used either for hunting or for self defense.
Well they ARE used for hunting and self defense…but I’m sure Mr. Dershowitz, tho I’m sure for every hunter who bagged a deer with an AR-15, or other so-called “Assault Weapon”, or defended their lives with a rifle, or a pistol that had more than a 10-round magazine, might be quick to cite “No True Scotsman”. Still the interesting bit is so-called “Assault Weapons” ARE used for hunting and self-defense, but they WEREN’T used for shooting Gabby Giffords. If this is what you consider “Reasonable” then we’re off to a good start!
Ours is the only Constitution that explicitly protects “the right of the people to keep and bear arms.” But the Second Amendment is anything but clear about what those Delphic words were intended to mean at the time they were enacted.
Not really, since you wrote this article I can assume you can read. Further its not like the founders existed at the EXACT MOMENT of the ratification of the Bill of Rights, and then never again. They had lives leading up to, and following the penning of the Bill of Rights. We can not only READ the text of the Amendment, but further read how they felt about armed citizens and weapons.
We’ll quickly see how interested in that the author is:
Its words read as follows:
“a well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
In 1793, “arms” meant musket rifles that fired one shot and had to be reloaded. Today’s assault weapons bare little relationship to those primitive weapons.
Moreover, the concept of “bearing arms” generally relates to the military use of weapons. Hunters and homeowners do not “bear arms.” They carry weapons.
First up, the deep irony that I’m reading this article on a computer, and writing my critique on my own website, where you are reading it on other computers…or maybe even a TELEPHONE!!!
Of course are we arguing that the 1st Amendment only applies to hand-set printing presses, and hand-written letters that were delivered either by hand-carrying, or delivery on horse or by ship. Certainly not Mr. Dershowitz if you look at his legal career!
I talk with people from AUSTRALIA, and just ask dumb questions like “How’s the Weather?” “How’s Your Kids?”, I can have stupid conversations with somebody who I would have to correspond to over the course of MONTHS with huge possibilities with letters being lost at sea occasionally if we were talking via 1780’s technology.
Of course Mr. Dershowitz is anti-gun, so he subscribes to the anti-gun tenant of “Guns are different because they are different!!!” If you agree with that, maybe you should comment more on this site, or give Joan Peterson some company. There aren’t many of you, you should stick together!
Further I love the “They didn’t ‘Bear Arms’, they ‘Carry Weapons'”. Next thing he’ll note is that political groups don’t “Peacefully Assemble”, they “Gather”. I don’t want to dig too much deeper into tearing that bit of tripe apart. Either you’re desperate to make history support your point, or you understand English.
That is why until 2008 most constitutional scholars interpreted the Second Amendment as conveying a collective, rather than an individual, right to possess weapons as part of “a well regulated militia.” But in a surprising decision, District of Columbia v. Heller, a divided United States Supreme Court struck down a District of Columbia ban on handgun possession in the home and other restrictions on the right of an individual to own self defense weapons.
Please note all those “Constitutional Scholars” were simply paid lobbyists for the anti-gun politicians who themselves have as much respect for the US Constitution as Mr. Dershowitz does. The only people even uttering the nonsense of “Collective right”, were talking about guns, and ONLY guns. There is no such thing as an “Collective right” to privacy, security, or speech! Further the claim was the “Collective Right” was held by the armed forces, and police force.
You want to tell me the military has RIGHTS when it comes to keeping and bearing arms? BULLSHIT! Just look at the Fort Hood Shooting! You think all those soldiers were unarmed by personal (or “Collective”) Choice? Of course not, service members, GIVE UP their rights to serve their country, they don’t GAIN Rights.
It’s all bullshit, and thankfully the US Supreme court took that crap off the table 9-0! Unfortunately 4 of those Judges might need a refresher on the word “right”.
Yet the gun lobby opposes virtually all attempts to regulate the purchase or possession of guns even at flea markets, gun shows and on the internet. The bottom line is that guns are pervasive in America with nearly half of American homes containing at least one gun.
You might be on to something if you open your eyes. Yeah HUGE number of Americans own guns, which also means they understand guns, and gun laws. Which means when somebody comes to pass a law that is irrelevant or not useful, they OPPOSE that law.
Notice that gun control activists never promise us safety. Also notice that places with more gun control are dangerous places. Hell many of the politicians who live in those crime infested holes say its the safer free-states that are to blame! The criminals get their guns there! Odd that if that is true (it isn’t) the criminals don’t bother anybody when they cross the state line!
The gun lobby does not believe that there is a need to balance gun ownership against the understandable desire to reduce gun violence, because it believes—or says it believes—that widespread gun ownership actually reduces gun violence.
And they believe that because its true!
Following the massacre in the Colorado movie theater, the mantra of the gun lobby was: “If everybody in the theater had possessed a gun, the killer would have been stopped before he killed so many people.” The fact that the killer was wearing head to toe protective armor did not seem to diminish the enthusiasm with which that absurd argument was presented.
Interesting that the killer had to drive past theaters that allowed guns to get to the one that banned them before he started shooting. Further interesting that the “Fact” that the killer was wearing “Head to Toe Body Armor” is actually fiction.
Nor does the statistical evidence that seems to show a direct correlation between widespread gun ownership and gun related deaths.
Well yeah if you only care about getting shot! How about the VIOLENT CRIME statistics. Another zealot for the “Gun Death” Utopia!
The frontier origins of the United States may help to explain both the Second Amendment and the desire of many Americans to own guns. But today there is no rational need for so many unregulated guns in our country.
Except for all those rational reasons you don’t like!
Man I’m amazed at how fact-free an allegedly smart man can make his writing. But that’s how gun control goes, anti-freedom, pro-criminal, pro ignorance.
Leading a Colorado Senator to fall on her own sword, rather than face imminent humiliation for those who she allegedly represents!
A Democratic Colorado state senator resigned Wednesday to avoid a possible recall election over a controversial gun control law that led to the ouster of two of her colleagues earlier this year.
Sen. Evie Hudak, who has represented a district that includes Denver’s western suburbs since 2008, announced her resignation less than a week before opponents planned to submit petitions to recall her.
Calling the decision “difficult,” Hudak said she decided to resign to protect the new gun control legislation and to ensure her constituents would not have to pay for a special election.
“Though it is difficult to step aside, I have faith that my colleagues will honor the legacy my constituents and I have built,” she said in her resignation letter to the Colorado Senate.
Yeah, Democrats are ALWAYS worried about expensive government actions. We know the REAL reason!
Also the anti-gun Zealots are looking for ANY way to claim a victory in Colorado, they’ve been pushing this story:
The people have spoken. And, in the end, the call of Colorado elk and deer was louder.
Concerns over a threatened boycott of Colorado hunting spurred in reaction to new gun laws enacted last spring have been put to rest, now that the state’s primary big game hunting seasons have closed. The much-talked-about boycott was a bust.
“Through the main big game seasons, we were up about 5,000 licenses over last year at this time,” said Randy Hampton, spokesman for Colorado Parks and Wildlife. “Just for deer and elk, we were up by about 6,000. Bear licenses sold were up about 1,400. We sold about 2,800 fewer pronghorn licenses, which brought the overall big game numbers down, but that was primarily because we reduced the quota.”
Final numbers won’t be available until next year, but the initial figures are a positive sign for Colorado’s $1.8 billion hunting and fishing industry. The significance is magnified within CPW, the agency charged with managing the state’s wildlife resources. It draws a significant portion of its operating budget from nonresident big game licenses. The division last year collected $38 million in elk and deer licenses from nonresidents, compared with $7.6 million from in-state hunters.
The biggest revenue generators are nonresident elk licenses, both the $589 limited licenses hunters must apply for and $586 over-the-counter licenses that become available later in the summer. By comparison, a limited elk hunting license for adult Colorado residents costs only $49, and over-the-counter resident licenses are $46.
“Again, we don’t have the final figures, but we know that our net sales dollars are up as well. Pretty substantially,” Hampton said. “Based on that, your gut tells you that nonresident licenses were either stable or up as well. There certainly wasn’t a significant decline because a large number would be noticed on the end result.”
Was the Boycott a flop, or did the recall elections and muscle of the pro-gun forces in Colorado make it irrelevant? To the anti-gunners who read by blog (I know you’re out there), wanna make a bet with me about if the great anti-gun laws passed in Colorado surviving the next political cycle?
The laws are still on the books as I type this, but the writing is on the wall!
Another mass death that isn’t news because it isn’t a “Gun Death”
At least 26 people have been killed after a train hit three vehicles on a level crossing in Egypt.
Most of the victims are believed to come from the same family and were thought to be travelling back from a wedding in Cairo.
Another 28 are still in hospital with fractures, crush injuries and missing limbs according to the head of Egypt’s emergency services, Ahmed el-Ansari.
What a horrible story! People heading home from a wedding and now 26 are dead, and 28 are suffering from serious life-altering injuries. How heartless must the anti-rights crowd be to discount deaths because they aren’t gun deaths.
This is why we call the Blood Dancers. The blood of these poor Egyptians isn’t worthy because they can’t use them to push an agenda! I think that’s sick. What do you think?
H/T Bob
This is just wanton and horrible!
Police in the heart of Pennsylvania’s Amish country say a horse pulling a buggy has been killed in a drive-by shooting.
WHTM-TV reports five people were inside the buggy Sunday night when a car drove by and a shot was fired in Ronks, in southeastern Lancaster County.
Police say the car didn’t stop after what sounded like a firecracker.
The horse was discovered to be injured when the buggy arrived at a farm about a mile away. It died before a veterinarian could arrive.
Look, I’m one of those guys who doesn’t get the Amish. I LIKE technology, modern medicine, and conveniences. Still if they honestly feel reward and spiritual unity from living the simple life, who am I to be bothered?
Still WHY would somebody shoot at an Amish buggy? Is this some board teens causing mayhem that killed a horse? Is this some Gang Bangers looking to score and easy kill?
No matter what, it doesn’t make sense to me. I know the Amish don’t read my blog (duh), but my heart goes out to them, and I hope the cops find these assholes, and the justice system doesn’t go easy on them!
Normally when I let some tabs sit open on by browser for too long they go stale. Now I have more to add! First from Zo’Nation!
The Brooklyn, N.Y., man accused of assaulting an Orthodox Jew in what appears to be another case of the knockout game is being charged with a hate crime for the alleged attack.
Amrit Marajh, 28, was charged with harassment as a hate crime after he allegedly punched the 24-year-old Orthodox Jewish man Friday morning.
The unidentified victim believes he was attacked as part of the deadly “knockout” game, where an attacker aims to knock out the victim with a single sucker punch, police said.
The violent game has been linked to assault reports in at least six states, and three people have been killed in suspected knockout attacks. …In response to at least eight attacks in the past few weeks, police have stepped up patrols in several Brooklyn neighborhoods where many Jewish people, the latest New York victim among them, have been the targeted.
Zo talks about influences in the black community admonishing this horrible, cowardly, and vicious crime. Of course Police patrols can’t hurt. What hurts the coward is a .40 S&W!
Marvell Weaver, 17, of Lansing, Michigan, recently lost the so-called “Point ‘em out, knock ‘em out” game when he was shot twice by his intended victim and arrested, reports WILX.
On Feb. 26th, Weaver was in a van with two friends looking for random victims, when he spotted a man waiting at a bus stop. He hopped out of the van and quickly attacked the man with a faulty Taser.
“I saw the van circle twice, and the second time three kids came out,” said the unidentified victim. “I didn’t suspect anything. I hadn’t any enemies, or any reason to believe they would be looking to do anything to me.”
The man, who was waiting on six-year-old daughter, was legally registered to carry a firearm and he pulled his .40 caliber pistol and shot Weaver twice — once in the leg and once near his spine.
Weaver is now serving one year in jail, but says that he should be serving more.
“It was just a lesson learned,” Weaver said. “I wish I hadn’t played the game at all.”
Lesson Learned!
Be safe out there people, and carry a gun, because a cop is too heavy to carry!
