Hypocrite

Posted on February 9, 2013 by Weerd Beard

I love it, she openly says, yeah its OK for Obama to do this, but not Bush.

Except our laws aren’t segregated by politics, class, or race. When you let one President do something so easily abused as kill American citizens without due process under a vague and unchecked accusation of “working with the enemy”, you’re giving all future Presidents that very same power.

Also the fact that you trust Obama more than you trust Bush shows that you are about as stupid as they come. Useful idiots do need to be as stupid as they are useful!

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Man I Guess They Weren’t Kidding

Posted on February 9, 2013 by Weerd Beard

Yikes! there’s like 3 feet of snow on the ground and its still falling.

When the furnace kicked on this morning water started coming down from the cold-air intake pipe. I had to go outside and shovel the snow away from the intake, which was surprisingly clear as a bunch of the light fluffy snow had been sucked up into the pipe!

Gonna be a long day methinks!

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Affordable Type III Armor

Posted on February 9, 2013 by Weerd Beard

A bit heavy but very appealing price point!

Also a nice advantage that its good for multiple hits without shattering.

Certainly this can be good for a home invasion situation where maybe you hear the entry or your home alarm is tripped, and you have time before your threat engages you, or when you decide to sweep the house to see if the threat has left.

Also its ideal for dangerous jobs…like delivering papers in LA!

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How Gun Laws Work

Posted on February 9, 2013 by Weerd Beard

We have lots already:

A Manassas woman pleaded guilty to violating federal firearms laws after buying 31 handguns over a two-week span at three Virginia gun shows.

Kimberly Dinkins, 41, pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court in Alexandria to dealing firearms without a license. She faces up to five years in prison.

Court records show that Dinkins resold all of the guns for a profit….A Virginia law limiting individuals to one handgun purchase per month was repealed last year.

Note again this is AFTER the repeal of the Virginia one-gun-a-month.

Also note there is no note of selling guns to prohibited people, and certainly no notes of selling them across state lines.

We have lots of laws, and don’t need any MORE, we just need to enforce the existing laws. Further, what is the HARM of her actions? I’m assuming she didn’t sell to any criminals, as that would have been in the charges as well (tho it may have been plead away, which both wouldn’t surprise me, and would be forsaking a REAL crime for what is essentially tax evasion for not paying the ATF to sell the guns).

We have lots of transactions LIKE this. Hell I own a few James Bond DVDs that were obviously bought in the large box collections, and then re-sold individually for a profit (both parties won, because I found the box sets to have a few good films packaged with crappy ones I don’t want), most summer weekends there is a person on the public walking trails with a cooler filled with water selling the bottles. In the real estate boom we had people “Flipping Houses”.

But again the anti-rights logic is “Guns are different because they are different!”

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The Onion Gets It

Posted on February 9, 2013 by Weerd Beard

They’ve made a few anti-gun videos, but they play it fair on both sides.

I LOL’d

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Great Budweiser Review

Posted on February 9, 2013 by Weerd Beard

LOL!

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They Don’t Call them the Big Five For Nothing

Posted on February 9, 2013 by Weerd Beard

I have mixed feelings about this story. On one hand, if you have a professional guide you can give them a good deal of trust. Still on the other hand this is one of the animals on the “Big Five” for dangerous game animals, and I wouldn’t take that lightly at all!


Hopefully they will fully recover…

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“Gun Death” Stalker

Posted on February 9, 2013 by Weerd Beard

No word in the article if there was a protection order, not that those would have stopped this:

A jilted boyfriend stalked his teenage former girlfriend incessantly before stabbing her to death outside her apartment in a jealous rage, it was claimed today….Mr Peralta added: ‘As soon as we came downstairs, [Castillo] was just standing, facing her, watching her die. Since we recognized him, he started running. Everybody started chasing him.

‘He was just standing there, facing her. Everybody started chasing him. People with dogs let the dogs on him. He went to the park and disappeared.

He also attempted to kill himself with the knife, unfortunately he messed that up and is expected to recover.

I know people who have been in dangerous situations like this. I advise them to A) Get a protective order…not that they stop attacks like this, but it creates a paper trail in case something bad happens. B) Get a gun, and C) Get their carry permit.

In NYC where this happened those last two are near impossible. I hate to advocate breaking the law, but one must think about the value of their life in situations like this. Also this is why I’m against carry permits. There really isn’t any data I’ve seen that shows that the piece of paper or any of the requirements or training doing any good for public safety, but what it does is make people who realize they are in danger NOW have to wait for permission to arrive in the mail, which these days is often MONTHS.

Be safe out there people!

h/t Bob

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More “Blood in the Streets” from the Antis

Posted on February 8, 2013 by Weerd Beard

You gotta love the antis, and their Chicken little syndrome!

Oregon has one of the most accessible state Capitol buildings in the nation. No metal detectors to pass through. No barricades. And no law that prevents someone with a concealed handgun permit from openly carrying a loaded rifle or pistol into the building.

That openness is about to be put to a test.

On Friday, hundreds of gun rights supporters plan to rally outside the Capitol, many of them carrying guns. Although an organizer says there are no plans to march inside the building, Capitol officials are bracing for the possibility of armed visitors roaming its halls, meeting rooms and offices.

Note “One of the most accessible”, Texas and New Hampshire also have similar capitols, also I believe Pennsylvania if you flash your carry permit they let you bypass the security checkpoint.

This is not a new “Test”, and the end result is always the same.

Of course they pull out this crap:

In 2007, an armed man walked into the Colorado capitol building in Denver and was shot and killed by security officers after he made threatening comments outside the governor’s office. In 2010 a man walked onto the Texas capitol steps and started firing a handgun randomly. He was subdued and there were no injuries.

Again the status of the capital has NOTHING to do with this. If you are carrying a gun there are certain ways to conduct yourself which is lawful and fine, and certain ways to conduct yourself that will get you shot…by police or by the other lawful people who are armed.

But remember, its the pro-gun side that is sewing a culture of fear!

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Into The Breech

Posted on February 8, 2013 by Weerd Beard

OK I’m off to work for the STORM OF THE CENTURY!!!!1111!!

Mrs. Weer’d is working from home, but my animals need care, so I need to be there in person. Thankfully I’ve been cleared to get my work done and get out of dodge, so hopefully I’ll only be in for a few hours, then on my way back home.

Still the news story I was looking at this morning is the “Manhunt” (quotes because it looks my like an execution squad now) in LA. Odd that two innocent people have been injured by police for driving a “similar vehicle” to the suspect, and the news still isn’t reporting on it with any seriousness.

Civilians in LA are in vastly more danger than I am today, and their #1 threat is the LA PD who are shooting at anything that moves.

Also an interesting note, if “Assault Weapons” are so deadly and dangerous, why is it the police have so far failed in their attempts to execute innocent civilians?

Be safe out there people!

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