First up, a black man with a deep voice being criticized for his voice? Racist?
Also I love the Mayor talking about background checks, and the man with the restraining order BREAKING THE LAW! The Sheriff showed some restraint in not saying “Well, Mr. Mayor, maybe your police should be doing their damn jobs!”
Also I love how Peirs is such a badger, that he interrupted the anti-gun Mayor, thinking he was the Sheriff talking!
You can’t make up this level of stupidity!
Banning guns…well just because!
“Nothing we’re going to do is going to fundamentally alter or eliminate the possibility of another mass shooting or guarantee that we will bring gun deaths down to 1,000 a year from what it is now,” Biden told reporters Thursday afternoon after he spent over an hour lunching with Democratic senators at the Capitol.
“But there are things that we can do, demonstrably can do, that have virtually zero impact on your Second Amendment right to own a weapon for both self defense and recreation that can save some lives,” he said…
“I’m not saying there’s an absolute consensus on all these things,” Biden said, “but there is a sea change, a sea change in the attitudes of the American people. I believe the American people will not understand — and I know that everyone in that caucus understands — they won’t understand if we don’t act.
So the law won’t do much, by his admission, but we need to ban them….JUST BECAUSE!
And of course banning guns JUST BECAUSE isn’t an infringement of our rights. Yeah!
Don’t know if I posted this one before, but we just got back from the grocery store, and I had to post this favorite for my lovely bride!
She loves that stuff as much as nasty puppets do!
So I found this article through anti-gun channels. Thought I’d rip it apart!
Myth #1: They’re coming for your guns.
Fact-check: No one knows the exact number of guns in America, but it’s clear there’s no practical way to round them all up (never mind that no one in Washington is proposing this). Yet if you fantasize about rifle-toting citizens facing down the government, you’ll rest easy knowing that America’s roughly 80 million gun owners already have the feds and cops outgunned by a factor of around 79 to 1.
So why is confiscation and registration being openly talked about so much then? Its well known that registrations have done little to curb violence, or solve crimes. The only proven use for registration is confiscation. Also keep ringing that bell for US citizens being better armed and numbered than police and military, seems no matter what you say, the antis still are beating that drum that they can outlaw large numbers of guns, and simply come and collect them. Molan Labe, comes to mind!
Myth #2: Guns don’t kill people—people kill people.
Fact-check: People with more guns tend to kill more people—with guns. The states with the highest gun ownership rates have a gun murder rate 114% higher than those with the lowest gun ownership rates. Also, gun death rates tend to be higher in states with higher rates of gun ownership. Gun death rates are generally lower in states with restrictions such as assault-weapons bans or safe-storage requirements.
Have a look at that chart, it just doesn’t make a ton of sense to me. First up, “Gun Death”, you know How I feel about that, so instead I looked at the FBI murder rates. Look at that, New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont which are in the middle of the table, and allegedly have more “Gun Death”, but they have a much lower murder rate than Massachusetts, which is totally gang infested and filled with “Gun Death”, but somehow at the bottom of their stupid chart. Go look at everything else. I think the sum is that gun ownership and gun laws don’t have as much pertinence as poverty, gang, and drug use of a state. I think we all know that what makes cities like New Orleans dangerous is NOT because they have may-issue permits, but its a gang and welfare infested slum.
They also imply that some of this “Gun Death” is accidental death from improper storage, well those numbers are so insignificant that I had to DIG through the CDC website to find the accidental death and injury rate in the US. I’ll let you dig yourself because I couldn’t find a succinct link.
Myth #3: An armed society is a polite society.
Fact-check: Drivers who carry guns are 44% more likely than unarmed drivers to make obscene gestures at other motorists, and 77% more likely to follow them aggressively.
• Among Texans convicted of serious crimes, those with concealed-handgun licenses were sentenced for threatening someone with a firearm 4.8 times more than those without.
• In states with Stand Your Ground and other laws making it easier to shoot in self-defense, those policies have been linked to a 7 to 10% increase in homicides.
OK first up, bullshit, the data simply doesn’t support that! Let’s look at Kansas, Texas, and a nice pile right here.
Also that 7-10% increase in homicide rate as a result of Stand your ground, is JUSTIFIABLE homicide. Again not anti-gun but anti-self-defense. Sorry, if the law sees the homicide as justified, I’m 100% fine with that. Also so are the antis, since they aren’t calling for disarming cops. If the cops are carrying guns, its not to tickle criminals, its to use lethal force, and very likely KILL them. We’re fine with this, so the anti-rights people need to make their piece with it and come up with a consistent point. A cop killing a mugger who is threatening with a deadly weapon is NO different than a citizen killing the same mugger.
Myth #4: More good guys with guns can stop rampaging bad guys.
Fact-check: Mass shootings stopped by armed civilians in the past 30 years: 0
• Chances that a shooting at an ER involves guns taken from guards: 1 in 5
This is the fun anti-rights circular logic. You see, if an Armed citizen stops a rampage, then it wasn’t a rampage, since nobody was killed, or a small number were killed or injured. Meanwhile if the rampage reaches rampage status, the gun obviously didn’t do any good. Their standards are literally impossible to clear.
Still what do you think of this case?, Or This one? How about This one? Or this story, which should have been a national news story, but never got ANY coverage!
Still not looking like Zero. Also I’m sure I’m missing a TON, so post them in the comments! Also there are cases like this where there could be some doubts on how the lawful gun owner played in the case, or this case, even if there are doubts on how useful the lawful gun owner, can you really say people were WORSE off from a good guy with a gun?
Myth #5: Keeping a gun at home makes you safer.
Fact-check: Owning a gun has been linked to higher risks of homicide, suicide, and accidental death by gun.
• For every time a gun is used in self-defense in the home, there are 7 assaults or murders, 11 suicide attempts, and 4 accidents involving guns in or around a home.
• 43% of homes with guns and kids have at least one unlocked firearm.
• In one experiment, one third of 8-to-12-year-old boys who found a handgun pulled the trigger.
Do we need to re-hash this junk science? Kellerman’s study was crap, and made great efforts to count criminals engaging in unlawful behavior, and illegally held guns, and made great efforts to discount lawful self defense.
The “danger” of homes with unlocked guns is NOT coupled with any statistically relevant gun accidents. And that last study involved disabled real firearms being placed in a TOYBOX with other toys. OF COURSE the kids are going to play with the guns in that context. This is NOT a reasonable or realistic scenario!
Fact-check: In 2011, nearly 10 times more people were shot and killed in arguments than by civilians trying to stop a crime.
• In one survey, nearly 1% of Americans reported using guns to defend themselves or their property. However, a closer look at their claims found that more than 50% involved using guns in an aggressive manner, such as escalating an argument.
• A Philadelphia study found that the odds of an assault victim being shot were 4.5 times greater if he carried a gun. His odds of being killed were 4.2 times greater.
Again, more conflating criminals engaging in unlawful acts with illegally owned firearms with lawful citizens. They’re intentionally cooking the data.
Myth #7: Guns make women safer.
Fact-check: In 2010, nearly 6 times more women were shot by husbands, boyfriends, and ex-partners than murdered by male strangers.
• A woman’s chances of being killed by her abuser increase more than 7 times if he has access to a gun.
• One study found that women in states with higher gun ownership rates were 4.9 times more likely to be murdered by a gun that women in states with lower gun ownership rates.
The guns are irrelevant! Women staying in abusive relationships are at a HUGE risk of being murdered by their partners. Doesn’t matter if its a gun, a knife or a car. If you’re in an abusive relationship GET OUT! If you have kids, TAKE THEM WITH YOU! It is NOT worth you and your kids getting murdered or orphaned! This isn’t a gun issue, and its shameful to paint it that way. Even if everybody is disarmed, this will NOT prevent domestic murder and abuse! This is plain and simple blood dancing!
Myth #8: “Vicious, violent video games” deserve more blame than guns.
Fact-check: So said NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre after Newtown. So what’s up with Japan?
Well, Japan has a problem with not reporting violent crimes, so the numbers can’t be trusted. Japan has woman-only subway cars to prevent sexual assault! You think these assaults are reported to the police? Yeah.
Still as I’ve said before, if violent video games and movies cause violent crime, I wouldn’t be typing this, I’d be fending off violent hordes! So this point is indeed valid, tho I disagree with their proof methods.
Myth #9: More and more Americans are becoming gun owners.
Fact-check: More guns are being sold, but they’re owned by a shrinking portion of the population.
• About 50% of Americans said they had a gun in their homes in 1973. Today, about 45% say they do. Overall, 35% of Americans personally own a gun.
• Around 80% of gun owners are men. On average they own 7.9 guns each.
Sorry, you call my house and ask if I own guns, I’ll be hanging up the phone. Still I can easily disprove these numbers beyond the simple one of noting that all the people buying guns in a frenzy right now are NOT the hardcore gunnies. We already have guns, and aren’t willing to pay inflated prices, its the new people who are buying because they’re worried they’ll miss their chance to own guns! Still look at Massachusetts! You need a permit to BUY a gun here, so people applying for new permits are NOT gun owners, but they’re spending HUNDREDS of dollars so they CAN get guns, and these would be their first guns. Another “myth” that happens to be true!
Myth #10: We don’t need more gun laws—we just need to enforce the ones we have.
Fact-check: Weak laws and loopholes backed by the gun lobby make it easier to get guns illegally.
• Around 40% of all legal gun sales involve private sellers and don’t require background checks. 40% of prison inmates who used guns in their crimes got them this way.
• An investigation found 62% of online gun sellers were willing to sell to buyers who said they couldn’t pass a background check.
• 20% of licensed California gun dealers agreed to sell handguns to researchers posing as illegal “straw” buyers.
• The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives has not had a permanent director for 6 years, due to an NRA-backed requirement that the Senate approve nominees.
Umm you just disproved your point! Criminals buying guns is a FEDERAL CRIME! Knowingly selling guns to criminals, or grossly negligent selling practices are a FEDERAL CRIME! If these problems are already illegal, why do we need NEW laws again?
Wow, that was really easy. Makes you wonder why the person writing this didn’t do the hour’s worth of research I just did!
**UPDATE** Just found a very similar, but with some different references so a little more diversity for those interested over at National Review.
Overall I agree with his points. The solution to Illegal immigration is not mass deportation, but prosecution of those who knowingly hire illegals, and now allowing people in the country illegally into the public assistance coffers. Securing the boarder is good too, but frankly there is too much space, and too much ingenuity to get around any security we have, we need to make the payoff not as big.
Also Zo notes that illegal immigrants are paying taxes, otherwise the Democrats wouldn’t support them. I call BS. Why do you think the “Progressives” want every American to show ID when buying a gun or ammunition, and want a SEPARATE and more expensive license simply to bear those arms. (Also note that there’s a lot of talk of requiring permits for simply owning certain “Non Sporting” arms, or putting semi-auto rifles on the NFA requiring a $200 tax stamp plus paperwork!) Yet they stridently oppose showing something as ubiquitous and inexpensive as a state ID to prove legal voting status at the polls.
No the Democrats are pro-illegal aliens because they get elected illegally from the votes of illegals paid for with public tax monies!
Once the jobs hiring illegals becomes so expensive due to fines and prison time (and we don’t need much prison for this stuff…put a roofer who hires only illegals because he can pay them below minimum wadge and not insure them, away for 3 months, and he’ll feel the pinch harder than any gang-banger who does 5 years), and we make sure that all people receiving public assistance are both legal, and playing by the rules, all we’ll have left is the gang population.
Take recreational drugs out of the hands of the gangs and into the hands of legal, tax-paying vendors, and that little racket dries up too. Deportation suddenly becomes a rarity.
Speaking of illegals, here’s a local story with national significance:
Mr Obama, 68, is the half-brother of the president’s late father. He has lived in the US illegally since arriving from Kenya as a teenager for school.
The date of the hearing was announced on Wednesday.
His status emerged after his 2011 drunken driving arrest in Framingham, Massachusetts.
When he was arrested, he told police he would “call the White House”, before being charged with drink-driving.
A judge continued that case for a year without a finding after Mr Obama acknowledged prosecutors had enough evidence to convict him.
Yeah that’s just one story, it must be a coincidence:
He is the brother of the president’s aunt, Zeituni Onyango, an illegal migrant who won the right to stay in the US.
Zeituni has been living in public housing for decades as an illegal alien, and fails to disclose who’s paying for her lawyer. Odd that our president who’s independently wealthy from his book sales, won’t simply pony up the funds for a modest private apartment for his own aunt, tho it looks like he will pay huge sums to get a lawyer to work on a dubious “Political Asylum” case with a peaceful nation like Kenya.
The fruit is rotten to the core!
Why would anybody need a gun if NOBODY had guns?
Three people are now accused of jumping on and beating a man to death in Minneapolis.
Tony Baker, 33, of Brooklyn Center was arrested and charged with second-degree murder, police said Monday, Dec. 24. Witnesses say he and two other males took turns jumping from a retaining wall onto a man’s chest and abdomen in mid-November.
Kerry Duane Scott, 41, of Hopkins was found bleeding from the head in an alley in the 3300 block of Girard Avenue North in North Minneapolis. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene, according to police.
Brutal, but illustrative on why gun bans, and through extension the metric of “Gun Death” is bogus. Even if the invention of guns is erased, we can still have murder, but what we don’t have is the ability of an outnumbered man targeted for a savage attack to defend himself.
I think I’d prefer to live in the world where good guys can carry guns. Wouldn’t you?
h/t Maddmedic
Spear attack in Massachusetts:
A Northbridge police officer was stabbed with a double-bladed spear following a car chase Friday morning….Tillison allegedly grabbed a spear from a second floor room and attacked Officer Dejordy as he made his way to the top of the stairs.
The spear penetrated Dejordy’s protective vest. Officials say he suffered a stab wound to the abdomen just below the ribs.
“If it had not been for the bullet proof vest, as you can see there would have been some real serious if not fatal injuries to the officer,” Northbridge Police Chief Walter Warchol told WBZ-TV.
Despite Dejordy’s injuries, he managed to tackle Tillson and handcuff him.
First up, I have to call bullshit. Follow the link to see the video with the spear. The officer is alive because he was attacked with an ornamental, wall-hanger piece of shit spear. Soft Kevlar vests don’t do much to protect from bladed weapons like a spear or a knife. If this had been a serious spear, AKA “Military weapon of war”, he’d have been dead.
BTW, why do you NEEEEED a spear? You can’t hunt with them!
Oh!
What’s with it with unethical climate scientists and getting their dirty laundry leaked?
A preliminary draft of a report by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was leaked to the public this month, and climate skeptics say it contains fresh evidence of 20 years of overstated global warming.
The report — which is not scheduled for publication until 2014 — was leaked by someone involved in the IPCC’s review process, and is available for download online. Bloggers combing through the report discovered a chart comparing the four temperature models the group has published since 1990. Each has overstated the rise in temperature that Earth actually experienced.
“Temperatures have not risen nearly as much as almost all of the climate models predicted,” Roy Spencer, a climatologist at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, told FoxNews.com.
People need to remember that scientists tend to start off as idealists wanting to do good with their work, not line their pockets on the latest political angle to tax the rich. They need to be more vigilant about making sure even the new internists are quality dirty scientists, because otherwise when they find out the science is all junk and for perpetuating junk grants, they might feel a bit betrayed….you know, the same feeling the people of the world might feel for being force-fed the politics and taxes used to perpetuate this crap.
Also gotta love the numbers:
The IPCC graph shows that the midpoints of the various models predicted that the world would warm by between about 0.5 degrees Fahrenheit and 0.9 degrees Fahrenheit between 1990 and 2012. Actual warming was much less than that: 0.28 F, according the data the IPCC cites.
‘It is evidence that CO2 is not nearly as strong a climate driver as the IPCC has been assuming.’
– Roy Spencer, a climatologist at the University of Alabama at Huntsville
But that doesn’t mean the IPCC models are wrong, others argue.
It doesn’t mean the models are “WRONG” they’re just “So inaccurate that their results have little bearing on reality”.
Uh huh…..
