These videos are great!
This is what happens when you ban private sales:
MBTA Transit Police have released photos of two guys they say approached somebody at the Bremen Street entrance to the Airport T stop on Dec. 22 and “offered to sell him a .40 caliber and/or a .380 caliber firearm.”
One is black, about 6’2″ with a Pirates cap, dark parka with a fur-lined hood, jeans and sneakers. The other is Hispanic, 5’6″ to 5’8″ with a small mustache, wearing a blue leather jacket with white stripes down the arms and across the chest with some type of symbol on the upper left chest.
Sale without an LTC, and going through the state gun registry is a felony. Likely these two shining lights are common criminals, and likely the guns are stolen, certainly no laws at all are being followed here.
Hey but these sort of laws work, right?
h/t Mrs. Weer’d
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo called for tougher state bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines of ammunition as part of a progressive agenda in a sometimes fiery State of the State speech Wednesday.
“No one hunts with an assault rifle. No one needs 10 bullets to kill a deer,” Cuomo said. “End the madness now!
Pretty sure New York already has mag and so-called “Assault Weapon” restrictions, so It seems he’s bloviating against nothing. Still let’s get to that madness! What does it say in the 2nd Amendment about deer hunting? I’m fine with magazine restrictions on hunting, because hunting is a game, and games have rules. If somebody was to be hunting for survival, let them hunt with a minigun for all I care, harvest that meat and get healthy! But for games, have rules. But self defense is NOT a game, and people should be able to defend themselves with the most effective arms available.
Its madness to push new laws restricting ALL sales on deer. Cuomo isn’t talking to the game commission, he’s talking to the state. The reason is that if you make gun ownership about games, games will ALWAYS lose.
Look at Lawn Darts! According to this report they were banned from sale after THREE deaths. More people will be killed in car accidents this weekend than that, but cars aren’t a pastime, they are a way of life. So are guns, guns are for self defense, and defense against tyranny and lawlessness…not for deer. But if we make gun ownership about shooting deer, then it doesn’t matter how many AR-15s are in the field shooting game, one criminal shooting will be enough to ban them all, as nobody is starving because they didn’t fill their deer tag…and frankly even if they were Big Daddy Gov would be willing to exchange a healthy foodstamp card for any scary arms.
But they AREN’T about shooting sports, they’re about defending your life, liberty, and property. That’s what the 2nd Amendment was written about, and that’s how the Supreme Court of the United States recently read it. This is nothing archaic and outdated about this Amendment!
What’s best about this is when you have your rifles and pistols for defense, you might as well have other guns for fun and sport. Yeah I have pistols and rifles for my defense, so who cares if I also have a safe jam-filled with Mosin Nagants for collecting purposes. Who cares if I have a Model 700 for shooting deer, or an Over-Under for Skeet?
One more thing:
The state already has among the most restrictive gun control laws in the nation, and the governor noted that New York passed the nation’s first handgun permit law, in 1911.
That’s called the Sullivan Act, a law written by a criminal designed to protect his fellow underworld denizens. Hang your hat on it buddy. Its tyrant like Sullivan that we own guns.
End the Madness NOW! The 2nd Amendment isn’t about ducks and deer!
Three people are dead from apparent homicide at Casper College in Casper, Wyoming, The Casper Tribune reports….The AP adds that the suspect used a “sharp-edged weapon” in the killings.
No better argument for guns being allowed on campus could be made. In the land of the disarmed, the nut with the knife is king.
The host of NBC’s “Meet the Press” displayed what appeared to be a high-capacity ammunition magazine on national television Sunday, embroiling the network in controversy and leaving D.C. authorities to decide whether a crime was committed….D.C. gun laws prohibit possessing a “large capacity ammunition feeding device” — defined as holding more than 10 rounds — regardless of whether it is attached to a firearm and whether there are bullets in it. The offense is a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in jail and a $1,000 fine….Gregory appears to have used a large-capacity ammunition magazine anyway. A police official said detectives will try to determine whether it was real, how it was obtained and whether the segment was filmed in the District. The official said the investigation will entail questioning NBC producers and could conclude this week.
There’s nothing “apparent” about it, that was the 30-round GI mag. There is NOBODY saying it WASN’T exactly that. Yet still Gregory is walking free for a crime he thinks all of us should be arrested for.
Calmly and efficiently.
Every lie countered, every talking point effectively rebutted. This is where you see Weer’ds Golden rule. When somebody says “Let’s Agree to Disagree”, it simply means “I may have lost the argument, but I refuse to admit you’re right.”
Thankfully we don’t need to win the hearts and minds of the British Tories.
Jason Kilgore of the Joyce Foundation has written another article that’s 99.9% tripe, but he DOES touch on one interesting notion:
Of course, many countries in Latin America are extremely violent, thanks to the drug trade. Adding armed guards in every school, office, and even ATM hasn’t stopped the violence there, proving beyond a reasonable doubt the foolishness of the NRA’s suggestion of militarizing school campuses to keep kids safe.
It was a throwaway line from Jason, but he really hits on a HUGE point. Latin America generally has VERY high crime, a good portion of that crime is “gun crime”, despite strong laws against private ownership and carry. Most of these countries have laws that Jason wants here, but they have more violent crime than we do.
Still when you actually LOOK at the crimes you see a similar trend. Antis like to focus on spree shootings when they talk about cases, but they also mention that these events are indeed very rare, and the REAL crimes happen in this volume every day across America. This is the basis for Colin Goddard’s “Living for 32”, was that 32 people were killed on campus that day, but that number is roughly the DAILY “Gun Death” rate in America.
But we don’t have a spree shooting in a school or mall or movie theater every day. We also simply don’t have spree shootings in areas without extra anti-gun laws. Where do these shootings happen?
Inner cities. Why those places? Well look at who DOES the shooting, and frankly who gets shot. Gang members. Gangs of course are social groups, but the difference between gangs and clubs are that gangs make their money, and their status through the sale of drugs.
They are the American drug cartels. Drugs are illegal, as are the other criminal acts done by gangs. Most gang members have criminal an incarceration histories. Gangs exist in pro-gun states, as well as anti-gun states. The laws don’t matter to them, there is a public demand for recreational drugs, and they can make money off of it. They can’t use our justice system to settle disputes within this trade, so they handle it “In House” with violence. Its not always guns, they’re just as likely to stab or beat each other to death than shoot.
All this talk of “Gun Control” while overlooking the real problem is barking up the wrong tree.
Is there any other reason why Jason didn’t expand on that issue?
Wow!
Less than three months after he stood as a groomsman in the wedding of two friends he had known since college in Texas, Micah Moore walked into a suburban Kansas City police department and unloaded a dark secret: He had taken the woman’s life at the request of her new husband, a charismatic prayer group leader.
Police said Bethany Deaton’s death initially appeared to be a suicide. Officers found a note and empty bottle of over-the-counter pain medication along with her body in a minivan parked by a lake on Oct. 30….Moore, 23, lived with Deaton and her husband, Tyler, in a communal home shared by male members of their prayer group. He told police that several members had sexually assaulted Bethany Deaton, and they were worried she would tell someone. Moore said that’s when Tyler Deaton ordered him to kill Bethany Deaton, according to a criminal complaint….Moore told detectives Tyler Deaton instructed him to kill Bethany Deaton because he knew Moore had it in him to do it, and that Moore reported back to Tyler Deaton after she was dead. Moore told police that he had placed a bag over Bethany Deaton’s head and held it there until her body shook.
Is this crime less horrible because they didn’t shoot her?
Yeah
Yet another gun-grabber not thinking things through:
Is there anything more delicious than gun owners urging that a right guaranteed under the Constitution should be subject to reasonable regulation if the failure to do so causes harm? They want limitations — but not on the Second Amendment right to bear arms but rather the First Amendment right of free speech. A Westchester County, N.Y. newspaper, the Journal News, published a map showing the names and addresses of pistol permit holders. The information was public and there is no real dispute over the right to publish it. Nonetheless, the outcry from gun advocates was deafening.
First up a LOVELY false dichotomy right there! Yeah the 2nd Amendment is absolute, hence why I can build and sell guns in my basement as if I was making nick-nacks or computer software. And of course we can easily buy full-auto weapons and explosives…right? You see the antis always start with today being ZERO restrictions, and tell us NOW is the time to compromise. Of course that isn’t so. May I quote Lawdog for just a moment:
I hear a lot about “compromise” from your camp … except, it’s not compromise.
Let’s say I have this cake. It is a very nice cake, with “GUN RIGHTS” written across the top in lovely floral icing. Along you come and say, “Give me that cake.”
I say, “No, it’s my cake.”
You say, “Let’s compromise. Give me half.” I respond by asking what I get out of this compromise, and you reply that I get to keep half of my cake.
Okay, we compromise. Let us call this compromise The National Firearms Act of 1934.
There I am with my half of the cake, and you walk back up and say, “Give me that cake.”
I say, “No, it’s my cake.”
You say, “Let’s compromise.” What do I get out of this compromise? Why, I get to keep half of what’s left of the cake I already own.
So, we have your compromise — let us call this one the Gun Control Act of 1968 — and I’m left holding what is now just a quarter of my cake.
Second is he claiming that the 1st Amendment is absolute? Does the press have absolute freedom? We know they can’t publish medical records. We know they can’t publish information in minor children. They can’t peek in your windows to take pictures inside your home. Are you saying that respecting privacy in THOSE instances are wrong?
Of course not, you see anti-rights activists are all for THEIR rights. You see THEY don’t own guns, so any infringement there is fine and good. But they go to the hospital, they have private lives, they have children, so that stuff is sacred….because its THEIRS! You can trust them when they say they want changes for “Public Safety” not for purely selfish reasons…because there is no evidence that they are either ignorant or selfish, right?
The primary complaint seemed slightly illogical: the publication of the information placed gun owners in greater danger from criminals. Wait a minute. Isn’t this what it’s all about — that having a gun in your house protects you from criminals and deters them? Why would criminals knowing that you have a weapon in the house increase rather than reduce the risk of home invasion? Publicizing those that don’t have guns might do that, but that complaint doesn’t come from gun owners.
That’s one argument being made, that criminals may target homes simply because they AREN’T on the list. I would also argue that criminals can easily figure out occupancy of a home, and pick when the home owner isn’t there so they can STEAL the guns. Of course there is also the point that not all criminals are strangers to their victims. There are also police officers who may have criminals with a vendetta, or victims of domestic abuse who are hiding from their ex.
Boy, you sure care about public safety!
Sean Hannity and Ann Coulter ranted on this issue like two inmates in an insane asylum. In the most ludicrous analogy every posited, Coulter said if these facts about gun owners can be posted, why not publicize “which women (who had an abortion) on the street are likely to murder a child” — suggesting that somehow a woman who had an abortion is likely to murder someone else’s child! She also declared that “liberals won’t let us go after criminals,” and, of course, “They are coming after our guns!” In like vein, the newspaper received death threats and had to hire security guards. I don’t think even the NRA can claim that these threats came from criminals rather than “law-abiding” gun owners.
Oops, god forbid somebody tread on the sacred “Right” to have an abortion when a “Progressive” is in earshot! Also are you NOT coming for our guns? Seems there is a LOT of talk of various forms of confiscation out there, and at least banning of transfer, which means at BEST after you DIE they’ll take your guns from your estate. Hell even a law doesn’t get pressed with these clauses, you know that’s their intent. So sorry, the term “Gun Grabber” is 100% accurate, and you’re one of them.
Sorry, I don’t want to play your game.
