Mike Over at ENDO points out this interesting video.
Mike concentrates on the anti-gun stupidity of Sarah Silverman (I’ll also note the hypocrisy of the fact that she’s bitching about poor people being disenfranchised, AND suggesting they join in a fairly expensive hobby essentially just to piss off conservatives….yeah that makes PERFECT sense!)
Still I’d like to note glaring omission. You see “Progressives” love subsidies. They want EVERYTHING free, Healthcare, birth control, abortion, housing, jobs, or just welfare checks. Have you noticed in all this positive ID discussion that subsidies haven’t come up? Honestly I’m against government paying for much of anything, especially voter ID which is a fairly cheap commodity. How many poor people do you know who don’t have $20-$50 kicking around for non-essential expenses like going to see movies, cable TV, booze, or cigarettes? Yeah they could cancel cable for just one month and have enough in their wallet for a nice ID that’s valid for YEARS.
You see they don’t actually WANT voter ID because its not the money they’re concerned about, its the fact that positive ID would prevent easy cheats like having illegal aliens or prohibited felons, or people who are no longer alive from voting. Same with having somebody racking up a dozen registrations and voting multiple times!
They don’t want ID because they WANT to cheat!
Police say a New Jersey woman apparently decapitated her 2-year-old child before stabbing herself to death after a domestic dispute.
Good thing it was Jersey…otherwise she might have had a gun….
Again Free Market dynamics are true!
Californians are fleeing in droves to live in better-managed states, according to a conservative research group.
The long-running exodus from the cash-strapped Golden State is an old story, but a new study by The Manhattan Institute finds that the biggest beneficiaries of the population drain are Texas, Nevada, Arizona, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Idaho, Utah, Georgia and South Carolina. Lower cost of living, less government debt and a more business-friendly culture are the main drivers, according to the study.
Is there any doubt? I mean we all get up in the morning and go to work. On the weekends we don’t go to work. Why? Well its because we’d rather NOT go to work, but they PAY us. Better run states essentially PAY people to live there, when you compare it to the cost of livings of states like California or Massachusetts or New York.
Its only common sense!
Looks like the International Environmental movement is fading.
Twenty years ago, the first Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro marked the arrival of environmentalism as a potent force in international affairs. That 1992 conference produced the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which aims to set limits on global emissions of greenhouse gases, and the Convention on Biological Diversity, which promotes ecosystem conservation. At the time, Chris Flavin of the Worldwatch Institute crowed, “You cannot go to any corner of the globe and not find some degree of environmental awareness and some amount of environmental politics.” With socialism in disrepute, Flavin said, environmentalism had become the “most powerful political ideal today.”
Two decades later, that ideal is in disarray. A 20th anniversary conference in Brazil last June, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development—nicknamed Rio +20—was an undisguised flop. Greenpeace spokesperson Kumi Naidoo judged Rio +20 a “failure,” while Oxfam Chief Executive Barbara Stocking called it a “hoax.” More than 1,000 environmentalist and leftist groups signed a post-conference petition entitled “The Future We Don’t Want,” a play on The Future We Want, the platitudinous document that diplomats from 188 nations agreed on there. Naidoo lamely vowed that disappointed environmentalists would engage in acts of civil disobedience.
This isn’t to say we need to open the stopcocks on the chemical waste dumps or avoid cleaner ways of conducting business…its just that the Environmentalist movement has been flooded with political hacks and Luddite extremists. We were warned of toxic smog, acid rain, mass extinction, “Greenhouse Effect, come “Global Warming”, come “Global Climate Change”, among many others.
People want to keep the place clean, but they also want to live their lives, and spare expense at their business. There just aren’t enough true believers to keep the lies alive!
H/t Mrs. Weer’d
Yesterday’s catch of the day? A ditched handgun!
A man fishing on a pier near Carson Beach thought he had caught a big one he could brag to his buddies about when his fishing pole began to arc.
But what Alberto Pina, 37, of Roxbury reeled in was “upsetting and scary,” he said….Boston police spokeswoman Nicole Grant said Pina called 911 at 6:11 p.m., reporting that he “was fishing and caught a gun on his hook.”
Detectives were sent out to recover the barnacle-encrusted gun and interview Pina. Grant said it is still unclear whether the gun was real.
The page has a photo of the gun. Looks like a Walther P99 to me, and I can’t see any obvious signs that its an airsoft or other pellet or replica gun. Occam’s razor says its real. Also even with all the sea life on it, it shouldn’t be too hard to uncover the serial number.
And given that the Massachusetts gun registry is all scanned and converted to electronic files the last owner should have been uncovered in hours….but it hasn’t been. Yet another instance where the Massachusetts Gun Registry is a total farce when it comes to its claims of stopping crime.
Registration is ONLY for future confiscation!
A prominent professional tennis referee who was preparing to work at the U.S. Open in New York City was arrested on Tuesday on a felony murder warrant accusing her of bludgeoning her elderly husband to death with a coffee mug.
Reminds me of this:
Like knives, I think EVERYBODY has a few coffee mugs kicking around…odd that you don’t read more of these. Maybe its the person, not the tool….
also Bob
Just finished reading the book On Killing by Lt. Col Dave Grossman, Overall I will say it was a great book, but not without its flaws.
OK to start Lt. Col Grossman is a soldier with an impressive record, he also has obviously spent a LOT of time interviewing war veterans and reading historical accounts, as well as military records of battles, and he does an excellent job of citing them, from Afganistan vets down to accounts from the Napoleonic Wars and the American Revolution.
His findings are VERY interesting, the most shocking being is the reluctance of soldiers to take a human life, even in the heat of battle or under orders.
He notes that only about 2% of soldiers in the armed forces are really effective and efficient killers. Other factors also add to a soldier’s killing ability, such as distance from their target, what he calls “Mechanical distance” (ie: Looking at a target through a rifle scope or bomb sight…even more so if the sight is electronically enhanced, making the targets look less like living humans), and working in teams, such as tank crews, naval crews, or operating a fixed machine gun.
Interesting accounts of things like rifles found with multiple complete loads in the barrel on a civil war battlefield. It was concluded this wasn’t operator error, but soldiers willing to load up their guns, but couldn’t bring themselves to shoot at the enemy troops on the other side of the battlefield. Meanwhile at the same time there were soldiers who were noted to have fired in excess of 400 rounds, which is physically impossible to do with a caplock rifle musket without cleaning the powder fouling, meaning that a few troops were actually sending shots downrange, while many others were simply loading guns and passing them forward.
Also he notes in battles with artillery, the artillery crews did the majority of the killing, thanks to distance and working as a team rather than individuals.
He discusses how modern military training (mostly doing their best to make training more like a real battlefield, and the targets more like living people) to break down these psychological barriers.
He also goes to great length to talk about how war atrocities happen, and the effects they have on soldiers on both sides.
Another section was about PTSD, causes, and ways to mitigate it. (One of the big factors is weather the soldier gets support from veterans and family when they get home)
All very interesting stuff. As a man who carries deadly weapons, but has never served in battle, there isn’t a ton, besides interesting psychology I could get from this…except for maybe the fact that more Americans are going armed today than ever before, yet murder rates are at an all-time low, and the antis prediction of “Blood in the Streets” is unfounded. Also it gives me some things to think about for if I ever need to draw my gun to defend an innocent life.
One big problem with the book when he attempted to translate his study to civilian life. Suddenly he goes from a logical man citing meticulous evidence to support his case to a bleeding heart talking about nebulous problems with “today’s youth”. Now he makes a good case that violent video games and movies might indeed help break down some of the barriers held by people against homicide, he seems to be alluding to a youth violence problem that he has no factual basis for. Also he makes some serious contradictions by citing gang violence (which invokes many of the factors of military killing with its hierarchy and peer pressure, and doesn’t take into account the sheer number of repeat offenders in the criminal system, which would support his 2% citation) or his many references to the Columbine Massacre, which was done by a pair of obvious sociopaths, not sane people.
I really wish I had skipped the last part, as it was all garbage, on what was really an amazing book. I recommend it to everybody….but when you get to the section “Killing in America”, just put the book up.
I generally don’t link the nobodies, but this is just too amusing not to link. “Nasty Jack” is a friend of the antis, and is frequently quoted by them. But Jack’s an idiot, and a total nobody. His words are meaningless.
Still this post cracked me up, its a fantasy about an anti-rights takeover of the NRA.
But there is another group present that has a different purpose than the NRA’s fanatical gun rights. They are the gun control advocates who came to this firearms fiasco to dump CEO Wayne LaPierre and shut down its absurd advocacy for guns for everyone to take anywhere they want. These are reasonable people, some of which own guns, many who are NRA members, but realize they should only be meant for protection in the home.
These are law abiding citizens who aren’t afraid of background checks, even the registration of their weapons. They are also a part of the budding majority that believes assault rifles were meant for killing and have no place in the typical American home. They believe in the 2nd Amendment but also realize its limitations. The Founding Fathers did not intend for it to open the door to an NRA style culture with zero restraint.
It was almost a year ago in 2012 that the call went out through gun control advocates to enlist those with this philosophy to join the NRA, while identifying members within the organization that were approving of sensible gun control. They responded in droves with 3 million new applicants signing up and 750,000 NRA member sympathizers joining the group. That meant out of the total membership now of 7,300,000, 3,750,000 were anti Wayne LaPierre.
Finally, there was a majority in the most powerful lobby in the country; but could they throw the bums at the top out? With determination the gun controllers set about to infiltrate the meetings, espousing their views on sensible gun control….. It was done and the gun controllers had done it. When they went searching for LaPierre to officially strip him of his titles and position he was nowhere to be found. One security guard said that he saw him and several other men exiting through a basement door that led to the parking lot where they expected to find their limousines. They weren’t there. The gun controllers had made sure of that. LaPierre was later seen walking around the parking lot begging for a ride.
The 2013 NRA Annual Meeting closed early.
Oh, only if…
This is the dream of current anti-rights activists. They’re losing, and see no hope of gaining ground, so they fantasize about some unseen shadow group toppling their arch enemy, the NRA. God knows they can’t do it…but maybe their bullshit anti-rights surveys are right, and most gun owners and NRA members are silent supporters of Brady and Joyce.
Instead of the image of the white male father dressed in flannel taking his son off to the woods for the traditional deer hunt, the new image of gun ownership is much broader and more diverse. The members of the 2.0 gun culture are more likely to own an AR15 with a suppressor than a Winchester Model 70. And, you can rest assured that a new gen gun owner is likely to be carrying a Glock or KelTec when you run into them at the local coffee shop.
In today’s gun culture, there are many more women, a broader mix of races and a wider range of backgrounds. Instead of being a clean cut poster child of the 1950’s many gun owners are bikers or body art enthusiasts covered with tattoos. Others are fashion conscious while others still are computer nerds. Members of the new gun generation range in age from teens to retirees.
The point is, our culture has changed. And, it has changed for the better. We attract all kinds of people into the gun world because all of the lies about us are easily disproven now that the mass media no longer has control over what people know. The internet has allowed the truth about firearms to get out.
This is really true. Used to be gun owners were aging hunters, and always white and male. Now the gun ranges, gun shows, and conventions are filled with young people, women, minorities. Rather than the flinty woodsmen who use their guns to hunt game and kill varmints, but computer geeks and soccer mom’s who are packing guns to protect their lives if it comes to that.
Rather than the ranges being popping circle targets at various ranges from slow-fire, we’re getting action shooting sports where you’re playing out action-packed defensive scenarios.
Its a growing demographic, and why stores like Wal-Mart that won’t sell the popular rap CDs because they aren’t family friendly are selling AR-15s.
Its a huge force…and the antis would just prefer that they don’t exist and keep pimping a survey that simply isn’t valid!
Their tears are both sweet and plentiful!
From Joan who thinks the world didn’t exist before she was born.
It’s pretty simple Migo. No one should be carrying a gun in bars and places that serve alcohol. That’s the way it was for years before you guys managed to get the loosed conceal carry laws passed in so many states. That was common sense.
Joan was likely born in the 50s, and likely came of age during the infancy of the modern gun control movement that peaked in the mid-90s and is now in its death throws. Really before she was born carry laws were really a non-issue. You could buy pistols, rifles, and shotguns at the local hardware store or general store. You could get these at any age, and if you owned it, you could carry it. Bars, schools, federal buildings, even airplanes, they didn’t care if you were packing a gun. Even Pop Culture didn’t have an issue with carrying of guns.
Of course Joan being the narcissist she is, she simply points out gun-rights arguments are the fools for REPEALING the failed laws the anti-rights goons pushed through. Sorry Joan, it was like this before you got here…you made it worse! Maybe we’re better off not taking your stupid advise!
