NRA “Radicals”

Sebastian has an interesting post citing an anti-rights hit peace calling the NRA “Radical”.

Its well worth a read as the facts he points out really destroy that argument.

Still I think he’s missing the biggest point. Anti-Gun Groups in the hay-day of gun control (the early 90s seem to be where the wave crested) were bi-partisan groups filled with political moderates who were pushing laws on scary-looking guns, and bogus urban legends, like AR-15s being full-auto, or Black Talon ammo being “Armor Piercing”, ect.

With the information availability created by the internet, as well as people getting curious about things like “assault weapons” simply because the news is making a big fuss about it, quickly flipped the apple cart. It used to be an “expert” could say such-and-such a thing was REALLY dangerous, or that a gun in the home is 7,643 times more likely to murder family members than save a life, and anybody who wasn’t in the mood to hit the local library and read difficult technical manuals, and grasp concepts like ballistics, and how bullet resistant materials work, would simply take the “expert” at their word.

Now you can simply google a term, and you’ll not only find all sorts of articles from highly technical, to insultingly elementary on the issue, as well as youtube videos that SHOW you the facts.

It didn’t take long for various moderates to back away from the issue, and the electorate to wise up about the facts, and vote out anybody pushing a dangerous agenda.

Today anybody who is pushing “Common Sense Gun Control” KNOWS they’re telling lies, and KNOWS the agenda they’re pushing will get innocent people killed and harmed. They do it anyway. Also the political boundaries have flipped, it used to be the people who were arguing that an AR-15 was indeed a good rifle for hunting deer, as well as a VERY nice tool for self-defense were far-right-wing people with all sorts of extremist views that made the facts they presented seem suspect. Today those who are working to repeal onerous gun laws, and push forward bills that make life easier for those who lawfully keep and bear arms span from moderate Democrats straight to the far right-wing. Meanwhile its become impossible to find somebody who is against lawful gun ownership who isn’t an extreme leftist.

Gun control groups making claims of “Radicalism” are working off the same mechanism that the Black Panthers do when they sling nebulous claims of “Racism”.

Gun Control is a left-wing extremist agenda, and their dwindling numbers and budgets show who’s taken action against the extremists.

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Laws: Criminals Don’t Follow Them

Funny how that works.

Masked gunmen opened fire during an illegal cockfight at a Texas ranch near the border with Mexico early Thursday, leaving three people dead and eight wounded, authorities said.

People attending the cockfight ran into the brush when shots rang out shortly after midnight at the rural property near La Blanca, about 15 miles northeast of McAllen. Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Trevino said officers are hunting for the gunmen.

Detectives and crime scene technicians picked over the site. The ground was littered with beer cans and cups near the low corrugated metal pavilion with wooden bleachers where the cockfights took place.

Cock Fighting is illegal. So is murder. Chances are the people shooting were prohibited people, either by past crime record, or the fact that they were in the country illegally.

Hey but if Texas required a background check for every gun sales, none of this would have happened, right?

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Lunchbreak Neat

Wow I found this site and kept saying “How the Hell did he do that!??!!?”

I get the ships in bottles where the rigging are erected after the hull is passed through the neck, and various fruits and veggies that grew from nubs inside the bottle.

But how the hell do you do this stuff without breaking the bottle???

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You Rock That Cloaca, Big-T!

Wow, saw this at the office just now!

He’s fixin’ to put the boots to one of those two hens…both if they’re nasty.

Let’s just say we were cheering him on. We’re thinking it, Tommy there is acting on it!

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New Car

Oh, BTW, last night I traded my Ranger Edge for a Ford Edge. The Ranger was getting old and starting to fall apart (tho I’m sure it can be kept running well for years and years…tho I suspect Ford will chop my unit to cobble together some minty Certified Pre-Owned Rangers for the people who can’t be talked into an Ecoboost F-150) and Ford was offering some crazy incentives to trade in post ’96 Rangers for vastly more than my truck is worth.

As for the Edge, its 100% a utilitarian decision, it gets better mileage, its a more comfortable, and offers additional seating in something OTHER than a Supercab that comes with the obligatory “Sorry you had to ride back there”, and with fold-flat rear seats it still has most of the raw cago-hauling ability of my truck.

That being said for a car-frame SUV with a FWD/AWD layout its a very responsive ride, and I’m surprised at how happy I am with it.

Also I was lamenting that the truck was probably my last stick-shift I’d ever own, given that by the time I’m an old-fart who could reasonably justify a pure-bread sports car, everything will probably be paddle-shifters. That being said this unit has the “manumatic” transmission option with a little toggle-switch on the gear selector that lets you talk directly to the transmission, and its amazingly responsive, it actually shifts when I ask it to, and you can even do some stick-shift tricks like powered stops by downshifting with your foot off the gas.

Should make for some more enjoyable rides.

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CSGV needs one

and probably so do you!

New ENDO shirt out!

It makes the antis cry their sweet-sweet tears, its a clever design, and they feel oh-so-soft against your nipples!

I should know, I’m wearing this one right now!

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Space Snark

Yeah I think private Space travel is the future, and the Space Shuttle was the Jersey Barrier standing in its way.

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Morning Watch

I like the side-by-side comparison of the black powder surplus vs the smokeless.

Neat guns. I wouldn’t lie if I didn’t admit that a part of me was interested in seeing somebody re-working the top-break auto-ejection action for modern powerful revolver loads.

(For those that don’t know when revolvers started getting loaded for .357 Magnum and bigger the lockup and single hinge just didn’t handle the pressure and the guns would tend to pop open under recoil, leading revolver makers to invent the swing-out cylinder “Hand Ejectors” we know today)

Just like that opening the gun pops out your empties, and you have so much room to work with the cylinder with the frame broken open like that.

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Bang the Idiot Drum

Any port in the storm for the anti-freedom racists!

The Rev. Jesse Jackson says his Rainbow PUSH Coalition will organize to change gun laws in Oklahoma, where a shooting spree recently terrorized residents in a predominantly black section of Tulsa.

Jackson and members of the Oklahoma Legislative Black Caucus met Wednesday at the state Capitol and talked to reporters about concerns over the case and other recent violence. The civil rights activist called the Tulsa incident a “terrorist attack” that sent “traumatizing waves of fear across Tulsa and the state.”…Jackson’s Chicago-based Rainbow PUSH Coalition is supporting a ban on assault weapons, while challenging both legislation that would allow open carry of guns in Oklahoma and a current law that lets residents in that state use deadly force when necessary to protect themselves against death or great bodily harm.

So Jackson wants to ban weapons NOT used in the crime, and because a alleged racist went on a killing spree, Jackson wants to make sure blacks who shoot white racists attempting to kill them will have every opportunity to be convicted of Murder or Manslaughter AND will still have the option of financial ruin even if they are found Not Guilty of any crimes.

These are the modern day plantation owners. They keep blacks in chains…just instead of cotton, they’re farming votes!

Keep it Classy Jesse!

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“Gun Death” More Machete

Yet another machete attack!

Hungarian police have captured a young man suspected of killing four members of his family with a machete in a village south of Budapest.

They seized the man, in his mid-20s, shortly after the attack in Kulcs, 60km (37 miles) south of the capital, in which three people were also wounded.

He allegedly killed his father, brother and grandparents following a row.

A tool designed for clearing brush that has caused so much death. Further its such a simple tool that anybody could build one just using basic tools and skills.

Hey, but he didn’t use a gun! Remember, Hungary has low “Gun Death”!


and Zercool

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