Barron Took the latest run of Brady Scorecards and compared it to violent crime rate. The results were the same.
Overall no statistical relevance between gun control and violent crime rates. Still there is a small (possibly insignificant) trend that the states with the least gun control have are the safest.
Still the really great graph is this:
They are losing! Rejoice!
Good work Barron!
I listen to other music, seriously! But man this stuff is really ringing my bell as-of-late.
A woman in north-eastern Afghanistan has been arrested for allegedly strangling her daughter-in-law for giving birth to a third daughter….The birth of a boy is usually a cause for celebration in Afghanistan but girls are generally seen as a burden.
Some women in Afghanistan are abused if they fail to give birth to boys. And this is just the latest in a series of high-profile crimes against women in the country.
Of course such acts are also a crime here in America, but it is irrelevant if it is done for religious reasons or not. Also we punish the wrong-doer not the religion. There have been several “Honor Killings” by strict Muslims in this nation, but people on American soil still have an absolute 1st Amendment right.
Of course those who use the term “Gun Death”, don’t believe in individual rights. They are the enemies of freedom.
Thought I’d share this very telling twitter exchange.
Everygun is more-than-likely a Joyce Shill (No idea what her real identity is, but if she isn’t she’d be the first civilian regularly followed and re-tweeted by the Big Dogs of Joyce) who’s quite single-minded at her pursuit to ban private sales of firearms.
Now their claimed motive is a valid one. We have a lot of violent crime in America, and about half of those crimes are committed with guns (no candles for the less, the antis only want the right victims), of this fraction of violent crime, the vast majority is drug or gang related. So we’re talking convicted felons, people on parole, people with warrants for crimes, drug addicts, and minor children who have already taken the career as a criminal.
This is nothing new, and there have always been various laws on the state and local level to help prevent this. Some of them worked, most of them just kept the criminals who bribed the police or politicians in guns, and kept poor people, and people of the wrong skin color defenseless.
In 1968 after the Assassination of John Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr, the Gun Control Act was passed. Like all prominent gun control laws, this law would not have prevented the crimes showcased for the bill. (This is why we call the antis “Blood Dancers”, victims are ONLY useful to them for furthering an agenda, they could care less about preventing further crime) The GCA made it illegal to sell guns to Felons, addicts, and people with warrants or orders of protection against them, and it banned people with such convictions from even owning or using guns. To buy a gun you needed to go to a licensed dealer (also created by the GCA) and fill out a form under penalty of perjury that you were an upstanding person.
I like to satirize the antis circular logic I like to say: “If guns were as illegal as murder, nobody would be murdered with guns!” This little fallacy shows the issue with the law. If you’re a criminal and you want a gun despite one being a crime for you to posses, you probably WANT one a nefarious reason. If these penalties don’t dissuade you, why would lying on the FFL paperwork?
So the system was updated after the attempted Assassination of Ronald Reagan by John Hinkley (BTW Hinkley WAS crazy, but had yet to be committed, so he legally acquired and owned his gun…consistent!) the “Brady Bill” was signed into law named after Jim Brady who was also wounded in the attack. This meant that not only did you need to do the paperwork but the police were going to check your work for validity. First this was done via Mail, today by electronic background check.
You’ll note that nothing has changed. While the Brady Center claims 1.9 Million “Criminals” have been stopped, most of those numbers are actually false positives, and the people stopped still get their gun, and go on to commit no crimes. The Antis say its because you can still buy and sell guns privately.
Here in Mass we go one better, all “private sales” are done through the state, I talked about it here in the story of Eleanor, so everybody is checked every time they buy or sell a gun…Just like the Antis want! (Well I suspect the antis want something like Mexico or DC where there is only ONE shop that needs to be used for all lawful commerce)
Except what stopped us from giving the state the finger and just exchanging cash and guns? Fear of the law. I’m a gun collector and avid shooter. I commit a felony, I lose my collection and my hobby!
But what if I was a drug dealer? A Gang Enforcer? A Pimp? The law is already after me for my lively hood, what’s one more felony?
Heck Criminals don’t even need to exclusively deal in stolen guns! Criminals just hire friends and girlfriends with clean backgrounds to buy guns legally from shops, then illegally transfer them! Heck in one of the more famous Blood-Dancing Massacres, Columbine, three of the guns used were bought in a straw buy from legal dealers. Robyn Anderson illegally gave the guns to the killers who were underage and felons, and she was never charged with a crime!
Again they PRETEND to be out to stop criminals, but really they’re just concerned with harassing and fining lawful people. Further they know about Mexico and Washington DC! In Mexico to legally buy a gun you need to go into an Army base and go through metal detectors and searches, and this is in Mexico City! Mexico is a big country! You may need to book AIRFARE just to buy a gun! In DC there is just one shop that will sell to private citizens…they closed for a short while when moving! While that shop was closed you couldn’t buy, or sell a gun in the District! Its open again now, but when it first closed it was unclear when or if it would open again! You see that’s the ONE and ONLY license they’ll issue in DC. A Bunch of people offered to open shops but were denied by the District.
You see the antis complain about this injustice?
How about when Massachusetts lost their contract with the printer of the FA-10 transfer forms? (Livejournal! Blast from the past!!)
The forms were ALWAYS in short supply, and when they stopped printing them, Private sale suddenly became illegal without a law being passed! The state did eventually run a stopgap and switched to the online form, but again did you hear the antis complain? The FA-10 was no less safe than a dealer background check…the difference was that the dealers often charge $20-$50 for the transfer (DC charges $150!).
What they say, and what they want are NOT the same thing! Remember that!
Authorities have arrested a man they say stabbed to death two women, wounded a man and barricaded himself naked in a Los Angeles County home….nside, deputies found a 32-year-old woman dead and her suspected killer had blockaded the door of a back bedroom. A SWAT team broke in and found the naked man and the body of a 58-year-old woman.
There’s no word on a motive for the attack.
Los Angeles is one of the hardest counties in California to get a concealed handgun permit, and of course open carry is banned, and all their gun restrictions make California the #1 ranked Brady Campaign state.
No Candles for these women, they don’t count
h/t Maddmedic and Les
Barron Kicks mah giggle box over!
It’s funny because its true!
New documents indicate a luxury undercover boat purchased with fines collected from fishermen was used by federal fishery police to visit restaurants and for high-speed “pleasure cruising.”…The documents the Massachusetts Republican requested focus on how the $300,000 boat was used.
The investigation showed one agent took his wife and friends on boat trips to visit dockside restaurants near Washington’s Puget Sound, and used the boat for whale watching and pleasure cruising.
Back when I was working for the .gov in Fisheries research I got to sleep in the shitty bunk that nobody else was using. A few times I had to sleep on the floor, or on or under the galley table!
I’m sure the fishermen who have lost their family business thanks to the onerous and unethical management of the Federal fisheries is being spent so the very revenuers who made them go bust could cruise the harbor in style.
I’m so glad I don’t work for those goons anymore.
The documents were released Friday after a Freedom of Information Act request by U.S. Sen. Scott Brown’s office.
Wow, Scott Brown did something good! Too little too late! You’re fired asshole!
Have a look at this bullshit!
“No More Weapons!”
That is the message to the United States from none other than Mexico’s president, Felipe Calderon.
It’s emblazoned on a billboard made with crushed firearms and placed near the U.S. border. Calderon is pleading with the United States to stop the flow of weapons into Mexico.
The billboard, which is in English and weighs 3 tons, was placed near an international bridge in Ciudad Juarez and can be seen from the United States.
Calderon said the billboard’s letters were made with weapons seized by local, state and federal authorities.
The antis are pushing this as some sort of brilliant move. Still let’s look at Mexico’s gun problem.
First up the guns coming from the United States are Fast and Furious guns. The whole purpose of Fast and Furious was to sell guns to Mexican criminals so when the Mexicans catch the criminals they mail them back to America and the Obama administration will use the “Problem” to ban rifles. If We’re tracing the Fast-and-Furious guns, then they aren’t being crushed and stuck on a sign.
Still most of guns the Cartels get is from the MASSIVE Desertion problem with the Mexican Military (note that’s an old story), do you think Mexico is going to crush up their own guns they retrieved? Unless the gun isn’t in working order, they’d probably just return it to the armorers and keep it as quiet as possible.
This sign is likely totally made from guns smuggled in from South American drug cartels and from black market shipments from over seas (The big ones I hear about most often is from the Former Soviet States, the Kyber Pass of Pakistan, and Red China).
And President Calderon put this on the US Boarder? What a DICK! Your country is in shambles and you point a finger at US?
Furthermore This article got me thinking of this great post by Sean about an equally stupid message.
“Who are they Talking to?” indeed! You think the Cartels are going to listen to a friggin’ billboard? The ATF and the DOJ are now facing the music for Fast and Furious, so that was stopped, but do you think a metal billboard would have stopped these corrupt pigs?
Nope this is a political spectacle that should be seen as a direct insult to the United States!
