Category — Gun Control

This person has the reason. If you believe in gun control you’ll be on his side.

This is what Obama  believes. He said it; he voted this way and he’ll do it again.

 How the 2^nd Amendment works as seen on this preview of “Boston Legal”

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And you said Shatner can’t act!

Ed G. Mann has this post on Fashions for the Obama Presidency. He doesn’t say it in those words but given Obama’s loathing for the 2ndAmendment…

In Mexico, shopping for the right thing to wear at the wrong end of a gun

[snip]
Some people are trying to get their hands on weapons, which are tightly regulated here but widely available on the black market. To some, bulletproof fashion is the logical next step. [snip]

He points out that the clothing is not designed for the kind of warfare that is breaking out in some parts of Mexico, where drug assassins have used rocket launchers and grenades to wipe out rivals. [snip]

Mann writes:
Of course, even in a bastion of democracy like Mexico, gun control keeps weapons out of the hands of the truly malignant: i.e. the cancerous law abiding. It always works so well.

If the haberdasher cannot guarantee safety against RPG’s and grenades, I should probably request a refund. At least use put the expense on your credit card so your estate can contest the charge.

North Texas school district will let teachers carry guns

HARROLD, Texas — A tiny Texas school district may be the first in the nation to allow teachers and staff to pack guns for protection when classes begin later this month, a newspaper reported.

Trustees at the Harrold Independent School District approved a district policy change last October so employees can carry concealed firearms to deter and protect against school shootings, provided the gun-toting teachers follow certain requirements.

In order for teachers and staff to carry a pistol, they must have a Texas license to carry a concealed handgun; must be authorized to carry by the district; must receive training in crisis management and hostile situations and have to use ammunition that is designed to minimize the risk of ricochet in school halls.

Superintendent David Thweatt said the small community is a 30-minute drive from the sheriff’s office, leaving students and teachers without protection. He said the district’s lone campus sits 500 feet from heavily trafficked U.S. 287, which could make it a target.

“When the federal government started making schools gun-free zones, that’s when all of these shootings started. (emphasis added) [snip]

Harrold Independent School District, http://harroldisd.net/

Doesn’t this sound as if the district had a bowl of smarts for breakfast. This school now moves to the list of places that are very very low on the shoot-em-up list: gun stores, shooting ranges, police stations and my house.

…government started making schools gun-free zones… Yeah, sacrifice a few kids, then start screaming for gun control. More kids shot, start frothing at the mouth, the moonbat pols join in the fray. No means to an end is too extreme; ask Putin, Soros or Kos. Logic never rules an argument on that side.

First on Drudge on Aug 15^th, let us see if the MSM reports this anywhere.

The Canadian Human Rights Commission will have to look at the facts to see if the perp is:

Knife-wielding man beheads fellow passenger on bus

A passenger traveling on a bus across Canada’s vast Western plains stabbed, gutted and decapitated a man seated next to him in an unexplained attack, a witness told media Thursday.

The victim had been sleeping before he was repeatedly stabbed in the chest by a man with a large knife, witness Garnet Caton told public broadcaster CBC.

If the victim is not Muslim, the Commission must determine is he dreamed an infidel thought besmirching the Prophet. You know of course, in Canada, mere thought is punishable by fines and public scourging, ask Mark Steyn. Beheading is however a bit stronger than a fine.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said they were investigating a “major incident” that occurred at 9 pm Wednesday (0200 GMT Thursday) on a Greyhound bus traveling eastbound from Edmonton to Winnipeg, but offered no details.

Makes one glad the Canadians have strong gun control laws. Uh Oh, just like England, they’re using BIG knives. How civilized of them.

Glad too this is only a major incident, but what constitutes a horrible incident?

Stepping back in history, Obama clears up some problems and puts his Hussein on the document. A historical painter from ACORN collective put brush to canvas to capture the moment.

This is more tidy than that unwieldy organ we suffer under daily, isn’t it.

What do Syria, Myanmar, Darfur, Hell, Afghanistan, Iran and Britain have in common? God-awful places to live is the answer.
However none except Britain are so uncivilized as to keep you from protecting life and property. The U.S. under the Donks and libs strive mightily to get us to that place particularly with the “progressive education” so enjoyed.

For more than two years, Sydney Davis’ house has been under siege from stone-throwing youths. And more than two hours into the latest attack on his family home, the police had yet to respond.

So after a particularly large missile landed in his kitchen, the 65-year-old grabbed a plank of wood and ran towards the gang to scare them away. But his desperate act came just as the police finally arrived on the scene - where they promptly arrested him for possession of an offensive weapon.

He now faces up to six months in prison. [snip]

In Britain, protecting oneself by means of a weapon, from assault with intent to maim or kill, is punishable with time in prison, not short either.

How did they get they get to this position. By the liberal method of constantly moving the goal posts back to get a bit more correctness in the law.

When the Donks took over congress in the ‘70’s here, they got their ideas from across the pond. We are about 10 years behind Britain in rampant stupidity, only because of luck and some members of SCOTUS. No problem seeing why the left vilifies the conservative side of the bench, is there?

A sampling of cases illustrates the impact of these measures:

In 1973 a young man running on a road at night was stopped by the police and found to be carrying a length of steel, a cycle chain, and a metal clock weight. He explained that a gang of youths had been after him. At his hearing it was found he had been threatened and had previously notified the police. The justices agreed he had a valid reason to carry the weapons. Indeed, 16 days later he was attacked and beaten so badly he was hospitalized. But the prosecutor appealed the ruling, and the appellate judges insisted that carrying a weapon must be related to an imminent and immediate threat. They sent the case back to the lower court with directions to convict.

A proper and PC verdict, would you say?
Now if the jogger said he was carrying the metal to help him lose weight and build up stamina, what could the prosecutor have said?
The lesson to be learned in this PC world is do not tell the truth!

In 1987 two men assaulted Eric Butler, a 56-year-old British Petroleum executive, in a London subway car, trying to strangle him and smashing his head against the door. No one came to his aid. He later testified, “My air supply was being cut off, my eyes became blurred, and I feared for my life.” In desperation he unsheathed an ornamental sword blade in his walking stick and slashed at one of his attackers, stabbing the man in the stomach. The assailants were charged with wounding. Butler was tried and convicted of carrying an offensive weapon.

NYC has a law that allows prosecution for assault if one defends themselves with their cane. A prosecutor can bring the case to the grand jury, which as you know, will indict a ham sandwich for not having mustard. I presume using your crutch would make matters ever worse.

In 1994 an English homeowner, armed with a toy gun, managed to detain two burglars who had broken into his house while he called the police. When the officers arrived, they arrested the homeowner for using an imitation gun to threaten or intimidate. In a similar incident the following year, when an elderly woman fired a toy cap pistol to drive off a group of youths who were threatening her, she was arrested for putting someone in fear. Now the police are pressing Parliament to make imitation guns illegal.

Absolutely right! We cannot have these young malefactors wetting their pants, can we.

In 1999 Tony Martin, a 55-year-old Norfolk farmer living alone in a shabby farmhouse, awakened to the sound of breaking glass as two burglars, both with long criminal records, burst into his home. He had been robbed six times before, and his village, like 70 percent of rural English communities, had no police presence. He sneaked downstairs with a shotgun and shot at the intruders. Martin received life in prison for killing one burglar, 10 years for wounding the second, and a year for having an unregistered shotgun. The wounded burglar, having served 18 months of a three-year sentence, is now free and has been granted $5,000 of legal assistance to sue Martin.

Comparison
Bernard Hugo Goetz, known as Bernhard or Bernie (born November 7, 1947) was dubbed the “Subway Vigilante” by the New York press. How the BBC views this.

I am an ardent supporter of the 2^nd Amendment.

The SCOTUS ruling upholding the lower courts in Heller produced satisfaction, tempered by the narrowness of the decision. All justices did agree the 2^nd Amendment is an individual right. How four voted against is not comprehensible. Nonetheless, they did and that is worrisome, when the Bill of Rights is subject to a whim.

Obama’s position on the 2^nd Amendment has one more side than a polygon. He finally settled on pro right to own a weapon according to the Bill of Rights, but states and localities can legislate all manner of rules as to where, how and who is elite enough to carry.

At first consideration, this is a typical liberal absurdity. Why have a Bill of rights?

The scales fell from my eyes and the beauty of this logic became apparent. I realized the cramped channel of my logic. I thought only inside the box.

Why restrict Obama’s reasoning to the 2^nd Amendment. Well-crafted legislation in the states and localities can produce highly desirous results in many other amendments, to wit:

1^st Amendment
Any journalist convicted of publishing, printing, broadcasting liberal tripe or causing the aforementioned shall be prohibited from being in possession of writing implements, computers microphones telephones, paper or transmitters and banned from all media contact as a prohibited person.

4^th Amendment
This now applies only to American citizens in the selected states and local areas; all others may be seized and searched. Illegal immigrants may be indentured before deported.

5^th and 6^th Amendments
Depends on who and what they did. The more heinous the crime and undesirable the miscreant gives sanction to more basic diversion.

8^th Amendment
The state and locality will determine bail and punishment, to be dependent on the person held. See 5^th and 6^th

13^th Amendment
No slavery unless the state or locality votes such laws for a specific reason.
Section 2 is void if any state or locality so chooses.

14^th Amendment
This new process makes this amendment null.

15^th Amendment
Voter registration in states and localities so choosing may ban liberals from voting under new mental incompetence laws. This avoids race, color and servitude unless changed under the amended 13^th Amendment
Section 2 is void if any state or locality so chooses.

16^th Amendment
Most states will vote to end income tax. Why send any money to support the remnants of the Constitution.

19^th Amendment
Hey, some places might have changed the 13^th, why not change this one.

24^th Amendment
States and localities may bring back poll and any other voting tax as needed. One never knows when the entities need a new revenue source. They will know whom to tax.
Section 2 is void if any state or locality so chooses.

26^th Amendment
Definitely, this is changed. If anyone isn’t smart enough to drink wisely or own a handgun, he or she isn’t smart enough to vote.
Section 2 is void if any state or locality so chooses.

27^th Amendment
Most localities if not states will write new law on this. Why pay any of these clowns in congress, they don’t do anything.

We have Obama to thank for this enlightenment; it takes a liberal, socialist lawyer to see part of an answer. They never see the unintended consequences.

Interesting to see the imagery warped to fit the ad. The image of the rifle shown was flipped to balance the composition befitting a Leftist.

Bolt action rifles are manufactured to accommodate southpaw shootists. Scopes however are not. Note the windage adjustment on the scope at the very top of the picture. That is always on the right side of the scope.

Hillary’s people are knowledgeable about guns? Only to recognize one to grab it themselves.

Manager recounts shooting in West Palm Beach grocery

WEST PALM BEACH — Being a lousy shot might well have saved Marshall Hugo Grant’s life.

After Grant fired three times Monday from the doorway of the King IGA grocery store, manager Marino Hernandez made a split-second decision not to fire back.

“I was afraid he was going to keep shooting, but I already had in mind that he wasn’t a good shooter,” Hernandez said Tuesday. [snip]

I want to know what this fool would be saying if his assistant manager or a customer got one in the hat from a “bad shot.”

Grant made the first move. He backed out of the store and started firing. [snip]

But, he (Hernandez) said, “I’m a quick thinker. When I saw the first bullet hit high, right away I knew I was dealing with someone that was not a good shooter.” [snip]

Compassion ruled this moment, which endangered bystanders.

This brings me to the premise that we need gun control. I’ve changed my mind on this explosive viewpoint. Consider that no one who is emotional, who deals with occurrences emotionally, who cannot or will not defend themselves or others, should have a gun. Significantly, they are not in control of their faculties.

Since Grant would get a gun no matter what, he isn’t included in an ownership ban; why deny him his criminal sheltered rights.

No, I’m talking about those that believe in victimhood, who blame society and video games, not to mention school playground games like tag and dodge ball for violence. There is no way to know what they will do in a distraught minute. Proximity to these emotional fools in moments on urgency imperils one’s health.

Observably these persons cannot be trusted with weapons of any type: from guns to butter knives. The application of zero tolerance informs us that these folks cannot tell the difference between danger and quotidian life.

Gun bans must apply to them. With the disarming of the liberal populace, the rest of us are safe.

The knife wielders must be the “poor and downtrodden.”

Gun control at work

A violent and deadly weekend continues in Chicago. At least 12 people have been shot, two of them killed, since Saturday morning. Two others were stabbed in a home invasion. This comes after at least 20 people were shot, four of them killed, from Friday night through early Saturday.

For a city that has strict laws on guns and no concealed carry, it seems that an inordinate amount of recreational shooting took place. All those laws and the police cannot stop this mayhem? Mayor Daley, Obama and the Illinois legislature would have you believe all these anti-gun laws work just like in Britain.

Britain banned private gun ownership that completely stopped upstanding citizens from shooting up the countryside and cities. Police work is easier too; separating the law-abiding from the criminals is simple. The criminals are the ones with guns; the citizens are the ones dead or wounded.

Life in the Bad Apple is tough. After the Heller case is adjudicated, less of these disgraces should occur for the means of true equal protection will exist.

200 surveillance cameras at Van Dyke houses fail to stop rape suspect

Once again a rapist was caught on videotape, and once again cops failed to see him, police sources said Thursday.

A 19-year-old woman was raped at knifepoint inside the Van Dyke houses in Brooklyn early Thursday - a housing complex with more than 200 cameras supposedly monitored around the clock by the NYPD.

Should she have called 911 as Mayor Menino suggests? Or do as Bloomberg suggests, leave personal protection to the police?

One thing that would have worked in this situation is a .38 snubby. Guaranteed!

911 motto: When every second count, we’re only minutes away.

Victim Shot While Calling 911″

A California woman was shot to death as she pleaded with emergency dispatchers to come and help her. Her death will not make the network news programs this evening, but this is the latest reminder that we must take responsibility for our own safety and not rely on the police.

Bill Masters, a libertarian and sheriff of a Colorado county tells the residents of his county, “It is your responsibility to protect yourself and your family from criminals. If you rely on the government for protection, you are going to be at least disappointed and at worst injured or killed.”

Gun control puts honest citizens in the position of having to choose between protecting their lives or respecting the law. What kind of government would do such a thing?
More on gun control here and here.

The Second Amendment says the people have the right “to keep and bear arms.” Government officials, however, insist that they can make it a crime to keep and bear arms.
Open the newspaper, turn on the television, or surf the net, and you’ll find people saying the government can solve our problems and make life better.

This is the happy face of government:

Behind the happy face is an institution that is willing to strip of us of our right to self-defense, and, worse, deprive dying patients of life-saving drugs. Who do these politicians and bureaucrats think they are?

For more on the right to life, go here, here, and here (pdf).

The Founding Fathers understood human nature.

Precisely because an armed populace can serve as an effective backup for law enforcement, the ownership of firearms was widely mandated during Colonial times, and the second Congress passed a statute in 1792 requiring adult male citizens to own guns.

The twin purposes of self and community defense may very well lie behind the Second Amendment’s language encompassing both the importance of a well-regulated militia and the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. As the constitutional and criminal law scholar Don Kates has noted in the journal Constitutional Commentary, thinkers at the time when the Constitution was written drew no real distinction between resisting burglars, foreign invaders or domestic tyrants: All were wrongdoers that good citizens had the right, and the duty, to oppose with force.

With the upcoming election, are we returning to the earlier days?

Life with the new Donks

James Burnham’s book, THE MANAGERIAL REVOLUTION, made a considerable stir both in the United States and in this country at the time when it was published, and its main thesis has been so much discussed that a detailed exposition of it is hardly necessary. As shortly as I can summarise it, the thesis is this:
Capitalism is disappearing, but Socialism is not replacing it. What is now arising is a new kind of planned, centralised society which will be neither capitalist nor, in any accepted sense of the word, democratic. [snip]

Society is of its nature oligarchical, and the power of the oligarchy always rests upon force and fraud.
Burnham does not deny that “good” motives may operate in private life, but he maintains that politics consists of the struggle for power, and nothing else. All historical changes finally boil down to the replacement of one ruling class by another. All talk about democracy, liberty, equality, fraternity, all revolutionary movements, all visions of Utopia, or “the classless society”, or “the Kingdom of Heaven on earth”, are humbug (not necessarily conscious humbug) covering the ambitions of some new class which is elbowing its way into power. The English Puritans, the Jacobins, the Bolsheviks, were in each case simply power seekers using the hopes of the masses in order to win a privileged position for themselves.
Power can sometimes be won or maintained without violence, but never without fraud, because it is necessary to make use of the masses, and the masses would not co-operate if they knew that they were simply serving the purposes of a minority. In each great revolutionary struggle the masses are led on by vague dreams of human brotherhood, and then, when the new ruling class is well established in power, they are thrust back into servitude.

This quote from Machiavelli seems to fit very well here:
“Francesco Sforza became Duke of Milan from being a private citizen because he was armed; his successors, since they avoided the inconveniences of arms, became private citizens after having been dukes.”
This is from a person experienced in such matters!