So DemDimocratic state Rep. Charles Young Jr. wanted to protest pro-RKBA legislation.
Miss. lawmaker displays pistol to protest gun legislation
He told House Speaker Philip Gunn that he and others are violating a joint legislative rule that says no one but sworn law enforcement officers can carry a gun in the Capitol or House and Senate chambers.
So anti-gun rules and laws… don’t work, Rep. Young?
A media/advertising group is trying to start a new astro-turf group to violate rights.
United Rifle Association:
The Brief: Help Stop Gun Violence
This may be one of the world’s most difficult briefs: Tackle the gun-fatality epidemic in a way that could help lead to a solution.
[…]
Creating a counter-balance to the NRA’s political power and influence is no small task. We will start by chipping away at it bit by bit. Our strategy will be to attract moderate and progressive gun owners, with a more reasonable approach to gun rights and ownership. The result will be uniting disgruntled NRA members, moderate gun owners and disenfranchised public representatives in a place where it is safe to vote their conscience.
Speaking personally as “disgruntled” former NRA member, let me tell you that I’m not in the market for more freaking gun people-controlling human/civil rights violations.
Got ideas? Submit them to Creativity Editor Ann-Christine Diaz at adiaz@adage.com.
Oh, yes. Do.
Possible talking points:
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I originally posted this on my personal blog, Random Acts of Gibberish, but it’s too funny not to share with a wider audience.
Oopsie, someone has a little explaining to do
…to the ATF.
AJC.com, the Atlanta Urinal-Constipation just published a story claiming a reporter built an assault rifle.
I helpfully emailed authorized urinalist, Ken Foskett to explain that if that’s true, someone is going to prison.
Interestingly, it took some searching to find Foskett’s email address. AJC killed the link to the reporter staff directory. I guess they got tired of getting negative feedback from people who know they’re full of shit. Fortunately, they left the actual directory online; you should bookmark it.
Nice try, Foskett.
Yeah, you edited the article from this
to this
but you forgot to change the graphic.
I just had to send Foskett one more email.
Nice try.
But you forgot to change the graphic.
Fortunately, I kept screen shots of everything in case the ATF should ask.
I expect that graphic will disappear from the AJC site in 3… 2… 1…
UPDATE, 2/8/2018: They finally realized they still had the “assault rifle” image loading. It’s now gone. Further, they’ve set the original URL…
http://investigations.blog.ajc.com/2018/02/06/home-diy-project-build-your-own-ar-15-semi-automatic-assault-rifle/
..to redirect to this one, so “assault rifle” no longer appears in the address bar.
https://www.myajc.com/blog/investigations/home-diy-project-build-your-own-untraceable/GP69yaLThpUXrLeCLYYxKN/
But no mention that they edited the original story for content.
Mathematics is a logical discipline which some gun people controlling victim disarmers find difficult to master. To aid them in understanding, I’m providing a few simplified examples of how math works in the real world.
1.
Number of firearms homicides in 1993: 17,075
Number of firearms homicides in 2015: 12,979
12,979 is 4,096 lower than 17,075
2.
Rate of firearms homicides per 100K in 1993 6.56
Rate of firearms homicides per 100K in 2015: 4.13
4.13 is 2.43 lower than 6.56
3.
Number of accidental firearms-related deaths in 1999: 824
Number of accidental firearms-related deaths in 2015: 489
489 is 335 lower than 824
4.
Rate of accidental firearms-related deaths per 100K in 1999: 0.29
Rate of accidental firearms-related deaths per 100K in 2015: 0.15
.15 is .14 lower than .29
5.
Number of counties in US: 3,007
Number of counties responsible for recent jump in firearms-related deaths: 150 (5%)
150 is 2857 less than 3,007
6.
Estimated number of firearms in US in 1993: 150,000,000 to 211,000,000 (very vague estimate based on production/sales estimates)
Estimated number of firearms in US in 2015: 265-750,000,000 (basically, no one knows at all)
750,000,000 is 539,000,000 more than 211,000,000
7.
Estimated percentage of non-murderous firearms owners: 99.9978%
Estimated percentage of estimated number of murderous firearms owners: 0.0022%
99.9978 is 99.9956 more than .0022
Those suffering the disability of mathematical competence might think this demonstrates a reduction in homicides and accidental deaths at the same time that the numbers of firearms are increasing.
As I’ve said, math is hard for gun people controlling victim disarmers. As a result, they tend to rely upon Common Core “math” principles. To aid pro-human/civil rights advocates in understanding of their opposition, I’m also providing examples of how those people reach conclusions which seem to have little resemblance to reality.
1.
Number of homicides in 1993
Number of homicides in 2015
Not needed.
State unsupported claim. Show a minimum of three pages of emotive wishful thinking to illustrate your thought processes. When challenged, refer to contrarian claims as unsourced “alternative facts” because links weren’t given to US Code and other sources. When links are provided, state your disinterest in wasting time with documentation.
2.
Rate of homicides per 100K in 1993
Rate of homicides per 100K in 2015
Not needed.
State unsupported claim. Show a minimum of three pages of emotive wishful thinking to illustate your thought processes. When challenged, refer to contrarian claims as unsourced “alternative facts” because links weren’t given to US Code and other sources. When links are provided, state your disinterest in wasting time with documentation.
3.
Number of accidental firearms-related deaths in 1999
Number of accidental firearms-related deaths in 2015
Not needed.
State unsupported claim. Show a minimum of three pages of emotive wishful thinking to illustrate your thought processes. When challenged, refer to contrarian claims as unsourced “alternative facts” because links weren’t given to US Code and other sources. When links are provided, state your disinterest in wasting time with documentation.
4.
Rate of accidental firearms-related deaths per 100K in 1999
Rate of accidental firearms-related deaths per 100K in 2015
Not needed.
State unsupported claim. Show a minimum of three pages of emotive wishful thinking to illustrate your thought processes. When challenged, refer to contrarian claims as unsourced “alternative facts” because links weren’t given to US Code and other sources. When links are provided, state your disinterest in wasting time with documentation.
5.
Number of counties in US
Number of counties responsible for recent jump in firearms-related deaths
State unsupported claim. Show a minimum of three pages of emotive wishful thinking to illustrate your thought processes. When challenged, refer to contrarian claims as unsourced “alternative facts” because links weren’t given to US Code and other sources. When links are provided, state your disinterest in wasting time with documentation.
6.
Estimated number of firearm in US in 1993
Estimated number of firearms in US in 2015
Not needed.
7.
Estimated percentage of non-murderous firarms owners
Estimated percentage of estimated number of murderous firearms owners
Not needed.
Shriek “We haven’t covered patriarchal percentages in college, therefore it has no meaning!”
Bonus Points for newspaper editors:
Editorial claiming machineguns used in shooting minus 404 Page Not Found when you get caught equals Zero Embarrassment.
+5 points for deletion
-10 points for doing real math; this was Common Core for Tyrants Dummies gun people controlling victim disarmers, damn it.
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So Shannon TWatts was mouthing off about school shootings again, after the LA middle school shooting. She claimed:
This is the 14th American school shooting in 2018
Someone replied, asking for a list of those shootings, And TWatts told her to Google “Everytown school shootings”. She couldn’t be bothered to provide a link.
So I searched it and found that “Everytown” list. It lists “school shootings” but doesn’t provide links. Per Everytown,
Consistent with expert advice and common sense, Everytown uses a straightforward, fair, and comprehensive definition for a school shooting: any time a firearm discharges a live round inside a school building or on a school campus or grounds, as documented by the press and, when necessary, confirmed through further inquiries with law enforcement or school officials.
I checked on the shootings they list.
Two suicides (one only coincidentally on school grounds), one negligent discharge by a cop, two shots from off campus that hit buildings with no injuries, two drive-bys from off campus with no injuries, one drive-by off campus with no injuries, one shot at 1AM at an “event venue” on an extended college campus, four under-age students shooting students, and one guy killed “near” a school.
So 29% of Everytown’s “school shootings” don’t even meet their own definition of “school shooting.” Some clearly had nothing to do with “school” other than happening on campus well after hours, typically by non-students entering the grounds. One was a freaking cop authorized to have that gun. They had to include a shooting that didn’t involve students, faculty, or school grounds; “near.” Of the shootings that met Everytown’s own definition, most shooters were breaking existing laws in even possessing firearms. Virtually all broke existing laws in bringing the gun on campus.
Real school shootings are a bad thing. They should be addressed, fixed, ended. But inflating the numbers with other incidents is panic-mongering, and shrouds and distorts the facts of real school shootings.
Added, 2/7/2018: They have a couple more! Let’s see what there is to see…
Maybe schools should be cop-free zones. That’s twice in a month.
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Redacted warrants and affidavits for the Mandalay Bay shooting have been published. Sadly, the data dump is only from local Vegas LE. It does not include federal investigation information. That’s important because federal agents would be investigating violations of federal law like the reported fully-automatic weapon(s) that fell out of the official narrative once victim-disarming politicians decided bump-fire was a good target for new gun people control laws. I still want to see ballistics reports that show what weapons were used, and what those weapons were.
Multiple warrants appear to use identical copy/pasted portions of the affidavits. This appears in quite a few:
Upon breaching the door, officers entered and located a deceased male suspect with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
[…]
Despite this suspect being neutralized, several other callers at various locations along The Strip continued to report active shooters inside of hotels and sightings of people with firearms.Due to the mass casualty event that was still very dynamic and multiple other callers reporting other ongoing incidents, it appeared there may be several other suspects involved.
He’s dead, but someone else is still shooting? And note: they found the dead body.
Um… Maybe not.
SW-17-971C&D, October 2, 2017, Telephonic Search Warrant, Sgt. Jerry MacDonald
SWAT officers arrived on the 32nd floor and pinpointed the shooter’s location to be in room 32-135. As SWAT officers breached room 135, they observed Stephen Paddock place a gun to his head and fire one round. (emphasis added-cb)
A local Fox5 report leaves open the possibilities that MacDonald misspoke, although that sounds like an oddly specific way of misstating that they found a dead body. “Sorry; I accidentally said they witnessed the dead guy put a gun to his head and kill himself.”
By Wednesday afternoon, after I drafted the above paragraph, MacDonald pretty much said just that:
“He absolutely killed himself before anyone got into the room,” Sgt. Jerry MacDonald told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
[…]
“That night was crazy. You get information coming in. It’s fluid, and none of it is confirmed,” he said. “And that’s par for the course when you’re doing telephonic search warrants. You base those search warrants based on what you believed up to that point.”
I could see telling the judge, “Yeah, officers saw him shoot himself” or “Subject killed himself on entry.” But specifically, “As SWAT officers breached room 135, they observed Stephen Paddock place a gun to his head and fire one round.”?
Two other affidavits put it this way:
Tactical entry was made into the room in order to preserve life under exigent circumstances and law enforcement located a deceased male with a gunshot wound.
and
Tactical entry was made into the room in order to preserve life under exigent circumstances and law enforcement located a deceased male with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
“Apparent.” In light of the photo (warning: graphic) showing expended brass on top of the seemingly coagulated blood, we’re left with more questions: If he died on entry, how did brass end up on top of the blood, if the shooting in the suite had stopped an hour before? If he died earlier, and they found the body, how did brass end up on top of the blood?
There are other little oddities in the warrant info. Why did he need two “personal massagers”? Different types, for different applications? Two people? The fact that he had his passport with him might be significant or not. While in the US, most folks I know leave their passport secured at home. But reports indicate the Mandalay bay shooter was enough of a world traveler that he might have kept his in a go bag out of convenience.
What’s up with the vase and flowers?
Where did the missing hard drive go?
Then there’s the other redacted (except for the one instance a clerk initially missed) “person of interest,” which law enforcement claimed as a reason not to unseal the warrants, as revealing him would compromise the investigation. Only, due to said clerical error, we learn that Douglas Haig apparently did nothing but sell a box of a tracers at an Arizona gun show. Is he somehow significant, or was he a convenient excuse to keep the records sealed, hiding the oddities we’ve just seen?
Two entrees, two pair of gloves, two rooms, two shooting postitions, two personal massagers, ballistics calculations and scoped rifle and spotting scope, other rifles with no sights and bump-fire stocks…
One shooter.
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For those who like listening to their RKBA news while multitasking, there’s a new podcast in town: TacticalPay Radio.
I was asked to listen to one of their podcasts to see what I thought. I did a little prep: looking up the episode’s guest, for instance. Then I clicked play.
The podcast is hosted by Brett Grayson, a Houston history teacher. I listened to Episode 3, which featured Sam Paredes, Executive Director of Gun Owners of California, and immediately learned that GOC is the country’s oldest firearms right Political Action Committee, predating the NRA’s ILA.
Amusing point (to me, anyway): In my prep notes, I had referred to GOC as waging guerrilla warfare for rights in “Occupied California.” I’ll be darned if Sam Paredes didn’t actually refer to California as “occupied territory,” and folks moving to Cal as leaving “free America.”
GMTA.
The show hit upon several points. A fair bit of time was spent on advice for dealing with RKBA debates and reporters (sound bites not easily “sliced and diced,” make it fun, educate yourself first, and tailor the message to the audience. Listen to the show for more.
And taking this episode as an indicator, you’ll probably want to listen to more. How else will you learn about Sam Paredes’ experience with zip guns?
TacticalPay Radio is currently available through Apple iTunes, and approvals for Google Play and Spotify are in process. The show is brought to us by Texas-based Tactical Payments, a credit card processing solution provider for the “for the firearms, ammunition and accessories industries.”
Now where did I see this predicted?
Hawaii: More Anti-Gun Bills Introduced
As previously reported last week, Senate Bill 2046 was introduced, aimed at criminalizing certain firearm parts, accessories and modifications. The trend continued this week as more anti-gun legislation was filed prior to the close of the bill introduction deadline. Please contact committee members and urge them to oppose these bills! Click the “Take Action” button below to contact committee members.
What did the purveyors of fearmongering fundraising expect when they endorsed bump-fire regulat… Oh. Yeah. More opportunities for fundraising to fight what they endorsed.
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First, I’m not stating my personal position on this subject. I’m presenting some thoughts.
In my “obligatory SHOT Show post,” someone made a comment:
Gun shows that don’t let me carry my legal firearm is not a gun show I support, even the Shot Show.
OK, I do have an opinion; I strongly sympathize with that position. But…
On the one hand, if a show organizer doesn’t trust his customers, why should we trust him, or do business with him? Think boycotts of stores that post their property as gun-free target rich environments. Some show organizers get it.
On the other hand, very often — unlike stores making their own decisions to disarm customers — that choice is not made directly by the organizer. When you’re running a large show, you need a certain amount of space. That limits your choice of venues. If the venues that are large enough (or have sufficient support like power, water, sanitation, Internet access) themselves opt for gun-free target rich environment, what’s the event organizer to do? He can carry on, and maybe lose some boycotters, but serve the majority. Or if enough people boycott, he can lose money and not hold any more shows.
Boycotters might hope that would trickle up: organizer goes elsewhere (or out of business), venue loses revenue due to loss of shows, venue changes gun-free target rich environment policy.
Except, how many venues are that dependent on gun shows for their own continued existence? Especially government-run venues that don’t care because they get taxpayer support anyway. You might think those would be concerned about the loss of sales tax revenues, but you might be wrong; too often the goal is to shut down sales, PERIOD, no matter the claims about using “revenues” to fight “gun violence.”
In such cases, show loses, boycotters cheer, and the victim-disarming SOBs cheer even louder.
Thoughts of nose-cutting and spite come to mind.
On the gripping hand, I have seen show organizers who chose to make themselves gun-free target rich environments, when it was not required by the venue. I have no problem with boycotting them. There are shows I stopped attending.
Since this discussion was prompted by the 2018 SHOT Show, I’ll note one more point. SHOT is not a public gun show. It is an industry trade show, attendance by application/invitation only. You need credentials to get onto the floor (as a mere TZP writer, I can’t get in). As a private event, they can set whatever policies they want; it’s between the organizers and the invited attendees. If I were invited, I’d have to balance the benefits of seeing cool new stuff versus the chance of being disarmed, and I might decide to go inside.
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[My obligatory SHOT Show posting.]
“Mohamet, I have selected a mission, Inshallah.”
“Yes, Mohammed? Will ISIS be pleased with our work?”
“Inshallah, yes. The Caliphate has stated that the mujahedin should use the work of the Mandalay Bay hero as an example. I have the perfect example!”
“What, Mohammed?”
“Paddock gained media glory by targeting 22,000 people at a gathering of sinners in that Great Satan’s hellhole, Las Vegas. But I have learned that just a few miles away, in that same den of iniquity, there is a far larger gathering of crusaders: 70,000! We can hose them down!”
“Umm… This America. Out of 70,000 evil satans, some are bound to be armed. It would be sad to die before bringing glory to Allah.”
“That’s the beauty of my plan, Mohamet. This is the SHOT show. Attendees are required to be unarmed. Vendors are required to remove firing pins from their display weapons. They’re helpless!”
“I see… Wait.”
“What?”
“Mohammed, isn’t this SHOT thing held indoors?”
“Mostly. They had a range day, but I thought it best to skip that.”
“Allah has blessed you with wisdom. But still… the main show is indoors, where attendees are disarmed?”
“Yes!”
“But outside, where we can shoot them… these are Americans. Americans specifically attending a show to see what new guns they wish to market and purchase. Americans who already own most of the small arms in the world. Who practice.”
“Ye-es…”
“Including arms for the crusaders’ military.”
“Ye-es.”
“Mohammed, these would not be metrosexual pajama boys suitable only for servicing mujahedin heroes. Mightn’t they shoot back?”
“-sigh- Then we shall don martyrdom vests and go inside where they are unarmed and even the guns cannot fire…”
“Mohammed, how long does it take to put a firing pin back in?”
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