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The Devastation of the Hurricane

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No, actually I don’t mean Helene, although that has been horrific, and continues to be. No I mean the devastation caused by Kamala. Not only has it affected those that were in the path of Helene, but the whole country. But the federal governments response to the hurricane as put into action the old Ronald Reagan saying “I’m from the government and I’m hear to help you”. Truly terrifying words.

Let’s just examine a few of the government actions you may or not be aware of.

First lets look at communications, essential in a disaster are good communications. Well, Biden-Harris junta saw to that! Biden-Harris’ FCC Nuked 20,000 Starlink Terminals for North Carolina That Could’ve Saved Lives

Yet, Elon Musk’s space internet company could’ve supplied residents with Starlink terminals over the years through a rural federal program. However, the Biden administration’s weaponization of the FCC blocked nearly 20,000 terminals for the state that would’ve been crucial communication links for residents that have been cut off from the world.

Yes, this would be the same FCC that is fast tracking George Soros’s takeover of 200 radio stations in the U.S. Many of those carry conservative talk shows. Yes, that FCC.

So after the hurricane, Elon cowboyed up and sent in Starlinks…which FEMA promptly tried to steal. https://vigilantnews.com/post/spacex-engineer-in-north-carolina-has-dire-warning-fema-actively-blocking-shipments-for-relief/

“Hey Elon, update here on site of Asheville, NC. We have powered up two large operating bases for choppers to deliver goods into hands. We’ve deployed 300+ starlinks and outpour is it has saved many lives.

“The big issue is FEMA is actively blocking shipments and seizing goods and services locally and locking them away to state they are their own. It’s very real and scary how much they have taken control to stop people helping. We are blocked now on the shipments of new starlinks coming in until we get an escort from the fire dept. but that may not be enough.”

So what else is FEMA interfering with? Rescue efforts.

Does Uncle Sam Want Appalachia to Suffer? The answer is yes, btw.

Pilot flying Helene rescue missions in NC threatened with arrest

He’s not the only one that ran into trouble with FEMA over doing rescues. Anyone remember Tim Kennedy from the docu-drama “Hunting Hitler”? Former army ranger, involved with Saving Our Allies and currently involved in rescue efforts from the hurricane and DEI hire Deanne Criswell’s FEMA. FEMA is leaving no room for survivors. As they did in Lahania, they take up all the hotel rooms and then do nothing to help.

You have to love on the ground citizens that are in the right place at the right time to overhear interesting things. One rescue worker was in an airport to pick up pediatric supplies and they were sitting in a private area where there were a bunch of Army and Navy pilots. A private jet came in carry FOUR whole FEMA workers. However did they get that many onto a private jet? But I digress, a private hospital in Ashville has been told they are going to be the morgue, for body recovery. All the Chinooks there are doing body recovery. FEMA said in this conversation in a private area that they are too tied up at the border to send anymore representatives. They are not sending refrigerated trucks for the bodies. A private hospital, and the army are doing body recovery. They said however many you hear on the death count? Add a couple of zeros to it for a more accurate body count. They said private pilots are citizens are the ones bringing in all the supplies. When they went to pick up their supplies there were piles of supplies awaiting the Cajun Navy, ASPCA and several other citizen groups. They’re the ones doing the work.

But this makes sense, because Kamala wants disaster relief to be based on race. So apparently there are too many whites in this area to rank higher than the border.

https://rumble.com/v5h1out–kamala-harris-disaster-relief-should-be-distributed-based-on-equity.html

Yes, black and gay press secretary KJP said disaster relief wasn’t being funneled to illegal invaders…this year, not what she said very proudly a couple of years ago.

DEI hire Deanne Criswell of FEMA is showing the same sense of responsibility for the safety of her employees as disgraced former secret service director DEI hire Kimberly Cheadle. Citing “road closed” signs apparently FEMA can’t make it into some areas, reminiscent of the secret service’s inability to cope with “sloped roof” dangers. Just curious, if Jill Biden got Kim Cheadle her job, who recommended DEI hire Deanne Criswell? Hunter Biden?

NewsFEMA Abandons Residents of Devastated North Carolina Town

“FEMA called me and told me they wanted to inspect my house, then called me back to say they couldn’t drive around the ‘road closed’ sign. They weren’t allowed,” she told The Post.

“You can drive it by car for sure, it’s not that bad, you just have to drive around the ‘road closed’ sign. I explained that to them. They said they couldn’t.”

About that $750 disaster relief Kamala bragged about? Well, you have to go online to get that….online..without power…I heard one interview of a lady who said the people that have been able to apply have been turned down. No one was approved. And just FYI? It’s a loan. It has to be paid back. Unlike of course the illegal invaders getting free gift cards, plane flights, food and hotel rooms. They don’t need to repay their loans. Oh no, the people of North Carolina are paying for them.

But DEI hire Deanne Criswell was upfront about the change in focus of FEMA. How FEMA Has Turned Into a DEI Disaster

In accordance, FEMA implemented operational changes that favor certain demographics based on race, sexuality, and gender identity.

FEMA defines these “marginalized” groups that ought to receive priority treatment as “People of color,” “Tribal Nations,” “The LGBTQ+ community,” “Migrant laborers,” and “Those with limited English proficiency,” according to a 144-page guide on “Achieving Equitable Recovery” that the agency issued in November 2023.

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FEMA does not list disaster readiness among the top two objectives of the emergency services bureau, whose stated goals on its official website focus first on “Instill[ing] equity as a foundation of emergency management” and “Lead[ing] whole of community in climate resilience” second. “Promote and sustain a ready FEMA and prepared nation” ranks last on the agency’s list of primary concerns.

This one is also covers the history of FEMA failures under DEI hire Deanne Criswell, except if you’re a leftist, they aren’t exactly failures, they’re equity.

FEMA’s DEI crippled Hurricane Helene response

Goal 1 of FEMA’s Strategic Plan was to “instill equity as a foundation of emergency management”. FEMA’s Objective 1.1 was also not disaster management, it’s to “cultivate a FEMA that prioritizes and harnesses a diverse workforce”.

FEMA’s leadership was required to make its priority “integrating diversity, equity, and inclusion in delivering the agency’s mission.”

Leading the way in implementing FEMA’s new ideological disaster management was Vice President Kamala Harris who claimed that she had started one of the “first environmental justice units of any DA’s office” when she helped turn San Francisco into a crime zone, and claimed that it’s “communities of color that are most impacted by” weather and natural disasters.

Kamala then argued that “we have to address this in a way that is about giving resources based on equity” so that minorities would be first in line for aid regardless of who has the greater need.

DEI hire Deanne Criswell says people need to stop saying bad things about FEMA workers, it’s dangerous and it’s hurting their feelings and moral. Wow, just wow.

But FEMA is starting to get it in gear, to an extent. One on the ground person reported FEMA has showed up with pallets and pallets of chainsaws!! YAY!! They are all electric chainsaws….for an area with no electricity and who knows when it will be restored. DEI hire…

priorities people!

Kamala is so concerned about equity, she’s sending a huge chunk of change to Hezbollah. Oh yeah, she lies and says “Lebanon”, but just like Hamass stealing aid in the Gaza strip and then selling it to the arabs in Gaza to get money to buy more rockets and other weapons, Hezbollah will steal it and sell it to the Lebanese and buy more rockets. But Kamala is very worried about their citizens. Her own, meh, not so much.

Oh the poor suffering citizens…of Lebanon.

But along with spreading racial equity, federal dollars and “joy”, Kamala also likes to make space for her family. Namely her outstanding example of modern “masculinity” <per leftist standards> Doug Emhoff, with or without the Nanny, he cheated with. See, Doug has a crystal ball when it comes to investments. And he’s invested in Albemarle Corporation, who is involved in Lithium mining. You know like for EV car batteries, like the kinds of things the Biden-Harris junta are trying to mandate. Guess who signs off on the permits to mine? Yep, if appointed as President, Kamala.

This one has good details. How Kamala Harris’s Husband Doug Emhoff Profits From North Carolina Lithium Mines

But if you’d rather watch three of minutes of video, here’s the jist.

https://x.com/i/status/1842585040141844955

This one is under two minutes. https://www.tiktok.com/@dogfather1976/video/7422150560712805663

No, the current junta will not help in a crisis. What does help? From word on the ground,

Useful things, unlike FEMA

And, good people with mules and horses.

But what else could be going on besides Kamala’s friends and family profiting from this disaster? Oh I don’t know.

Here We Go: North Carolina Officials Change Election Rules in Hurricane-Devastated Counties that Mostly Voted for Trump, Fueling Republican Election Integrity Concerns

When voting this year, remember if casting a vote for a demoncrat, their best and brightest is at the top of the ticket. They put her there.

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Remember the shoulder things that go up? Move over, McCarthy; Senator Ben Cardin [Dumbass-MD] says, “Hold my beer.”

It’s time to pass mandatory background checks, bans on assault weapons and high-ammo stocks.

We owe it to young people everywhere.

Confusing stocks and magazines? Stocks made of a bunch of cartridges? High-priced ammunition company exchange shares? Who knows? I had a brief impulse to contact Cardin’s office and ask what he was talking about, but…

The fact is, when you’re a tyrannical SOB who wants to regulate, control, or ban everything, it doesn’t really matter if you’re also an ignorant, tyrannical SOB.

As for “mandatory background checks,” sales through Federal Firearms Licensees already have mandatory background checks. And the ATF has already published a rule requiring anyone who might sell, or buy, a gun to be an FFL required to conduct “mandatory background checks.”

It’s almost enough to make me miss New York Congress-scum Major Owens, who at least had the honesty to file bills to simply repeal the Second Amendment outright.

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Fun With Artificial Stupidity

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Joe Huffman, of Boomershoot, has been playing with AI chatbots by asking them about the event. The inaccurate responses he gets would be amusing, if people weren’t actually trying to implement AI in real-world, life-affecting applications. His latest report inspired me to ask Gab AI about The Zelman Partisans.

Tell me about the pro-gun group called The Zelman Partisans

The Zelman Partisans is a pro-gun group that promotes Second Amendment rights and advocates for the use of firearms for self-defense.

So far, so good. Um, wait…

The group’s name is a reference to the Irgun, a Zionist paramilitary organization that operated in the British Mandate of Palestine during the 1930s and 1940s.

What? The name is a reference to Aaron Zelman, hence the “Zelman” in the name.

The Zelman Partisans was founded in 1994 by Rabbi R. Mermelstein…

Not even close. Try 2014 (only off by twenty years, AS bot), by the late Alperts, Shelia, Eric, and Claire.

… a gun rights activist who believed that firearms are essential for personal protection and the defense of communities. The group’s mission is to educate and empower individuals to exercise their Second Amendment rights and to promote responsible gun ownership.

Okay. That “responsible” bugs me a bit.

The Zelman Partisans is active in the United States and advocates for gun rights at both the state and federal levels.

We’re more of a educational advocate group than activist advocates, as that somewhat implies.

The group has been involved in various legal battles to protect and expand Second Amendment rights, including a successful lawsuit against the City of Chicago over its handgun ban.

That’s news to me. As a group, we haven’t been directly involved in any lawsuits (some of my individual work at TZP has been cited in federal lawsuits). And the “Chicago handgun ban” was settled (officially) in 2010 in McDonald v. City of Chicago, years before TZP was formed.

The Zelman Partisans is not affiliated with any political party or ideology, and its members come from diverse backgrounds. The group’s focus is on promoting the responsible use of firearms for self-defense and the defense of communities, rather than advocating for any particular political agenda.

A quibble, since “responsible” use of firearms has been bent by anti-rights types to mean “regulated, restricted, and demonized use of firearms, with hell to pay if you do.”

Just for fun, I also asked Gab AI about myself. Apparently I died in childhood…  after fighting the Winter War in Finland and writing several novels.

I’m almost afraid to see what Google’s AI would say.

It turns out Google’s Gemini is better. It admits that its still learning about TZP and says nothing else.

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This Is Why My Confidence In The Courts Is Bottoming Out

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The Supreme Court today heard oral arguments in Cargill v. Garland, the challenge to Trump’s (yeah, he still owns it) bump-stock ban.

Now, it’s true that we still have Clarence Thomas, who is intelligent and willing to study facts at issue. But we also have Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

“And when, you know, ‘function’ is defined, it’s really not about the operation of the thing. It’s about what it can achieve, what it’s being used for. So I see Congress as putting function in this. The function of this trigger is to cause this kind of damage, 800 rounds a second or whatever.”

That was after the government claimed that a semiauto rifle with a bump-stock can fire 600 rounds per minute. But Brown, with firearm knowledge exceeding that of John Moses Browning, knows better: 800 rounds per second.

Probably theoretically, higher, once you account for those magazine changes in that one second.

Just for comparison, the GAU-8/A Avenger seven-barreled, Gatling-style autocannon in the A-10 attack aircraft — the beloved “Warthog” — has a measly rate of fire of just 3,900 rounds per minute; twelve times slower that Jackson’s magical bump-stocked gun.

No wonder the Air Force wants to retire the A-10.

But back to bitter reality. We’re stuck with ignorant high court judges, who when even the banners inflated claims fall short, simply make up their own “facts” to rationalize the infringement of allegedly protected rights.

Oh, well; however SCOTUS rules, Thomas’ takedown of Jackson’s idiocy should be amusing.

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“Jesus Was Palestinian”

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That line has been getting quite a bit of play from historically ignorant pro-Hamas protesters in the US, as Christmas approaches. It’s just plain stupid, as Palestine didn’t exist back then. Romans applied the name to their imperial province around AD 132, after a failed Jewish rebellion. They picked the name (which derived from the Greek name for Philistines).

But, anachronism aside, let’s roll with it, and see the implications.

“Jesus was Palestinian.”

Jesus was a Jew residing in the region, descended from other of the many (majority, in fact) Jews long residing in the region.

Therefore, all Jews living in Israel (the bulk of the Roman Palestine) now are Palestinians.

And thus we come to the fact that, by these idiots’ standards, we already have a free Palestinian state.

“Free Palestine” has existed since 1948, when the British gave the Mandate of Palestine its independence. Job done; from the river to the sea. Happy now?

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Idiocy Repeats Itself

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Senator Markey [Dumb@ss-MA] filed a bill earlier this year. I missed it until now: S.1819 – 3D Printed Gun Safety Act of 2023.

This bill purports to ban the distribution of 3D-printer files used to build firearms.

Purports.

“(aa) It shall be unlawful for any person to intentionally distribute, over the internet or by means of the World Wide Web, digital instructions in the form of Computer Aided Design files or other code that can automatically program a 3-dimensional printer or similar device to produce a firearm or complete a firearm…

Now if he’d just left it at that, he’d merely be a constitutional idiot. But let’s look at the rest of that sentence

to produce a firearm or complete a firearm from an unfinished frame or receiver.”.

Yes, Markey still thinks 3D additive manufacturing printers start with unfinished frame/receivers.

Still? Perhaps you’ve gotten a sense of deja vu. Markey rode this short bus two years ago.

“(aa) It shall be unlawful for any person to intentionally distribute, over the internet or by means of the World Wide Web, digital instructions in the form of Computer Aided Design files or other code that can automatically program a 3-dimensional printer or similar device to produce a firearm or complete a firearm from an unfinished frame or receiver.”.

Look familiar? Two years on, and he still can’t figure out the difference between additive 3D-printing and subtractive CNC machining (like a Ghost Gunner mill that does complete unfinished frames/receivers).

Or maybe it’s idiocy with a large dose of insanity.

You know, if Markey — his staffers, rather — followed opposition sites like The Zelman Partisans perhaps he’d figure out just why his bill cannot do what it purports, even if it magically passed into law. But I give this attempt no better odds than S. 2319, which whimpered and died in committee.

And yes, I still giggle at this part.

over the internet or by means of the World Wide Web

I still haven’t found a “World Wide Web” that does not operate over the Internet.

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[Update] An Appropriate Use Of Force?

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There’s a trial in Virginia over a shooting. Let me describe the reported circumstances, and let you decide what you’d have done.

You’re minding your own business, when a 6′ 5″ “goon” (his own monicker, by the way) walks up on you. He sticks his hand in your face and calls you a “dips**t”. You repeatedly tell him to stop, but he refuses. You keep backing away, but he keeps closing on you, still calling you a “dips**t.” You try to knock his hand out your face, but he continues.

Would you be frightened, concerned for your physical safety?

Would you shoot the hulking threat?

Alan Colie did shoot the goon; a single shot to the abdomen. And was arrested for it.

Cook, who is 6-foot-5, could be seen holding a cell phone about 6 inches from Colie’s face. The cellphone broadcasted the phrase “Hey dips—-, quit thinking about my twinkle” through a Google Translate app several times.

Colie could be heard saying “stop” on three separate occasions and tried to back away from Cook, who continued to advance towards him.

Colie attempted to knock the phone away from his face before he allegedly pulled out a gun and shot Cook in the lower left chest.

The “rest of the story” is that the goon is a YouTube “prankster,” who has had multiple run-ins with law enforcement over his disgusting, frightening, and threatening “pranks” pulled on unsuspecting strangers. A sane person of normal intelligence might learn from those encounters that such “pranks” are dangerous.

Not Cook.

YouTube prankster Tanner Cook said in court on Tuesday that he had no idea he had scared or angered Alan Colie, 31, who ended up allegedly shooting him during a prank.

And why would he even consider the possibility that his victim might be scared? After all, it’s not like any of his other targets were…

Cook said during the hearing that he tries to confuse targets of his pranks for the amusement of his online audience and doesn’t try to elicit fear or anger, but said his targets often react that way.

Oh. So he already knew that his subjects often perceive him as a threat — just as Colie did — but still thought thought the risk of instilling that fear would be fun.

Would I have shot the goon? Quite possibly, given the scenario described in court. I would certainly have drawn my sidearm and issued one last warning. Then, whether I fired or not would depend on Cook passing the impromptu IQ test.

The prosecution in this case maintains that the shooting was unjustified because the goon was “unarmed.”

“It was stupid. It was silly. And you may even think it was offensive. But that’s all it was — a cellphone in the ear that got Tanner shot.”

No, it was disparity of force. Colie was threatened by a person much larger and stronger; a person who refused to cease his threatening actions. Cook didn’t need a weapon to be a danger, he was a weapon. And while Cook might not have intended to be a threat, Colie didn’t know that; he only knew what he was experiencing, and that was the actions of Cook, who admitted that he knew his victims “often” saw his acts as threatening.

Juries are weird, so I don’t know how this will turn; but I know how it should: acquittal.

As for goon Cook, he clearly is still failing life’s ongoing intelligence test. I suspect he’ll finally encounter someone less restrained than Colie — who only fired a single shot to stop the advancing threat — who will empty his magazine center mass, ending those “pranks” for good.

Update, 9/29/2023: The verdict is in. Colie was acquitted of the two felony malicious wounding and malicious shooting in an occupied structure charges. Weirdly, though, he was convicted of misdemeanor use of a firearm during a felony the same jury said he didn’t committed. Colie’s attorney is addressing that.

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Ban All The Guns?

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So demands the irrational Here4TheKids.

Guns ARE the problem. Here4TheKids is a national movement with a state focus.

We demand that Colorado Governor Jared Solis sign an executive order to ban guns and buy them back.

An executive order pushes Democrats to finally TAKE REAL ACTION to put an end to this nightmare.

They plan to hold a sit-in — which somehow isn’t a “protest” — in Denver on June 5, 2023. If Solis is psychotic enough to do as they wish, their “nightmare” has just begun.

Their site doesn’t list any contact email; just a couple of form to “volunteer” or register for the sit-in. I guess they don’t want to answer any inconvenient questions. Like…

1. You may not like it, but doesn’t the Second Amendment exist?

2. Didn’t HELLER establish the the right to keep and bear arms preexisted the Second Amendment; that it only protects a right that exists anyway?

3. Didn’t MCDONALD establish that the Second Amendment is incorporated to the states, meaning Colorado and Solis have tto obey it, too?

4. Didn’t BRUEN establish that restrictions on the Second with no general, historical tradition are unconstitutional; and that it protects arms beyond those in existence at the time of ratification?

5. Does this mean that Here4TheKids is advocating for the overthrow — by fiat executive order, no less — of the Second Amendment and the Constitution that established the authority of the Supreme Court? Basically, the overthrow of our Constitutional representative republic. The overthrow of the government?

6. Doesn’t that get into treason territory?

So… another set of victim-disarming lefties who want to do away with the Constitution and courts. As I recently noted:

Baker had better hope that the Courts don’t get disavowed. The little remaining confidence in the courts is the only thing standing between himself, and his doorkickers, and six to twelve million heavily armed, non-compliant SOBs.

A final question for the lunatics at Here4TheKids: Do you really want to declare Hunting Season… on yourselves? Because once we can no longer rely on the Constitution, Courts, or basic sanity on the part of idiots like you, I’m afraid there are some who would be happy to take matters into their own hands, and rid themselves of infringers.

And their cheerleaders. Like you.

We’ll try to talk those excitable folks down, but if you actually manage to field confiscating door-kickers, it won’t be easy.

And we’ll have less incentive to try to control them.

 

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Turning BRUEN On Its Head

The Firearms Policy Coalition and the Second Amendment Foundation are suing Washington over its “high capacity” (10+ rounds) magazine ban. That’s old news in itself. What is new is that the Aliiance for Gun Responsibility joined the case as “intervenor-defendant.”

Yes, someone petitioned the court to be sued. Odd, but not unprecedented. More often if someone thinks they have valid points to bring to the court’s attention they would file an amicus brief. But actually being a party to the case gives them more leeway to file motions and responses and potentially call more witnesses.

But I couldn’t help wondering exactly what the AGR, the primary backers of the ban, expected to bring before the court that the existing governmental defendants couldn’t or wouldn’t.

The Alliance specifically denies Paragraph 38’s assertion that LCM regulations are “recent phenomena.”
[…]
The Alliance specifically denies Paragraph 39’s assertion or suggestion that LCMs have been common in America (or anywhere else in the world) for hundreds of years.

Wait. What? Large capacity magazines aren’t recent but have been around for quite a while, but they haven’t been around for quite a while? They regulated something that hadn’t been around?

The Alliance admits that, to the extent weapons capable of firing more than ten rounds existed before the 20th century, they were experimental, unusual, impractical, unreliable, prohibitively expensive, or otherwise not analogous to modern firearms equipped with LCMs—and thus unlikely to necessitate government regulation. The Alliance admits that the only known example in existence of the Wheellock rifle was made in Germany around 1580 and was capable of firing 16 shots.

Basically, we are looking at a –admittedly confused — variation of the old “the founders never envisioned anything but single-shot muskets” argument. Buy with a weird twist to account for the ruling in BRUEN.

The Alliance admits that, to the extent weapons capable of firing more than ten rounds existed before the 20th century, they were experimental, unusual, impractical, unreliable, prohibitively expensive, or otherwise not analogous to modern firearms equipped with LCMs— and thus unlikely to necessitate government regulation.

BRUEN requires that gun control laws and regulations have a basis in general, historical tradition.

The test that the Court set forth in Heller and applies today requires courts to assess whether modern firearms regulations are consistent with the Second Amendment’s text and historical understanding. Of course, the regulatory challenges posed by firearms today are not always the same as those that preoccupied the Founders in 1791 or the Reconstruction generation in 1868. But the Constitution can, and must, apply to circumstances beyond those the Founders specifically anticipated, even though its meaning is fixed according to the understandings of those who ratified it.

AGR is arguing that specific firearms — innovations — have a basis in such tradition, or they can by default be regulated. AGR’s attorney, Kai Smith, just got BRUEN completely ass-backwards.

Never mind that SCOTUS disposed of that very argument in BRUEN. Or, for that matter, in the earlier Caetano v. Massachusetts (2016)…

the Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms, even those that were not in existence at the time of the founding”

AGR would have us — and specifically the court — believe that the only reason that the government didn’t “envision” magazine limits was that they didn’t envision “high capacity” magazines. And of course if they’d anticipated that, they would have preemptively banned such Progress of Science and useful Arts”.

Instead of promoting innovation.

Pro-tip, AGR: Just because Madison didn’t invent “high capacity” magazine-fed semi-automatic firearms does not mean he didn’t anticipate such a possibility.

James Madison, known for his role in drafting the Bill of Rights (including that pesky 2A) lived through the rise of repeating firearms, breechloaders, paper cartridges, percussion caps, metallic cartridges, pinfire cartridges, centerfire cartridges, revolvers, and mass production of firearms.
[…]
Yet never once did Madison stop and say, “Whoa, guys! We didn’t have any of this new shit in mind. The Second Amendment is just for muskets.”

It’s almost as if they foresaw “Progress of Science and useful Arts” — including arms. And communications systems. You might even get the impression they sought to “promote” such advancements by “securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.”

This — aside from the lack of a law degree — is why I’ll never be a federal judge. I’d have sanctioned attorney Kai Smith for that frivolous, self-contradictory filing that completely reverses the meaning of two separate Supreme Court rulings.

 

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Time For A “Protection of Lawful Commerce in Automobiles Act”?

After partially defunding their police, Saint Louis has hit upon the real reason car thefts are up. And it has nothing to do with decades of — mostly — Dimwitocrat corruption.

When it isn’t the guns, it’s the cars.

ST. LOUIS CRIME: City Officials to Sue Car Manufacturers Because Criminals Are Stealing Cars
Car thefts have skyrocketed in St. Louis in recent months, with city leadership threatening lawsuits against Kia and Hyundai for an alleged defect that makes certain makes of the cars easier to steal.
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In August, St. Louis leaders threatened to sue Hyundai and Kia, demanding the car companies address a defect that allegedly makes stealing vehicles made before 2021 easier to steal. KMOV reported last week that plans to sue the carmakers over the city’s spike in auto thefts are still in the works.

The issue, of course, isn’t really a “defect.” It’s a lack of an optional system that I’ve never had installed in a single vehicle I’ve owned in my life.

Hyundai and Kia chose to manufacture and sell the affected vehicles without an immobilizer, a device which prevents most vehicles from being started unless a code is transmitted from the vehicle’s smart key. Viral videos on TikTok and YouTube give step-by-step instructions on how to steal the affected vehicles without a key, and reports of stolen Kia and Hyundai vehicles have skyrocketed across the country.

Yes, Saint Louis is demanding that auto manufacturers only produce “smart” guns cars capable of recognizing authorized users, and disabling the vehicle for anyone else. Sounds vaguely familiar.

Not to give them ideas, but wouldn’t be easier to ban automatic transmissions, since a great many wanna-be “gone in 60 seconds” emulators can’t drive a stick? After all, who really needs a fully automatic car built just to go as dangerously fast as possible anyway?

Welcome to the party, pals.

 

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