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Walmart, Merchant of Death

September 6, 2019 Sheila Stokes 6 Comments

For those that haven’t heard yet, retail giant Walmart has decided that to keep the forces of evil at bay (the anti-gun harpies and their ilk) the best thing they could do would be cave into the pressure. Because their customers who shop at Walmart looking for value on things they use in their daily lives are not nearly as important as getting the harpies to quit and being labeled as “socially responsible”. Mind you, the harpies are not nearly as large a segment of the population as the people that quietly go about their business shopping at Walmart, I don’t believe.

Walmart to stop selling handgun ammunition. Retailer will also ask customers to stop openly carrying firearms

Walmart’s stance has encouraged others to follow in their ground breaking foot steps.

Walgreens and CVS ask customers not to openly carry guns in their stores

Kroger requests customers stop openly carrying guns in stores

Thank you Oleg Volk

This has lead a buddy of mine of Facebook to point out a few things. Said buddy is staunch Second Amendment supporter, so his views may be subtle. Thanks Bill for the lines.

My breakup with Walmart will not be easy. I have two outstanding items at the pharmacy that have to be handled there, but then I’ll transfer the prescriptions elsewhere. I’m serious about this.

I do owe him and his buddies one, they helped me figure out how to get a screw out of the laser sights on my .380 and only chided me a tiny bit for carrying that small a gun at times. Good lads all! But being a helpful friend, I told him about Israel Pharmacy. I’ve set 3 people up with accounts there and they’ve all been pleased and saved money, and no they aren’t paying me.

IsraelPharm

So regarding my buddy’s salient points, let’s examine the death and destruction Walmart unleashes on a daily basis on the unsuspecting communities they invade. And if you are a small Mom and Pop shop, I suspect you would agree with the characterization of Walmart as being an invasive species that puts small businesses out of business and then quits carrying the necessary items.

This one is startling. A study by Johns Hopkins found that 250,000 Americans are killed by medical errors each year. That’s 17 times the number killed by guns. Yet Walmart has a pharmacy in each store.

But my friend wasn’t done with his observations.

In 2018, 40,000 people died in automobile crashes in the U.S., yet Walmart still sells the vital parts and ammunition to keep these machines of carnage operating.

And

In 2014, nearly 5000 people died in bathtub drownings in the U.S., yet with few exceptions, every home still contains at least one of these known instruments of death. In fact, the government requires them!

My gracious! The inhumanity! Think of the bathtub bumpstocks Walmart sells! High capacity bottles of bubble bath, huge bags of scented Epson salts, bath scrubbies in multiple colors and that doesn’t count the dangerous chemicals Walmart sells to clean aforementioned bathtub of death! And they sell Tide Pods!

In 2017 there were nearly a thousand fatal bicycle accidents, yet Walmart still sells these machines of death. Walmart has blood on their hands.

I can hear it now, “Walmart peddler of death”. Yes, it’s a pun. Yes, it’s a bad one.

Hey Walmart. Stop selling beer, liquor, and wine.

An estimated 88,0008 people (approximately 62,000 men and 26,000 women) die from alcohol-related causes annually, making alcohol the third leading preventable cause of death in the United States. The first is tobacco, and the second is poor diet and physical inactivity.

No mention of guns?

But let’s go back to the “groundbreaking” stance bit. It’s not really you know. And if Walmart quits selling ammunition you can just go to K-Mart and buy it. Oh, wait. Kmart Kills Ammunition Sales

Maybe not.

Company officials made the announcement Thursday following meetings that included company executives, a prominent gun-control advocate and victims of the 1999 Columbine High School shooting.

Kmart stores have not carried handguns since the 1970s, but still sell hunting rifles and other long guns. For some time, the Troy, Mich.-based company has been under pressure from gun-control advocates to stop selling firearms.

In November 1999, talk show host Rosie O’Donnell resigned as the company’s celebrity spokeswoman because of her strong support of gun control.

And in December 1999 the company withdrew an application for a license to sell rifles and shotguns at a new store in New York after protests by an anti-gun group.

Company spokeswoman Julie Fracker said the sale of firearms and ammunition had been under review as part of a merchandising strategy by the company’s new executive team for some time.

“Obviously we consider ourselves a socially conscious business, but this was a business decision made in the best interests of the company,” she said.

Kmart, Sears store closings: More locations to shutter by end of 2019

And about Rosie resigning as spokeswoman? Well, she’s important you see, you aren’t. If you aren’t rich enough to afford professional body guards, well then your life isn’t worth preserving. She of course can afford armed bodyguards, and has them. #Elitist #Hypocrisy

So, maybe go to Dick’s Sporting Goods? Dick’s Sporting Goods worries that sales could drop in wake of change in gun policy Oh, don’t be silly! Everyone knows taking a strong “social justice” stance will pay off. Who cares about those mouth breathing gun owners, right?

The latest balance sheet data shows that DICK’S Sporting Goods had liabilities of US$1.93b due within a year, and liabilities of US$3.22b falling due after that. On the other hand, it had cash of US$116.7m and US$68.5m worth of receivables due within a year. So its liabilities total US$4.96b more than the combination of its cash and short-term receivables.

This deficit casts a shadow over the US$3.08b company, like a colossus towering over mere mortals. So we definitely think shareholders need to watch this one closely. At the end of the day, DICK’S Sporting Goods would probably need a major re-capitalization if its creditors were to demand repayment.

…

DICK’S Sporting Goods’s net debt is only 0.48 times its EBITDA. And its EBIT easily covers its interest expense, being 32.4 times the size. So you could argue it is no more threatened by its debt than an elephant is by a mouse. But the bad news is that DICK’S Sporting Goods has seen its EBIT plunge 13% in the last twelve months. We think hat kind of performance, if repeated frequently, could well lead to difficulties for the stock. There’s no doubt that we learn most about debt from the balance sheet. But it is future earnings, more than anything, that will determine DICK’S Sporting Goods’s ability to maintain a healthy balance sheet going forward.

Corporate Gun Control Fail: Dick’s May Have to Close 35 Stores Across 18 States #DontBeDicks

Who cares about those mouth breathing gun owners? Oh, I dunno, the shareholders? If I were a shareholder and the CEO started making monetary decisions based on “social justice” knee jerks rather than responding to customers I think I would lead the charge to oust them. That’s my money you’re playing with. I invested in a company, not a high school experiment with a popularity contest.

This has lead to the popular Babylon Bee news site (satire) breaking the news on two more new Walmart policies

In addition to asking them to refrain from open carry, Walmart Asks Customers To Stop Shopping In Sleepwear, Even In States Where It’s Legal

And

Walmart Discontinues Auto Part Sales To Prevent Car Accidents

BENTONVILLE, AR—In a bold move intended to curb the thousands of deaths from vehicles each and every day, Walmart has decided to stop selling auto parts, sources confirmed Tuesday.

According to shocking reports, people have purchased car parts at Walmart and then those cars have been involved in accidents, proving a direct correlation between selling auto parts and causing deaths.

“We can no longer be complicit in an industry that kills over 3,000 people a day,” said a spokesperson for Walmart. “Every time we sell a muffler, steering wheel cover, or flame decal, we are potentially causing the death of a person, and we cannot support that any longer.”

But hey, while perusing the Bee’s homepage, I did get a bit of good news!

‘When I Am President, I Will Take Away Your Guns,’ Says Man Who Will Never Be President

U.S.—Beto O’Rourke promised to take away everybody’s guns when he is president, though sources have confirmed that O’Rourke will never even get close to being the president.

…

“Man, I can’t wait to see how that presidential pen feels signing an unconstitutional executive order,” he added wistfully, though he will never know how that feels.

At publishing times, O’Rourke’s pro-gun control comments had caused his number of supporters to get cut in half, leaving him with just one.

That’s the thing about all this modern incarnation of “social justice”. In placating the harpies, and playing to the #FakeNews cameras you cause harm to the people you are suppose to be working for, shareholders or constituents. Not to mention the people that work for you. They used to be called “employees with families” till their jobs went away because that store had to be closed. If you’ve enhanced your ego or reputation at the expense of someone you’ve betrayed, it seems there could be fallout. I hope it falls hard on you.

I bet there might be a local gun shop with knowledgeable people around. They may not mix paint for you, but I bet the can make some sensible gun related recommendations should you ask.

You could also take up a new hobby, reloading anyone?

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Nasty, Brutish, and Short

September 2, 2019 Carl Bussjaeger 4 Comments

-shakes head- All the calls for “gun control” that will magically stop all mass shootings miss the mark. Let me tell you a secret: Addressing the problem with victim-disarming gun control laws won’t hack it.

Background checks, however “enhanced” won’t do it, because looking at past activities doesn’t predict with certainty what someone might do in the future, under changing conditions.

Same with ex parte “red flag” confiscations.

“Assault weapon” bans? Most mass shootings are committed with handguns.

Age limits? What; you’re going to raise age limits to 70? 80?

Licensing? Registration? See above, re:background checks.

Buybacks? That never works; just ask New Zealand, with its 6.45% compliance rate. Buybacks don’t even touch the probable five million plus stolen guns in the wild.

There is only one gun control act that would possibly prevent mass shootings: Total confiscation of all firearms. Not just civilian arms, but everything; police and military (ask Los Zetas where they really got their “military-grade” weaponry; it wasn’t US gun stores). Then you’d have to ban pipes, aluminum cans, iron, copper, nails, sugar, stump remover, fertilizer, propane, butane, lighter fluid, gasoline, charcoal briquets, and any and all chemical precursors to homemade propellant. You’ll shut down all industry and commercial agriculture in America. The country, and much of the world, will starve.

Ever hear of linacs and railguns? There goes electricity, no matter how “greenly” it’s generated. Since you already eliminated plumbing, cities are now uninhabitable.

To enforce all that, you’ll need to raid every structure and property in the nation, going over every inch with metal detectors, ground penetrating radar, chemical sniffers, and Mark I Eyeballs.

Then you’ll need watchmen-watchers to keep an eye on the confiscation teams, because those are just people, too.

And someone to watch them.

You’ll need to recruit every man, woman, and child in the country as snitches, so that someone is always watching everyone who might be creatively assembling concrete, wire, flour, piss, flint, and steel to build an improvised cannon. (Crappy, but it would work.)

You’ll need to ban knowledge of history, mathematics, chemistry, engineering, lest someone apply that to construct a firearm. So much for maintaining infrastructure, let alone creating more.

Literacy will have to go, to be sure someone doesn’t wrong-ideas from an old book that missed being 451’d.

This is the 21st century; the firearms cat is out of the bag. If you want to use gun control to stop shootings, you need to reduce the nation to a sparsely populated Stone Age society.

Have fun with that. Or maybe you’d like to look at things that might really help.

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A willingness to defend yourself WILL get you “red flagged”

September 1, 2019 Carl Bussjaeger 3 Comments

Consider this report.

Remarks against Antifa prompt FBI seizure of former Marine’s weapons under Oregon’s ‘red flag’ law: reports
A former Marine who said at a protest that he would “slaughter” Antifa members in self-defense, if attacked, recently had his five weapons confiscated by the FBI, according to reports.
[…]
Based on the court order, Kohfield – who served two tours of duty in Iraq — was committed to a veterans hospital for 20 days and was barred from participating in subsequent protests in Portland.

What was the horrible “threat” Kohfield made, that got his firearms stolen and him involuntarily committed to a psych hospital by judicial order (the latter part means he may never get his firearms back, nor replace them)?

“If Antifa gets to the point where they start killing us, I’m going to kill them next,” Kohfield told a crowd, according to the Oregonian. “I’d slaughter them, and I have a detailed plan on how I would wipe out Antifa.”

Consider:

“If” A conditional
“they start killing us” If someone else initiates deadly force against him
“going to kill them next” A potential response of deadly force against deadly force
“I have a detailed plan” A considered course of defensive action

Do you, like 17.25 million other people, have a concealed carry license?

If you carry a firearm for defensive purposes, you are prepared to exercise deadly force in defense to counter initiated deadly force.

By obtaining a license, you have documented that you have planned for the conditional possibility.

You probably go to the range and practice your plan. Your defensive plan.

This is what Dim-ocrats and Repugnant-cans alike want to inflict upon you.

Think you’re safe because you aren’t licensed and don’t carry? Think again. Maybe you know someone who does.

Vermont used an ex parte “red flag” order to steal firearms from someone because of the possibility that another person thought to be a threat might get into the other person’s house and steal them.

Florida “red flagged” an innocent man because he had a name similar to someone else.

California took the lawfully owned and securely stored (in a safe) firearm from a woman because someone else in the home was “red flagged.”

The Oregon precedent can be used against any CCW licensee. The Vermont/Florida/California (and other places where I’ve seen the same thing reported) can be used against anyone who happens to know, be related to, or lives near someone who has been “red flagged”… for a willingness to defend himself.

And being an ex parte action, the first you’ll know about it is when the cops show up in the wee hours to steal your guns, and maybe kill you in the process. If you do survive, you may have to wait weeks for a hearing (at your expense) in which you have to prove your innocence of something someone else hasn’t done.

Lindsay Graham calls that “due process.”

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Absolute Tyranny

August 30, 2019 Carl Bussjaeger 6 Comments

What is it with Dim-ocrat presidential candidates thinking that threatening to wage war on American civilians makes a great campaign platform plank? Kalifornia’s Eric Swallowswell wanted to nuke America’s breadbasket, although he backed off a little and settled for overwhelming military force.

Oddly, that didn’t encourage campaign donors, or boost his polling. Go figure.

It appears Joe “c’mere, little girl” Biden apparently didn’t learn from Swalwell’s experience.

Joe Biden on the Second Amendment: No amendment is ‘absolute’
“Folks, don’t apologize at all about the Second Amendment,” Biden advised, explaining how the amendment allows for limitations on who can own a weapon and what type. “These guys will tell you, the tree of liberty is watered with the blood of patriots. Give me a break.”

Gropin’ Joe needs to check the whole quote.

“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

That part about “tyrants” should concern a man who continued with this:

“If you want to protect yourself against the federal government, you’re going to need at least an F-15.”

That is a rather direct threat. More so than Swalwell’s snide, “The government has nukes.”

In fact, military aircraft aren’t going to be needed. When wannabe absolute tyrants like Biden push hard enough, my fear is that it won’t be anything so controlled as civil war. Far more likely is what I’ve termed “hunting season,” where thousands or millions of pissed-off individuals decide to take matters into their own individual hands. Not coordinated action by groups who can be targeted in return.

What could individuals do versus the government?

Two untrained idiots tied up the resources of two states and the District of Columbia for three weeks.

One sniper took down 12 cops (5 dead, 7 wounded).

One ex-cop with a grudge held the attention of three counties’ law enforcement agencies for a week and a half. The chaos he caused even got three innocent civilians shot (reinforcing the idea of staying out of it and crossfire).

One nonexistent sniper tied up the police for days.

But my personal favorite had to be four less-than-competent jihadis who tied up 90,000 police and military personnel for days.

Consider those, then multiply by thousands, hundreds of thousands, or millions of people with a grudge over being stripped of rights, and then you have “hunting season.” No bag limits. Clinton Rules of Engagement apply. Full scale ugliness, and it’s hard to see anything but a horrible outcome for everyone.

Hunting season. The whackos who would be king could help avoid this by respecting rights. They could stop campaigning on policy enforcement-by-genocide.

I don’t want to see this. If it comes to it, I’ll hunker down and try to stay out of the crossfire. But that show will require a lot of popcorn.

Oh, and, Joe?

“Can you go out and buy a flamethrower? Can you go out and buy an F-15?”

Yes, you can buy a flame thrower. And while an F-15 on the commercial market might be hard to find, other jet fighters are available. Lawfully arming a surplus fighter might be problematical, but if the groper-in-chief is waging war against Americans, and sending fighters after us, the legality becomes something of a lesser concern.

Americans currently own flamethrowers, machineguns, artillery, tanks, combat-capable aircraft, besides the semi-auto peashooters, Joe finds so scary.

Multiply hunting season by that.

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Vote Bucket Head Biden

August 29, 2019 Sheila Stokes 2 Comments

So here to compel you to vote for Bucket-head Biden is an amazing argument! Oh, I just read it’s suppose to be “lunch bucket Joe”. I however feel “bucket-head Biden” is a much more accurate phrase, and it’s my column, so I’ll go with that.

The Demoncratic kandidates for President seem to be in competition with each other for who can deny law abiding citizens the most of their rights. Who can expand the government the most, seize more money for redistribution and prevent citizens from protecting themselves against some of the prisoners they propose to unleash upon society. Bucket head is quite proud of some of his legislative efforts!

The Results of Biden’s “Gun Free” efforts

Bucket Head Lunch Bucket was recently in the news to explain to America why it doesn’t need more than 10 rounds. Bucket Head explains to a hunter why no one needs 100 clips in their gun and “cop-killer” bullets to go hunting. One hundred clips? How does that even work? I mean, where would you hold the gun? I don’t believe for a minute Bucket-head has friends that hunt. If they were his friends they would at least make sure he used proper terminology. I would think. And if they hunted they wouldn’t really be friends with Bucket-head, I wouldn’t think. Sorry, I can’t embed the video on this one.

Biden: No One Needs 100 Clips In A Gun…

But Bucket-head has a long and proud history of giving sensible gun ownership advice.

Clips, huh, not magazine? That’s the thing when you have people that don’t like guns, don’t think law-abiding citizens should have them either because they are very ego-eccentric. They think all people are as untrustworthy as they are.

Don’t worry, the media will correct him on it. Source BBC.

Meanwhile:

Because Joe’s special and your family isn’t.

What I find very dismaying is that the crowd applauded this idiotic statements. They not only want to watch freedom circle the drain, they want to flush.

Bucket-head seems to have a lot of problems with facts, and dates.

But Bucket-head has his wife, to whom he had to propose five times, is out on the campaign trail for him. Her resounding rally message is “Vote for Joe, yeah, he sucks, but he can beat Trump”. So while she turned him down 4 or 5 times, she wants Americans to embrace him. Newsflash Jill: We don’t have to “swallow and vote for him”.

So Jill, “You can’t tell me that your children are proud of the President, of the things he says…” Well, Jill, if I can be honest here, and since it’s my column, I can, let’s just talk about some of the things your husband says, shall we? Yes, we shall.

Let’s go way back to June 22 1982, when Bucket-head was on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Or in Bucket-head’s time challenged mind, you have options of choosing 1992, 1972, 1980 or 1984, whichever.

Bucket-head apparently prepared for this conversation/threat with Israeli PM Menachem Begin as well as he prepares for anything. Which is to say, he didn’t. He decided to threaten Menachem Begin with a cut to Israeli aide if Israel didn’t do what he wanted. This was during the height of the Lebanon war and he decided to tell Begin Jews must stop living in Judea and Shomron. Apparently he had no idea of Begin’s character, courage, life of family history, and so he made the threats. Prime Minister Begin responded.

“Don’t threaten us with cutting off your aid. It will not work. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history. Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country. We paid for it. We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by our principles. We will defend them. And, when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid.”

Bucket-head reiterated his points by pounding on the desk. PM Begin answered

“This desk is designed for writing, not for fists. Don’t threaten us with slashing aid. Do you think that because the US lends us money it is entitled to impose on us what we must do? We are grateful for the assistance we have received, but we are not to be threatened. I am a proud Jew. Three thousand years of culture are behind me, and you will not frighten me with threats. Take note: we do not want a single soldier of yours to die for us.”

So how’s about Jill? You proud of your husband? You proud of his and his Anti-semitic party’s stance on Jews living in the Jewish state of Israel? Or has he “evolved”? He now only supports Illan Omar and Rashida Tliar in their Jew hatred part of the time? You and Bucket-head proud to tell the kids, “Daddy sure showed those Jews!”

Menachem Begin, righteous warrior. We need him today, he is inspiring and truthful. I’d put him up against anyone in the Anti-semitic Demoncrat party any day. Bucket-head Biden and the Squat wouldn’t stand a chance.

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Alden Dudley is seriously confused

August 29, 2019 Carl Bussjaeger 2 Comments

Lately, I’ve been frustrated by all the firearm-related misinformation and outright lies. But occasionally it does get amusing.

Letter: Domestic terrorism
The National RIFLE Association was formed by and for hunters with no interest in or endorsement of military weapons.

The NRA, a group with which I have no affiliation (NRA delenda est), was formed by former military officers to encourage firearms ownership and training because they were appalled by the lack of marksmanship skills in recruits.

One of Mr Trump’s worst crimes is saying he will stop the senseless murders of innocent children and adults at churches, schools, and social gatherings when he still supports machine guns, etc.

Trump is on the record as supporting ex parte firearm confiscation orders, raising age limits to own firearms, universal preemptively prove your innocence checks, waiting periods, “assault weapons” bans, expanding NICS, and actually banned bump-fire stocks (as machineguns) by fiat.

How can a paramilitary group be permitted to collect tanks, jeeps, helicopters, transport vehicles, etc? Isn’t that a direct threat to democracy (Oklahoma City)?

What? Was there a military assault on OKC overnight? I missed that. All those tanks, jeeps, and helicopters must have been exciting.

How can their existence be legal? State governments have constitutional authority under the Second Amendment…

The Second Amendment doesn’t authorize anything; it forbids infringements. And the US Supreme Court has ruled that it applies to the states as well as the federal government.

Although Australia and New Zealand were created for cast-off prisoners of England, those countries have legislators wise enough to have strict gun laws. An unexpected benefit has been a significant decrease in suicides and intra-family murders.

Australia’s ban only saw 20% compliance. Violent crime overall increased immediately after the ban, but murders continued the same downward trend the country was previously experiencing.

New Zealand’s ban is seeing a mere 6.45% compliance rate, with compliance dropping with every “buyback” event. Since they’re only 2 months into the ban, it’s a little early to make claims about the effects on crime rates.

Legislators and the Supreme Court need to severely limit gun ownership, as in Australia.

Of course, there’s that pesky 2A thingie, not to mention millions of heavily armed, noncompliant SOBs. But I’m sure Dudley will volunteer to lead the stack on confiscation raids.

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Malicious Compliance Revisited

August 23, 2019 Carl Bussjaeger 9 Comments

With registration schemes in the works, let’s imagine a humorous, purely hypothetical scenario.

Police State A passes a registration law.

Folks in other states publicly post something along the lines of, “I happen to know that someone in [NOT-State-A] has an AR, [manufacturer] [model] serial number 12345xxx. Plenty of credible examples.

“Compliant” A-Staters use that data to cram the State A’s database full of realistic-looking garbage: variations on out-of-state weapons. Change the serial numbers.

And never forget the overly compliant. Register a few hundred per person. You’ll probably make typos on the forms, so be sure to requisition plenty. And early, as they’ll likely run out.

Now that places such as New York City and California are doing their best to generate new Dim-ocrat voters-to-be with sanctuary and ID for “undocumented” illegals, those identities could be the ones “registering” their imaginary “assault weapons” and half-million-apiece magazines. I’ve heard that in Chicago, 1060 West Addison Street is a traditional address.

With millions of bogus database entries, I expect it’ll be a while before they sort through them and find “real” people who… “Darned boating accidents.” Mischievous types will want to get their lost/stolen reports in ahead of the expected rush. If they go low-bidder on the software, our little Simon Jesters might even crash the database.

If nothing else, this should lower unemployment, as governments recruit more clerks to handle the data entry.

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“I do not think that means what you think it means.”

August 22, 2019 Carl Bussjaeger 5 Comments

Parkland “survivor” Hogglet needs his 15-minute-fame fix again.

David Hogg suggests compromise on gun control
“If this plan ends up in Congress, and they say a gun registry is a nonstarter or the assault weapons ban and mandatory gun buy back program are nonstarters, OK. Then maybe we start talking about reclassifying them and making sure you have the right permitting in place where you can still go and use them,” Hogg continued. “But people aren’t going to have nearly as easy accessibility to them to go and commit mass shootings as they are currently.”

Reclassifying semiautomatic firearms as NFA machineguns is registry, dumbass.

And that’s no compromise.

compromise [ kom-pruh-mahyz ]
noun
a settlement of differences by mutual concessions; an agreement reached by adjustment of conflicting or opposing claims, principles, etc., by reciprocal modification of demands.

Hogglet’s “compromise” offers nothing to human rights-respecting gun owners in exchange for giving up or registering tens to hundreds of millions of firearms. Allowing people to beg permission, pay a $200 bribe, and register to keep their property is not compromise.

Offer to give us something.

And listen when we say, “No.”

“Or else“.

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Debunking Lies

August 20, 2019 Carl Bussjaeger 6 Comments

Frustration is getting to me. That frustration is seeing the same lies over and over again, even though they’ve been thoroughly debunked. Like this one:

From 1791 until 2008, the supreme court refused to touch gun-control laws.
[…]
All that changed in 2008 with the court’s 5-4 decision in District of Columbia v Heller. In striking down a Washington DC ban on handguns in the home, the court’s conservative majority held for the first time that the second amendment “protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia.”

It’s particularly frustrating because that comes from “James J Grosfeld professor of law” Lawrence Douglas. Either Douglas is remarkably ill-informed for a law professor, or he’s a liar.

* 1857, Dred Scott
The Supreme Court ruled against Scott because — among other reasons — if Scott was a free man, he’d have the right to bear arms just like every other citizen. Not that he’d have the right to join a militia, but to bear arms at all.

*1876, Cruikshank
The Court found that the Bill of Rights applies to all people. The limitation was on which governments were forbidden to infringe on rights. In this case, they found that it did not apply to state governments.

* 1886, Presser
Admittedly, this was militia related, but the Court found that everyone capable of bearing arms is in the militia. Everyone; all individuals.

* 1939, Miller
This was an odd case, and not just for a dead defendant going to the Supreme Court. The final ruling held that the Second Amendment only protected those weapons suitable for military use. Since deceased Miller’s lawyers didn’t bother showing up, the Court bought the prosecution’s absurd claim that short-barrel shotguns are not military-grade and thus could be regulated under the National Firearms Act. Weapons suitable for military use cannot be regulated. Sadly, they limited that to the shotgun in question.

And that’s something to throw in victim disarmers’ faces when they shriek about “weapons of war.”

The Supreme Court long recognized the Second Amendment as protecting the right of individuals to keep and bear arms. Heller didn’t change that; the Court acknowledging a preexisting, individual right was not new. They said so in their decision, citing multiple cases. What was new was incorporation.

Up until Heller, court rulings as to the applicability of various parts of the Constitution and Amendments to state and local governments was inconsistent. Heller should have settled the matter: The Second Amendment applies to all governments, not just the federal government.

But Chicago politicians ride the short bus, so the Supreme Court revisited the subject in McDonald. The Court slapped down the claim that Heller only applied to Washington, DC, and explicitly stated that it applies to all levels of government.

Is Douglas ignorant or a liar? I think he’s a liar, because this recently-common talking point has been debunked repeatedly. But VDs keep pushing it anyway, just as the cite Kellerman.

It’s frustrating. We’re stuck with the truth. The rights-violators are free to lie at will.

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The Rebbe Had a Gun!

August 14, 2019 Y.B. ben Avraham 2 Comments

Even the Rebbe Rashab carried a gun.

He could have been Red Flagged, subjected to a Mental Health Database, or blocked by a Universal Background Check.

All of these things, and more, would have been nice and legal under his Government.

Duly Processed, too.

Here is a letter recently submitted to some Pro-Second-Amendment folks in the Jewish community:

B”H

Dear Sirs, and Rabbi,

Reportedly, Mrs. Kushner (and, by implication, her husband) are the point-persons which President Trump has tasked with coordination with the Anti-2A forces in Congress.

I believe a strong reach-out, from competent rabbinic authority,representing Torah Jewry on this issue is in order. Furthermore, it appears to be very time critical

Were things to proceed as they are trending, Individual Liberty will suffer, and it will by all accounts be seen as being done at the behest of prominent, reputedly observant, Jews.

A very dangerous combination, indeed.

I would suggest skipping the normal Government protocol (spelled B-A-R-R-I-E-R) approach, and instead start by leaving a message for them through Rabbi Levi Shemtov, of American Friends of Lubavitch, in Washington D.C. (around the corner from the Kushner Home).

Their number is (202) 332-5600.

Thank You

“America iz nisht anderish…”

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