Another school shooting, in Nashville this time. Details are sparse: three dead child victims, one dead asshole perp. No ages, no weapon described.
But that doesn’t stop commenters from jumping to conclusions.
Robert Smith
27 minutes ago
And the AR-15 makes it so much easier to accomplish this.
One more time: no weapon described. And handguns are used far more often than rifles.
Then there’s this person.
The Big Wrench
46 minutes ago
400,000,000 guns in people’s hands in this country. Guns are the leading cause of death for children in the US.
Let’s take that one at time.
400,000,000 guns. If guns were the cause, the country would have been completely depopulated years ago. Maybe, just maybe… it’s somethingone else.
Let’s get a tally in comments: How many people have your own guns killed so far?
As for guns being the leading cause of death for American children… It’s true that the CDC makes that claim. But as seems to be the usual case, they’re lying.
The CDC reported 4,368 child deaths by gunfire in 2020, the vast majority of which were homicides, followed by suicides.
To get 4.368, you have to use an age range of 0yo through 19yo. Yes, they included legal adult gangbangers as “children.” Odd that, since the federal definition of “children” is “TWO YEARS TO TWELVE YEARS. Note the to; not through group, that means under twelve. Twelve years fall into the next group, adolescents.
So now that we know what children really are, what’s WISQARS say?
314 dead by firearm. The CDC inflated the the number of “children’s”deaths by 14 times. 207 of those were homicides; far too high, but not indicative that the problem is inanimate guns. 21 were suicides; parents pay attention.
I mentioned adult gangbangers. Take a look at the first three results of a web search on “18 year old killed gang”:
18-year-old sentenced for 2021 gang shooting in Caldwell
Almaraz demanded that another individual in the vehicle hand him a handgun and then fired seven times into a group of individuals who were running away, hitting Hernandez and another 19-year-old man
That last one was in 2020, the period of the CDC “study,” so that 18yo gang member was one of their “children.” But “The Big Wrench” believes it because he feelz, since thinking — and Bog forbid researching hard facts — is too hard.
And just might hurt his feelings.
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As had been previously announced, Gropin’ Joe Xiden has signed another executive order“on Reducing Gun Violence and Making Our Communities Safer.”. I may be a little late to the game, but I was waiting for the actual order, to see the details.
There’s plenty of objectionable material in there — using the Federal Trade Commission to finds loopholes in the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arm Act to sue firearm industry, using the DOD’s buying power to pressure the industry, more and harder “red flag” laws, and more — but I’m going to focus on this part.
clarify the definition of who is engaged in the business of dealing in firearms, and thus required to become Federal firearms licensees (FFLs), in order to increase compliance with the Federal background check requirement for firearm sales, including by considering a rulemaking, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law;
On the one hand, you might welcome the ATF finally formalizing one single definition, as opposed to the current method of a dealer is whoever we say it is this time, until we change our minds to screw someone else.
On the other hand, you should take a look at the motivation behind this. Xiden is redefining “dealer”…
with the goal of increasing the number of background checks conducted before firearm sales, moving the U.S. as close to universal background checks as possible without additional legislation.
They can’t pass universal preemptively-prove-your-innocence checks legislatively, so the Groper-In-Chief is once again arrogating the powers of Congress unto himself, and implementing universal PPYI through executive fiat.
On the bright side, when this goes through proposed rule-making, I’ll be able to copy and paste my arguments on that arrogation from TZP’s comments on the redefinition of “firearm.” It’ll save some time.
Since universal rights violation is the goal, who will that make a “dealer”? I expect the answer can be found in failed universal check legislation. Typically, such bills require background checks on virtually all firearm transfers, but exempt exchanges between certain specific family members and temporary loans when the owner is still present (hunting and range time, typically).
If you sell any firearm — just one — to someone who isn’t one of those typical exceptions, I think the ATF is going to call you a dealer. And unless you get your FFL before you make that transfer, they’ll nail you on a felony 18 U.S. Code § 922 (a)(1)(A) violation.
Alternatively, millions of gun owners could apply for FFLs to cover out butts, generating lots of revenue for the feds. But at least we’d overwhelm and likely crash their systems.
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So Purim; the holiday where we celebrate the survival of the Jewish nation over the evil wishes of Fauxci and Pfizer the evil Hamen to wipe out the Jewish nation, or everyone depending on the villain you chose for the statement. It’s been said most Jewish holidays can be summed up with “They tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat”. Purim is one of those events in history that remind us of the difference between self-defense as a human right, and self-defense as a privilege. The King had agreed to the wicked Hamen’s request to allow him to kill all the Jews in Persia. He signed a royal decree and sealed it, the decree had been dispatched all over the country. When Hamen was exposed for what he was, and the King was appalled at what was fixin’ to happen he began granting Queen Esther/Hadassah’s requests one after the other. But the fly in the ointment was the decree to kill the Jews. That was a royal decree, signed and sealed and couldn’t be recalled. So what to do? Another royal decree saying the Jews would be allowed to used armed resistance to defend themselves.
Once again the King’s scribes were called, and the new decrees were prepared, this time dictated by Mordechai himself. The documents were immediately dispatched by royal couriers riding on swift steeds to all the governors and princes of the 127 provinces of the Persian Empire, from India to Ethiopia. By these royal decrees, permission was granted to the Jews to gather on the thirteenth day of Adar and defend themselves against their enemies, and to attack and slay all those who would assault them.
Purim is a very different holiday than Hanukkah, or Pesach. In both of those holidays G-d is very obviously present. Meaning frogs raining down is not normal, seas splitting are not normal, it’s obvious, he’s there. Hanukkah, the great victory of a tiny band of Jews committed to freedom and living as G-d had instructed against a mighty army is a big thing. But Purim? Where are the big supernatural miracles? There really aren’t any. Any decent husband (so I’m told) grants their wife’s requests from time to time. Not wanting to see her kinfolk slaughtered because of a command you gave seems a normal thing to me. I mean for one thing it’s going to make for extremely tense marital relations for a long time I would think. The Jews fighting for their lives and winning? That happens. So, in Hanukkah and Pesach G-d’s presence is very much revealed, in Purim, not so much. Nor is his name mentioned at all in the Megelliah (book/story of Esther).
So I’ve been looking at some of the information that is being revealed in just the last couple of weeks. Things that are becoming known that people (evil people) have tried to keep hidden as Hamen tried to keep his real motives hidden. The information may well help people see more accurately the situation of our country, and we as a people are in. Prager U had a question up on Twitter not long ago, “What do you consider the biggest threat to our country”? I answered “CNN and MSNBC believing viewers”.
This basically does away with our Constitution and Bill of Rights, we know what Beijing Biden is planning to do, the corrupt head of the WHO was installed by China.
Back in March Dowd said that U.S. millennials, aged 25-44, experienced a record-setting 84% increase in excess mortality during the final four months of 2021.
According to Ed Dowd, the latest numbers from August revealed an excess mortality rate of 36% for millennials.
Huh, that’s weird. I wonder what could be different in working aged people? Did the change their diet? Quit jogging, take up any new drugs?
Are the people of Chicago finally waking up and rejecting identity politics and seeing the state of their city as a result of falling for them? Are they rejecting the MSM narrative fed to them? I pray so. Beetlejuice has different groups she blames for her loss. Not criminals or Kim Fox of course, or her own policies. Nope, racism. Of course. Apparently she forgot she was a black woman when she initially campaigned and won. So she blames racists. Sleeper cells of MAGA living in Chiraq. Soaring crime rates and a decimated police force had nothing to do with it. Nothing at all.
Purim is a fun holiday and often we dress up in costumes, but my prayer is for those hiding who they truly are behind sweet words that are lies, and attempts to mislead the American people be exposed as Hamen was. May all the masks be ripped off.
And lastly, while this has nothing to do with Purim, Joe Dan does great videos and in this one there is a clip of Dr. Robert Malone talking about 5th Generation Warfare, and what we’ve been subjected to. As it’s all about who’s concealed, it does kind of apply. Because it is what we’re dealing with. Well, a component of it at least.
So Purim starts Monday night, and I want to wish you all a happy and joyous Purim. May those who seek to destroy us meet the same fate as the wicked Hamen.
I made a bet with myself: Most folks seeing that title probably thought I’d be talking about illegals. Nope. I’m talking about another class of non-citizens in America.
No, not green card holders either.
David Codrea wrote a column about a recent DOD report on suicide prevention in the military.
DOD Suicide Report Long on ‘Gun Control’ But Short on Who’s at Risk and Why
That means focusing on guns, and considering that’s what the majority of service suicides use to end their lives, that’s understandable. What’s arguable, though, is whether putting the major emphasis on means neglects the important questions of “Who?” and “Why?”
David covered the topic fairly well, so I won’t rehash it all. TL;DR: It calls for lots of gun control for military members.
Citizen soldier always meant “National Guard.” We’d hear it when Guards showed up for their two weeks, and even more during retention briefings. No one wanted to hear, much less answer, my question of, “Aren’t us active duty regulars citizens?”
That suicide report makes it very clear that they are not. Otherwise, it might take some notice of BRUEN. It might have considered that basically every restriction they want to inflict on service members runs afoul of the SCOTUS ruling. Bear in mind that all these are about privately owned firearms, even if they are never brought onto government property.
It has it all. Firearm registration, commander’s permission to purchase, mandated “safety” training, waiting periods.
And raising the age to purchase/possess to 25 years old.
Everyone one of those is in trouble in federal courts… for citizens. Especially that 25 year minimum age limit.
25… By the time I reached 25, I was already a Staff Sergeant and NCOIC of a base-level shop managing multi-year, multi-million dollar programs. But, apparently, I was too young to be trusted with a gun. Except the gov-issued, full-auto assault rifles.
I strongly recommend that the military return to recruiting high quality personnel and treating them like the citizens they are. Yes, military service has some requirements that civilians don’t have to deal with; and that sometimes requires some adjustments to how human/civil rights are respected.
But service members still have those rights, and the DOD would do well to accept that.
And in the meantime, the DOD could try another “study” to see who, and why, is most at risk for suicide; instead of blaming the gun and not the actor.
It isn’t as if that worked any better with criminals vs. guns.
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I thought of leaving this to Sheila, but something has to be said.
Judge Calls Second Amendment Protection Laws Racist and Anti-Semitic
The Oregon Court of Appeals has struck down the Second Amendment Sanctuary Ordinance in Columbia County, an ordinance OFF has been defending with Gun Owners of America.
[…]
He claims that constitutional sheriffs “ embrace racist and white nationalist ideologies.”
“In other words, Intervenors came before this court and referenced UN mandates,which as explained below is a well documented trope meant to invoke white supremacist, antisemitic fear of a takeover of our country by outsiders and minorities who are manipulated by an elite class of supervillians.
On occasion, however, individual members of the court must call out illegitimate quasi-legal arguments and theories for what they are-viz., antisemitic and racist tropes. “
Egan dedicated an entire section to “The Antisemitic and Racist Origins of the Ordinance,” yet somehow never managed to establish any such origin. The closest he came was pretending that the Aryan Nation espoused — unconstitutional — ideas that he imagines are similar to upholding the Second Amendment to the Constitution.
Guilt by imaginary association.
The best immediate response to Egan is of a sort I usually avoid here (saving it for my personal blog). This warrants an exception; I apologize to anyone who may be offended. Except Egan.
Fuck off, Egan.
The Zelman Partisans is a Jewish group (though not every individual is Jewish).
A group of Jews and friends who stand uncompromisingly for the right to keep and bear arms — and the entire Bill of Rights.
The Bill of Rights happens to include the Second Amendment, thus TZP supports upholding it. Egan obviously doesn’t.
Are you calling a Jewish group antisemitic, Egan? Come on; say it to my face, you oath-breaking bastard.
28 U.S. Code § 453 – Oaths of justices and judges
Each justice or judge of the United States shall take the following oath or affirmation before performing the duties of his office: “I, ___ ___, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me as ___ under the Constitution and laws of the United States. So help me God.”
Egan violated his oath of office, and is calling Jews antisemitic to deflect attention from his own failure.
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Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel [Dim] is trying to explain away why the MSU shooter wasn’t prosecuted for felony unlicensed carry in 2019.
That is such a common crime here that, if we were to lock up everyone who illegally carried a gun, we’d have to build more prisons. So, to me, it’s not a matter of incarcerating our way through this problem, it’s a matter of making guns less accessible and available to people.”
Don’t lock up criminals. Make more laws to keep guns away from the honest folks who try to obey laws.
The stupid; it burns.
But if the good guys get tired of Nessel’s s**t and don’t obey, will she then grant them the same leniency that she shows to killers?
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I keep seeing conflicting reports about the legal status of the Michigan State chumbucket. This one is typical.
PICTURED: Woke prosecutor who refused to jail or even ban MSU shooter from buying a gun after his 2019 felony weapons charge
The MSU gunman who killed three students in a senseless spree on Monday should have been banned from buying guns after being charged with a felony in 2019 – but a woke prosecutor lowered the offense to a misdemeanor.
[…]
It remains unclear where and when McRae bought the weapon used in Monday’s attack, but he wouldn’t have been able to do so legally had the prosecutors gone through with the felony charge.
Fortunately, there are some better, more detailed reports, like this one.
Chum-boy was originally charged with felony carry without a license. The charge was lowered to misdemeanor transport in a vehicle under Michigan Penal Code Section 750.227c. In fact, the description of the apparent arrest circumstances make the misdemeanor charge a more accurate description of what he’d done, and thus more appropriate.
But did that make it legal for him to buy or possess a firearm? Look at 750.227c closely.
A person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than 2 years or a fine of not more than $2,500.00, or both.
)It shall be unlawful for any person—
(1)who has been convicted in any court of, a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year;
Note: punishable, not whatever lower sentence might have actually been imposed. State law may not regard him as a prohibited person, but federal law certain does.
Michigan should have reported him to NICS. Did they? When was the murder weapon purchased?
Could this have been prevented by the state simply following existing law, instead of gleefully embracing it as a chance to pass more victim-disarming people-control laws?
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Texas State Sen. Gutierrez announces ‘common sense gun safety’ bills</a
In a news release sent out Tuesday morning, Gutierrez’s office said the bills will address purchasing age requirements, a bulk ammunition database and the safekeeping of firearms.
[…]
Gutierrez started the conference by stating that he is not looking to take guns away; rather he wants the state to raise the age requirement of those who can purchase firearms from 18 to 21.
Given the BRUEN test of general historical tradition, that is likely to backfire on him. The general (federal) tradition at the time was The Militia Act of 1792, which specified:
“That each and every free able-bodied white male citizen of the respective States, resident therein, who is or shall be of age of eighteen years, and under the age of forty-five years (except as is herein after excepted) shall severally and respectively be enrolled in the militia”
[…]
“That every citizen, so enrolled and notified, shall, within six months thereafter, provide himself with a good musket or firelock“
18 year-olds must be armed. So raising the age won’t fly. And federal courts are beginning to agree.
Should Gutierrez’s proposal pass and be signed into law, court challenges — under BRUEN precedent — are very likely to force lowering the minimum age to purchase a firearm.
I think his other bills — safe storage, ammunition background checks and registration, liability insurance, etc — should also be reexamined in light of BRUEN. I think you’ll find Associate Justice Thomas’s words on surety interesting, when considering the liability insurance proposal:
…the surety statutes presumed that individuals had a right to public carry that could be burdened only if another could make out a specific showing of “reasonable cause to fear an injury, or breach of the peace.
The closest thing to firearm liability insurance only began happening in the mid-19th century, and then only for those against whom a credible and specific showing of a threat had been made (take note of that for “red flag” laws, too).
In case you wondered, Gutierrez is a Dimwit-ocrat; adf the Dims are being very slow to catch on to the nuances of BRUEN, and the neworiginal playing field.
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Because, after reading this “expert report” by retired Marine Colonel Craig Tucker, I’m wondering how many of those “9 assassination attempts” were failed, not-so-friendly-fire fragging attempts.
Tucker’s report is a court filing in support of California’s assault weapon banet al. Go ahead and read it. It’ll infuriate and amuse you:
Stabilizing devices (for more accurate shooting) are bad. (Pistol grips.)
Destabilizing devices are bad, because shooting is less accurate. (That refers to unlocked(!?) folding stocks on M4s. Do the Marines issue M4s with folding — not adjustable — stocks?)
Flash hiders hide the flash from the enemy.
Swapping magazines is the most important thing Marines are taught. (See title re:marksmanship)
The M16/M4 is specifically rifled to make bullets tumble.
“A single round [of .223!] is capable of severing the upper body from the lower body”
The semi-auto AR-15 is functionally identical to the full-auto M4.
And apparently the Marines are now buying M4s specifically chambered for .223 Remington, not 5.56 NATO.
This guy must have been a joy to serve under, and I’d like to hear from anyone who had that… privilege. Well, I guess there was a Captain who served under him and presumably enjoyed it, even if it got Tucker relieved of command (and apparently driven into retirement).
There’s another court filing in rebuttal to Tucker’s not-very-expert opinion. J. Buford Boone all but says outright that Tucker is full of s**t. He might as well.
His claim that a single small arms projectile is capable of “severing the upper body from the lower body, or decapitation” is so ridiculous that it should, and actually does, cast doubt on his qualifications as an expert in the field of firearms, particularly as it relates to wound ballistics.
California must be pretty darned desperate if the’re having to bring in Tucker as an expert.
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I seem to be re-using that quote a lot lately; here we go again. A few days ago, I wrote about a New Mexico bill to ban “assault pistols” (and other things). That bill would ban future transfers, but leave currently possessed items alone. Clearly state Rep. Andrea Romero and her co-conspirators couldn’t settle for that. (There are actually several bills, but I’ll focus on one.)
This would be an outright ban (for civilians) of “large-capacity” magazines and “assault weapons;” no grandfathering whatsoever.
A person shall not possess, manufacture, purchase, sell or transfer any large-capacity ammunition feeding device regardless of whether the device is attached to a firearm. This section shall not apply to magazines originally designed to accept more than ten rounds of ammunition that have been modified to accept no more than ten rounds and that are not capable of being readily restored to a capacity of more than ten rounds.
B. For the purposes of this section, “large-capacity ammunition feeding device” means a magazine, belt, drum, feed strip or similar device that has a capacity of, or that can be readily restored or converted to accept, more than ten rounds of ammunition.
A person shall not manufacture, import, possess, purchase, sell or transfer any assault weapon.
So, Ms. Romero: How many doors? How many doors are you willing to kick in solely because the residents are well armed? Have you asked that question of the street level cops who would be enforcing your diktat, or are you going to lead the stacks personally, as an inspiration for them?
Have you even heard of NYSRP v. Bruen?
And I see that while you would ban possession of these… evil weapons of mass destruction designed to kill as many people as possible, as many of your political persuasion describe them, you’re just fine with government agents (your door-kicking cops/enforcers) having them and obtaining more. Why is that?
C. Subsection B of this section shall not apply to:
(1) any government officer, agent or employee, a member of the armed forces of the United States or a peace officer to the extent that such person is otherwise authorized to acquire or possess an assault weapon and does so while acting within the scope of that person’s duties;
Why do your favored cops need the capability to kill as many of us as possible?
Why do you want them to be able to kill us?
These are not rhetorical questions, and I have asked them of Romero directly. She has not responded.
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