Passed to the governor for signature a day ahead of the announced schedule, depending largely on his political ambitions, not merit or lack, for passage. Next probable and equally “logical” step: Unregulated firearm ownership for every man, woman and child in America.
The weirdly disjointed sentence structure, and the peculiar “logical” leap from “one state passed Constitutional Carry” to “totally unregulated firearm ownership for absolutely everyone in America” was an instant warning that I was reading the ravings of a not-entirely sane person. I scrolled down to see who this Paul Shriver is.
Paul Shriver, EdD, is a forensic and clinical psychologist.
Sad to say, but in my experience (and others*) psychologists have a strong tendency to be b–f— nuts. As you’ll see, this appears to be the case with Shriver. Couple that with a pointless EdD, and we have a perfect storm of irrationality. He doesn’t have both oars in the water. The elevator doesn’t go to the top. Pick a metaphor.
Firearm use is by definition a violent act (homicide when a human is the recipient) and has no place in civilized society.
He seems to be unaware of target practice; which would explain another statement he makes later. He also seems to think that humans invariably, without exception die when shot. Chicago says otherwise.
No reasonable person could possibly imagine that expressing one’s feelings or opinions with a bullet could be equivalent to “free speech” or even exist as a “right” on the same piece of paper.
Projecting much, Shriver? Offhand, I don’t recall ever firing a round to express an opinion.
But let’s get to the meat.
The only real solution must begin with the repeal of the 2nd Amendment in its entirety and without delay. It might then be re-written in clear language as a privilege to be strictly regulated — the details to be worked out later by usual democratic means.
Never mind that the Supreme Court has already found that it is a right, not a privilege; and that it pre-dates the Amendment he finds so bothersome. And he seems to be ignoring Indiana’s own pesky constitution.
Section 32. The people shall have a right to bear arms, for the defense of themselves and the State.
He’ll be needing to convince his neighbors to repeal that one, too. Based on my time living in Indiana, I’d say not damned likely.
In the interim, of course, all guns in current ownership, manufacture, storage, etc., would need to be recalled, and if not “re-legalized,” eliminated. Some current types and uses, would be restored, regulated and licensed as appropriate with little real inconvenience. Thus, this idea is not anti-gun per se, nor in any sense extreme.
Repealing the Second Amendment and confiscating all firearms in the country is anti-gun. And it sounds pretty damned extreme. And about as “anti-gun” as one could get.
Hmm. No exception there for police. Universal disarmament. hat should be interesting.
Meanwhile, I and my personal gun: Locked, no bullets, single action, and not very accurate (and therefore little threat) remain very truly yours for peace, good will, and universal disarmament in our times.
I imagine the “not very accurate” issue lays mainly in his lack of practice, since he wouldn’t want to violently attack a peice of paper. But if all firearm use is violence, why does he have one? Perhaps Paul Shriver should be red flagged, starting his “universal disarmament” with himself.
* I knew a woman with a doctorate in psychology. She once told me she left the field — research psychology — when she realized that most of her peers were nuts. She also told me that clinical psychologists are worse.
Who’s the dumbest one of all? I never expect much sense from victim-disarmers, but the CT Mirror’s Mark Robinson may have set a new low bar.
The 2nd Amendment doesn’t say that
Let’s not buy into misconceptions about the 2nd Amendment when advancing Gov. Lamont’s gun control proposals.
What might those misconceptions be?
Public perception and debate only changed a little more than a generation ago. Until recently, this has been the overwhelming consensus among Americans and in the courts. Ever since the aftermath of the War of 1812 (when veterans returned home from war with their firearms) the federal government has regulated and restricted the right to bear arms, and did so without political controversy.
According to “A Well Regulated Right: The Early American Origins of Gun Control,” by Saul Cornell and Nathan DeDino, during the decades after the Revolutionary War, the sale of firearms was forbidden to Catholics, slaves, indentured servants, and Native Americans.
He went there: Gun control is good because there is no individual right to arms, and we used to disarm Catholics, slave, and Indians.
Holy s[…].
Say… since slavery was legal then, does he want to re-institute that as well?
Moving on.
In U.S. v Miller in 1936, the Supreme Court ruled on a case involving the National Firearms Act, (which was passed after the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre). In that case, the Court ruled unanimously that the 2nd Amendment pertains to militias and not to individual rights.
Aside from the chronological error (MILLER was 1939, which gives you an idea of how well Robinson studied this issue), MILLER was about the status of the defendant’s sawed-off shotgun, not individual RKBA. Specifically, the Court ruled that the Second Amendment protects the right to keep and bear militarily useful arms, and that no evidence was presented showing that the military used short-barreled shotguns; thus, registration of a non-militarily useful arm could be required. No such evidence was presented because the defendant had died, and with no one to pay their bills, his attorneys didn’t show up to argue the case. (And keep that “militarily useful part in mind.)
But in 2008, in District of Columbia v Heller, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia wrote for the majority, ruling that the 2nd Amendment did create an individual right to bear arms. That is – literally – the first time the high court took this position.
No. The Court found that the Second Amendment protects a preexisting right.
Nor was this the first time that SCOTUS had found the Second to be an individual right. The Supreme Court has ruled that way since at least 1857 (hint: SCOTUS ruled against Dred Scott because if he was a free man, he would have a right to bear arms just like anyone else). If Robinson had bother reading the HELLER decision, he might have noticed that Scalia cited numerous prior precedents for an individual right.
Robinson has a little list of further infringements that he wants CT Governor Lamont to impose.
Close the loopholes in assault weapons laws
Remember that “militarily useful” part of MILLER? If “assault weapons” are nasty, military-style arms, then MILLER (and HELLER) already found that we have an individual right to them. Shall we go there; in court, I mean?
Make domestic violence convictions an automatic disqualifier for obtaining a gun permit
Well, that seems a little redundant, since a domestic violence conviction already makes possession of a firearm a crime. Doubly redundant since CGS § 29-28(b) also mentions that no permit may be issued to anyone prohibited under 18 USC 922.
With the recent decision in the Gretchen Whitmer faux kidnapping plot, which saw two of the defendants acquitted and another two had a result of a hung jury. Which is amazing considering how little evidence the defense was allowed to present. In some cases because it might “confuse the jury”. Uh huh.
Both before and during the trial, prosecutors went to extraordinary lengths to exclude evidence and witnesses that might undermine their arguments, while winning the right to bring in almost anything favorable to their own side. As a result, defense attorneys were largely reduced to nibbling at the edges of the government’s case in hopes of instilling doubt in the jurors’ minds, and to making claims about official misconduct with vanishingly few pieces of evidence to support them.
But did you know there is actual video of the planning sessions?
Well, yeah, it’s the Bee, but I figure that’s probably about how it really worked. So isn’t it interesting that the head of the Detroit office at the time was transferred to DC shortly before January 6th? Guess he had a perfect work resume, eh wot?
Many have pointed out the striking FBI parallels between the Capitol riot that took place on Jan. 6, 2021, and the Whitmer would-be kidnapping case. Even a New York Times reporter admitted on footage captured by undercover Project Veritas staffers that there were “a ton of FBI informants” among the Jan. 6 rioters.
That is quite a coincidence isn’t it? The events following January 6th have long bothered me. There is so much video footage that hasn’t been released, why not? Ashli Babbit’s murder by a cop who had left his service weapon in a bathroom in the past, now murdered an American citizen who moments before had been yelling at a cop to call for back up and tried to stop a man much bigger than herself from breaking in a door. Oh, and he’s now been promoted. And rather than have a fair hearing or trial the DC swamp just covered it up.
“How many FBI agents or confidential informants actively participated in the events of Jan. 6?” Cruz asked Jill Sanborn, executive assistant director of the FBI’s national security branch.
“Sir, I’m sure you can appreciate that I can’t go into the specifics of sources and methods,” Sanborn said.
Cruz replied, “Did any FBI agents or confidential informants actively participate in the events of Jan. 6, yes or no?”
“Sir, I can’t answer that,” Sanborn said.
“Did any FBI agents or confidential informants commit crimes of violence on Jan. 6?” Cruz asked.
“I can’t answer that, sir,” Sanborn replied.
Well of course you can’t.
The list of normal American citizens the FIB went after is staggering. Here’s a selection of a few.Included are a single Mom who is at risk of losing her infant and spending 30 years in jail. For the crime of…..wait for it….being a proud boy. Yep, those Demoncrats really can’t tell boys from girls. One would think the FIB, being the crack investigative agency that it is could figure out if she just gave birth..oh yeah, I forgot, birthing person. Well, and they probably aren’t biologists either. If we’re lucky Demoncrats will be extinct in time, seeing as how they don’t have the reproducing thing down yet. But these stories are just heartbreaking, a Dad who forgives the piece of crap son that turned him into the FIB because he wouldn’t let the boy take his Mom’s car to a BLM riot. Geez, didn’t tell him he couldn’t go, just he couldn’t take his Mom’s car. I mean these stories are heartbreaking. Especially when you get into how the prisoners have been treated in the DC prison.
Deletes Twitter page? Wow, that sounds really serious, not got fired, denied pension or anything like that, just deletes Twitter page.
These people are being denied edible food, access to see their families, healthcare (thought that was a human right obama?) and basic human rights, let alone dignity. I’m not sure it’s true, but I hear there is a letter asking for Putin to liberate the DC gulag.
As Washington DC is funded by taxpayer dollars, I would think there would be some leverage. And this is what gets to me. Other than some notable names how many politicians are defending people that are in jail for going to a peaceful rally? How many are parroting back how appalled they were by the behavior and on ad nauseam? I thought Americans objected to political prisoners, and they certainly are. But our big speaking politicians are all mush mouthed on this.
Why has no one contacted Amnesty International?
But you know who has stepped up to the plate? Bin Laden. Yep, Bin Laden. Not that one. Noor, his niece. She is amazing, and I’m not just saying that because I’m totally jealous of her hair. On February 7th, this year:
*On February 7, 2022 PACE submitted this document (ref. A/HRC/49/NGO/244, published on March 9, 2022) to the UN Human Rights Council with literally one minute left before the automated system was shut down. Hence why there are a couple of typos in the official document. Also, UN editors systematically changed ‘the U.S.’ or ‘U.S.’ to ‘the United States of America’, annoyingly making the original document less than an ideal read –– please ignore.
Yes, Noor Bin Laden has submitted a document to the UN Human Rights Council on behalf of the January 6th political prisoners. The story behind it, and what she submitted can be found here, on her web site. There is also a link to the official UN document. Here’s a snippet:
An African regime that behaved like the Biden administration, using its state security services to suppress dissent and punish political opponents, under the guise of a “domestic war on terror,” would be swiftly condemned by the UN, and punished with sanctions.
We respectfully urge the OHCHR to reconsider its January 18, 2021 statement, in light of new evidence, and to take forceful action against the grievious human rights violations now being unleashed against political dissidents by US security services.
Yep, Noor Bin Laden doing the job American politicians haven’t done.
Meanwhile the FIB has become a joke, and it needs to be defunded as well as D.C.
Yeah, I wanted to try to find a way to end it on a bit of a smile, if possible. Pesach starts tomorrow evening. We celebrate our G-d taking us out of the slavery of Egypt, towards a life and land where we could live with the directions for living a good life according to the directions G-d would soon be giving us.
May political prisoners all over the world soon taste freedom, and may we all leave the slavery of our own private “Egypts”.
You may have heard that CNN spent (apparently hundreds of) millions to start up its new CNN+. Don’t feel bad if you haven’t, because judging by its low traffic, most haven’t. Apparently fewer than 10,000 viewers to date.
Which prompted me to check something. I found a site that consistently out-performs CNN+.
I think it’s high time for manufacturers of unfinished frames to start suing the heck out of Everytown for Gun Safety.
But gun safety advocacy groups, like Everytown for Gun Safety, which pushed the federal government for years to take action on ghost guns, applauded Biden’s moves and insisted that both Dettelbach’s appointment and the finalized rule will help combat gun violence.
“Ghost guns look like a gun, they shoot like a gun, and they kill like a gun, but up until now they haven’t been regulated like a gun,” said John Feinblatt, Everytown’s president. (link)
Feinblatt isn’t stupid. He isn’t ignorant. He isn’t mistaken.
He is a liar.
Privately manufactured firearms are firearms, and are regulated as such. A prohibited person may not build one. A prohibited person may not possess one. They may not be manufactured with the intent to sell, only for personal use. All that before the Biden administration’s new rule.
Certainly the Department of Justice and ATF are aware of that.
Seven men charged with guns trafficking in Inland Empire, ‘ghost guns’ among 30 firearms seized
Seven men have been arrested and charged with multiple federal firearms- and drug-related offenses as part of a federal investigation that recovered seven automatic weapons among a haul of so-called ghost guns, officials said Tuesday.
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Most of the guns were privately made firearms bearing no serial numbers or identifying marks, commonly referred to as “ghost guns.”
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Damon Moore, aka “Damage,” 27, of Bellflower was charged with engaging in the business of dealing in firearms without a license, being a prohibited person in possession of a gun, and distribution of methamphetamine.
If “ghost guns” are, as Everytown Liar-In-Chief claims, unregulated, exactly what US Code were these men charged under, eh? Looks like a truckload of 18 U.S. Code § 922 and 18 U.S. Code § 923 violations, but Feinblatt says it ain’t so; not too swift for an attorney. Maybe the Catholic University of America should demand his law degree back.
And a question for real attorneys: Is it a reportable ethics violation for an attorney to deliberately misrepresent laws?
I’m a bit curious about why the AP’s “Lead Justice Dept. & federal law enforcement reporter” let a demonstrably false statement like that go unchallenged. It raises the question of whether he’s an ignorant idiot, or just a fluffer for the victim-disarmament industry. (Rhetorical, of course; it’s AP.)
I haven’t done a deep dive on legislation lately, so let’s take a look at HR 6225 Federal Firearm Licensee Act, sponsored by Illinois DIMwit Robin Kelly.
First, get past the bill’s name. It is not just Federal Firearms Licensee regulation. So what is it? Everything. The kitchen sink might even be in there.
Section “(36) The term ‘facilitator’ means any person engaged in the business of hosting a commercial marketplace in which offers for firearm sales, purchases, or other transfers are allowed to be made,
This is new. Landlords would have to have a federal license to lease to FFLs. A thousand bucks. Per year.
We can’t have those nasty “ghost guns” out there.
Sec. 3 “(40) (A) The term ‘frame or receiver’—
“(i) means a part of a weapon that provides or is intended to provide the housing or structure to hold or integrate 1 or more fire control components, even if pins or other attachments are required to connect those components to the housing or structure; and
“(ii) includes a blank, casting, or machined body, that requires modification (including machining, drilling, or molding) to be used as part of a functional firearm, and that is designed and intended to be used in the assembly of a functional firearm, unless the blank, casting, or machined body has had—
So much for 80% — or 70, 60, 50, 40, 30, 20, or 10% — unfinished blanks. If it’s vaguely receiver-shaped, and could be worked into a firearm, it would be a firearm. For that matter, the definition is so vague that plumbing suppliers may need an FFL, and to serialize all their pipes.
Next up is the upper/lower receiver problem, where AR-pattern lowers do not meet the definition of receiver in current law.
“(B) For purposes of subparagraph (A)(i), in the case of a weapon with more than 1 part that provides the housing or a structure designed to hold or integrate 1 or more fire control components, each such part shall be considered a frame or receiver, unless the Attorney General has provided otherwise by regulation with respect to the specific make and model of weapon on or before January 1, 2022.
Both upper and lower are each a receiver. Brilliant! Coupled with one-gun-a-month limits, this would prevent you buying a complete AR.
This next bit confuses me. Or maybe it’s Kelly who is confused. Or she’s simply doing a litte housekeeping on US Code.
SEC. 4. REPEAL OF TEMPORARY BRADY PROVISION.
Section 922 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking subsection (s).
18 U.S. Code § 922(s) is a bit convoluted, but basically it’s the old 5 day handgun waiting period provision; a provision that expired many years ago.
Moving on…
SEC. 5. PHYSICAL SECURITY OF DEALER PREMISES.
This is a collection of physical (safes, bars, reinforced wall, vehicle barricades) and surveillance (lots of cameras, semi-permanent video storage) intended to make running a gun store financially prohibitive. Again.
And because no FFL would ever consider keeping track of his inventory…
SEC. 6. BUSINESS INVENTORY FIREARMS.
Now they would. Apparently Kelly believes in her tiny, shriveled, black heart that dealers have no idea what they’ve got, and don’t care if guns get stolen.
Section 7 gets really nasty.
(b) Records Databases.—Section 923(g) of such title is further amended by adding at the end the following:
“(9) (A) Within 3 years after the date of enactment of this paragraph, the National Tracing Center of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives shall establish and maintain electronic, searchable databases of all records regarding the importation, production, shipment, receipt, sale, or other disposition of firearms required to be submitted by licensees to the Attorney General under this chapter.
You read that correctly. That mandates a searchable database of all firearm transfers. And yes, that includes individual 4473s.
Full gun and gun owner registration.
In Section 9, we have a new requirement for multiple firearm sales; expanded from handguns to… basically eveything. And she slipped in another “high capacity” magazine definition: more than tens rounds, or theoretically modifiable to hold more than tens rounds. There are no exceptions for .22s or fixed internal magazines like tubes.
Here’s another FFL harassment measure.
Sec. 10 “(4) WARNINGS TO PURCHASERS.—All licensed dealers operating a physical retail location shall post conspicuously within the licensed premises all warnings required to be provided to firearms purchasers under applicable State and local law. The Attorney General shall develop materials regarding suicide prevention, securing firearms from loss, theft, or access by a minor or prohibited person, and straw purchasing, and provide the materials to licensed dealers who shall disseminate the materials on transfer of a firearm to a person not licensed under this chapter.”.
By the time they prominently post all that, there’ll be no room for commercial displays.
SEC. 11. INSPECTIONS is a mess. Essentially — and piecemeal — it mandates FFL inspections at least annually. It could be more often, with no limits. Monthly? Weekly? No wonder the Biden administration wants a $1.7 billionincrease in the ATF budget.
Or maybe there won’t be that many FFLs to inspect after all. SEC. 12. AUTHORITY WITH REGARDS TO LICENSE ISSUANCE AND RENEWAL makes FFLs explicitly may-issue.
For those who still manage to get a license, fees would double (Sec. 13).
Read on: It’s got new employee background checks, loss of FFL protections, restrictions on appeals… If you can think of some way to screw dealers, it’s probably there.
The good news is that GovTrack gives this bill a mere 2% chance of passing. Depending on Dim leadership IQs, that may even be — for Dims — optimistic. The midterms are coming, and passage of this bill would likely require election fraud that leaves 2020 in the dust, if Dims expect to win any election. Worst case — for them — is how many abruptly vacant seats would suddenly be up for grabs, due to hordes of irate constituents.
The bad news is that, while this package won’t pass, we will see every individual provision coming back like whack-a-mole.
The Torah reading called “Judges” (Shoftim) opens with the command to appoint “judges and law-enforcement officials for yourself in all your city gates that the L‑rd your G‑d is giving you, for your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
You shall not pervert justice; you shall not show favoritism, and you shall not take a bribe, for bribery blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts just words.
Justice, justice shall you pursue, that you may live and possess the land the L‑rd your G‑d is giving you.
I have truly debated on if/how to do this column. There isn’t a good way to say it. I think there is a better than good chance of Ketanji Brown Jackson being confirmed. Why? Because of Republicans. Of course she is anti-Second Amendment. But this “woman” since she can’t tell the difference, is a horrible human being, and she’s being enabled to take her perverted justice to the highest court in the land. So, in case you haven’t heard much in the way of specifics on how she rules, I’m going to give you some. When I say graphic, I mean that most sincerely. It’s horrible. I will link to the court documents because I’m not putting it all in.
A certified computer forensic examiner at the United States Attorney’s Office conducted
a preliminary review of each of the electronic devices recovered in the search warrant, and contained on those devices were well over 600 images and additional videos depicting child pornography, including the images described above. In addition, included among the images on the devices above were images depicting incest, bondage, and vaginal and anal penetration of pre-pubescent minors
The Maine senator Susan Collins will vote to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson
“I have decided to support the confirmation of Judge Jackson to be a member of the supreme court,” Collins, a Republican moderate, told the New York Times after meeting the nominee a second time.
“There can be no question that [Jackson] is qualified to be a supreme court justice.”
The defendant was then arrested on November 17, 2016, at which time FBI agents seized his cellular telephone. The cellular telephone was forensically analyzed and was found to contain over 600 images of child pornography, including images depicting sadomasochistic acts involving children and images depicting sexual acts being performed on prepubescent children.
Then (Mitt) Romney, the Utah senator and former presidential candidate, issued a statement in which he praised Jackson as a well-qualified jurist and “a person of honor”. He congratulated her on “her expected confirmation”.
I intend to vote in support of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to be an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. My statement: pic.twitter.com/uGaxx8sJn5
— Senator Mitt Romney (@SenatorRomney) April 4, 2022
As the chat continued, the defendant asked, “U like young girl vids?” Shortly after asking, the defendant sent the UC a video depicting child pornography. Specifically, the video depicted an adult male inserting his penis in the child’s anus, while inserting his finger inside the child’s vagina. The defendant then sent the UC a Dropbox link containing 102 videos. The vast majority of the videos depict female children under the age of approximately ten being sexually assaulted by adult men and women. The sexual acts depicted in the videos include vaginal and anal penetration of the minors depicted. The defendant ended the chat session stating, “My wife got home I will txt u in a little and send nudes of my daughter.”
“After multiple in-depth conversations with Judge Jackson and deliberative review of her record and recent hearings, I will support her historic nomination to be an Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
DOWNS: [Posted 22 more images depicting child pornography. Some of the images were previously posted by DOWNS and described earlier. The new images posted included, for example, an image depicting a prepubescent male performing oral sex on an adult male’s penis; an image depicting an adult female performing oral sex on a prepubescent female vagina’s while she was lying on a couch; and an image of a prepubescent female performing oral sex on an adult male’s penis.]
“My support rests on Judge Jackson’s qualifications, which no one questions; her demonstrated judicial independence; her demeanor and temperament; and the important perspective she would bring to the court as a replacement for Justice Breyer. She clerked for Justice Breyer before working in the private sector and as a federal public defender, and then serving as Vice Chair of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, a district court judge, and now an appeals court judge. She will bring to the Supreme Court a range of experience from the courtroom that few can match given her background in litigation.” ~~Lisa Murkowski
This folder contained hundreds of images and videos of child pornography, totaling over 600 images under the United States Sentencing Guidelines. The images and videos depicted primarily male children, ranging in age from pre-pubescent to teenaged, engaged in sexually explicit acts. Among the images and videos of child pornography were depictions of sadomasochism, including sexually explicit images depicting bondage of young children. The following videos are examples of those in the “Untitled Folder”:
“It also rests on my rejection of the corrosive politicization of the review process for Supreme Court nominees, which, on both sides of the aisle, is growing worse and more detached from reality by the year. While I have not and will not agree with all of Judge Jackson’s decisions and opinions, her approach to cases is carefully considered and is generally well-reasoned. She answered satisfactorily to my questions about matters like the Chevron doctrine, the Second Amendment, landmark Alaska laws, and Alaska Native issues. The support she has received from law enforcement agencies around the country is significant and demonstrates the judge is one who brings balance to her decisions.”~~Lisa Murkowski
THE PROBATION OFFICER: Yes, Your Honor. We stand by our position that those — those — that information is material to the case because it justifies that 4-level enhancement for the sadistic and masochistic conduct. It includes descriptions of the pornography that — that is attributed to Mr. Cane. And, specifically, Mr. Cane personally posted 23 Dropbox and Mega links to the kid group, and it contained over 6500 files depicting children who were elementary school age, middle school, and high school ages, all engaged in sexual acts or posing sexually. And those videos and images depicted children engaged in masturbation and vaginal and anal penetration with objects; like hairbrushes, pins, pencils, curling irons, other objects, and minors also engaged in anal and vaginal sex.
Two Apple iPhones belonging to the Defendant were also recovered during the search of his home. These devices both contained images depicting the sexual abuse of children, including children as young as toddlers, and other images involving S&M conduct.
Opening the meeting on Monday morning, Dick Durbin of Illinois, the committee’s Democratic chair, praised Jackson’s “impeccable qualifications” and said her experience as a public defender would bring a “missing perspective to the court”.
“Hers is a uniquely American family story, how much hope and promise can be achieved in just one generation,” Durbin said. “I’m proud we can bear witness to it.”~~Dickie Durbin
On or about January 19, 2013, the defendant uploaded approximately 21 images depicting child pornography and/or child erotica to a Skydrive account.
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The 21 images include the following: (1) a prepubescent female child and a prepubescent male child standing next to each other without any clothes on where the female child is holding the male child’s penis; (2) a male prepubescent child lying on his back with his legs in the air with an erect penis; and (3) a prepubescent male child lying on his back with his eyes closed and with his underwear pulled down to make the child’s penis visible.
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On or about March 4, 2013, the defendant uploaded approximately 15 images depicting child pornography and/or child erotica to a Skydrive account. These files include a video of two prepubescent males engaging in sexual conduct, including what appears to be anal penetration of one male child by the other male child.
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On or about March 25, 2013, the defendant uploaded approximately 1 file depicting child pornography to his email account. The file contains an image of two male children, one of whom appears to be prepubescent. The prepubescent child is lying on his stomach on a bed. The other male child is on his knees straddling the prepubescent child with his penis appearing to penetrate the anus of the prepubescent child.
“This is a truly difficult situation,” she told Hawkins at sentencing. “I appreciate that your family is in the audience. I feel so sorry for them and for you and for the anguish that this has caused all of you.”
Jackson then expressed sorrow over even the light sentence she handed down. “I feel terrible about the collateral consequences of this conviction,” she said, explaining that “sex offenders are truly shunned in our society, but I have no control over the collateral consequences.”
She.Apologized.To.The.Pedophile.
I haven’t even touched on her light treatment of drug dealers and her releasing many convicts back into society early because she just doesn’t think keeping them locked up serves any purpose. Her concern is clearly not law-abiding citizens that pay her salary. Nor have I mentioned that she doesn’t know the difference between a man and a woman. And we are suppose to believe this person is wise enough to sit on the Supreme Court of the United States?
Clearly these three soulless depraved senators are in favor of those that enable the rape and torture of toddlers and infants. Yes, that is exactly what their “yes” vote means.
I am under no illusions that calling their office will make a bit of difference to them. If you’ve got time to make a couple of phone calls perhaps calling the Republican National Committee https://act.nrcc.org/contact-us/ or send an e-mail and tell them that is the limit, no more money to Republican National Committee. Although as I believe it is Mitt Romney’s daughter that is the head of it, I wouldn’t expect much. But also you might call your state Republican committee.
This, this woman is the personification of perverted justice, and the Biden crime family thinks she is the best to nominate for the Supreme Court.
I’m talking about the wanton, reckless firearm slayings that happen too often in Virginia and around the country. The victims and killers are disproportionately Black men.
So far, Mr. Chesley is correct, at least according to the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer. Anecdotally, based on decades of media reports, I concur. Blacks are disproportionately committing crimes, and being victimized. One — and Chesley does — wonder what causes that. How do we fix it?
Chesley’s answer is…
Guns. Too many guns. Easy access to guns.
Of course, it is. [-roll eyes-]
To me, based on the data, news reporting and other observations, it seems a three-pronged approach is necessary if this nation will ever significantly lower firearm deaths:
Use the research on guns, mayhem and intervention that is widely available; more than 1,400 violence prevention studies have already been done.
Do better at stopping guns from getting into the hands of criminals and would-be criminals. More than 73 percent of the homicides for which the FBI received weapons data in 2019 involved firearms, the agency reported. Handguns comprised 62 percent of the firearms used in murders and nonnegligent manslaughters in 2019.
If the guns are the cause of the problem, why are black men disproportionately using the guns, and disproportionately on each other? According to Pew:
And while 36% of whites report that they are gun owners, about a quarter of blacks (24%) and 15% of Hispanics say they own a gun.
Whites, particularly white males seem to disproportionately own guns. If Chesley’s thesis that guns are the problem held true, then offenders and victims would be disproportionately white, not black.
The reflexive response, by those with a vested interest in funding to study the problem — as opposed to fixing it — is to blame inherent, systemic racism that somehow causes those blacks to be involved in crime. That is both simplistic and wrong.
Per this study, 23% of blacks have felony convictions. That’s unfortunate, but looking solely at that number ignores a much happier fact: The vast majority of black — 77% DO NOT have felony convictions.
That would seem to rule out systemic, keep-the-black-man-down racism. Once more, if that was the problem, it wouldn’t only be holding down one small portion of the population.
Perhaps you noticed that I left out Chesley’s “third prong” in his approach. Third; apparently less important, less pressing and blaming guns.
Instill into young men – overwhelmingly African American – a respect for life and a determination not to use guns to settle arguments. (Why so many believe America devalues them is a discussion for another day. Many young Black men, though, can’t envision a productive or equitable future.)
Finally, he is on the right track. Sort of. Instead of comparing white vs. black crime and victimization rates (and leaving the damned guns out it), what needs to be studied is why the majority of blacks are not criminals. What differentiates the 23% from the majority 77%? Why does that small subset lack that respect for life; why does that small subset lack that vision?
I have my own suspicions, based on personal anecdotal experience. One productive neighbor is a college graduate; I know he has a clean record because a felon cannot be licensed to do the job he held.
The neighbors on the other side of me are likewise fine, decent people. In fact, when I had my accident last year, A—- was one of the first people to rush to my aid. She was also the first to rush to hug me when she saw me finally walking without a walker (I was still on a cane).
The common denominator for these people, whom I cannot imagine turning to a life of thuggish crime, is family. They have intact families with whom they are in contact. Families that taught them to be decent people, and self respect that allows them to respect others, as well.
If Chesley wants to fix the problem, he needs to find a way to instill that same kind of respect in that small group that lacked that advantage in their youth. But that’s going to be a lot tougher than just blaming guns.
It could be done, but implementing it — three easy lessons — requires courage.*
* For the record: I do not think that anyone in a position to begin implementing my suggestions has the inclination or courage to do it. Nor do I think that anyone with said inclination and guts will be allowed to achieve such a position any longer. Hopefully, someone will prove me wrong.
If killing people has become legal — a bit of news I somehow missed — I’d pay a premium for a Hogg-hunting tag. Not that I’d use it; it would just be worth it for Hogg to simply know he was a lawful target of the people whose rights he wants to violate.
If you need a license to kill deer why don’t you need one to kill humans?
Let’s look at his other non sequiturs.
If you need a license to drive car, cut hair or to hunt you ought to need one to buy a gun.
I only need a license to drive a car on public streets. I don’t need a license to buy one.
I need a license to cut hair professionally, not to buy clippers or cut my own hair or that of family members.
I need a license to hunt some game, not to buy a gun.
There is something of a difference between buying a tool, and using said tool in a specific manner.
But Hogglet is to too g-ddamned stupid to grasp that.
Your right to own a gun with little regulation matters a lot less to me than the rights my classmates had before they were killed.
What do my rights have to do with what a known criminal in another state did to your classmates?
I still belong to a group of like minded people that belonged to the Israeli political party Zehut, which means “Identity”. And we’ve been having conversations about the recent wave of terror attacks in Israel. You may not have been aware of them as President Puddin’ head has been trying to start World War III during his walk back weekend. I’m sure circle back Psaki (Ginger Goebbels) has been having nightmares. But yes, there have been several attacks in just the last few weeks. The religion of pieces is getting warmed up for Rama-damn. Like most of the world’s other religions, Islam has the time of year, certainly not a holy day, where they celebrate with fasting (during the day) and going out and trying to kill Jews. In Israel or anywhere else they might be living.
So in the course of the group message conversation I made some statements. Someone in the group said something about the terror attack in Bnei Brak (a religious neighborhood) and the conversation started.
Concealed carry, free ammo and practice time for every Israeli citizen starting tomorrow
Shocking I haven’t been asked to run for office isn’t it?
There is no limit of one firearm to one person even. Rifle shotgun and handgun have different purpose. Ideally a person needs one of each. There is no firearms limit nor is there a magazine capacity limit.
Law abiding citizens should not have to live in fear of wild animals. Two or four legged.
No that’s my platform! I think you’re right there are strict limits and that’s why this keeps happening🤬
The arabs like all criminals couldn’t care less about weapons laws
Too bad they are so strictly limited and the arabs know it.. They’ll just go to areas where they can’t have them like finding gun free zones in America
It will be a great day when the leaders of countries care as much about their own actual citizens as they do illegals, arabs and criminals.
Now if they could get the media to announce every Jew applying for a permit will be granted and the government to ignore the railings of President Puddin’s handlers perhaps it could be sorted. The homicidal maniacs have to understand they will be stopped before the can create orphans and widows since they don’t mind dying.
I’m not including statements from anyone else as I haven’t asked permission.
But since Ukraine is the current distraction from the rise in all cause mortality, the galloping tyranny and injection reactions is being spoon fed with a shovel at the moment I’m not sure the MSM aka #FakeNews has had a chance to mention them. So here ya go.
The attacker hit a cyclist with his car, killing the cyclist, then exited his car at the mall and stabbed three people to death before being shot to death by a bus driver. The dead included three women and a man. Police are searching for a suspected second assailant.
Kann News, a government-run news station, said the attacker was an Israeli citizen and a Bedouin. The Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorist groups praised the attack but did not directly claim responsibility.
Kann reported that there have been repeated calls by Islamist terrorist groups for knifing attacks on Israeli citizens in recent weeks. The Jerusalem Post reported that this was the third stabbing attack in Israel in a week.
The murderous rampage in one of Israel’s major cities March 22 not only left four Israelis dead in just eight minutes, but also delivered a devastating blow to the ruling coalition. It was the worst terrorist attack in Israel in years, made even worse by the perpetrator being an Israeli citizen, a Bedouin from the village of Hura. He was reportedly also a supporter of the Islamic State who had spent time in Israeli prison for security offenses.
Hamas spokesperson Abdel-Latif al-Qanou praised the “executor of the heroic act in Be’er Sheva. Our battle against the occupation continues and we will not stop.”
“The occupation’s crimes shall be met with heroic operations: stabbings, rammings and shootings,” al-Qanou said.
Tensions have risen in Israel and the Palestinian territories ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, slated to begin next month.
On Sunday, a 20-year-old Israeli police officer was wounded in a stabbing attack in the Arab neighborhood of Ras al-Amud in Jerusalem.
A day earlier, an Israeli man was wounded in another stabbing attack in Jerusalem on Saturday by a Palestinian terrorist.
Ah yes, I’m sure we all, Jews and Christians, remember celebrating the holy days during our youth and childhood when we would all go out and try to murder innocent people of a different faith and then our friends and neighbors would hand out candy and sweets if we managed to kill an old woman, a young child, anyone really. /bitter sarcasm.
The first time I ever went to Israel I stayed in Beer Sheva. I loved it. I had a tree with a planter around it that you could sit on out in front of the building. I’d take coffee and my book or journal out there of an evening and write in it, of a morning coffee and prayers. No one ever bothered me. It was a lovely city.
A gunman randomly killed at least five people when he opened fire on a busy street in Israel on Tuesday before he was taken out by cops, reports said.
The suspected terrorist shooting in Bnei Brak, an ultra-orthodox suburb of Tel Aviv, comes after two other attacks by Arab citizens that have sparked fear of ongoing violence ahead of the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on Saturday.
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The gunman was identified by the Jerusalem Post as Dia Hamarsha from Ya’bad, He was allegedly convicted in 2015 on arms dealing charges related to his affiliation with a terrorist group, the Post said.
With all these Arabs committing attacks that have previous records of crimes does anyone know if the criminal supporting “judge” Ketanji Jackson has been working in Israel? Obviously they were set loose to commit other crimes. Though we are assured Ketanji is a lovely lady by RINO Susan Collins Susan Collins to vote ‘yes’ on Ketanji Brown Jackson for Supreme Court, in first Republican backing Side note unrelated to current story, this is why you never ever send money to the republican party. Just don’t do it. Your welcome.
The two gunmen opened fire at a bus stop in the city, which was located near several restaurants. Both of the gunmen were killed by undercover police officers who happened to be eating nearby, according to The Times of Israel, and six others were wounded in the shooting.
Thankfully they appear not to have been “woke” cops.
The wave of terror continues in Israel. A Palestinian terrorist on Thursday morning boarded a public bus near the Etzion Bloc of Jewish settlements in Judea and stabbed a passenger with a screwdriver.
But the murderous plans of the would-be killer were quickly ended by an armed civilian who neutralized the threat.
Murad Barkat, a resident of the Abu Tur neighborhood of Jerusalem, has been indicted for the stabbing attack of a 35-year-old man about two weeks ago on Derech Hebron Street near the First Station plaza in the city.
The attack in Beer Sheva was stopped by armed citizens. The one in Hadera by off duty under-cover officers, the one in Bnei Brak was stopped by Police, one of whom was a Christian Arab officer who gave his life.
Haredi, religious Jews pay respects to Christian Arab policeman who gave his life to stop Bnei Brak terrorist attack
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. We know during Rama-Damn that the Arabs celebrate their holy day by trying to kill innocent people. That it is praise worthy. So let’s look at some reactions to the most recent wave. Just a few.
“We the Jews are the very provocation, and until we vanish, the terror won’t end” This article has views from the political right and left. But for those that don’t know, Naftali Bennett, the current Prime Minister was head of a party called “Yamina” which means rightward. He campaigned saying he would never form alliances with the left. But Israel had a weird political system and no political party got the magic number of over 60 votes, so Bennett promptly formed an alliance with the left wing nut Benny Gantz who not only threw Jews out of their homes in Gaza (and that’s worked out so well) but the snakey Bennett had said in the past that Gantz should never become Defense Minister. So of course he joined forces with him and now Gantz is Defense Minister. He also enlisted Yair Lapid, and, wait for it, Mansoor Abbas. Head of the Arab the Arab joint list.
Abbas is also the Deputy Chairman of the Southern Branch of the Islamic Movement. That is not a small matter, given the fact that the Norther Branch of the Islamic Movement was outlawed in Israel.
Well of course he is. Always make political alliances with those trying to kill you in pursuit of personal power. And of course, Bennett can’t/won’t do anything to displease Abbas because if Abbass pulls out of the union, the government falls apart and it’s new elections. So you have a wave of Arabs murdering Israeli citizens and a PM who is scared to do what needs to be done. More on this in a minute.
Umm al-Fahm Mayor Dr. Samir Sobhi Mahamed withdrew his resignation after publishing a letter of condolence to the families of the terrorists who committed the deadly shooting attack in Hadera on Sunday.
Mahamed had announced his resignation in a live interview Thursday evening, only to announce he would remain in office a few hours later.
The words of condolence to the families of the terrorists were published on the official Facebook account of the Municipality of Umm al-Fahm, and were written on his behalf of all municipal employees and residents of the city.
Every terror-supporting Arab-Israeli should have their citizenship revoked, several Israelis said, in what appears to be a growing consensus.
Yes, yes they should. I believe Moshe Feiglin had a great plan for relocation. Sha’i ben-Tekoa has a fabulous plan. Any terrorist not killed committing a terrorist attack will be gathered up with their family taken to the Gaza border and shoved over with the clothes on their backs never to return. The doors will be taken off their house and it will be looted by their neighbors. Done deal.
“Those who dislike the current government will blame the government, those who oppose the occupation will blame the occupation,” said one Israeli man. “It’s all meaningless.”
Pro-tip: Don’t make alliances with those that hate you.
A new immigrant from Moldova, a mother of two, said what’s happening “feels like something new, a different style of terror. Especially when you hear of terror attacks being carried out with firearms instead of knives. You’re never safe, not even in your car, as we saw with one of Tuesday night’s victims.”
She, like many Israelis, feels the blame lies with the police who “had no problem surveilling Israelis who might be positive for COVID-19. How are they oblivious to organized terror attacks?
Ohhh, now that’s a really good question. The police can track and trace innocent people suspected of the crime of having a 99+% survivable flu, but not terrorists. Perhaps they need to re-examine their priorities?
Another Israeli woman, strolling through a local Holon park with her granddaughter, said she feels the attacks are retaliation for Foreign Minister Yair Lapid’s Negev summit, which took place earlier this week with ministers from Abraham Accords nations, Egypt and the US. “It agitates [the Palestinians]. On the other hand, we don’t invest in their education, their infrastructure. It turns Palestinians resentful toward us.”
Um, Ma’am, they get “education” oh yes indeedy they do. And like the American school system that is churning out kids that are groomed for depravity from kindergarten on up but can’t do math or science they know all 57 genders by third grade. Falestinian UN-schools have school books that teach Jews stole the land, and its good for Arabs to kill them, so yep you’re investing in their education, it’s just not the education you hoped for. Much like American parents who are waking up.
Others have already decided to take security into their own hands. A father in his 30s revealed he is one of the many Israelis who have filed a request for a license to carry firearms.
And this brings me back to the start of my column. Israel has very strict gun laws. Firearm Licensing Department This is in English, but like the Torah:
The information provided in English is for explanatory purposes only. In case of any discrepancy, the definitive and binding version is the Hebrew wording of the law or the information provided by the Ministry of Public Security in Hebrew.
Government policy doesn’t turn on a dime. But now Naftali Bennett, is telling people to carry, if they can.
During the upcoming Islamic month-long holiday of Ramadan, which begins on Saturday, Palestinians traditionally ramp up their violent, unprovoked attacks on Israeli civilians. According to a Dutch study cited by the Jerusalem Post on Wednesday, “Ramadan brought with it a 200% increase in terrorist attacks in Israel between 2005 and 2016.”
And Rama-Damn hasn’t even started.
Closing thoughts, for those that want to judge Israel severely, I point out in the past when there have been waves of condemnation towards Israel, similar things begin to happen to U.S. And with President Puddin’ Heads puppet masters planning to open the flood gates of illegal immigration there will soon be plenty of opportunity.
To the feckless Bennett, you knew they were snakes when you picked them up. Now everyone will suffer because of your desire to be PM. You call on everyday Israelis to solve the problem but you have them crippled with strict gun control laws. How do you expect that to work out? Thus the point in my platform; rifles, handguns and shotguns all have different purposes. Every Israeli (not household, each) citizen can be armed with no ammunition limit.
Both of our countries right now are being led by people that hate us, they say you get the government you deserve, and looking at all the craziness going on maybe so. But I didn’t think we’d been that bad. But, ultimately, it’s not what I think, it’s what G-d thinks. אין עוד מלבדו
I know, shocking that I’m not fielding phone calls from Israeli political parties isn’t it?
Jews. Guns. No compromise. No surrender.
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