As I am sure you noticed — unless you were lucky enough to be away from radio, television, Internet, or gossip — we just had a bad weekend. If you were — momentarily — fortunate enough to miss it, two socialist chumbuckets gunned down a lot of innocent people. As I write, the tally is 29 dead (so far; more victims are in critical condition), and dozens more wounded, in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio.
Mainstream media latched onto a manifesto (let me know if the link goes dead; we need to know the enemy) purportedly written by the El Paso bucket o’chum, and declared him to be a pro-Trump white nationalist who hates immigrants. The actual manifesto paints a picture of an anti-capitalist, envirowhacko (he cites The Lorax) socialist who wants to get rid of immigrants to make implementing universal basic income more palatable, and wants to reduce the nation’s population to a “sustainable” level. He wanted all this long before Trump came on the political scene. Before pages got edited, he appeared to be a registered Democrat. He used a WASR-10.
The Dayton asshole was a self-avowed socialist, who wanted to impose socialism on everyone whether we want it or not. He advocated for more gun control. He allegedly made “hit” and “rape” lists in high school. He murdered his sister and her boyfriend and seven more people. He was a registered Democrat. His weapon was an Anderson Manufacturing AM-15.
Naturally the media labeled both incidents white nationalist domestic terrorism, and returned fire on the Second Amendment, joined by politicians and pundits. Trump is calling for “strong” background checks.
Both of the scum purchased their weapons lawfully and passed NICS checks. Just like Gilroy Garlic Festival SOB.
My news feeds are full of examples, but let us focus on one from the New York Post, a call for an “assault weapon” ban.
Come up with answers. Now. Beginning with the return of an assault weapons ban.
We know: That label doesn’t actually describe a clear class of guns. And that some studies show that the last ban, in effect from 1994 to 2004, had a limited impact. But that simply means the next ban should be better written, with a clear definition focused on factors like firepower — rate of fire, muzzle velocity, etc. — not on cosmetic features.
Rate of fire. Where have we heard that before? Should the NYP’s suggestion be adopted, at a minimum, that would ban every semi-automatic firearm.
Muzzle velocity. You did take note when CBS pushed the “AR-15s are so much more powerful than 9mm” narrative, right? Hunters better be paying attention to this.
The shootings prompting this call reportedly used .223 Remington (Dayton) and 7.62×39 (El Paso), despite the media hype, those aren’t all that fast (or powerful) compared to common hunting rounds. If we take 2349 FPS as the threshold, then the NYP ban would eliminate anything chambered for nearly every common hunting round. Fudds, beware; this time they are coming for your guns.
If both of those proposals were adopted, and depending on the arbitrary “rate of fire” chosen, that would probably ban every repeating firearm: semi-automatic, bolt, lever, pump, or revolver. You’d be left with single-shot, pistol- or varmint-caliber firearms.
If you’re lucky.
Yes, they’re coming for all semi-autos.
The Supreme Court has ruled that the Second Amendment protects the right to own “guns in common use.” That doesn’t cover the semiautomatic weapons regularly used only in mass shootings.
Only used in mass shootings? Hello, NYP; reality calling.
100 MILLION honest gun owners didn’t kill anyone with 16 MILLION AR- or AK-pattern weapons over the weekend. 100 million people certainly didn’t kill anyone with 393+ million firearms.
But let’s punish them all for the actions of two chumbuckets with two guns.
Like banning newspapers because Jayson Blair.
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The Walmart was posted. Gun Free Zones claim more victims. It seems liberals/progressives/socialists/communists persist in killing large numbers of people in gun free zones. If only I could determine a pattern here.
Can you prove it? Walmart’s policy is to follow State Law on open and concealed carry. I have never seen a Walmart anywhere that I’ve been to with a “No Gun” sign of any kind. And in Texas the “No Gun” signs are extremely large and in both English and Spanish. 30.06 for concealed carry and 30.07 for open carry.
www dot compliancesigns dot com/media/PDF/QA-TX-Weapons.pdf
Signs are 30″ by 30″.
Corporate policy, but some managers haven’t read the memo. A friend of mine was thrown out of a SD Walmart for a holstered pistol. (She later got a written apology from corporate.)
What I wondered was whether the sign at the El Paso store was 30.06 compliant.
Well, whether or not the sign met Texas requirements, apparently none of the the customers were armed, or if they were, made the decision to engage.
Have you been to a Walmart on the U.S. Mexico Border That might have something to do with it.
I have seen several Walmart’s with no guns or the pistol/knife with a slash through it: Georgia and Florida. I have also seen an open carry event at a Georgia Walmart. It appears that it depends on the store or regional manager, regardless of corporate policy.
“That doesn’t cover the semiautomatic weapons regularly used only in mass shootings.” This is incorrect. The “common use” is in the exercising of the right “to keep and bear” arms, it has nothing whatsoever to do with how many bad guys the good citizens shoot per capita/annum in comparison to the toll from criminal misuse. This is not some macabre numbers game.
My letter to Trump and the Congressional goons:
“Not one inch.
I’m tired of the compromises and giving in on the 2nd Amendment. Broken people will always be able to commit evil and hurt others. This country has a problem with apathetic people who are mentally ill, and yet roam free within our society.
Red flag laws are anathema to the ideals of America, and cannot exist within the framework of the United States Constitution. They flagrantly violate the 2nd Amendment, 4th Amendment, 5th Amendment and probably the 10th Amendment. The 2nd Amendment of the Constitution was specifically designed to ensure the US populace could defend themselves from a tyrannical government. It has nothing to do with hunting. At present, the federal government is hurtling toward tyranny and centralized power at a frightening pace. I will not comply with unconstitutional gun laws. My rights as a citizen are non-negotiable, period. I will not be dictated to by people who have the luxury of 24-hour armed security.
If enacted, any red flag laws are the equivalent of the government declaring war on the law-abiding population of the United States. This is Soviet-style intimidation. Shame on all of you, this talk of red flag laws and confiscation is the equivalent of treason. You are heading down a dangerous path from which there is no coming back from.”
Ether get ready to FIGHT for your freedom. Or get ready to get on the train to the gas. When I say fight. I mean to say, fight like the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto. As soon as the communist’s pass the next set of gun confiscation laws. THEY WILL pass laws to build and use “reeducation camps”(death camps) . They have said so in public. Now is the time to make your choice. Run, Fight, or hide in the attic until the men in black uniforms come. That is the truth behind all if these “red flag” laws. Burning the protection of the law and starting up the terror that the world believed ended in 1945. The communist are coming to kill us no matter what we do. Lets make that a lot harder than they expect. Shall we?
They will pass somthing and then it will be a step in the total controle conga line. What is going to happen is a black market for arms,parts,ammo,and reloading supplys. I almost think that this is the true purpose of the push for the end of the 2A. It has allways been about the money they took the gold from us in 1934??? and gave us paper now they want the paper plus all the interest if we don’t pay they take us or we buy blackmarket guns made in a factory with prison labor. We can all pick the monster and we can perpair for somthing to happen but I will follow the money.