And this is just one of the many reasons why. I keep seeing crap about the Buffalo shooter illegally “modifying” his Bushmaster XM-15 rifle (when some dumbass isn’t calling it an “AR-15” which happens to be a Colt trademark). Case in point:
Buffalo shooting suspect learned to modify his gun on YouTube. The videos are still online.
The 18-year-old suspected of targeting and fatally shooting 10 Black people in Buffalo, New York, wrote in what are believed to be his online journals that he learned how to illegally modify his rifle by watching YouTube videos. The suspect appeared to link to the videos in Discord chat logs, and the videos were still available on YouTube as of Thursday evening — five days after the shooting.
The advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund called on YouTube to remove these videos, saying that they violate YouTube’s community guidelines banning videos that show how to install gun accessories like high-capacity magazines.
Since thus far the only “modification” I’ve heard about is that he had 10+ round magazines, I was very curious as to exactly how he “modified” the rifle. What do the supergeniuses at Everytown say?
Based on a review of the shooter’s writings and public news reports about the weapon used in the shooting, the shooter may have watched this video to equip his Bushmaster rifle with an Anderson Manufacturing magazine release after removing the Mean Arms MA Lock in violation of New York’s assault weapons regulations.
Ah. So Everytown believes the chumbucketmight have removed the magazine lock and installed a conventional magazine catch so that he could swap out magazines in a normal manner.
I’ll pause for a moment, to see if you can spot the problem with that. It’s possible you won’t, if you live in neither New York… nor California.
All “assault weapons” are not created equal. Except in a few jurisdictions that have defined the term in law, it’s meaningless. For instance, In Georgia there is no such thing as an “assault weapon.”
In California, the powers-that-be decided that you should not be able to swap magazines normally. There, an AR-pattern rifle must be equipped with a magazine lock that makes normal operation impossible. So if the Buffalo, New York scumbag wanted to travel to California, purchase a California-compliant rifle, and modify it to allow normal mag swaps, he might want to remove an MA Lock and replace it with an AA mag release.
But New York does not ban mag releases, as California does (I’m open to correction, if someone can find such a restriction in the law). They just say you can’t insert a magazine with a capacity greater than 10 rounds.
So the Buffalo bastard would have zero reason to “modify” his rifle by removing a feature not there in the first place, and replacing it with a feature it already has.
The Everytown dimwits assumed that As California Goes, So Goes the Country. If California requires something then surely every other state must do the same, right?
Nope.
It is possible that the Bushmaster the shooter purchased was California compliant as well as New York compliant. The manufacturer/distributor could have simplified production by combining the worst of both states, just so they wouldn’t have complicate their production lines with two products, each with limited appeal. To date, I have not seen a picture of the specific firearm used; I don’t know if it was dual-compliant.
But that doesn’t make the Cal-required mag lock the law in New York. In NY, installing a normal mag release would not be an “illegal modification.”
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“At this point, in this closely-divided Congress, do you see any appetite right now to take up, once again, the idea of an assault weapons ban in this country?”
The question was clearly a pre-planned softball for the half-witted Dim. The scumbag reportedly used a NY SAFE Act-compliant Bushmaster XM-15 rifle; a non-“assault weapon.”
The ditz still flubbed it.
We need to do something about making sure that bad guys don’t get their hands on handguns.
The context was the Buffalo shooting. He did not use a handgun; it was a NY SAFE Act-compliant Bushmaster XM-15 rifle.
And we need to make sure that these assault and automatic weapons don’t get in the hands of bad guy
One more time, moron: It was not an “assault weapon.” It was not an automatic weapon (something even NY Gov. Hochul could figure out).
And now we enter the Twilight Zone. Picking up where she left off…
And we need to make sure that these assault and automatic weapons don’t get in the hands of bad guys, and sometimes, bad women. Because, again, I’ve been rabbit hunting.
-blink- Um, what? Let’s simplify that.
We need to get guns out of the hands of bad women because I’ve been rabbit hunting.
Aaaall righty, then.
So now I come to the questions I think Garcia should answer.
1. Are you on drugs?
Because you sound like you’re on drugs. And not prescription goodies. On the other hand…
2. If you are not on drugs, should you be? (The prescription sort, this time.)
3. If neither recreational nor prescription pharmaceuticals were involved, is your stupidity natural or the result of an accident?
I could add a fourth question prompted by this:
Handguns, in my view, are not for hunting. They’re not for protection. I think handguns are, frankly, for killing people.
Oddly enough, I have never killed anyone with a handgun. I even bought one large-bore handgun specifically for hunting. I have used a handgun for defense. So…
4. Are my non-killing handguns defective, and should I demand refunds?
The first three questions were submitted to Garcia’s office. They did not respond to multiple emails.
Go figure.
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As you may, or not, have heard, the JoBama crime regime is on the verge of handing over U.S. sovereignty to the W.H.O. You know, I always figured it would be the U.N. that would be the issue, and I do believe they will play a role as the W.H.O.’s enforcers, but it will be the corrupt W.H.O. with their oligarch benefactors that will be running the show.
It seems when the elections of 2020 were corrupted by the demoncrats and their allies in the corporate media and technology, a series of planned events began like the falling of a domino. See the movie 2000 Mules for evidence on this one. Dinesh D’Souza, doing the job American “journalists” , cough cough, choke choke, won’t do.
These regulations are a “binding instrument of international law entered into force on 15 June 2007.”3 U.N. members states can be required by law to obey or acquiesce to them.
There are many groups and people that believe the Covid-19 flu was timed and/or engineered to affect our elections. This group has a lot of good information on their web site to back up the claim, and a video. Members are doctors, lawyers, and others who have been fighting the use of covid to seize freedom from citizens of every country. https://stopworldcontrol.com/. You must admit, ordering all those covid-19 test kits a year or two ahead of the actual pandemic is amazing. Apparently, Miss Cleo is back in biz. So, there is a domino. If you just want to see the video they’ve put together giving evidence on why they believe the pandemic was planned, that’s here.
On May 22-28, 2022, ultimate control over America’s healthcare system, and hence its national sovereignty, will be delivered for a vote to the World Health Organization’s governing legislative body, the World Health Assembly (WHA).
This threat is contained in new amendments to WHO’s International Health Regulations, proposed by the Biden administration, that are scheduled as “Provisional agenda item 16.2” at the upcoming conference on May 22-28, 2022.1
These amendments will empower WHO’s Director-General to declare health emergencies or crises in any nation and to do so unilaterally and against the opposition of the target nation. The Director-General will be able to declare these health crises based merely on his personal opinion or consideration that there is a potential or possible threat to other nations.
If passed, the Biden Administration’s proposed amendments will, by their very existence and their intention, drastically compromise the independence and the sovereignty of the United States. The same threat looms over all the U.N.’s 193 member nations, all of whom belong to WHO and represent 99.44% of the world population.2
These regulations are a “binding instrument of international law entered into force on 15 June 2007.”3 U.N. members states can be required by law to obey or acquiesce to them.
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Although sponsored by an American administration, WHO’s most significant use of this arbitrary authority to declare national emergencies will be used against the United States if our government ever again dares to take anti-globalist stands as it did under the Trump administration.
Because this treaty was originally signed in 2007, I don’t believe this needs to go through the approval process again. This is “just” amendments from the JoBama crime regime. And another domino bites the dust.
Here’s a bit about those amendments from Leo Hohmann:
According to the WHO’s website, on March 30, 2021, 25 world leaders announced an “urgent call for an International Pandemic Treaty,” stating that such a treaty is needed to orchestrate a single globalized response to pandemics. These “25 heads of government and international leaders” have come together in a joint call to form the treaty.
Don’t forget that Yuval Noah Harari, the chief advisor to Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum, has stated that globalist elites will use “crises” to bring about world government.
“Catastrophe opens the door” to massive changes that people would otherwise never accept, Harari said.
But even more pressing than the treaty itself right now, is something almost no one is paying attention to in U.S. political, religious or media circles, and that involves a set of amendments that will amend an existing treaty, the International Health Regulations. The U.S. government has submitted amendments to 13 articles within those regulations, which are administered by the WHO, and these amendments are seen by many as sovereignty killers.
A UN report from May 2021 called for more powers for the WHO stating that, “In its current form, the WHO does not possess such powers […]To move on with the treaty, WHO therefore needs to be empowered — financially, and politically.“
The WHO will be hosting its annual meeting, the 75th World Health Assembly, May 22-28 in Geneva, Switzerland, attended by delegates from at least 194 nations. It is during this Assembly that members will be voting on the amendments that will hand over additional sovereignty, control and legal authority to the World Health Organization. The WHO, if these amendments are approved, will obtain the authority to declare an international health emergency, overriding national governments.
Now one might think, why on earth would the President of the United States, leader of the free nation, want to turn over sovereignty of the country to an un-elected bunch of bureaucrats that haven’t been correct about much of anything about covid-19. Why, this would leave his citizens no recourse to whatever tyranny the corrupt Tedros (owned and installed by China, much as JoBama was) decided to force on them?
But you get to go to heaven!
No word yet if Vladimir Putin will be handing over Russian sovereignty to a globalist cabal or not. But gosh, I guess if he didn’t, it would be like the whole world (almost) would be united against Russia. But, you wouldn’t think the whole world would unite against one nation just because they made a different choice. A choice they felt was in the best interest of their citizens, their families, would you? Seems a horrible way to thank Putin for curing covid, right? And one day after I write this, we know the answer Russia Moves To Withdraw From WTO, WHO
Yeah, at this point I’d believe it. I mean look at how people treated those that for some reason or another chose not to take the experimental gene therapy injections? This is just on a far grander scale. Fellow write Y.B. Ben Avraham sent me a fascinating article. Letter to the Menticided: A 12-Step Recovery Program
“Menticide is an old crime against the human mind and spirit but systematized anew. It is an organized system of psychological intervention and judicial perversion through which a powerful dictator can imprint his own opportunistic thoughts upon the minds of those he plans to use and destroy.”
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“Ready made opinions can be distributed day by day through press, radio, and so on, again and again, till they reach the nerve cell and implant a fixed pattern of thought in the brain. Consequently, guided public opinion is the result, according to Pavlovian theoreticians, of good propaganda technique, and the polls a verification of the temporary successful action of the Pavlovian machinations on the mind.”
~~Joost Meerloo, The Rape of the Mind
The whole thing is well worth reading, but one of the videos embedded explains so well why I believe that many people in the U.S. will go along with this treaty, beg for it, just like they do to have experimental injections put into their innocent children as they sacrifice them on the alter of the Golden Fauxci Molech.
We aren’t really dealing with evil people per se, but stupid ones. And they are more dangerous to us, U.S. After years of public education, corporate media, dumbed down entertainment and equity as opposed to equality in outcomes, this is what we are up against, the side against freedom and law abiding citizens.
Now, the politicians? They aren’t necessarily stupid, they are sadistic and power greedy. I enjoy war correspondent Michael Yon’s columns. His insight from what I’ve read and heard him say is pretty accurate. His take on the Biden crime regime? You are being too generous if you attribute this to incompetence. The Myth of “If Only He knew,” or “When he finds out this will end…”
It seems Dr. Martinson has come around to a paradigm more aligned with my own. This is not incompetence. They know what they are doing. This is war.
Old proverbs and sayings can be very useful branches, thought-shortcuts, to help just get to accurate answers quickly. But those same sayings can be traps. This is one reason it’s better to use a dumb Bloodhound while tracking men than to use a very smart Border Collie.
Firstly, the Bloodhound has a better nose — AND USES IT. The Bloodhound just follows the facts that its senses detect. Follows the evidence. Border Collies often follow their memories. Lassie (well, not a Border Collie) remembers the last man she found was in a ditch, and so Lassie runs around checking all the ditches. Lassie was last seen disappearing over the horizon checking a long ditch.
Lassie is using the equivalent shortcut of “never attribute to malice that which can be attributed to incompetence.” And they look with those brilliant eyes barking, “See! I know the shortcut to wisdom!” Meanwhile, the dumb Bloundhound in the last hour found a missing child, tree’d a kidnapper, got on the trail of a female Bloodhound, and sired a new litter all while Lassie is still running down the ditches knowing she’s going to get that guy. Lassie tracks with her eyes and memory. Bloodhound tracks the available evidence and is equivalent to a weapon’s system.
The evidence is clear. We are under attack. When I say this, the Lassies typically say, “Never attribute to malice what can be found in a ditch.”
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I am down here in Panama and can say with clarity that comes dry season in December/January when the Darien jungles are easier to cross when famine is ripping across Africa and many other places, we may see literally millions of people come through here and blow right across the US borders.
Baby formula? Lol. You can take the Haitians out of Haiti but some of these thugs will be taking homes by force.
The whole column is worth reading, really.
So the W.H.O. has the power to decide what and when a pandemic is, and can use the U.N. to enforce the nations to do what the W.H.O. says. So, like the CDC used to yammer on about an “epidemic of gun violence”, well then, that would be right up the W.H.O.’s ally wouldn’t it?
So, there is a petition you can sign, but this travesty starts in just a couple of days.
According to Dr. Tess Lawrie, there may be another chance to have input.
According to the WHO, the next round of written and video public participation in the pandemic treaty will take place on 16-17 June.
Have you ever wondered why the power crazy demoncrats haven’t backed off of any of their disastrous plans and policies that have hurt American citizens at every turn? I mean you hear Republicans talking about a “red wave” in the fall, and while it’s true Blacks and Hispanics are fleeing the power drunk dims, don’t you get the feeling there is a reason the dims aren’t backing off? It’s almost as though they think they don’t have to worry about “red waves”, fall or elections. They are just trying to get as many pieces in place as quickly as they can. Enough pieces that there is no coming back.
Whether there is a way or not, I do not know. I know that G-d determines outcomes, but there are very few fantastic achievements I’ve ever seen that didn’t require some amount of effort on the part of the person submitting those prayers. And I think lots and lots of prayers on in order. Because what it is, is tyranny on a scale we’ve never seen, and the last domino just dropped.
Traditionally, Dims have avoided gunpeople control bills when elections are coming. It’s a campaign killer (right, Duke Nukem?). Certainly the money is on the same thing being the case this cycle.
But if you have no intention of allowing fair and honest elections (again), what’s the harm in pushing a bill to license gun ownersregister all firearms and owners via a “may issue” federal licensing system?
Except as provided in subsection (d), it shall be unlawful for any individual to purchase or 5 receive a firearm unless the individual has a valid Federal 6 firearm license.
You would have to undergo training, written testing, and practical testing. Before you can apply for that license you may not be…granted.
No.
has submitted identifying information on the firearm that the person intends to obtain, including the make, model, and serial number, and the identity of the firearm seller or transferor;
If you’re buying from an FFL, you have to tie up his inventory for a potential sale that may not ever be allowed. Whomever you’re buying from, you have to register the firearm and current possessor… for a license that may never be granted.
No.
There are the usual disqualifications for a license, including, but not limited to, 18 U.S. Code § 922 restrictions. What else could disqualify you?
Ever being arrested. For almost anything. Not indicted or convicted. Arrested.
No.
Here’s another disqualifier.
any recent acquisition of firearms, ammunition, or other deadly weapons;
Bought some steak knives for the kitchen? Sorry; deadly weapons. Ammo for another — licensed/registered — firearm? You’re screwed.
No.
Let’s say you managed to pay for the training and testing, found a dealer willing to tie up potentially unsellable inventory for a month or more, hadn’t bought any ammo or pocket knives recently (and what constitutes “recent” anyway; the bill doesn’t say), and got your cattle tag and a home defense gun.
The Attorney General shall revoke a license issued under this section if the Attorney General determines that—
(i) the licensee poses a significant danger of bodily injury to self or others by possessing, purchasing, or receiving a firearm;
Huh. While the original issue sections specify some ways to determine that a would-be licensee is a threat to self or others, this revocation parts leaves all that out. It’s solely up to the AG’s “determination.”
And — by definition — you pose a significant threat merely by possessing, purchasing, or receiving a firearm that you jumped through the licensing and registration hoops for. Obeying this law would be proof that you’re a threat.
No. Wait; not just no. That’s “H— f—— NO.” And fold that bill up until it’s all sharpy pointy corners, and shove it somewhere personally painful. Preferably in a place from which surgical removal would be necessary.
But one element of the cluster-f— was of special interest.
“They called me at 1 p.m., on Tuesday, and apologized for not telling me, saying they were not comfortable having too many people know about the raid before it happened. They were hitting several gun shops as part of an annual thing.” [emphasis added]
Judge: You want a warrant to raid an FFL? Let’s see your probable cause.
ATF: It’s May again.
Judge: Ah. Right. -signs paperwork- Have fun.
I want to see the warrant, probable cause affidavit, and the judge’s name.
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You probably heard that the Buffalo chumbucket is a right-wing white supremacist. From what I’ve heard, I’m willing to buy the white supremacist part, but right-wing?
“I would prefer to call myself a populist. But you can call me an ethno-nationalist eco-fascist national socialist if you want, I wouldn’t disagree with you.” He also repeatedly attacks capitalists, and rejected the conservative label because, he wrote, “conservativism is corporatism in disguise, I want no part of it.”
An eco-fascist national socialist? Doesn’t sound very right-wing.
Of course, reports have it that he used an evil AR-15 assault weapon.
The UK Independent reports on Sunday morning the New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) announced the gun was acquired legally.
ABC 7 indicated the attacker used a rifle which was purchased at a store in Broome County, New York.
A lawful, commercial purchase (not a private sale) in New York means the weapon was NY SAFE compliant; that is, not an assault weapon. Reports do claim he had noncompliant magazines holding more than 10 rounds.
Interesting that some asshole was able to lawfully purchase that gun…
…considering that, as is becoming all too common, he was previously known to authorities. It seems that he threatened to kill people at his high school, and was “Baker Acted*” less than a year ago.
But no seems to have thought of using New York’s “red flag” law to supposedly keep him disarmed while he wandered the streets unsuperised. Thus, he could still lawfully purchase his murder weapon.
Where are we at?
Assault weapon ban didn’t work.
“High capacity” magazine ban didn’t work.
Red flag law didn’t work.
And since the red flag law didn’t work, neither did the point-of-sale NICS background check.
Clearly this calls for more gun control that won’t work. And maybe some more censorship laws… that won’t work either.
* Technically, “Baker Act” refers to the Florida law allowing people to be taken in for a mental health evaluation, but every state — including New York — has the equivalent. I find it helpful to use the general term “Baker Act” for them all.
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On Wednesday, I heard about an incident on Lufthansa flight 401, a Boeing 747-8 that flew from JFK to Frankfurt, that was almost too hard to believe. Allegedly, Lufthansa refused to allow any of the Jews from that flight onto their connecting flight to Budapest, while non-Jews were free to continue on their journeys. Two dozen armed police officers ensured that no Jews boarded the flight or caused issues at the gate.
YouTube just removed our video showing a Lufthansa supervisor blaming problems on #TheJews due to it "violating our hate speech policy".
Apparently the excuse Lufthansa is using to refuse to honor the tickets bought by the Jews is…masks.
While US carriers have dropped mask requirements, rules in airports and on foreign carriers can be confusing. For example, you don’t need to wear a mask on KLM planes to their Amsterdam hub, but you do need to wear it in the Amsterdam airport. You do need a mask on Lufthansa planes to their Frankfurt hub, but you don’t need to wear a mask in the Frankfurt airport.
Lufthansa flights from JFK and Newark to Frankfurt on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, were filled with Jews, mostly Hasidic.
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Lufthansa requires surgical masks or N95s to be worn on flights, and handed out 3 ply masks to everyone who didn’t have a mask or only had a cloth mask at boarding.
Hope they get sued for pulmonary damage making people wear those things on long flights
Microplastic fibres were found deep in the lower lungs of living human beings in almost every person sampled in a recent UK study.
The study from Great Britain discovered microplastic particles — present in many COVID-19 masks — in the lung tissue of 11 out of 13 patients undergoing surgery.
Polypropylene (PP) and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) were the most prevalent substances present in the lungs.
The microscopic plastic fragments and fibres were discovered by scientists at Hull York Medical School in the UK. Some of the filaments were two millimetres long in patients undergoing surgery whose lung tissue they sampled.
The plastic dust and microscopic debris comprises the same plastics used to manufacture the ubiquitous surgical masks worn by hundreds of millions of people around the world as mandated by governments in an attempt to halt the spread of COVID-19.
But back to our story.
They told me that there was zero mask enforcement in first class and that one of the first class flight attendants was not wearing her own mask for most of the flight. Passengers in first class didn’t wear masks for most of the flight and weren’t asked to.
From talking to several passengers in economy, it seems like there were a couple of isolated masking issues in economy class, both among some visibly Hasidic Jews as well as non-Jews. It’s a shame that they flouted the rules, but it’s unclear why those few passengers weren’t singled out for punishment as would happen on most airlines in the world.
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David Landau told me that at 7:20am they finally started boarding, but this was no typical boarding. The gate agent was paging individuals by name to come up and board the flight. He recalled that the paged individuals that were able to board were not visibly Jewish, but he recalled that a Rosen was paged and he saw that he didn’t make it onto the flight.
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Yitzy tried asking the Lufthansa agent if being Jewish made him part of “the group from NYC,” but police kept them away from the Lufthansa agents, while saying that they were just there to enforce what Lufthansa tells them to do. It seemed to him that Lufthansa was using the police to shy away from answering passengers’ questions.
Ahhh, the old “Just following orders” canard. The good Germans.
But Lufthansa has now (in their opinion) made everything all okie dokie.
They apologized to the Rabbi of Berlin and the employee that perpetrated this modern day example of anti-semitism has been suspended. No idea for how long, not fired. Just suspended.
Lufthansa’s head office reached out to him to setup the video chat. I asked the Rabbi why he thought the airline called him, instead of a Rabbi in Frankfurt, home of the incident and the airline’s base. He wasn’t positive, but notes that Berlin is the capital city and that he has worked with the federal government and companies in the past when similar cases about anti-Semitism have surfaced.
Rabbi Teichtal said that the CEO’s apologies sounded genuine and personal, a far cry from the generic “apology” that was published by the airline yesterday which ignored anti-Semitism and merely “regretted the circumstances.” That non-apology also referred to the passengers on the flight as a group, when in fact there were many passengers who booked their own travel and were also denied boarding to Budapest.
Yeah, I’m guessing he has worked with the German authorities on anti-semitism as he himself has been attacked more than once in Berlin.
Lufthansa refused to book the Jews on other flights, banned them from the airlines for 24 hours, wouldn’t refund their money and then blamed them for the problems. The original link I gave has a lot of videos shot by the passengers asking why they can’t continue their flight.
Passenger: Just the Jewish people on that flight?
Lufthansa: Do you want to discuss with me or no? Do you want to listen to me?
Passenger: I’m like shocked beyond, never in my adult life. I’ve never heard this.
Lufthansa: If you want to do it like this, Jewish people who were the mess, who made the problems.
So yeah Lufthansa, calling the Rabbi in Berlin (when the incident took place in Frankfurt) not refunding money, not personally calling every passenger you stole money from and traumatized totally makes it cool beans. /sarcasm.
As Jack Posobiec says, “Know what part of the movie you’re in”.
On April 1, 1933, a general boycott against German Jews was declared, in which SA members stood outside Jewish-owned stores and businesses in order to prevent customers from entering.
Covid, like hitler used health, has made nazis out of teachers, flight attendants, shop keepers and torn families apart thanks to the medical lies and attempted tyranny by the left in not just America but world wide. We don’t have to turn a blind eye again.
The big news in American human/civil rights today is JONES vs. BONTA, overturning the California ban on long guns for 10-20 year-olds.
To hear from a lot of “news” outlets this morning, the Ninth Circuit ruled against the ban. Most headlines read that way, and many even continue that into the reports themselves. A few correctly point out that the ruling came from a three judge panel of the Ninth, rather than the whole circuit. That’s pretty important, for reasons beyond the obvious option for appeal.
The good news is that the panel correctly applied strict scrutiny.
It must be justified by a compelling governmental interest.
The law or policy must be narrowly tailored to achieve that goal or interest.
The law or policy must be the least restrictive means for achieving that interest: there must not be a less restrictive way to effectively achieve the compelling government interest.
The law in question broke down into two parts. One forbade any long guns to those 18-20yo unless they have a hunting license. Because the court found that it was not unnecessarily broad — allowing the hunting license exception — it used intermediate scrutiny on that part, and allowed it to stand.
The second part in question banned 18-20yos possessing semiautomatic centerfire rifles, hunting license or not. While the first part would allow those with hunting licenses to possess pump shotguns, single shot rifles, or bolt-actions, semiautomatics were right out; essentially with no exceptions (other than for police or military). Coupled with the existing prohibition on sales of any handgun to those under 21, this amounted to a near total revocation of Second Amendment rights for young adults. The panel found that to be overly broad under strict scrutiny.
Third, the district court erred by applying intermediate scrutiny, rather than strict scrutiny, to the semiautomatic centerfire rifle ban. Strict scrutiny applied because the law on its face banned almost all young adults from having semiautomatic rifles. The main difference between this ban and the long gun regulation was the exceptions. The long gun regulation has a readily available exception, at least on its face—young adults can get hunting licenses. The semiautomatic rifle ban has no such exception: the only young adults who can buy semiautomatic rifles are some law enforcement officers and active-duty military servicemembers. The panel held that California’s ban was a severe burden on the core Second Amendment right of selfdefense in the home. Even applying intermediate scrutiny, the ban, prohibiting commerce in semiautomatic rifles for all young adults except those in the police or military, regulated more conduct than was necessary to achieve its goal and therefore failed the reasonable fit test.
As a matter of routine, when California loses a case at the panel level, it appeals to the Ninth en banc; the whole circuit. That is where things could get very interesting, thanks to Judge Stein’s dissent in this case.
Dissenting in part, Judge Stein stated that while the majority was correct to apply intermediate scrutiny to the long gun regulation to affirm the district court’s denial of the preliminary injunction, it erred in applying strict scrutiny to and reversing the district court with respect to the semiautomatic centerfire rifle regulation. On that basis, Judge Stein concurred with the majority’s holding and reasoning with respect to the long gun regulation and dissented from its holding and reasoning with respect to the semiautomatic rifle regulation. Judge Stein stated that by neglecting consideration of either the disproportionate perpetration of violent crime by, or the relatively immature and variable cognitive development among, adults under age 21, the majority opinion failed to conduct a legal analysis that comported with the corpus of precedent within this Circuit and elsewhere.
Oh. My. How will the en banc Ninth deal with Stein’s assertion that 18-20yos are too criminal and/or too mentally defective to enjoy enumerated rights, while struggling to reject the panel’s decision that they do have some rights?
If, as I expect, the Ninth takes up this case en banc the weasel-worded side-stepping around Stein’s dissent will be amazing. If they roll with Stein’s position, they open up several cans of worms.
Too immature to have a rifle? Too immature to vote.
Too immature to have a rifle? Too immature for free speech. (OK, they’ll probably like that one.)
Too immature to have a rifle? Too immature for an abortion.
Too immature to have a rifle? Too immature for a car.
Work your way throught the Bill of Rights and consider what else young adults might be to immature to enjoy.
If the Ninth decides intermediate scrutiny should be applied, and accepts Stein’s assertion that young adults are du jure criminals and mentally deficient, California’s red flag law could also come into play.
As bad as no-due process confiscations based on — even anonymous — accusations of potential future crime are, imagine red flag hearings based on Stein’s bizarre idea.
NOW: “Judge, Mr. Smith has been angry and acting erratically. Hid did this and this and this. He has guns. Please take them.”
STEIN’s FUTURE: “Judge, Mr. Smith is 18 and has a bolt-action hunting rifle. Please take it. No, he has not been angry or erratic, but under JONES v. BONTA, he’s a criminal and mentally deficient by default, by reason of age.”
That’ll go over well with younger voters. If they can still vote.
Previous age limits for firearms have survived intermediate scrutiny in the past because they’ve been somewhat narrowly tailored. Young adults were prohibited from purchasing handguns because those tend to be used more often in crimes than long guns. (That’s still a bit wide for my taste, and courts are beginning to agree with me.)
Outright bans for individuals — as opposed to entire demographic classes — were narrowly tailored because they required convictions of those specific individuals for serious crimes, or judicial findings of mental incompetence specific to those individuals.
Will the Ninth — like Stein — be willing to chuck that in favor of wholesale bans for entire demographic classes?
…disproportionate perpetration of violent crime by…
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You might think that headline is the big news. Not really. We already know red flag laws don’t work.
The news here is that Garen Wintemute, the victim-disarmament advocate who previously couldn’t find data he could not twist, finally hit a brick wall. And worse.
Firearm Violence Following the Implementation of California’s Gun Violence Restraining Order Law
VROs were not associated with reduced population-level rates of firearm violence in San Diego County, but this may change as the number of orders increases over time; the association between GVROs and firearm violence at the individual level cannot be inferred from our findings and should be the subject of future studies.
Wintemute is notable for crappy “studies” using bogus tools like synthetic controls (imaginary populations, because real populations wouldn’t support his predetermined “results”), tossing out most of the inconvenient data (because two-thirds of the subjects declined to kill themselves), and using personally identifiable data obtained through legally dubious means (so dubious that California tried to pass a bill to legalize it). He has also violated privacy rules with covert surveillance.
This paper was another example of a synthetic control; an artificial “San Diego.”
To estimate the association between GVRO implementation and firearm violence in San Diego, we used the synthetic control method, a quasi-experimental comparative case study design.
This was a particularly egregious example. To the extent that synthetic controls have any value, you build one by using data from populations (other California counties, in this case) with conditions and populations similar to the variable you wish to examine, except for the variable in question. That is, when studying the effects of a red flag law on a county, you would make up an imaginary comparison county from places that don’t have a red flag law.
All California counties were subject to the same statewide red flag law.
Properly, if you want to see the effects on San Diego County of the red flag law, you simply do a temporal analysis of per capita homicides and suicides in San Diego prior to law passage and after implementation. Wintemute didn’t need a synthetic San Diego to come to a conclusion; he already had real San Diegos without a red flag law (pre-2016) and with a red flag law (post-2016). You use a synthetic control when you don’t expect real world data to support your preculsion.
For example, one year after Florida passed a red flag law, homicides and suicides went up. That was especially nasty, because for two years prior to passage both rates had been declining.
Two years after the Florida law’s passage, and homicide and suicide rates were still increasing.
[Side Note: To anyone with an operational brain, this was… a no-brainer, so to speak. You have a potentially violent –to self or others — person. You piss him off, or depress him, off by stealing his property without due process. Then you simply leave him loose on the streets. WTH did they expect to happen?!]
The violent crime trend reversed post-Red Flag, to increase.
Suicide Rate per 100,000
2013: 12.9
2014: 12.5 (down)
2015: 12.0 (down) 2016: 12.0 (no change) Red Flag Passes
2017: 12.3 (up)
2018: 12.86 (UP!)
The suicide rate trend reversed post-Red Flag, to increase.
Such a surprise. Not.
Wintemute et al went with a synthetic control — showing no effect of the Red Flag law to hide the fact that no only did it have an effect, but it appeared to make things worse.
* Sorry; I had to go with Violent Crime Rate, which includes homicides, because multiple fast searches didn’t turn up homicide rates broken out separately. There’s only so much I can do without funding.
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Yes, I’m a bit late getting this up, what can I say? How about Yom HaAtzmaut Samach? Happy Independence Day? Yes, the 5th of Iyar, this year May 5th marks a 74 year old beautiful Israel. Ok, so today is really the 5th of Iyar, but Yom HaZikaron (Memorial Day) and Yom HaAtzmaut will be moved if they are going to conflict with Shabbat.
I listened to a podcast I really enjoy from Leah Aharoni on Israel Newstalk Radio. She combines the Torah portion for the week and then views news of the week through the lens of what she covered from the Torah.
In this weeks version she covered some amazing facts about Israel,
They have been able to grow fresh dates from 6th century date seeds found at Masada.
Israel is the only country to revive dead language, Hebrew. For more on that you can read about Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
The Israeli post office has a special letters to G-d department. The letters addressed to G-d are placed in cracks in Western Wall. I guess the Israeli post office isn’t tracking their citizens on social media so they have time for meaningful activity.
They were the first country with medical clowning group, and it was the first to go into covid wards to spread cheer and encourage patients and probably staff as well.
In 2007 “Good deeds day” was started by Shari Arison in Israel, and 7,000 participated. Two years ago 4 million participated world wide.
Israel recycles 90% of waste water, it is then used for agriculture.
Leah described some kind of cool sock, it sounded like she was saying “Poolies”maybe “Pulies”? Which are socks made from recycled plastics. But I couldn’t find them to give you a link.
The cows in Israel produce more milk per cow than any other country.
Due to Bamba, a heavenly treat, like a Cheeto only made with peanuts, few children have peanut allergies. Because children begin to eat Bamba from 7-8 mo old. I’m convinced Bamba is a gift from Heaven.
The women in Israel have more children per woman than any other OECD ( Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) country. And the number of children is going up even as more women are entering into the work force and higher education.
If you want to listen to the whole excellent show, it is here
And I think this last one may explain why the globalists were so determined to use Israel as a test lab for the experimental gene therapy injections.
I guess if you’re a globalist you don’t want a group of people trying to show the world a decent moral way to live according to the directions of the creator then you’d want to cut down on the number of them. That is a bridge too far for the globalist control. They think they are G-d.
Israel was re-born 74 years ago, in the same place that G-d led us when we left behind the slavery of Egypt. But the thing about slavery is you have to remain vigilant. Just because you leave one brand of slavery behind doesn’t mean another brand won’t try to sneak in and seize control. I think that is what is happening in Israel and America right now.
The day after Israel declared Independence, she was attacked in her own little home.
“I was sitting in the car with my friend and we were eating cholent,” Dovid said. “The terrorists, carrying huge axes, came on both sides of the car. My friend threw his boiling hot cholent on one of the terrorists and he got burned and stopped in his tracks. Meanwhile, I grabbed the end of his ax and I managed to push him away. He flew three steps back. And then the second terrorist tried to hit my friend again but my friend pushed him back and they fled.”
Assault cholent/hamim? Excuse me sir, do you have a license for that assault cholent/hamim? I seem to remember another column I did where boiling cholent/hamim was used by some Yeshiva students to fight off barbaric muslims as they tried to break into the Yeshiva. It is a very sad state of affairs when your government is more worried about the criminal muslims rights being protected than the innocent cholent/hamim eating victim. To translate that from Israeli into American, the rights of Antifa over the innocent driver trying to get to work.
I think that both America and Israel are under attack from within by their own governments. Someone signed that order in Israel to force those injections. In America we know about the demented troll at the NIH and the demented puppet in the white house. But the leadership of neither country wants it’s people to live in a land whole and healthy based on the G-d’s law. And for those that have sat still on the sidelines, thinking that “It can’t get that bad, we have a Constitution and a Bill of Rights”, I guess we as a people are going to have to decide how much it matters to us. U.S. There is always work involved, but going forward we need to know, we can never let the left near the levers of power. Had the left wing General Moshe Dayan not thrown the miraculous gift of the Temple Mount back in G-d’s face after he gave it to us, Israelis would be celebrating Yom HaAtzmaut on the Temple Mount today. Because this land? It is ours.
Jews. Guns. No compromise. No surrender.
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