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Allen West: Statement Regarding the NRA

May 14, 2019 Miguel.GFZ 2 comments

I do not support Wayne LaPierre continuing as the EVP/CEO of the NRA. The vote in Indianapolis was by acclamation, not roll call vote. There is a cabal of cronyism operating within the NRA and that exists within the Board of Directors. It must cease, and I do not care if I draw their angst. My duty and responsibility is to the Members of the National Rifle Association, and my oath, since July 31, 1982, has been to the Constitution of the United States, not to any political party, person, or cabal.
The NRA Board of 76 is too large and needs to be reduced to 30 or less. We need term limits of four (4) terms on the Board. We need to focus the NRA, the nation’s oldest civil rights organization on its original charter, mission, training and education in marksmanship, shooting sports, and the defense of the Second Amendment.

Allen West: Statement Regarding the NRA

I can live with this. Go read the rest of the post.

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The New York Daily News doesn’t get it about nunchucks or guns

May 14, 2019 J. Kb 9 comments

I saw this headline from the New York Daily News:

Nunchuck ban lifted in Arizona, where guns are allowed to be carried without license

Good, it’s about time that stupid anti-weapon laws got overturned.

Martial art fans can finally show people what they’re working with.

On Friday, Arizona’s governor Doug Ducey signed a law lifting the longtime ban on nunchucks, which were on the state’s list of “prohibited weapons,” along with automatic firearms, sawed-off shotguns, grenades and IEDs.

Fantastic, not can we have automatic weapons, sawed-off shotguns, and grenades removed from the prohibited weapons list?

According to reports, the martial arts weapons — which grew in popularity during the 1970s after being seen in Bruce Lee films — were described in the legislation as “two or more sticks, clubs, bars or rods to be used as handles, connected by a rope, cord, wire or chain, in the design of a weapon used in connection with the practice of a system of self-defense.”

Nunchucks were banned in the 1970’s or 1980’s in most places because of a moral panic.  Moral busybodies decided that kids who saw those movies were going to become hooligans and felt the need to ban martial arts weapons as a precaution.

This is exactly the same motivation for banning switchblades across the country in the wake of movies like Rebel Without a Cause and 12 Angry Men.

This is why I universally support overturning all of these idiotic weapon laws.  They are all passed by politicians wanting to get elected using fear by pushing a solution to a non-issue that strips other people of their rights.

I have covered New York City’s overzealous use of anti-gravity knife laws to prosecute working class New Yorkers who have jobs to do and are not hurting anybody.  NYC politicians can show off tables full of lockback pocket knives and talk about arrest figures like they were cracking down on MS-13 carrying machetes when really they were arresting electricians, construction workers, and contractors carrying Buck 110s and Leatherman Waves.

Arizona residents are allowed to carry guns without permits or licenses.

That’s the Second Amendment for you.  To be honest, nunchucks are protected by the Second Amendment too.  That’s not my opinion, that’s the opinion of a judge in the United States District Court of the Eastern District of New York.

In my wildest fantasies, New York City’s knife laws get overturned by the Supreme Court, who go on to say that the Second Amendment doesn’t just apply to guns but to all weapons and that most knife, crossbow, slingshot, and other weapon bans are void.

“It’s good to know that nobody’s going to get arrested for carrying their nunchucks to their training,” Shawn Sample, a Phoenix karate instructor told KTVK/KPHO.

Yes, it is.  Now only if New York City could do something about arresting carpenters on their way to work with a folding utility knife in their jeans.

“I find it interesting that a state that allows you to walk around with a gun on your hip worries about nunchucks being a problem,” the Phoenix-based Karate instructor added.

That’s what happens when people elect moral busybodies who run on campaigns of moral panics.

Nunchucks — or nunchaku, as they are also known — are traditional Japanese martial arts weapon consisting of two sticks, usually made of wood, connected at one end by a short chain or rope.

“The average person can do far more damage using a baseball bat than nunchucks,” Arizona Rep. John Kavanaugh told the Associated Press before the legislation passed. “They’re not dangerous to anybody. And we really should let kids and adults who want to do martial arts activities legally possess them.”

That’s not entirely true.  They are weapons.  They are intended to and can hurt people.  But that is the point.  People have the right to own weapons for defense, and if they choose to use nunchucks that way, they have that right.

Last December, U.S. District Judge Pamela K. Chen struck down a similar ban in New York ruling that nunchucks were protected under the Second Amendment.

That is what I wrote about last year in the link above.

What gets me about this article, and the interview in it, is the logic that since nunchucks are banned it’s ridiculous that people can walk around with guns.

One weapon ban should not beget another.

Many states recognize that the right to carry guns is protected by the Second Amendment.  Other non-firearm weapons have not been recognized to have the same protections, probably because at the time of our nation’s founding, not a lot of Minute Men were running around with nunchucks.  Swords and large knives have also been banned and overlooked as having Second Amendment protection.

I believe the correct logic is, end most weapon bans.  If you have a problem with stabbings, you don’t solve that by arresting guys hanging drywall carrying utility knives.  The kids who want to practice with nunchucks at Karate Camp are not using them to rob liquor stores.

Most people who carry switchblades are not Sharks or Jets or looking to stab Marlon Brando in a leather jacket.

We need more of these laws overturned, lest we turn into Mediocre Britain and ban people from buying plastic pie servers and gardening towels.

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Democrat Antisemitism Watch of the Day – May, 14th. The transformation is complete.

May 14, 2019 J. Kb 5 comments

Unless you have been deliberately avoiding the news, you probably heard that Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib said something terribly antisemitic.

For context, watch her statement from the Yahoo News Skullduggery Podcast.

And the transcript of her statement:

“There’s always kind of a calming feeling I tell folks when I think of the Holocaust, and the tragedy of the Holocaust, and the fact that it was my ancestors — Palestinians — who lost their land and some lost their lives, their livelihood, their human dignity, their existence in many ways, have been wiped out, and some people’s passports,” she said. “And just all of it was in the name of trying to create a safe haven for Jews, post-the Holocaust, post-the tragedy and the horrific persecution of Jews across the world at that time. And I love the fact that it was my ancestors that provided that, right, in many ways. But they did it in a way that took their human dignity away and it was forced on them.”

The “calming feeling I tell folks when I think of the Holocaust” part of what she said is horrifying on its own, but the rest of her comment was so factually inaccurate that even CNN couldn’t put up with her bullshit.

The Washington Examiner goes into further details about how everything Rashida Tlaib said was wrong.

Many have accused her of historical revisionism.  That is true, but this needs to be explained further.  Tlaib is not making this up out of her own head.  What she said is the common historical understanding in Palestine and what is taught to Palestinian children in Palestinian schools.

Islam is is a very thin-skinned religion.  Muslims do not react well to being challenged at all.  You see this in the doctrine that says anyone who insults Muhammad must be killed.  Muslims routinely imprison or kill anyone accused of blasphemy or even questioning the prophet.

Muslims are the original crybully snowflakes.

Muslims always have to be heroes or noble victims.

Israel was founded in 1948, to be immediately attacked by its neighbors Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, and Syria.  The local Arab Muslims joined in this fight, and when the war was over the local Palestinian population was expelled.  They had just risen up as a Fifth Column against the Jews.  In a statement made by the Arab Higher Committee of Palestine to the UN:

The Palestinian Arabs consider any attempt by Jewish people or by whatever power or group of power to establish a Jewish state in an Arab territory to be an act of aggression that will be resisted by force.

Because of the weak Islamic ego, the Palestinians concocted a new story.  Not one in which they were defeated aggressors but where they were the victims.

They opened their arms to the evil, backstabbing Jews, who repaid their kindness with treachery.

They called their defeat the Nakba or “catastrophe,” convincing the world that  Palestinians who had just been defeated in their attempted genocidal uprising were the real victims.

This is the history that has been taught in Palestine for 70 years.  This is what Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib believes.

Her Middle East historical knowledge is straight out of the Hamas/Palestinian Authority handbook.  This is the critical fact that needs to be understood.

What is worse, is that Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer have both defended Tlaib.

The Democrats as a party have gone from nominally criticizing antisemitism, to pussyfooting around it when it comes from their own ranks, to full-on defending it.

There is no walking back from here.

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