Month: January 2013

The Josh Horwitz Insurrectionist Library: SWAT Standards For Law Enforcement Agencies

SWAT Standards For Law Enforcement Agencies. The first line of attack.

DISCLAIMER: The links provided in this post are for information purposes only. Information is power. However, if you choose to be an idiot with the information provided here, you are on your own lonesome and should take it like a man…or woman.

James Taylor on gun control

“I think the nation is very divided on gun control,” Taylor told TheDC, “but I think the majority of us feel strongly — even the majority of gun owners feel strongly — that we need to make some sacrifice[s] to our freedoms, if that’s the way to put it.

via James Taylor on gun control: ‘We need to make some sacrifice[s] to our freedoms’ | The Daily Caller.

Actually what he meant was:
we need to make some sacrifice[s] to your freedoms, if that’s the way to put it.

Fixed That For You Mr. Taylor.

The 2013 Fight for the Second Amendment: Chapter Two.

President Obama could not get his way via Executive “recommendations” but he did use the bully pulpit to pressure Congress into bring back Gun Control Laws and the renewal of the utter failure of the Assault Weapons Ban. He knows that the only way to make Congress cave is via Media Assault, shaming congresscritters into voting for new legislation.

Expect a renewed and more focused attack from the Moribund Stream Media. My local rag, The Miami Herald came out swinging today with 2 editorials: one against Stand Your Ground rehashing the Trayvon Martin case and the other basically calling anybody supporting the Second Amendment insane.

For years, opponents have managed to block effective gun control legislation by wrapping themselves up in the Constitution and decrying any restrictive effort as an attack on the Second Amendment. That’s a smokescreen. Courts have made clear that the Second Amendment is not a bar to sensible regulation.
Justice Antonin Scalia’s majority ruling in the famous Heller decision in 2008 held that gun rights are “not unlimited.” Further, the court has said lawmakers can ban felons and the mentally ill from owning guns. Lower courts have also upheld other restrictions, such as bans on machine guns and sawed-off shotguns.

We are akin to Felons and the Mentally Ill according to the editors in the Herald. Even when they quote Scalia saying that gun rights are not limited, they do fail to mention that the same Scalia said the same People should enjoy the protections of the Second Amendment just like the protections accorded under the First and the Fourth.

In some instances, Mr. Obama’s initiative would only close loopholes in existing law, such as imposing a universal background check on gun sales.

Some 40 percent of those sales are conducted at gun shows, over the Internet, and by private sellers, with no criminal background checks taking place at all.

This is a lovely piece of misinformation bringing together lies from the 90s with lies of the 21st century. Back in the Clinton Era, we were bombarded with the news that almost half of the transactions  that happened at gun shows did were not used background checks. People rose in moral outrage and mayors everywhere complained that Gun Shows were the favorite place for Drug Dealers to buy the “Assault Weapons” so popular for drive-bys and assorted killings happening every day. Here is the twist: Yes, a lot of transaction at gun shows did not use Background checks….for the simple reason that it was not required since they were not selling guns. Anybody who has ever been to a guns how cannot miss the great percentage of tables dedicated to sell ancillary stuff, ammunition, beef jerky, clothing, holsters, knives, books and other publications. The internet claim is also accurate, but not truthful and it is aimed at legitimate FFL sales fronts & auction sites. There are indeed some (very few) sites that work more local classified ads and involve mostly face-to-face transactions which are not very popular since we are indeed a suspicious bunch and after reading so many reports of people being robbed by fake buyers or sellers in Craiglist transactions, only the true foolish would take a dare of such magnitude. FFLs and Net Front sores will ship to other FFLs and this has been the practice since their inception. And since we have heard very little complaining coming from ATF and DOJ regarding these particular ways of doing firearm business, one has to wonder how many criminals actually try to pull a fast one online.
I am not going to fisk the whole editorial: it is the customary flawed repetition of manure that the dying Miami Herald is so fond of doing. I do however leave you with the thought expressed in the last scene of the movie Absence of Malice and hope you use it as tool to counter similar examples in your own local rag or Moribund Stream Media:
-Sarah Wylie: I need to know how to describe your relationship with Gallagher. Mac said to quote you directly. You can say whatever you want.
-Megan Carter: Just… say we were involved.
-Sarah Wylie: That’s true, isn’t it?
-Megan Carter: No. But it’s accurate.

 

Suppose you picked up this morning's newspaper and your life was a front page headline... And everything they said was accurate... But none of it was true?
Suppose you picked up this morning’s newspaper and your life was a front page headline… And everything they said was accurate… But none of it was true?

PS: I always forget to mention that the newsroom scenes of the movie were filmed in the soon to be defunct Miami Herald Building. I am guessing the lessons of the movie were never considered by the Miami Herald editorial gang and staff.

Sultan Knish: The Guns of Obamerica

67% of firearm murders took place in the country’s 50 largest metro areas. The 62 cities in those metro areas have a firearm murder rate of 9.7, more than twice the national average. Among teenagers the firearm murder rate is 14.6 or almost three times the national average. Those numbers are from six years ago. They have grown worse since.

Those are the crowded cities of Obamerica.

via Sultan Knish: The Guns of Obamerica.

What you will never hear in your MSM broadcast.

This is what it looks when an idiot get run over by logic.

West Virginia Citizens Defense League President, Keith Morgan basically shreds Talking Head Keith Morgan on Gun Control.
Take pointers from this interview.

You can be destructively polite. Clue: Whenever they say “I want to get back to..” means they know they got hammered bad in the point they were just making and they are in full retreat… keep pushing. Don’t let a lie go unchallenged.

Gun Motivator of the Day: Famous Last Words.

 

sedgwick
General John Sedgwick was the highest ranking Union casualty in the Civil War. He was killed by a sniper at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House in 1864. His troops were flinching and hiding at the noise of incoming fire so he is quoted to say “I’m ashamed of you, dodging that way. They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance.” Just seconds later he was proven wrong with a bullet hole below his left eye.