The fault, as it were, isn’t the responsibility of the gun control advocates who are fighting mightily against the power of the NRA and other like-minded organizations. This one lies at the feet of the broad mass of nonprofits. After the tragedy at Sandy Hook, when the president assigned vice president Joe Biden to lead a national task force on gun violence, that was the moment for the nonprofit sector writ large to come to grips with the nonsensical system in the U.S. that allows assault rifles to be widely available, guns to be purchased with limited or no background checks in many cases, and sales of silencers and sawed-off shotguns.

via Gun Control Stalls: Assault Rifles and Us – NPQ – Nonprofit Quarterly.

Gun Control stalls not because it makes sense but because it is emotion-based and built around lies. It also uses the best (worst) propaganda tools of the Prejudice Machine which have a very limited life span, specially in the era of the Internet where people can easily fact-check any data provided by any group.

Let’s check some of the other stuff Mr. Cohen says:

It is so strange that the American movement for gun control has flickered and come close to disappearing despite the ubiquity of gun violence in the U.S. and its resurgence in Western Europe.

Perhaps he missed the fact that in the Charlie Hebdo attack, even the cops were unarmed and got killed by armed terrorists, so right there the principle of a Gun Free world goes down the drain. And I am sure it was not only the “gunnies” that saw that video and said “If instead of a camera, somebody had a gun, they would have stopped that shit right there.” Would have stopped in all reality? Who knows? Maybe, maybe not, but at least there was a chance whereas Gun Free Cops had none.

Supporters’ contentions that guns on campus would deter sexual assault do not differ much from arguments that making guns more widely available would help Americans stand up against jihadist threats. Do gun proponents really imagine shoppers in the Mall of America engaged in pitched gun battles with terrorists?

We hope that the Government does its job and stops the threats before they actually strike us here. But we are also aware that the same Government is riddle with incompetents wrapped legalistic BS so yes, I want anybody who wants it with the ability to face Jihad Pete if he comes to do mischief at Pier One. Incoming fire tends to throw a monkey wrench on the best laid plans of Jihadist and other Vermin.

Imagine if the three young Muslims who were murdered in North Carolina, ostensibly due to a fight over a parking space, hadn’t had to deal with a Craig Hicks loaded to the gills with assault rifles. He’d be no less demented, but lacking the ability to pump bullets into their skulls, Hicks might have had to actually talk to them rather than executing them point blank.

And here is probably what hurts Gun Control the most: Lies.  As far as I have looked for, there is no mention in any credible source that Craig Hicks used any type of assault rifle. In fact, we don’t know if he owned one. And the victims of this asshole were shot once each in the head and were not pumped full of bullets. That is why I keep asking the Opposition: If your cause is so righteous, why lie?

The answer is because if they told the truth, the demise of the Gun Control Movement would be one hundred times faster.

Medellin, Colombia.

What amazes me the most in this video is that the cops capture the guy alive. They would usually put several rounds on him and call it a day. Probably the presence of family had something to do with it.

The civilian with the jacket? He is trying to render the blade “safe” by wrapping it around the garment. Ballsy but stupid as you need to get close to a guy whacked out of his mind with a machete.

And I think most everybody was keeping more than 21 feet from the “Machetero.”

Hat Tip to Active Self Protection. They are always coming up with very illustrative videos.

Shannon Watts is an out and out hypocrite. She posted the tweet below yesterday. It links to a story arguing against concealed carry by legal concealed carry holders on college and university campuses. It is obviously her position and that of her organization…

….. However, I will say that the university at which Mrs. Watts’ daughter attends has legal concealed carry on campus and has had it for a number of years.

via No Lawyers – Only Guns and Money: Her Hypocrisy Knows No Bounds.

Apparently there are plenty of exemptions for the special ones: billionaire funding, bodyguards, colleges where people can indeed defend themselves.

Nothing like being in the American Royalty Class.

Of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most…human.

Leonard Nimoy  1931- 2015

But so far, they have not acknowledge the change on the thread, nor the commentators have said anything, probably because they have not noticed.

OK, that does it. I volunteer for a paid position in CSGV so they don’t publish stupid stuff like that. At least I am willing to teach them how to use Google for other than looking at Samoan reptilian porn.

The comments/orgasms from the followers were quick to come:

And then, a bit of common sense makes an appearance and gets a “rebuttal”:

Because the pistol is MORE BADDER than the rifle! Either that or they think you could actually conceal an AR pistol down the front of the warm up pants of ganbangers.

There was another comment which explained in detail that it was one specific type of 5.56 ammo, but I got distracted and it was deleted before I could grab a screen capture. But at least it is an indicator that they are lying and they know they are lying. They just don’t care.

I really want to see how they are gonna spin this one out. Imagine ATF does get away banning M855 ammo and your average Laddite goes to the local WalMart and see boxes upon boxes of Regular (and other flavors) 5.56/.223 available for sale?

UPDATE: The exchange between Joseph Washington and the CSGV intern was deleted also. I seem to vaguely remember 2 more comment making the distinction about M855, but I can’t find them anymore.

The Memory Hole is working overtime at CSGV.

I confess that the whole thing appears to be convoluted and I have not done a real in-deep study of it.  Apparently the FCC wants to save me from the evil Internet providers or something.

I am a simple man. Don’t do fancy stuff, don’t shoot but simple inexpensive guns and don’t ask me about the mysteries of the Universe. However I can do some basic math.

When I came into the internet, it was through American On Line.  It charged me (IRRC) $2.45 per hour of usage at 9,600 bps and I had to get a spare phone line so our main wasn’t blocked if I was online. If I got distracted and forgot to disconnect, that monthly bill got huge ensuing significant fights with SWMBO.

Right now I am with one of the big companies that according to the FCC need to be reigned in. I am paying $50 a month for 25 Mbps unlimited and I killed any phone land lines long ago.

Now a simple feat of math: If was still paying AOL prices and connected 100% of the time ($2.45 x 24 x 365) at the end of the year I would be paying $21,462 on a really slow connection. Right now on high-speed Internet unlimited, I am paying $600 a year. That is what? a forty-fold decrease in price with an almost thirty-fold increase in speed on an unregulated internet subject to the whims of the free market?

So exactly what or who is the Government going to save me from? And why do I have the feeling we are about to be shafted?