Where a Redneck Jew, a Hispanic Catholic, and a Computer Geek write about Gun Rights, Self Defense and whatever else we can think about.
Via J.D. Kinman.
Full page Australian newspaper ad warning people to turn in their guns.
Charming.
Update: Reader Loess made the following comment:
Anyone else get a little flash of Schindler’s List when a gun control ad has people in “showers”?
Indeed it does.
While it tops the charts when it comes to gun ownership, the US actually ranks 11th in terms of firearm-related deaths, with 10.54 annually per 100,000 of its population. Ahead of it are a slew of Latin American countries: Honduras (top with 67.18), Venezuela, Guatemala, El Salvador, Colombia, Brazil, Panama and Uruguay. Swaziland and Jamaica complete the top 10.
Source: Mapped: The countries with the most guns (no prizes for guessing #1)
Articles like these are the reason one must do due diligence and check the numbers and the sources for the obvious lack of accuracy. It gets doubly sweet when the sources the author uses give you the material to prove the BSI (Bullshit Index) of the article.
First alarms sound when the expression “firearm-related deaths” is used as it means they will add all possible data points even when they are painting the issue as criminal violence only. Now, we know by the FBI numbers that the Murder/Manslaughter by firearm rate is not even close to half of the one mentioned in the article, so it is a good guess that the author is stuffing the number with suicides and deaths by other means. The next alarm was the rates for Honduras as it is too low. It turns out that the rate presented is for a decade ago and not the latest numbers. Venezuela always runs a very close second when not on top and they have not seen numbers in the 60s-70s per 100,000 in a decade or so.
But is the USA 11th in Violent deaths? Hardly, even the Small Arms Survey (which hates US gun ownership with passion) places us 105th worldwide. So then, what are the US numbers? Again I go back to the wonderfully interactive map provided by SAS:
So from the misleading “firearm-related deaths” at 10.54 per 100K we actually get a Homicide by Firearm of 2.7 per 100K. That is a 74.4% difference which makes the author either brutally stupid or purposefully deceiving.
I’ll take purposefully deceiving for $200, Alex.
Chico State Athletics has come out with a series of “shaming” memes on what NOT to say to people. I found this one particularly funny:
If you are Spanish-impaired, allow me to share something with you. the word “Chico” in Spanish means “boy.” So by default, any black student in that school can be officially addressed as boy because of school spirit and stuff.
Of course, the school can go ahead, be truthfully PC and change his name to something non-triggering. The rests are as funny as this one in different categories. IE:
There are more of these nonsensical memes in their Facebook page.
Hat Tip Hopalong G.
Groucho Marx once famously sent a telegram to a Hollywood club that said: “Please accept my resignation. I don’t want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.”
I recently discovered a new website created by the Brady Campaign: lapdogscorecard.org
According to Brady A Lap Dog is a member of Congress that takes treats from the corporate gun lobby AND blocks progress on expanding Brady background checks. The rating applies to members of the 114th Congress.
The Lap Dog label is based on two basic criteria:
1. Did you support legislative efforts to expand background checks on gun sales?
AND
2. Did you take money from the corporate gun lobby?
The purpose of the website is to let you know if your member of Congress a Lap Dog for the corporate gun lobby?
First of all, the idea of a Lap Dog is highly offensive. It presumes that there are no principled gun rights supporters in Congress. The only reason, according to Brady, that a person would support gun rights is that they are filthy whore for the evil gun lobby.
I am a principled gun owner. I don’t need the NRA telling me what to believe. I just have to turn to the evidence of history and the words of our Founding Fathers. I don’t need the NRA to give me money to not support gun control. I’d be happy to take their money, but I’d vote against gun control on my own. Besides, long before I took money from the NRA, I took money from the gun industry. It’s called a paycheck.
I went over to the Lap Dog list for Florida. I may have moved out of the Gunshine state, but home is where the heart is.
Lap Dog Scorecard shows the picture of a state’s members of Congress, if they have a thumbs up or down rating from the Brady Campaign, how much money they took from the Gun Lobby, and if they meet the lap dog criteria.
This is their rating for Senator Marco Rubio, for example.
So lets see who the good guys are for the Brady Campaign. The members of the Florida House of Representatives who aren’t lab dogs. Those who got a thumbs up rating from Brady.
Up first we have Congressman Alan Grayson.
Thumbs up for a man who was accused of beating his wife. This is also the man who got violent with a reporter who questioned Grayson about his domestic violence. Grayson, with his Liberal populist rhetoric against Wall Street and the 1%, actually ran a Hedge Fund out of his Congressional office, violating Congressional ethics rules and the law. Grayson tried to run for Senate in Florida, but was so burdened with scandals that even Harry Reid told him to back down. When Harry Reid calls you out for being a piece of shit, you know that you are a real piece of shit.
Who else?
How about Congressman Alcee Hastings.
Before Hastings was Congressman, he was a Federal Judge. He is also the sixth judge in US history to be impeached by the United States Senate. He was convicted by the Senate and removed from office for taking $150,000 in bribes. Hastings corruption didn’t stop there, he was been investigated by the House Ethics Committee and is ranked No. 1 in the House for nepotism. If that wasn’t enough, the House Ethics Committee had to reprimand Hastings for being sexually inappropriate with a subordinate. All of this has earned Hastings a spot in Judicial Watch’s Top 10 Most Corrupt Politicians.
Can we do better?
Yes we can, in the form of Congresswoman Corrine Brown.
Brown was indicted on 22 charges of corruption for creating a fake charity to use as a slush fund.
Next up is Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Schultz was the keystone in the Hillary Clinton’s effort to corrupt the Democratic National Convention, violate DNC rules, and undermine the will of Democrat voters, to get Hillary ordained. For her efforts, Schultz was sent home from the Convention early, to thunderous boos from the audience.
That’s quite a motley crew the Brady Campaign is giving thumbs up to, we’ve got corruption, illegal use of Congressional powers, bribery, extortion, and domestic violence. It’s good to see that the Brady Campaign endorses such upstanding members of Congress.
I guess as long as you vote to take away American’s gun rights, it’s totally cool to beat your wife and steal money from people.
At this point, if I weren’t a principled gun rights enthusiast, I’d become a Lap Dog just to make sure that there was no way I’d be positively associated with the likes of these pieces of shit human beings. No thank you.
I invite you to look up who is not a Lap Dog and has a Brady Campaign thumbs up in your state. See just how many of Brady’s favorite members of Congress deserve to have their next term in a Federal prison.
Moms Demand Action made a post about an article from The Guardian: Colorado poll workers trained to respond to mass shooting.
The comments from the MDA peanut gallery are dangerously stupid.
According to them, it is all Trump and the NRA’s fault. See Trump has been inciting violence and Trump supporters are going to shoot up polling places to get Trump elected. Or something like that.
Never mind the Black Panthers providing “security” at Pennsylvania polling places in 2012. Never mind that Democrat activists may have staged and incited violence at Trump rallies. Never mind that Trump supporters have been attacked in San Jose, Minneapolis, all across America, and even into Canada. Never mind the Left Wing #BLM riots in Milwaukee and Charlotte. If there is going to be a shooting at a polling place, it is going to be Trump and the NRA that are responsible.
EXCEPT…
The Guardian article doesn’t say that at all.
Mass shootings can occur anywhere a lot of people gather for any event. Like at a gay nightclub, an office Christmas party, a movie theater, or gun free college campuses in Santa Barbara or Oregon.
The common denominator in all those shootings was a shooter/shooters who targeted a large group of unarmed people, trying to send a message.
A polling place makes a pretty good target for anybody, regardless of religions or political ideology, who wants a lot of unarmed people packed into a small place.
Having security trained to deal with a mass shooter is not a bad idea.
The nutjobs at MDA want to make this into such an anti-Trump/anti-NRA thing. That is terribly dangerous. An attack can come from anywhere, and they want to be willfully blind to every direction but to the right.
Then there is this jackoff from Down Under.
Never mind that Australia’s gun buyback was an abysmal failure which accomplished little of nothing. As it turns out, criminals didn’t hand over their guns, and now there are 260,000 illegal firearms floating around Australia, and violent crime is up. Now Australia has to give criminals amnesty to try to get more guns off the streets. Which, if you think about it, should work about as well as the buyback, i.e., not at all.
The sweet air of freedom in Australia stinks a lot like oppression. Welcome to Australia 2016, where freedom is slavery is the motto.
Forgive me if I don’t want to take advice from this guy.
These idiots will get you killed.
The Left has gone nuts trying to push the idea of Affirmative Consent in sexual acts, which is defined as “affirmative, conscious, and voluntary agreement to engage in sexual activity” every step of the way. Affirmative Consent, when taken literally, makes any sex act rape unless it is explicitly consented to. This is now the new legal standard for sex on California college campuses.
Now lets hop over to Europe, where the Left loves to take its cues from. The Austrian Supreme Court overturned the conviction of a 20 year old Iraqi immigrant man, who raped a 10 year old boy in a public pool. The Iraqi man said that he had a “sexual emergency” since he had left his wife back in Iraq and had not had sex in four months, so had to rape the 10 year old. The Austrian Supreme Court decided that because the man was from Iraq, and had different cultural norms than Europeans, he couldn’t be sure the 10 year old – who had to be hospitalized because of the attack – did not want to be raped.
Let me say that again.
The Austrian Supreme Court said that an Iraqi man could not have raped a 10 year old boy, because the Iraqi man didn’t know that the 10 year old didn’t want to be raped, because of cultural differences.
The Left in America has no logical or moral consistency. So what happens when President Hillary Clinton brings in tens-thousands of Middle Eastern refugees?
Will Affirmative Consent hold fast, or will Affirmative Consent only apply Americans, and Islamic migrants get a pass because of religious and cultural differences, the way they do in Europe?
My money is on the later.
I am going to spell this out very clearly, so that in the coming years, the powers that be cannot deny that they have been warned.
The Left better not attempt to ignore or normalize sexual assault or rape by Islamic migrants, and decide that laws against rape and sexual assault don’t apply because of cultural differences.
The day that I have to worry that some migrant suffering from a “sexual emergency” is in the locker room of the Y, is the day the I decide that the “no guns allowed” sign on the front door of the Y doesn’t apply to me because of cultural differences too.
It’s my Don’t Tread On Me American culture, and those of us who abide those cultural norms have no qualms against blowing away anyone who lays a hand on our wives or children with malicious intent.
The refugee who tries to have a “sexual emergency” with my son won’t have the luxury of a court overturning his conviction, because I will have already had a “Golden Saber emergency” in his direction.
I know that I am not alone.
UPDATE
A few hours after finishing this post, I was going through my usual list of European news sites to check up on and I caught this article: Migrant foster mum reveals her horror at discovering ’12-year-old refugee’ in her care is actually a 21-year-old Jihadi.
Overturning a conviction for the rape of a 10 year old by a 20 year old migrant over cultural differences was not the worst news of the day. The UK had to go full retard, and then some.
It has been news for some time that some refugees are falsely claiming to be children to get preferred refugee status. This is the first case I’ve heard of where an adult refugee “child” has been adopted by a foster family.
Alarm bells rang when the family went swimming and Rosie’s [the foster mom] 13-year-old commented on how hairy he was… On a bus to college he was told to get off by a driver who didn’t believe he was 16. Rosie, who lives in the South East, said: “It’s ridiculous how everybody else could see it but not the social workers.”
Alarm bells didn’t go off when she first laid eyes on Jamal?
At a climbing centre he shimmied up ropes with ease, and at a shooting range he stripped a gun before firing it… Jamal’s behaviour worsened. He put the 13-year-old in expert holds, demanded cash and got calls from unknown numbers.
Great, he’s gotten some terrorist training too.
Here is where this goes from scary to full on horrifying.
He roomed with a boy, aged 13. Two girls, 12 and 14, were also in the house… His last words to Rosie were: “I’ll kill you and I know where your children are.”
It’s a good thing, I guess, that Jamal was JUST a terrorist and didn’t have a “sexual emergency” with his foster family.
Let me say this again, in America, we are just a little different than they are in Europe.
Where I live, if a nice middle class family has a sleep over for their 12 year old, and Jamal the 21 year old terrorist shows up with a bedroll, we’re not going to put up with that. If Jamal the 21 year old terrorist thinks he can threaten his way into getting what he wants, the only thing 12 about the situation will the the gauge of buckshot load he takes to the chest.
If the vetting process Clinton intends to put in place is anywhere near as good as the one the UK or Sweden has, Clinton needs to realize the American people will do their own vetting – with a vengeance.
