One of my absolute favorite quotes is by George Orwell, when he said “There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.”

I truly believe this defines so much of the Progressive left.  Just when you think you read something so dumb that it might give you an aneurysm, another “intellectual” comes along and says something that gives you cancer.

For today’s near bout with death, we have to turn to the deep thinkers at the Huffington Post.

A Revision on the Bill of Rights, Part III

Oh great, here is some leftist who is going to deconstruct our God given, Constitutionally protected rights, and tell us why they are so bad today.

Lay your big brain on me Snowflake.

The Second Amendment is highly contested. There is no doubt that people do have the right to carry and have a stockpile of guns (“the right of the people to keep and bear arms”) and a state has the right to organize a well-regulated Militia. But, the main issue is on the right to self-defend with a firearm.

Holy shit, he got that right!

The main problem with the notion of self-defense is it imposes on justice, for everyone has the right for a fair trial. Therefore, using a firearm to defend oneself is not legal because if the attacker is killed, he or she is devoid of his or her rights.

Oh for fuck’s sake Snowflake, we’re past Forrest Whitaker Eye here.  I think this gave me a stroke.

Let me explain why this is so wrong.  Your right to a fair trial does not supersede my right to life.

At the very beginning of this country.  Before any other law was established, the very first thing our Founders put on paper was the right to life.  It’s in the Deceleration of Independence.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

I have the right to meet force with force.  I can meet the threat of deadly force with deadly force.  My top priority is the preservation of my life.

You are literally asking me to die so that you can exercise your right to a fair trial for my murder.

You are placing the rights of the attacker over the life of the victim.

Do you have any idea how awesomely bat-shit crazy that sounds?

In addition, one’s mental capacity is a major factor in deciding whether a man or woman has the right to have a firearm. There are two reasons for ensuring mental capacity. First, one of the Five Aims is to ensure domestic tranquility and there can be no tranquility if one does not have the capacity.

First of all, the Second Amendment was ratified along with the rest of the Constitution in 1789.  The ban on those adjudicated mentally ill from possessing guns was passed in 1968.  For 179 years, this wasn’t an issue.

But to the point, this definition of domestic tranquility is wrong.  Domestic Tranquility as it pertains to the Federal Government is to enforce peace among the states, such as settling interstate disputes and quashing rebellion.  It has nothing to do with mentally ill people.

Second, if one’s brain is distorting his or her reality, they do not have the proper reasoning and deduction skills to use a firearm.

Given how this article started, it’s clear that Snowflake here doesn’t have the reasoning and deduction skills to own a gun.  Now he’s just projecting that onto the rest of us.

Therefore, if we ponder and meditate on the recent events in news about guns, it would be obvious that the current state is incorrect.

It’s not, see Heller v. DC and McDonald v. Chicago.

A gun for civilians is a weapon for a revolution and not for ordinary use.

It’s good for both.  McDonald addresses this.  So does Moore v. Madigan.  I have the right to carry a gun outside the home for my own defense.  That is an ordinary use.

The belief that a gun is a useful tool to protect one is counterintuitive because guns get into the hands of people who use them for horrible reasons.

Snowflake here as a First Amendment right to print this shit-smear advocating against civil liberties.  I believe in the First Amendment even though horrible OpEds like this get printed.

Also, just because one person abuses their gun rights doesn’t mean I should lose my rights.  That’s called collective punishment, and is antithetical to civil rights.  We are a nation of individuals, not a collective mass.

In addition, there are reasons why cops are trained to use a firearm in stressful situations.  It is not to keep their mind at ease or anything of that sort, but to be able to fire accurately at the target in the correct location

Technical foul – appeal to authority fallacy.

Cops are poorly trained.  Case in point: two officers with the NYPD get in a shootout with a bad gun.  They fire 16 rounds and hit 9 bystanders.  This is not a lone example of the NYPD spraying bullets into bystanders, it’s happened more than once.  These “New York’s Finest” are more of a danger to the public than I am.

It is immensely difficult to fire when under pressure.

That’s why I practice.

Moreover, one may argue this is an analogous argument and yes it is because the United States government is lobbied to not study or fund research that observes the effects of guns. This cripples the chance of evaluating a proper policy to deal with gun violence. But, there was one study by ABC, which observed using guns in a classroom. All the participations poorly performed at the mock situation.

I wouldn’t call that video a “study.”  But so what?  So what if in one mock scenario the concealed carrier didn’t go all John Wick on the shooter?  Are all of our civil liberties at the mercy of a ABC new special report?  Some sleaze-bag reporter stages an incident and now the Bill of Rights is null and void?

Our Constitution was drafted EXPLICITLY to preserve our rights no matter the way the winds of public opinion blow.

Once again, if there is an argument in the reasoning of this amendment and others, one must filter it through the Five Aims of the USA and the Bill of Rights. This is to ensure that any argument can be answered, avoiding a political divide.

What the fuck does that mean?  The Preamble doesn’t trump the Bill of Rights and the Second Amendment is IN the Bill of Rights.  So that is a nonsensical statement.  The avoiding political divide part is laughable.   This whole OpEd is a Progressive attack on gun rights, using every opportunity to restrict that right.  This is a partisan hackish as one can get on the subject.

This OpEd is not deep.  It is a shallow bit of bullshit that tries to justify taking away civil liberties because of the writer’s opinion on how guns are hard to use and scary.

It’s my opinion that stupid, historically and legally illiterate OpEds in HuffPo reinforce an echo chamber and are bad for the national discourse and should be banned.  This Snowflake is abusing the First Amendment and so we should end that civil liberty, right?  It’s the responsible thing to do for the domestic tranquility, right?

Or let’s not open that can of worms and respect the Bill of Rights.

Stupid fuck.

TALLAHASSEE House Republicans quietly agreed Tuesday to pull from the floor a gun bill not yet considered at all by the chamber, after trading with Democrats to ensure a priority of the Senate president — also not previously vetted by the House — would be voted out that same day.

Source: Florida Legislature trades in a gun bill in favor of water for Everglades | Miami Herald

Officially every member of the Legislature gets an “F” rating.

I don’t need to say what does the “F” stands for, right?

Evil Princess Gail Pepin gave the heads up about the MDA Georgia Facebook page:

Apparently somebody with dubious taste considered gun blogger WizardPC as sexy enough to upload his pic to the page.

Ouch!

“The PORTE DE ARMAS DE FUEGO (Permit to Carry Arms) is suspended throughout the national territory for 180 days, to guarantee security, peace and internal order.”

Nestor Luis Reverol is the Minister of People’s Power for Interior Relations and Venezuelan Justice. Outside the President, he is the most powerful man in the Nation as he is the Chief of all Police Forces and Head of Internal Investigation A.K.A Secret Police.

The Permit to Carry Arms is what the paperwork is called which is both ownership and carry of the specific firearm fully described in the card. And since they have not declared any exception, it includes hunting armament, the guns of private security companies, and other gun-like artifacts that look like guns such as AirSoft, Paint Ball Guns, spearfishing guns, etc. Basically anything that has a trigger and projects something.

Venezuelans have just been told that their very registered weapons are , with one stroke of the governmental pen, illegal and so are they. if they chose to prosecute your ass.

Gun Control is such a lovely thing. I am sure that secretly in their offices, Members of the US Legislature, heads of Gun Control organizations and even a future presidential candidate in yoga pants are saying to themselves:

“Why can’t we me more like Venezuela?”

Because fuck you. That is why.

Yesterday, an unnamed man inturrepted the start of the Cuban May Day parade by running out in front of the parade waving an American flag over his head in full view of Raul Castro.

He was eventually caught by security and hauled away.

By now he is most likely dead.  If he was very lucky, he was simply shot.  If not, he may have been tortured to death.

He did this having to know how it would end.  There is no way for him to have escaped. 

This man, on Monday May 1st, 2017, was the bravest man on the planet.   Giving his life to show the tiniest spark of freedom loving defiance in the face of tyranny.

I’m pretty sure he stayed in Cuba only because there wasn’t a boat big enough to carry his balls across the Florida Straights. 

Compare this man’s actions to that of the masked Antifa.  Destroying property under the veil of anonymity, demanding communist tyrant in a land of free speech. They are chicken shit cowards compared to this Cuban man.

I have no idea who he was, I probably never will, but god rest his soul.  He showed the world that no matter how oppressed a people, there still exists a ray of hope and a glint of rebellion.

Some had been worried about “antifas,” the violent self-proclaimed “anti-fascists” who have physically attacked Republicans, Trump supporters, etc. elsewhere.  The antifas were notable by their absence.  I’m told one of their mottos is “Put Your Fist In A Fascist’s Face,” their definition of “fascist” being anyone they disagree with.  How ironic that they don’t understand their behavior is the very exemplar of fascism.
Perhaps they thought if they tried to “Put a Fist in the Face” of an NRA member, they might get a response of “Blast a Bullet Into a Brainless Bully’s Butt.”

Source: Massad Ayoob » Blog Archive » 2017 NRA ANNUAL MEETING: FINISHING UP

I reckon something like that went through their little brains and a modicum of self-preservation was engaged.

I was keeping an eye on my new notifications for any post-Shannon comment and overall creative review of the Moms Demand Anti NRA protest, but nothing showed up. Jeff A. via Twitter linked to an article undated but probably written after Shannon’s little party in the park.

On Saturday morning, about a mile from the convention, a group of about 100 protesters has gathered in Atlanta’s Woodruff Park. The demonstration is organized by Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun-violence prevention group that was started after the Newtown, Connecticut, school shootings in 2012.

Source: Inside ‘freedom’s safest place’ – CNN.com

And Ladies and Gentlemen, that was it. Even though my  News alerts were bombarded daily and almost hourly before the protest, no major outlet covered the event or made comments about it (other than CNN’s passing remark on the bigger NRA article.  It is like suddenly it never happened. It was a Non-Event, memory holed, “We’ve always been at war with Eastasia.”

But the Internet never forgets. And in the Era of “Resistance”  by the liberals, that one of the most subsidized Gun Control groups with the backing of the alleged best PR companies in NYC cannot come up but with a measly 100 people in a Blue Southern city tells you the real grassroots and voting power they have. They are shadow puppets writ large.

But apparently some within the GOP are afraid of shadows. We may be needing to get people who are not only not afraid of the dark, but are the ones that make dark fearful to others.

I’ll also settle for people with cojones and/or backbone.