After some comments on my last post about The Rude Pundit, I decided I would go through his Twitter feed.

Here is a quick summary of what I learned.

He thinks that Police go through constant firearms training.  This is the worst of the gun control appeal to authority facilities because it is so easily proven wrong.

My new favorite gun nut thing: Equating the private ownership of guns with law enforcement being armed. No, idiots. But if you go through the constant training and testing that cops go through with firearms, maybe we could talk.

— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) February 17, 2018

He wants to bring back the famous 1994 AWB, that was wholly ineffective.

And I'm not talking about all guns being outlawed. I'm talking about certain classes that were banned just 14 years ago. Jesus, if someone decided to outlaw my favorite breakfast cereal, I'd be okay with all the other choices.

— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) February 16, 2018

This is where his shit goes down hill.

If the guns are outlawed, the authorities will take the guns. And you will die if you try to stop them. But you won’t. https://t.co/ysxtHrGsXs

— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) February 15, 2018

Reading a whole lot of badasses saying shit like "Come take my guns, pussy."
1. I wouldn't take them. The government would.
2. If the government wanted your guns and you wouldn't surrender them, you would be arrested.

— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) February 16, 2018

5. If a law were passed getting rid of assault rifle ownership, you'd give them up. You may say you won't, but you will. You're gonna act tough, tweet tough shit, post whiny-ass videos. But you'll give up the guns.

— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) February 16, 2018

He really has a hard on for having the police take away people’s guns and the cops killing them in the process.  He thinks that gun owners are just a bunch of pussies who talk tough but will hand over their guns to the police.  At the same time he talks tough, he admits he’s not going door to door, to take guns because “the goverment is.”

He Tweeted this:

And shut the fuck up about needing guns to stop tyranny. You dumb motherfuckers wouldn’t know tyranny if it was screaming, “I’m tyranny!” in your idiot face.

— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) February 16, 2018

Not realizing, the government confiscating property that was purchased legally is right up there in the definition of Tyranny.  What he is calling for is tyranny, but we gun owners can’t recognize that.

I’m going to turn away from The Rude Pundit for a moment and turn to the New York Times, which published an OpEd titled “Repeal the Second Amendment.”  It’s it nonsensical, but it does contain this quote:

My guess: Take the guns—or at least the presumptive right to them—away.

So here we have the NYT being a little more long winded, ultimately getting to the idea of mass gun confiscation.

Last year, the Boston Globe had the same idea.

Ultimately, if gun-control advocates really want to stanch the blood, there’s no way around it: They’ll have to persuade more people of the need to confiscate millions of those firearms, as radical as that idea may now seem.  

So here is where I go out on a limb.

I really don’t want to get into a firefight with cops over my guns.  Dying in my bedroom in front of my kids is not what I want to do.  I really want to avoid that at all costs.

If shit were to actually go south, if DC passed some sort of gun confiscation law and it was upheld by SCOTUS and law enforcement was send to go collect the guns, it’s not the cops that I have any interest fighting.

So why own my guns?  Why say I own guns to stop tyranny if I don’t want do get shot to death by a SWAT team over my AR?

Here is my answer.

The Rude Pundit.  The writers of the New York Times and the Boston Globe.  Moms Demand Action.

It is the people who time and time again, from their comfy offices and academic halls said that the cops should take the guns and if that meant killing gun owners so be it.  It is every Liberal elitist who wants gun owners to be raided but doesn’t want to do it himself.

I want to bring the fight to them.  They wanted my my home raided.  They wanted my friends’ and neighbors’ homes raided, while they slept soundly.  Nope.  They get their doors kicked in too.

They sent the cops to kill gun owners.  They have blood on their hands.

The anti-gun intelligentsia are the Wannsee Conference that planned the final solution to the gun control question.  They are every bit complicit in whatever happens.

If the election of Donald Trump was a “human Molotov cocktail” that was thrown at the elites, they have no idea what is in store for them if they manage to get police to go door to door confiscating guns.  It will be real Molotov cocktails.

The cop who is “just following orders” is morally guilty, but I don’t want to shoot him – and risk being shot myself.  If I own guns to fight tyranny, it is to fight those who gave the orders and cheerleaded the passage of the law and defended it on TV, and I know they are unarmed.

The Liberal elites will not be allowed to stay safe in their ivory towers, insulated from the carnage they created.

Days after the Parkland shooting, students at Broward County High School had a walkout to protest for gun control.

They were chanting “Justice for Douglas.”

https://twitter.com/sahluwal/status/964559859797565441

I can understand being scared and upset as as a kid in high school, having witnessed kids in another school getting killed.  But part of being an adult is overcoming emotion and thinking critically about things.

They want “justice for Douglas.”  Okay, what form does that justice take?

CNBC reported that there are some 5 million AR-15’s in civilian hands.

The overwhelming majority of AR-15 owners didn’t shoot up a school, and never will.  The overwhelming majority of gun owners in general won’t either.

So enacting gun control bans that collectively strip rights away from law abiding citizens isn’t justice.  It’s collective punishment.

The Left doesn’t rely on critical thinking, it relies on emotion.

Remember the hysterical nonsense of the Women’s March?  Remember Ashley Judd yelling about being a nasty woman?  This is politics driven by emotion, not rational though.

So it comes to no supersize that the Women’s March is organizing a national student walkout for gun control.

Enough is enough!

Women's March Youth EMPOWER is calling for students, teachers, and allies to take part in a #NationalSchoolWalkout for 17 minutes at 10am on March 14, 2018. Join us in saying #ENOUGH!https://t.co/8ZE8uthRlZ pic.twitter.com/45yCZl4zDm

— Women's March (@womensmarch) February 16, 2018

They are going to take to the streets, driven by emotion, with virtually no facts on their side.  They are going to be hailed as heroes by the media.  We will be implored to the “listen to the children.”

This is the same politics we’ve seen since November 2016, just targeting something new.  The mewling of immature people, with no understanding of reality but demanding that “something” be done because they feel it should be.

I feel bad for some of the kids, being used like this by activists.  But some of these kids are about to turn 18 and are going to be eligible to vote soon.  They need to grow up and understand that emotion is not a surrogate for knowledge, just because they FEEL something, doesn’t make it so.

Via McThag:

GOP mega donor and real estate developer Al Hoffman Jr. says he will not write another check to Republicans until that pass an “assault weapons” ban.
The New York Times reports that Hoffman made this announcement via an email that he sent to Jeb Bush and Gov. Rick Scott (R), among others. Hoffman was a major contributor to the George W. Bush presidential campaign. He also donated more than $1 million to a PAC supporting Jeb Bush’s failed presidential campaign bid.

GOP Mega Donor: No More Money Without ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban.

He wasted 1 million on Jeb Bush…explains things.

And why would he send an email to Bush and Scott? Bush is dead as political force in the state of Florida and Scott is terming out this year. Is he thinking the Gov and the Legislature will go against Fl Gun Owners? Holy shit! We are already pissed off with not getting OC and Campus Carry because Senator Flores has humping her Anti Gun Democrat colleague.  “Sure Thing”  Senator Diaz De La Portilla failed to get re-elected even with Bloomberg’s money and to a newbie Democrat after crapping on gun owners. The GOP trying to even bring an AWB to the floor would assure Florida turning blue in November.

15 months after the election of Donald Trump and some people cannot the tea leaves.

Brother Chuck B. posted this articlementioning the genius here:

The latest NRA Annual Meetings have been populated with more than 70,000 members and no idea how many carrying concealed. I have posted how the local crime drops like an anvil in the area when the NRA members are in town because the bad guys know not to fuck with a bunch of armed people.   I can imagine Sable and group of idiots friends of hers actually popping a couple of caps over at the convention center and getting and unholy wave of lead back.

And she would be making the case for the elimination of Gun Free Zones.

Bless her little heart.

Let me go over some things about Nikolas Cruz and the State:

-Family and Friends knew he was unstable. They did nothing.
-Social Services knew he was unstable to the point of cutting himself.  They did nothing.
-Teachers and the School honchos knew he was dangerous to even ban him from school and sent emails warning about him. They did nothing.
-Police went to his house 36 times after an equal amount of 911 call. They did nothing.
-FBI was warned twice about a potential school shooter. They did nothing.

And it is all my fault because I am a Gun Owner?

Fox Trot- Uniform

You are just trying to deflect responsibility because once again Gun Free Zones were proven not only useless but deadly.  The Gun Free Schools was signed on 1994 and proven wrong in 1999 with the Columbine shooting. But for some reason, it is still the law of the land rather than getting rid of it like an old carton of milk.
But School Shootings make for great headlines for News Media and gets  great fundraising  to the Gun Control organizations.

We could have armed teaches in Florida four years ago. They let the bill die. The school did not even had a Resource Officer (armed cop) on campus, just like two-thirds of all the schools across the nation.

But, again, that is my fault as Gun Owner.

I live 600 feet from an elementary school.  I have a neighbor whose kids go to that school. If some lunatic were to attack, legally we (and I include many neighbors that I suspect are armed) are not allowed to help hunt the asshole because it is a felony carrying a 5 year sentence. The father won’t give a shit and go after the shooter without thinking, but the rest of us will pause and have to decide if our freedom is more important that the lives of children.

That should not be an issue. Good people should not have to be forced to face the possibility of losing freedom for doing the right thing.

It is like the State wants desperately to make sure the conditions are proper for a School Shooting and piling up as many corpses as possible.

1. Outlaw the assault rifles.
2. Have buybacks.
3. If that doesn't work, confiscate them.
4. If that doesn't work, pry them from cold, dead hands if you need to.
(I don't fucking care if you're a good, lawful gun owner. I don't fucking care.)

— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) February 14, 2018

Go straight to No. 4.  “pry [assault weapons] from cold, dead hands if your need to.”

Gun owners will not comply.  In Connecticut, “tens of thousands” of gun owners didn’t register their guns.  In New York, the number was almost one million.

Register.  Not sell them to the government, register them.

What percentage does The Rude Pundit think will actually turn them in?

Close to Zero.

Buybacks won’t work.  A $50 gift card is not worth the cost of the Magpul furniture, let alone the rest of the gun, or the other half dozen I have.

In Alabama, the attitude of gun owners would be easily paraphrased as “Ha, ha.  Fuck you!  Try it, Nancy Boi.”

There aren’t more than a handful of cops in Alabama that would carry out that order.

There are only 421 police officers in all of Huntsville.  In Alabama 57.2% of homes have a gun in it.  Huntsville has a population of 193,000.  Doing the math, that means there are roughly 110,000 gun owners in Huntsville alone, meaning that there are some 260 gun owners for every cop in the city.  If half of Huntsville’s gun owners owned an assault rifle,  that’s 230 assault rifle owners per cop.

Let’s say that Huntsville police did start going door to door, how many raids will they have conducted before their numbers are depleted?

This is a pointless exercise.  It can’t happen.  It won’t.

The only thing this Tweet does is show that The Rude Pundit doesn’t value the lives of people he disagrees with on political issues, and wants to kill them, but won’t do it himself.

Again, he proves that there is no political position that the Left isn’t willing to kill countless people in order to push to try and achieve their idea of Utopia.

I had a lot of respect of Neil deGrasse Tyson when he was the host of Discovery Science channel shows.

When he stayed in his area of expertise, he was awesome.

The fame went to his head and now he goes on Twitter and social media with the dumbest and most embarrassing shit.  I’ve lost a lot of respect for the man.

In the wake of the Parkland shooting, this is what he Tweeted.

Evidence collected over many years, obtained from many locations, indicates that the power of Prayer is insufficient to stop bullets from killing school children.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) February 16, 2018

This is the kind of shit take makes people believe that atheists are misanthropes.

Any religious person would tell you that in situations like this, prayer doesn’t stop bullets.  Prayer is a succor to help with the emotional fallout.

Even modern psychology (SCIENCE!!!) agrees that there is an emotional benefit to prayer.

But when you are full of anti-religious, scientism snark and a feeling of superiority to religious people, why let decency or empathy get in the way?

Never miss an opportunity to make a bunch of grieving church goers feel look like ignorant, superstitious fools for going to church.

Somebody, please, take Neil deGrasse Tyson to church and help him find Jesus.