Gun Free Zone

Where a Hispanic Catholic, and a Computer Geek write about Gun Rights, Self Defense and whatever else we can think about.

Month: June 2018

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The irreparable national divide on immigration

Jun 19, 2018 J. Kb 12 comments

There is a lot of media misinformation going on about the detention centers full of migrant kids.  The narrative would have you believe that 100% of the time, jackbooted ICE thugs are yanking children out of the arms of crying mothers and locking them up.

This is not true.  There are many kids who are coming with no parents or guardians, known as unaccompanied minors.  There are also a lot of kids who are being brought over by adults who they are not related to so the adults can falsely claim refugee status.

The issue that getting most of the attention is the Trump enforcement of a “zero tolerance” policy for illegal immigrants.

In short, the law says that children can be separated from their parents under certain circumstances, including criminal behavior of the parents.  The zero tolerance policy of Trump says that any illegal entry into the US is criminal and therefore will result in separation.  It is used as a deterrent.

In years past the policy was to give illegals a summons for a court date and let them go, wherein they would promptly disappear.

Migrants to come to a port of entry and claim refugee status, and exhibit no other criminality are not separated.

This policy, if somewhat extreme, has been implemented because illegal immigration is up.  A good economy and low unemployment is a magnet for illegals.

In all of this there is room for discussion about what to do, what policies should be, how do deal with trafficked children, unaccompanied minors, people with criminal histories, false applications for asylum, etc.

However, the Democrats and the Far Left have made all of that impossible.

We’re done.  Done.  The Rubicon has been crossed.

They have made every possible parallel between child detention and Nazi concentration camps or the Holocaust.

This is disgusting.  Where are the crematoriums?  Where are the gas chambers.  Where are the forced labor camps?  Are these children being starved to death?  Where are the doctors sewing migrant Twins together or vivisecting children.  Where can you buy a Mexican kid skin lamp?

Oh, that’s right, none of that has happened.  Kids are being kept in what amounts to a secure school where they are clothed, fed, and given medical care until their parents are processed through the courts.

This is not the Holocaust.

Also, note how not one Democrat has brought up time when FDR interred the Japanese, which would be a lot closer to this situation given that it happened in America and were not death camps, but they want to bury that embarrassment hard. 

A subset of this Holocaust idea America as the worlds worst human rights violators.

Iran, Saudi Arabia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Africa, Sierra Leon, Syria?  Nope, those are all less bad than we are.

Then there are those who think The New Colossus is Federal Law.

Keep in mind that The Statue of Liberty is on Liberty Island which is next to Ellis Island.  The image of The Statue of Liberty in the American conscience is if immigrants passing by Lady Liberty on their way to Ellis Island which was one of America’s largest and most famous ports of entry, from 1892 to 1954.

The Statue of Liberty was a welcoming sign for immigrants, asylum seekers, and refugees entering the United States legally.

There are no stories of people remembering passing the State of Liberty as they swam across New York harbor and hopped a fence in the dead of night.

This, if thought about critically, is the exact opposite of their point.  We welcome people who come here in accordance with our immigration laws and arrive at a port of entry with paperwork in hand.

But when you are deliberately and emphatically misrepresenting the truth, calling illegal immigrant detention centers “concentration camps,” calling ICE agents Nazis, and suggesting that there is no difference between illegal immigration across a river and legal immigration trough a port of entry, while saying America is worse than nations that gas their own people to death, there is no way to have a rational discussion with that.

I keep saying it is time for an amicable national divorce.

This is just another example of why.

When the debate breaks down this far and one side is so far from the facts that they can’t see reality over the horizon, there is no way to bring unity back to that conversation.

It’s time to go our separate ways.  Let those who think that stopping people who hop a fence is tantamount to the Holocaust form their own nation and let unguarded, open boarders be their law.  The rest of us will have a reasonable debate about what to do to keep our nation safe.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Shannon Watts is a total racist

Jun 19, 2018 J. Kb 1 comment

Do you see the problem Shannon Watts sees?

If you said “well, there are too many white people in that picture” you are right.

This is why we are past having any sort of honest debate on this subject.

When the attack they have is “there are too many/few people of X race, ergo nothing you says matters” there is no possible way to debate that.

Unless the cause of that is strongly enforces discrimination (which for the NRA it’s not), it is a pointless no sequitur and racist to its core.

When your argument is “the average skin tone of your organization is not acceptable to me” you automatically lose.

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David Hogg is getting worse

Jun 19, 2018 J. Kb 8 comments

David Hogg has gradated from being a victim advocate of gun control to a full fledged Leftist ideologue.

The old “assert nonsensical statement over and over” tactic.  Apparently chanting a lie makes is true.

So Laura Ingram voiced an opinion on the issue of minors being kept in detention centers that differed from Hogg’s.

Guess what happened next.

That’s right, he is going to try and stage another boycott and financial destruction of Laura Ingram.

Last time, it was over criticism him, so maybe he could say it was a justified personal attack.

This time, it is just a matter of a different opinion.  Welcome to the New and Improved David Hogg, if you disagree with him, he will stage a mob to take away your livelihood.

He is approaching the status of Kristallnacht personified.  If he doesn’t like you for ideological reasons, he will try and smash your business and bankrupt you.

 

 

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Horsesh*t concern trolling

Jun 19, 2018 J. Kb 3 comments

According to the internet Concern Trolling is defined as “the action or practice of disingenuously expressing concern about an issue in order to undermine or derail genuine discussion.”

Enter Emma Gonzalez:

https://twitter.com/Emma4Change/status/1008764296921341952

With David Goebbels Hogg doubling down:

This is what happens when you get high off your own perceived celebrity status.

American’s have been blowing shit up for Independence Day since 1776.

It is a 242 year old tradition.

But Gonzalez and Hogg are going to try and stop it.

In fact, this is the worst thing you can do for people with PTSD.  One of the better treatments for PTSD is Prolonged Exposure Therapy, where suffers are exposed to traumatic stimuli until that stimuli stops being traumatic.

The more people with PTSD are coddled, the more debilitating it becomes.  They retreat into their trauma.

If a person’s PTSD comes from something like a shooting, if they are treated like a mental invalid, eventually every loud noise, e.g. pounding on a nail with a hammer, dropping a large object, etc, causes more trauma.

Gonzalez and Hogg are trying to destroy America’s oldest national tradition in the pursuit of bad psychology.

They are getting carried away and need to be dragged back down to earth.

 

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Defensive Shooting Aftermath: Get your priorities straight.

Jun 19, 2018 Miguel.GFZ 1 comment

Pro-tip: If your biggest concern about what happens after a use-of-force event is “what can I do to not be arrested,” your priorities are BADLY out of alignment.
As a lawyer who routinely consults on use-of-force cases, I couldn’t care less about you getting arrested. You getting arrested is the LEAST of your concerns.
You not spending 40 years in prison is what my focus is on, and that ought to be YOUR focus, too.
Just assume you’ll be arrested, go with the flow, comply with the officers (and maybe the cuffs won’t end up SUPER tight), and relax while you wait for your lawyer to show up.

Andrew Branca in Facebook.

Never forget cops arrive at a situation where there might be a body on the ground, one person (you hopefully) still standing vertical and no true idea what has happened prior to them getting there. For all they know, you are somebody who just killed an innocent and you gonna wear cuffs till stuff gets figured out.

PS: Have you selected your lawyer? Do you have his number with you at all times? 

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Small Arms Survey: “Guns are bad, M’kay?”

Jun 19, 2018 Miguel.GFZ 7 comments

“Accessing accurate data for small arms is always a difficult task. In the arms trade, small arms are considered the cancer of any society, as they facilitate human rights abuses, criminality, insurrection as well as murder, particularly in developing countries or countries subject to war,” said Martin Drew, British arms trade expert and government consultant.

Civilians own 85% of world’s 1bn firearms, survey reveals.

“The cancer of any society.” You gotta love the poetic bullshit even if they contradict themselves farther down the article.  So who has the biggest case of cancer?

The United States has just 4% of the world population, but the survey estimates that civilians in the US possess almost 40% of the world’s firearms – 393m weapons – equivalent to 121 firearms for every 100 residents.

Dude! 393 million weapons mostly by far in the hands of civilians.  here is a cute bit of information;

In terms of weapons held by law enforcement agencies, Russia is estimated to have the greatest sum at 2.4m, followed by China with 1.9m, then India at 1.7m. For military stocks of small arms, Russia is again top with 30.3m. China has 27.5m and North Korea 8.4m. The US military is estimated to have 1m small arms in its possession.

So, NRA members alone have more firepower than the combined police forces of Russia, China and India. And that is one gun per NRA member. The top three armies only represent about two and a half years of firearms’ sales to civilians in the US.

“The indications are that US civilians will continue to acquire firearms with acquisition averaging around 14m guns annually during the last five years … the US contributes disproportionately to the increase of the global firearms stockpile,” said Aaron Karp, Small Arms Survey’s senior consultant.
The Annual Firearms Manufacturing and Export Report, published by the US Justice Department’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives states that US companies have manufactured more than 150m firearms since 1986, the majority of which were sold domestically.

The above is based on an ATF report that has manufacturing only till 2015 and I still think they don’t have all the numbers right IMHO.  Mr. Kaplan’ statement that the average acquisition of guns for the last five years is 14 million guns kinda falls short some 6 million.

The latest findings suggest that developing countries often associated with violence show the greatest reduction in weapons held per capita: an indication that gun ownership may continue to correlate with rising levels of wealth.

So basically, the poorest the country then the less guns. The richer the country, more guns.  It makes sense Socialist countries hates for the serfs to have guns and they are miserable because of rampant crime.

I have to go back to that number: 393 million weapons in the US, 40% of the guns in the planet are in our homes.  More and more the idea of Gun Control in the US is simply a dream of dancing unicorns and skating Pegasus.

And yes, we are a cancer…for Socialists all over the world.