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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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Language: Misuse for Political BS

Jun 12, 2018 Miguel.GFZ 2 comments

This line from J.Kb’s post about the Rush & Duckworth bill caught my attention:

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 315 people are shot with a gun every day in the United States. Of those injured, 93 people die.

Again, I will not pretend I am an English language scholar, but the general feeling the sentence above is that people are shooting other people with firearms and that is causing 93 deaths a day. if that number is familiar, you are right:

93 x 365 = 33,945

Our old friend, the “Death by Firearm” statistic which includes suicides. Now, that is somewhat dishonest for Rush and Duckworth to do, wouldn’t you say ?

But why I would expect the truth coming from two Anti-Gun legislators from Illinois trying to pass a gun registration bill that has failed miserably in places like Chicago and not one single political entity in the world can truthfully produce statistics showing it lowers violent crime. If you have any doubts, go ask England or Venezuela.

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Widening the divide

Jun 12, 2018 J. Kb 5 comments

According to a long Twitter thread by Alyssa Milano, the NRA is obsolete and gun control is winning.

First of all, updates to the NICS system are a good thing.  This is one of those bullshit straw man arguments against the NRA.  We want better reporting to NICS and a faster and more efficient system.

Second, the boyfriend loophole is dubious.  I agree, violent people should not have guns.  I am worried about the fact that “dating partner” is poorly defined.  What does that mean?  If a guy goes on one date with a girl and it ends badly, can she say she was scared of him and make him a prohibited person?  It is not well defined.

But the big picture is this: with the exception of Florida and possibly Vermont, every state or location that has passed these gun control measures is dark blue.

New York, New Jersey, Washington State, Illinois, are Democrat states.  Lincoln, Nebraska and Boulder, Colorado are dark blue.

These were not difficult laws to pass in these locations.  Adding gun restrictions in New York – home of the SAFE ACT passed in the dark of night – or New Jersey – where hollow points are banned, is like falling off a log.  Expect that people don’t generally want to fall off logs and North East Democrats want to ban guns.

Vermont is tricky, because the state voted for Trump and the Governor is a Republican, but both senators are far Left – Patrick Leahy (D) and Bernie Sanders, who is a fucking Communist.  The Congressman at large is a Democrat.  The State Legislature is not just a wide majority Democrat, but it is so far left that there are multiple seats held by the “Progressive Party.”   Ben and Jerry’s come from Vermont.  So am more inclined to lump Vermont in with the Blue states than the Red ones.

Florida was swung to gun control because Parkland is in Florida, and I suspect that the gun control measure was rammed through as fast as it could be to cover for the failure of the BSO and the state.  Florida gun owners were SAFE ACTED by Rick Scott pulling a Cuomo.

The next election in Florida will let us know how Floridians feel about that.

It would be different if the antis gun these laws passed in Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, or another solidly Red State.

But I don’t think that Alyssa Milano even cares about those Deep South and Flyover Country places.

This isn’t an example of gun control winning or losing.  It is an example of the widening of the divide.

All the places (except Florida) that already were prone to gun control, doubled down on it.

The cultural gulf between pro-gun and anti-gun states got bigger.

It’s among the reasons why we are seeing more and more proposals to break up states like California and Illinois where the rural Red areas want to break away from the domineering control of the dark Blue cities.

Alyssa Milano’s victory dance for gun control is just a ringing endorsement of a national divorce.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Because it works so well in Chicago

Jun 12, 2018 J. Kb 8 comments

RUSH AND DUCKWORTH INTRODUCE BLAIR HOLT FIREARM LICENSING AND RECORD OF SALE ACT OF 2018

[WASHINGTON, D.C.] – Today, U.S. Representative Bobby L. Rush (D-Ill.) and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) introduced the Blair Holt Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2018. This legislation would prohibit unlicensed gun-ownership and transferring or receiving firearms without a valid firearms license, as well as direct the Attorney General to establish and maintain a federal record of sale system.

Rush first introduced this legislation in 2007 and subsequently reintroduced it in 2009 and 2013. This bill is named after Blair Holt, a Chicago Julian High School honor student who was gunned down protecting his friend when a gunman opened fire while they were riding home from school on a crowded public transit bus.

“Americans are demanding that Congress take real action to prevent gun violence and we must address this issue head on and do our part to prevent the senseless mass killings and shooting deaths in cities across this nation,” said Rush. “I am grateful that Senator Duckworth has joined in this tireless effort to provide commonsense solutions to the epidemic of gun violence plaguing America. We cannot continue to stand by and abdicate our responsibilities to the very communities that depend on us,” said Rush.

“People are dying and Congress has not only the power, but also the duty to act by passing common-sense solutions like this one that would help prevent firearms from falling into the wrong hands,” Duckworth said. “We owe it to the countless and growing number of firearm violence victims to take action. I don’t want my daughters to have to grow up in a country that won’t protect them from firearm violence, which is why I’m proud to join Congressman Rush in this effort and we will keep pushing until all of America’s children are safe.”

Modeled in part after the Illinois Firearm Owners Identification Card (FOID) statute, the Blair Holt Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2018 would:

  1. Protect the public against the unreasonable risk of injury and death associated with the unrecorded sale or transfer of qualifying firearms to unlicensed individuals.
  2. Ensure that owners of qualifying firearms are knowledgeable in the safe use, handling, and storage of those firearms.
  3. Restrict the availability of qualifying firearms to criminals, children, and other persons prohibited by federal law from receiving firearms.
  4. Require universal background checks for all purchases or transfers of firearms.
  5. Facilitate the tracing of qualifying firearms used in crime by federal and state law enforcement agencies.
  6. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 315 people are shot with a gun every day in the United States. Of those injured, 93 people die.

“We must use all available resources to immediately tackle this gun violence epidemic and this legislation aims to do just that. The cost of gun violence is too high, with human life and suffering that is immeasurable — that is more than enough reason for us to enact commonsense reforms like those proposed in this bill,” said Rush.

You can read the House Bill H.R.6024 and Senate Bill S.3002.

They claim that they modeled it against the Illinois FOID system.  The FOID has been totally useless in preventing crime in Chicago.  The people shooting each other don’t have FOIDs and still get guns.  Possession without a FOID is a crime, but that still requires getting caught with a gun.

It is also a de facto gun registry.

All this does is make it more difficult to be a law abiding gun owner.

Requiring a licence to exercise a civil right is most likely unconstitutional, and I think the Supreme Court would be forced to rule on this if it ever became law.

Hopefully it won’t get that far.

This is just another bill that would be totally useless in preventing death but it will result in more people with no malice or bad intentions to become criminals by tripping over an overly complicated and burdensome law.

It’s been so effective in Chicago that is has to be rolled out nation wide.

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Explain this one to me

Jun 12, 2018 J. Kb 4 comments

Technically flamethrowers are not firearms and so do not require a 4473 or any other background check.  California does restrict them, but then California restricts everything.

Legally, across most of America, a flame thrower is just a really big cigarette lighter.

Still, being lit on fire and burned to death sucks.  People are already causing trouble with them.

So here we have a device that is potentially lethal, requires no background check to purchase, and is being treated like a toy.

The inventor says it’s “Zen” just to fire it off.

But somehow if you said the same thing about guns…. the shit would hit the fan.

Where are the protests with people holding signs that say:

“There are more rules regulating lawn darts than these horrific weapons of war.”

“People don’t have a Constitutional right to own napalm.”

“You’re going to BBQ the deer at the same time you kill it.”

Or maybe it has less to do with the actual device and more to do with ideology.

 

 

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Police M4 stolen. There is a key reason why.

Jun 12, 2018 Miguel.GFZ 5 comments


This is the rack similar as where the rifle was “secured.”

But you know? If you leave the frigging key of the rack inside the car, there is a string probability that some asshole is gonna come around and steal your gorramed rifle.

Hat Tip Doug T.

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Forgive me Hate Mob, for I have sinned

Jun 11, 2018 J. Kb 11 comments

It is June.

June is pride month.

We are all compelled to acknowledge the revered victim status of the sexually diverse.

What does that mean for you in this holiest of months?  What are you going to give up to atone for your sins of heterosexuality?

Chick-fil-a

Thou shall not dine upon the most succulent of chicken sandwiches and wafflest of fries during the sacred month of Pride.

Poor Jack Dorsey of Twitter was not sufficiently woke and strayed from the path and was found out.

And for his transgression he must be harangued on his own platform.

https://twitter.com/CJPatruno/status/1005964112084553733

Maybe Jack will be able to redeem himself by buying an indulgence from our sodomite betters.

But he should not be castigated too seriously.  Those evil Christians with their delicious sauces, polite employees, and sparingly clean restrooms tempted him to sin.  Much like when the serpent mansplained about the tree of knowledge and  #MeToo her into eating it.

Really, Chick-fil-a should be shut down during the month of June.

If you think you can force someone to make you food you do want, than you should be able to stop people from serving food you don’t want.

 

 

 

 

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Multi-layered stupid.

Jun 11, 2018 Miguel.GFZ 5 comments

Let me see if I get this right: you are hosting a fund-raiser for a gun control group that is financed by a billionaire by selling $40 tattoos and the image is of a dagger stabbing a heart to represent no more violence?

I am pretty sure that is illegal in England by now. Of course, if the artist rounds up the tip of the dagger, then it might be OK.