How, as a Leftist, do you get ahead in a presidential primary race that is chocked full of other Leftists?  How do you distinguish yourself?

The answer seems to be, by going even further Left to out radicalize your opponents.

Eric Swalwell – or as one blogger nicknamed him “Douche Nuke ’em” – began his run on gun control, because he’s an unimpressive white man and can’t run on intersectionality points.

But that has gotten Swalwell some TV time, which Cory Booker wants, so Booker had to up the ante on gun control.

Recently Booker dropped his gun control plan, and it sucks.

Keep guns out of the wrong hands with gun licensing:

Just as a driver’s license demonstrates a person’s eligibility and proficiency to drive a car, a gun license demonstrates that a person is eligible and can meet certain basic safety and training standards necessary to own a gun.

Here’s how it would work: Individuals could seek a gun license at a designated local office, widely available in urban and rural areas, similar to applying for or renewing a passport. They would submit fingerprints, provide basic background information, and demonstrate completion of a certified gun safety course.

The FBI would then verify submission of required materials and run a comprehensive background check before issuing a federal gun license, after which the license-holder could freely purchase and own firearms. The license would be valid for up to five years before renewal with regular, automatic checks to flag non-compliance with license terms.

So he wants national gun licencing.

No.

How does he expect to get upwards of 200 Million people to get licences.  How does he expect the goverment to process 200 million applications.  How does he expect the FBI to handle 200 million sets of fingerprints.

In Illinois, instructors had to be certified.  Before the first training class is done, the government has to certify instructors, how is it possibly going to do that across the entire country.

This is a disaster waiting to happen.  It will bog down to a stop and no licences will be issued.

That’s not the flaw, that’s a feature.

Bring real regulation and oversight to gun manufacturers:

Nowadays, there is more regulation over toy guns than real ones. While medicine, children’s toys, and any number of other consumer products are subject to regulation by the federal government, firearms are exempt.

In other words, gun manufacturers have little incentive to make their products safer. Cory will work to close this loophole in federal oversight and allow the Consumer Product Safety Commission to ensure gun safety by making safety warnings and issuing recalls for faulty firearms.

Guns are extremely safe.  This isn’t going to do anything to make guns safer for the lawful user.  This is a way to use the CPSC to crack down on gun companies on behalf of people who were hurt by their own negligence or were the victims of wrongful use, i.e., crimes.

End legal immunity that prevents victims of gun violence from seeking justice:

While civil liability can be applied to sellers and manufacturers of nearly every product, as a result of a 2005 law the gun industry is immune from nearly all lawsuits. The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) allows the gun industry to ignore public safety implications of the misuse of their products, such as gun trafficking.

Cory will fight to end gun industry immunity by repealing PLCAA and allow victims of gun violence to have their day in court when a gun dealer or manufacturer has acted negligently.

The PLCAA doesn’t protect gun makers or sellers from negligence.  Booker wants to end the PLCAA to make the bullshit lawsuit against Remington by the Sandy Hook families the norm.

Require handgun microstamping:

Microstamping is technology that allows law enforcement to identify the source of ammunition used in crimes by making a shell casing traceable to the specific gun that fired the round. Unfortunately, in many cases, there is little evidence left behind at crime scenes, resulting in a homicide “clearance rate” of just 62 percent. Microstamping technology would allow law enforcement to trace crime guns as soon as a shell casing is found, helping to prevent future crimes from occurring.

Cory will fight to require that microstamping technology be incorporated into new models of semi-automatic handguns sold in the United States.

Translation = “Make handguns prohibitively expensive by mandating easily defeated technology.”

Close the “Boyfriend Loophole”:

The risk of homicide in a domestic violence incident increases by 500 percent with the presence of a gun. Cory will make closing the “Boyfriend Loophole” a top priority.

Make gun owners afraid to go on a date.

Ensure a background check on every gun sale by closing the loophole on guns show and online sales and the so-called “Charleston Loophole”:

Background checks are foundational to any gun safety policy, but loopholes in current law allow individuals to purchase guns in private sales from strangers without a background check. Current law requires that federally licensed firearms dealers conduct background checks on individuals seeking to purchase a firearm in commercial transactions, but prohibited purchasers — such as criminals and domestic abusers — can exploit this loophole simply by finding an unlicensed seller.

Universal background checks through an FFL.  Also, the “Charleston Loophole” is the automatic proceed after three days.  This can be used too kill gun sales by placing people on an indefinite hold.

Ban assault weapons, high-capacity magazines, and bump stocks:

Large capacity ammunition magazines and assault weapons have been present in many mass shootings in the US, made for no other purpose than to kill people quickly and efficiently.

Yes, and Venezuela just proved why it’s important for Americans to have these kinds of guns.

Call on the IRS to conduct an investigation into the NRA’s tax status:

Currently, the NRA is exempt from federal tax under section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code. Cory is calling on the IRS to investigate whether certain activities recently reported in the news media should lead to revocation of its tax-exempt status.

Barack Obama’s using the IRS to harass conservative groups went from hidden scandal to out in the open policy.

Booker wants full gun licenses, gun registration, and an assault weapons ban.

So he knows who has guns, what kinds of guns they have, and will use this info to take those guns away.

If people refuse to comply, it sounds like Booker wants to send them to jail.

https://twitter.com/mikhaelsmits/status/1125403441432551426

This explains why Booker, the radical Leftist, didn’t side with Bernie or the rest of the Democrat clown car on letting felons vote from prison.

He doesn’t want all the gun owners he threw in prison to vote.

This is Booker’s big plan.  Let all the drug dealers out of prison and throw gun owners – who were all law abiding until Booker was sworn in – in prison.

Is Bernie wants to bring Maduro’s economy to the US, Booker wants to bring Maduro’s oppression to the US.

Lent this year started on Ash Wednesday, which was March 6th and concluded on Holy Saturday, on April 20th.  That was followed by the Octave of Easter, starting Easter Sunday, April 21st, and ended on Low Sunday, April 28th.

I did some searching on the internet and in that 54 day period I could not find one terrorist attack carried out by a Christian in the name of Jesus Christ.

I found of lot of Christians killed because of their religion, but none doing the killing in the name of their religion.

Yesterday was the first full day of Ramadan, and the holiday will conclude on June 4th, lasting 30 days, or a little more than half as long as the holy season of Lent and Eastertide.

One can only hope that Muslims this Ramadan be as peaceful as Christians were this holy season.

Over the weekend, Hamas in Gaza launched over 700 rockets into Israel.  Four Israelis were killed and four more were injured.

It is important to understand that in 2005, Israel under Prime Minster Ariel Sharon, engaged in the unilateral withdraw of all troops and settlements in Gaza.  This was known as disengagement.

The Palestinians responded by electing Hamas to leadership in Gaza and burning or desecrating everything Jewish or Israeli left behind.

Palestinians in Gaza like to claim they are still under military occupation, because it gives them victim status, but that is untrue.  What is true is that Israel and Egypt are engaged in a continuous blockade of Gaza’s points of entry to try and eliminate the flow of weapons into the hands of Hamas.

So as the world watched terrorists in Gaza target Israeli civilians, how did popular American Democrats and their supporters respond?

About the same as they did to Maduro’s troops killing starving civilians, i.e., by supporting the tyrants and terrorists.

Here is media and resistance darling Ilhan Omar.

How many more protesters must be shot, rockets must be fired, and little kids must be killed until the endless cycle of violence ends?

The status quo of occupation and humanitarian crisis in Gaza is unsustainable. Only real justice can bring about security and lasting peace.

— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) May 5, 2019

Except, like I said before, Gaza isn’t occupied.

Also, Hamas brutally oppresses its own people who dare to protest the fact the PA spends all its effort on attacking Israel instead of fixing the economic problems in Gaza.

The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is the fault of Hamas and the PA, who squander or steal all the available resources from the Gaza people.

But given Omar’s history, why would we expect anything less than her standing up for brutal, repressive, tyrannical Islamic radicals.

Then there is her cohort, Rashida Tlaib.

When will the world stop dehumanizing our Palestinian people who just want to be free? Headlines like this & framing it in this way just feeds into the continued lack of responsibility on Israel who unjustly oppress & target Palestinian children and families. #FreePalestine https://t.co/p3X3j8WtwM

— Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) May 5, 2019

Again, it’s Israel’s fault for targeting terrorists launching rockets at civilians.

It seems that Tlaib is less interested in representing the Palestinian people as she is representing the Palestinian Authority and the oppressive and corrupt government of Gaza.

And just because I mentioned them earlier, Code Pink, showing its true despot loving, Jew hating colors.

With #GazaUnderAttack, Venezuela embassy protecters show solidarity by playing a song of Palestinian resistance.

“Here, we have prepared for you” declare Gazans to the Israelis. Protecters send this same message to the violent opposition thugs rallying down below. pic.twitter.com/AdVqhiPdaQ

— Anya Parampil (@anyaparampil) May 5, 2019

I don’t know what celebrating the mass murder of Jews has to do with Venezuela, except wherever there is Leftism and Socialism there is Antisemitism.

Welcome to the woke Democrat Party, Americans who support tyrants, dictators, terrorists, and the mass murder of Jews.

I am going to post the video of Maduro’s troops running over protesters, again.

It is important to hammer home this point.  Dictators throughout history have filled the ranks of military and paramilitary units with the most violent and brutal thugs their nations have to offer.

Evil exists in this world.

There are people who enjoy, who take pleasure in, throwing their weight around and hurting others.

Dictatorships give people like that the ability to indulge in their brutality by enlisting them to oppress the people under the dictator.

Hitler had his Brown Shirts, the Sturmabteilung.  Mussolini had his Blackshirts.  Stalin had the NKVD.

Maduro has those loyal to him in the GNB running over protesters and shooting civilians.

The amazing thing about the collapse of socialist Venezuela is that it is happening live, in real time, on international TV.

The evidence for the evils of socialism and the brutality of Maduro is exposed to the world for all to see.

But there still are Americans who are going to deny the obvious to push their ideology.

One of whom is Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.

The United States under the Trump Administration official recognizes Juan Guaido as acting President of Venezuela.  He is a member of the Social-Democracy Voluntad Popular party, described as center-left.

In the independent media, Maduro vs. Guaido is described a socialist vs. socialist (which is a point Miguel has made before).

To the fellow travelers in America, since Guiado is every so slightly less Stalinist than Maduro, he must be far right.

As Maduro’s troop continue to kill staving Venezuelans on live TV, the supporters of socialism come out to remind us not to believe our lying eyes and instead understand that Maduro is the good guy here.

.@LavenderNRed makes a great case that Venezuela – which is depicted in western media as a cartoonish dictatorship – is much more democratic than the United States. pic.twitter.com/rqZIgZyX1I

— Dan Cohen (@dancohen3000) May 5, 2019

That;s right…. Venezuela and its fixed elections and people being murdered in the streets is freer than the United States.  Also, our poor people have an obesity issue while Venezuelans wait in line for bread that never shows up then eat out of a military dumpster.

But those facts are inconvenient for those trying to impose socialism in the United States.

*Can I ask at this point, what is what all the trans-activists supporting Maduro?  Girlgenius and LavenderNRed above are just two of a number of Lefist trans people who are pushing the “Maduro is better than Trump and it’s the US that is really evil” horseshit on Twitter.  I’m trying to decide if they are trans-trenders because they are radical Leftists or if being confused over your gender totally destroys your moral compass.  It’s like the Queers for Palestine, why would these people side with regimes that torture LGBT people to death for fun?

Code Pink, which ostensibly started out as an anti-war group, has now become full fledged supporters of communism.

They are occupying the Venezuelan embassy, acting as human shields for Maduro’s supporters (all though there is no military threat to embassy personnel in the US).

Code Pink refusing to leave Venezuela’s DC embassy as State Dept. slams ‘trespassers’

Liberal activists from the anti-war group Code Pink are refusing to leave the abandoned Venezuelan embassy in Washington, vowing to protect the building from a “hostile takeover” as the U.S. State Department labels them “trespassers” and calls on them to leave.

About 50 pro-regime activists have been living inside the building for several weeks in support of embattled socialist President Nicolas Maduro. In recent days, they’ve clashed outside the embassy with supporters of opposition leader Juan Guaido, who has called for a military uprising in Venezuela and has the support of the Trump administration.

Want proof Code Pink isn’t just anti-war but pro-Communism?

Embassy Protectors are now blasting Paul Robeson’s version of the Soviet National Anthem in order to drown out Venezuelan opposition fanatics gathered outside of the Maduro government’s embassy in DC.

??we fought for the future, destroyed the invader??? pic.twitter.com/k9Xj14byAy

— Anya Parampil (@anyaparampil) May 4, 2019

And here is one, privileged American Code Pink champagne socialist telling a Venezuelan why he shouldn’t want Trump’s help.

https://twitter.com/AlexWardVox/status/1123992708459180035

This is the Sanders/AOC/Omar wing of the Democrat Party.  They are strongly anti-Biden.

Forget Sweden or Denmark, these people are pushing for America to become the Soviet Union.

They are advocating for a mass murdering dictator in Venezuela and supporting a man who thought Castro, Che, and Stalin where heroes.

Why would they do this?  Why would they side with a leader like Maduro committing so many atrocities in real time, and against a leader like Trump who is not?

There is this quote by George Orwell:

There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always — do not forget this, Winston — always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever.

That perfectly describes social justice.  The internet hate mobs, social media attacks to get people fired, the popular media attacks on Kavanaugh and the Covington Catholic School kids.  That was the digital boot stamping in a face.

Trump represents a push back against that.  He was the anti-PC candidate.

These people want to be the Blackshirts and Brown Shirts for President Sanders.  They want to stamp their boots in our faces forever.

The only good news is, from the evidence of social media, the people wanting to wear the boot are old, upper-middle class white broads, pampered college kids, and gender confused fruitcakes.

Still, we are going to need more ammo.

Can we at least get a gun with a trigger guard? And a holster?

Back when I was still living South of the Caribbean,  a cop friend of mine gave me a derringer .22LR as a gift. Now, this is Venezuela and getting a gun is hard even back then and for free? I took it, shot it twice and put it away. P.O.S. is not a strong adjective to describe it. I swear not even as throw-away at crime scenes.

With the universe of micro-pistols of great quality and bigger capacity we have nowadays, there is no reason other than collectibles to own a derringer.

A buddy of mine sent me this.

I know it is a couple of days late but I still think it’s funny.

I know it’s harsh, but watching the way American socialists have supported Venezuela and Maduro (post coming on that), I am all out of sympathy for the Left.

I found out this las weekend in a Facebook Gun Page.  And we are not talking Pocket Carry with some sort of gripping holster but just dropped in the pocket without a round in the chamber and out I go By The Grace of God.

The logic seems to be something like this: I don’t want to carry in a holster (IWB, OWB or Pocket) so I got me a small semi with a heavy Double Action  with an empty chamber so it is safe to carry.

Short of having your gun locked in a case, Pocket Carry I think it the slowest when it comes of drawing a weapon from concealment.   You do not add to the timer by carrying a gun that will flip upside down once it settles in the pocket and then and after all the monkey pawing getting it out, you still need to rack it to defend yourself.

Good pocket holsters are designed to carry the gun safely by covering the trigger guard, maintaining the pistol vertically and keeping lint and assorted small crap from fudging the gun. They are bunches of them and by great manufacturers to cover all budgets.

If you carry pocket, do it smart: holster and loaded chamber.