Seventy five rounds and bare knuckled. That was some tough hombre and the opponent was no slouch himself.

Ian Gillan, Rick Wakeman & Steve Howe – Light My Fire

I am not one to accept versions of a song I like deeply, but I cannot fault this son at all, specially Wakeman’s solo. An it is Ian frigging Gillan in the vocals, what else do you want?

I had seen it before in passing, but it was just now that I caught a detail that pissed me off royally:

People inside the restaurant are watching the older man getting attacked and do not express any discomfort or outrage at the event. But the moment he turns the tables and draws his weapon terminating the attack without anybody getting injured, the customers suddenly lose their calmness and cry in fear, I am guessing for the lives of the would-be robbers.

Obviously, go read the whole thing. It ain’t that long.

At the Democratic-primary debate in Houston last night, Beto O’Rourke formally killed off one of the gun-control movement’s favorite taunts: The famous “Nobody is coming for your guns, wingnut.” Asked bluntly whether he was proposing confiscation, O’Rourke abandoned the disingenuous euphemisms that have hitherto marked his descent into extremism, and confirmed as plainly as can be that he was. “Hell yes,” he said, “we’re going to take your AR-15.”
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For years, advocates of the right to keep and bear arms have suspected that confiscation was the endgame but have been rebuffed as paranoiacs in the press. Such a rebuffing is no longer possible.

Yes, They Are Coming for Your Guns

The problem with the Primaries is that they are targeted to the hardcore Democrat voter. And the bigger problem is that the average hardcore voter is shifting from a Nutrasweet Lefty voter to a full fledged Socialist activist waving the Hammer and the Sickle demanding death or imprisonment to those who will not surrender to their demands.

So in order to have a chance to win the primary, a candidate needs to convince the hardcore voter he represents their ideals and one of them is to confiscate firearm from the hands of those evil fuck rednecks on the Right (of them) and if possible (pretty please) send them to a re-education camp which is not possible if they have guns.

Does that mean they really do not have confiscation in their hearts? Short answer: They all do. With this kind, once they taste a bit of power, they are hopeless addicted and want more and more with absolute obedience. But they also know that there is a surefire remedy for that and the pun is intended.

Funny to see that Fake Irish Taco Beto has done more for Gun Rights in one sentence than all of the Chest Thumping® groups in the last 20 years.

SiGrayBeard posted in the following in the comments:

I think the important thing to note out of that whole exchange is how the crowd roared their cheers after he said it.

And yes, I should have thought about posting that video. Thanks!

Senator Cory Booker was asked about Beto’s plan to take all of our AR-15’s and AK-47’s.

This is his interview:

.@CoryBooker on banning assault weapons: “Yeah, it’s mandatory. You have to set up a system to pull them off. But this idea, this imagery that the fearmongers and demagogues try to say of somehow armed police officers showing up & confiscating weapons, that’s the fear mongering.” pic.twitter.com/KAw8gO8d6w

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 13, 2019

Like Miguel mentioned on Wednesday, there was zero compliance with New Jersey’s magazine ban.  Across the river, the same thing happened after the passage of the NYSAFE act.

Massive noncompliance with SAFE Act

In 2014, attorney and policy analyst Paloma Capanna filed suit on behalf of Rochester-based radio host Bill Robinson seeking data on NY SAFE Act compliance: specifically, how many assault weapons had actually been registered in the state.

Cuomo administration officials first ignored, then denied Robinson’s Freedom of Information Act request. But, on June 22, following two years of litigation, state police released the information based on a court decision which found that while the law forbade the disclosure of the actual registration forms, nothing precluded the release of aggregate data.

That data shows massive noncompliance with the assault weapon registration requirement. Based on an estimate from the National Shooting Sports Federation, about 1 million firearms in New York State meet the law’s assault-weapon criteria, but just 44,000 have been registered. That’s a compliance rate of about 4 percent. Capanna said that the high rate of noncompliance with the law could only be interpreted as a large-scale civil disobedience, given the high level of interest and concern about the law on the part of gun owners.

“It’s not that they aren’t aware of the law,” said Capanna. “The lack of registration is a massive act of civil disobedience by gun owners statewide.”

New Jersey couldn’t get anybody to turn in their magazines, New York got 4% compliance on registration – which isn’t confiscation – and in Florida, nobody has turned in their banned bump stocks.

So just exactly how do Beto and Booker expect their mandatory buyback to work considering that at the state level, ban compliance is somewhere between 0-4%?

Either the government will have to go door to door or the government will have to claim that 2% compliance is a victory.