First up we have Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib raising awareness about a young Palestinian woman who was murdered by her brothers in an honor killing.

"Isra’s death illustrates an ever-present toxic masculinity and control over women’s bodies and lives."

Help get #JusticeforIsraa by exposing the truth: https://t.co/YghpBO6l0V pic.twitter.com/QkrpBRx63h

— Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) September 1, 2019

Except, from that Tweet, you’d never know that this was an honor killing.

The link she provides goes to this article:

Isra Gharib’s Murder Exposes Issues of Power We Can’t Ignore

This is the very first paragraph:

Disclaimer: Honor killings are not Muslim and they are not Arab. This is a universal phenomenon which takes places in nearly all corners of the globe, from the United States to Europe. The US president stands accused of rape. Honor killings were legal in Italy until the 1970s and still happen today. Do not use this narrative to reinforce dangerous stereotypes of Arab culture and Islam. Patriarchy exists every where.

Really?  They actually want me to believe that that in the modern world, honor killings are practiced universally by all people in all cultures around the world?

I’m trying to remember the last time I read about an honor killing carried out by an Episcopalian family in an American suburb.

The bullshit intensified from there.

Isra’s death illustrates an ever-present toxic masculinity and control over women’s bodies and lives. Women are the vessels of honor for their families, which means that what she says, how she behaves, what she wears, etc. all impact the family honor. 

Now, the statements I’ve written in that paragraph are gross generalizations BUT they are reflective of current social and political power structures present in Palestine, in the occupation, and even in diasporic activism. Isra’s murder this past week sent a message to the world. When it comes to power structures, women’s bodies are always tools to reinforce some sort of ideal, whether honor, or pink-washing, or even national liberation (will explain this part later on so bear with me).

Somehow honor killings are connected to “the occupation.”  I’m not sure how because Israel has laws against honor killings and enforces them.

Now, here’s why Isra’s murderers stand to walk away from this untouched by the law. In Palestine, our legal system is the result of a century of occupation and political turmoil. It is a combination of Ottoman, British, Egyptian (in Gaza), Jordanian (in the West bank), and even no system (Area C). Despite various and continued efforts over the last decade, there has been very little reform to this outdated and dysfunctional legal system for two reasons: Israeli military occupation and a corrupt Palestinian Authority both hinder any legal, economic, and social progress.

See, it isn’t that their culture hasn’t evolved for the better part of a thousand years.  It is that Israel trying to defend itself from its terrorist neighbors have stunted the cultural development of the Palestinians by a millennium.

Still, it gets worse.

What may surprise you is that the story of Isra’s murder has not gone viral in the diaspora. You’ll find that (at the time that this was written) there is not a single news story written in English about her. Right now there are Arabic articles (this story has rightfully taken the Arab world by storm) and doubtless some Hebrew articles being published by some Zionist news outlets to try and pink-wash occupation (again lol).

Yeah, those damned Zionists who try to reinforce basic human rights in the territories by banning honor killings, stoning, and the murder of gays.

So, the murder of Isra Gharib was not simply an honor killing. It was a harsh flashlight exposing the intricate systems of power which work together to make honor killings acceptable both socially and legally.

That “intricate systems of power” is called Islamism and to a much lesser degree Hinduism.  Just look at the cases of honor killings recorded in Europe in 2018.

If that isn’t enough, look at the perpetrators of acid attacks, which is essentially “honor killing lite.”  If this was Israel’s fault than why is Pakistan one of the worst nations in the world for acid attacks and honor killings?

Sounds like a cultural thing to me, and not one that can be blamed on the Jews.

Rashid Tlaib is not the only Democrat spreading this kind of lie.  Enter Qasim Rashid, Esq, of Virginia.

He Tweeted this (which was retweeted by David Hogg, which is how I found it):

https://twitter.com/QasimRashid/status/1168149729445842944

That’s horrible until you watch the whole video and realized it was deliberately taken out of context.

Bret Stephens is right.  By the way, that Judo thing repeated itself this year in Japan.

Antisemitism in Palestinians and Arabs has destroyed them.  Hatred of the Jews and Israel is an obsessive compulsion.  The PA doesn’t invest in roads or hospitals or infrastructure.  The only things taught in PA schools are the Quran and Jew-hatred.  The Jews are blamed for everything so the Palestinians do not do anything to improve their economy or their situation.

It’s clear that at the end of the video that the “disease of the Arab mind” is related to the quote about antisemitism from the middle of the video.

Yet the deceptive edit gets spread and going into the comments you can see the Leftist supporters of Qasim Rashid level the most grotesque antisemitic attacks on Stephens.  Pretty much proving Stephens’s point.

There is nothing the Left can’t figure out how to twist and blame on the Jews, especially when it comes to a Progressive Social Justice defense of radical Islam.

This is the essence of Leftist antisemitism.  It’s always the Jew’s fault, especially when it’s not.

SAN FRANCISCO (KTVU) – The city of San Francisco has formally adopted a resolution calling the National Rifle Association a domestic terrorist organization.

San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors on Tuesday took the step of officially declaring the nation’s premier gun-ownership advocates a terrorist organization.

District 2 Supervisor Catherine Stefani wrote the scathing declaration reading in part, “the National Rifle Association spreads propaganda that misinforms and aims to deceive the public about the dangers of gun violence.”

She continued, “The NRA exists to spread dis-information, and knowingly puts guns into the hands of those who would harm and terrorize us,” said Stefani, whose district includes the Marina and Presidio.

“The NRA has it coming to them, and I will do everything that I possibly can to call them out on what they are, which is a domestic terrorist organization,” said Stefani.

San Francisco Board of Supervisors designates NRA domestic terrorist organization

This is turning out to be an amazing week for Gun Rights. First we are designated lepers by Walmart and Krogers and now we are tagged as terrorists by the City of San Francisco.

But don’t worry, if you are not an NRA member, I am sure your Gun Rights are perfectly safe in SanFran. Just try not to step on human feces while you strut happily.

[Aaron] Ator was rejected when he tried to buy a gun and his name was run through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, John Wester, assistant special agent in charge of the Dallas office of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, told a news conference.

Texas gunman who killed seven had previously failed background check for firearm

What says a top of the ATF form 4473

WARNING: You may not receive a firearm if prohibited by Federal or State law. The information you provide will be used to determine whether you are prohibited from receiving a firearm. Certain violations of the Gun Control Act, 18 U.S.C. 921 et. seq., are punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment and/or up to a $250,000 fine.

This the Brady Law that gave us the Background checks has to be one of the least enforced laws there are but they do love to bring their “results.”  Not long ago I posted again about the failure of federal authorities to prosecute violators of the Brady Background checks law and I closed that post this way:

Let me put it this way: If you a re a felon and try buy a gun in a gun shop, you have a 99.98% probability to get away without repercussions.

Get ready to hear the old tired excuse that Asshole Aaron Ator “fell through the cracks” as he did not, he was ignored and let go, same with thousands of other violators every year.  A 0.05% conviction rate is not a crack in the system but the damned Grand Canyon.

PS: The original 2015 post We need more background checks, and the statistics prove it! (or not) with links to the reports:

Enforcement of the Brady Act, 2006.
Enforcement of the Brady Act, 2007.
Enforcement of the Brady Act, 2008.
Enforcement of the Brady Act, 2009.
Enforcement of the Brady Act, 2010.

Kroger is asking shoppers to leave their guns home – stopping short of banning the “open carry” of firearms in states like Ohio and Kentucky where it is legal.
The retailer also endorsed laws strengthening background checks and for keeping guns out of the hands of people deemed at risk of waging violence, according to our media partners at the Cincinnati Enquirer.

Kroger asking shoppers to leave guns at home

And in one grand swoop, we have lost at least two decades of Gun Rights.

The avalanche of other business copying the same standard is coming. But I am assured by people in the know that the cool kids’ gun groups will have this taken care off in less than a week. So I will just sit back and enjoy the fruits of somebody else’s labor for a change.

New poll data from Quinnipiac:

Congress needs to do more to reduce gun violence say 72 percent of voters, including 50 percent of Republicans, 93 percent of Democrats, and 75 percent of independents.

Voters say 60 – 34 percent that they support stricter gun laws in the United States. An identical 60 percent support a nationwide ban on assault weapons, including 37 percent of Republicans, 85 percent of Democrats, and 60 percent of independents. However, voters were split on the idea of a mandatory assault weapon buyback – 46 percent of voters support the concept, including a meager 18 percent of Republicans, 71 percent of Democrats, and 47 percent of independents.

So nearly half the people polled want some sort of mandatory buyback.  This is now something pushed in one way or another by every Democrat primary candidate.  It started with Eric Swalwell and has metastasized across the party.

Here is the question about buybacks and the data behind it:

Here is a response from David Weigel of the Washington Post:

Surprised that “mandatory gun buybacks” polled at 46% in Quinnipiac. That’s high! Good for the theory that parents sick of their kids doing mass shooter drills are outnumbering the “actually the AR stands for ArmaLite” people.

— David Weigel (@daveweigel) September 3, 2019

Remember everything I said about being pedantic.  This Tweet perfectly exemplifies the point I was trying to make.

71% of polled Democrats don’t know or care or want to know what AR stands for or how the AR-15 semiautomatic.  What they know is that they want to force you to give up your property to some bureaucrat or LEO for a pittance or risk prison or death.

I’m of the opinion that risk prison or death is actually a feature not a bug when the Democrats think about buybacks.

Looking at all the specific gun policy proposals that voters were asked about, support ranges from very strong to split:
93 – 6 percent support for universal background checks;
82 – 16 percent support for requiring a license to purchase a gun;
80 – 15 percent support for a “red flag” law;
60 – 36 percent support for a ban on assault weapons;
46 – 49 percent on a mandatory buyback of assault weapons.

Restrictive licensing and blanket gun bans are now the majority position according to polled voters.  

What we are talking about here is the Australiafication of the United States.   

A 54 percent majority of voters think that mental illness is a bigger cause of mass shootings than the availability of guns, while 37 percent say gun availability is a bigger cause. But 54 percent of voters also think that stricter gun laws would help to decrease the number of mass shootings in the United States, while 43 percent don’t think so. About four in ten voters are worried about being a victim of a mass shooting themselves.

The activist media needs to give itself a big round of applause for scaring the shit out of people with 24/7 mass shooting coverage that also increases the number of mass shootings. 

As more details emerge about the Odessa Texas spree killer, we learn that once again, there was a failure of law enforcement to properly react to a budding problem.

Texas mass shooter threatened neighbor, shot animals from roof: report

A neighbor of the Odessa, Texas, mass shooter says she reported him to police last month — after he threatened her with a rifle for leaving trash near his property — but cops couldn’t find his house on account of it having no GPS address or electricity.

The woman told CNN that Seth Ator, 36, would often sit on top of his home and shoot animals at night, which he would then retrieve afterward.

She said cops tried to confront Ator following her report to them last month, but his property didn’t show up on GPS and was difficult to find.

• Government fails to prevent a mass shooting.
• The party of big government demands more government to prevent what it was unable to previously prevent.
• Big government stomps on the rights of those who did nothing wrong.
• Future tragedies are not averted but the wrong thinkers are collectively punished and that is good enough.

This data is bad.  Very bad.

What is at stake here is literally everything.

The Left in America wants and is running on a platform of demanding millions of Americans give up their rights and property.

Today, we’re sharing the decisions we’ve made that go further:
After selling through our current inventory commitments, we will discontinue sales of short-barrel rifle ammunition such as the .223 caliber and 5.56 caliber that, while commonly used in some hunting rifles, can also be used in large capacity clips on military-style weapons;
We will sell through and discontinue handgun ammunition; and
We will discontinue handgun sales in Alaska, marking our complete exit from handguns.

McMillon to Associates: Our Next Steps in Response to the Tragedies in El Paso and Southaven

I am so glad we no longer depend on the NRA and we have all these new individuals and groups taking a hard stand and stopping anything that goes against Gun Rights.

/end sarcasm/

Soon will be the day when we are going to be saying to ourselves that complaining about  Wayne’s wardrobe and ignoring the sabotage job was the dumbest shit gun owners ever did.

At this rate we will be Australia in less than 10 years because I am now starting to believe the Gun Culture 3.0 will not have the balls to go to the mattresses for gun rights.

And 20 years to be Venezuela.

I am pedantic.  I learned from the best, a Jewish attorney.

Just the other day I was watching the Aquaman movie.  It sucked but I was bedridden after surgery and it was on.

In one scene, a character is describing the Trident as “forged from Poseidon steel” but what they show is red hot molten steel flowing into a trident shaped mold.  That’s not forging, that’s open die casting.  That pissed me off.

There is a time and a place to be pedantic.  The coming gun rights debate is not it.

I can appreciate the argument that we need to be precise in our language but it’s worthless in this case.

Educated Hillbilly on Twitter did a wonderful thread on the ignorance of most of the media when it comes to guns (unrolled for easy reading).

OK… so here’s the deal with journalists raging on twitter about gun terminology, knowing technical facts or proper definitions. Hell how guns even work.

You see most journalists… most not all… are from well to do white families. Most avenues into journalism involve an internship and well. Rich white people can do that.

Most of them are there for going to be from liberal families in blue cities. Not exposed to guns in any way. And very isolated in experience to people who have grown up with guns.

Being rich and liberal and white means they’ve had their way most of their life. They get what that want. Many are legacy admits to Ivy schools…. Hi @mattyglesias ?

So not much has been earned and they aren’t used to getting pushback especially from their lessors. Now add to the mix of this hyperinflated ego an easy major. And yes I’m going to offend some people here but Philosophy and Engineering aren’t equal. One is hard & one isn’t.

So you have an entitled, white, liberal who now thinks they’re the smartest person in any room because they excelled at an easy major in a school they slid into. Look there’s a reason most journalists don’t have medical, engineering, STEM, etc degrees. Those are really hard.

Now we get back to guns. This hyper inflated ego who thinks they’re smarter than anyone in the room suddenly is getting owned by rural high school educated folks online. Like…. really owned.

These fragile egos can’t take that. They’re the smart one. They went to (insert bragging college here) and god dammit their thoughts and opinions are worth 1000x that of some hick who [lives] in rural America.

So what do they do? Every time they put out a tweet (that in their mind might as well be gospel) they get hammered with people pointing out all the technical mistakes in the tweet. Well they can’t have that.

So what do these fragile millennials do? Learn about guns? Talk to people who own & live with them everyday? Of course not. They stomp their feet & throw a hissy fit & say being knowledgeable about guns is unnecessary.

This is absolutely spot on, not just for “journalists” or media types, but for the Hollywood celebrity activists, youth “victim” activists, and frankly most of the sheltered anti-gun Left.

We think that making points like “an AR-15 is semiautomatic, so it fires one round for every pull of the trigger” and “functionally it is no different than the 10/22 used for target practice or Remington 7600 used for deer hunting.”

Those might be valid for people who care about making good law.

These people are not interested in making good law and they are not interested in debating in good faith.

Not a single one of these activists or journalists will ever say “You make a good point, I wanted to ban AR-15’s until you explained that it works just like the old 1100 I used to go trap shooting with my grandpa.”

They don’t want us to have the AR-15 or the 10/22 or the 1100 or anything else.

We can’t allow ourselves to get lost in the pedantic weeds trying to educate people on details that they really don’t want to know or wouldn’t change their minds if they did know.

We need to focus on the big picture, which is that blanket bans of any kind are ineffectual at preventing crime and a violation of the rights of the innocent.