Month: January 2023

Tuesday Tunes

I asked my wife for a recommendation for today. She mentioned “Grand Old Flag” and I really wanted to put it here. Unfortunately all of the YouTube videos (and videos searches in general) kept popping up kids versions. Not what I wanted.

But in the midst of all that chaff there was a kernel.

My flag means so much to me.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.
And to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

I’ve said these words all my life. I stand up when the flag goes past. I take my hat off and put my hand over my heart.

It isn’t the colorful fabric moving slowly up the street, carried by veterans or Boy Scouts, or the High School Marching Band, that pull on my emotions.

It is what that flag represents to me. It is a nation founded on natural rights. A nation with equality for all. A nation where there is justice for all, equally.

It is a country where the rule of law is always the goal.

There are times when I hate the people in power for the disrespect they show my country and myself.

There are times when I see somebody being disrespectful of the flag, because they know it shows disrespect for my country.

“My country, right or wrong.” and “I disagree with you but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” are phrases I grew up with.

I cried when I saw people burning the flag of my country. Of hating it so much. Of hating everything that I love about my country.

And this expresses it:

As expected, Gun Controllers never quit.

One of the things our side of the Gun Rights issue suffers is the silly idea that the other side will give up every time we get a big win like Bruen. Gun Control  activism is based in Socialis and Communism and you don’t see that “fad” slowing down anytime soon, do you?

This popped last night:

So I went and checked the Firearms policy – YouTube Help (google.com)

Pretty much any video presenting how to build anything gun related will be removed and the account earns a strike or gets killed outright. I can imagine that all Brownell and MidwayUSA videos will eventually disappear from the platform once they are snitched on by the butthurts and weaklings.

Again, the message is simple.

THEY.NEVER.QUIT.

A banner weekend for antisemitism

It started with this Tweet going viral:

 

Let’s not bullshit ourselves.

When someone uses the word “solution” in relation to Jews, we know exactly what you are referencing.  The term “final solution” is too well known and understood.  Dropping the “final” to play coy or give yourself plausible deniability is disingenuous.

We also know what Intifada means.  There have been three concentrated waves of terrorism carried out by Hamas, the PLO, and the PFLP.

The First Intifada was from 1987 to 1993.

The Second Intifada or Al-Aqsa Intifada was from 2000 to 2005 and was noted for bombings of busses, restaurants, and other public venues where Jews congregated.  The Second Intifada also saw wide spread homemade rocket attacks.

The third Intifada or Knife Intifada was from 2015 to 2016.  Due to security measures put in place after the Second Intifada, Palestinians had less ability to smuggle guns and explosives inside of Israel and took to buying kitchen knives and stabbing Jews.  Some Palestinians also tired to run Jews over if they had cars inside Israel.

So, again, we know what words mean.

Enter the Leftist antisemites and Palestinian apologists, including Leftist Yevsektsiya Jews.

Anybody watching the Left knows this play from the Leftist playbook: “that’s not happening and it’s good that it is.”

The majority of comments were to the effect of:

“Intifada means ‘shaking off’ it’s not a call to murder Jews.”

“The ‘solution’ is a two state solution, not a call for genocide.”

“This isn’t threat of violence.”

The it’s not happening part.  Followed by:

“Palestinians have the duty to rise up against Israeli oppression.”

“Israel is an apartheid state and deserves what it gets.”

The it’s good that it’s happening part.

These comments outnumbered everything else 10 to 1.

Downplaying the threat of then justifying antisemitic violence.

Just wait until this turns into actual violence.

We’ve seen how Jews are the overwhelming majority of religious motivated hate crimes and how that is ignored by the media and powers that be,  because the perpetrators are overwhelming not Right Wing white supremacists.

The Hanas has been calling for the globalization of the Intifada.  Attacking Jews around the world as a way of attacking the Jewish state.

This is that.  Right now it’s protests.

It will turn violent.

Then it will be ignored by the media or justified as pent up Palestinian anger.

Until some Jew fights back.  Then it will be a crisis, because the only thing Jews are allowed to do is die.

The level of naked antisemitism seen in public today from The Left is reaching heights not seen since WWII ended.

Jews, take note, we need to be prepared for what’s coming.

Why Are Short Barreled Rifles Actually Regulated in the US? – Update


ADDENDUM:

AWA adding to Miguel’s post.

I was planning on doing an entire post regarding this.

The short version is that in 1934 Congress knew that the right to keep and bear arms could not be infringed. The only constitutional power they had was to tax. Thus the NFA is a revenue generating bill. It describes what should be taxed.

The intent was to make the weapons of crime to expensive to own. The targets were machine guns, sawed off shotguns, silencers, and pistols. Yep, pistols.

Considering that a Thompson machine gun between $170 and $200 in 1930 and that was considered a very expensive machine gun, a tax of $200 would double the cost of the Thompson.

A Colt 1911 would cost you around $22. So a nearly 10x tax on a top of the line pistol.

Somebody figured out that if they made pistols “taxable” under the NFA that people would just cut down rifles which were not going to be taxed. So instead of having a nice pocket pistol, you would have a cut down rifle in your pocket. So they added the concept of a short barreled rifle to the NFA.

The legislature got some feedback saying “don’t you dare ban/tax our pistols!” so removed pistols from the NFA. Nobody was concerned about the short barreled rifle clause so it was just left in.

Ian, in the linked video, talks about how the definition of a short barreled rifle changed over time. It is an interesting listen.

Changing the age to vote

Words have meaning “House Democrats introduce measure to lower voting age to 16”

Hmmm, so not a bill. Just a measure.

The bill, House Resolution 16, would establish that “the right of citizens of the United States, who are sixteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.”

So which is it? Is it a “bill” or is it a “resolution”? This doesn’t make any sense.

The policy would repeal the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which establishes the national voting age as 18. 

What? This policy would repeal an amendment to the Constitution? Did they miss every Schoolhouse Rock episode?

Pelosi, of course, supports lowering the voting age to 16 so this isn’t just random new representative submitting this thin.

“I think it’s really important to capture kids when they’re in high school when they’re interested in all of this when they’re learning about government to be able to vote,” she told the Daily Caller in 2019.

Yep, it is important to capture kids that are still in the whine for mommy or daddy to give them things. For kids that still haven’t figured out what to do with their lives to vote.

But remember, 18 is to young to buy a pistol because they aren’t mature enough.

So that’s the end of the hyperbole. The article was written by somebody that didn’t actually pay attention to what was said and is trying to get an emotional response.

What was done was a “Joint Resolution” was introduced in the House of Representatives calling for an amendment to the constitution of the United States. It is short, unusually so:

  1. The twenty-sixth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.
  2. The right of citizens of the United States, who are sixteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.
  3. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

The resolution clearly states that for this to happen the amendment needs to be ratified by 3/4 of the states before it becomes valid.

This is just pandering to the Democrat base. It is not really going anywhere. It is a good sound bite and nothing more.

House Democrats introduce measure to lower voting age to 16
H.J.RES. 16

H/T to Dive Medic