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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: May 2024

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Give your jaws a break, have a salad now and then. (UPDATE)

May 20, 2024 Miguel.GFZ 6 comments

The cult of Plus Sized with its inevitable silly demands for “right” is just sickening.

Just because you are mainlining Cheetos and Mexican Coke and topping that with strawberry syrup, it does give you the right to have airlines come up with Porker Class seating. You made your choices, pay for two seats so you can be comfortable.

I am sure the airline will throw a bucket of pretzels for free with the tickets.

UPDATE: I made a comment in somebody’s timeline and X got instantly medieval.

I appealed. Let’s see if the buy it. I expect they won’t, but it game me fodder for the blog which I always appreciate.

 

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Ancillary Rights (UPDATED)

May 20, 2024 awa 3 comments

I said that my brain was mostly dead. I couldn’t even copy and paste correctly.

The brain is mostly dead. I marked this article back in December 2023 for reading and writing about.

When it comes to the Second Amendment, there are at least four primary ancillary rights that arise from the plain text:

  1. the right to train with firearms
  2. the right to purchase firearms
  3. the right to purchase firearmsthe right to make firearms
  4. and the right to acquire ammunition
To illustrate, one of the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment’s text is the right of free speech. But that right also protects a host of other ancillary rights such as the right to paper and ink, the right to print and sell newspapers, and the right of access to the public square (or social media). Similarly, the U.S. Supreme Court has found that the right to counsel guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment implies the right to pay for a lawyer, or to have counsel appointed in serious cases for indigents.
2nd Amendment Guarantees Rights To Acquire & Train With Guns, Not Just RKBA ~ VIDEO
There are at least 4 primary ancillary rights that arise from the 2nd Amendment: the right to train, purchase, make guns, & acquire ammunition.
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Teaching kids about guns is bad…M’Kay?

May 20, 2024 Miguel.GFZ 7 comments

I had seen this video, but after being burned by BS stunts, I did not bother with it. It seems it was a real incident and the name of the young man was Rylo Huncho.

We can sit here and fill pages devoted to discuss the Four Rules and the insidious nature of Rap culture (or lack thereof) but I am actually going to go on a different path:

Gun Control Demands Ignorance About Gun Safety. 

Yeah, I know, nothing new. This year the TN legislature introduced House Bill 2882 with the Senat companion SB2923 mandating the teaching of Gun Safety in schools. It passed some Democrat support and it was signed into law by the Governor.

And how the idea received by the usual suspects? Here are some samples:

Sen. Jeff Yarbro, D-Nashville, argued Thursday that the training requirement represents a hurried effort to address the symptom of a systemic problem, and lawmakers should be doing more to address the root cause.
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“But rather than deal with the fact that there are firearms that are negligently and recklessly left somewhere by adults, we’re trying to teach children how to deal with that negligence.”

Sen. Charlane Oliver, D-Nashville, argued the state should allow parents to opt their children out of the firearms training.

TN bill to require age-appropriate gun training in schools goes to Lee (tennessean.com)

 

Memphis-Shelby County School parents said they want firearm safety to be addressed, but the person responsible for teaching students is where they have different viewpoints.

“I respect that people want to bear arms, and that’s fine,” MSCS parent Jennifer Byerly Farrell said. “But I don’t feel that anyone else but me should be teaching my children about gun safety.”
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However, Byerly Farrell said she doesn’t allow her children to go places where this education would need to be taught in-school.

“I’m never going to have my children around guns,” she said. “I don’t like guns. I don’t own guns. If my kids want to go to someone’s house, I ask the parent if they own guns, and if they do, I generally don’t let my kids go.”

Tennessee House bill for gun safety in public schools passes | localmemphis.com

Others wanted to see an option allowing opt-outs.

“We should be able to have someone opt out of this if they don’t choose it’s appropriate for their child,” Rep. Vincent Dixie (D-Nashville) said.

That was met with vitriol from Republicans.

“We do not allow parents to opt their children out of fire safety training,” Rep. John Ragan (R-Oak Ridge) said. “We do not allow them to opt out of any other safety training that’s considered essential.”

TN bill mandates teaching firearm safety in schools (wkrn.com)

 

Rep. Justin Pearson (D – Memphis) also proposed four amendments, one of which would have specifically excluded the National Rifle Association from being used to create gun safety lessons. He said the NRA is specifically not “viewpoint neutral.” Another would have allowed parents to opt out children for any reason, similar to Rep. Powell’s amendment.

TN House and Senate passes bill requiring lessons on gun safety in schools, amendments allowing parents to opt out fails | wbir.com

 

The bill drew sharp criticism from Democrats on the committee, who argued that parents should have the opportunity to opt their children out of the training, and that the training could be insensitive to students who have had past or familial experiences with gun violence.

“I just think that we’re setting some kids up for a very rough time, unnecessarily,” Rep. Gloria Johnson, D-Knoxville, said. “When kids ask questions, they’re going to talk about gun violence, and they’re going to talk about these things and I don’t know how the person who’s doing this training is supposed to address gun violence in a neutral way.”

TN bill requiring ‘age-appropriate’ gun safety training for students heads to full House vote (aol.com)

 

I do firmly believe that they oppose this bill and any kind of gun safety education because they can exploit children’s death for their own political and pecuniary purposes: Dead Kids Bring Cash to their pockets and gets them re-elected.