I checked out a few of the pictures from #NationalWalkoutDay.

It it evident from the get-go that this really had nothing to do with Parkland or ending gun violence as it was a straight up anti-gun march to push Democrat talking points.

There were lots of kids holding lots of signs that were so bad it made my head hurt.  None of these kids were challenged to think critically about what they wrote on their signs, but were celebrated by the media and Left Wing politicians as the moral leaders of the age.

I’m so proud of my 5th grade nephew for participating in #NationalWalkoutDay in New York City. And, no, he isn’t the one carrying the sign, but I do love that sign. pic.twitter.com/p12lYDjLBC

— Senator Scott Wiener (@Scott_Wiener) March 14, 2018

I’ve seen this sign before, at the Women’s March.  Since the Student Walkout was backed by the Women’s March, it makes sense that they are going to recycle the signs.  This is just as stupid now as it was the first time.  Guns don’t have rights, people do, and name me one restriction placed on your vagina that isn’t placed on a gun.  I’ll wait.

This is just like the feminists bitching that The Handmaid’s Tale is poignant in America with Pence as VP, even through it nearly perfectly represents Iran under Islam.  The only places in the world where vaginas are more oppressed than guns is in backwards, totalitarian, Islamic hellholes.  Which the feminists won’t criticize.

https://twitter.com/sahluwal/status/974052336896131073

This is the same sign as above but instead of claiming victim status for being female, he’s claiming victim status for being black.  It still makes no sense.  In fact, it may make less sense.

The same Constitution that protects my right to own guns, explicitly bans my right to own black people.  I’m pretty sure banning black people from entering private businesses is illegal.  So I’m not sure where he’s going with this.

"The Second Amendment Isn’t Meant To Protect Our Citizens"

"De-Militarize The Police"

"Give Us Our Reparations”#MarchForWaitWhatAreWeMarchingForToday pic.twitter.com/iSevsjKQsd

— Cameron Gray (@Cameron_Gray) March 14, 2018

WTF?

If the 2A isn’t for protecting citizens, what is it there for?  Has anybody taught this girl history or civics?

I agree that there is over militarization of police, but I’m not sure what that has to do with this.  When I read about a SWAT team with surplus M-16 kicking in a paralyzed man’s door because he has too many refills of his pain meds, that’s over militarization.  When some nut job goes into a school with a gun and starts shooting students, sending in some cops with M-16’s after him is a good idea.

Nikolas Cruz shot up Parkland because his great-great-great grandparents were slaves?  What?  What does reparations have to do with school shootings?  Nothing, but some teacher stuck this victim mentality in your head and now you are at a protest.

Nice drawing kid.  Is that a spear?

https://twitter.com/KaniJJackson/status/974059758612336640

I doubt that she has ever bought a gun.  Also, political donations are protected free speech.  Lastly, I wonder what she thinks about Planned Parenthood donations.  It’s only “buying” a politician when the other side does it.

https://twitter.com/BasedMonitored/status/974081127722962944

So the NRA = USA = KKK.  That sort of insulting factual inaccuracy is sure to win hearts and minds.  The only cowards in the Parkland situation were the deputies of the BSO.

“Fuck you guns” is a really in depth analysis of the issue of gun rights and gun violence prevention.

Powerful. Left is David Wojnarowicz at ACT UP’s FDA Action protest on October 11, 1988 and the right is taken of a student today, March 14, 2018. 30 years later. #NationalWalkoutDay pic.twitter.com/5HytXHxURp

— ACT UP NY (@actupny) March 15, 2018

Ah yes, the “the NRA banned the study of gun deaths” bullshit again.  The CDC was being used to push gun control legislation.  Where as other risk assessments are used to make products safer – e.g., mandating seat belts, air bags, anti-lock brakes – this was intended only to bolster a politically driven ban.

This, again, has nothing to do with school shootings.

What I want to know is which teacher told that kid to make that sign, because I was 5 in 1988.  I’m not sure how a high school kid would know about the Reagan AIDS controversy.

https://twitter.com/EduSamani/status/974107569190068224

No they are not toys, no one is playing with guns in classrooms.  This is non nonsensical.  Fire extinguishers are not toys, do they not belong in classrooms either?

https://twitter.com/Africanboy__/status/974116260479840256

Of all the pictures I saw, this one was by far the most honest.  The kid had an excuse to go home and drink soda so he did.  He didn’t give a shit about anything other than not being in class.

At lest he was honest about his truancy.

Emboldened by the Student March for Democrat Talking Points, Vox writer Dylan Matthews put fingers to keyboard to publish this.

What no politician wants to admit about gun control

Pray tell, Dylan, what is it?

Realistically, a gun control plan that has any hope of getting us down to European levels of violence is going to mean taking a huge number of guns away from a huge number of gun owners.

I thought you weren’t coming for our guns.  That when the NRA says that, it’s paranoia.  Well, thanks for confirming what we knew to be true.

Also what European levels are we talking about?

I guess you are not counting the 30 Million civilian casualties of WWII?  Seems that these anti-gun people always like to overlook the great wars of Europe.  Just like Liberals love to talk about “terrorism since 9/11.”

Fine, so can we talk about violence like the Telford and Rotherham child sex grooming ring?

How about the spike in rape in Sweden?

Or Sweden’s problem with people throwing hand grenades around?

Or maybe the knife and vehicle attacks all over Europe?

The 58 people killed by Stephen Paddock was still 29 fewer people killed in Nice with a rental truck.

I guess that isn’t gun violence so we’ll just ignore that too.

Other countries have done exactly that. Australia, for example, enacted a mandatory gun buyback that achieved that goal, and saw firearm suicides fall as a result. But the reforms those countries enacted are far more dramatic than anything US politicians are calling for — and even they wouldn’t get us to where many other developed countries are.

I agree, a mandatory buyback would never work.

So could it happen in the US? The legal scholars I talked to suggested that an Australia-style program would probably pass muster. If we went further than Australia and also banned handguns, that might cause problems; the Supreme Court struck down Washington, DC’s handgun ban in 2008. But Australia’s actual system is probably constitutional.

I’m not a lawyer, but I doubt that.

“Courts have consistently upheld bans on military-style semiautomatic rifles because other firearms are equally useful for self-defense,” Adam Winkler, a law professor at UCLA and author of Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America, says. “Gun control isn’t stalled because of the Second Amendment. It’s stalled because elected officials won’t pass effective new laws to reduce gun violence.”

Effective like mandatory buybacks?  That’s what you’re getting at, a mass confiscation of guns in America.  Right?

Sanford Levinson, a law professor at the University of Texas Austin and author of the landmark article “The Embarrassing Second Amendment,” concurs: “If such an extraordinary law actually got through Congress (meaning with necessary Republican support), then I find it impossible to imagine that there would be five votes on the Court to say no,” he says. “But the real problem, of course, is that there’s not a snowball’s chance in hell of Congress actually passing any meaningful legislation re guns, let alone this kind of quite radical legislation.”

Those damn Republicans always putting civil liberties and the Constitution ahead of the lives of kids.

And there’s the rub. Former President Obama occasionally cited Australia in discussions about gun control, but proposals he and congressional Democrats put forward stopped far, far short of what Australia’s done. Obama’s plan to tackle gun violence focused on universal background checks for gun sales, banning assault weapons again, and increasing criminal penalties for illicit gun traffickers. That’s nowhere near as dramatic as taking 20 percent of America’s guns off the street.

You think you can just take 20% of America’s guns off the street.  That is somewhere between 60 million and 100 million guns.

Do you realize that is just the number of guns sold in the last three to five years?

For example, researchers have found that:

After Connecticut passed a law requiring gun purchasers to first obtain a license, gun homicides fell by 40 percent and suicides fell by 15.4 percent.

When Missouri repealed a similar law, gun homicides increased by 23 percent and suicides increased by 16.1 percent.

I don’t need a permit to go to Synagogue, operate a blog, or vote.  I don’t need a permit to own a gun.  I should not have to ask permission to exercise a fundamental right.

Both firearm homicides and overall homicides are lower in states that check for restraining orders (13 percent fewer firearm homicides) and fugitive status (21 percent fewer) before selling guns, and firearm/overall suicides are lower in states that check for fugitive status (5 percent fewer), misdemeanors (5 percent fewer), and mental illness (4 percent fewer).

Fix NICS.

The national assault weapons ban did not decrease gun deaths in the US, though if it had existed longer it might have made certain shootings less lethal. The end of the assault weapon ban did meaningfully increase homicides in Mexico.

Yep, the AWB was useless.  Also, I’m going to accept an AWB because Mexico is a failed, corrupt, narco state currently engaged in a apolitical civil war.

A Maryland law banning cheap, crummy handguns might have reduced gun homicides, but this effect was offset in part by customers rushing to purchase the guns before the ban took effect.

Or that “Saturday night specials” were not the guns used by criminals.  Criminals generally bought guns on the black market that were stolen.  The “cheap, crummy” guns they used were because they robbed their neighbors in poor communities.

“I suspect it would take a while (decades) for the US to get down to gun violence levels of other developed countries because a) we have so many guns which are durable, and b) we have a gun culture — we tend to use guns more often in more situations than citizens of other developed countries.”

It might be easier if there are positive feedback loops, he says — “if the rival gang doesn’t have guns, our gang has less need of guns” — but it’ll be an uphill battle.

The Harvard Prof that said that is fucking stupid.  In the real world it goes like this, “if the rival gang doesn’t have guns, our gang wipes them out with our guns.”

But we have accumulated some general knowledge all the same. Perhaps the single most supported contention in all of gun research is that more guns mean more gun deaths. The US doesn’t just have a gun violence problem because of its lax gun regulation. It has a problem because it has a culture that encourages large-scale gun possession, and other countries do not. That, combined with Australia’s experience, makes large-scale confiscation look like easily the most promising approach for bringing US gun homicides down to European rates.

Maybe the problem is America is a nation of 325 Million people that are ethically, culturally, religiously, and economically diverse, and that causes friction and problems.  Comparing us to a mostly homogeneous nation is pointless.  Especially since what we see in Europe is that the majority of violence comes from  where diverse groups rub up against each other.

Large-scale confiscation is not going to happen. That’s no reason to stop advocating it. (I also want to repeal all immigration laws and give everyone a monthly check from the government with no strings attached, and will argue for those ideas even though they’re not politically viable.) But it does mean that we should be realistic about what gun control with an actual shot of passage can achieve. It can make us safer. It cannot make us Europe.

So you are an open boarders, anti civilian gun ownership, Socialist.  So every idea you have is bad.  I wonder what it is like to get up in the morning and ask yourself “what would Stalin do?” as a guide to live a virtuous life.

Unless something dramatic changes, gun violence will remain a distinctly American problem for the rest of our lives — background checks or no.

It’s far from being a distinctly American problem.  You should visit Africa or Anywhere south of the Rio Grande for a while.  We’re pretty damn peaceful for just how many guns and people we have.  Sure, we’ll never be like Europe, then again, there are also no museums that were once gas chambers and crematoriums in the US so that’s a plus.

It’s clear that it’s not really about wanting to reduce gun deaths with this guy, it’s about using gun deaths as a justification to impose his Utopia.

That is the reason I own guns.  Because Utopians like this asshole eventually find out that the solution to their problems is not to get rid of 20% of guns but to get rid of 20% of the people, with guns.

Try that in America and we will definitely achieve  “European levels of gun violence” with the pushback.

https://twitter.com/sahluwal/status/974050872589090816

Is girls clothing banned in schools as per a 1994 act singed by President Bill Clinton?

That sounds like something he’d do.

Saint Thomas University is a small, Catholic university in Miami Gardens, Florida.

Anita Britt was the CFO of STU.  She is also a board member of American Outdoor Brands.  Monsignor Franklyn M. Casale decided that in the wake of the Parkland shooting, having someone associated with the gun industry on staff at the university would be bad.  HD presented her with an ultimatum, quit the board of American Outdoor Brands or quit the school.

This is how the Miami Herald headlined that.

She chose the gunmaker over the Catholic university. Good riddance to St. Thomas CFO!

This is after the Miami Herald outed her position with American Outdoor Brands two days ago.

And a day after the same Herald writer, Fabiola Santiago, wrote an OpEd about how awful it is to have a successful business woman as a university CFO.

God forbid she serve on Planned Parenthood board.  But gun maker?  That’s just dandy.

Ms. Britt is an accomplished executive.  She served as CFO of Perry Ellis and several other clothing brands.  Her experience in managing the financials for a consumer products manufacturer is valuable.  But one of the brands that AOB owns is Smith & Wesson, so Ms. Britt must be driven from polite society.

A woman with impeccable credentials sits on the board of a public company that makes a legal product, in a heavily regulated industry, which sells one of their products to a distributor, who sells it to a retailer, who sells it with a background check in accordance with federal law, to a nut job who shouldn’t have been available to buy it in the first place, except for the epic incompetence and dereliction of duty of the FBI, Broward School District, and Broward Sheriff.  And because of that, this woman had to either denounce her job with AOB or leave the college.

The Miami Herald went on a witch hunt after her and treats this like a victory.

This is a culture war against gun rights.

If a private company can demand someone who works for the gun industry resign, how long until they demand gun owners resign?

Own a gun, lose your job.

This is the future they are going for.

If I were in Miami right now, I’d find myself a boyfriend on Tinder.  Fire the fat “gay” jewish guy, I dare you.

Brianna Wu is a crazy person.  I have covered her (arguably him) before and her paranoid fantasy that privatization of space means that CEOs will race to the moon to start the kinetic bombardment of Earth for profit.  Apparently Wu cannot separate reality from the fantasy world of her terrible video games.

(On a side note, that her husband has won Hugo Awards for fan art means to me that the Hugo Award has become a meaningless sham.  Rest in peace, Robert A. Heinlein.)

Brianna Wu is running for Congress for the 8th District of Massachusetts, which included the wealthy, predominantly white, suburbs of Boston.

Wu decided to jump in on the gun issue with this tweet.

I talk to gun owners often on the campaign trail. Many are Republican. They feel betrayed the @nra.

Why? Because responsible gun owners are almost ALWAYS in favor of mandatory safety training. It seems irresponsible to them to oppose it. https://t.co/98rA4FypRf

— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) March 11, 2018

I want to know how many NRA members and gun owners she knows in the hyper Liberal enclave of Boston she lives in.

Given her reputation as a scam artist in the gaming community, I’d venture a guess that this is a lie.

She is just another liberal promoting the Große Lüge that the NRA doesn’t represent the interests of it’s members anymore.

So what that the NRA has 5 Million (and growing rapidly) members, the members don’t agree with the leadership and so the NRA members will support our gun control measures even if the leadership doesn’t.  

That is a remarkably stupid and factually inaccurate argument.  People have been joining the NRA in droves precisely because after Parkland, they see that the NRA has been right all along that the Democrats want to take your guns.

What is really infuriating is the idea of mandatory training.  That is nothing but a literacy test for gun rights, because Miguel is right that we are the new Negores.  Exercising a civil right should not require a hurdle to jump.

Who is going to train us?  The same LEOs that failed in Parkland?

These people hate the NRA, so I doubt they would approve any NRA training.

What I can assure you is this, as soon as any Liberal politician passes a mandatory training requirement for gun ownership, what will happen is this:

The state will approve one training facility, it will be open one day a week, it will have one staff member, and the website to sign up for training will be worse than the one for Obamacare.

Training is, of course, a good idea.  I’m just not going to allow my ability to exercise my Constitutional protected civil rights to be gatekept by an impossibly onerous training process developed by people who both know nothing about guns and hate them.

Brianna Wu has done nothing more than advocate for Jim Crow laws to be used against gun owners.  Different group of people, same tactics.

This video was in my YouTube recommended feed.

Growing up in Florida  (Miguel has said the same thing) you learn that once you go into the wilderness, you are no longer at the top of the food chain.

It’s impressed on you from an early age.  There are lots of lakes and canals that look really inviting.  They have alligators in them.

The water hazard at the local golf course is really a hazard in every meaning of the word.

Lots of people from other places don’t seem to get that.

This guy was very close to being turned into Cougar shit in the woods of Vancouver.

That cat had no fear of people.   He looked very healthy. I suspect he is used to taking food from humans.

I understand Canada gun laws are repressive, but going out in mountain lion country with just an iPhone is retarded. 

An axe is at least something more effective than yelling “shoo.”

This guy was a lot closer to being a chew toy for an apex predator than I think he realized.