What did I just say earlier this morning.

I called it.

https://twitter.com/michaelianblack/status/971728996667940864

You can say “but he’s just a comedian, not a politician.”

I will remind you that Hollywood activism had blurred the line between celebrity and politician.  This is a celebrity pushing the Overton Window. 

It’s not enough for them to ban guns. They want to send gun owners to the gulag.

Calling the NRA a terrorist organization in no longer just the purview of ex-Clinton staffers spending money on billboards.

Now, perhaps the most obnoxious non-student victim of the Parkland Shooting has joined in the NRA terrorist equivalence.

Father of Parkland victim slams NRA videos:

"If this was put out by a terrorist organization, we would be raising the terror threat level in this country. Why are we letting this lobby have anything to do with DC? I don't understand it!" pic.twitter.com/7tfYM8fAkU

— Evan McMurry (@evanmcmurry) March 7, 2018

The Governor of Connecticut, Dan Malloy chimed in saying that the NRA has become a terrorist organization.

This is not just terrible rhetoric.  There is a purpose to this.

There is a quote, often attributed to Josef Goebbels “if you tell a lie often enough, people will come to believe it.”  There is no evidence that he said it, but it does seem to be true.

I think the end goal of pundits, sacred victims, PACs, and politicians calling the NRA a terrorist organization is to do just that.  Have the NRA defined as a terrorist organization.

The FBI has a very specific definition of terrorism, which the NRA doesn’t meet.  But if the lie is told often enough by important enough people than the momentum can be built to criminalize association with the NRA.

I am fully convinced that what we are seeing is a deliberate push to criminalize the NRA to the point where the five (soon to be six) million members that support the NRA can be prosecuted the same way as someone who supports ISIS or Al Qaeda.

You can call me a tinfoil hat wearing, paranoid, crazy person, but with the absolute level of hate we’ve seen directed at gun owners, I believe they do mean to do us real harm.

Right now, there is nothing they can do because NRA membership is protected by the First Amendment, the right to free association and the NRA is a registered lobbying group.

But if they can make the NRA legally tantamount to ISIS, all of its members are now criminals.

A year ago, maybe you’d be right to call me crazy.  Not today.

I believe this is an act to destroy the Second Amendment by undermining the protections of the First Amendment.

Blackrock is the world’s largest investment firm.  They decided they wanted to use their financial weight to push gun control by hindering the financials of gun manufacturers.

I’m not a lawyer, but this seems to me like a clear cut case of breach of fiduciary duty.

American Outdoor Brands, which is publicly traded, responded to Blackrock with what can only be called awesomeness.

The last paragraph is pure gold:

The solution is not to take a politically motivated action that has an adverse impact on our company, our employees, our industry, our shareholders, the economies we support and, most importantly, the rights of the law abiding citizens that buy our products, but results in no increase in public safety. We must collectively have the courage to ensure any actions are guided by data, by facts, and by what will actually make us safer — not by what is easy, expedient, or reads well in a headline. 

You know a the guy writing that wanted to include a “fuck you, eat shit and die” but was warned by counsel not to.

Read the whole thing.  It’s worth it.

An article from The Guardian

Longer jail terms likely for knife and acid possession.  New sentencing guidelines for England and Wales list acid as dangerous weapon for first time.

Adults convicted of possessing a knife or acid for use as an offensive weapon in public are likely to face longer prison terms when new sentencing guidelines for judges in England and Wales are introduced.

Recommendations by the Sentencing Council published on Thursday state that the starting point for a judge assessing punishment for anyone over 18 caught with a “bladed article” in a public place should be six months in jail. For young people, the starting point is four months.

Anyone over who has a “bladed article” goes to jail.  This is a ban on mere possession of a tool.

Those convicted of a second possession offence are subject to statutory minimum terms, meaning that in most circumstances they will go to prison. Offenders who make threats with knives or highly dangerous weapons will always receive sentences longer than six months.

See, if threatening someone with a knife carries a stiffer penalty, proving that just having one on your person is enough to get sent to jail for four to six months.

Here is the picture from the accompanying article.

Here is the text of the caption “Weapons recovered during a week-long police operation focused on reducing knife crime in London.”

Look at that image again.  I’ll give you a little help.

I’ve counted at least a dozen Swiss Army Knives, three Leatherman tools, and a sommelier tool.

This is a ban on possession of knifes that puts adults in prison for six months for carrying a Swiss Army Knife.

These aren’t people who threatened or stabbed anyone with a SAK, just people who had them in their pockets.

They are tossed in with the people carrying prison shanks and daggers.

All of this to combat “knife crime.”

Congrats, London, you make MacGyver a dangerous criminal.

Rosina Cottage QC, a member of the council, said: “Too many people in our society are carrying knives. If someone has a knife on them, it only takes a moment of anger or drunkenness for it to be taken out and for others to be injured or killed. These new guidelines give courts comprehensive guidance to ensure that sentences reflect the seriousness of offending.”

See, Londoners have to have their SWKs taken away.  They may be law abiding now, but there is no telling when they will fly into a fit of rage and so the best policy is to assume the worst and punish them preemptively.

Welcoming the guidelines, the justice minister Rory Stewart said: “Knives ruin lives and fracture communities, and carrying a weapon is often an indicator of further devastating crimes to come.

Or, you know, open plastic packaging or cut a hot dog lengthwise to keep a toddler from choking on his lunch.

This is the future of America as this gun control push slides into insanity.  They don’t know how to prevent crime, but they do know how to take a law abiding guy with a SAK in his pocket and turn him into a criminal.

I caught this thread about cars.

https://twitter.com/DavidKlion/status/970810151442763776

https://twitter.com/DavidKlion/status/970811024860418048

https://twitter.com/DavidKlion/status/970811313751457792

I have no idea who the hell David Klion is.  So when I started down this thread I seriously believed that this was someone mocking anti-gun talking points but using cars.  Pointing out just how ridiculous they sound when talking about any other dangerous object that some people love but can cause injury and death if used irresponsibly or criminally.

Then it continued.

https://twitter.com/DavidKlion/status/970812048249585665

That’s not an anti-gun talking point.

https://twitter.com/DavidKlion/status/970840634780274688

OK, what’s going on here?

https://twitter.com/DavidKlion/status/970840816599085057

This is not a mockery of ant-gun talking points, this fucking guy is serious.

What does he mean the “average American lives in a sprawling metropolitan area?”  Half of the population lives in urban areas.  That’s not “average” that’s median.

What I think he means is that the average Liberal American like him lives in a sprawling metropolis and fuck rural America because I don’t like them.

https://twitter.com/DavidKlion/status/971092895620042753

Here we go, relating curs to guns in that he hates both car and gun culture because it kills people.  Not the law abiding people who are responsible with their cars and guns, but he is going to make them suffer because of a minority of bad people.

https://twitter.com/DavidKlion/status/971093411964088320

https://twitter.com/DavidKlion/status/971093750096322560

I live in Huntsville, Alabama’s third largest city with a population of 193,000 people.  Not exactly podunk.  At the same time, not exactly a city that could maintain an effective public transportation system.

I work in a factory on the edge of Huntsville and live even further out from the center of town.  What bus is supposed to come to where I live and take me to work, and back again?

This thread could only have been born of an elitist who has never stepped foot out side of New York City and has never worked in anything other than a office in a high rise.

It’s clear he thinks America is either farms or downtown Brooklyn.

I don’t want to live in a concrete box stacked on top of other concrete boxes taking public transportation to another concrete box.  I’m an American, not a citizen of Megacity One.

Fuck this guy.  If this is his idea of the direction America should go, he’s more and more proving that it is time for a national divorce.

Nobody is taking my gun, my pickup truck, or my yard.

Alabamians are ready for more gun control.  At least that’s what their Democratic Sen. Doug Jones said.

No, no we’re not. 

We’re very happy Remington is here and can’t wait for Kimber to join them.

We like our gun rights and aren’t fans of losing them because of what some nut job in another state did while the local Sheriff was being worthless.

He fought a really hard campaign to get elected Senator from Alabama.  Seems a waste to throw away all that effort to sabotage his chances at reelection like that.

Oh well.

I was talking to a friend at work about question I proposed regarding how this Parkland thing will end.

What came out of that was an terrifying thought.

We know that there is a segment of the Socialist/Communist/SJW/Progressive Left (whatever you want to call them)  that overtly hates guns, gun owners, and gun culture.

Calling the NRA terrorists or “worse than ISIS” is evidence of this.  So is “kill the NRA” billboards and “gun owners have small penises mockery.”  Regular readers of this blog know that it is an encyclopedia of anti gun hatred of gun owners.

Even if it only a small minority of very rabid individuals, what happens if they get into power?

History has shown us:

The Nazi holocaust of the Jews and Roma.

The Soviet holodomor of the Ukrainians.

The Maoist purge of dissidents.

The Castro and Che executions of Batista supporters.

The killing fields of Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge.

The Tutsi genocide in Rwanda.

The mass graves of the Balkans.

The murder of white farmers in Zimbabwe and South Africa.

It ends with mass executions or the subjugation of the hated people by the extremists in power.

True these nations didn’t have Constitutionally protected civil rights of their citizens, but law on paper only matters so much.

Where does that leave us if the most extreme of the anti gun voices to attain majority political power?

It will be the systematic destruction of gun culture.  It may not end with mass graves, but probably with mass arrests and subjugation.

When they have to power to erase the Second Amendment, it will nothing for them to erase the Forth and Fifth when it comes to guns.

This isn’t just an issue of guns, but the eradication of a cultural identity.

Keep that in mind.