Continuing the saga started by J. Kb.

But gun instructors are concerned about lack of training-for those who choose to open carry. Proctor says he is confident citizens will be responsible if they decide to open carry. “Most folks that are going to be willing to do that, are going to do that, they are going to be trained.”

Detmer is not so sure, because of what he says he sees in his classes of inexperienced gun users. He doesn’t believe people will get training if it is not required.”They will not. I guarantee you I am 100 percent sure. I know that without state requirements, people will not spent time and money on training. It will not happen.”

Source: Gun instructors fear new gun law shoots down public safety | News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News | KTUL

Dan Detmer runs  Firearms on Target and it is also slightly miffed that he no longer has a government-mandated captive clientele. Nothing “warms” my heart as much as seeing a “fellow” Gun Owner standing on an ant hill of faux self-importance and giving ammunition to the Opposition .  Dear Dan, shut up and embrace the Free market, a Free Market that includes the advertising of your business, what a concept!

It is hard to transition to a new business model where you actually have to go out and find clients. Being attached to the fat cow of a government mandate is easy cash income with low overhead. But I know you can overcome it with a simple set of ideas if you are willing to accept some cuts. Here are some ideas:

• Stop talking crap about your possible clients.
• Advertise in Gun Shops. Offer deals like Ladies Range Day Half Off.
• Offer Free Basic Training for women who need immediate protection.
• Family bundles of up to five people, 30% off.
• Groupon! Yes, they are back allowing training in some markets.
• Sponsor competition shooters, have them wear NASCAR Shirt with your logo & sell your training.
• Stop talking crap about your possible clients.

And this is me, the worst salesman in the world with barely half a cup of coffee inside me. Imagine what you could do with some serious self-determination and the willingness of removing your lips from bureaucratic nipples.

E.J. Smith is a Firearms Instructor in Charleston, West Virginia.  Mr. Smith is extremely butthurt by West Virginia Senate Bill 347, for permitless concealed carry.  See, Mr. Smith teaches a concealed carry safety course out of his garage.  Seeing his source of supplementary income drying up, Mr. Smith opened his big, stupid, butthurt mouth to the media.

“Has this state gone crazy? Eighty percent of the people who go through my program are doing all kinds of things wrong…Now you want to turn everyone loose with a firearm without any training at all? Not another state will touch us for reciprocation other than Arizona. We WILL lose the 34 states that currently do reciprocate!  I can’t believe that the NRA would want this…This is ridiculous and will lead to all kinds of accidents and Old West-type crimes. It will not be safe to live here anymore. When we upped the age (for conceal carry permits) to 21, I said, thank God. Think about how irresponsible and hot-headed you were at 18. Now they ALL can carry concealed without training!…I love my gun rights too, but this is irresponsible to the limit. Law enforcement has their hands full already. You are about to see them flee their jobs in droves. I would…The process is good…Almost no one is denied a permit. When they are, it’s for a reason, like domestic violence or a previous felony. Do you really want these people now carrying?”

Not once, but TWICE!!!

“We want our guys to feel safe and knowing that anyone can carry a gun just isn’t going to do that.”

There are currently seven states that have constitutional carry: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Kansas, Maine, Vermont, and Wyoming.  West Virginia has passed constitutional carry (over the veto of the governor), but the law has not gone into effect yet.  In all of those states, especially the ones that have passed constitutional carry recently recently, I have not heard of any rampages, fender-bender gunfights, or other doom-and-gloom that is predicted as the result of any increase in the right to carry.

Why?  Because it is always the same bullsh*t straw-man, arguments:  A state goes from having no CCW provision to CCW and the streets will run red with blood.  A state goes from may issue to shall issue and will become Dodge City.  A state adopts Stand Your Ground and paranoid shoot-first gun owners will blow away every (usually black) person that twitches.  A state approves campus carry and drunk frat bros will shoot up professors over pop quizzes.  Has any of this ever happened?  No, but why let that stand in the way of hysterics.

At least the miserable turd came clean as to why he is against WV constitutional carry.

“There is not going to be anybody coming out to take a class and spend the money, besides maybe a few people who want their youngsters to learn to shoot or something.  [His business] certainly won’t be thriving, and the more likely event will be that I just close to doors on it.”

Here, let me summarize Mr. Smith’s sentiments for you.  “Screw your rights, I gotta get paid.”

The harpies over at MDA have picked up on Mr. Smith’s quote, using if for their own nefarious purposes.

If you are serious about gun rights, you don’t give ammo to the antis.  It’s a simple principle.  One that E.J. Butthurt has violated in the worst way.  And what caused this transformation to anti-gun Judas?  The potential loss of an at-home gun safety business that I’m pretty sure he’s not making a living with.

I’ve never been to WV and I don’t foresee myself going there any time soon, but I am incredibly thankful that the WV State Senate overrode the governor’s veto to pass constitutional carry only because it’s gonna hit Mr. Smith right in the bank account.

With friends like this… never mind.  E.J. Smith isn’t a friend of the gun community.  His belief in gun rights ends with his ability to make a buck.  He’s a slimy, sellout, turncoat, quisling.

I’m going to beat this anti-gun horse to death, grind it into IKEA meatballs, and them feed it to them.

Everytown is quoting University of Houston, English Department, Associate Professor Maria C. Gonzalez.  A professor of English.  I wondered what type of “critical intellectual work” she felt allowing CCW on campus would discourage.  I showed this quote to my wife, who majored in English Education as an undergrad, and she asked the same question.

So I decided to do some digging.  Turns out, she has quite a few negative ratings about how she conducts her class.

Well that explains it.  Professor Gonzalez sees her role in the classroom as less about teaching students mastery of the written English language, and more about being a Social Justice activist.  Even her good reviews make it clear that Propagandist Professor Gonzalez is politically biased; she’s just an easy grader if you are willing to parrot her ideas back at her.

My guess here is that Propagandist Professor Gonzalez is a dyed-in-the-wool Progressive activist.  It’s not idea of a gun in her classroom that terrifies her.  It’s the idea of an independently minded, and potentially *gasp* conservative, student in her classroom that terrifies her.  It’s the idea that one of the impressionable young minds in her class might not be so easily malleable to her world view.  This is not the opinion of a professional educator who earnestly wants her students to think critically and evaluate new concepts.  This is the opinion of a Progressive evangelist who only wants to preach to the choir.

This type of professor is a stain on academia.  Her opinion on this issue is as worthless as the education she hoists upon her students.

From the Virginia Citizens Defense League:

Of the seven legislators who tried bullying NOVA Armory’s landlord into breaking a lease, five of them voted for, wait for it… wait for it… anti-bullying legislation!

That’s right – bullies who don’t like bullies!  Talk about self-hatred

The hypocrite bullies are:  Senators Ebbin, Howell, and Favola and Delegates Hope and Lopez.

The anti-bullying bill was HB 1871 from back in 2013.

Definition from the legislation:
“Bullying” means any aggressive and unwanted behavior that is intended to harm, intimidate, or humiliate the victim; involves a real or perceived power imbalance between the aggressor or aggressors and victim; and is repeated over time or causes severe emotional trauma. “Bullying” includes cyber bullying. “Bullying” does not include ordinary teasing, horseplay, argument, or peer conflict.

Ain’t that grand? But much to their discontent, NOVA will be opening:

NOVA Armory will have its grand opening on Saturday, March 26, at 9 AM.  Delegate Rich Anderson and some other VIPs will be there for the grand opening, as will I.

We expect the antis to be there.  They formed a group solely for the purpose of torpedoing NOVA Armory and we can’t let that happen.

I’m sure the police will be happy to remove anyone who is actively trying to block access to the business.

Here is the address:

NOVA Armory
2300 N. Pershing Drive, #2B
Arlington, VA 22201

F***’em if they can’t take a joke.

Hat Tip to John R.

…because we were told by Gun Control groups that colleges are safe, right?

No Bubba, you don’t get to claim one thing and then cash on the opposite. Speaking with forked tongue and all that.

After watching the cancellation of the Trump rally in Chicago last night, I wonder if there are leaders of Black Lives Matters and BernieBots who might be thinking about crashing the NRA Annual Meeting in Louisville…

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