“Star Wars” fans intending to attend Thursday’s opening screenings of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” may want to think twice about those light sabers.Two of the three theaters showing “The Force Awakens” are asking fans to leave any sort of weapons, including light sabers, at home.

Source: Waco theaters set “Star Wars” no open carry (light saber) rules – WacoTrib.com: Sound & Sight

Yes, because we need to put a stop to all those Drive-By-“Saberings” we keep seeing in the news.

And we need to stop the light saber loophole that allows the unregulated sale of such dangerous devices as they can be bought at any store  like they were toys.

H.R.4269 – To regulate assault weapons, to ensure that the right to keep and bear arms is not unlimited, and for other purposes.

Yup, here we go again. The bill title is already posted at the Congress website, has 123 co-sponsors at the time of publishing this post, all with the (D) next to their names….and no text. Another case of “You need to approve the bill to see what’s in it?” Not gonna fly.

The bill was introduced by Representative David N. Cicilline (R.I.)

But you have to admit that the bit of “the right to keep and bear arms is not unlimited” calls attention rather quick. And also is telling me something: They are royally pissed off. And it is not because they are worried about “Assault Weapons” since you have a better chance of being killed as a pedestrian by a car (4,743 deaths, 2012) than by any type of rifle (298 deaths, 2012), but because their message is not only not getting across, it is being plainly ignored even in the staunchest of Liberal fiefdoms like California where people are flocking to gun stores to buy whatever is in the shelves and goes “pew-pew.”

Even though I do not see a lot of future with this bill, we cannot take its dismissal for granted. According to The Hill, the idea is to block any new manufacturing of Evil Black Rifles, restrict the sale of those already in the hands of citizens and enhance the background checks. However, I saw something in the article that called my attention:

The bill would intensify background checks for people looking to buy any of the estimated 8 million to 9 million assault weapons that are already in circulation.

I am not a Constitutional Expert and I expect that if I am wrong, a kind reader would correct me but I seem to recall both in United States v. Miller and District of Columbia v. Heller something about weapons in common use not being subjected to bans and undue burdens on their ownership? Then 8 million to 9 million “assault weapons” are hardly a small unimportant amount that can be heavily controlled by the government.

Just a thought.

In the wake of San Bernardino and the high profile shootings that proceeded it, the propaganda arm of the Democrat party fourth estate conducted two polls to find out how Americans felt about a new assault weapons ban.  ABC found that  53% of people OPPOSING a new AWB and the New York Times got about the same numbers with some 50% of people OPPOSING a new AWB.  The rationale being that an AWB really won’t do much to stop a “lone wolf” attack.

Common sense and gun rights seem to be winning on this issue.

Month after month we have been seeing record gun sales. When New York and Connecticut managed to pass assault weapon bans and registrations, the compliance rate with these laws was about 4% and 10% respectively.

A small but loud an obnoxious group of people supported by a confederacy of felons clamors for a new gun ban.

The rest of the country is spending its hard earned money on handguns and black rifles, and when asked about their purchases, tell the government “piss off, that’s a golf club, I want a lawyer.”

How do the House Democrats react to all of these data points?  By drafting a new assault weapons ban.  Sure, it has no hope of passing with a GOP majority.  But I’m not so sure the 90 Democrats who co-signed it have any idea what they’ve done to themselves.

A few of them may be in such deep blue districts they they have no chance in losing reelection.  But the rest of them? We’ll have a change come November of next year to show them what the popular opinion on guns bans is.

I was reading the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Office report Assessing the Rise in Unintended Discharges Following the Sheriff’s Department’s Conversion to a New Handgun when I bumped into this table in page 9:

In case you don’t remember, the gun was made famous in the movie Die Hard 2.

After all these years of mocking and deriding Hollywood for their lack of knowledge about guns, we must eat crow because the Glock 7 does exists. It says so in the report!

I know, it is probably a typo, but I can see the conspiracy types going crazy and screaming I told you so!

About 100 people gathered outside the Fairfax, Va., headquarters of the National Rifle Association on Monday. The demonstrators are pushing for expanded background checks and regulations on gun ownership in the United States.

Source: Why gun control advocates spent Sandy Hook anniversary at the NRA (+video) – CSMonitor.com

This was the great “push” for new regulations. The third anniversary of the Sandy Hook massacre and right after the massacre at…wait, we had one recently…where was it? Nobody can’t seem to find it in the news anymore. Somewhere in California? No, that cannot be since California has all those wonderful Gun Control laws like Universal Background checks and bullet buttons that stop those evil black rifles to shoot like a machine gun. Oh well, it was probably anther White racist redneck NRA member shooting innocent black churchgoers while draped in the Rebel flag, right?
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My take for the growing collapse of the Gun Control Movement is that the lies are catching up with them at an accelerated rate. The less people consume news via traditional media and more through the Interwebs, the more the lies shine under the light of fact checking and they are staring to question very harshly) the old conventional wisdom from the Gun Control groups.

Look at the picture again: That is the best that all gun control groups managed to gather on the third anniversary of Sandy Hook and right after a terrorist attack not two weeks before. Old Media went crazy attacking the NRA and gun owners (while trying their best to bleach the fact that it was a Jihadist attack in a Gun Free Zone in the banner state for Gun Control in the nation) with the interns for Social Media posting like crazy about the evils of clack guns. How did the people respond? They went out and bought more guns and many bought their first gun. Even the people of San Bernardino flooded the local gun shops instead of parading with banners for Gun Bans, some realizing that being unarmed and asked to play paper-rock-bullet against an armed subject is a losing proposition.

And you know what else I have noticed? It is just a trickle but I have seen more articles coming not from the usual sources doubting the effectiveness of Gun Control Sacred Cows. Top of my head at least three asking if Gun Free Zones are actually doing more harm than good, others from people who are now proud gun owners for the first time, and even several big time publications calling attention at the new  fabricated “version” of Mass Shootings and condemning it. Equating kids with BB guns to Sandy Hook or Virginia Tech proved to be unpalatable to many liberal uvulas.

We are not done yet. Democratic Primaries are coming and for some reason the base is clinging to Gun Control (and lots of free stuff) as something that tickles their collective coccyxs.   I just saw in some sources that the dems in Congress will try to introduce in the coming days the Assault Weapons Ban of 2015 prohibiting the manufacturing of “assault weapons” and already has 90 sponsors. Chances of passing? Not many, I would probably get a free GMC Yukon faster, but we need to make sure and that means staying alert and keeping your congresscritter on his/her toes.

We ain’t done yet by far.

PS: I almost forgot. Moms Demand claims they put 10,000 people on the streets on Saturday in 40 states to protest whatever is that they protest. Check the pictures in their Facebook page, if lucky they may have managed 2,500 which fits the MDA Math (People they say showed up or will show = people who actually show up x 4)

Back in 2012, I watched with embarrassment, Obama make a statement about the Navy that was so ridiculous that on that statement alone, he shouldn’t have been reelected.

Tonight I watched the GOP primary candidates fail to answer a question about the US nuclear triad correctly.

So I would like to put on my best politician voice and address these two political points from a strategic and historical perspective.

*Clears throat*

“Ladies and gentlemen, please allow me to explain exactly why it is critical to build up the United States Navy, and why it should be the priority when we update our nuclear armament.

The United States Navy is the big swinging dick of American foreign policy.

When you need a country occupied, ground held, you call the Army.

When you want complete air superiority, you call the Air Force.

But when you want to stare down some petulant piss-ant warlord or megalomaniac dictator, and remind him who’s boss, you park a United States Navy carrier group off the coast of his country.  That is two-hundred-thousand tons of sovereign United States, manned by some 7,500 of our nation’s best, deployable anywhere in the world in 24 hours, armed to the fucking teeth, and ready to strike at a moment’s notice.

If we want to bomb said warlord’s bunker, we can have an F-18 super hornet delivering ordinance in minutes from the deck of a carrier.

If we want to turn his favorite desert campsite into a crater, we can launch a Tomahawk missile from a destroyer.

If we want to capture his ass, we can deploy the SEALS.

If we just want to stomp his militia into paste, we send in the Marines.

The Army and the Air Force, we have to deploy either from stateside or a regional base.  We have to create a staging location from which we can deploy those forces.  It takes weeks and months to mount an operation like that.

The Navy is just there, waiting to kick some ass.

If the sheer intimidation factor of a carrier strike group isn’t enough to get what we want, we can always introduce Supreme Leader Shit-for-Brains to the wonder that is the Ohio Class Guided Missile Submarine.

We have 18 of them.  Silent holes the water.  Undetectable.  We can just about sail one of these into his asshole and he wouldn’t notice until his toilet paper comes back covered with anti-fouling paint.

Each armed with 24 Trident Missiles.  Each missile capable of delivering eight, 100 kiloton, W76 thermonuclear warheads.  Never mind waiting for a B2 stealth bomber to fly half way around the world.  We have nukes on demand and can have them detonated on target before Supreme Leader Shit-for-Brains can get his ballistic missiles pointed skywards.

And that ladies and gentlemen is the entire point of the Navy.  For when we need to fuck up another country and not have to wait to do it.  We can put the Navy where we want it, where we think it needs to be, to hang it over the heads of anybody who forgets that the United States is the biggest bad ass on the block.  It is the very tip of the spear.  It is the big stick.  I intent to poke those who mean us harm with it to remind them of their place in the world, and if they act up, I will speak softly, and beat them to fucking death with it.”

Sheriff Gualtieri apparently threw enough of a hissy fit that somebody dug the original transcript (or at least we hope they are being honest about that) and published them

“It’s a question of whether, at 3 o’clock in the morning at the 7-11 store, when there’s a silent hold-up alarm and the deputy pulls into the parking lot, and the citizen is walking out of the store with a .45 stuck in their holster, let’s say, and a cup of coffee in their hand — it’s not going to be a good situation for that citizen,” Gualtieri said. “At a minimum, they’re going to be thrown down on the ground with a gun pointed at them — or worse.”

Source: Group pushes back against criticism of Pinellas Sheriff Bob Gualtieri in gun debate – Tampa Bay Business Journal

Nope, no improvement as far as I can see. I really do not know the type of cool criminal that hangs around Pinellas county, but I doubt that they stroll out of the store they just robbed at gun point with a holstered weapon and sipping on a cup of java. But you know who fits the profile of somebody just coolly coming out of a store with a cup of coffee at 3 am?? Cops in plainclothes on duty.

Congratulations Sheriff, your men just “threw down or worse” a fellow Law Enforcement Officer.

Law Enforcement officer are supposed to asses any situation they encounter and yes, sometimes they may have only a couple of seconds to do a life or death decision, but I don’t think the scenario pictured by the Sheriff demands that his deputies clear leather and start capping rounds no matter how bad the 7-11 coffee might be.

“Picture this. … You take as an example a 60-year-old man who is unassuming, not a threat to anybody, just your average citizen who has a concealed-carry permit and carries that gun absolutely everywhere he goes,” Gualtieri said. “And he walks into his local bank today to make a deposit, and he walks into the middle of an armed robbery. And when he walks in — unassuming, non-threatening — and he’s got his gun and it’s concealed, when he walks into that bank, there’s a good chance that that bank robber is not going to be threatened by him and is not going to shoot him because he happened to walk into the middle of a bank robbery. And you take that same 60-year-old guy, and he walks in there, and he’s got a big old .45 on his hip when he walks through that door, and that bank robber’s in the middle of robbing that bank and he sees that gun, he’s going to take one in the chest … because he’s a threat, he’s a visible threat.

OK, the sheriff manages to come up with a perfect storm scenario that makes one suspect he watched Point Break in some rerun late at night. Most bank robberies are now of the pass-a-note-to-the-teller-grab-and-go. But even if it happened,  it is not his business or gets a say-so.  Anybody who Open Carries will bear the responsibilities and the risks associated with it and it is not up to the Pinellas County Sheriff Office to butt in. They get to enforce the law, not to dictate it.

So, Sheriff Gualtieri, chill out. So far the only announced risk that Open Carry may bring is your attitude, not Law Abiding citizens.