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More Gun Control Halloween tales.

This time courtesy of the Violence Policy Center who brings you the “Teddy Bears are more regulated than guns” zombie.
VPC Teddy Bears

This is so brutally stupid, it gives me a headache. Imagine if teddy Bear manufacturing and sales were treated the same way guns are treated, you would not be able to sell one. Just having to put a serial number in each teddy bear, keep such strict bookkeeping that missing a box of those suckers would end up with a raid in your factory. Imagine toy stores having to keep equally tight bookkeeping on their stock of teddy bears and having to perform a background check on any adult that wants to buy one. Hell, imagine how pissed grandma would be if she is told she needs to fill a federal form in order to buy the stuffed ursus and go through the background check..and that conviction for pot possession back in the 60s comes back to bite her in the granny pants and she gets denied plus she just committed a felony: Prohibited Person attempting to buy a Teddy Bear as per US Code 18.

Is their cupboard so bare they are recycling crap that did not work before but they are willing to give it a try?

I can almost hear Josh Sugarmann saying “throw that teddy bear crap against the wall again. Let’s see if it sticks this time.”

We must be close to Halloween: Moms Demand bring back the Kellermann Zombie.

Moms Demand CDC Study 1993

Yes indeed! The Kellermann 1993 study has been dug out once again, dusted and set out to amble into the interwebs to scare folks. If you ever heard the slogan “A gun in the house is 43/24/19/etc times more likely to kill the owner than a criminal” you are in the presence of the Kellerman Study. By their own admission, they studied three of the worst counties for crime in the US for a period of six months to a year and with lousy statistical analysis. If you feel like reading, you can dig in Serious Flaws in Kellerman, et al (1993) NEJM and Statiscal Misgivings and Lies  or you can google it and find more.

The same people who praised Kellermans short time and shortsighted study, raised holy hell when John Lott’s More Guns, Less Crime came out. Lott’s work examined 10 years (and he has been updating constantly) but across several counties in several states and not cherry-picked because they would give him a certain favorable data.

Moms objective is clear and it is the same old crap since congress put a stop to the use of the CDC for political crap related to guns: To present the “reasonable” idea that “gun violence is an epidemic and needs to be medically treated urgently. It does not matter that there were other CDC studies done (Including one paid by the administration and published in 2013) after Kellerman’s that signed off with the same sentence:

In summary, the Task Force found insufficient evidence to determine the effectiveness of any of the firearms laws reviewed for preventing violence.

So, if study after study, including the one paid by the White House come back and say the same thing, why do they beat on this old horse? Two answers: To create the idea that we are hiding something (conspiracy theories require no thought process) and your basic tantrum demanding a recount as in “we want another and another and another until the numbers are in our favor and then the science is settled.”

If you want to read a study, go check the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics’ Firearm Violence, 1993-2011.

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199310073291506#t=article

Bureau of Justice Statistics Firearm Violence 1993-2011

 

The Abode of McThag: Twas A Good Fight

The FSA opposes any loosening of gun laws, no matter what it is.  Normally on the grounds that it will cause them to actually work for a fucking living.

Source: The Abode of McThag: Twas A Good Fight

The Florida’s Sheriffs Association alleged support for the Second Amendment lasted as long as Lot’s wife after the first rains graced what was once Sodom.

Because they are experts on guns. Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings back in January, 2013. He does not like you having guns. 
Well, that is your problem right there. The cable is in the way of the AK magazine. It won’t let it go inside the AR 15.

Days of our Trailers: Following That Joyce Gun Control Money

Overall nearly $5.5 million dollars being dumped into gun control efforts every year just by the Joyce Foundation alone. So while the accusations that the NRA are just ‘gun lobby’ whores abound, the fact remains that anti-gun activism is paid for almost exclusively by a few rich philanthropists w/ their own private armed security.

Source: Days of our Trailers: Following That Joyce Gun Control Money

But their money is blessed because it is for a “good cause.”

 

Venezuela: How’s that Gun Control working out for you?  (LEO Edition)

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Caracas .- With the murder of José Ramón Vegas (37) Detective of the Investigation , Scientific, Penal and Criminal Corps, it rises to 112 the number of police and military officers who have died in violent incidents in the Greater Caracas in course of 2015.

(note: the military mentioned in the article refers to the National Guard which in Venezuela is used as nation-wide police force . The equivalent of ICE in the USA.)

Source: The number of policemen killed so far this year stands at 112 – Events

Greater Caracas is the city itself and its immediate towns and suburban areas. The population is estimated to be around 5.3 million and since there is no direct US equivalent, we will use New York City’s Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens since the population in those three borough add up about the same as Greater Caracas.

Now imagine that from January 1st till October 21st, a total of 112 NYPD were murdered in the line of duty, most of them purposely targeted. Mayor De Blasio and Governor Cuomo would have invoked Martial Law, sent the National Guard and probably raze half the city searching for the killers.

Almost three years after the imposition of the most complete and draconian Gun Control laws on this side of the Atlantic (including no sales of new guns to the civilian population), Venezuela now is the second country in the world in murders, with a rate of 82 per 100,000 people or 24,980 murders (Venezuela’s population is 33.2 million, 10% of the US.)

But we are supposed to accept the Gun Control Experiment, failed everywhere else, because the Shannons and Bloombergs and Everitts swear on a stack of corpses that it will work here…because magic.

Somehow I don’t feel comfortable with that lot issuing checks with their mouths that we will end up cashing with our lives.

 

Brady wants to go back to the future and repeat the fails.

Brady Back To The Future cut in half

Dear God. We are frigging doomed. Remember one of the basic principles of Gun Control: Their predictions always are wrong. (Wild West, blood on the streets, etc.) If we let the do their thing, murders will double in that amount of time instead of being at the lowest rate since 1957 and cut by half since 1974, the year the Handgun Control Inc (as the Brady Campaign was known back then) was founded.

Dear Dan Gross: Just go do some fundraising by selling your members email addresses or something. Don’t mess with success.