When you thought that the guy who shot up Parkland had no friends
If you haven’t been following the case of Erica Thomas in Georgia, it’s not a terribly difficult one to understand.
Thomas is a Georgia state rep, she is black, nine month’s pregnant, and a far Left Democrat.
She went through the “10 Items or Less” lane with more than 10 items. Some guy – another Trump-hating Democrat, who is Cuban but looks white – picked a fight with her for being one of those people who abuses the express lane in the grocery store.
Thomas went to social media with a sob story about how his white man said “go back where you came from” because she is black and Trump is bringing the racists out of the woodwork, etc.
Turns out it was just two Lefty assholes having an asshole pissing match in a Publix, but Thomas being a state rep, tried to make victim credit hay out of it.
That should be where this story ends, but it doesn’t,
See, once you try to launch yourself onto the national stage with something like this, people will dig through your history to try and prove or disprove your victim status.
Something interesting was dredged up.
https://twitter.com/rpetty/status/1153644845497507840
Holy shit, that’s bad.
Even the blood dancing ghouls at Moms Demand Action didn’t try to generate sympathy for Nikolas Cruz when trying to blame the NRA for the Parkland shooting.
Here is Thomas making Cruz a victim of the system.
I don’t know what is going to happen next, but it is going to be very hard for the usual people on her side to ignore this.
That said, if her chances in Georgia are done, she might be able to get a job on Scott Israel’s reelection campaign with that tone-deafness.
No-Shit Files: Democrats look to capitalize on turmoil inside NRA
Democrats and allies are looking to capitalize on turmoil at the National Rifle Association (NRA), the nation’s most powerful gun rights lobby, ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
The NRA, an important ally for pro-gun rights candidates, has been hit by a number of high-profile departures and a power struggle among its leaders, leading to questions about its role in the upcoming election.
“Their power is certainly diminished, and we see candidates reflecting that back,” Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, the grass-roots arm of Everytown for Gun Safety, told The Hill.
Democrats look to capitalize on turmoil inside NRA
And yes, Wayne is responsible. But also all the others who wanting to see him out, do not care if the NRA goes down the drain as long as they get their pound of payback flesh. I am including other Gun Rights organizations rubbing their hands because they think they will get the NRA’s income and the Parrots With Gun who are just repeating the mantra of “Fuck the NRA” because that is what the cool kids are saying.
The wish to obtain instant results has led to some stupid mistakes and grand fuck ups when it comes to media perception. It was played grandiose rather than smart and the wound to all of us has been equally grandiose. Am I wrong? Nope, Wayne is still firmly entrenched while his opposition was and is being removed. The fact that rather than go to each BOA member, present the case and try to implement a change, we saw it “taken” to the The Trace and the New York Times for maximum exposure just as we are accustomed to see a political hatchet job from the Left against Conservatives.
And make no mistake: there is a snitch or working enemy operative inside the NRA. There is no way that all the records would suddenly go from the NRA HQ in Virginia, somehow bypass the Washington Post which is basically next door, and land in the desk of Bloomberg’s The Trace/NYT. I am almost willing to bet that two decades from now, we will see in Bloomberg’s bio that he managed to buy/insert somebody inside the NRA and create its downfall from the inside and the same time to pay or convince other organizations to badmouth the NRA to create dissension within the ranks and proving that Fifth Column works every time. And yes, if Wayne had acted better, the Enemy would not had that chance to be successful, but also if we had not behaved like Justin Beiber Fans, the Man Who Wants To Be King Of The USA, His Majesty Michael The B. would have wasted his time and money.
If the NRA goes down and shit hits the fan, I cannot guarantee that some of the people that see themselves as staunch supporters of the Second Amendment will be looked as such by the rest of the Gun Owners.
Arsonists are never seen in under a kind light.
Clarification on the folding brace thing – UPDATE
I have this on very good authority:
The issue with the folding brace thing is this. Handguns, by ATF definition, are guns intended to be fired by one hand.
Rifles are guns intended to be fired from the shoulder.
A brace may help you fire it one-handed, which is why is not classified as a stock. However, a brace is NOT NECESSARY for one-handed firing.
Since the brace is not necessary, it cannot be included in the overall length measurement of the gun. So if it folds, it has to be measured in the folded length.
A vertical fore grip is for two-handed firing. Putting a vertical fore grip on a gun shorter than 26 inches turns a handgun from a one-handed gun into a two-handed gun which makes it into an AOW.
Longer than 26 inches but with a rifled barrel less than 16 inches and it is not a pistol, it is a firearm. There is no issue with shooting a firearm with two hands.
The problem is that people had made firearms (OAL > 26 inches, but barrel < 16 inches) with vertical grips.
Most people started with registered pistol receivers because you can turn a pistol into a firearm without paperwork. Putting a short barrel on a registered rifle receiver makes it an SBR, even if you don’t have a stock on it.
By “registered” I mean how the manufacturer serialized it with the ATF when it went on their bound book.
That is all perfectly legal.
But then these people decided to put a folding buffer tube on their pistol turned firearm with a vertical grip.
The ATF decision using the logic above meant that these pistols turned firearms now measured less than 26 inches overall with the buffer folded and with the vertical grip made them into AOWs.
People are making more of a deal out of this than they should be.
The ATF’s logic isn’t off the wall, just keep in mind that the definition of a handgun is a gun that is intended to be shot with one hand, even if it is not practical to do so.
Muzzle brakes that are not permanently attached have never been included in OAL because they are removable and OAL includes everything that is necessary for the function of the gun. If the muzzle brake or flash hider can come off, it’s not necessary for function.
The upside of this is in OAL for collapsible stocks is the stock fully extended because that is necessary for the proper shouldering of a long gun.
In the end, just keep in mind this simple rule of thumb: If you built it out of a pistol receiver and you are not absolutely sure what you are doing, don’t put a vertical fore grip on it.
UPDATE:
I want to clarify something about “necessary to function.”
Yes, an AR-pattern firearm needs the buffer tube to cycle. But function and cycle are different things for the ATF.
Function means “can it fire one round.”
That’s it.
You can cut the locking lugs off the bolt head and it is still a functioning firearm. It will only fire once and be dangerous to the user, but the ATF doesn’t care about that.
An AR pistol, loaded with one round in the chamber and the buffer tube folded will discharge a round. It won’t cycle, and it will suck for the shooter, but that is a functioning gun.
You may not agree with this. You make not like it. You may think it is a stupid rule. But it’s the rule.
I’m just trying to explain to you the ATF reasoning.
Baltimore may have a violent crime issue.
I know that appearances should not be a factor on quantifying a person, but the dude looks like the dumb grandson of Deputy Bernie Fife. And since crime appears to be alive and well, I might not be off the mark altogether,
