Oh, and Happy Valentines day to.
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Why are Gun Control Laws Ineffective?
Because the laws that get get pushed have no bearing on the actions they are allegedly in response to.
On Feb 14th,2008, a former student went into a hall at N. Ill Univ and started shooting. He had a shotgun and several handguns on him that he purchased through FFL dealers. FOID card, background checks, etc.
In response, the Illinois Council on Handgun Violence (ICHV) a Joyce foundation puppet group and their own puppet the ICPGV (also Joyce funded) , a pushing to end the 'Private Sale Loophole', make FFL dealers acquire another license to sell handguns, and stop Concealed Carry.
As 45Superman put it:
This is the same kind of thing that was promoted after the VT shooting. A bunch of laws/restrictions that had no relation to how the shooter got his guns or how the institution responded.
Not only that, but they continue to deliberately lie to their members and the public in order to get these laws passed.
As shown in the links, we've covered this fabrication several times yet they continue to push it.
So since none of these laws would have done ANYTHING to stop the NIU shooter, why are they associating them? Ah, right. They're following the advice of WH COS and fellow gun grabber, Rahm Emanual "Never let a serious crisis go to waste."
On Feb 14th,2008, a former student went into a hall at N. Ill Univ and started shooting. He had a shotgun and several handguns on him that he purchased through FFL dealers. FOID card, background checks, etc.
In response, the Illinois Council on Handgun Violence (ICHV) a Joyce foundation puppet group and their own puppet the ICPGV (also Joyce funded) , a pushing to end the 'Private Sale Loophole', make FFL dealers acquire another license to sell handguns, and stop Concealed Carry.
As 45Superman put it:
I note that Thom didn't try to explain how any of those laws would have hindered, much less prevented, the NIU rampage. A rare bit of good sense on his part, since there is no way he could have pulled it off.
This is the same kind of thing that was promoted after the VT shooting. A bunch of laws/restrictions that had no relation to how the shooter got his guns or how the institution responded.
Not only that, but they continue to deliberately lie to their members and the public in order to get these laws passed.
Right now in Illinois, anyone - including gang members, people with severe mental illness, and domestic violence offenders - can buy a gun from a private seller with no questions asked.
As shown in the links, we've covered this fabrication several times yet they continue to push it.
So since none of these laws would have done ANYTHING to stop the NIU shooter, why are they associating them? Ah, right. They're following the advice of WH COS and fellow gun grabber, Rahm Emanual "Never let a serious crisis go to waste."
Friday, February 12, 2010
New School Shooting Trend?
A few days ago a teacher walked into a TN school and attempted to murder the Principle and another administrator.
Today, a Professor walked into the biology Dept at the University of Alabama and started shooting faculty. She had been denied tenure.
Conjecture only, TN has a merit based pay/raise system for teachers. Connection?
Now to hear the continued calls about 'easy access to guns', 'must restrict guns' and 'keep guns (more) off campus)' from the PuSHer crowd no matter how relevant to the facts. Never let a good tragedy go to waste.
Today, a Professor walked into the biology Dept at the University of Alabama and started shooting faculty. She had been denied tenure.
Conjecture only, TN has a merit based pay/raise system for teachers. Connection?
Now to hear the continued calls about 'easy access to guns', 'must restrict guns' and 'keep guns (more) off campus)' from the PuSHer crowd no matter how relevant to the facts. Never let a good tragedy go to waste.
Quote of the Day: PSH/Stupid Edition
On the "Gun in Parks" law becoming effective:
And people like this vote.
Prohibiting guns was a sort of deterrent. Now there is none. Now, if a meth user of psycho starts shooting at you it will be all legal.
And people like this vote.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
I'm a Gun Owner But....
or " I think everyone else is as negligent as I am so....."
Guns shouldn't be allowed in 'places that serve alcohol'. That's according to former aide to gun grabber Jimme Cahtah, Sam Edwards.
Why does he think this? Because he got sh!t-faced drunk, loaded a handgun, and fired it in a negligent discharge.
At home.
Nevermind that his experience has nothing to do with carrying in public or in places that serve alcohol. Nor the ignored fact that drinking in said establishments while carrying is against the law.
He states he does not know " the arguments that were made to rationalize this idiocy", but "a moderately intelligent first grader can tell you why this is dumb..."
So, although he is (by his own admission) negligent with firearms and ignorant of the facts, we should consider his opinion relevant why?
No wonder Jimmy was a one termer.
Guns shouldn't be allowed in 'places that serve alcohol'. That's according to former aide to gun grabber Jimme Cahtah, Sam Edwards.
Why does he think this? Because he got sh!t-faced drunk, loaded a handgun, and fired it in a negligent discharge.
At home.
Nevermind that his experience has nothing to do with carrying in public or in places that serve alcohol. Nor the ignored fact that drinking in said establishments while carrying is against the law.
He states he does not know " the arguments that were made to rationalize this idiocy", but "a moderately intelligent first grader can tell you why this is dumb..."
So, although he is (by his own admission) negligent with firearms and ignorant of the facts, we should consider his opinion relevant why?
No wonder Jimmy was a one termer.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
WWII Veteran
A friend of ours has an annual Groundhog's Day get-together. While there, he showed me his father's service pistol from WWII.
It's in very good condition having spent most of the time in a box. Only a little rust on the ejection port and the usual scrapes and wear. As good as finding a piece of firearm history in this good condition is that there's also personal history that's been preserved with it including personal photos and newspaper clippings.
It's in very good condition having spent most of the time in a box. Only a little rust on the ejection port and the usual scrapes and wear. As good as finding a piece of firearm history in this good condition is that there's also personal history that's been preserved with it including personal photos and newspaper clippings.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Opinion Polls: Getting the Results you want..
In other words:
Any questions?
If you need to create the language to build support for legislation, we’ll find the right words. If you need to kill a bad bill, we’ll show you how. Either take control of the debate, or the debate will take control of you. It really is that simple.
-The Word Doctors, publishers of the MAIG "NRA Members Support Gun Control" Poll.
Any questions?
Saturday, February 6, 2010
The Mentality of Gun Control Legislators
Elizabeth Tisdahl, in her official position as Mayor of Evanston, IL, is a member of Bloomberg's Mayors Against Illegal Guns. This is an organization that is pushing gun control at a national level including bans of private sales, bans on semi-auto's, fishing expeditions for date, etc. Yet her city attorney claims:
And when Dennis "What People?" Henigan of the Brady Campaign, states:
But, remember, when the NRA and other pro-rights groups talk about gun control advocates wanting to ban and/or confiscate guns as their ultimate goal, it's just using 'fear' and 'paranoia'.
H/T to Illinois Carry
“Chicago ( add: whose Mayor is a founding member of MAIG) and Evanston as municipalities are opposed to national regulations,” he said.Seems the two positions are contradicting, doesn't it?
“They are for the right to locally regulate the possession of firearms and are not in favor of a national standard.
And when Dennis "What People?" Henigan of the Brady Campaign, states:
" The core of the gun lobby's strategy is to use fear tactics to keep gun owners in a constant state of agitation so that they can be activated to oppose even modest gun law reforms."He's not talking about statements like this, right?
"Despite Evanston’s repeal of the ban, Tisdahl supports keeping guns out of the hands of citizens.
“Evanston is very interested in limiting handguns and banning handguns,” she said.
...we need to get guns out of the hands of young people and all citizens.”
“The Heller decision was rather murky,” she said. “Hopefully there will be several avenues for gun control advocates to chip away at the decision and manage to regain some local control of weapons.”
But, remember, when the NRA and other pro-rights groups talk about gun control advocates wanting to ban and/or confiscate guns as their ultimate goal, it's just using 'fear' and 'paranoia'.
H/T to Illinois Carry
Brady Campaign PSH: Concealed Carry Holders will Shoot You
The Brady Campaign trots out the old meme that the police are the 'Only Ones' safe enough to carry firearms.
Friday, February 5, 2010
Dick Durbin "Nullify Voters' Decision"
Dick Durbin, D Senator from Illinois and US Rep Jan Schakowski (D-IL) have decided they know better what the voters want than the voters themselves. They stated that "people didn't really pay attention" and that the winner of the Dem. primary for Lt Governor, Cohen, should drop out even though he won by an even greater majority (30,000) than Quinn for governor.
Durbin issued the ominous statement "He's not going to be lieutenant governor". Is that because Durbin thinks there's more support for the Republican candidate Plummer or that the DNC is going to sabotage the campaign of a person who wasn't personally chosen to win the primary? From the way Durbin talks, it sounds like the latter to me.
(I pulled the video because it kept automatically playing. Still available here)
Isn't it comforting to know what our 'leaders' think of the common citizen?
Durbin issued the ominous statement "He's not going to be lieutenant governor". Is that because Durbin thinks there's more support for the Republican candidate Plummer or that the DNC is going to sabotage the campaign of a person who wasn't personally chosen to win the primary? From the way Durbin talks, it sounds like the latter to me.
(I pulled the video because it kept automatically playing. Still available here)
Isn't it comforting to know what our 'leaders' think of the common citizen?
Back From the Dead
In Illinois, anti's (many Brady Campaign endorsed) keep trying to pass a "Handgun Dealers Licensing Act" to make transactions even more onerous and expensive. It has failed each time.
This year they tried a new trick. They let it sit in committee for nearly a year and are now trying to slip it onto the floor for a vote.
This bill (HB0180)not only just generically states 'concealable firearms' (whatever that means), but also includes 'concealable firearm ammunition' and the ever present government database. It has 25 Co-Sponsors, all the usual suspects, which should tell you the mentality of gun control advocates and their supporting legislators.
But when Dennis "What People" Henigan, Brady Campaign lawyer states:
This year they tried a new trick. They let it sit in committee for nearly a year and are now trying to slip it onto the floor for a vote.
This bill (HB0180)not only just generically states 'concealable firearms' (whatever that means), but also includes 'concealable firearm ammunition' and the ever present government database. It has 25 Co-Sponsors, all the usual suspects, which should tell you the mentality of gun control advocates and their supporting legislators.
But when Dennis "What People" Henigan, Brady Campaign lawyer states:
" The core of the gun lobby's strategy is to use fear tactics to keep gun owners in a constant state of agitation so that they can be activated to oppose even modest gun law reforms."He's not talking about stunts like this, right?
Quote of the Day
Via Robb Allen on Sharp As A Marble:
...discomfort is not a valid reason to trample other people's rights.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Charges So Good they filed 'em Twice
Just in case of a ruling by SCOTUS on 'Honest Services' that could hinder it, the DOJ tweaked their case against Rod "The Hair" Blagojevich and re-indicted him on charges including racketeering, attempted extortion, bribery, conspiracy to commit bribery and conspiracy to commit extortion.
Tight Races in Illinois
The Illinois Primaries the other night were certainly interesting. From what I've read, there was about a 30% turnout.
Kirk, unfortunately, won the R Senate confirmation handily. He'll be going up agains D contender Giannoulis in the general.
The Gubernatorial race was tight for both parties. Quinn (D) and Hynes were only about a % apart the whole time. As of now, Quinn leads by about 8K votes and I'm guessing there won't be enough mail-in, etc. votes to change that.
McKenna and Ryan led handily on the R side at the beginning of the evening. As results started coming from South of I-80 though, Ryan dropped to 4th and McKenna's lead steadily eroded dropping him to 3rd. Dillard and Ryan ran in the lead neck and neck for most of the late evening. As it stands now,Ryan Brady leads w/ only 400 votes. That could potentially change w/ spot checks and other ballots being counted over the next few weeks.
Illinois doesn't have an auto recount system so it would need to be called for in court by one of the candidates.
More results here.
Update: Oops. Names fixed.
Kirk, unfortunately, won the R Senate confirmation handily. He'll be going up agains D contender Giannoulis in the general.
The Gubernatorial race was tight for both parties. Quinn (D) and Hynes were only about a % apart the whole time. As of now, Quinn leads by about 8K votes and I'm guessing there won't be enough mail-in, etc. votes to change that.
McKenna and Ryan led handily on the R side at the beginning of the evening. As results started coming from South of I-80 though, Ryan dropped to 4th and McKenna's lead steadily eroded dropping him to 3rd. Dillard and Ryan ran in the lead neck and neck for most of the late evening. As it stands now,
Illinois doesn't have an auto recount system so it would need to be called for in court by one of the candidates.
More results here.
Update: Oops. Names fixed.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
"Losing It" or Desperate Attempt at Relevancy?
Sebastian questions whether the Brady Bunch have fried the last of their few remaining brain cells as they attack musicians at the Grammy Awards, Basketball stars, and TV commercials for using gun references common in American vernacular .
I don't think so. I think this is a desperate attempt to regain the attention of an influential demographic that has, like most politicians and the public in general, stopped paying attention to them or sending them money.
Gone are the days when 'Stars Flocked to get on the NRA Blacklist'. Current mentions of it are met w/ amusement and/or scorn. Hollywood isn't lining up to make anti-gun movies nor are the actors who claim to support gun control doing much about it. Instead, their own spokespersons make movies w/ quotes such as:
John J. Rambo: You bringing any weapons?
Burnett: Of course not.
John J. Rambo: Then you ain't changin' nothin'.
The Brady Campaign has gone from a National organization to a barely functioning state level one where their endorsements aren't even given the time of day. I have no doubt their current attempt to shame these once supporters into again picking up the banner will have little to no effect at least as it pertains to the Brady Bunch.
I hereby nominate them for the Razzie Award for Worst Death Scene on the political stage.
I don't think so. I think this is a desperate attempt to regain the attention of an influential demographic that has, like most politicians and the public in general, stopped paying attention to them or sending them money.
Gone are the days when 'Stars Flocked to get on the NRA Blacklist'. Current mentions of it are met w/ amusement and/or scorn. Hollywood isn't lining up to make anti-gun movies nor are the actors who claim to support gun control doing much about it. Instead, their own spokespersons make movies w/ quotes such as:
John J. Rambo: You bringing any weapons?
Burnett: Of course not.
John J. Rambo: Then you ain't changin' nothin'.
The Brady Campaign has gone from a National organization to a barely functioning state level one where their endorsements aren't even given the time of day. I have no doubt their current attempt to shame these once supporters into again picking up the banner will have little to no effect at least as it pertains to the Brady Bunch.
I hereby nominate them for the Razzie Award for Worst Death Scene on the political stage.
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