We have, in our storied history, elected Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives and moderates. We have fought, and will continue to fight, pitched battles about how best to govern this nation. But we have never, ever in our 232 year history, elected a President who so completely and openly opposed the idea of limited government, the absolute cornerstone of makes the United States of America unique and exceptional.
Read the whole thing. Then contact your local GOP to help stop this terrible thing.
He went to the Obama campaign Web site and made a donation under the name “John Galt” (the hero of Ayn Rand’s novel “Atlas Shrugged”). He provided the equally fictitious address “1957 Ayn Rand Lane, Galts Gulch, CO 99999.”
He checked the box next to $15 and entered his actual credit-card number and expiration date. He was then taken to the next page and notified that his donation had been processed.
He then tried the same experiment on the McCain site, which rejected the transaction. He returned to the Obama site and made three more donations using the names Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and Bill Ayers, all with different addresses but the same credit card. The transactions all went through.
I’m told by people who understand e-commerce software that insecurity is not the default setting. In order to not match up names and addresses to credit cards, settings have to be manually disabled. The FEC needs to investigate this.
That’s right. Some gun owners they talked to who are aware enough about the situation to know that they need to stock up now before Obama could make it harder to buy guns, and they are voting for him anyway because they want to mooch off of someone else and not have to pay for their own healthcare.
It’s more common than you think. Bitter tells about what happened when a guy wearing an Obama button tried to buy a gun at a gun show we were working. We have no enemy that is greater than ourselves. That’s why NRA-PVF’s slogan is “Vote Freedom First.”  Many gun owners don’t, and that’s why we continually vacillate between gain and loss.
You can see in the comments for all these articles on the Westfield gun accident, that people are in hysterics over the incident. Before people get out the torches and pitchforks, in an attempt to tar and feather anyone involved with this machine gun shoot, let’s just look at some comparable facts:
Falls are the leading cause of unintentional injury for children. Children ages 14 and under account for one-third of all fall-related visits to hospital emergency rooms.
In 2003, nearly 285,600 children ages 14 and under were treated in the US for bicycle-related injuries. Nearly half (47 percent) of children ages 14 and under hospitalized for bicycle-related injuries are diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury.
Drowning is the second leading cause of unintentional injury-related death among children ages one to 14. The majority of drownings and near-drownings occur in residential swimming pools and in open water sites. However, children can drown in as little as one inch of water.
So before jumping to the conclusion that the father and organizers here was insane, or deserves to be in jail, people should be asking themselves whether they let their eight year old kids swim in pools, whether they have stairs in the house, and whether their kids are allowed to ride a bicycle. Statistically, these are all much more dangerous activities than shooting.
I do think there were lapses of judgement here, but not one that amounts to ruining anyone’s life over. A child is dead, and that’s tragic, but the fact is that bicycles and pools kill many more times the number of children each year. When a parent loses a kid to a bicycle accident or a drowning, they get sympathy, because people recognize it for what it is: an accident. This was also an accident. In the coming days, the focus should be on improving safety protocols for shooting events so that things like this do not happen again. The focus should not be on ruining people’s lives who are already having to deal with sad consequences of this accident.
I can’t imagine giving an interview to the press if my son had just been killed in an accident. You can kind of tell the father is still in shock. Apparenty it was the first time his kid had ever shot an automatic:
Christopher was accompanied by a trained professional as he held the 9-mm Micro Uzi machine gun at the Westfield Sportsman’s Club Sunday afternoon, but Bizilj said he doesn’t think the shooting guide was holding the weapon as his son pressed the trigger.
A micro-Uzi?  Are you kidding me? No way in hell would I ever let an eight year old fire a micro-Uzi. Even an adult first time machine pistol shooter would need a good bit of instruction before handing them a full magazine to dump. Dad may not have been familiar with machine pistols, but the “trained professional” sure-as-shit should have known better.
The annual machine gun show is advertised as a free-for-all for gun enthusiasts, and has created discord among some club members, said longtime club member Bob Greenleaf.
“To let an 8-year-old boy fire an Uzi is the height of stupidity,†said Greenleaf.
Greenleaf, a member of the club for 44 years, was so opposed to the annual machine gun shoot that he resigned from the club’s board of directors four years ago.
What really tweaks me about this asshole is, you know he called the media. They didn’t dig him up. He called the media to announce to the world that “I was right! It’s dangerous!” Club politics are not something that need to be acted out in the newspapers, especially in response to an tragic accident that could very well endanger the club itself, and by association, the entire shooting culture in Western Massachusetts.
Machine gun shoots are not inherently dangerous, and this event has happened several times a year for years with no problems, as do hundreds of events around the country. This absolutely should prompt clubs that host machine gun shoots to review their safety procedures. Once the investigation is complete, and we know more about how this incident happened, we’ll be able to determined what needs to be changed. I support parents being free to make decisions about teaching their children to shoot, but if this really was an Uzi, that’s not an appropriate firearm for an eight year old.
When I was taught how to fire a machine pistol, I started out with firing in semi-auto mode, to get used to the recoil. Then fill the magazine with two rounds, then three, then start out learning how to burst the trigger. It’s not until you get used to it that you should try to dump a full magazine. I’m not against kids shooting guns, not even against them shooting machine guns provided they are given appropriate instruction and appropriately controllable firearms. Machine pistols are difficult to control, even for an adults. Someone had a tragic lapse in judgment.
UPDATE: More eating our own. I have an idea. Let’s wait for the police and ATF to investigate this, so we understand exactly what happened first. Then we can come up with productive solutions for ensuring this never happens again. Closing down the club is not in the space of “productive solutions.”
Obama’s election will be a game changer. We’re a week from the election. Please, get involved. If we don’t stop this terrible thing here, there will be no stopping it. The McCain and various other pro-gun campaigns will be looking for people for their 72 hour efforts in order to get the vote out. That’s going to be critical for us. Please give them a call. If you have a hard time getting in contact with someone, let me know. I can point you in the right direction.
A few weeks ago there was a mishap with a stunt demonstration involving explosives at Knob Creek. Now an eight year old kid accidently shot himself with a submachine gun at a machine gun shoot in Westfield, Massachusetts. I’m sorry to say, but this will probably be the end of machine gun shooting in Massachusetts. This is the first accident I can honestly think of involving a Title II firearm, and there are hundreds of shoots like this all over the country year round, but none of that will matter to the hysterics that are going to follow in the Bay State.
I’d like to review my Kel-Tec P-3AT, but it arrived out of the case with a defective barrel. Wasn’t something I noticed under cursory inspection when I looked at it pre-purchase, because it was subtle, and lets face it, you don’t expect something like that to make it past quality control these days. It probably wasn’t bad enough to prevent the gun from test firing. It looked like something had impacted the barrel on the outside, because there was a visible tool mark, and if you looked at the inside of the barrel under a bore light, you could see that it dimpled through.
Now Kel-Tec is saying that it’ll take four to five weeks to turn around that part and get me a new barrel. That’s an awful long time to wait for a part for a gun that never should have left the factory in the condition it was in. I had been wanting a Ruger LCP, now I’m disappointed I didn’t hold out for one. I can understand that sometimes a bad gun leaves the factory. It happens to every manufacturer. But a quick turnaround time on the part of Kel-Tec would have made it all better. Four to five weeks is not an acceptable time period for fixing a gun that was defective out of the factory.
