A woman shouldn’t use an AR-15, because “A rifle is more accurate.” This woman has no business pontificating on guns, let alone legislating on them.
Category: Anti-Gun Folks
The Goal Is Not Disarmament?
Tell that to the San Diego Police Chief. The anti-gunners keep telling us that’s not the goal, and we’re crazy, paranoid rednecks for thinking so. But then people keep coming out of the woodwork saying that is the goal any time they start to feel the slightest wind at their back. But we know the end game.
Like a Broken Record
I’m pretty tired of hearing Piers Morgan ask people why anyone needs an AR-15. Someone ought to take a copy of the Bill of Rights and make him eat it, at this point. I’m also inclined to agree with SayUncle that he’s going to run out of people to kick his ass in a debate:
Newt Gingrich isn’t someone I’d voluntarily debate, and glad to see Professor Newt is back. I’ve always liked Professor Newt. Politician Newt is another story.
Gun Control March
I have been looking for true crowd shots to verify the media claims that thousands packed DC to call for more gun control. The closest I can find is one from NBC that shows a few hundred at most.
Interestingly, the organizers are trying to say that it was a completely grassroots event, yet it had the backing of the Obama Administration with the presence of a Cabinet member who spoke.
I also find it notable that for political purposes, it seems rather silly to have hosted their march the day after the March for Life which really does draw thousands to march on DC. Of course, I won’t interrupt the anti-gunners in their attempts to make their own numbers look even smaller than they really are.
The Evolving Definition of “Assault Weapon”
Reason posted a video highlighting the stupidity of Congressional hearings that try to squash pop culture via things like rock music and video games that will harm our kids – like the 1992 version of Mortal Kombat.
I watched it with a laugh, but then I caught a key moment from a 1993 hearing where former Sen. Joe Lieberman defined assault weapon. When shown a Nintendo Super Scope, Sen. Lieberman said, “To me, that looks like a, it looks like an assault weapon of some kind.”
That is what Sen. Lieberman believes a so-called assault weapon looks like. A giant tube of plastic that has no real shape was lumped in as an “assault weapon” in 1993. And don’t think that it was just commentary of an old out-of-touch man rambling to no one. This was a lawmaker looking to ban the giant tube of plastic and the games it was used with at the time.
Taking Away the Supply of Guns
Several top anti-gun leaders have seemingly conceded that they cannot get away with pushing bills to go door-to-door to round up all the guns. It doesn’t mean they don’t want to, it just means that they acknowledge there’s too much public acceptance of allowing people to own the firearms they legally purchased. So, their next goal is to end our ability to purchase the guns in the first place. Sen. Dianne Feinstein said, “The purpose [of her bill] is to dry up the supply of these weapons over time.”
We already know that Cerberus has essentially been forced to put Freedom Group up for sale due to threats from those in charge of investing California’s pension funds. Philadelphia is pulling its investments out of gun companies and investment funds that invest in gun companies unless they meet key conditions. What kinds of conditions? Gun companies must:
- Promote gun control, including new hurdles for lawful gun and ammunition purchasers;
- Give support (assuming financial since there’s no other that would make sense here) to cities to fund new record keeping options that would supposedly be used to share criminal records with NICS;
- Conduct a background check on every single firearm and ammunition transfer – all the way down the line;
- Stop producing their most popular products;
- Dedicate any research budget for new product development to so-called “smart” guns;
- Use any remaining product development budget to create an ammunition registry;
- Harass every customer at every sale about the history of firearms training;
- Redesign all existing products to include, at minimum, 4 serial numbers;
- Fund gun buyback programs; and
- Stop support of gun shows.
That’s just the highlights. Essentially, the demand from Philadelphia’s pension board is that gun companies should just shut themselves down before they can qualify for investments. Some of this stuff isn’t even possible given the distribution methods of the industry, but that isn’t stopping the big cities from making these demands.
Today’s headline is that Rahm Emmanuel is going after banks that allow gun manufacturers to do business with them, this is in addition to getting the city of Chicago to pull money out of gun companies and related funds.
They don’t just want a little gun control. They want to destroy the entire gun culture by making it so that even the law-abiding cannot easily find or buy firearms, and even if we pass them down, our children or grandchildren won’t have anywhere to turn to get them fixed or be able to buy new versions. Feinstein’s plan isn’t about drying up the supply of firearms. It’s about drying up the entire gun culture.
The Rules
Quote of the Day
From Glenn Reynolds, “The Gun Control Movement is a Movement of Old White People”
I read that while I’m watching on C-SPAN as two old white women prattle on about banning my guns. McCarthy and Feinstein press conference going on now.
CSGV Amateur Hour
One of my new years resolutions is to pay less attention to the thoroughly irrelevant people at CSGV. Even now, it’s apparent Bloomberg and the White House are the ones calling the shots on gun control. But I will still cover the Washington Post tearing into their horrendous hatchet job on John Barrow (D-GA).