Gun Control

I feel the need to comment on this topic. Partly because guns are something I like talking about anyway and partly because this is a topic where so many fail to understand simple reason. Let's start with this article by Ron Paul.

Tragically, over the Thanksgiving holiday, the world was reminded how evil and cruel people can be. According to emerging accounts of the events in India, about a dozen well-armed and devastatingly well-trained terrorists laid siege on the city of Mumbai, killing almost two hundred people, and terrorizing thousands.

Right, now let's take a look at the key here. A dozen terrorists in a gun free zone. India is, after all, a gun free zone. Now, this is, in and of itself, India's choice as a nation. The Brits disarmed them to keep them from rising up and overthrowing British rule. They never changed the law after they became independent.

Gun control advocates tell us that removing guns from society makes us safer. If that were the case why do the worst shootings happen in gun free zones, like schools? And while accidents do happen, aggressive, terroristic shootings like this are unheard of at gun and knife shows, or military bases. It bears repeating that an armed society truly is a polite society.

That, right there, is exactly the little bit of common sense that the gun banners are missing. I don't know why either. It's so painfully obvious that it makes one want to cry. This is how obvious it is:

Everyone knows that schools and universities are gun free zones. It's illegal to have a gun there. Now, some idiot walks in with a gun and shoots a bunch of people. What is the first thing that happens? Some moron starts calling for new gun laws. There's already a law dumbass, this guy didn't care enough to follow it. What fuckin good are more laws going to do when the original one was ignored?

Now hold on a second there Mr or Ms. Bradyite. Don't let the vein in your forehead pop just yet.
Let's take a look at the history of things prohibited. Wanna start with the prohibition of the 1920's? I have a better idea...let's look at the prohibition or alcohol in the 20th century worldwide, I can do this thanks to Wikipedia.

The first half of the 20th century saw periods of prohibition of alcoholic beverages in several countries:

• 1900 to 1948 in Prince Edward Island, and for shorter periods in other locations in Canada
• 1914 to 1925 in Russia and the Soviet Union
• 1915 to 1922 in Iceland (though beer was still prohibited until 1989)
• 1916 to 1927 in Norway (fortified wine and beer also prohibited from 1917 to 1923)
• 1919 in Hungary (in the Hungarian Soviet Republic, March 21 to August 1; called szesztilalom)
• 1919 to 1932 in Finland (called kieltolaki)
• 1920 to 1933 in the United States

Gee, none of those countries still ban alcohol do they? I wonder why? Well, in the United States it was because prohibition created an enormous black market. What do you think would happen with guns? Same thing, the biggest difference is that now, a known criminal has to go through a bit of trouble to get a gun, with a huge black market, they'd actually be easier to get and no pesky ID checks.

Now take a look at Chicago. This is one of your "gun free utopias" More citizens killed by guns over the summer than troops killed in Iraq. Washington DC, murder capital of the world for cities of it's size. The similarities between the cities? Unarmed citizens...or should I say, subjects. You can't ban your way to safety. The criminals don't care about the law. The only people you hurt are unarmed, defenseless (thanks to you) citizens who do obey laws. You use emotion to hide the fact that you have no facts. You play on the fears of parents about the huge threat of gun violence and how guns could kill their kids when in reality, swimming pools and cars kill more kids each year than guns do. How about some common sense swimming pool control? How about a car free school zone? You want to sue a gun maker because someone uses that gun in a manner not intended by the maker, but I don't see you suing the car companies for every drunk driving death. The car company never intended to have their product used that way. What swimming pool company builds a pool to drown kids? None of course, but it happens with far more regularity than a child death caused by guns. You don't sue the swimming pool company.

The right to feel safe is not included in the constitution. You don't feel safe, you make yourself safe. You take precautions. You plan your route. You carry a gun for the same reason you carry insurance. God forbid you ever need it, but you'll be damn happy to have it if you ever do.

Stop trying to ban guns. No one is asking you to carry one, you can hide behind those who do. Stop pretending that the police are infallible. Do I have to remind you about the YouTube video of the DEA guy?



Or how about this fine lady officer?




Stop pretending that only the military and police should have guns. Most importantly, learn to read and read well. Read your history. If you took the time to do that, there would no longer be any question about the intent of the founding fathers. They documented their thoughts very, very well.

Christmas Cards

I'm going to do something different this year and I hope that you'll join me in it. I'm going to send a bunch of Christmas Cards to random soldiers at Walter Reed Hospital. If anyone can get me an address, I would appreciate it.

Again

I'm still seeing lots of folks out there talking about how they intend to handle a possible national gun grab by the messiah. I have no argument with the sentiment behind this, My problem with it is each individual saying something along the lines of "my line in the dirt is here" and that's well and good. I believe that each of us needs to make that decision after careful consideration.

We're at least discussing the possibilities concerning what we might do should the ballot box and soap box fail. What would each of you do should the bullet box become necessary? For me, I pray it will not. I don't really want to start the fight, but I have no intention of walking away from it either. Like many of you, I took an oath to support and defend the Constitution against ALL enemies foreign and domestic. I'm gonna be honest, I'm not politically correct (spit, spit) I consider anyone I see wearing Arab style dress to be a potential enemy.

I said potential. I don't think we should kill every Arab on the planet. Just the ones that wanna yell allah ackbar before they blow up a busload of children. Do I think we should subject Arabic males to increased scrutiny? You're damn right I do. Is that "profiling"? Yes it is. Do I care? Not one damn bit. Here's the deal Johnny Jihadist, if I see you in my hometown and you're putting an object next to the road that could be an IED, guess what? I'm going to pull out my trusty 1911 and put a 230 grain JHP through your towel. If I happen to have my DPMS with me, you get a 5.56mm FMJ delivered the same way at 3100 FPS and you know what? I'm not gonna lose 1 second of sleep over it.

Aw shit, look at how far off topic I've wandered. Working all night is not conducive to clear and concise postings in the morning. Back on topic.

What to do if the Obamessiah decides to go after the guns.

One man, 2 men cannot stand. If we're going to have to employ the last ditch option of the bullet box, we need to do so as a group. We need to get ourselves gathered into one place with one goal and become once again, the citizen militia that our founding fathers envisioned defending the constitution. We need a national voice to say "we shall gather at this place and defend our constitution and way of life.

I personally would like to see the State of Texas secede from the union and become the Republic of Texas. Guess how fast my fat white ass would defect?

What I'm saying, in my really tired rambling way is this. If any of us are thinking of really fighting this with actual arms, then we must band together. We must present an overwhelming united front. Talk is good. The soapbox is still our best option right now. Should that fail, we need to unite in one physical place and stand our ground together or we shall surely hang seperately.

See? The words of the founding fathers are just as true right now as they were then. Let's make them proud.

Goodbye

Today is the day that most of us have been dreading. Kim du Toit is retiring from blogging today. His comments will be open until midnight then he's all done. You may want to go over and wish him well. The internet will shrink quite a bit at midnight.

I Am Jealous

I just finally got around to watching the video of the Gun Blogger's Weekend with Todd Jarrett. Man, am I ever jealous. That looked like so much fun. I would love to have the opportunity to do that some day. The video is here if you want to check it out for yourself.

I wish that kind of facility was more common. None of the ranges I shoot at will let you do "shoot on the move" type stuff and that's really the kind of thing you need to work on.

Junk Science and Guns

So I'm reading over at the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler and I run into this. It discusses the global cooling/warming hysteria started by the socialists then moves over to their welfare and gun confiscation agendas.

At the end of this, the author asks "how far are you willing to let them go?" which is a really great question and each needs to ask it of him/her self. Now I want to ask this question...If you've decided to draw your line in the sand at "X" point, then what happens when "X" point arrives?

See here's the thing that I see as the problem. We gun owning, constitution loving Patriots just aren't organized. We don't have a "central committee" if you will, that says "if "X" happens, a new civil war will begin (perhaps 2nd American Revolution is more appropriate) and we the people shall gather at this place". We don't have that and when just one or maybe 2 patriots stand up, they're going to be labeled as nut jobs by the press and written off. And probably carted off by the local morgue.

When do we organize? Where would we go? Has anyone thought of this? Even in the 1770's local militias were set up and organized, we aren't and if we were going to rise up against the tyranny that may yet be to come, we would have to be organized and ready because individuals would not prevail here, only an organized group.

So, pick your point at which you will no longer bend, but keep in mind that if we haven't organized yet, you may well be alone. I hope not, but, what would happen if the ball went up right now? We're all still in the pissing and moaning stage. We'd all be isolated and unable to support one another. Should we consider changing that? I don't know, wiser people than I will have to contemplate that.

OMFG

Any who read this blog know that I was in the Navy and that I am very proud of my service. Some may not realize how very proud I am of anyone who has / is serving now.

Among the absolute cream of the professional crop are these guys, who need damn little introduction. Just watch the video, wipe away the tears and just say DAMN.



H/T Blackfive

This is cool

I just spotted this over at Common Folk Using Common Sense and since I thought it was so appropriate, I decided that a bit of the old cut and paste was in order.

And So It Begins

Well, the Sheeple elected the Socialist. Sean Hannity is already calling it "Conservatisim in Exile" I say FUCK THAT. Let's be conservatism right in their faces. Let's not allow them to take a single step towards socalism without a fight. Why should we go into exile? Why should we just crawl off? Now is most definitly NOT the time to do that. Now more than ever, we need to be out on the front lines and writing letters (make them polite) and demanding that these people listen.

Sure, the Obamessiah won, but take a look at the popular vote. It was close. It was not an overwhelming majority. I also think that many who voted for the socialist were not voting for him as much as they were voting against Bush. I also truly believe that many of them voted based soley on race and have no clue as to the issues at stake. 44% of America knew the issues.

So, there's no reason for conservatives to hide under a rock. We need to make our voices heard loudly and clearly. Remember, there are 3 boxes in the political process, the soapbox, the ballot box and the bullet box. We fucked up the ballot box option. The soapbox is still a very valid option at this time. While I did buy a new DPMS M-4 variant yesterday and getting more toys every week, I would like to avoid the bullet box option.




Now more than ever, it is time to remember that this is a representative republic and we need to make those elected weasles answer to We the People.

Taxes

This is kind of cool, the lid popped off of the jar that has been holding back my rants.

I want to bitch about taxes too. I'll lay out the reason for this.

I just had the pay period from hell. This eclipsed the previous pay period from hell by 20 hours. Anyone want to explain to me why I brought home the same amount of money? WTF is this? One works overtime for 2 reasons. 1. to make MORE money 2. He/She has no choice because their employer says so. One should be rewarded with a bigger paycheck after putting in a bunch of extra time tied to the grindstone.

I lost 700 dollars to taxes! WTF? That's a whole goddamn paycheck to some folks and I lost it to fucking taxes. That's bad enough, but the nature of one of these taxes really pisses me off. City income tax.

I understand that some cities have an income tax. My issue with the thing is that I am not a resident of this particular city. I just work there. So what you're telling me is that I have to pay "tribute" to you for the pleasure of working in your city? Whatever happened to taxation WITH representation? As someone who is NOT a resident of your city, where's my representative? Isn't this the kind of shit that started the American Revolution?

I think I'm going to write my Congresscritter and suggest a couple changes to the tax code that will really help the American worker and maybe, if anyone actually reads this, we could get a national movement going here.

1. Abolish income taxes on any hours worked over 40 in a week. That way, the overtime earned actually goes to the tax payer giving him or her more money to spend thereby relieving many of the economic issues which face this country. Simple...you can only tax my first 40 hours, so if I work say 60...you can't tax the 20 hours of overtime. That money goes to me and trust me, I'll spend it somewhere.

2. Abolish the ability of a city government to withold an income tax on a worker that is not a resident of that city. I shouldn't have to pay "tribute" to you in order to work there. I'm only there 8 hours a day, why should you be able to tax me? It's not like you plow the damn roads in the winter anyway, bastards.

Lower taxes means more money to the people who will spend it and more spending means better economic times for everyone. Listen close left wing fucktards, if you raise taxes on businesses, the businesses will up their prices accordingly to make up for revenue lost to said taxes. In short, if you raise taxes on businesses (like oil companies) they're going to raise prices and fuck all of us. Morons.

Shooting

I very rarely ask for any advice here, mostly because I doubt anyone actually reads this, but I need to make an exception.

I think by now, anyone who does read this knows that my primary carry gun is a Springfield Armory M1911-A1 Mil-Spec. I shoot as often as my budget allows and I have a few thousand rounds through the gun.

My problem goes like this. A guy at work is putting on a charity PPC shoot to benefit a Police Dog who has been retired due to doggie cancer. The proceeds from the shoot will assist in the vet bills for treatment. A most worthy cause, IMHO. I have done the Google thing and looked up the course of fire for a PPC shoot (which I shall rant about seperately) and the question becomes this.

I train for a real world hostile encounter. This means that my maximum shooting distance is 15 feet. How in the hell am I supposed to hit a target at 50 yards with a 1911? A standard B27? Can I even see that at 50 yards? Center of mass? You must be joking.

Any tips or advice would be appreciated. I'll be shooting MagTech 230FMJ's if you care.

Oh yeah, if you're in Michigan and you want info for the shoot, let me know and I'll forward it to you.

Polls

Tell me why the Lame Stream Media puts so much stock in polls? I don't get it. They ask 500 people for an opinion and then consider that gospel. What it really is, is crap.

Let's take a peek at this, shall we?

500 people are asked who should be the next president of the United States. 46% say BHO and 43% say McCain with 13% undecided. Suddenly the LSM (Lame Stream Media) go all out to say how BHO is winning and will be the next Prez. Now hold on a second here bunky.

Just for the sake of comparison, let's say there are 200,000,000 voters in the USA. I'll yank some numbers out of my ass to make it comparable to an actual LSM poll.

Now, according to my calculator, which may be wrong because I'm so busy being bitter and clinging to my guns and religion, this is roughly equal to 0.0000025% of the population. Now, would someone please explain to me how this really tiny percentage indicates a meaningful sample of American opinion?

How the hell can you take a percentage that is so small as to be ridiculous and pretend that it means anything?

Look boys, a quick lesson here. The ONLY poll that matters for shit is the one that happens in November. Untill that one is in, do us a favor and just admit that everything you say is either wishful thinking or a wild assed guess.

Oh yeah, and stop pretending that it means something.