No disrespect to the law enforcement officers chasing after terrorist Dzhokar Tsarnaev. They’re doing what cops gotta do. But let’s think about this. Nearly 10,000 heavily armed cops and soldiers chasing after one guy with a million-plus Bay Staters in lockdown. The bad guy’s image is all over the media. Mass transit? Shut down. Businesses? Closed. Colleges, schools? Empty. Street traffic? Non-existent. And yet Tsarnaev’s nowhere to be found. Now imagine a few thousand armed Americans resisting government tyranny. What are the odds that militarized police could hunt them down? Wolverines? Well exactly.
Careful there, the guv may get the idea that it would be better to loose the Marines onto Mytown USA next time.
Nice use of the word ‘loose’! So many internet people use that when they mean ‘lose’ that it’s usually just irritating to see.
The Marines would be more level headed and less trigger happy. They’d probably do a better job and alienate fewer citizens.
You the people:1, Obama:0. Barry stamps foot, takes football and goes home.
Ariana, the botox has gone to your head.
Has anyone noticed? Boston bombers, Lanza, Holmes…..all have something in common. None of them can afford a haircut, or own a hair brush. Here we go, PROFILING!!!
Our government should IMMEDIATELY restrict anyone with unruly hair from buying pressure cookers! IT’S FOR THE CHILDREN……….
Reminds me of what my father used to say back in the late 60s. “Get a haircut, you hippie!”
Yeah, while immigrant bombers and shootists rampage through our cities and suburbs, let’s disarm Americans so they can hide in their houses, behind closed doors’, as recommended by the authorities. Now, they’ve got us just where they want us. Ask the average Bostonian if they’d like to have a gun right about now, as they hunker down in their basements with their souvenir Reds Sox baseball bat.
How did they stop the one guy? THEY SHOT HIM? Cant be, a gun never solved anything. & now they are going after the other guy with guns? When will it end? o probably is thinking “If only we could have got a free obamaphone to him” we could have rehabilitated him, oh well, Randy
Here in North Carolina we would not need the police, we would be hunting him. Unlike MASS, we can still own weapons & are willing to use them to protect ourselves.
Yeah I have to say this is concerning. I don’t believe in false flag attacks or anything, but this is still borderline orwellian. They’ve effectively declared martial law, and they can leverage this incident to add in more and more “security measures”.
The classic anti-gun argument is that citizens could never overthrow a tyannical government because of modern military technology, how a revolution/insurrection could never be successful. Well, this and the Dorner situation prove them wrong. One man shut down parts of California for days. Two men bomb a city, and the one living suspect has an entire town locked down. Imagine pockets such activity all across this country. If we face a second war for independence in this country, I believe these situations prove that those fighting for liberty and freedom will not simply be wiped out by our advanced military and overly armed police.
Plus, not all of those military and police will be on “their” side. Many of them will still uphold their sworn duty to protect and defend the Constitution, and the freedoms therein.
You are right on that Marcus-look at Syria today, even if the opposition is being infiltrated by outside terrorists.
It seems awfully convenient these guys were found so quick, but as another commentator noted… criminal masterminds they are not. One of them apparently had a scholarship to Dartmouth. Can we all repeat these words? IVY LEAGUE IS OVERRATED.
No doubt the authorities were probably tipped off by someone in the Russian / Chechen community who recognized these guys. So are we going to now have a post 9-11 style calls for a mass invasion of Chechnya and the public lynching of anyone who’s Russian / Chechen / Muslim, or all of the above? Sigh.
Russia’s problems are now our problems… again.
The Russian /Chechen communities are less friendly than the Italian/black communities in NJ.
As to invading Chechnya, well as part of Putin’s Playhouse it’s kinda under control for a minute anyway. Separatist leaders have been killed and a pro-Moscow government has been installed for a few years now.
Good ole modern America, where politicians proudly flaunt their treason and those whose jobs it is to present unbiased fact proudly flaunt their bias.
ABC “news” stories all morning trying to compare the terrorist to Columbine killers etc….working so hard for something that just isn’t there. Barry must be proud of George Stephonallovus
I REALLY wanted Feinstein on that list……is it possible to update the story to include her as #8. PLEASE..the old harpy needs her face rubbed in her own mess.
I think some diversity is good. Too much is a bad thing especially when immigrants choose to remain more foreign and not join in to American society. Immigrants used to give up their past citizenship and to embrace their American citizenship. Now, it’s different.
If Arianna hadn’t boinked a multimillionaire and stolen his money, she’d still be working a street corner in Athens.
A raisin trying to sell herself as a grape on a corner of a broke Greek city.
with a horrid snare/screech of a voice saying “me love you long time”.
Damnit Ralph, there goes my breakfast,
no appetite for lunch.
Thanks a lot………………..
It’s always really impressive when Internet surfers, sitting on their arses, in the comfort of their safe basement or office, work so hard at second-guessing and criticizing law enforcement during an ongoing operation.
Really cool and inspiring.
Eye roll.
Robert, perhaps you could comment on this considering your educational/professional background.
The rhetoric on MSNBC has of course been rising to levels beyond shrill the past couple of years. But I would think that O’Donnell’s statement goes beyond shrill and into the zone of outright slander. I have zero education in the parlance of law, but this seems like a very good opportunity for the NRA to file a suit against O’Donnell and MSNBC.
As it stands right now, there’s zero consequence for state run media outlets to say whatever they want in order to pass this Administration’s agenda.
Once again blame the gun or the NRA or for that matter, anything other than the criminal himself………….
And nothing of importance was lost.
Its simple if thousands of gun owners were resisint the govt they would blow the city the eff up with missiles and arty.just like in Iraq. Then get the media to blame the “terrorists” for the casualties.
Because destroying your own infrastructure en masse with artillery is a great way to fight a civil war.
So when will they take Presto to task for all the people killed and injured by two of their pressure cookers?
this high school-esque piling on the blamewagon I’m seeing these days makes me so proud to be american
Somewhat related, does anybody know if MIT police are armed?
What cops aren’t? Even when I was at a hospital a week ago, their security guards had body armor and tazers.
The only “crusading journalism” HuffPost engages in is its pathological incitement and bias against the U.S. military, Israel, Jews, conservatives, the Tea Party and the U.S. Constitution. Arianna has been lying about what it is and does since it began:
http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2011/01/has-arianna-been-lying-since-2005-about.html
Examples of its incitement and bias against the U.S. military:
http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2010/01/archive-of-anti-us-military-bias-libels.html
…and against Israel and Jews:
http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/search/label/Anti-Israel%20bias
http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/search/label/Anti-Semitism
… and the Tea Party:
http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2010/04/huffpost-vs-tea-party-introduction.html
And Arianna dares to lecture FNC about “inflammatory claims” and “conspiracy theories”:
http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2010/02/13110-beyond-hypocrisy-arianna.html
Perhaps one day, some reporter will have the courage to ask Arianna about all this.
Locked down, unarmed, martial law…. Cops outside shooting at terrorists, Terrorists shooting back… Killing people in a GUN FREE ZONE.
Do you STILL think you do not need to defend yourself?
Welcome to the GOA and NRA
I am going to assume this is a long standing tradition of the anti-gun crowd “to keep the emotions up” They have failed, Boston has taken away the 24/7 gun control agitpop, they have do something?
On the bright side, it continues to show they have nothing and spewing stuff like that can simply be used against them.
Ms. Leibowitz,
It is because of naive people like you who do not have a good grasp of reality that the German Nazzis and Italian Fasscists were voted into power resulting in the slaughter of tens of millions of innocent people across Europe, Asia, and Africa. Based on your last name, you are Jewish as I am. It is because of naive Jews trusting in hope, government, and society and not in self-reliance and personal fighting skills that six million of your fellow Jews along with just as many innocent Christians were exterminated in the Holocaust. Go jump in an oven loser and stop wasting oxygen.
Too bad the bomber did not get Celeste. She could use a few ball bearings through her ugly head.
Don’t give them fuel to hate us with. She needs to be educated, not murdered.
The truth about guns is starting to push it’s way through all the spin and propaganda.
Gee, imagine that!
I’ll bet there are more firearm owners out there today, too.
Get busy NRA. Educate the masses like the NRA founders did.
After the city-wide lockdown in Boston today, where people are basically trapped in their homes and helpless should this lunatic break in on them, I wonder how the results of a similar poll taken now in state of MA would look?
Lots of drop leg holsters…a sure sign of the tacticool geardo who has little actual experience..
Celeste probably needs a real man in her life to release all that sexual tension. Mr. Eveready isn’t cutting it.
I bet all the scared citizens of Boston wish they were armed…heck, the police are armed with guns illegal for citizens to own…
From the linked article: “…Those who don’t see guns adding safety are predictably on the other side of the political aisle — mainly Democrats, liberals and those with higher education.”
How rude. If those gun toting idiots were as smirt as us the would rationally see the common sense of removing gun saving the lives of children in a responsible adult manner…..
Wapo.. FOAD.
Nine out of ten burglars agree: a gun in your home makes them less safe, and occasionally dead.
I’m really struck by the graphic for this story: Shelter-in-Place in Effect in Boston.
What does that mean? As the media is reporting it, does it not equal defacto martial law without having to use the phrase martial law?
Further, as the search continues the reports suggest that law enforcement is going door-to-door in their search efforts. As solid citizens we all want to be helpful, but at what point does such a search begin to violate your own civil rights? What happens if you say no to a search? Is there a judge in a van outside ready to execute search warrants?
I agree that you have to turn up the heat and get creative in your search methodology, but to me this scene raises some troubling long-term questions as to police powers in a local/regional/national crisis and may set a difficult precedent.
This is what I am wondering. House to house searches? Come back with a warrant!
I wonder what would happen?
If militarized police have unhappy wives and no children, that would prove their impotence. Boston merely proves that they can’t do sh1t.
Lol oh wait, 1 dead and 1 in custody. Gulp.
Wait, is the NY limit 7 rounds per magazine or 7 rounds per weapon? If per mag, then 7+1 will allow you a generous 2 rounds per scumbag. That’s all anybody should ever need…
7 rounds of 00 buck may be the best solution. Effectively firing 8-9 32 ACP rounds per shot will drop an intruder right quick.
I would tend to debate this but my shotgun only hides five rounds. I have my personal preference for ballistic stopping power.
I would never advocate breaking the law, except when I do. People need to follow a don’t ask don’t tell policy. We will deal with the law later. Being a live is more important.
“Is it possible these two were already on the terrorist watch list? If so, how did they pass a background check to buy their firearms?”
Oh dear. Please TTAG/Dan, use your brains. Even if they were on a so-called watch list, as long as they are not actually a “prohibited person” as described on the ATF site, they should not have been blocked. What should have happened is a more pro-active stance by law enforcement. DHS sucks up tons of money, and the only thing we see is pretty military geared up police, loads of airport TSA “agents” working a clueless system and a reactive attitude to whatever happens.
The “terror watchlist” is a list compiled and maintained by an executive branch and you get on it without due process and have little to no possibility to see whether you’re on it (until you get your sphincter stretch-tested by said TSA agents at an airport) and no way to get off. If you want this list to guide the NICS checks, you’re pretty much giving the executive branch carte blanche to disarm the population. Just make everybody with an interest in firearms a “person of interest” on this list and we’re done. Once that happens, the next step can be to have some of the guys donning the black gear to start confiscating firearms from people on the “terror watchlist”, because hey, you know, terrorism and shit.
Due process is key and I find the quoted statement above eyebrow-raising (to say the least), coming from a TTAG writer…
i always make perfect headshots, especially at live moving targets under duress. I would only need 3, because at least one usually kills two
zombiesintruders, as they are following each other through the doorway.Oh, wait, this is in real life not a video game?
Why can’t people ever hold their freaking phones the correct way when recording video. Why would you possibly think holding your phone in portrait is going to record video in landscape orientation?
When every shot counts carry a 45 & this is much more important in NY. My trailer was broken in last night & I saw the guy inside of it. I couldn’t get to him in time as I went back inside for my 45. The lead officer said he very much wished he could carry a 45, sometimes the 40’s MIl. cops carry just don’t do it he said, Randy
Yeah. That must be their man. NOT the “right-winger gun nuts” of yesterday; NOT the Saudi before him. HEY, folks, WE FINALLY GOT HIM.
Whenever a particular narrative changes daily or hourly, A MASSIVE COVERUP is taking place.
The Illinois press is misrepresenting what actually happened.
The legislature killed it because it was modeled after NY’s draconian CCW law that places impermissible conditions on issuing permits.
IOW, the Chicago miscreants tried their usual nonsense, and the rest of the state said, “Oh, HELL no.”
Too bad he’s dead. Having blown up all those people he was now qualified to teach social justice at nice universities like Chicago, Columbia and Florida.
Oh Please Nice photo shop Obama’s head on top of Hitlers this is so funny.
Anyone ever read the Hipster Hitler comics? Thar’s comedy gold in them hills.
Brilliant! Bravo!
Shouldn’t Muslim Obama be giving a statement about his Muslim friends killing innocent Americans in Boston? Have you noticed how quiet Obama has been today once it was clear the killers are Muslim. How is Obama going to spin this one? The Liberal media was hoping and praying for the killers to be white so they could claim they were T Party members or members of the NRA. Instead we know now the truth. Both brothers and any accomplices are all Muslims. Can’t blame this one on a video.
YES. This is going to be a LONG four years folks, time to dig in and prepare for seige.
That clip NEVER gets old! The movie wasn’t too bad either…
Guess they made the quip about immigration BEFORE two immigrants blew up the Boston Marathon…? No matter, they will convienently overlook that matter I suppose.
Looks like they didn’t rob the 7-11 now
Gun control should have nothing to do with this tragedy as guns could not prevent what happened unless we had known of their plans however you are right everyone will focus on the guns rather than the real issue at hand the bombs.
Currently? No, because I don’t own anything currently on the anti’s ban lists.
However, given the chance, I’m sure he’d take them all away.
You better swallow that blue pill, Pa!
GOT A PERFECT RUGER STAINLESS STEEL RUBBER WITH WOOD INCERTS FOR THE GRIP, 6″ BARREL, 357 MAGNUM, ORIGINAL BOX …WHAT WOULD ONE PAY FOR IT.? EVERY THING IS LIKE NEW, OLD MAN HAD IT SHOT LITTLE, MAY SELL , MAY KEEP TO DEER HUNT, IF THE PRICE IS RIGHT, SOLD.
Yes, he is. Like Farago, I was completely wrong about the man, and I stand corrected. But gun control *still is* the electrified third rail of American politics, and the President just peed on it.
As Matthew Continetti wrote in the Washington Free Beacon yesterday,
“His ego never has been what one could call petite. “Phil, what’s my name,” the president is said to have asked his legislative director one day in the first term. “President Obama,” the aide replied. And Obama said, “Of course I’m feeling lucky.”
Such words are usually delivered at the moment in the play when Nemesis appears onstage, ready to correct the hubris of a tragic hero. And though Obama is neither a tragic figure nor a heroic one, he definitely suffers from a case of misplaced confidence. He clearly assumed that the power of his oratory, his charisma, and national shock at the horror in Newtown, Conn., would allow him to sign the first significant gun legislation in a quarter of a century. He was wrong.”
Go ahead sonny, hide in my boat.
Best ever made is the AR-15A2 which is the exact copy of the M-16A2. Best model most accurate no crappy carbine gas system or heavy piston system. has good iron sights which are good to 800 meters. Can accept Trijicon ACOG scopes for added range. Most solders Ive meet have found likes for the M-16A2.