“Born and raised on a cotton farm in deep-red Tennessee, a son of the South, I grew up hunting and fishing with my father, who was reputed to be the finest quail shot in Crockett County,” self-professed “redneck” Joe McLean writes at thedailybeast.com. “As a younger man, I was forced to defend my home in the middle of the night with a firearm. The burglar was a career criminal, just out of prison after robbing a liquor store with a sawed-off shotgun. The cops knew him by name when they came to get him. I was lucky.” But we’re not. McLean is one of the increasing number of pro-civilian disarmament gun owners emerging from the media miasma to FUD fence straddlers. To wit . . .
So let’s be clear: first, nobody is going to take our guns away. Not mine, and not yours. Nobody has even suggested that. Frankly, nobody thinks it’s possible anyway, with millions of firearms in circulation . . .
. . . everybody understands this carnage isn’t just the fault of guns. Blood-soaked movies and videogames, mental illness, school bullying, and maybe even our national glorification of the lone cowboy dispensing frontier justice with his trusty six-shooter all have a role.
But regardless of the causes, the actual instruments of destruction are firearms, specifically assault weapons. These rifles are wonderfully engineered tools built for only one purpose: to kill and maim as many human beings on the battlefield as quickly and efficiently as possible. So we should not be surprised when they are used for the exact job for which they were created.
Americans overwhelmingly support our right to defend our own homes, but “assault” rifles are by definition offensive, military weapons. They’re not made for defense and, frankly, not terribly useful for that. Ask any police officer.
At the risk of being crude, are you shitting me? No one wants to take away your guns but it’s OK to take away your “assault rifle”? And cops don’t use AR-15-style rifles for self-defense? So what DO they use them for? Wait, don’t answer.
Just tell me that American gun owners aren’t as stupid as the stupid people who think they’re stupid. Please.
Any word on whether Christie would sign any of these, should they pass the legislature?
Do you guys agree with my interpretation of #24, or am I just going crazy? It sounds to me like the opposite of what gun control advocates would want.
Not all attorneys are bad.
The good ones can be found at the GunRightsAttorneys.com site.
Mark
I wonder what the final price was when they settled the deal for his soul
The going rate has been 30 pieces of silver.
He may have sold his soul, but somehow, the taxpayers still get the invoice…
Joe’s a staffer for an anti-gun Democrat congressman in DC. I don’t think he sold his soul. On the contrary, I think he has to crank this half-plagiarized BS out at piece-work rates, or the Devil will can his ayss.
It’s 100 souls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs8lTUW9uFY
I’m getting very tired of Fudds…
With “friends” like these…
He’s no redneck. He’s a suit who lives in Washington D.C. Just another leftwing tool.
FOAD, McLean.
Semi-off-topic, but sorta under the false flag heading…. Anyone else see that CTD just gave 100K to the SAF? I think I like them a little more, but still want them to ESAD. Lol
“At the risk of being crude, are you shitting me?”
Feel around your neck, is there an a$$hole there? (I just had to throw that out there….)
Well here is a police officer who thinks an AR-15 is excellent for self defense, but he didn’t ask me. If you have his contact info, if be more than happy to tell him. I’ll also clue him in that Feinstein / Bloomberg et all are after all of our guns. This guy may well be past the point of having a clue, but its still worth a shot.
And if they were so useless, why did nearly every cop in SoCal searching for Dorner either have an AR type weapon or a shotgun? Why does every SWAT team in the US have them? Oh, I forgot, Chief James esplain’d it–they are offensive weapons used to intimidate. [Quite frankly, if someone breaks into my home, I sure as hell WANT to intimidate the SOB!]
I can’t speak for all gun owners, but I like to think I’m not that stupid.
I am going to try to make it down there. I missed the first 2 rallies in WI, so I need to get out there and be present for some other ones.
No, actually, no they aren’t. Did he miss the memo about just how rarely so-called “assault weapons” are used in actual crimes?
^ this.
I’m starting to think the best comeback against this kind of thing is to start calling AR15 rifles what they really are: Varmint rifles.
It fires a .22 caliber bullet at high velocity, ideal for taking out things like groundhogs and coyotes. The design is modular and parts like the barrel can be swapped out for different roles, so you can protect your chicken coop with a shorter barrel or cull nuisance animals from your fields with a long bull barrel.
The AR15 or any firearm like it is a rancher’s best friend. The totalitarians think they have found a winning strategy by referring to it as a tool exclusively designed for killing humans, but that is simply not true, which makes it a lie. Don’t let them lie to the masses, tell the truth about what your rifle is good for.
In practically all self defense situations a handgun is preferable to a carbine, rifles are best utilized outdoors at significant distances. They are trying to use the tactical marketing and imagery that many gun owners love against us – we need to spread the word about what these rifles are most likely to be used for instead of letting them use fantasy to justify the seizure of our rightful property.
There’s a whole lot of people that keep telling me I have to compromise my stand on the 2a. I tell them, ya well Rosa Parks could have sat in the middle of the bus too. The Bill of Rights defines our civil rights and too many people have died to protect them for me to compromise. Those that try to stir up fear, uncertainty, and doubt about guns and try to demonize me for my exercise of my civil rights are bigots. The sooner we all start pointing that out the sooner we get to the core of this issue. There is a segment of American society that just doesn’t feel comfortable with another segment of American society and the first segment is trying to suppress the second. Ready for the “special” drinking fountains and bathrooms all you “clingers”.
I’m surprised the old media isnt adopting this tactic in a pitiful attempt to rescue their papers and magazines.
They could drag out “journalists” to tell us all emotional stories about growing up with well-known reporters on well-known networks, writing for well-known outlets and follow it up with cautionary tales of the reckless “high capacity” garbage that clogs the interwebs on blogs and feeds.
What good is a thousand Tweets from no-name press when we can wait 24 hours and get a beautifully worded, safely filtered, report of yesterdays events delivered to our doorsteps set to an easy to read fifth grade level?
Is it inherently wrong to own a weapon? No.
Can a weapon by itself harm anyone? No.
Does it take a person to harm someone with a weapon? Yes.
Clearly the answer is to ban assault weapons and hire a wizard to remove the ones already in existence from the streets with his magic spells.
Oh yay, another rally, because those always work.
Incredible how we post a picture of true patriots doing what true patriots should do against tyrants, but all we do with out tyrants and traitors these days is stand around and hold signs. Sad.
“Some news orgs are saying Dorner was using a 50 BMG rifle during the last part of his standoff. At the very least, he may have had it in his possession. Which, for California, is illegal for everyone but the police.”
CBS radio brought it up in an orgasmic tone [then way off topic with “5 inch long bullets”], not even Sheptard Smith missed it: of course not one mentioned the illegality of it in CA, but for the only ones..
“… a good deal of flashback against the station …” I think they mean “blowback” or “backlash”.
Yeah, I added nothing to the discussion.
Tried two groups of not so great reloads thru a new s716 and had numerous ejection problems and a couple of FTF (dimpled primer, no fire). Same ammo through HK G3 did much better, though still > 0 extraction problems, so most of my issues were ammo related, but the HK still ate the ammo significantly better.
Also had the bolt not locking to the rear too well problem.
I’m also hopeful that a breakin period will see these issues go away.
I guess he is ok with losing the rifle in the photo?
They won’t take it. You see, he’s “special”.
MY RIGHTS ARE NOT NEGOTIABLE. Get that INTO YOUR HEAD, A-HOLE.
“Americans overwhelmingly support our right to defend our own homes, but “assault” rifles are by definition offensive, military weapons. They’re not made for defense and, frankly, not terribly useful for that….”
Didn’t BHO just award a Congressional Medal of Honor?
According to Yahoo News:
“Obama, at a ceremony in the White House’s East Room, detailed the heroism Romesha displayed on Oct. 3, 2009: 300 Taliban fighters had descended upon 53 Americans at Army outpost Keating on the border of Pakistan under ‘almost unbelievable conditions,’ Obama said.
‘That’s what these soldiers were asked to do—defend the indefensible,’ the president said of the outpost, which was situated at the bottom of a steep valley that left the soldiers open to attack.
‘Explosions shook them out of their beds’ that morning…”
So where is the commentary about the M4’s or M16’s or whatever other “Assault Weapns” they used were “Offensive Weapons”. I think even BHO clearly stated that they were used for defense, and rather effectively.
Not surprising, yet it’s never-endingly surprising at the same time. YOU NEVER KNOW your next traitor!!!
This MF is effin’ SCUM, and how many names can I call this effer? MISERABLE COLLABORATOR. STINKIN’ TURNCOAT. SKUNK WALLER. P.O.S.
BACK-STABBER. SCUM OF THE EARTH.
Oh good, I’ve got an hour’s head start on the drinking to help numb the inevitable disappointment of this guy’s speech.
OK, I retract that comment. Guess I got drunk for nothing. That was pretty strong, and I’m not disappointed at all.
He is doing a good job look forward to hear his response.
From the article, “They had to get us an emergency permit to protest.”[emphasis mine]
What?!?!?!? Since when does anyone need a permit to demonstrate outside of a government building?
“We the People” are not kindergarten children and do not need a permission slip to exercise our fundamental rights. This has to be our message to the masses.
I love my Kimbers, but I won’t buy another gun from them or any other company in THE PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF NY (AKA: COMMIEVILLE).
There are few things bandied about that are inherently sillier than the drivel spouted by self proclaimed “moderates” on gun control. The whole idea of the second, validated empirically in numerous places and theoretically by anyone with even the remotest sense of realism about not only humans, but rather all beings who are the survivors in any system of evolution amidst limited resources; is that civilians should check whomever may fancy themselves their “rulers” any given time.
Given that, the only positions I can see differentiating “moderates” from “extremist whackjobs” on gun control, is their stance on civilian WMDs. Those things can argued to be sufficiently different from anything experienced by the founders, so that one can make the argument that “if nukes had been around, Jefferson wouldn’t want just any Billy the Kid to be able to pick one up at the local general store.” But also, that you cannot really control and enslave an otherwise properly armed populace with WMDs. You can exterminate them, but not really enslave them.
Hence, the following taxonomy:
Moderate: all things OK for civilians, sans WMDs.
Right wing nutjob: Civilins should be able to buy and “carry” WMDs
Left wing whackjob: ban even some non WMDs.
Even more obnoxious is the fact that Bing’s staff changed the graph’s axis after the speech. The raw data shows the responses never once made it into the positive area.
They reconfigured the average in order to make it look like it was well received.
http://bit.ly/12Byl75
I’m not surprised that even ancillary parts of the MSM feel the need to create artificial support for Obama, but I am disappointed.
2 – Reinstating and strengthening the ban on assault weapons that was in place from 1994 to 2004.
SHK did not use an “assault weapon” in spree killing
He used an AR-15. That’s an assault weapon, under their language.
26 – Issuing a presidential memorandum directing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to research gun violence.
Gun violence is not a contagious microbe. Has the CDC done such a good job in their primary work they have extra time on their hands? This sounds more like the Attorney General’s job. No effect on the SHK.
The CDC does track causes of death in our population, and some of their reports include figures for deaths by firearm (homicide, accident, suicide, etc). Then again, the FBI crime statistics do too. There might even be other bureaucracies tracking it.
Who is to say what alphabet soup agency is the best suited to do the research?
Otherwise, a good list.
Hmmm… perhaps. I have plans to be exercising my first amendment right to take pictures of naked ladies. Maybe I’ll give them a few guns to model with?
Can the republicans and democrats make a back-room trade? The dems get gay marriage and all the gun crap gets dropped and “gun free zones” go away
ATF…
Them fine folks who gave us “Fast and Furious”…
“They’re a far better choice for less than 5.56 protection; you’d have to hit a human exactly in the right place or many times with .22s to do any damage.”
Really? Tell that to the thousands of people killed by a single .22 caliber bullet, other rimfires and airguns! This article should be taken down or at least edited as it promotes the idea that some smaller caliber guns are merely “toys”. A dangerous and deadly assertion that will be welcomed by many fools who already behave as such.
So far the ONLY thing WLP has been good at is being a low hanging piñata for left ad hominem attacks. How the hell does this guy help anybody when all he does is make an idiot of himself and the 5 million members he represents by tossing soft balls to the anti-gun media?
this ad thing is seriously ghetto.
Eh, he did okay. He’s absolutely working the low-hanging fruit, but for 10 minute soundbites, that’s to be expected.
He’s just not very damn charismatic. People here don’t think highly of Uncle Ted, but when he talks, it does seem like people listen. Wayne sounds like he’s arguing against a traffic ticket.
Their PR commercials, though, are doing a much better job. Stick to those.
I remember when the US had the pretense of benevolence?
Thats it ban Assault Democrat Presidents: “We do not need Presidents of war on our streets”!!!!!
@Chris Dumm
First of its Cory not Corey.
Second, he is friendlier than Lautenberg and this is what he said in a debate on ABC News “This Week”
(http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/12/cory_booker_in_tv_appearance_c.html)
“Booker pushed for stronger background checks on people looking to purchase guns and said a key way to curb gun violence is to shut down secondary markets.
“I’m not afraid of law-abiding citizens who buy a gun,” he said. “Buy the guns you want. What the problem is in America right now is that a terrorist person who is on the no-fly list could go into the secondary market today and buy a weapon.”
“Criminals are killing people,” the mayor added. “Not law-abiding gun owners.”
He is a moderate democrate and the Democratic Party actually does not like him because he is not Liberal enough.
While is not the perfect friend we want, he is far better than Lautenberg!
Please check the facts
Around here (S. Carolina-Georgia area), .30-06 is extremely common, while .308 is harder to find. For example, at the local Wal-Mart (before the buying craze started) there were about 12 boxes of .30-06 soft-point hunting ammo and only one box of the same type in .308. In the local gun shop it was about the same. From what Ive seen, .30-06 and .308 are the same price. (Of course when you’re talking about surplus FMJ, .308 is certainly more prevalent.)
Honestly I thought the whole thing was blown out of proportion in the first place. It didn’t sound like he was implying guns were bad or should be restricted or anything like that. I have plenty of other reasons not to fly southwest besides their actual or perceived stance on gun control.
Here’s hoping some Texas reps get on that and write another open letter to these companies whose home states no longer want. The bidding war is on!