https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxyYJa9Cw8E#t=17
I’m not so sure that Army Spec. Ivan Antonio Lopez used a Smith & Wesson M&P .45 as a “tool to capture someone’s attention” to get help. But I am sure that the sooner a killer is confronted by an armed defender the better. I’m equally confident that anyone who says “There’s not a need to have fear of guns” on msnbc without being shouted down, ridiculed or condescendingly contradicted has scored a major victory. If that someone is an African American, pro-gun folks score bonus firearms freedom points. In fact, reality is breaking out all over. Check this tidbit from none other than washingtonpost.com . . .
Practically speaking, [the army] acknowledged that there was little they could have done to prevent him from sneaking a weapon onto the sprawling Army post, where more than 50,000 people work each day. Although military police carry out random security checks, requiring everyone to pass through metal detectors would be “frankly untenable,” said Army Col. Steven H. Warren, a Pentagon spokesman.
So there’s no way to make a gun-free zone a true gun-free zone. Who knew? Other than anyone who didn’t think about it rationally. Oh look! Here comes one now, an Iraqi vet writing for huffingtonpost.com:
The military has more restrictive gun laws than the civilian world. It is the civilian world that is infringing on the military’s safety, not the other way around. By this, I mean that on military bases, no one can carry around a personal firearm, a regulation instituted under President George H.W. Bush. At Ft. Hood, specifically, personal firearms for those living on base must be registered with the Directorate of Emergency Services, and if you are living in barracks or temporary housing, they then must be reported to your commander, who can order them to be stored in the arms room.
In the civilian world, as is well known, there are plenty of loopholes in the law, and expired laws, like the Assault Weapons Ban. This allows someone to purchase a gun off base, bring it on base, and unleash carnage. The tougher it is to get a gun in the civilian world, the less likely someone could get one and bring them on base, to murder service members. This doesn’t even get into the “Terror Gap,” which has kept suspected terrorists from being flagged in a background check, allowing them to buy weapons to use against troops, and others.
I’m not saying that Jon Soltz, Co-Founder of VoteVets.org and Iraq War Veteran is delusional. No wait. I am. But would I take away his gun rights? Nope. Would he take mine? Oh yeah. And that’s the gulf war we fight right here at home.
Off topic, but to me Ronan Farrow looks like he could be Frank Sinatra’s son.
I didn’t notice it until you said it, but now I can’t unsee that the top half of his head and face looks just like Frankie. Its uncanny.
What is really sad is that we have to now say “which” Ft. Hood shooting we are referring to.
Soltz lacks basic cognitive functions.
‘Maybe they’ll get with the program and call for gun prohibitions for anyone who’s ever received mental health treatment,’
TTAG, just what the heck are you thinking? Whose side are you on? This would amount to a blanket ban on anyone that has ever received treatment for any reason. The BATF already wants to re-evaluate their interpretation of mental health treatment and here you are tacitly saying that it is fine and dandy to do so. I thought you were a Pro 2nd Amendment group….appears I was wrong.
Ok guys, I just read every comment above about the EP Armory’s 80% polymer lower and the ATF raid on Ares Armor who distribute(s)(d) it. Of course Polymer80 has been drug into the discussion as well. I, for one, am very grateful to Polymer80 for not keeping a customer list. You see, I bought a polymer80 chunk of plastic as a decorative paperweight. It took a few weeks to get the item, and it turns out the SHTF with Ares literally while I was waiting for my Polymer80 paperweight to arrive in the mail. Well, I looked at my new paperweight and thought that I could modify it to make it better. So I went out into the garage that night and by 2:00 AM the next morning I had drilled, with my cheap Sears drill press, that chunk of plastic into a part that just happens to fit together with a bunch of other parts to be a fully functioning self defence device. Now, the questions about these 80% polymer paperweights is that they’re manufactured first and then part of the inside is filled with a contrasting colored plastic that can be simply removed with a dremel drill, or magic, and presto it’s done. Well, not so. During the drilling out of the unwanted plastic in the center, which is red, I expected to see only red shavings, but oh no! On the sides, in the middle, through out all of the red center were large pockets of black. It seemed to be riddled with black pockets throughout. The finished product “milled” out at least 25% black shavings along with the red. There is no way that they injection mold a complete lower and then just fill it with red plastic. That “milling” procedure is cutting a complete fire control pocket, and without the jig and proper tools you couldn’t possibly have a clean pocket. I built that lower myself out of a plastic paperweight. It’s legal to manufacture your own firearm for your own use and it doesn’t have to have a name or serial number. It’s a one-off part that I fabricated myself. So screw the ATF. They’re just making up “laws” as they go, and I for one say “screw their “laws””. They’re not valid. And that’s all I have to say about that!
Guess Bob is trying to take Pierce Morgan’s place, huh?
I think the only smart gun I’d ever own would be the M56 Smart Gun. Awwyeah.