https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml0TVJAyj6M
Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly is a populist, not a conservative. As such, O’Reilly has demonstrated his willingness to throw gun owners under the proverbial bus on numerous occasions. For example, he strenuously defended a state’s “right” to ban and, yes, confiscate firearms during a declared emergency. O’Reilly’s not-so-evil twin, Glenn Beck, is also soft on gun rights. At the NRA Convention in 2012, Beck told TTAG that he doesn’t support Constitutional carry because “we’re not ready for it yet.” That said, I love watching the dynamic duo’s dynamic when they share screen time . . .
O’Reilly hates Beck. He never misses a chance to pull rank, diss and humiliate his former colleague—who seems to have found a set of stones since he split from the Fox family (the old interviews were genuinely cringe-worthy). In this segment, Beck shows a gun. Yes, a gun. politco.com found this noteworthy. Which is noteworthy in the sense that it isn’t noteworthy—except to note the left’s ridiculous hoplophobia.
What I want to know: was O’Reilly calling Beck a wanker?
Ah, gotta wonder about that NH comment…
NH has some of the most liberal gun laws in the country – and by that I mean that I can buy anything that’s federally legal without a license ar any more hassle than what the federal government imposes. Municipalities are prohibited from enacting any gun related statutes.
O’Riley is nothing more or less than a professional asshole. There’s nothing real about him.
Both douches. They are repubtards.
I only bought a tv online. However, this morning I used my Sig MK25 to shoot holes in a piece of Bloomberg propaganda:
http://t.co/hzWYKb5RDK
Does Thanksgiving Day count? I ordered an ankle holster for my G27. The snap broke on my old one.
Standing armies are illegal here. So, the powers that be just renamed them “police”, whose job it is to protect and serve the state, which feeds them. At least they don’t live in barracks, like in some other countries. Our standing army lives among the general population, which makes them soft, which I think is a good thing. Hence the tanks for a pressure cooker bomb in weak pansy floppy wristed Boston. And the overwhelming response to the mom with the car in DC.
Using SWAT to bust up personal poker games and to search for your basic, non-violent parole violators. No-knock warrants (not) delivered via SWAT team to the tune of 70,000+, per year, increasing yearly. Faces hidden by balaclavas, no-badge-no-ID visible SWAT team members. $2.4 BILLION in asset forfeitures since 1984, with that money going directly to local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies.
So it is ok for the police to look like soldiers, you say. Ok, I could live with that, except that I grew up around cops and no, they did NOT look or act like solders 40 years ago and they damn sure do now. And your argument about MRAPs is crap if you look at where some of these vehicles are ending up in towns smaller than 10K in population or at major university PDs (like Ohio State) that are in the heart of cities that already have that same equipment. Similarly, patrol cops don’t wear BDUs and they are the people who do that running and chasing, NOT SWAT teanms who dress like SAS troopers to attack residences, not fortified bunkers.
I am a lot less worried about what they wear, what equipment they carry, and what vehicles they drive. When civilian police in the US act like in this country like soldiers searching for insurgents in Iraq or Afghanistan, THAT concerns me and should concern everyone.
Here’s an open question to the many people who are probably wondering how loudly to disagree with police having anything but dress blues, a .38 revolver, and a hat bus drivers don’t even wear anymore-
If you were facing an angry man in a public place with, say, a semi auto AK47, AR, or (insert favorite alternative modern rifle here) and body armor, who had already killed several people and showed no sign of stopping on his own, what combination of equipment would you want to use? Firearms, electronics, armor, vehicles, you name it. What would be appropriate, not for police, but for anyone not on active military duty?
Don’t misunderstand, I am not by any means saying this is an average call for police. I do not believe that the equipment I would want for that situation should be used at all times, or seen by the public when not needed _right now_. However, it has happened before, and it would be foolish to think it won’t ever happen again. And for those cops out there who actually care about protecting the public (which I choose to believe are most of them), it would be utterly disgraceful to not prepare in skills, physical and mental toughness, and yes, equipment.
What might have been different if the first cop to arrive at Sandy Hook had actually, honestly, been ready to go?
And before anyone asks me, I have never shot a dog. I haven’t even tased or OC sprayed anyone in five years on.
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I remember my sophomore year in high school, i was taking a law enforcement class, this was when i learned most police officers attitude towards guns. I learned that if you had more than 5 semi autos, they will use that against you.
Never trust cops
Tuesday before got my Core 15 300 Blackout.
I haven’t seen this big a load of horse crap anywhere outside of Churchill Downs.
Militarization has nothing to do with uniforms and only a bit more to do with hardware. It has everything to do with actions and attitude. Cops now make hard entries into homes without warrants and kill or threaten to kill everything they see. That’s militarization, and it’s happening here, not in Afghanistan. In fact, if it happened in Afghanistan, the government would be writing a big check and apologizing.
And I’m tired about hearing about one case, the North Hollywood Shootout, over and over as if it proves anything. The facts is that the NHS was a once in a lifetime event that has been exploited by cops to justify anything they want to do. Which is especially stupid since the only people killed in the NHS were the perpetrators, who had it coming.
So please, get off your high horse. It doesn’t smell very good.
The comments on here are hilariously uninformed. I will grant you that Beck gets it wrong sometimes, as do ALL of us. But, I see a lot of people on here bashing him and it is clear that you have only listened to or watched him a handful of times and then formed your opinion based on that brief encounter and most likely the opinions you have heard from others. Beck has changed A LOT in the past 6 years or so. He is most certainly not a Repubtard as one person said above. He goes after the Republican and Democrat Progressives just as equally. I listen to the guy 3 or 4 times a week. I never take anything he says at face value and I always research anything and everything I hear from everyone before I form an opinion or repeat said information. The guy’s heart is in the right place and he is one of the few people out there that is trying to find the truth and report it. You should give him a chance before you dismiss him as a loony. I think that many of you will find his views more in line with yours than you would expect. As to his statement that the country isn’t ready for constitutional carry, I would agree with that statement. There are too many people out there that would have a veritable heart attack at the very suggestion. However, that is not reason enough to not enforce the Constitution. I believe we should have constitutional carry regardless of whether or not the sheeple are ready for it, because that is the way the Constitution intends for it to be.
Oath violating police officers.
Rope.
Light post.
Some assembly required.
Im sorry but there’s a huge difference between a SWAT team being sent to a loud noise complaint then sending a regular officer. We wouldn’t send an officer in a half chest vest to take a terrorist cell head on. Keep the armored and automatic shit where it belongs.
Metal detectors are magical force fields, dontcha know. Can’t pass through one with metal. Physically impossible.
“I want a girl that keeps a PMAG in her corset”… with a short skirt and a loooooooong jacket.
you people in NY should begin the civil war and tell coumo the commie to stick the rifle up his rectum along with his illegal lawless laws. cuomo the schmuck who works for obama and schumer are Marxists, plain and simple. i wouldn’t turn anything into the NY state law enforcement, its been corrupted by the jew democrats along with dumb ass greasballs such as cuomo.
How many stories have you heard about police arresting a fellow officers who have crossed the line or been corrupted?
Hell, even the way the agencies and departments address cop unjustifiably shooting people, it’s not murder or assault, it’s “excessive force.”
More disturbing is the SCOTUS says the police and all their gear aren’t there to protect me, they’re there to enforce the law. Meaning it’s to be used against me if I screw up, not to protect me if I am in danger.
So, forgive me for not being thrilled about the police tooling up Afghanistan style.
…or, because they want to fulfill their fantasies of being HSLD specops operators without actually being one. On the taxpayers’ dime. At the expense of civil & Constitutional rights.
When I heard a city police officer refer to himself as a “SWAT operator” I knew we had crossed the Rubicon.
I guess I’m the only carrier out there who didn’t change what he wore once he got into guns…I do not see the need to wear camo. At all. I don’t hunt, I’m not in a wilderness combat zone.
I also refused to deal with holster belts and the associated non-standard pants requirements. Crossbreed, Stealthgear, Remora and the like have made the need to change your attire a thing of the past.
I have to think the guys I see tooling around the range in camo pants with tac-rigs hanging off every limb change before they go out in public…right?
Just exactly what does it mean to have a “Constitution” that is the “the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any state to the Contrary notwithstanding.” ? (Article VI, second paragraph) It seems New York does not understand this. The key word in that sentence is “supreme”.