You may remember that we ran a piece a couple days ago where a member of the Hudson, New York common council, Dave Marston, heaped abuse on Johanna Johnson-Smith for daring to show up at a council legal committee meeting in opposition to a proposed gun control law. The specific terms he used for gun owners and Second Amendment supporters were “radical lunatics” and “gun toting Tea Party psychotards.” Marston ended his poison pen email by inviting Ms. Johnson-Smith to attend the next meeting of the council’s legal committee, vowing that “we’ll be happy to beat you barbarians back with the clubs of reason & responsibility.” So Ms. Johnson-Smith took Councilman Marston up on his offer and she invited a few friends to come along. The Gateway Pundit has the scoop . . .
On February 27 the Committee was forced to change their regular meeting from Hudson City Hall to the Central Fire Station main room to accommodate the larger than normal crowd expected to oppose the measure.
But even that was too small and attendees dragged their chairs, if they’d been fortunate enough to get one, into the firehouse truck bay after the engines were moved out.
The crowd was massive, opinionated, and dead set against the proposed law banning guns on city property. Things were not looking good for the committee members. In an attempt to limit the tongue lashing they were about to receive, they tried to limit discussion to 10 minutes for that topic. Even then, the proceedings appeared to be more stressful than intended for the committee members.
Committee President Moore said the group was upset at being confronted by such a large and angry crowd who were obviously “against us” and stressed the committee was not trying to “do anything sneaky.”
Here’s some free advice to politicians and legislators who are considering imposing laws that restrict the civil rights of their fellow citizens: be prepared for a massive public backlash. Those who favor more gun control laws might appear significant in polls, but when it gets right down to it, most of them they don’t really care. Gun rights advocates, on the other hand, are rabid defenders of their civil rights. As all Americans should be. And when provoked, they are a force to be reckoned with.
Oh, and Councilman Marston? He appears to have changed his tune a little:
Before the crowd of hundreds of infuriated gun rights activists Marston told a different story. He apologized, saying he had drafted his response to her in “the heat of the moment” and he acknowledged the email had been inappropriate. “I let my lesser self get the better of me,” he said.
As one commenter on the article put it: “No that was not his lesser self, that was his true self.”
600,000+ die of heart disease every year. Require permits for hamburgers, soda and tobacco if you are interested in the greater good.
Otherwise, please (and I’ll spell it out for you this time) F*ck Off And Die Mr. Diaz.
The ironic thing here is that spineless libs declare in one moment that we’re paranoids because THEY and their government will protect us; but when confronted to merely defend their statements(let alone citizens) they morph into crawfishin’ cowards.
Black civil rights were won with burning looting shooting etc. It would be nice if ours was won in a peacefull manner, marston probably realizes there is an alternative, Randy
A good example of why you shouldn’t put your life on t.v.
Could you clean up that first step sentence, please.
“A made up story about tell tale bullets solving the crime.”
This tale takes place after the NY gun laws have passed and people are celebrating that “peace and safety” have come at last.
(I always wanted to be a mystery writer. Here’s my chance)
It goes like this.
A good guy and bad guy get into a gun fight. Unfortunately, like so many bad guys do, the bad guy didn’t play fair.
The bad guy was lying wait and attacked the good guy from ambush, the good guy goes down, but not before firing a few (newly minted, micro stamped) rounds in self-defense. The bad guy, knowing about this micro stamp thing picks up his brass and departs.
The police arrive and find the dead good guy. How sad. Somehow the new gun laws STILL aren’t working? Oh, well.
There are no clues at the scene, except … police manage to find some mirco stamped brass, YEA!
They go over the evidence and ponder the case for six months and finally conclude, “based on the evidence”
…….. the good guy committed suicide!
Good huh?
Oh, no, wait! Sorry, that’s a silly story. I forgot, it couldn’t have happened like that. The good guy lived in NY and wasn’t allowed to carry a gun for self defense in the first place.
MY writing career is toast.
Hate to start it off like this, but this is what price controls would get you. Long lines and empty shelves. When you see lines, the prices the store is charging is wrong.
If the price was marked at true market prices (the gunbroker prices on .22), which are about triple what these always empty retailers are charging, then things would settle down mighty quickly.
Too many new kitchen table ammo retailers (and hoarders) the last two months are causing this, but true market pricing would break the back of it pretty fast.
Yes, but then OMG IM NEVER SHOPPING THEIR AGAIN THERE DIRTY PRICE GOUGERS FOR RAISING THEYRE PRICES!!11!one!!eleven!1!
Note: I want you to understand how hard it was to write that. I actually had to manually step through how to use the incorrect there/their/they’re in that sentence. My fingers kept typing it right when my mind was saying it wrong.
“Committee President Moore said the group was upset……”
Exactly as the Founding Fathers intended. Politicians are supposed to feel like the Sword of Damocles dangles above their heads at all times.
FYI, Safariland’s 6280 fits the tactical’s sights with no issues. They even make a model that fits with the HK proprietary tac light/insight M2 attached.
Blackhawk also makes a kydex model that fits the tactical, but its construction is inferior to the Safariland. Feels cheap, and no lining on the interior of the holster either, which tends to excessively wear the gun’s finish.
I actually witnessed something like this recently, and someone actually said (in an attempt to defuse the situation), “You don’t want to end up on the news.” Cooler heads prevailed.
The only way to push back the Obama agenda is to attack radicals at the local level. Make the local radicals fear local constituency more than they fear the Obama smear machine.
Have these people never heard of internet backorders? Who relies on brick and mortar anymore? Dumb all around.
m11_9 is exactly right. The solution to any kind of shortage is higher prices. I saw a local ad yesterday: “ammunition for sale 7.62 X39, 308, 223, 9MM, call xxx. The seller is probably one of those guys standing in line. He buys ammunition at an artificially low price because he can pay for his time by reselling it at market price.
The only good news is that in a few months these guys will have 12 lifetimes worth of ammo and no way to sell it. I can wait.
Didn’t any of you like the way the Police Chief of Milwaukee slapped Lindsey Graham down? I thought that was a highlight. Even Senators do what you guys do, repeat nonsensical things you’ve heard, like the lack of prosecutions of those who fail a background check somehow means the background check system fails. As the Chief pointed out, the background check system worked perfectly in identifying and denying those people. Did you notice how the slick politician/gun rights supporter tried to go on quickly and get that bullshit on the record unchallenged? That’s how you guys do it, double-talk, twisted interpretations, trickery. What else have you got?
This is terrible. If only there were some sort of vast, global data network capable of carrying broadcast-quality video streams without censorship or political oversight.
Oh well, we can dream. ;D
Wow. Over .22 at that. On the flip side, these people just argued. I seem to recall stories at releases of new Jordan’s that people were actually killing each other for shoes. And lets not forget the cage fight known as the modern Black Friday. I guess what im getting at is that some consumers just suck, regardless of what they’re shopping for.
I guess we can all be thankful it wasn’t .223 – let alone 5.56mm. Heaven forbid it had been a shipment of PMAGs…
Just goes to prove that generals & mid-level military brass have ALWAYS been politicians, nothing more, nothing less.
And, they always whore, for the right price, just like a politician, be it for Northrop Gruman or Doucheberg’s MAIG.
Not to mention, ANY public servant, former or current, who propagandizes or conspires to destroy the Constitution (aside from lawful amendment process) is in direct violation of their Constitutional Oath, thus are guilty of Treason, and/or at the least perjuring their Constitutional Oath, which has no expiration date.
Soooo cannot wait to see Nuremberg 2.0 vs all POTUS admin & their apparatchiks since JFK; fine, reality of it such only leaves us with Carter and on.
Why starting with Pres. Carter?
Because it was the ‘peacenik Pres’ whom via his National Security Adviser and daddy to the daily propagandist Mika at MSDNC’s Morning Joe ‘got a dead intern found in my FL CONgressional office I’ve never answered for‘ Scarborough, one Zbiegniew Brezezinski who actually CREATED Al-CIA-da aka ‘the database’ of Islamist mercenaries/Mujahadeen & funded OBL aka ‘Tim Osmond’ that we’re having to deal with, today.
FU to all the historically amnesic a-holes. Deal with it bitches: it’s well known history, unless you delude MSDNC, Commie/ComedyNewsNet & FauxNews as actual news.
I must be lucky. My local Wally World and Academy Sporting Goods are on a daily call list. They have told me when their trucks come in. I call. They tell me what is on truck. I go over and pick up what I need ( limit 3 boxes, or I box of each cal). Prices at my Wal Mart are the same as early December. Academy too. In a normal week, pick up 9 to 12 boxes. 22LR, 9MM, 30-30, 308, 223. are my needs. 223 has been the hardest to get. I have plenty, but am limiting use of 223.
Cabela’s has always been too pricey. I do not shop there for ammo.
While the military certainly has a higher percentage of true patriots and a lower percentage of dumbasses/school yard bullies than other branches of government, they’re not devoid of the type. I’ve met plenty. And while you respect that they wore the uniform and laid it on the line, you have to scratch your head and wonder how they got the mindset they did. Daddy issues, perhaps. He’s a civilian now, and stupid civilian he is.
2 questions:
Is a similar run on ammo happening in Canada right now?
And is it possible to bring ammo purchased in Canada through a port of entry in your car?
So this politically correct progressive Dave Marston not only disparages gun owners with name calling, but also belittles mentally retarded people (with the label psychotard). I hope this guy gets voted out of office.
Guns and Ammo, Shooting Times and the like have sucked for years. If these idiots want to scuttle their investments then let them! I say good riddance and let other magazines or media take their place.
All prostitutes making a little extra Bloob Bucks. These guys wouldn’t have said $hit if they weren’t being paid, one way or the other. Who are they to use their rank to express a demand? A high rank in the military is not elected office. Thanks for your services, enjoy retirement.
People, you don’t realize how truly sad this story is. This Cohen bloke (and there are quite a few in New Zealand, I have known several) is trapped in a remnant of the British Empire, whose rules for disarming the general population led to the almost complete absence of handguns. Well, we have a lot of shotguns and riflers, but still…
One reason I read this website and other Yankee similar sites is for the ability to keep up to date with handgun technology, because we cannot use them here, unless we belong to a pistol club.
The very concept of self protection via firearms is verboten here – the Police explain very clearly that this is not what they are for!
It is understandable that any Kiwi going to the USA would go a little “gun crazy”. We do not object to the term “Kiwi” – it is how we refer to ourselves, and comes from our native flightless bird, our national symbol (and our air force has no strike wing – is that pathetic or what?). We are very jealous of the freedom you guys have, but you can keep the drug crime and drive byes.
BTW, this video won’t screen on my iMac. What gives?
Just do not go to New York. Don’t support anything affiliated with NY. Turn off the TV when your favorite team is playing against a NY team.
If I recall, Moore is a member of the NRA and a firearm holder. Just do the news article without the insults. Makes one look childish.
The gun owners in New York need to wedge their collective boots right up Cuomo’s butt! This nonsense that a relative handful of swingin’ dicks tell millions of people what to do has got to stop. Ayn Rand was so ahead of her time when she wrote Atlas Shrugged:
“There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.” – Atlas Shrugged, Chapter Three
Greetings from downunder. A while ago in the wake of the Port Arthur incident some representatives from Australia’s elite units were asked if they would carry out a forced disarmament of Australian Citizens. To a man they said if ordered to do this they would turn and march on Parliament House. When asked to elaborate, they said for this to happen, Australia is no longer the country their fathers, grandfathers, and great-grandfathers fought and died for. The members of the Australian military forces have a long history of what would be considered mutiny in the face of illegal, unethical, ambigious, or just plain reckless and foolhardy orders.
By that standard, most of his fellow mayors should be virtual hermits.
I wonder if this 1st Amendment-supporting, open-minded Mr. Mower is a registered Democrat.
And we have a winner in the best dressed shooter category.
Beig involved in city government, I’ve often seen how filling a meeting room will change officials minds.
The issue for all of us is to follow the meeting agendas and watch what actions are being proposed. Too often it’s the last minute and where were you before this.
We’d worked a required action for two years. The state had approved it. We held public hearings, open house, posted notices and even sent multiple letters to everyone being impacted. At the vote, a couple of people came and demanded we vote “no”. To top it off they had the absolute wrong information. Try to explain two years of work when someone’s mind is made up. 🙁
Keep track of what government officials are doing. Attend meetings. Serve on committees. Were it not for that nasty email, likely the anti gun piece would have passed.