In a letter to The Providence Journal, Scituate resident Austin O’Toole wonders why The Ocean State’s waterfowl hunting laws — restricting shotguns to three shells — don’t apply across the board. “It appears that we protect ducks from firepower better than we protect school children, church faithful and concert goers and anyone else hanging around.” So much fail in such a small space. In this, Mr. O’Toole is not alone . . .
San Antonians Want Academy Sports to Stop Selling Semi-Automatic Guns:
It wasn’t just the questionable marketing that brought Perez and a group of 30 parents, kids, and other gun control advocates outside on a drizzly Saturday afternoon. They want the Texas sporting goods store to stop selling semi-automatic firearms altogether.
“CVS stopped selling tobacco. HEB doesn’t sell liquor. Academy shouldn’t sell assault rifles,” said Yonhui Bell, who came to the rally with three of her kids. “This isn’t meant to be political, or partisan. This is about a store where you take your children that’s selling guns that have been used to kill children.” . . .
“A semi-automatic weapon is designed to kill many people in a very short amount of time. Seconds. There’s no way anyone in that church could have reached for a gun before they were hit,” [Shannon] Perez said.
If [Sutherland Springs mass shooter Devin] Kelley had come in with a handgun or shotgun, Perez said, the churchgoers would have likely had time to react and stop him. But a semi-automatic weapon is an entirely different type of killing machine.
Over in the Bay State, Ruth Bass writes the following for berkshireeagle.com:
The Second Amendment never meant that you and I have the freedom to own a weapon that’s a threat to family, neighborhood and town. It does grant “the right to bear arms,” which certainly was essential in the pre-police, pre-army days when an individual had to nail a coyote before it grabbed the last sheep or protect the family from a band of marauders. In either case, they did a lot of reloading.
Sigh. Is it me or are many if not most gun control advocates as dumb as a box of hammers? Please share any personal examples of close encounters of the anti-gun idiot kind.
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Seriously, I don’t think they’re stupid, I believe that people fall for emotional arguments and never think at all. My opinion is that is why the left always talks up “feelings”. Emotions are easier to manipulate than thoughts.
No, sorry, they are “mentally challenged”.
“It wasn’t just the questionable marketing that brought Perez and a group of 30 parents, kids, and other gun control advocates outside on a drizzly Saturday afternoon….”
It is totally beyond their capacity to understand, as they stand there in the rain outside the store selling these deadly weapons, a store FULL of those deadly weapons, and ammunition, THAT NOBODY IS SHOOTING AT THEM TO MAKE THEM GO AWAY.
Could that possibly be because the owners of the store and the workers in the store and the customers in the store are law-abiding GOOD GUYS?
If these people truly believed what they are saying and understood the ramifications of what they think is truth if it were actually true, they would be too frightened to even step outside their front doors for fear of being shot down by random strangers, or their neighbors.
And yet there they stand, in broad daylight, in the rain, intentionally pissing off the people who own the guns they claim to be so frightened of.
“Is it me or are many if not most gun control advocates as dumb as a box of hammers?”
Don’t *ever* mistake the way they act for stupidity.
Sure, they have (more than) their fair share of ‘useful idiots’ (*cough*, Shannon, *cough*). Those that orchestrate them are political ‘true believers’ and they are *very* well-financed.
They will settle for nothing less than full civil disarmament, and they don’t care how long it takes to get there, or what it takes to get there.
They will lie, cheat and steal, and do it with a face mask of ‘caring for the children’.
They are nothing short of evil incarnate, and we’d better not forget it…
This has happened to me more than once. When arguing with every so-called policy expert I know: they inevitably screech to me about the need for more gun control laws and state matter-of-factly that machineguns are commonly available to private citizens, unregulated, and a constant threat to our society.
That lie is so prevalent, I had a colleague from Australia tell me their gun laws were very different…because they couldn’t purchase full automatic weapons like we do in America. He was very surprised when I told him we can’t go buy full-auto either. He said the media makes it sound like we can.
The liberals are either really supid — or they are so diabolically smart they know stupid lies, repeated often enough, will eventually change policy.
These sorts of factually inaccurate arguments are common place.
I think the better request is for examples of cogent, well informed arguments from gun control advocates.
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Yes, most are that dumb. We need to try to enforce the laws already made. Making new laws on top of unenforced laws just makes more criminals that can be restricted from owning guns. That is the agenda.
This is why we need an IQ test to vote. The 2nd amendment is not about shooting deer, coyotes, or criminals. It’s about shooting tyrants and their lackeys.
“It’s about shooting tyrants and their lackeys.”
So it is about shooting criminals and coyotes.
But we can still shoot the deer for dinner, right?
No “close encounters” with anti-gun ninnies, thankfully. I know a few, but I know better than to try to engage them in rational conversation about it, and to their credit, they also know that they have no rational arguments to make. They don’t butt in on my social media posts about guns or try to convince me I’m bad and wrong for owning guns, and I don’t butt in on their anti-gun nonsense. It’s the only way to keep the peace.
Not sure it’s “dumb” as opposed to too lazy to fact check and having sheeple syndrome.
Sure some people will just never understand or accept facts because it means they have to acknowledge they were wrong or they have to change their perspective.
People are more prone to believe things that require minimal effort on their part or it’s far removed from their lifestyle. It’s easy to pass judgement and make laws around objects (firearms) they will never, utilize, own, or learn about.
But if you tell them they can no longer call the police for emergencies, they suddenly will want guns for self protection.
It’s hard for people to remember that governments have killed more people than criminals have in the last couple hundred years. Then asking them to remember that the constitution was written by the winners of a revolutionary war… cognitive dissonance alert!
I’d put them right up there with the global warming activists in the stupidity department.
These people belong in concentration camps and labeled as anti American combatants, along with the millions of other Liberal Terrorists™. And yes, I’m serious.
“Question of the Day: Just How Stupid ARE Gun Control Advocates?”
ROFLMFAO…
As other’s before me have said, this is no surprise to those of us who followed the 2016 presidential election. It came out that Kasich was a supporter of the AWB fairly quickly after he mounted his campaign.
Believe me, it does happen. I went to buy a pistol at Vance’s Sporting Goods years ago and had to fill out the form and on the PC. Three times it took me because they didn’t like my penmanship and errors on the PC form. I almost told them I didn’t need it that much.
Insulting hammers as a group makes you look petty.
The idiots get paid to protest by some rich Libtard organization. Follow the money.
They are dumber than rocks.
So the military goes 1911 then a 92 and transitions to a sig p320 because of interchangeable grips?
“It appears that we protect ducks from firepower better than we protect school children, church faithful and concert goers and anyone else hanging around.”
What’s the bag limit on church goers and school children? Does that automatically come with the license, or do you have to pay extra for those stamps?
My local knife guy has one of his tradesman sharpeners come round the neighborhood in a mobile sharpening truck once a month. You can schedule him on Facebook. $6 for any serated knife done in my driveway. I don’t even sharpen my kitchen knives myself anymore. Sure, I have the stones, diamond files, Lansky’s, etc. but for a total of about $75 a year I get all of my knives sharpened for me. My time doing it myself would cost way more than that. Plus I help keep a good local business in business.
From my experience with journalists and op-ed writers, they’re often not someone to whom I’d sell a firearm.
I’m glad he was denied by the manager. I don’t want someone with a short fuse and cognitive issues surrounding a simple series of questions buying a double barrel shotgun.
“Five times I tried to fill out the form correctly, and each time I noticed a mistake and had to start again from the beginning. Nothing makes me lose my mind quicker than technology.”
Idiot. In what way was technology responsible for writing out the 4473 on a sheet of paper?
There are a few places where you especially don’t want to want to be rude to the person waiting on you, buying a firearm is one of them. I wouldn’t have sold him the gun and by the third attempt would have thrown him the hell out for making a scene in my store. Come back when you get some manners, it wasn’t his fault you kept messing the form up. Actually, I would have banned him and sent his picture to the other shops in the area with a warning.
Some heavy echo in here today!
Now I’m wondering – what’s ‘nearly defenseless’? Is that something like ‘mostly dead’?
Ok, I’ll be the devils advocate on this post and bite.
The M9 f@cking sucks. It’s a great weapon for police/stateside duty but a terrible combat firearm. The open shroud barrel design allowed all sorts of dirt into the weapon while patrolling Afghan deserts. If any dirt got into the magazine, forget about it and welcome to a single shot pistol. The rounds would bind in the magazine and you’d be lucky to get two shots off. I literally ejected a mag once, turned it upside down and had half the magazine just dump out because the bottom half was bound with dirt so bad half the magazine was stuck in it. And it didn’t matter which magazines either. Army issue or the expensive ones (I brought 4 of my own expensive factory magazines with me) and it still occurred.
Don’t get me wrong, I owned one for years. Great gun to teach new shooters. I loved both the DA and SA trigger. Shot a lot of IPSC with it. Attended one of the most grueling Army CQB schools with one and it held up. But I stand by my contention that it is not a serviceable combat firearm, at least not in the environments we’ve been fighting in for the last 1.5 decades. Serving in roles where a secondary weapon was a must, I was pretty pissed to have to be toting around an M9.
Getting a Maxpedition vibe….
So… Ark without dinosaurs?
It seems to me “bands of mauaraders ” still applies. So I’ll keep my arms thank you.
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I’m glad you like it Andy, and thank you for the shout out!
never liked berettas. just something about them, can’t quite put my finger on it.
I smelled bacon and the pig fired a warning shot…
I ate bacon for weeks!
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1) There articles in law journals where family law attonries freely admit that 80% of protection orders are fake and simply tactics.
Asfar as extreme risk orders there are two addtionoal fundimental probmes
2) looking at the case law on ERPO, the probative burdens are still WAY lower, and protection of civil liberties, fourth and fifth amendment rights of defendant than any criminal prosecution. hearsay is allowed, ability to cross examine witness against you is not guaranteed, and establishing beyond a reasonable doubt burdens are not needed.
3) if a person is too dangerous to themselves or others to have a firearm, why are they out able to knife people or kill themselves by non firearm means?
I got into a Facebook argument (I’ve since quit the platform) with my brother over the utility of having a firearm for home protection. He claimed that he’d rather rely on martial arts…and as proof he linked to an article about a PROFESSIONAL MMA fighter (Joe Torrez) who beat a home intruder to death and wounded two others. Now…we’re all pretty fucking far from being professional martial artists…my brother even more so. And yet, to him, the exceptional served as proof.
If you think that made you dumber…try this one on for size.
In the same thread I offered the death of Bosnian immigrant Zemir Begic (you may remember he was murdered in the wake of the unrest in Ferguson) as an incident which should have been a defensive gun use. His response…a gun wouldn’t have saved him because he was outnumber and the rest would have “swarmed him.”
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I could keep going…
I agree. Because of the actual rarity, even more so than Great White attacks, news orgs try to milk EVERYTHING they can out of the incidents. Who cares if they destroy family members and friends who had no knowledge of the incident and nothing to do with it.
I DO strongly believe if the shooters name was NOT divulged, there would be even less incidents of mass shootings or very public shootings. People of questionable mental stability see the way they can get THEIR VERY OWN claim to fame. Much more than their “15 minutes”, as it stands now in regards to the reporting. But then how would news networks continue to be able to garner ratings days and days after a shooting if they can’t “name names”?
When people see that even if they are the fulcrum of the shooting ( the shooter) and DO NOT get their name plastered all over the news on multiple outlets and for DAYS and DAYS on end….. those unbalanced and troubled people will NOT be so inclined to attempt the same. After all, how can a shooters get people to finally take notice of “poor little ole’ me” whose life is so much harder and more troubled than anyone else in the history of the world?
Just remember when they come to confiscate its bullets first.
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It’s illuminating to see the press struggling with Carlin Holcombe’s death. Given that most won’t call him the 26th dead person in that horrific event, one can only conclude that they like legalized abortion more than they hate guns.
You would need over 13 rounds of 00 buckshot to get the same nutrition as just ONE round of Total.
It’s hard to keep track of CA gun laws, but I recall Sacramento recently passing a Statewide measure prohibiting teachers from having firearms on school grounds.
Can I reasonably see a path to the federal government signing an unconstitutional law for the purpose of confiscating commonly and lawfully owned firearms? Yes. Of course.
Can I reasonably see a path to where those firearms are actually confiscated, or any serious attempt at confiscation occurs where I live? No, I can’t.
The only local law enforcement we have is a Constable, the Sherriff is a solid 45 mins away at best, and in a different town. There is no city Police Department. The state police that live in my area, as well as constable, and a few sheriff’s deputies shoot quite often at my house. I actually had a new “neighbor” call and raise a concern with the sheriff that someone was shooting fully automatic weapons nearby. The sheriff’s office assured them that it was legal, and that they already knew about it. They should, two deputies were doing the shooting. They are all at least as vehement in their support of our rights guaranteed under the second amendment as I am. And a few of them have the “I wish a MF would” attitude when it comes to confiscation. This is the culture here. It is a culture that has existed before the US existed, it’s not going anywhere, and we aren’t alone.
You probably wont have to put up with any of this in the future. Every person will have a chip buried in their body someplace, and all the salesperson will need to do is run a wand over your bod, and instantly, all your personal info will be displayed on a screen, and stored somewhere in the shop keepers back room.
It’s later than you think! Big brother is almost here.
While wearing my tin foil hat, it dawned on me that maybe the Boston Globe was actually doing fundraising for the NRA with this article.
It will certainly help. The Boston Globe just proved the NRA’s point.
I wonder what the employer matching contribution is for the moms-basement dwelling antifa?