Michael Bloomberg pays Shannon Watts good money — and lots of it — to regularly, reliably spout the anti-gun party line. On command, no prompting required. So when yesterday’s news broke that the illegal immigrant who shot and killed Kate Steinle had been found not guilty of murder (or even manslaughter), Shannon dutifully jumped on Twitter to address her carefully curated followers (we’ve long since been blocked from her account) express her exasperation by implying that the outrage being expressed was due to irrational xenophobia or outright racism rather than the fact that her killer had used a gun.
Two problems here. First, Steinle’s killer — Jose Ines Garcia Zarate — was a five-times deported illegal alien. Someone who never should have been in the country at all, let alone wandering the streets of San Francisco, a “sanctuary city” that does all it can to avoid cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. That fact was the source of most of the outrage in the aftermath of the shooting, during the run-up to the trial and now that Garcia Zarate has been acquitted.
Second, there’s another inconvenient fact that Our Friend Shannon managed to omit in her hoplophobic hot take on the verdict. Garcia Zarate didn’t just waltz into his local gun store (even if San Francisco had any) and buy a pistol. No, the gun used to kill Steinle had been entrusted to a federal employee, a ranger for the Bureau of Land Management. The SIG P239 had been stolen from his car a week before the shooting.
Just how the pistol came to be in Garcia Zarate’s possession is still in dispute. During the trial, his attorney claims he happened to find it in a paper bag. Pardon us if we’re skeptical.
However he got the gun, though, the fact remains that this was a federally-issued firearm. It was given to one of the few people who those in the Civilian Disarmament Industrial Complex like Ms. Watts claim are the only ones knowledgable and trustworthy enough to own and wield them.
Never mind the fact that the shooting occurred in one of the most anti-gun cities in the most 2A-hostile state in the country. A place where every possible roadblock (so far) has been put up to discourage civilians from purchasing, keeping and bearing arms. According to Shannon, the lesson here is that we must somehow “keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people.” Yet all the gun laws in the world — and California has enacted most of them — wouldn’t have prevented Steinle’s death.
Don’t think for a minute that Watts doesn’t know about Garcia Zarate’s immigration status and history or the fact he used a fed’s stolen gun to kill Steinle as she walked on the pier with her father that day in 2015. But it just wouldn’t do to let details like that harsh her anti-gun talking point. Narrative uber alles, after all.
Victims of illegal arrests will be paid compensation? WTF? What about charging, convicting, and imprisoning the douche bag(s) that committed that particular assault and kidnapping. Why is it always the tax payers that are punished for government employees crime?
I believe that in San Francisco, Federal LEOs can’t carry in courthouses or many local government buildings. So they have to leave their government issued weapons in their government issued cars, which serve as ‘steal me’ signs.
So, Shannon, are you campaigning against issuing guns to Federal LE, or are you campaigning against SanFran’s Gun Free Zones, or are you campaigning against California’s Illegal Alien Protection Zones?
(because I can support you on all three of those, with the exception of Customs and Border Patrol at our actual borders, and Rangers in parks with dangerous large animals)
I’d bet federal LEOs can take their guns wherever they damn well please under some federal statute.
It’s not just the Democrats – stop trying to politicize it. Politicians from across the ENTIRE political spectrum are proving that they’re nothing more than depraved sexual predators. Need I remind you of Ray Moore or the Cheeto-in-chief?
Rabid Racist Jeff Sessions and Herr Drumpf now cannot deny the truth and that is that if the immigrant had been White and a Citizen he never would have spent even one day in jail. The real cause of the tragedy was a Moron Government Employee that left an unsecured gun in his private vehicle in a high crime area and the gun was stolen and then abandoned where the homeless man picked it up wrapped in a white cloth. It went off and hit the payment and hit an innocent young girl. He never should have spent a day in jail over the shooting only in regards to being deported.
The racism by Herr Drumpf and the southern rabid Racist Jeff Sessions prove both are not fit to hold public office. THREE CHEERS TO CALIFORNIA WHO HAS REJECTED CAPITALVANIA AND THE GREED MONGER RACIST REPUBLICANS WHO ARE NOT FIT TO BE CALLED HUMAN BEINGS.
Meanwhile Michael Flynn has pleaded guilty as sin and everyone is wondering if Herr Drumpf will ask Putin for Asylum in Russia next door to Edward Snowden. Herr Drumpf cannot leave soon enough.
PERHAPS TEXAS SHOULD LOOK TO CALIFORNIA FOR GUIDANCE ON HOW TO BECOME A CIVILIZED STATE AND CONDUCT TRIALS ON THE EVIDENCE NOT ON RABID RACISM.
This is yet another prime example of why women shouldn’t be allowed to vote.
People here at TTAG think that Watts is simply full of crap. I believe you’re wrong. This woman is a PR flack, and she knows her business. This comment is anything but random stupidity from Watts.
This is venal mendacity in pursuit of blaming felony murder on the presence of a gun, instead of attributing the actions to a human felon, who violated at least six gun laws in California that I can think of off the top of my head. I predict that if you went down a street in California and asked people what they thought of Watts’ lies, you’d find a majority of females agree with her, demand “more gun laws.” These females would blithely ignore not only the number of gun laws this Mexican dirtbag already broke, but also how many of those laws were not even brought up at trial that would have been slam-dunk felony charges for the prosecutor.
When more information comes out, I’m going to be very curious to learn the makeup of the jury and how they acted during the trial.
CA says you can’t have 80% firearms, but they can’t protect you from 100% firearms (or much of anything else).
Here’s the good part though. They can’t protect themselves, really, either.
The ‘grid’ is equally as vulnerable as the ‘gridded’, if not more so. That’s what 2A is all about.
“Question of the Day: Do You Buy Guns ‘Off the Grid’? (In Theory)”
Uhhh…
Or google “dark web” https://youtu.be/YuOBzWF0Aws
I am staring at the gun on my desk and I am having a panic attack. Just as in the Zarate case, I am worried that the gun will go off all by itself.
Maybe a gun can have a spirit possession? If a bad ghost/demon can move objects around in the room, why can’t they also pull the trigger on a gun? Still yet, always pointing the gun in a safe direction won’t help because the demon will just point the gun at its intended victim. I think the safest approach is to not have a round loaded in the chamber. I’m pretty sure most evil ghosts will find it impossible to rack the slide on my S&W Shield.
– Signed your Libtard thinking friend
The media has gone out of their way to push the fairy tale narritive since Kennedy. Couldn’t really do it with the Clintons, but the moment the Obamas came along, they latched onto it again.
At last, after a hundred plus years, an innovative company like Springfield has finally put a grip zone on its gun! Throughout the decades of my life I have seen pistols fly out of the hands of hundreds of shooters creating a very dangerous situation. Thank you Springfield Armory for the huge technical advancement in the handgun industry. I salute you!
That wallet cost more than i paid for my Gen 4 Glock 29……..
I live in MD. Stupid laws. I go over to VA to get my 30 round mags. Possession is legal here. I have no 10 round mags. As for rifles, any ar without a cutout in the barrel, ie M4 cutout, is legal. And now that they removed them from the regulated list, it’s cash and carry. It used to be that AR’s, no matter, we’re regulated and required a 7 day wait. AR 10? Lol not even a single law prohibits them. Not as bad as it seems here. I build a bunch of midlength rifles so I never run into the “oh no, I can’t use this barrel because it has a cutout” problem. Maryland is so damn stupid it’s ridiculous. Democrats…
As well he should be. It’s a tragedy all around, but I’m pretty sure this is a textbook involuntary manslaughter. Don’t shoot at stuff you can’t see.
More like negligent homicide.
Listen, I don’t want to win any contest if it has anything to do with this photo.
This cash just arrived from the Nigerian Prince! Who knew?
Funny, I just moved to Missouri and had to sit through 8 hours of the worst mandatory training I’ve ever heard of and shoot a qualifier to get my MO CCW. Yes, we have constitutional carry, but Gun Free zones carry force of law UNLESS you have a CCW, in which case it’s simple trespass. So, no, it’s not that simple.
And when I say worst, I mean “instructor repeatedly and intentionally sweeps himself and everybody else but insists it’s okay because he made sure it wasn’t loaded” worst.
I seem to remember reading that Democrats campaigned for the Fugitive Slave Act even though it contravened states rights.
Hudsons website won’t let me send him an email because I’m not from his district.
To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide a means by which nonresidents of a State whose residents may carry concealed firearms may also do so in the State
This bill amends the federal criminal code to allow a qualified individual to carry a concealed handgun into or possess a concealed handgun in another state that allows individuals to carry concealed firearms.
A qualified individual must: (1) be eligible to possess, transport, or receive a firearm under federal law; (2) carry a valid photo identification document; and (3) carry a valid concealed carry permit issued by, or be eligible to carry a concealed firearm in, his or her state of residence.
Ok taken together, and not being a scholar in the ancient archaic language or lawyerese, I take it to mean that your state (CA for example) would have to recognize any other state’s permit, be it non resident or resident so long as, you are eligible to own a firearm under federal laws, carry photo ID, and BE ELIGIBLE to carry a firearm in you home state. However, the clause about being issued one in your home state is slightly worrisome but I doubt it will be a huge issue in most states. NY, CA, NJ, MD, and a couple others may abuse it and the language really should be changed to include non resident permits since let’s face it those states ain’t gonna get any better about issuing actual permits. It will however enable people that live in bordering states (VA) if they work in a slave state (NJ) to carry and not get arrested and harassed during a simple traffic stop a la Shaneen Allen.
I totally agree with him. I have been to concealed carry classes and some of them are a complete joke. In the shooting part of it I have even seen untrained highly intelligent people (one was a doctor) do such stupid things with a loaded gun I could not leave the class fast enough to save my own life. And now we are going to have some of these Morons coming at us from every State in the Union. Lord forbid it. Now that is reality even a monkey could not argue against.
Rep Hudson sent out an email today with a survey asking whether the recipients supported the Concealed Carry legislation or not. I’m in his district so I don’t know if it only went to his district or anyone in his e-mail list. I of course chose yes and submitted it but it made me wonder what it meant that he was sending the survey.
Uh, like I was gonna’ turn all my irons in, Man, ’cause of treating my, uh, “medical condition,” but then like the ice cream man drove by and I was like just barely able to scrounge enough change from under my sofa cushions before he got away, Man, and then I like just forgot. Happens, Man. Don’t be so uptight, Man. Like dig it, right?
The whole point of the Bill of Rights is to limit the ability of the government (states included) to infringe on certain inalienable rights. From that perspective it really doesn’t matter whether Californians or Texans don’t agree with certain amendments, the whole point is that these amendments are limitation on states rights.
And it’s not tyrannical to enforce these if we truly believe these are rights- not all government power is bad. This is one of the few things are government absolutely should do. This was the very intent of enshrining certain rights in a national document. It’s absolutely bonkers to clean we’ve strayed from our roots in this regard.
And how many of these “Violent Criminals” are registered Democrats?
Too many different guns/grips/manual of Arms
G19, 43
EMP C3
P-10c
Kahr CM9 and CT9
PPQ, CCP
VP9
Metro Arms 5” 9mm
If I’d quit serial buying (I shoot them all-so not a collector) and focused on one or six, I’d be better.