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I haven’t seen much on this. I only saw one small blurb in all the reporting noise that said the shooter had 1 plate. Essentially meaning he had a vest designed to carry stuff… a load bearing vest of some sort? Anyone hear further clarity about that?
But did he do the turtle face thing….?
MM is lucky, in mho, not to get shot while pulling that stunt.
I think he would have been luckier getting shot. It’s gotta suck to be him.
Every MSM outlet is dragging out this tired piece of work every chance now: https://law.stanford.edu/2015/10/12/professor-john-donohue-facts-do-not-support-claim-that-guns-make-us-safer/
Most obvious flaw is lumping the lawful in with the criminal. As if John Q Public carrying day in and day out is equivalent to Jose Gangbabgerino blasting out the passengers window of his CRX with a stolen Draco.
How is saying you chose the best tool you had for the job, politicizing anything?
All I can think is, this guy must be under serious pressure from the aftermath of trying to save life, and that’s a shame.
Maybe because the ONLY time you and Bloom Daddy rant about stronger gun laws is when the mass murderer is a white man. See how that works?
For years, I have preached, “It’s not what you shoot him with, it’s where you shoot him that counts.”
Willeford was smart enough and possessed the skill necessary to know where to shoot, to exploit the vulnerabilities of the his body armor.
I stand and applaud what he had the courage and presence of mind to do.
But, for the Bozos who seek to capitalize on the tragedy to promote their favorite black-gun, “Try again. He could, probably, have accomplished the same result with a Glock 19.”
It was Willeford that made the difference, not the gun.
This is all very simple. Two things:
Private Property
and
Shall not be Infringed
Property owners absolutely have the right to not allow guns on their property. And you have the right to not step foot on said property.
The government cannot infringe on a right. If the property is “public” meaning that the government owns the property then it cannot prevent people from carrying guns.
“The government cannot infringe on a right. If the property is “public” meaning that the government owns the property then it cannot prevent people from carrying guns.”
The government can, and does. Stating “it can’t” is meaningless. We, POTG, have no sovereign, absolute “right” to act as if law we do not support is null and void….if we wish to remain “….the most law-abiding segment of the population.” Even though I believe that the citizenry (the militia) should be able to to toe-to-toe with the standing army (all the military) as regards firepower (if we and/or the community) can afford it, reality is every constitutionally protected right is subject to “infringement” or some sort. We either abide by the law, change it, or declare revolution to overthrow it. “Shall not be infringed” is not moving the ball forward; it is a distraction useful to the anti-gun mob.
The only thing that that picture shows is a woman and her sugar daddy.
– If their proposals are so good, why do their opponents have to dig out what they’ve done? It’s almost like they are trying to sneak something through. Why do it that way?
– They can’t ban it outright, so wrap it in so many exceptions, restrictions, n permissions you can’t do it anyway.
– What problem does this solve? Concretely, what gets better, at what cost, compared to what? I don’t see answers to that.
It seems the second and third questions answer the first.
ACLU joined the NRA and mental health organizations to block passage of the bill restricting vets etc. who couldn’t balance their checkbooks, gun rights. Why? No due process. Same response from ACLU about no fly list. Same. No due process.
Meanwhile the press says Republicans want terrorists and mentally ill to have guns. See what happens when you try to respect the Constitution?
I go on a case by case basis on any organization. NRA didn’t say a peep when legal concealed carrier Castille was shot by police. I’m not giving any organization a pass. That’s like trusting the Dems. Regardless of how horrible Hillary is, is Trump progun/NRA, Pro Life, or a Republican? Case by case for me.
I just want to say, in case it’s not clear, I’m not Tom Lambert.
And what I quoted in yesterday’s daily digest comments was most of, but not all of, Tom’s email blast from yesterday.
Here’s the email:
http://mailchi.mp/miopencarry/moc-opposes-sb-584-senate-gun-control-bill-takes-rights-away-only-give-back-with-more-trainingfeespermission
Including the opening paragraph:
Yesterday, the Senate Government Operations Committee, chaired by Senate Majority Leader Arlan Meekhof, substituted significant changes into SB 584 at the start of the committee hearing and without any testimony or prior notice. These changes are not friendly to gun owners in Michigan and have caused MOC to turn from support to oppose for SB 584. Today, the Senate passed this bill, along with others, and sent them to the House.
And the closer, following Tom’s signature:
Michigan Open Carry, Inc is a Not-For-Profit organization that depends on our dues paying members to continue our operation. We are an all-volunteer organization. As such, no one is paid a salary and very few of the personal expenses of our officers are reimbursed. Won’t you consider joining us or renewing as a dues paying member today? If you need technical help with the process, please email [email protected].
He can have what ever option he wants, but He must not be considered for a Pro 2A administration position… Who nominated him? They also, SHOULD NOT BE PART OF A PRO 2A Administration… Contact your representative and let them KNOW -> https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/map
Their voting record is a PUBLIC RECORD and will be remembered the next time they come looking for votes.
Yeah… Interestingly, as a shorter stocky guy (5’10” 200 lbs), I’ve found that most rifles are a poor fir for me out of the box. One of the reasons I’ve rebedded my Remington 700 into a Magpul stock is that I can run it with no spacers for a length of pull that allows me to naturally put my eye into the eye box of the 3-9×40 scope I have mounted on it. The original Remington stock always caused me to have to crane my neck out (something difficult to do when you don’t have much of a neck) and getting a proper sight picture has always been a challenge.
I would imagine he replays his mental video of the incident about 100 times a day.
What if I……..
It is normal to do that for awhile after any traumatic event.
His will be prolonged by the media attention that goes with this.
I wish him well.
For Gods sake people. Learn your place at a crime scene! You’re supposed to be dead on the ground in a pool of blood. NOT going all willy-nilly defending your life. It is SO MUCH easier for the police when the good guys can be counted without them moving around all alive and such.
Aside from security forces, CCTs and Pararescue and basic marksmanship qualification what use has the Air Force for use of a rifle hell, their booger hooks get more action with a pen, joystick or just hooking boogers.
Did you know that it is impossible to eat lunch while rolling around on the floor laughing? LOL I love the corgi attachment, since I love corgis… but the “blame thrower” is the winner by a mile.
All better now, finishing lunch. 🙂
What an idiot.
Quite often, firearms owners are their own worst enemies. The duck hunters don’t like the AR-15 “black rifles” so they see no problem if attempts are made to ban them. The traditional rifle owners don’t like machine guns, so they have no problem with them being legislated out of existence. Some pistol owners see nothing wrong with certain long guns being outlawed just as some rifle owners would have no problem seeing pistols banned.
Friends, ALL firearms advocates must “hang together” and realize that an assault on ANY means of firearms ownership and self-defense is an assault on ALL forms of firearms ownership and self-defense.
There is absolutely NO ROOM for complacency among ANY Second Amendment supporters. An attack on one is an attack on ALL…
ALL firearms laws are unconstitutional on their face. Imagine the hue and cry if “reasonable” restrictions were placed on First Amendment activities, especially with the “mainstream media”. The Second Amendment is clear–what part of “shall not be infringed” do politicians and the media not understand…of course, they understand full well…it’s part of their communist agenda…
to be fair, the chainsaw bayonet thing falls into roughly the same category of dumb crap youtubers put on an ar to make a video that included bump fire stocks.
It is annoying the Roberts court didn’t make clear in the Heller decision that the right to keep also inferred the right to carry.
It is much more annoying considering the Court nearly immediately had to make clear to the city of Chicago as they did in the McDonald decision that yes, Heller means you as well, Chicago.
It would have been nice if the court could have realized by their need to decide on McDonald the kinds of bullshit games Chicago fully intends to play with the 2A and make clear at the time that “and bear arms” meant lawful citizens could carry in public as well as own in their own homes.
But, Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
We’re gonna have to do it the hard way, via SCOTUS sometime in the next few years. I hope the keepers of the faithful flame of freedom maintain a stream of legal challenges in the pipeline until the court balance changes.
As far as Kennedy hopefully retiring this time around or any of the other Leftists dropping dead, I can only wait, like Carly Simon, anticipating :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NwP3wes4M8
It’s not “likely a”. It’s “PROBABLY a”. A year ago, some kid who can’t figure out how to speak like a grownup got a dopey posting on the internet, and people read that kid’s bad English. I have no idea why, but people somehow felt insecure if they didn’t imitate that kid’s bad English, so it has spread like a national brain fungus.
Yeah, yeah, I do know the terminology and rules that tell us why it’s wrong to imitate that bad English, but they’re not necessary.
It’s really simple. “Likely a”, “likely is” and all the other bad, wrong uses of likely are bad and wrong. Say “probably”instead, just as we’ve always done for hundreds of years.
Who cares? People all over the world, for one thing. They look at us, see people who aren’t even smart enough to speak English as well as their little kids, and they think we’re losers.
Wanna know how to use “likely” the right way? Be un-21st-century American: USE your intelligence.
Don’t let me tell you what to believe, look it up for yourself. Then THINK. Then ask other human beings what they think. Then listen, for a change.
We’re accepting bad English instead of fixing it…like Americans used to always do…because we’re being trained to be people who never do those things, more and more.
As someone that has actually purchased an earlier 2” version of the K6S, the recoil isn’t bad at all. I compete it to shooting a SP101. Even with 158gr factory loads.
I did get rid of it because I’m not someone that wants to carry a $800 weapon around. Sold it off and regretted it.
Held a 3” version yesterday. Trigger felt even better than the earlier ones. Still trying to convince myself to buy it and carry it. Almost too pretty to do so.