If most of the US media went into full meltdown yesterday in the wake of their pet project meeting an ignominious end, you can just imagine the view from afar. Afar in this case being the U.K. The Economist, venerable though it may be, is in full freak out mode at the stupidity of it all. Despite the Churchillian title, they’re shrieking like little schoolgirls a these icky, gullible, gun-obsessed Yank yobs who never fail to demonstrate that they’re too stupid or cowardly to do what’s best for themselves. Then, right there, smack-dab in the middle of their incredulous cri de coeur, they managed to single out one of our friends for special blame attention: The Military Arms Channel‘s Col. Tim Harmsen . . .
Better grab a hanky:
The government decided to do nothing because of the political heft of Wayne LaPierre’s NRA, because of the disproportionate one-man-thirty-votes congressional representation of rural districts, because of the electoral vulnerability of red-state Democratic senators, because of the decision by Republican senators to filibuster this and every Democratic bill, and because of the monomaniacal dedication of guys like this, who on his YouTube channel goes by the name “Sturmgewehre”. In a video that got over 500,000 views, he describes the threat he sees from Ms Feinstein’s legislation:
“That’s where this gets really scary. Rifles, shotguns, and handguns that accept a detachable magazine [with more than 10 rounds] will be banned or classified as assault weapons. That means your Glock, your H&K USP, your Smith & Wesson M&P, your Ruger SR9, your Sig Sauer P226.”
You have to see the wistful, tragic expression that comes into his voice when he contemplates the fate of all these poor, beautiful little guns. It’s touching. One wonders whether there might be a more appropriate recipient of his sympathy.
As for Col. Harmsen, he says he’s “honored for being credited in having a hand in the defeat of (DiFi’s) draconian legislation. I shall wear it as a badge of honor.” And well he should. If not for the “monomaniacal dedication” of Tim and plenty more like him, things could very well have gone differently yesterday. And may still, if the pro-2A side goes back to sleep.
If you believe brainyquote.com, John Kennedy was the brain behind the aphorism that victory has a thousand fathers but defeat is an orphan. And that’s probably true. But the Military Arms Channel and Tim Harmsen certainly deserve at least a fair portion of the credit for helping to rally the troops and kill off the assault weapons ban, mag capacity limits and Manchin-Toomey. Hell, he deserves a passel of props if for no other reason than causing the editors of The Economist a fair amount of anguish and maybe even a sleepless night or two.
I love all the “Blame-storming” going on.
Really a shame……The UK used to be a great nation.
I too would be honored if the Economist deemed me worthy of their scorn. Well done, Tim!
You’re wrong Joe, it’s over, and so is your political career, say BYE BYE Joe.
16 Am Jur 2d, Sec 177 late 2d, Sec 256
So to answer the question….screw him!
I was not yet born when the colonies told ‘Mother’ England to piss off.
I am here now-Hey U.K. you have NO control over us any more,
and frankly we could care less about your wishes
ergo-F*ck Off……….
Is “venerable” a synonym for “senile”?
I can’t speak for all Pennsylvanians, but toomey definitely lost my vote. I just wish there were more winners than losers in all of this.
And MSNBCs Lawrence O’Oonnell is also blaming the NRA for slowing down the bombing investigation in Boston
http://m.newsbusters.org/blogs/jeffrey-meyer/2013/04/18/msnbc-s-lawrence-o-donnell-blames-nra-slowing-down-investigation-bost
I have to laugh…in the end, when all’s been said and done, what did Obama accomplish?
He flooded America with more guns and ammo. There are now more guns than ever in citizen’s hands thanks to him. I love it.
Good list, except I’d have to say that the decorum represented by Cruz as opposed to Schumer won’t sway anyone. People who value decency, decorum, and intelligence are already right-side voters. People who value petulance, snobbery, and baseless emotion are already left-side voters.
Cruz for President. Keep religion subdued and abortion flexible and he’d be a shoo-in. It’s time the R ticket started running on a libertarian platform.
Don’t come to our homes to enforce blatantly unconstitutional laws and violate your oaths of fidelity to the U.S. Constitution then.
My plan is to NOT get caught in my home but, if I do, I do not intend to die alone.
Yes, I would fully expect to NOT survive such an encounter. That’s perfectly ok as long as I don’t die alone.
If every guy like me only gets one in this scenario, we win because we outnumber them by the millions (plus, I’d expect after the first couple of days, they’d be getting short of personnel and be having major recruiting problems anyway.)
Just sayin’ (at least, for now).
I bought one several years back because I was looking for a cheap shotgun for home defense. It turned out to be a great buy. I have sent about 500 rounds down the barrel at the range and it’s performed flawlessly.
Maybe they were scared and wet themselves after watching all of his Tavor videos too? It looks kind of evil! (I’ll take one in FDE please)
I love watching his reviews. He shows some neat stuff. I am glad his video had so many views as it means the message is getting out. He deserves a war on the moronic media medal.
So, are we all chipping in for a trophy or something?
The Guardian (impeccably liberal in US terms) is absolutely frothing at the mouth that those brainwashed, bought-out, benighted Americans dared to differ from the progressive consensus.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/18/senate-gun-control-fail-david-simon – not recommended for the easily provoked, but it’s a good cure for low blood pressure.
The Telegraph (more old-school conservative) is pointing out that President Obama can’t get a gun-control bill passed despite supposedly having 90% of the country supporting it.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100212724/barack-obama-cant-pass-gun-control-despite-90-per-cent-support-truly-he-is-a-lame-duck-president/
Outside the media’s ivory towers, where All Them Guns Be Eeevil, the UK reaction is mostly utter indifference (it’s your business, and we’ve got problems of our own) with pockets of “useless knee-jerk legislation voted down, good thing too, but it’s still your business”.
Don’t mistake a few shrill shriekers with a platform for a general opinion, or else I’ll assume that the gorgeous, pouting Dianne Feinstein is actually speaking for mainstream America…
Also the NRA’s fault: New Coke.
I thought that was George Bush’s fault.
The encouraging thing in O’Donnell’s attack, and that of the Democrat-Media Complex generally, is its flailing, foaming-at-the-mouth, gibbering rage. They look like the guy in the straitjacket ranting as he’s being carted off, or the monkey flinging pooh from his cage. That’s all they’ve got left.
And talk about an own-goal. All Obama and the Left succeeded in doing was fortifying NRA, waking up some snoozing Americans, and encouraging them to arm themselves to the teeth.
Does this imbecile realize that gunpowder has been made since as early as the 9th century? It is not a complicated process: charcoal dust, sulfur powder, and potassium nitrate, mixed together. But, no, suddenly it is the fault of the NRA, and all gun owners by association. What a buffoon!
If he can’t accept the checks and balances of this country, then he can’t possibly understand the Constitution he swore an oath to defend as he is clearly violating it. A real Executive order against the Constitution must be met with impeachment or revolt.
The thing about liberalism is that it requires you go through life with blinders on. There’s 2 sides to every issue. Granted sometimes one side is just plain wrong, but if you’re going to argue your side you have to explain why the other side is wrong. For a liberal your answer is that the other side is made up of evil people and you never question the possibility that they might have a point.
I saw this earlier today and I thought he might have a point, but he’s completely ignoring the other side, which I assumed had something to do with cost, but the fact that it could make your gun literally blow up in your face is pertinent information. I can understand his ignorance. I can’t understand his arrogant presumptions about gun owners.
Anyway, even with “taggants” what would prevent a terrorist from buying a thousand rounds of 9mm of various brands, pulling out the bullets and making a bomb with the powder? How are they going to trace that?
Or making gunpowder. The recipe for black powder isn’t exactly a state secret. You can even get the ingredients for free, although it takes some work – especially the sulphur.
Also, while they’re saying gunpowder, that’s media-generic for any powdered mixture capable of rapid deflagration.
While it could be shavings from safety match heads, my bet is that the ‘gunpowder’ was in reality firework stuffing, as fireworks are available in many states year ’round with no record of the purchase and the carbon/permanganate mixture makes for more oomph than black powder with simpler containment-for-boom than smokeless.
There. Now I’ve put my foot in it. No doubt I’ll have black helicopters overhead by morning.
It’s a fact that The NRA’s lobbying efforts to restrict the registration of pressure cookers has hampered the investigation. With government registration of pressure cookers, we could avoid the tragedies that occur in school cafeterias all over America.
It’s OK Mr. O’Donnell. Now put your aluminum foil hat on and the mothership will be along to get you soon.
I also knew Nathan. He was very talented. Who are you to judge somebody? Haven’t you ever made a bad decision? You probably have. Nathan’s was worse but you shouldn’t judge him for it. Nathan was an amazing artist and Musician. If you don’t know him don’t judge him. You guys talk all this crap and half of you don’t know what you are saying!! I appreciate your comment JennyBee!
Admittedly confused and seeking enlightenment…
Mr. Reid identifies the exact type of semi-automatic firearms that have been available to the public since the early 1960’s, now owned by Millions of law-abiding American Citizens and utilized by thousands of people within various agencies of government as ‘assault weapons’.
He states that “assault weapons have one purpose and one purpose only: to kill a large number of people really quick.”
Meanwhile, the DHS has an outstanding ‘statement of work order’ for a total of 7,000 5.56x45mm NATO, select-fire firearms for use in close quarters and/or when maximum concealment is required — designated within the order as Personal Defense Weapons. ( PDW )
https://www.fbo.gov/utils/view?id=09c3d5e933bc24416b752b57294a17b3
Mail your congress person a copy of the Anarchist’s Cookbook with note appended: “And you expect a background check to buy ammunition reloading supplies will accomplish what exactly?”
Damn. Have to go back to making my own nitrocellulose explosives. Have to get me some gold cleaner, drain cleaner and old dish towels…
Note to self: any doomsday weapons I fabricate shall employ wiring of uniform, colour, size and type.
“Cut the blue wire…”
“They’re ALL blue!”
>;{)>
As a law-abiding Illinois resident, I welcome the arguing among parties and upcoming Constitutional Carry.
Go MAC!
yeah, until we find out that they bought their firearms legally from the LGS. Then we’re screwed.
time for Boston area homeowners to cower in fear and if necessary, bend over and kiss their unarmed arse good bye.
I’m the first to claim that police are “generally” over-armed for their day-to-day business. SWAT raids on non-violent criminals or “neighborly tips” are way overboard.
With known terrorists, confirmed armed suspects etc. I’m happy to see the tanks come out. So far, it appears that Boston area police have a bit more trigger discipline and target identification skills than the LAPD.
Side note: I don’t think EVERY police department/LE agency needs to be SWAT ready. Local/transit police should be armed for day-to-day stuff. The big guns should belong to the county/state/federal boys (and girls) in blue, or black, or camo…
It is time to Cry Havoc! and unleash Ralph upon the suspected bomber.
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