GUNS: The Pepuls Republic of Washington has voted to disarm the People

Saturday, April 22, 2023

https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/editorials/was-momentous-new-gun-laws-draw-a-line/

Editorials 
WA’s momentous new gun laws draw a line
April 20, 2023 at 3:06 pm 

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That pivot has been driven by the need to do something in response to massacres across this country that are plowing down children and other innocents every week. The vast majority involve legally purchased semi-automatic weapons.

On Wednesday, officials put their final touches on a law banning the sale, manufacture and distribution of assault rifles, a move that looked inconceivable just 15 years ago. The frenzy of last-minute dickering over the new law, SHB 1240, is a sign of its import.  

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These laws cannot guarantee that all citizens will be safe from indiscriminate slaughter. But they do draw a line, indicating where the bulk of this state’s electorate — who put a gun-control majority into office — stands now. 

The Seattle Times editorial board members are editorial page editor Kate Riley, Frank A. Blethen, Alex Fryer, Claudia Rowe, Carlton Winfrey and William K. Blethen (emeritus).

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This liberal State has just crossed a very interesting line.  

First, as usual and expected, it fails to realize that there is no such classification as an “assault rifle”.  Pushing that to the side, the “editorial” concedes the “vast majority involve legally purchased semi-automatic weapons”.  This law will do nothing to eliminate the “gun free zones” that crazy people, who are not stupid, seek out for their sick rampage.

Second, whenever a dictator takes over a country, the first thing that they do is disarm the people.  Ask the German Jews how well that worked out for them.  Then go to Russia, Communist China, Cambodia, and various places in Africa for further evidence.

Finally, these is that little objection about Constitutionality.  SCOTUS has made it very clear that the RKBA is a fundamental human right.  The current doctrine of “incorporation”, means the States are bound to observe the Second Amendment, And, no amount of wishing can wish it away.

So, the TL;DR summary is a piece of feel good ineffectual legislation will generate a ton of costs and legal fees for no effect. 

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GUNS: Schools need to be hard targets; not shooting galleries

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

https://nypost.com/2023/03/27/mother-of-nashville-school-shooter-audrey-hale-shared-several-gun-control-posts-on-social-media/

News nashville school shooting
Mother of Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale shared several gun control posts on social media
By David Propper 
March 27, 2023 8:04pm Updated

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The mother of the Nashville school shooter who killed six people — including three 9-year-olds — appeared to be a gun control activist who once urged friends on Facebook to sign a petition calling for keeping firearms out of schools.

“So important!” Norma Hale wrote in a March 8, 2018, Facebook post as she shared the petition to “Keep Guns Out of School” that appeared to be from the Sandy Hook Promise Foundation.

The webpage’s domain to the petition did not appear to exist anymore.

In another post from Feb. 21, 2018, Hale shared another petition from Sandy Hook Promise urging lawmakers to “Make Large-Capacity Gun Magazines Illegal.”

Hale’s adult child, Audrey Hale, carried out Monday’s horrific mass shooting at the Covenant School on Monday morning. 

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Like the war on drugs, Gooferment seems to deliberately fail at its mission.

Schools should be “hard targets” like a bank.  You don’t hear about “mass shootings” at banks or pawnshops. Hell, my local jewelry store had better security than that school apparently had.  The shooter blew out the glass front doors. Most datacenter are secure by “man trap” entrances.  You don’t just waltz in unchallenged.  Schools in New Jersey require visitors to be admitted; hell, parents don’t even get in without a “pass”.

I feel sad for the parents of all involved.  It’s a cold cruel world out there populated by crazy people and evil doers.  We need to end gun-free zones and reengineer our society to protect itself.

I note that the shooter skipped another target because it “had too much security”.  So while these shooters are evil, they are not stupid.

Argh!

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GUNS: Seems necessary use of force to protect the resident

Monday, January 9, 2023

https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2023/01/03/alleged-intruder-enters-home-window-gets-shot-dead/

Alleged Intruder Enters Home Through Window, Gets Shot Dead
AWR Hawkins3 Jan 202396

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An alleged intruder entered a Lake County, Florida, home through a window Monday and was shot dead by a person inside the house.

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Baring further evidence, it seems that this is a sad but necessary outcome.

Hard to imagine this is his first attempted break in.

While I’m pro-life, I think this is the best possible outcome  — only the bad guy pays.

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GUNS: Where there is a will, there is a way.

Wednesday, January 4, 2023

https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2022/12/28/bb-guns-live-ammo-n65667

Thai man arrested for modifying BB guns to fire live ammo
By Tom Knighton | 8:30 PM on December 28, 2022

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Like I said, creative.

Yossakorn would allegedly buy BB guns for about as much as 8,000 baht, or around $230, and sell them for 15,000 baht, or about $430.

Not too shabby of a profit, really.

Understand, Thailand has all that gun control. If gun control works as advertised, how could anyone turn a BB gun into a fully-functional firearm?

And I’m trying to figure out what video he watched on YouTube, especially since the site is known to be hell on anyone showing American audiences how to build guns, even though that’s perfectly legal here. So I’m curious just what he was watching and when did he watch it.

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Put this in the “Criminals Are Not Law Abiding” and people have God-given inalienable right of self-defense.

Feel sorry for this poor guy trying to make a few bucks empowering others.

I too am interested in what YouTube video he watched.

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GUNS: Gun-free zones are just magical thinking

Monday, December 26, 2022

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/12/5_freedombased_solutions_to_mass_shootings.html

5 Freedom-Based Solutions to Mass Shootings
By D. Parker

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1. Get rid of gun-free zones.

Gun control and gun-free zones are based on the absurd idea from the left that if no one has a gun, no one needs a gun.  Except that when these inevitably fail because criminals don’t obey the law, the excuse is offered that this happened because guns came in from the surrounding areas.

Innocent people are thus being deprived of their commonsense civil rights under a false pretense: that you will be safe and won’t need a gun because no one else will have one.  

The problem is that the gun-grabbing ghouls contradict themselves with this “logic” because there will always be a surrounding area that can be a source for firearms.  (They can’t seem to explain this with island nations like Australia, New Zealand, or the U.K. — are dolphins smuggling AR-15s?)  Thus, the only solution is to simply stop depriving people of their rights and let them deter crime themselves.

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Any politicians and bureaucrats proposing such stupidity are guilty of “magical thinking”!

“We, The Sheeple” need to hold them accountable.

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GUNS: It seems when you go out into the “wild” that you can no longer assume that you are the predator; you might be the prey

Wednesday, December 21, 2022

https://www.cnet.com/science/biology/a-coyote-unexpectedly-killed-a-human-in-2009-scientists-now-know-why/#ftag=CAD590a51e

Science, Biology
A Coyote Unexpectedly Killed a Human in 2009. Scientists Now Know Why

  • It’s likely due to an unexpected dietary adaptation.

Monisha Ravisetti
Dec. 12, 2022 3:27 p.m. PT

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In 2009, 19-year-old folk singer Taylor Mitchell was attacked by a pack of coyotes while on a hike at the Cape Breton Highlands National Park in Canada. She was just about to start the popular Skyline Trail when climbers in the area saw the animals close-in, unprovoked. 

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“These coyotes are doing what coyotes do, which is, when their first or second choice of prey isn’t available, they’re going to explore and experiment and change their search range,” Gehrt said. “They’re adaptable, and that is the key to their success.” 

From those movement devices, the team tested to see whether coyotes in the park were just familiar with people. However, patterns showed that the animals largely avoided areas of the park frequented by people. Instead, they preferred walking around at night.

“The lines of evidence suggest that this was a resource-poor area with really extreme environments that forced these very adaptable animals to expand their behavior,” Gehrt said. Or as the paper puts it, “our results suggest extreme unprovoked predatory attacks by coyotes on people are likely to be quite rare and associated with unique ecological characteristics.”

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Hard to imagine that a pack of coyotes could take down a human, IF (BIG IF) that human was armed.

While I’d be most afraid of running into a bear, I’d like to be prepared.  I’d be most comfortable with my COLT 1911 45.  I think that would discourage most predators — permanently.  

With nine in a magazine, and at close range — say 10 feet — I’m pretty (overconfident) that I could his the target.  Especially if it was moving towards me.  I’d also assume that the predator would not like the loud noise, flash, and smoke.

I figure that I could deal with any “no hunting” objections as long as I was still alive to dispute them.

Seriously, why would you be so naïve as to think you don’t need protection.  Back in the 70’s, in Nevada, away form the cities, I saw most folks packing some sort of firearm,  At a gas station, I ask one attendant why he was pack in at the gas pump.  I expected “crime” as the answer; “rattlesnakes” was the reply.  “They ain’t afraid of humans; horses yes, humans no”.  I filed that away in my memory banks and correctly answered the question in USAF survival school: “What animal is most dangerous to a human alone in a survival situation?”  Not bad for a city boy and I shot expert too; guess I had watched too many westerns.

YMMV but preparation beats regrets.

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GUNS: In Civil War 2.0, it appears that insurgents always win; war 5.0 will change the paradigm of war AGAIN

Tuesday, December 13, 2022

https://qr.ae/prp8Rx

Aditya Sharma
Moderator at the Munitions Annex2y

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If every US gun-owning civilians started rebelling against the government for some reason, how hard would it be for the US military to stop them?

With all due respect, good sir, I do suspect that you’ve framed this question incorrectly. Instead of saying:

“If every US gun-owning civilians started rebelling against the government for some reason, how hard would it be for the US military to stop them?

You should have asked this:

If every US gun-owning civilians started rebelling against the government for some reason, how long would the government last?

Why would I say this? After all, doesn’t just about every defense study from the post-war era rank the U.S. Military as one of the most powerful armed forces in the world? The answer to this question, you see, is really simple.

There are 100 million gun owners and at most 3 million members of the military and police[1][2][3].

Even if we round up the numbers of police and military to 5 million, it would still be quite a stretch to see them fighting a well-armed group that is nearly 20 times as large as they are. This is despite ignoring several facts that don’t look good for the military:

Supply chains largely dependent on civilians

If the reason for civil war is gun confiscation, it’s highly unlikely that the military, being mainly conservative, will support war against it’s own citizens[4]
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Continous failures throughout history to successfully defeat insurgencies. Let’s look at three examples to prove my point:

  • Vietnam: The US entered a poor, devastated, war-torn nation. Should have been an easy fight, right? Wrong. After all those years, they had to pack up and leave – and we all know the result
  • Iraq 2.0: They should have taken this one easily – flat terrain, overwhelming firepower, willing politicians, and poorly-trained and led opponents. Yet after 20 years, there has been no result.
  • Afghanistan: Same as the last two. A nation of illiterate goat-herders pushed back the world’s strongest fighting force. This was, of course, only a short while after they kicked out the Soviets.

None of these three examples looks good for the US. However, it gets worse. American gun owners are better equipped, educated, and funded than any of Afghanistan, Vietnam, or Iraq ever were. Not only are American gun owners well equipped, but they are well led too, with 18.2 million veterans – many of whom are likely experienced with asymmetric warfare from Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam[5]. They understand the doctrines and policies set in place to combat an insurgency – and how to work around said doctrines.

Ignoring all these drawbacks that the military faces, and negating any pragmatic and moral argument and simplifying this motion down to a question of numbers, the military still does not win. Under any circumstances. Sorry.

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All politicians and bureaucrats need to run out in front of the parade and pretend to be leading.  If the parade turns on them, then they are toast.

‘If a battle can’t be won, don’t fight it,’ cautioned Sun Tzu, the revered Chinese warrior from 544-496 BC ”The Art of War’

“Let us hope our weapons are never needed – but do not forget what the common people of this nation knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny.” – Edward Abbey

“…if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”
— Churchill, The Second World War, vol. 1, The Gathering Storm (London: Cassell, 1948, 272, on the British guarantee to Poland in Spring 1939.)

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Armed neighbors stop home invasion, protect woman and her two children – Bearing Arms

Wednesday, November 30, 2022

 
— Read on bearingarms.com/camedwards/2022/11/30/armed-neighbors-stop-home-invasion-protect-woman-and-her-two-children-n64838

Of course no media coverage because it goes against the anti-gun narrative.

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GUNS: Taking all the gun away from the people in the USA — not very likely

Thursday, November 17, 2022

https://www.quora.com/Why-cant-we-create-an-agency-to-specifically-collect-guns-from-gun-owners-in-America-It-will-consist-of-1000-members-and-will-make-an-announcement-for-every-house-It-will-ask-the-owners-to-come-out-with-their-hands/answer/Ferdinand-Reinke?prompt_topic_bio=1

FROM QUORA, by a troll, obviously looking for clicks

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Why can’t we create an agency to specifically collect guns from gun owners in America? It will consist of 1000 members and will make an announcement for every house. It will ask the owners to come out with their hands up if there’s any hesitation.

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Just out of curiosity, where do the families of these 1000 Gun Confiscation agents live? Do you think they will survive. Read that novel “Unintended Consequences” by John Ross (if you can find and afford a copy). A cadre can start taking out family members and see how long any agency lasts.

I think the reason that the powers that be want this book scarce is that it gives a “how to manual” for how to defeat the US big Gooferment. Killing by random unconnected patriots in a decentralized fashion would make Viet Nam or Afghanistan look like a cake walk. Never mind all the gun owners; how about all the other patriots. Talk about real ugly real fast. Once people have nothing to live for, it can get real dangerous for the ruling class real fast.

“There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.” — character Sergeant Charles Zim in Starship Troopers, a book Robert A. Heinlein, author

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? . . .” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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GUNS: Could the US Gooferment ever sieze all the guns?

Thursday, November 3, 2022

FROM QUORA

Kelly Jones
Knows a bit about firearms, and about physics

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If firearm confiscation were to become law, and gun owners fought against it, how many fatalities of either police or civilians would gun control activists be willing to accept before abandoning the effort?

Why would there be ANY fatalities?

Let’s think about the sides here:

On one side, you have gun owners, who aren’t willing to surrender their rights. They have guns.

On that same side, you have police, who (for the most part) are in favor of ‘civilian’ ownership of guns, and who (for the most part) have taken an oath to defend the constitution. They, also, have guns.

The only ones on the other side are the misguided citizens and politicians who illegally voted for gun confiscation. They, for the most part, have no guns. How, exactly, are they going to pose a lethal threat to the other side? This just seems like a non-starter, and possibly the shortest conflict ever.

The only question is, how will the victors handle those who sought to deprive them of their rights?

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Sorry, but it is an interesting “thought experiment”.

I’d think it would be interesting to consider what would happen in the “inner city” first.  I’ve often written that the drug gangs would be a fine example of a guerrilla militia since Viet Nam.  Farmed by day; warrior by night.  The police can’t currently control the guns in the streets today under today’s rules.  What will happen if the elite Gooferment officials (i.e., ivory tower politicians and bureaucrats) declare it “open season”.  I doubt that police would enforce those orders.

Now let’s consider what happens in the rural areas where the average hunter may have better and more practiced with arms.  That’s not going to be pretty.

Now let’s consider all the arm chair keyboard warriors.  I’d bet that half give up their guns, but the other half would give a good account of “from my cold dead hands”.  That will be be a blood bath. 

In short, it would be short, bloody, and a reaffirmation of the RKBA.

Consider that in the USA there are probably a lot more guns than people.  And, those trains will not be loading willing participants.

Most patriots will remember the Holocaust, the Japanese American interment, the Trail of Tears, and Gooferment’s violent history of suppression here and abroad.

Yes, how will the trials after work out for the gun grabbers.

Hope it never comes to that.

Peace.

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