New Zealand Gang Refuses To Give Up Their Guns

Thursday, April 4, 2019

We’ve often countered arguments in favor of gun bans by pointing out that criminals aren’t going to give up their guns. This is often laughed at by anti-gunners, either that or they argue it’s irrelevant for some ridiculous reason.Now, with New Zealand on the cusp of banning certain firearms, the nation’s most notorious gang has vowed not to give up their guns.

Source: New Zealand Gang Refuses To Give Up Their Guns

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(1) Criminals don’t disarm because of any law, diktat, or regulation.

(2) One of the sparks of the American revolution was the attempt by the British Army to seize munitions at Lexington and Concord.  Look how that worked out!

(3) Isn’t self-defense a basic human right?

(4) The Gooferment has abrogated, by its own court decisions (i.e., no specific duty to protect anyone), its end of the supposed “social contract” (i.e., the citizen pledges allegiance and the government pledges protection).

“Inasmuch as the Constitution was never signed, nor agreed to, by anybody, as a contract, and therefore never bound anybody, and is now binding upon nobody; and is, moreover, such an one as no people can ever hereafter be expected to consent to, except as they may be forced to do so at the point of the bayonet, it is perhaps of no importance what its true legal meaning, as a contract, is. Nevertheless, the writer thinks it proper to say that, in his opinion, the Constitution is no such instrument as it has generally been assumed to be; but that by false interpretations, and naked usurpations, the government has been made in practice a very widely, and almost wholly, different thing from what the Constitution itself purports to authorize. He has heretofore written much, and could write much more, to prove that such is the truth. But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain – that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.” Lysander Spooner (1808-1887), No Treason (1870) http://praxeology.net/LS-NT-6.htm#no.6

(5) One theory of “human rights” is that you are only entitled to those rights that you are willing to fight, and die, for. Those, that you earn, you get to keep.  All rights are God given!

“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

“From my cold dead hand” is more than a bumper sticker. It’s a challenge to any would be genocidal tyrant.

“You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.” — apocryphal unsourced quote attributed to Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

So too, you can disarm the American people without their own cooperation.

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Border Agents Rescue Migrant Mother And Her Three Kids Right Before They Drowned In The Rio Grande

Thursday, April 4, 2019

Border Patrol agents rescued a Guatemalan family of four before they drowned to death attempting to cross the U.S. southern border. A forceful current swept a woman and her three children, ages 2, 4 and 15, downriver when they attempted to cross the Rio Grande on March 28.

Source: Border Agents Rescue Migrant Mother And Her Three Kids Right Before They Drowned In The Rio Grande

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In case anyone hasn’t figured it out, this is a slow motion national and humanitarian disaster all cause by the welfare / warfare Gooferment!

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Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 had sensor damaged by foreign object at takeoff | Daily Mail Online

Wednesday, April 3, 2019

The doomed Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max that crashed and killed 157 people last month reportedly had its angle-of-attack sensor damaged on takeoff from a foreign object or bird.

Source: Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 had sensor damaged by foreign object at takeoff | Daily Mail Online

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Pretty bad engineering if a bird strike can know a plane out of the air.

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Supreme Court says the Constitution does not ensure a ‘painless’ execution – Los Angeles Times

Tuesday, April 2, 2019

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the Constitution does not guarantee a “painless death” for condemned murderers, deciding that a Missouri inmate may be executed by a lethal injection despite a rare, severe condition that could cause him to suffocate.By a 5-4 vote, the court rejected Russell Bucklew’s claim it would be cruel and unusual punishment to inject him because it could trigger a hemorrhage and choking. He maintained the state must seek out another method of execution, such as lethal gas, to carry out his execution.

Source: Supreme Court says the Constitution does not ensure a ‘painless’ execution – Los Angeles Times

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Doesn’t KILLING SOMEONE fit the standard of “cruel and unusual”?

And, as we have learned from Project Innocence, mistakes happen for which we do not yet have a “pencil eraser”.  Oh well, too bad for you.

As a little L libertarian pro-lifer, where does the Gooferment gets its “authority” to kill citizens, or for that matter anyone?

As we can see from the actions of past “Presidents”, human life means very little when it stands in their way.  Need a list?  It’s left for an exercise to the reader to itemize the Presidents who have killed this way.

(Hint: Good old Honest Abe ordered the killing of non-combatant citizens and destroying their livelihoods during the War of Norther Aggression.  That was a FIRST in the annals of civilized warfare!  Argh!)

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LAPD Wants To Cancel Citizens’ Concealed Carry Permits

Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Permits to carry a concealed firearm are allowed under California law but it’s up to local police chiefs and sheriffs to decide if an applicant has a valid reason to obtain one.

The plaintiffs in the 1994 case, called Assenza, et al. v. City of Los Angeles, et al., sued because the LAPD had a long-standing practice of simply denying every applicant.The City settled and promised in 1995 the LAPD would issue permits to the 30 plaintiffs, according to court records.

“The City should keep its word,” said attorney Burt Jacobson, a former federal prosecutor and one of the plaintiffs in the case. “They wanted a settlement, and they wrote the settlement!” Jacobson said he’s faced recent threats as a result of court cases that ended many years ago.

Source: LAPD Wants To Cancel Citizens’ Concealed Carry Permits

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So, the “City” sought and agree to a settlement and now wants to abrogate it.

You can’t trust the “gun grabbers” … … EVER.

No compromise ever.

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SECESSION: Is it reasonable that 320M+ people are ruled from one city?

Monday, April 1, 2019

2019-Apr-01

https://youtu.be/IXOEdvfMeIY

Secession: The Reasonable Option Everyone Resists | Tom Woods
Published on Jan 30, 2015

The growing number of secession movements around the world gives rise to our topic: breaking away from current government structures that do so much harm to liberty, peace, and prosperity. Recorded at “Breaking Away: The Case for Secession”—the Mises Circle in Houston, Texas, on 24 January 2015.

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Is it reasonable that 320M+ people are ruled from one city and handful of “elite” politicians and bureaucrats?

I think not. 

The USA needs to devolve back to the “United States of America”.

“If this be treason, make the most of it.” — Patrick Henry “Virginia Resolves” May 30, 1765

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GUNS: “Red Flag” — no due process AND no penalty for malicious use

Sunday, March 31, 2019

2019-Mar-31

https://bearingarms.com/tom-k/2019/03/29/colorado-senate-passes-red-flag-bill/

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Look, the problem with red flag laws is simple to understand. One is that there’s no real due process involved. Someone says, “Bill is a threat to himself or others” and a judge simply says, “Alrighty, then,” signs a piece of paper, and now Bill loses his guns. He had no opportunity to respond. Bill didn’t get to tell the judge that Sally just said that because she thinks all gun owners are dangerous. He doesn’t get to reply that she misunderstood something he said. He doesn’t get to explain that she’s just angry at him because of political disagreements between the two.

Bill doesn’t get to say anything until after the fact.

Imagine someone proposing something similar that would prevent someone from accessing the internet or voting without due process? The howls would be everywhere and for good reason.

But as has been noted before, the Second Amendment is a second-class right in far too many people’s minds. They believe it shouldn’t be afforded the same level of protection that other rights enjoy.

Another issue is that there’s absolutely no real punishment for those who use red flag laws maliciously. At best, it’s a slap on the wrist, but let’s understand that what we’re talking about here is a measure that will provide legalized swatting. The police will show up to take people’s guns. Those who use these laws to punish others are depriving folks of their civil liberties. That calls for stiff penalties.

Unfortunately, no one seems willing to put that in a bill.

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A good summary what is wrong with this latest “great idea”!

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Winner of $768.4 million Powerball jackpot faces big tax bill

Saturday, March 30, 2019

If the winner goes with the cash option of $477 million, the IRS will get more than $100 million right off the bat.

Source: Winner of $768.4 million Powerball jackpot faces big tax bill

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Why isn’t it tax free?

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Bill Maher: George Clooney Calling for Boycott of Sultan of Brunei’s Hotels Is ‘Chickensh*t Tokenism’

Saturday, March 30, 2019

This week George Clooney called for a boycott of several hotels owned by the Sultan of Brunei over the law being implemented that will punish anyone engaging in gay sex with death by stoning.

Source: Bill Maher: George Clooney Calling for Boycott of Sultan of Brunei’s Hotels Is ‘Chickensh*t Tokenism’

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Interesting that “the Left” is calling themselves out.

By extension, does this apply to “global warming / global kooling / climate change” too?

And all the other Left Wing “causes of outrage” de jour — gun “control”, sexism, racism, etc. etc.

I wonder?

“What do you call it when someone steals someone else’s money secretly? Theft. What do you call it when someone takes someone else’s money openly by force? Robbery. What do you call it when a politician takes someone else’s money in taxes and gives it to someone who is more likely to vote for him? Social justice.” — Thomas Sowell

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GUNS: Spartacus should stick to something he knows

Saturday, March 30, 2019

2019-Mar-30

https://bearingarms.com/tom-k/2019/03/29/cory-booker-displays-profound-ignorance-gun-laws-town-hall/

Cory Booker Displays Profound Ignorance On Gun Laws In Town Hall
Posted at 8:30 am on March 29, 2019 by Tom Knighton

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Convicted criminals aren’t buying them even from face-to-face transfers from law-abiding citizens, either. Why? Because they don’t want a citizen to ID them. After all, what if the police find out that the gun was sold to Joe Smith, but Joe says he sold it to someone else? Joe is a law-abiding citizen, so the idea of the gun he sold being used in a crime is upsetting. Why yes, Officer, I can give you a description of the guy. In fact, I still have his cell phone number.

That’s bad news in Criminal Land.

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Three strikes and you’re out.

No one even pretended that “gun control” is anything but disarming the sheep so the wolves can run wild.

In https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130127/discuss/701279952/, the editors didn’t dispute the statement: “Background checks, no problem. Gun registration is a big problem. Every genocide in modern history has started with a gun registration, followed by confiscation, followed by genocide.” All they did was gripe that it was “plagiarized”.  Argh!  Guess every idea they print is unique?

Remember: “Registration, confiscation, genocide”.  

With the new “red flag” laws popping up all over, we now into step #2.

“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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