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Bob Parks did a wonderful article recently on the history of the Democrat part and detangling their web of lies.

This is the kind of BS spewed by Democrats on a daily basis, and unfortunately the media and other so-called watchdogs are so apparently ignorant of American history, Democrats continue to LIE through their teeth to their constituents, and via academia, to our kids. Despite the truth being out there for years, it’s probably not going to explode until some big shot news anchor gives us an “explosive expose” bringing us all those facts first, so he/she can proudly receive a Pulitzer…

He proceeds to cite examples of how the democrats have been bigoted since 1858 all the way up to the present.  Go read the whole thing, I applaud him for his effort and work since those are facts that are all to often ignored.

H/T Patrick

I previously wrote a response to someone who sent a letter to the editor of the WSU Daily Evergreen.  Given the events in Texas over the past couple days this has produced renewed vigor on the topic.  If you haven’t read my previous response regarding concealed carry on campus, go read it.

Yesterday, I don’t remember where I saw it first, but this doozy of a line has taken off like wildfire since Uncle posted it this morning.

When you think of it like that: giving guns to young students largely interested in sex and booze, I’d wager it seems less of a genius idea.

As everyone has already stated, but it bears repeating, no one is giving anyone guns!  All this bill is doing is allowing people who are licensed to carry concealed weapons to carry to class and other places the would normally go while obtaining their education.

This statement of students being largely interested in sex and booze is down right offensive to me.  I did not have the benefit of my parents being able to support me through my entire college career as my father passed away from cancer when I was 19.  Prior to that though I knew my job was getting that degree.  As that was my job, I did not drink, I did not carouse, I knew my goal and I worked my ass of for it. 

While many college students go on a “21 run” for their 21st birthday, I went to bed early.  Why, so I could be at the sheriff’s office as they open to file for my carry permit.  People who get their carry permits are an entirely different breed of person.  All these laws seek to do is allow someone who has a permit, which allows them to already carry elsewhere, to continue to carry when they attend their classes.

What is most disturbing is I see claim after claim of sex and booze, yet I do not remember seeing anyone drinking while attending a lecture.  I do not remember hearing about anyone having sex while in class.  I rarely if ever drank while going to college, certainly not on weeknights.  Yet these people say I was properly disarmed because of my “constant drinking” and “carousing”.  And I went to a school rated #18 by the Princeton Review for top party schools in 2002, in 2009 it was rated #16.  Please note I attended 2004-2008.  I and others like me went to college for an education, not to get drunk and have sex.  I don’t need to pay someone tuition to do that.  Most of my friends were either ROTC, or former military there on GI bill, none of them were out partying every night.

This statement is projection and nothing more.  This individual spent his college career drinking and carousing and does not see how anyone else could not have done that while in college.  I keep hearing statements regarding drinking and campus carry, yet actually on campus, where this discussion is centered, you rarely see people drinking alcohol, it is an educational institution after all.  How is there a magical line that a permit holder crosses and all the sudden he becomes a raving lunatic bent on killing everyone?  The fail to comprehend that a potentiality is not an actuality. 

Gun free zones and high Brady scores mean nothing to criminals, don’t believe me, look at San Jose State.

• In the safe bastion of California with the highest Brady Score of 80, the score that’s proven worthless.
• In a state where permits are not shall issue.
• On a college campus that was a gun free zone.

The only people who follow the laws are the law abiding.  By the gun grabbers own admissions, they would rather disarm people preventing them from fighting back to “lower gun violence” than have a lower violent crime rate overall.  Everyone who wants campus carry wants it because they don’t want to be disarmed to be an easy victim to make the Brady Campaign or Collation to Stop Gun Violence feel better.  Feelings have nothing to do with it, this side is fighting with facts and logic, but those are disregarded by the other side. 

Please: If you see any grammatic, spelling, or flow errors let me know. I wrote this while foggy headed from a head cold.

So I’m still fighting this bug what ever it is.  I slept most of the past 16 hours and still generally feel like crap.  I have a few ideas for write ups but I just don’t have the energy to write it up.  So instead here’s some more Boomershoot gun porn.

Springfield M1A, pictures courtesy of Oleg.

For some reason my body decided it was going to get sick today.  I actually took out of work early since I was falling asleep at my desk and my head was throbbing.  Since the ice cream machine is broken, here’s some gun porn for your enjoyment.

The other Dave’s (not whitewolf) 6.5×47 he had build from the barrel he won last year.  It’s a Remington 700 action.

TJIC:
You can’t expect to wield supreme executive power over a bunch of individuals just ’cause some aged Hippy  threw a degree at you!

–Borepatch, I told you, We’re an anarcho-syndicalist commune

[Bore patch won the internets today with this wonderful piece of snark.  If you haven’t read it go read the whole thing.  It’s funny because it’s true and he’s saying what we’re all thinking.  Well done sir! –B]

I stumbled across the 2009 FBI Statistics and figured I would update the comparison I did the other day.  Unsurprisingly even with using the newer data, the results for the different graphs look the same.

But the correlation dropped even lower to –0.015.  The previous correlation already indicated that the score didn’t matter, this shows it matters even less when used with current data.  The correlation for the upward trend of all scores above 50 decreased to 0.67.

What is probably the most significant though from looking at the new data is comparing the states with the lowest rates to their Brady score.  Again taking all states with a rate below 300 and plotting them with their score shows the following.

Again, only 3 states, 15%, have scores above 20, and those are all sitting closer to the higher rates.  For fun I normalized the violent crime rates (think bell curve), took all the data points within 1 standard deviation of the mean and plotted them relative to their score.  The normalized value is an indicator of how close the rate falls to the average mean. 

What is notable here is that higher scores are evenly distributed amongst the distribution, along with the fact low scores are as well.  It is yet another indicator these scores mean absolutely crap.  For reference here is the normalized curve as well as all normalized data with their scores.

If you only have one leg how the hell are you supposed to run away?  If you’re wheelchair bound how are you supposed to duke it out with someone ablebodied?  Anti-gunners don’t care.  In their world perhaps Americans with physical impediments don’t exist or don’t matter, but in the real world those people are frequently victimized.

–Mike W., Gimp Hate

[Many have posted this already however this strikes a chord with me.  My father-in-law is a below the knee amputee.  My wife has radial nerve palsy which limits her use of her right hand.  Lastly I had the muscular equivalent of a total hip replacement after my auto wreck.  While I can run, I can not run far, fast, or for long.  Swimming is a different story, but the impact from running starts to send sharp pain through the area they cut up.

The CSGV, Brady Bunch, and every other anti-gun organization out there want to disarm the American public for their safety.  When in reality they are doing nothing but making sure people lack the tools and ability to fight back.  With a firearm my wife stands a chance to be able to fight back against someone who is considerably larger than she is.  She can effectively defend herself despite her disability.  I have been in fist fights, they’re not fun are extremely nasty and the winner is usually the person who is the strongest.  It is the ultimate in might makes right.  Just because you’re right doesn’t mean you’re going to win a fist fight, and if you have any disability, it is going to count against you.

The Brady Bunch is claiming their laws help make us safer, yet when you actually analyze the statistics, it shows that is anything but true. –B]

So the Brady Campaign put out their new scorecard yesterday.  Normally I wouldn’t care but I got bored today.  So I took the 2006 Census data (latest accurate data available) and compared it to the score card.

Initially I plotted violent crimes per 100k versus the score given by the Brady Campaign.  What I got was lack luster to say the least.

From the above there’s a couple things worth noticing.  The top scores are all middle of the pack.  Of those top scores, those with lower values actually have lower violent crime rates.  Also notice the complete lack of correlation, 0.0314. 

So first I’m going to do a little fun with numbers and play the same game the gun grabbers do before I really dig into the meat of what this shows.

The highest Brady scores are all middle of the pack regarding violent crime.  What is noticeable though is the highest scores all have an upward trend. 

This still isn’t good enough so we will remove those three outliers at the bottom gave a very nice trend line with a somewhat decent correlation, 0.77784.  It also indicates that as the score goes up, so does violent crime.

This though is throwing away data points and not looking at the whole picture, even though that trend line is exactly the opposite what CSGV and the Brady Campaign claims it should be.  So lets move on to looking at the data as a whole and seeing what can be found.

Now there are a couple other interesting trends within the data, but nothing more significant than what can be seen in that first graph.  More specifically looking at the data from all scores under 20.

Notice that the violent crime rates are distributed across the entire field no matter what the score.  The trend line is almost perfectly flat, correlation sucks, and the three states who got scores of 0 are each in 3 completely different areas regarding the number of violent crimes.  Taking this into account it can be seen that the Brady scores do not really have an effect on violent crime rates.  Especially when the following is also noted:

Only three states have a Brady score above 20, of those with crime rates below 200 none have a score above 10.  The bottom line is gun control has absolutely nothing to do with safety, lowering violent crime, or protecting anyone.  There is absolutely no correlation to indicate such and there are strong indicators that it may be counter productive.  Gun control only has to do with control, and making sure the law abiding lack the tools and ability to fight back against anyone who would do them harm.