Comments Off on Quote of the Day – LawDog (1/31/2013)
And when it comes down to brass tacks, the individual is the only person ultimately responsible for his — or her — own safety. Part of that responsibility involves being able to defend your own self, with appropriate tools.
Gun control is denying you those tools in exchange for the nebulous assurance that the police will “do their best”.
“Doing their best” oft involves putting a toe-tag on your corpse and finding the guy that killed you so that he can plea bargain his way out of an extended sentence, but that’s gun control for you.
[First, go read his whole post and watch the linked video. That is by far the best example I have ever seen to show the complete and utter failure that gun-free-zones are.
Lastly, those paragraphs are the central point of this debate and you either admit this harsh reality, or you pretend that unicorn farts do exist and you want the force of state to coerce others into giving up their tools for non-existent unicorn farts.
This is the world our opponents want. This is the world many of our elected representatives want to force upon us. Make no mistake, they want the strong to prey upon the weak and they want the state to have a total monopoly on force. -B]
Any attempt at gun registration in the U.S. will result in massive non-compliance on a scale that will make alcohol prohibition look like first graders failing to stay in a straight line while waiting to go on recess.
[That is the most accurate example I’ve seen because with what’s going on in New York it’s obvious he’s correct.
Now I hadn’t thought about a license endorsement and that would work on the condition that it was automatic. Everyone who satisfied the requirements was automatically endorsed.
I’m not a fan of the background check BS, however if we’re going to get stuck with it, we need to find a way to make it work and remove the loopholes they’re trying to create. Though the idea of a public number to conduct background checks could be interesting.
Daughter has a new boyfriend? Time to check him out. Going on a date? Verify they’re not a felon. The number of ways this could be misused gives a solution to the idea of them recording every last call to make a registry would be impossible. For those of us in the security world, it’s yet another example of the bane or benefit of false positives, positive or negative depends on which direction you’re looking.
The drivers license solution would serve an additional benefit of replacing NICS and decreasing additional costs. Your background check is renewed every time you renew your license. There is the problem though of the Feds could say that a national ID card would be required for the endorsement and give them another foot in the door for “Real ID.” No matter how hard you try, it’s a cut towards the freedom of the law abiding, criminals don’t care. -B]
Comments Off on Quote of the Day – Awr Hawkins (1/29/2013)
San Diego Police Chief William Lansdowne is fully supportive of the Obama/Feinstein gun grab, and says if lawmakers play it right Americans can be completely disarmed within “a generation.”
[Still have friends who think they don’t have skin in this fight? Show them this and tell them to think again. That is their end goal and they now have no problems making it known.
A citizen denied arms isn’t free, they’re nothing more than a slave. -B]
But only a small minority of cops practice diligently. “There’s this myth out there that all police officers are gun enthusiasts, and train like crazy and shoot all the time,” said Rutherford. A dirty little secret of law enforcement is that many cops don’t take range time seriously. And even in high-crime cities, the vast majority of officers go years, or even an entire career, without getting into a gunfight. The average officer is a mediocre shot, or worse.
[First up, yes I’ve been slacking. I’ve had this book for almost a year and have been distracted by reading other books. I do need to come up with an efficient way to store and save quotes from books. I started reading it just after Paul gave me a copy. But it ended up being set off to the side and I picked it up and starting reading it again. I’m glad I delayed it to the current political climate. I’m going to have a small stack of quotes by the time I’m done.
It is worthy of note that Paul doesn’t sit really on either side of this debate. He is educated on the subject due to the research for this book. A book he wrote merely because he thought the growth and economic success story of Glock was interesting. He’s right, it is an interesting story but one that is intertwined in politics.
Yesterday there was a “debate” on twitter and someone was throwing around the highly trained police argument again. My video was dismissed as being biased and was implied to be unscientific. Which is interesting because I provided all the information necessary for anyone to be able to recreate it. Including the stage descriptions, the alterations made, why, and how the stages compared the LAPD stages.
There are some myths that just wont die. I’m sure that this quote would be dismissed as being “biased” by this same individual. Except this is the Rutherford providing the quote and commentary in Barrett’s passage. is it really biased when police officers admit the “dirty little secret” as well?
People argue this point and refuse to admit they’re wrong for a couple of different reasons.
It is the foundation for calling 911 and waiting for the police. More training means they are better equipped to deal than yourself.
They want to believe that the police are a superiorly trained force which allows them to feel safer.
Their knowledge of firearms is 0 so police automatically gain a superior place in the knowledge department. Everyone else is just like them right?
You elected your officials because you trusted them to faithfully perform their duty and adhere to their oath. I trust the people I love, one more than most, and that’s why I went out of my way to give her a gift for our wedding.
Our elected representatives however don’t trust you and want you disarmed. They want to deprive you of a basic human right. They want to make sure you are defenseless and reliant on the state for assistance from criminals. They want you dependent and unable to revoke your consent in case of the event you deem that action as necessary.
Uhh, no, let me explain something to you sparky. You and your compatriots specialize in false and misleading information. There’s a reason we constantly joke about the “layers of editorial oversight” because honestly, there isn’t any. If there actually is oversight, your paper is so full of incompetent baboons that they should not be writing on the subject of firearms.
Know what isn’t fair? A bunch of idiots who don’t know the muzzle from the breech trying to “educate” people on firearms and firearms laws. A bunch of idiots who regard those of us who reside within the “gun culture” as nothing more than beer swilling red-necks who are to stupid to do anything but work on cars.
Tell me this, if I wrote an article on something I knew nothing about while claiming to be educational and lobbing for laws and restrictions on the subject, do you think I should do a first rate job on the subject Mr. Knowles? Do you think I should spend the time and effort to contact outside resources and consult for the accuracy of my statements and claims?
No here’s what happened Mr. Knowles you made such a stupid and blundering error that you illustrated that you and your paper have no credibility on the subject what so ever. Now that you’ve been busted though, your doubly upset because we are calling attention to it and making sure the public isn’t fooled by your deceptions.*
It would be unfair to bring it up your misdeeds with this article in the future if you published an article was correct and accurate. We’re currently talking about the same article so just own your mistake. It may have been an honest mistake, but with how often your side of the camp does it, we’re going to take that with a grain of salt.
Jay did a fantastic job of skewering the rest of the B.S. from Mr. Knowles Instead of just focusing on his mistake, he reacts by saying how dare we question him or call attention to their mistakes.]
There are actions that are dickish and attacking people questioning your motives with such a blatant error is one of those. Seeing something like that should cause people to question and you should acknowledge that and work to repair that damage during your apology. Just the same if someone drug past history of a mistake on a fair article, you’d be right to call foul.
[I laughed when I read both of those sentences. First yet another example of a point made by the NRA and fearless leader has turned around to follow it. Again, when I read it I heard exactly this in my head:
I know they will never come out like that and say it, but I can keep wishing right?
Except I don’t really think the NRA is right on this one though. Our Narcissist and Chief hates the First Amendment until it is politically convenient and beneficial for him, otherwise he hates it like he does the second. I am pissed at the NRA because I honestly feel like they threw video games and the First Amendment under the bus.
I grew up on Mario, last I checked I’m not running down the street eating mushrooms and jumping on Goombas.
I played Duck Hunt and have yet to actually go duck hunting or even bird hunting in general.
I played Excitebike and I didn’t go into the extreme sports.
I played Super Off-Road, again I don’t find myself taking my truck into crazy off road courses*.
I played Command and Conquer, the whole series, and I have yet to end up as a general in some war over Tiberium.
I played Duke Nukem 3D and I still haven’t found myself running around saying “It’s time to kick ass and chew bubble gum and I’m all out of gum” while killing alien invaders.
I played Quake III Arena and have yet to find myself wanting to create a real arena death match and kill everyone else inside.
I played Unreal Tournament in many modes with Capture the Flag and Football being my favorites. I have yet to feel the urge to actually shoot someone during a game of capture the flag or football.
I played Rainbow Six and have yet to find myself wanting to run around shooting people thinking they’re terrorists who’re intent on bio-warfare.
I played Ghost Recon and have yet to run around killing people thinking they’re ultra nationalists planning on rebuilding the Soviet Union.
I played Soldier of Fortune and have yet to run around shooting the limbs off of people.
I played Call of Duty and have yet to feel the urge to run around killing people while dressed as a soldier.
So can someone please explain to me given all the different games I played, note that’s not even all of them, and my countless time spent playing them I somehow didn’t end up screwed up but it’s responsible for screwing up a bunch of other people? Many of those games listed above were controversial at the time and used as a crutch to explain evil deeds done by evil people.
[With the information that has come out thus far, I agree with this 10 fold. I like these two assessments of Obama’s executive orders and feel no need to repeat it over again.
I do love this though.
18. Provide incentives for schools to hire school resource officers.
What was that? I couldn’t hear you. Here’s how you should do that next time:
There was a lot that Obama could have done and run with but there would have been considerable political backlash. The more this goes on I honestly feel like we’re in a “Wag the Dog” type scenario. This by no means indicates that we can slack or that we have escaped the woods, it does indicate that the investment from the White House may not be as deep as they put on.
That said, the same talking heads as always are out in front and we know they’re not playing. Reid has said the Senate will pursue action but has given no time-table. Keep up the fight folks, we’re not out of the woods, but today was not the crushing blow we were all expecting.
That is a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel. Sadly we need to hope that is the end and not a train coming for us. -B]
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