Real men own guns. – Cold Fury

Gun Rights Cake

Posted on 8/12/20198/12/2019 by Mike

So in last night’s “die gun-grabbers die!” post, the Aesop excerpt included a link to LawDog’s classic “Gun Rights Cake” essay, one I’ve also mentioned here myself a time or three. But it suddenly occurred to me that some of y’all may not have seen it before, and probably passed Aesop’s glancing mention on by without a thought or care. And that’s too bad, because you’re missing out on a real standout of a gem of a prize: one of the most pithy, unusual, and well-put-together arguments against any further concessions to the maneuverings and manipulations of gun-grabbers who aren’t ever going to be placated no matter what we agree to give up—people for whom the word “compromise” has always meant “We win, you surrender.”

So as a public service, I’m gonna do y’all a solid and repost it again. There’s a comic-strip version which I’m all but certain I ran here a while back, and LawDog also helpfully provides a link to his own GRC repost which features some quite worthy additional material as well. But the Q&A discussion from the original text-only post is worth including a bit of, which I don’t believe I ever have put up here. So we’ll go with that one this time around.

Do you believe that a background check infringes on your constitutional right to “keep and bear arms”?

Yes.

Do you believe that I and people with whom I work intend to ban your guns?

Yes.

If yes to #4, how do you think that could happen ( I mean the physical action)?

The same way you banned guns in New York. The same way you banned guns in Chicago. The same way you banned guns in Washington DC. Duh.

Do you believe that all law-abiding citizens are careful with their guns and would never shoot anybody?

You mean never shooting anybody, or never shooting anybody who needs it? I believe that all law-abiding citizens are human, and thus, not perfect. That’s not a reason to ban their guns, though.

All good stuff, and there’s plenty more of it. And then comes the question that leads to the timeless and immortal “Gun Rights Cake” response.

Will you continue a reasonable discussion towards an end that might lead somewhere or is this an exercise in futility?

Since what you consider to be reasonable isn’t even in the same plane of reality with what I consider reasonable, probably not.

Allow me to explain.

I hear a lot about “compromise” from your camp … except, it’s not compromise.

Let’s say I have this cake. It is a very nice cake, with “GUN RIGHTS” written across the top in lovely floral icing. Along you come and say, “Give me that cake.”

I say, “No, it’s my cake.”

You say, “Let’s compromise. Give me half.” I respond by asking what I get out of this compromise, and you reply that I get to keep half of my cake.

Okay, we compromise. Let us call this compromise The National Firearms Act of 1934.

There I am with my half of the cake, and you walk back up and say, “Give me that cake.”

I say, “No, it’s my cake.”

You say, “Let’s compromise.” What do I get out of this compromise? Why, I get to keep half of what’s left of the cake I already own.

So, we have your compromise — let us call this one the Gun Control Act of 1968 — and I’m left holding what is now just a quarter of my cake.

And I’m sitting in the corner with my quarter piece of cake, and here you come again. You want my cake. Again.

This time you take several bites — we’ll call this compromise the Clinton Executive Orders — and I’m left with about a tenth of what has always been MY DAMN CAKE and you’ve got nine-tenths of it.

Then we compromised with the Lautenberg Act (nibble, nibble), the HUD/Smith and Wesson agreement (nibble, nibble), the Brady Law (NOM NOM NOM), the School Safety and Law Enforcement Improvement Act (sweet tap-dancing Freyja, my finger!)

I’m left holding crumbs of what was once a large and satisfying cake, and you’re standing there with most of MY CAKE, making anime eyes and whining about being “reasonable”, and wondering “why we won’t compromise”.

I’m done with being reasonable, and I’m done with compromise. Nothing about gun control in this country has ever been “reasonable” nor a genuine “compromise”.

Nope. It’s always been subterfuge, a diabolical stratagem that demonstrates what the Left learned from the unexpected failure of another of their pet projects, Prohibition. Incrementalism has been their preferred approach to stripping Americans of their freedom ever since, on just about any issue you care to name. The inch-by-inch, step-by-step approach ensures the frog stays in the pot, see, until he’s all boiled and done. But if there’s one core, take-it-to-the-bank truth about them, it is that they will NEVER stop. They will have to BE stopped.

How it all starts

Posted on 8/9/20198/9/2019 by Mike

There’s a bad moon on the rise.

Senator Kneepads is about to get an education on delusional grandstanding.

“I also have as part of my background and experience working on this issue, when I was attorney general [of California], and we put resources into allowing law enforcement to actually knock on the doors of people who were on two lists — a list where they had been found by a court to be a danger to themselves and others and another list where they were precluded and prohibited from owning a gun because of a conviction that prohibited that ownership,” she added.

Harris commented that she would send law enforcement door-to-door to confiscate guns from illicit people.
“Those lists were combined and then we sent law enforcement out to take those guns, because, listen, we have to deal with this on all levels, but we have to do this with a sense of urgency and we have to act. Enough with the talk,” she said.

Let’s be clear here, if you’re a felon in possession, or you’ve failed a court hearing on your sanity, with counsel present on both sides, I have no problem with this. But Sen. Kneepads isn’t talking about that. Those people should have ALREADY had their guns taken away. She’s talking about doing this with “Red Flag” laws, which violate all constitutional and common law, and every rule of jurisprudence going back to before Magna Carta. (Common Core grads, look it up.)

That illegal abomination of ideas is going to get Officer Friendly a face full of buckshot, and he’ll deserve it, every single time. And I hope it happens, until the cops wise up and tell the politicians they’re under arrest for violating everyone’s civil rights.

As I said in Aesop’s comments, Officer Friendly already knows all about that face-full of buckshot, he doesn’t care for the idea, and so has gotten himself busy in several at-risk locales to officially announce his desire to be included out of the festivities before they commence (examples here and here, with further common-sense analysis from a Utah LEO here). Now, not all cops are as bothered by the prospect of betraying their oaths and finishing the Constitution off for good, of course. Maybe even a majority of them aren’t, I dunno. However it works out, though, I’m confident that, for whatever reason, enough of them will sell their souls to Gun Grabber Satan as to create a real mishegoss of a mess of a clusterfuck when we get down to nut-cutting time. So, in sum:

This is not going to go like they planned when the entire country goes all Flight 93 on them.

The look of surprise on their faces will be priceless, and the last thing that goes through their minds will likely be 158 grains of lead.

Minds? Hell, if they had those, we wouldn’t even be talking about this crap at all.

Looks like another one I’ll be stomping the whole concept of “fair use” over

Posted on 5/2/20195/2/2019 by Mike

Fortunately, it’s an unusually long ‘un, so I don’t feel quite so bad about it. Kurt sets the stage with an intriguing first-person recounting of the 1992 LA riots.

I was a first-year law student, back a year from the Gulf War, and I had just joined the California Army National Guard. My unit was the 3rd Battalion, 160th Infantry, and we got called up early the first night and were on the streets for three long weeks. Making it even more delightful was the fact that the unit was in Inglewood, which was pretty much on fire. They burned most everything around, except our armory – that would have gone badly for them – and the Astro Burger.

My battalion commander grabbed then-First Lieutenant Schlichter, and we went all over the city in his humvee as he led his deployed and dispersed troops. Our soldiers came, in large part, from the areas most effected by the riots, and they were notably unpleasant to the thugs and criminals who quickly discovered our guys had no patience for nonsense. One dummy discovered that the hard way when he tried to run over some Guard soldiers from another battalion; he had a closed casket funeral.

The city went insane. Order simply ceased to exist. It was Lord of the Flies. I remember a cop totally breaking down because everything was completely out of control.

But I had a M16A1 – a real assault rifle – and I had a bunch of buddies with M16A1s. The regular folks … not so much. The decent people of LA were terrified, and with good reason. See, the dirty little secret of civilization is that it’s designed to maintain order when 99.9% of folks are orderly. But, say, if just 2% of folks stop playing by the rules…uh oh. Say LA’s population was 15 million in 1992…that’s 300,000 bad guys. There were maybe 20,000 cops in all the area agencies then, plus 20,000 National Guard soldiers and airman, plus another 10,000 active soldiers and Marines the feds brought in. Law enforcement is based on the concept that most people will behave and that the crooks will be overwhelmed by sheer numbers of officers. But in the LA riots, law enforcement was massively outnumbered. Imposing order took time.

And until then, our citizens were on their own, at the mercy of the mob. Betting that the cavalry was going to come save you was a losing bet.

LA’s Korean shopkeepers knew that. They operated many small businesses in some of the least fashionable areas of Los Angeles, and they were already widely hated by activists, being scapegoated for problems and pathologies that long pre-dated their immigration to Southern California. So, they became targets for the mobs.

Bad decision by the mobs.

See, most of these Koreans had done their mandatory service in the Republic of Korea’s Army. Those ROK soldiers are the real deal – the Norks are not a theoretical threat and the South Korean army does not spend a lot of time talking about feelings. They were some solid dudes. So, when the local dirtbags showed up for some casual looting, they noticed the rooftops were lined with hardcore guys packing some serious heat, including the kind of scary rifles that the Democrats want to ban.

The Rooftop Koreans.

It did not take long for the bad guys to realize that the Rooftop Koreans were not playing games – they were playing for keeps. The mob went away in search of softer targets.

There’s a lesson there.

Boy, isn’t there. Isn’t there just. The denouement:

It’s your duty to be prepared to defend our community. Your duty. Yes, being a citizen of a free country is sometimes hard. Too bad. Tighten up and be ready and able to pick up a weapon. Whether it’s a riots and disaster, or whether it’s some scumbag who decides to shoot up your house of worship or a shopping mall, it’s on you.

You have a job to do when chaos comes – no shirking your responsibility and outsourcing it to the local police or the Army. Being a citizen is not a spectator sport.

Now, the left does not see things that way. The mere idea of a good guy with a gun makes them wet themselves. The left hates the notion that we citizens might take personal ownership of, and responsibility for, the security of our own country – that we might act like citizens. See, citizens are unruly. Stubborn. Uppity. We’re hard to control at the best of times. Armed, 300 million of us are impossible to control, unless we consent to it.

Now, the Founders, who enshrined the natural right of free men to keep and bear arms in our Bill of Rights preceded only by the rights of free speech and freedom of religion, knew this. To them, an armed citizenry that is prepared, mentally and logistically, to respond to threats to the people is a feature.

To the liberal elite, it is a bug.

And there’s a reason for that, too, which can easily be inferred from this picture of how the minions of exactly the kind of socialist shitrapy people like AOC, Buttplug, Omar, Obama, Pelousy, HILLARY!™, &C intend to inflict on us respond to even peaceably-expressed dissent:

Gee, wonder if that poor bloody wreck at left might wish he and his fellow protesters had been armed.

THAT’S how you do it

Posted on 3/30/20183/30/2018 by Mike

What works. What doesn’t.

Texas allows school districts to approve “marshals” or “guardians” as the last line of defense against a shooter. Under this program, faculty members volunteer to keep a firearm within reach in case the unthinkable happens. They undergo mental health screenings and rigorous firearm safety training — in some cases they are held to a higher standard than police officers.

In an active shooter situation, law enforcement takes roughly three minutes to respond on a good day (through no fault of their own). It’s disturbing to consider the damage that can be inflicted in that amount of time. Only school marshals — who, contrary to the media portrayal, represent a select few trained and capable staff members — can deliver response times measured in seconds rather than minutes.

Coverage in the aftermath of Parkland has focused disproportionately on the AR-15. The gun has been established as a symbol of mass shootings, a device designed for wanton destruction. What use, we are repeatedly asked, could private citizens have for an AR-15? Texans like myself have been frustrated by this collective amnesia. On November 5, 2017, a private citizen heroically stopped the fleeing shooter of the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs using an AR-15.

The lesson is that guns are morally neutral. It is people who have the capacity to use them for good or evil. Those willing to kill the innocent in cold blood will hardly be hindered by a new gun regulation. They are, after all, willing to murder – it defies logic that they will respect a gun law. It stands to reason, therefore, that schools should be made a hard target, just like airports, stadiums and government buildings.

There have been no shootings, intentional or otherwise, at any participating districts in Texas. Teachers and students feel — and in fact are — safer coming into work.

A sign outside of Argyle High School, which has opted into the program, reads “Please be aware that the staff at Argyle are armed and may use whatever force is necessary to protect our students.” Is a would-be shooter more likely to target such a school or a “gun-free zone?” The answer is obvious.

Oh, considering that ALL these mass shootings happen in “gun-free zones,” I’d say it’s way on past merely obvious. But I can’t see any way that it helps to advance the Left’s agenda of total control and tyranny, so there’s no chance of their reacting to it with anything other than the usual sobbing, shrieking hysteria.

Update! Did somebody mention what DOESN’T work above? It’s actually not hard at all to deduce if one takes an honest look at the facts. Strangely enough, that’s another thing Progtards are ferociously against doing.

America does not have a gun crime epidemic. There are, however, epidemics in many locales and cities. Who do you think runs the vast majority of those cities?

NRA-funded Republicans?

No.

Lobbyists for firearm manufacturers?

No.

The vast majority of those cities have been run by Democrats for decades upon decades.

Here are the top 20 cities with the highest gun murder rates in the U.S. per capita. Of these, every city except the last one, Tulsa, has a Democrat majority in the mayoralty and City Council or Board of Aldermen.

Here are the non-fatal shootings top 20 per capita. Notice the overlap of several cities; the cities on the non-fatal list absent on the murder list are also Democrat-run cities, except for the last one, Jacksonville.

Exhausted yet? There’s more.

And hoo boy, is there ever. Rich ain’t just whistlin’ Dixie with this one, and you need to read all of it. The numbers permit only one conclusion: we need ourselves some reasonable, common-sense Democrat control legislation.

For the children. IF EVEN ONE LIFE IS SAVED…

Ahem.

What works, what doesn’t

Posted on 2/20/20182/21/2018 by Mike

As I warned yesterday: shriek all you like, you libtards ain’t getting our guns. Not now, not ever. Even worse for you, your fantasy of disarming the American citizenry won’t accomplish your stated aim of “making us all safer” in the first damned place—quite the opposite, in fact. Here’s just one of the myriad lessons you’re too pigheaded to heed.

Gun rights advocates contend that the way to stop mass shootings is by ensuring that there are always well-armed citizens present who can neutralize the shooter. As NRA chairman Wayne Lapierre always says, “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun”. A bedrock of the NRA’s philosophy is that criminals will always acquire guns illegally, and draconian gun laws only render law-abiding citizens defenseless.

Enter Israel: When the knife intifada erupted in September 2015, the Israeli government’s response was to ease the process for the civilian populace to obtain weapons. After a particularly bloody Jerusalem shooting attack that killed four, then-Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan drastically changed the gun laws in order to significantly raise the number of armed civilians on the streets. Instantly, graduates of Special Forces units and IDF officers with the rank of Lieutenant and above were permitted to purchase guns at their will, security guards were allowed to bring their guns home after work, and the minimum age for a license was reduced from 21 to 18.

Erdan explained that “civilians well trained in the use of weapons provide reinforcement in the struggle against terrorism”, while Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat called for every resident to carry a gun, and was even photographed traveling the city carrying a Glock 23.

In addition, the overwhelming majority of terror attacks in Israel are stopped by armed civilians, not law enforcement. For example, the terrorists in the 2016 Sarona market attack were stopped by armed passersby. A pistol-carrying tour guide put an end to the 2017 ramming attack in Arnona that left four soldiers dead.

Bold mine, natch—which underlines another home-truth disruption of liberal-fascist delusion, one reducible to a bumper-sticker slogan: cops ain’t bodyguards. Or try this: call for a cop, call for an ambulance, call for a pizza. See who gets there quickest. Want another? When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.

Beyond LaPierre’s succinct and undeniable line and the others I quoted above, we got a million of ’em, Lefties—every last one of them nothing but the plain and simple truth, boiled down to short phrases even you ought to be able to comprehend.

And yet. Meanwhile, back in the real world:

Gun control has been proven to be a dismal failure in Israel. The Israeli Arab communities are rife with illegal weapons, with some police estimates putting the number of unlicensed weapons in the Arab sector as high as 500,000. Think about that for a second: The most heavily guarded borders in the world and a highly professional Shin Bet are still not enough to prevent criminals from obtaining illegal firearms.

When terrorists attacked a school in Maalot in 1974, Israel did not declare every school a gun-free zone. It passed a law mandating armed security in schools, provided weapons training to teachers and today runs frequent active shooter drills. There have been only two school shootings since then, and both have ended with teachers killing the terrorists.

Which is EXACTLY what any sensible person would expect.

Best give it up, libtards, and with a quickness. You have neither logic, nor facts, nor history, nor integrity on your side. You’re liars, you’re treacherous, you’re snakes; after years and years of hearing you falsely deny any desire to eliminate the 2A, obscuring your real intentions with fork-tongued blather about “common sense gun control,” we know it now, and will never, ever trust you with anything at all. Certainly not with something as important as our unalienable right to keep and bear arms.

You aren’t getting our guns. Not now, not ever. Better back the fuck off before you get hurt.

(Via CDB)

Update! Not getting them. Period.

The Florida House blocked an attempt to take up a bill that would ban assault rifles. The vote came on the same day survivors of the Stoneman Douglas High shooting traveled to Tallahassee to plead with legislators for gun control reform.

As the post says, it wasn’t even close: 71-36, with 13 abstentions. Serious kudos to the Florida legislators for refusing to be stampeded.

(Via Aesop)

Buy Remington!

Posted on 11/26/201711/26/2017 by Mike

Dismaying news.

Remington Outdoor, the second-largest U.S. gunmaker has suffered a “rapid” and “sharp” deterioration in sales and a similar drop in profits since January, and faces “continued softness in consumer demand for firearms,” credit analysts at Standard & Poor’s Global Ratings said in a report Friday.

Bill says:

The decline may be accounted for by a growing feeling among potential buyers that President Trump, unlike his predecessor, has no intention of trying to erase the Second Amendment and take their guns in the process.

From what I’ve read, gun sales are in fact down across the board since Trump took office, for most all manufacturers and types. Of course, that’s after years of record-shattering highs during the Obama regime, despite his professed deep and abiding affection for hunting and skeet shooting. Of course, shooters know a gun-grabber when they see one, and such phonus-balonus claims are always one of the telltales.

In any event, one truly hates to see Remington suffer, especially after this:

Remington announced a plan for a new state of the art plant in Huntsville, Alabama on February 17, 2014. Remington moved two production lines from the Ilion, New York as a result of the fallout from the New York Safe Act which restricted gun ownership. Huntsville is now building the AR-15/Modern Sporting Rifle (MSR) from Bushmaster, DPMS and Remington Remington R-15 and 1911 style R-1 pistols in the new AL plant which is an $87 million boon for Alabama’s economy. The new plant consolidates Remington’s production to promote efficiency and lower production costs. Experts in the gun industry believe that it is only a matter of time before Remington completely abandons its New York roots for states that are more gun friendly and pro business.

As Bill says, they did the right thing when it counted, as did Taurus back when Bill Clinton sent Albert “Second Shakra” AlGore to threaten them with undefined repercussions unless they started including free trigger locks with every product sold. Taurus, you may recollect, told Gore to get bent in no uncertain terms by including a free year’s NRA membership instead.

I always had a soft spot in my heart for ’em after that. In fact, one of the best guns I ever did own was a Taurus PT92, which I had for a decade or so and put literally thousands of rounds through without a single burp or hitch. I still have an affection for their Millennium .45, which is somewhat dampened by a rumor that their quality control has taken a severe nosedive of late for some reason.

At any rate, if you’re in the market for a boomstick this Christmas, please do consider Remington. They have a long history of making quality hunting and sporting arms behind ’em, and are deserving of our support. It’d be a damnable shame to see them lost as an unintended consequence of not having a gun-grabbing liar infesting the White House anymore.

Welcome aboard

Posted on 11/15/201711/15/2017 by Mike

Please note that we have a new advertiser here: AmmoMan, whose banner is perusable and clickable near the top of the sidebar over there to the left. I hope you shooters out there will check these fine folks out; as with everybody toiling away in the business of firearms in whatever capacity, they’re fighting the good fight in a time when that can be tough, if not outright risky as hell given the penchant on the Left for wanton, lunatic violence against those whose opinions they disagree with, whose rights they don’t feel obliged to respect or honor.

They’ve also offered me the opportunity to snag a few cases gratis for review purposes here, which offer I will be taking advantage of as soon as I can consult with my brother on a date to get down to his place way out in the middle of nowhere for some serious plinking, and what calibers we’re gonna want to try out. Look for that here before long; I’m by no means an ammo expert, but hey, I know what I like, and I ain’t afraid to bend y’all’s ears about it, neither.

UNPOSSIBLE!

Posted on 11/6/201711/6/2017 by Mike

Yet another example of something the gun-grabbing, lying Left asserts never happens.

Today’s mass shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas, was only halted after an armed Texan “engaged” the killer and put an end to the rampage, the Texas Rangers reported.

Freeman Martin, a major in the Texas Rangers and a spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety, says the suspect dropped his rifle and fled after being confronted by a local man who had grabbed his rifle.

I was out of town yesterday and today for a show, and didn’t know anything about this story until I got home earlier. As such, I don’t know if the liberal media has been trying their usual subterfuge and portraying this killer as a RightWingFascistNaziExtremist™ or not, but I naturally assume that they have—and that they’ll drop this one like a hot rock as soon as his Democrat-Socialist campaign contributions, fondness for Bernie!™, and photos of him at an anti-Trump or BLM rally wearing a Pussy Hat surface. Y’know, of course, and as usual.

For now, it’ll suffice as a reminder that the only way—the ONLY way—these crazed mass killers are ever stopped is when a good guy shows up with a gun. The longer that takes, the more people die. Each and every single time.

From our cold, dead hands, Libtards.

(Via Insty)

Update! Drip, drip, drip.

UPDATE: There are several reports circulating on Twitter, based on purported screenshots of Kelley’s FB page, to the effect that he was a member of the Bernie Sander’s support group Together We Rise. There are also rumors that he was an Antifa member/supporter. Also, that he was interrupted and possibly even killed by an armed citizen with a rifle.

This would, if true, obviously be a nightmare for the alt-left in America. But none of it has been confirmed, as of yet.

Nah, no nightmare. They’ll just ignore it, and get real busy pretending none of it ever happened.

Dog bites man: Clinton tells the truth again!

Posted on 4/27/20164/27/2016 by Mike

No, really. Hillary said it, and said it well: “It’s not much of a right if it is totally limited and constrained.”

Of course, she wasn’t talking about any right actually, y’know, mentioned in the Constitution.

The Mariana Islands are a US controlled territory often forgotten, but now they have everyone’s attention. This small set of islands far off in the Pacific ocean passed a Senate Bill which is drawing a lot of criticism. As of April 11th, all new handgun sales are subject to a $1,000.00 tax. The governor of the islands, Ralph Torres, has since defended his position on passing the bill, and even suggested that this could be a model for others (referring to states in the U.S.).

This act has many repercussions for the residents of the Mariana Islands and us in the United States. For those on the islands, it essentially strips away the ability to buy a firearm. It makes purchasing a handgun a rich man’s game. You can no longer buy a Hi-Point out-the-door for $200. Now it’s $1,200! Many view it as economic discrimination. If you can’t pay the outrageous tax then you’ll have to find other means to defend yourself and your family.

Well, that’s okay, right? I mean, as long as rich liberals and politicians can afford to keep their armed bodyguards and all, that’s all that really matters here. After all, their lives are far more important and worth defending than yours will ever be. Meanwhile, in another province of an authoritarian tyranny:

Jamie Warren’s 4-year-old daughter looks forward to a music class at KRESA’s West Campus–a class parents are required to attend.

Warren’s husband sat in on the class.

“I think he attended two or three sessions before anyone noticed that he was carrying a gun,” she said.

By law, Warren’s husband can open carry his gun.

“Schools are gun free zones, and they tend to be targeted for mass shootings. He feels that he’s keeping her safer by carrying and having the ability to protect her,” she said.

But some parents at KRESA’s West Campus say no.

“This is not the way we live in a civilized society,” one parent said.

“There’s several hundred students over there and many of their parents have expressed very significant concerns and very frankly, anger towards us for doing this and I thought well, I’ve gotta respect their rights, respect the rights of the parents of children who have been traumatized possibly by violent situations,” he said.

But Warren says her family’s rights have now been violated.

“When he decided to not break the law, they began the process of bullying him. She saw him treated like a criminal for carrying the letter of the law,” Warren said.

I think that’s a good thing. Now the little girl won’t ever make any mistakes about what kind of country she actually lives in, no matter how much “land of the free, home of the brave” horseshit she has rammed down her throat every Fourth of July.

(Via Maet)

True American hero

Posted on 4/4/20164/4/2016 by Mike

Good on this guy.

According to Cleveland.com, police say two armed suspects, a 19-year-old Parma man and an 18-year-old Cleveland man, entered Suleyman’s Supermarket on Cleveland’s West Side just before 10 p.m. and demanded money.

The store owner gave the suspects around $300, and they turned to leave, only to see a police officer standing outside. Panicked, the two armed men ran through the store to exit in the back, but were stopped by a citizen with a gun.

The citizen, a friend of the market’s owner, “grabbed” one of the suspects and “slammed him into the wall.” The second suspect hid in a bathroom while the armed citizen stood outside the door saying, “My gun is bigger than yours.”

The police report indicates the suspect “surrendered and begged the man not to shoot him.” The armed citizen ordered both suspects to the ground and disarmed them.

THAT’S how you do it. Consider this your feel-good story of the day, although I suppose it’s a shame neither of the criminal scum got themselves ventilated for their predation. And remember, according to the gun-grabber pantywaists, things like this NEVER, EVER happen.

Your feel-good story of the day

Posted on 9/1/20149/1/2014 by Mike

Give ’em hell.

Arthur M. Lewis may be elderly, but criminals are learning the North Palm Beach man is no easy mark.

The 89-year-old decorated World War II veteran foiled an armed robbery attempt Saturday afternoon at his Lake Park jewelry business that left a 44-year-old suspect with six gunshot wounds, but no loot.

The 89-year-old decorated World War II veteran foiled an armed robbery attempt Saturday afternoon at his Lake Park jewelry business that left a 44-year-old suspect with six gunshot wounds, but no loot.

Lewis was working behind the counter at The Jewelry Exchange at 900 N. Federal Highway when he was approached by a gun-wielding man around 3 p.m., according to an arrest report from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office. Lewis said he immediately grabbed the suspect’s revolver and pulled out a .38-caliber handgun from his own pocket.

Lewis was working behind the counter at The Jewelry Exchange at 900 N. Federal Highway when he was approached by a gun-wielding man around 3 p.m., according to an arrest report from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office. Lewis said he immediately grabbed the suspect’s revolver and pulled out a .38-caliber handgun from his own pocket.

The two men wrestled for several minutes and fired shots at each other. Despite battling someone half his age, Lewis got the best of it. A man identified by the sheriff’s office as Lennard Patrick Jervis, a Miramar resident, was shot six times by Lewis, including four times in the chest. Lewis’ left arm was grazed by a bullet, but he was otherwise unscathed.

Lewis said Jervis continued to fight with vigor, even with four gunshot wounds to the chest and one each to the wrist and leg. Large bullet holes remained in the store’s walls Monday and the area behind the counter where Lewis and Jervis fought hand to hand was trashed.

“People think because he’s 89, he’s frail,” said Vivien Bresnahan, Lewis’ girlfriend. “That irritates me because he’s anything but (frail).”

Jarvis eventually stumbled over the counter toward the front door and asked Lewis to buzz him out. Lewis complied.

“I was so glad to get rid of him,” said Lewis, who has been in business for 20 years. “I’d had enough of him.”

I think it’s safe to say the scum felt the same about you, Arthur. But your story is as good a refutation of the “liberal” gun-grabbers’ “high capacity assault magazine clip” horseshit as there is. Sometimes, six shots just aren’t adequate for the task at hand. Heavy, heavy emphasis on this:

Court records show that Jervis has been arrested 20 times in Miami-Dade and Broward counties since 1989.

Gee, imagine my surprise. The thieving punk was well along what you might call the Martin-Brown Road; he wouldn’t have stopped until he’d killed some poor soul like Lewis, or like my friend Chris, who was stabbed to death (over forty times) a couple of years ago when he arrived home from work to find his house being tossed by another of these oxygen thieves with a rap sheet as long as your right leg. Too bad Lewis didn’t off him; it’s extremely doubtful the filth learned anything from his righteous ventilating, and will be back plying his trade in a few short years.

Via Glenn, who says: “But maybe Lewis should upgun to a .44?” Heh. Indeed.

Just you try it, you violent asshole.

Posted on 10/7/201010/7/2010 by Randy Rager

We’re sending a lot more young folks in a lot better shape (and most likely a lot better armed) to D.C. than you clowns will be this year.

Hat tip Insty.

“Forget it, Jake. It’s Chi-town. Where Freedom isn’t Free, ‘cos it isn’t even Freedom.”

Posted on 6/28/20106/28/2010 by Noel

FORGET, HELL.

The Sun Times:

Mayor Daley said Friday he’s poised to act immediately if, as expected, the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Chicago’s strictest-in-the-nation handgun ban. …

“It’s overturned in Washington D.C. We looked at their laws. We looked at some laws we want to change here and immediately change it because guns don’t solve problems in homes [or] on streets. They kill people,” Daley said. “That’s why I’m giving up my own armed bodyguards.”

Okay, okay; I may have imagineered that last sentence.

Daley has said repeatedly that Chicago gun owners could be required to take a training course, register their firearms, allow police to perform ballistics tests and even purchase liability insurance.

Also run a four-minute mile, recite Das Kapital in the original German and perform brain surgery on a loved one while blindfolded. You know; like the Founders intended.

Seriously; if guns kill people, then we should disarm the police. Their jobs are stressful enough already. Except in Montreal, where throwing a Molotov cocktail is harmless fun, but reporting on the fun is a Serious Violation of State Security!

You cannot have the Second Amendment’s “free State” without a free People.

By the way, remember when Harry “Evil-mongers!” Reid said of Justice Thomas: “I think that he has been an embarrassment to the Supreme Court. I think that his opinions are poorly written. I don’t — I just don’t think that he’s done a good job as a Supreme Court justice.”?

Really, Harry? Read this:

“Florida made it the “duty” of white citizen “patrol[s] to search negro houses or other suspected places, for fire arms.” If they found any firearms, the patrols were to take the offending slave or free black “to the nearest justice of the peace,” whereupon he would be “severely punished” by “whipping on the bare back, not exceeding thirty-nine lashes,” unless he could give a “plain and satisfactory” explanation of how he came to possess the gun. …

One man recalled the night during his childhood when his father stood armed at a jail until morning to ward off lynchers. The experience left him with a sense, “not of powerlessness”, but of the “possibilities of salvation” that came from standing up to intimidation.

In my view, the record makes plain that the Framers of the Privileges or Immunities Clause and the ratifying-era public understood—just as the Framers of the Second Amendment did—that the right to keep and bear arms was essential to the preservation of liberty. The record makes equally plain that they deemed this right necessary to include in the minimum baseline of federal rights that the Privileges or Immunities Clause established in the wake of the War over slavery. …

I agree with the Court that the Second Amendment is fully applicable to the States. I do so because the right to keep and bear arms is guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment as a privilege of American citizenship.”

Harry Reid thinks black people aren’t smart enough to be judges and Mayor Daley thinks they aren’t smart enough to own guns.

All in all, a good day for freedom, brotherhood and the American Way.

(Via Bench Memos)

The Only Thing “Transparent” Are the Lies, Pt.#…Well, I’ve lost count

Posted on 5/4/20105/4/2010 by Noel

THE GLASS JAW OF PRES. “PEACE IN OUR LUNCHTIME”

This administration’s idea of “limited government” is only taking over two of the Big Three car makers, instead of all three.

And their idea of “transparency” is to order General Motors CEO Ed Whitacre to tell you that GM has repaid its bailout loan “in full and ahead of schedule.” In reality, you paid it back. And I’m very, very proud of you.

“Limited Government”? That’s creating a vast new Federal “Consumer” agency. And “Transparency” is giving it access to everyone’s bank records. This new government agency is needed to protect you against false advertising…like the government’s GM ad!

But there is one area where they really do believe in those concepts: limiting national security and transparency for our enemies:

Less than a month ago, the Obama administration amended the US nuclear-response policy to remove all strategic ambiguity from the process, explicitly delineating when the US would consider a nuclear response to an attack. Yesterday, the White House did the same with our nuclear inventory. After decades of deliberate ambiguity about the exact numbers of nuclear weapons the US has, the Obama administration leaked the exact number…

This is like trying to stop political killings of leaders by publicly releasing the numbers of their bodyguards.

I’ve explained many times how Pres. Reagan-in-Reverse is dangerously pursuing “Strength through Peace” rather than the real Reagan’s “Peace though Strength”.

This is Obama begging the “World” to like us, despite our many “crimes”, such as winning WWII, the Cold War and keeping the peace for generations.

Begging someone to like you works even more poorly for nations than it does for individuals; it invites contempt and is taken as a mark of weakness. Correctly so, in this case.

This will also enable the Iranians to claim “They have 5,113–we only want one!”

If “Weakness is provocative”, Obama is picking a fight.

And you don’t bring an ACORN-organizer to an ICBM fight.

A non-STARTER from a non-entity

Posted on 4/8/20104/8/2010 by Noel

STANDING ATHWART HISTORY YELLING “STOP START!”

This is an Affirmative Action Treaty designed to weaken America and make Junior look like a grown-up.

This treaty requires nothing of the Russians because they don’t have much anyway. But it requires us to cut our stockpiles.

Since this is Obama’s claim to fame, he can’t allow the Russians to withdraw. They say they’ll withdraw if we deploy SDI systems. That means no robust missile defense. No backtalk on Georgian-type invasions. No nothing that upsets them.

They’ve painted Obama into a corner because this treaty is about his needs, not America’s.

Washington Times:

America will reduce its warhead stockpile, but the Obama administration has also unilaterally pledged not to modernize the U.S. nuclear force. This concession opens the possibility for Russia to achieve the kind of strategic technological surprise the Soviet Union did in the 1970s. The SALT I framework did not limit multiple warheads (MIRVs), in part because the United States felt it had an advantage in that technology. But the Soviet Union surprised America by swiftly developing superior MIRV capabilities in the 1970s, and within five years, the treaty had become a strategic liability enshrining Moscow’s nuclear superiority.

Under the new treaty, the United States and Russia agree to limits in numbers of warheads, but only the United States has promised to freeze its technology. This is an open invitation to Russia to modernize its way to nuclear dominance.

As for the previous announcement that we will not attack any country in compliance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty–who decides if a country is in compliance?

“The new NPR appears to place the UN’s IAEA and its Board of Governors at the heart of determining U.S. nuclear deterrence strategy options,” e-mailed Mr. Payne, who has published several books on nuclear deterrence. …

“This question becomes central to U.S. nuclear deterrence policy,” Mr. Payne said in an e-mail to Inside the Ring. “A quick check will reveal that NPT compliance is determined by the IAEA’s Board of Governors a board made up of 35 states, including Russia, China, Venezuela, Mongolia and Cuba.”

START must be stopped.

Typical.

Posted on 4/20/20094/20/2009 by Randy Rager

All American Couple has a nice wedding and a great honeymoon, so all the cockbiters on the Left have to crawl out of the woodwork and whine about it.

This country is going to hell in a handbasket, and the comments to that article give an enormous clue why. Reading comprehension seems to be limited at best, with many commenters asking how easy it is to hunt in a dress, despite the fact that the article clearly states she kept the dress in the car until after the kill. Commenters whose id’s claim manhood, yet label “sex, ostentation, and killing” as “ugly”. The obligatory dueling banjos bullshit, as if that movie accurately portrayed one damned thing about rural living. Libel of the happy couple as deceitful, as if two people who find some things in common is a frank impossibility. Whining about antagonizing the wildlife and the environment, as if without the efforts of hunters and sportsmen there would be any of either left.

I am frankly sickened by the absolute wussitude displayed by some of my fellow Americans in reaction to this blessed event. Kim du Toit was right.

When does the Second Revolutionary War start?

Via Insty.

Questionnaire’s Unease

Posted on 11/16/2008 by Noel

ARE YOU NOW, OR HAVE YOU EVER BEEN…

To work for Barry, you must answer this question:

Have you had “any association with any person or group that could be used…to impugn or attack your character?”

Has Obama had any association with any person or group that couldn’t be used to impugn or attack his character? I was actually glad when I learned that Tony Rezko wasn’t a communist.

“Do you or any members of your immediate family own a gun? If so, provide complete ownership and registration information. Has the registration ever lapsed? Please also describe how and by whom it is used and whether it has been the cause of any personal injuries or property damage.”

Q: What is wrong with that question? Is it …

a.) It prys into family privacy, and violates spousal privilege.
b.) You shouldn’t ask if someone has exercised a Constitutional right.
c.) In most places, citizens are not required to register guns any more than they’re required to register churches. At least ’til Nov. 3rd.
or
d.) Why worry more about a gun’s record than a candidate’s? Obama has entire years of his life he can’t account for.

The answer is…
e.) a gun has never “been the cause of any personal injuries or property damage.” It’s the person using the gun that “causes” damage. Otherwise, no one would ever work in a gun store. “The gun just went off, your Honor”. Sure it did. And those french fries made me eat them. French bastards.

Palin for (Vice) Prez!

Posted on 8/24/2008 by Noel

BECAUSE

the others pale in comparison!

If John McCain wants to win in November, he should consider Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska as his running mate.

She would attract women voters, yes. But beyond that, she represents the future of the Republican Party and would attract young conservative men and women to our cause.

Gov. Palin is a lifetime NRA member. In violation of feminist dogma, she has five children, including a son whom she refused to abort even though she knew of his disabilities. She has another son in the Army and her husband is a commercial fisherman. She’s for drilling responsibly in ANWR, and could help bring McCain around on the issue.

Impressively, she stood up against shifty politicians in her own party who were involved in dubious oil dealings. She did this at risk to her own career, and in the end, she triumphed. Compare this to Obama who has never stood up to the crooks in his party, whether in Chicago or Washington. Indeed, he’s helped funnel money to his pals.

This kind of integrity tells me she’s in it for public service.

A Palin nomination would also reaffirm the Republican Party’s historical commitment to the rights and duties of women in our polity, before the issue was hijacked by radical man-haters on the Left. Women can, should, are and must be a part of the conservative movement.

However, there is one caution; Hillary Clinton is supposed to be the first female elected to the Executive Branch, so her acolytes in the Mommy Dearest Media will likely come after Gov. Palin with both ovaries blazing. But, so what? Every conservative must face the fire at some point.

If she wants the job, I say we give it to her. C’mon John; shake it up! PALIN FOR VEEP!

Assault knife mayhem

Posted on 6/8/20086/8/2008 by Mike

One more time: tell yourself it can’t happen here. Because as slavishly as liberals want to emulate the failed socialist democracies of Europe, it’s just about bound to sooner or later, unless we can find some way of stemming the Dismal Tide:

Knife crime among young people has sparked a widespread debate in recent weeks in Britain, where police say they have seen “a worrying trend” toward more severe knife attacks involving younger attackers and victims.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Thursday announced a crackdown on teenagers carrying knives, saying that those as young as 16 will be prosecuted for knife possession on the first offense. Previously, anyone younger than 18 generally received only a warning.

“Young people need to understand that carrying knives doesn’t protect you, it does the opposite — it increases the danger for all of us, destroys young lives and ruins families,” Brown said after meeting with top police and government officials at his 10 Downing Street office. “Recent tragic events have reminded us of that.”

Carrying knives destroys young lives and ruins families. Obviously, what is needed here is some sensible knife-control regulation. And in the bigger cities all across America right now, far too many frightened, half-intelligent ignoramuses are reading this, nodding agreement, and saying, “it makes perfect sense.”

Good lord, where will it all end?

(Via Glenn and James)

First we get drunk.

Posted on 2/19/20082/19/2008 by Randy Rager

Then we go shooting.

One of these things is not like the others.

Thats right kids, you can’t get a Guncrafter Industries pistol in 9mm. Sorry. Real cartridges only.

Er, not that I want to be shot with any of them. Kthxbye.

Harshing your mellow since 9/01

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