Scattershots – 2jun22 (updated 5jun22)

George Rebane

Bumblebrain wins the prize, hands down, of being the most ignorant American president about guns – every facet of firearms and their uses is a mystery to him.  We see this from just his last week’s bevy of encounters with a microphone.  What puzzles me is why his handlers continue to let him make a fool of himself in public without providing him with even the basics of what guns are all about.  It’s as if they really do want to portray him even to the Left as the double dummy the Right has known him to be even before he ran for president.  What is in their interest to do that?

So now the hysteria to “do something about guns” has even infected Republican politicians.  Notice that no one is saying or talking about ‘do something about protecting our children’.  In the diatribes we hear, there is not even a connection made between the laundry list of new gun restrictions and how they would prevent school shootings.  None will ask how the next ‘do something about guns’ will reduce the chances for another school massacre; that is the farthest from any politician’s mind.  Now it’s all about the Left wanting to take the biggest possible step toward their perennial goal of eliminating private gun ownership, and the Right wanting to seem  caring while minimizing damage to the 2^nd   Amendment and not pissing off their tried and true constituents.  Both sides are calculating the impact of their respective kabuki dances on the November election, the children be damned.  More national insanity on parade.

[5jun22 update]  The 2^nd Amendment is our Founders’ legacy to enable Americans to successfully revolt when their government goes rogue.  This fundamental truth about the governance of our democratic republic was made clear this morning on FN’s Media Buzz by Mollie Hemingway, editor-in-chief of The Federalist.  IMHO this seminal aspect about gun rights is constantly overlooked by our conservative media (and, of course, denied by the lamestream) when reporting on ‘doing something about gun violence’.   And again, no one is talking about what any of these proposals will do or would have done to protect the children.  For the Dems it's all about ratcheting toward the final removal of the 2A using every calamitous opportunity and with every useless (re school massacres) notch to constructively further limit the ownership and use of firearms by the law-abiding public.  "A democracy, if you can keep it." - the real purpose of the 2A is keeping the basis of our constitutional republic; it should be part and parcel of every discussion and debate about reducing ‘gun violence’.  Rogue governments have ALWAYS been by far the greatest killers of their own citizens.

Comments

[Scott O]

repost from "save the chillin'"
I listened to as much as I could stand of Biden's lies tonight. F you Brandon.
Golly - if we just made it so that we couldn't access our firearms in an emergency then no one would murder anyone.
And of course there was the old fallback to the fact that there's "too many" killings. No word on the acceptable number but I'm not holding my breath.
If only every one would pul-lease use a 9mm handgun to shoot children dead, then Biden would be happy as a clam.
Nothing about actually keeping anyone safe and long on Biden and his wife stepping in as pillars of moral virtue.
And the body count continues.
Enjoy, everyone!
Update - check out the proposed leg:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/7910/text#toc-HD3CDFEA46CFF4FBDA0BABB987F79CC32
Please note that large capacity mags are only bad when you possess them, Biden's body guard still needs them.
These bigly magazines will have to have a serial number and you CAN have them grandfathered in, but if the ones you have have no serial number how can anyone prove when you got them?
These people are stupid on steroids.

[Bill Tozer]

If 'No One Wants to Take Our Guns,' Stop Saying the Opposite

https://townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/2022/06/02/if-no-one-wants-to-take-our-guns-stop-saying-the-opposite-n2608101

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re: Bumblebrain.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-midwest-danger-rotating-power-blackouts-this-summer-2022-06-03/

lol. What next? Will Biden somehow arrange for an insect plague? It should be a mostly peaceful summer.

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re: Do something about guns.

A couple of predictions and (pretty obvious)points.

. This is an issue that the Democrats will use for the midterms as everything else they've touched has turned to ashes.
. All handguns will now become 'semiautomatic handguns' by MSM
. All mass shootings will be heavily covered in national media, except for the 'who' and 'why' part, unless it's some crazy white kid (extremely rare).
. The agenda to outlaw all private gun ownership will ramp up since nearly all of the shootings are by 'vanilla' and relatively low powered firearms.
. Question, how will they rebrand 9mm handguns to sound particularly dangerous? Semiautomaticmilitarystyleassaultweapons is taken already.

https://mass-shootings.info/

[Bill Tozer]

Piglet & Beto

https://i0.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2022/06/Screen-Shot-2022-05-30-at-8.55.06-PM.png?

[Gregory]

Dred Scott decision (1857):

"For if (freed slaves) were so received, and entitled to the privileges and immunities of citizens, it would exempt them from the operation of the special laws and from the police regulations which they considered to be necessary for their own safety. It would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognised as citizens in any one State of the Union, the right to enter every other State whenever they pleased, singly or in companies, without pass or passport, and without obstruction, to sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased at every hour of the day or night without molestation, unless they committed some violation of law for which a white man would be punished; and it would give them the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak; to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to keep and carry arms wherever they went."

[Gregory]

It wasn't that long ago that you could walk into the House of Representatives armed to the teeth. Even revolutionaries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_United_States_Capitol_shooting
This took place nearly two months before I filled my first diaper.

Perhaps we've gone far enough down the list of "common sense" gun control proposals and might consider letting the more common of them to be repealed. Why? Because they didn't work.

[Scott O]

Gregory 5:14 - notice who freed them?
And notice who Clinton let go?
Gun violence is only a problem when it can be turned to advantage by Dems to advance their agenda.
If it can't, then gun violence is righteous and the perps are heros.
Funny how that works.
Psul will explain.
In the news some judge got offed.
Apparently the perp is not involved with a future hero of the left and so is a very bad person.
If only he obtained his weapon from a future tax payer supported "perfessor", then he woulda been cool.
Psul will explain.

[Scott O]

In older news:
https://capitolweekly.net/black-panthers-armed-capitol/
Strangely, not a singe Panther was shot dead.
And that was the 'bad' old days.
Things are all different now.
Not.
The 2nd A is fine until an "important" person gets threatened.
Seems like that's the whole idea of the 2nd
I can remember when the Hell's Angels walked into the state leg when they were deciding to force the motorcyclists to wear helmets.
There was no gun play or violence.
I have no love for the Angels. Bunch of punks as far I'm concerned. But why are semi-autos such a big problem now?
Same weapon - same ammo. All of a sudden it's sooo dangerous?

[Bill Tozer]

14 shot, 3 dead, in mass shooting on South Street in Philadelphia. When can we expect President Joe Biden to swing by?

#Killadelphia

[fish]

Posted by: Bill Tozer | 06 June 2022 at 09:15 AM

No point commenting on that.....Joe can only offer his thoughts and prayers that the fatalities were Republicans.

[Bill Tozer]

‘Cities with mass gun violence aren’t cracking down on gun crimes’

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/cities-with-mass-gun-violence-arent-cracking-down-on-gun-crimes

[Bill Tozer]

Animal Shelter Says Stand With Us On Gun Control Or ‘We Will Not Adopt A Pet To You’

https://www.dailywire.com/news/animal-shelter-says-stand-with-us-on-gun-control-or-we-will-not-adopt-a-pet-to-you