Among the things we’ve learned from the horrific attack on a private elementary school in Tennessee is the shooter selected this site over another undisclosed location because the other site had too much security for the assault to be successful. Yet this painful truth, played out time and time again in our country, is glossed over by the gun-control zealots who ONLY want to impose more and more and more gun-control, for “safety”.
Remember, gun control does absolutely nothing to increase public safety and the answer to fix that shortcoming is always to implement more gun control.
Let’s keep in mind even though 98% of all mass shootings in the United States since 1950 have occurred in Gun Free Zones, yet this is the ONLY form of protection offered our children by the gun-control crowd.
It’s not like all those who support gun-control don’t also support hardened buildings and armed officers and security, they just don’t support it for your children. Politicians from the local, state and federal level all love having their offices and homes secured by publicly funded law enforcement officers, all carrying guns to protect THEM. Following the so-called insurrection, our Congress authorized millions of tax dollars’ worth of security upgrades to further harden it and secure the politicians. The Capitol Police were expanded nationwide with the sole purpose of protecting the politicians. Yet zero dollars are allocated to protecting the most vulnerable, most at risk segment of the population, children.
What is being done to keep children safe?
At the federal level, a bill has been introduced to provide funding to public and private schools across the country. It would fund training and hiring of veteran and former law enforcement officers, or off-duty law enforcement officers, and for the hardening of schools.
Note this is not the first time a bill like this has been introduced in the U.S. Congress, and with a split House and Senate, and a President who wants only gun-control legislation, it has zero chance of becoming law. Had it been introduced back when the Republicans held both chambers of congress and the White House, well… then we wouldn’t have something to blame the other party for. But that’s a different story.
At the state level, Tennessee has introduced a bill to require schools develop and maintain state approved plans for physical security, including drills and reviews on an annual basis. It does not offer funding from the state for the training and hiring of armed officers or security within the schools.
Unfortunately, what the good intentions boil down to is money. A disgraced and fired former FBI Russian interference hoaxer/adulterer decided to come up with a number for security at every school in the nation at $10.4 billion. But like most of his facts, this too is incorrect. Many schools are already staffed with armed officers and/or security. But this shockingly high figure is being floated around our nation’s capital to show the futility of the protecting children argument in order to advance the gun-control only agenda.
When looking at school security from the national level, you’re talking about a billion-dollar problem. State level drops it down to into the millions and local funding, thousands. While state and federal lawmakers love to get involved following a crisis (it makes them look like they are doing something), school security is a local matter. YOUR school board is the one responsible for providing security to protect children. If your school relies on federal or state grants to fund school security, what’s going to happen when those grants dry up, just like they always do. Priorities shift and grant money gets sent somewhere else, leaving schools unprotected down the road.
In fact, if your school wants to temporarily solve this problem until the local funds are raised to hire full time armed security, all the schools need to do is put out a call for veterans and ex-officers to volunteer at the school. I can’t speak for every community in the country, but I know in the ones I’ve lived in throughout my life, if you put that call out today, you’d have a line out the door in the morning. You would have men and women who would be willing to take any required training and certification, at no cost, to secure their local schools and safeguard the children.
Is this a long-term model? No, we need to invest in hard security and on-going armed resources, including training and arming teachers, as part of every school’s budget. But it would provide what our schools need RIGHT NOW using resources that already exist in the community.
Of course, the gun-control side says armed officers, security, or teachers “sends the wrong message”. I’m not really sure how having resources to stop psychopaths/murderers from slaughtering children in schools is the wrong message. Is providing armed, taxpayer funded security to politicians and NOT children the right message? Maybe our politicians would feel safer with little plastic “Gun Free Zone” signs.
I can’t think of any way to say this other than bluntly. The reason why you will never see the gun-control zealots support hardening schools or providing armed security or law enforcement in schools is because without dead children, gun control will never pass. Your children’s lives are expendable in the quest for stricter and stricter, do nothing for safety gun-control.
It’s up to you.
Bob
*Yes, you are reading Part 2 before Part 1. I am struggling with my own tone in the first part of this story. I’ve written, read, rewritten, reread and rewritten again but I’m still not happy with the way it comes across. As any moral person should be, I am outraged at not only the shooting in Nashville, but our government’s response and gaslighting. Being semi-objective about this is proving to be a bit of a challenge. So, Part 2 it is.
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Author: Bob
And Florida Makes 26!
Today Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed House Bill 543 into law. The new law strengthens the Second Amendment protected rights by allowing Floridians to carry a concealed firearm without a government issued permit, background check or mandatory training. The law goes into effect on July 1, 2023. Florida is now the 26th state to return to constitutional carry.
Florida’s move is significant as now more than half of the United States allows permitless concealed carry. Several more states also have constitutional carry bills working their way through their legislatures this year.
As expected, the usual suspects were hard at work trying to stop this. The gun-control zealots, led by the Democratic party, Moms Demand Action and a collection of other billionaire-funded organizations, all condemned the law as being reckless and claim it will lead to an increase in so-called “gun violence”. The usual comparisons to having to get tested and licensed to drive a motor vehicle (a privilege not a Constitutionally protected right) were argued, along with self-funded “research” PROVING the majority of Florida residents opposed it.
What the gun-control crowd doesn’t tell you is every time constitutional carry has been implemented in a state, violent crime has gone down. It has never been the “wild, wild west” or “blood flowing in the streets”, it’s been increased safety and security for the residents of the state. As for their polls, let’s just say research that starts with a conclusion then finds numbers to support it isn’t really research.
As was the case in Texas, ex-law enforcement/current firearm training company owners also opposed the law fearing the lack of mandatory training would negatively impact their business. What actually happened in Texas? More people sought out firearms training than ever before now that they were unburdened from the government permitting system. Go figure.
So, what is the big deal about not requiring a permit to carry a concealed firearm? It’s a barrier which keeps some people from being able to legally defend themselves outside the home. Even in more permissive states, permit requirements often involve application fees – sometimes substantial ones – interviews, fingerprints, and mandatory training. All of this takes time off from work and money which many people cannot afford. Requiring multiple trips for different stages to satisfy the requirements help keep those who can defend themselves a more exclusive club. How many other constitutionally protected rights are treated this way?
Crime and violence continue to skyrocket around the country thanks to extreme-left law makers and prosecutors who prioritize defunding police departments, rewrite laws to lower penalties for crime, release those previously convicted of crimes and fail to hold those committing new property and violent crimes responsible for their actions. The result is more and more people are taking responsibility for their own safety and the safety of their families. In many cases, this involves buying, owning and carrying firearms for self-defense.
Eliminating the need for government permission to be able to defend yourself in public is in the finest tradition of the Second Amendment.
Congratulations Florida!
Bob
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If They Said It, It Must Be True
In the world of gun-control, having the President of the United States make statements on gun control is the ultimate credibility test. If our President says it, it must be true and the correct thing to do, right? Sadly, no. In fact, some of the things our commander in chief says are bold face lies. Even when the most prejudiced internet search shows the statements are a lie, the President said it so YOU must be wrong.
Where are the fact checkers now?
Following a horrific school shooting, we have the 44th President of the United States saying: “We are failing our children. Guns are now the leading cause of death for children in the U.S.” This is a carefully crafted lie.
The so-called “research” the former President is quoting is from the gun-control community’s own funded study that carefully manipulates statistics to get the results they wanted.
For instance, the study only included data from 2020-2021 and;
The children are aged 1 to 19.
Excluded from numbers were 0-1 aged children whose unique morbidity rates would throw off the numbers and included 18- and 19-year old’s whose number greatly inflated the rates, even though 18- and 19-year-olds are legally considered adults.
Removing the bias numbers puts the leading cause of death for children as accidents.
The study also claims, “The U.S. has by far the highest child and teen firearm mortality rate among peer countries”. Again, a carefully curated lie.
Starting with the dubious definition of “children”, it compounds the bias error by comparing to “peer countries”. This is a cherry-picked list of countries with low firearm ownership rates – including near total bans – and other legal difference all combining to ensure the US rate looks shocking in comparison. This other country list is frequently called other “rich countries”, “developed countries”, “industrialized countries”, “wealthy countries” and “advanced democracies”. Conveniently, there is no published definition of what gets a country on this list, but the result ALWAYS shows the US is horribly violent.
By the way, if you look at the UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime) homicide rate, a number which excludes suicide, self-defense, law enforcement interventions and non-intentional homicide (accidents), you’ll find the United States down around # 60.
Definitions matter and manipulating the results to arrive at a predetermined conclusion is a lie. This is why I always treat “research” by the gun-control lobby with suspicion.
Then there is our current President’s recent quote. “You’re not allowed to go out and own an automatic weapon. You’re not allowed to own a machine gun. You’re not allowed to own a flamethrower.”
While you might be tempted to dismiss this statement as another one of our often-confused President’s ramblings, let’s call it what it really is, a lie.
Automatic weapons & machine guns (we’re assuming he means the same thing here, but who knows) are in fact legal to own. NFA (National Firearms Act) firearms may be purchased or transferred by any legal resident of the United States, over 18 (21 for some items), not prohibited from firearm ownership, and not living in a non-NFA permitted state. There is a $200 tax and a background check that can take up to a year, or more to compete. NFA firearms are extremely expensive and come with a number of restrictions, but they are legal.
Flame throwers are legal in all 50 states, with only two currently imposing additional licensing or equipment restrictions. The reason is simple too. Flame throwers are not firearms and not subject to NFA or FFL background check restrictions. Although I’m going to bet now that the President has declared them persona non grata, the nanny states are going to jump all over this and start restricting them.
Having our President stand before a national audience spouting off lies about firearms, the Second Amendment or the law is nothing new. The firearms community is used to it, and we all do a collective face palm when we hear these blatant lies. The problem is this information influences people who do not know any better, or simply don’t care to know fact from fiction.
Following the principle of “You never let a serious crisis go to waste.”, the gun-control zealots flood the airwaves, news and social media with emotional messages to “do something” following the horrific deaths of innocent victims. Facts don’t matter at a time like this, only that they have the ONE and ONLY solution that will stop so-called gun violence once and for all – gun control.
Remember, gun control does absolutely nothing to increase public safety and the answer to fix that shortcoming is always to implement more gun control.
In the real world, firearms are used to defend and save lives in this country every single day. A 2013 CDC (Centers for Disease Control) study found civilian defensive use of firearms outnumbered felonious use by a rate of 3 to 1, to the tune of 2.5 to 3 million uses per year. YOUR right to purchase, own, possess and carry a firearm in defense of your life and the lives of your family is what is at stake.
Know the facts, share the facts. Just because they said it doesn’t make it true.
Bob
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I Believe In Gun Control, Even Though…
All these years I’ve been so horribly wrong. I’ve been fighting against gun control when I should have been fighting for it. It’s time for me to correct my ways by stating the obvious.
I believe in gun control, even though it has never actually worked to prevent crime and violence, anywhere.
I believe Gun Free Zones repel shooters, even though 98% of all mass shootings in the United States since 1950 have occurred in Gun Free Zones.
I believe common sense gun laws save lives, even though the areas of the country with the strictest gun control laws have the highest crime, murder and “gun violence” rates.
I believe universal background checks will stop criminals from getting guns, even though most criminals steal their guns or get them through straw purchases (which include background checks) and the only purpose for universal background checks is to create a national gun registry.
I believe 10 round magazines are “standard capacity”, even though most firearms are designed for and intended to use magazines larger than that.
I believe in restricting concealed carry in “sensitive places”, even though this restriction only applies to law abiding citizens not criminals who don’t obey the law anyway and now have only unarmed people to victimize.
I believe the Second Amendment only applies to the state militia (the National Guard) even though the Bill of Rights clearly defines our rights in relation to the government and guarantees civil rights and liberties to the individual.
I believe there is no such thing as “a good guy with a gun”, even though civilian defensive use of firearms outnumbered felonious use by a rate of 3 to 1, to the tune of 2.5 to 3 million uses per year.
I believe red flag laws are fully constitutional, even though they deprive a person of a constitutional right without due process, through a secret civil hearing, at a lower legal standard than for an arrest, are not afforded legal counsel, and must prove their innocence vs. being proven guilty.
I believe red flag laws are effective, even though they are only used to strip firearms away from someone and do NOTHING to help someone in a mental health crisis or protect from the person who is supposedly dangerous.
I believe the previous assault weapon ban saved lives, even though the government’s own data says any impact was far too small to measure.
I believe Constitutional Carry is criminal carry, even though Constitutional Carry laws explicitly forbid those who are not allowed to legally possess or carry firearms.
I believe California, rated #1 for gun control, is a shining example of the success gun control can achieve, even though their cities and streets have become safe havens for crime and violence, including four mass shootings in one week.
I believe gun control areas only have more crime because of non-gun-controlled areas, even though the non-gun-controlled areas have less crime and violence.
On second thought, believing what I believe on April 1st might be a little bit foolish, even though you already know what I really believe.
Bob
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A Round In The Chamber
I’m often amazed at the level of creative indignation for firearms some law enforcement agencies have in their press releases. It’s not enough to just report what happened, they have to add in that little extra spice to make it sound even more insidious. A recent arrest report included “three loaded handguns were seized, two of which had rounds in the chambers”. Isn’t that where rounds are supposed to be?
Don’t get me wrong, arresting bad people carrying guns is a very good thing and we are all better off for it. In the case this quote came from, there were drugs in the car, one of the guns was stolen and one of the people with a gun was a convicted felon. What I am pointing out is the anti-gun establishment making what is normal sound treacherous.
When I started seeing the round in the chamber comments, I thought maybe this was a gun-control throwback to the old west cowboy days where it was common to leave the chamber under the hammer of a single action revolver empty since a blow to the hammer from being dropped or bumped could set off the round. Of course, this isn’t true of modern-day firearms which incorporate effective drop safeties*. But then I remembered anti-gun zealots don’t recognize the right to bear any type of firearm made after the Second Amendment was ratified in 1791. Foolish me.
Whenever a pro-gun-control department seizes a firearm, whether it’s just one, a few or dozens, it’s always reported as an “arsenal” or “huge weapons cache”. Add in ammunition, and it’s “the biggest horde of weapons I’ve ever seen”. These seizures are carefully arraigned and displayed for the press on cloth covered tables or, if from a residence, uncased and spread out in the driveway so the press can get all the photographs they need for a sensationally graphic article. Damn the jury pool, full coverage ahead!!
So first off, people own firearms in this country. Some only one or two, some dozens or more. According to a recent estimate, there are approximately 466 million civilian owned firearms in the United States, with one million new firearms being purchased every month for the past 43 months in a row. It is estimated that 46% of households own at least one firearm, with the average owning five. Yet every time the number of firearms someone owns is reported by the press, it is presented as a huge, out-of-ordinary, scary/danger number.
Second, the round is SUPPOSED to be in the chamber. There’s nothing insidious about it. In the firearm/self-defense community, having a loaded semi-automatic firearm without a round in the chamber – Condition 3 for you purists – is just about as unsafe as an unloaded firearm. It assumes in a self-defense situation you’ll have the additional time after you draw your firearm to use your other hand or closest hard object to rack the firearm before you can use it. Considering you are responding to a life-or-death threat; you are already WAY behind the reaction curve and time is a bit of a factor here.
Oh, and keeping an empty chamber on a revolver? Unless you are carrying a period correct antique single action revolver, that’s just silly. Why would you purposefully reduce your already limited number of rounds?
Again, I’m not advocating against arresting bad guys with guns. It’s actually kind of refreshing since so many of the ultra-far-left progressive prosecutors refuse to press charges against them as part of the pro-criminal policies. What I’m against is the propaganda from the law enforcement agencies and news outlets who are trying to normalize everything to do with firearms are bad and should be banned.
A firearm is not evil.
A loaded firearm is not evil.
A round in the chamber is not evil.
A standard capacity magazine is not evil.
A hollow point defensive round is not evil.
A firearm carried in public is not evil.
The ONLY thing evil about any firearm is the intent of the person carrying it. While there are those who will use firearms for criminal behavior, there are many more who will use them for lawful purposes and in defense of life.
So, when you see these press releases and news stories, you can start to understand the bias of the departments and community, and what needs to be changed.
Bob
*Does not apply to Sig Sauer P320.
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Crime and Violence: The Keys to Successful Gun Control
If you’ve noticed huge spikes in crime and violence occurring at the same time as a massive push for more and more gun control, it’s not a coincidence. The higher the crime rate and violence in your community, the more you will be inclined to accept the one and only answer for how to stop it, gun control. Of course, it’s a lie.
Don’t feel safe in your home or community? Gun control is the answer. People assaulted, robbed, raped and killed in broad daylight? Gun control is the answer. Stores and businesses closing because of so much crime? Gun control is the answer.
Rest assured this IS the plan, and your life and the lives of your family are the pawns in the game. If you’re thinking there’s no way anyone in our country would purposely allow people to be assaulted, robbed, raped, and killed just to help implement gun control, think about what is at stake.
It’s all about control of the masses. People who are not 100% dependent on the government for their most basic needs like security are much harder to control than those that are dependent. They also tend to value things like freedom of movement, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to associate with others, freedom to purchase what they want, when they want and freedom to make their own decisions about issues affecting their families. If some lives need to be sacrificed along the way to accomplish this, so be it.
This all begins in your own community.
Progressive prosecutors are taking the lead in promoting criminal-first policies in their communities. They are ignoring the will of the people and their state’s criminal code by using “prosecutorial discretion” to avoid charging those who commit crimes. At the same time, they are actively working to reduce the sentences and release those who are in custody, turning their backs on the victims of crime in the process. The result? More crime and violence.
The ranks of local law enforcement are being decimated because the system is, supposedly, systemically racist. The remaining officers are not allowed to proactively fight crime and, in some places, even stop cars or arrest offenders without direct permission from supervisors. The standards for replacement officers, when it’s allowed, have been lowered to the point where they are no better than the criminals themselves. Acceptance and trust of local law enforcement is destroyed, and the eventual consequence is the elimination of local law enforcement. The result? More crime and violence.
Public schools are undoubtedly the most important places when considering safety, yet they are the most neglected. Instead of effectively hardening the buildings and classrooms, providing on-site, law enforcement protection, and allowing staff and teachers to be armed, most schools are protected by little “Gun Free Zone” signs. The result? More crime and violence.
At the same time our communities are purposefully being made more crime-ridden and violent, the extreme left politicians and gun control zealots are presenting us with one, and only one answer, more gun control. Removing firearms and the ability to use them from law abiding citizens is portrayed as the only “common sense” solution.
Never mind that the areas with the most gun control also have the most crime and violence. We’re told that this is because of all the non-gun-controlled areas, even though they don’t have the same crime and violence there. Nowhere do they ever describe how they will get criminals to stop illegally carrying and using guns.
Completely dismissed is the concept of holding those who commit crimes and acts of violence accountable for their actions. Arrest, prosecution, and incarceration are considered nonsense. Gun control zealots point to their own self-funded “research” that UNEQUIVOCALLY PROVES tough-on-crime policies have the reverse effect and only make crime worse. Besides, tough-on-crime policies are (supposedly) systemically racist, so they can’t be supported.
Let’s not forget firearms are used to defend and save lives in this country every single day. A 2013 CDC (Centers for Disease Control) study found civilian defensive use of firearms outnumbered felonious use by a rate of 3 to 1, to the tune of 2.5 to 3 million uses per year. It is critical to note that not all the events involved the discharge of a firearm by the civilian. Often, the mere presenting or challenge to the criminal with a firearm was enough to stop the intended crime. It’s also important to realize this number ONLY includes persons who were not performing defensive duties as part of their employment such as law enforcement or security services.
In case you go looking this study on the CDC website, all references to it were removed in 2021 under pressure from the gun control community who labeled it “highly misleading” “out of context” and “misinformation”, just like all other information that refutes an extremist’s position.
Gun control is definitely not the answer to crime and violence, but we are being force-fed this propaganda as if it is the word of god. You and your family are being put in more physical danger every day by the same people who want to strip you of your right to defend yourself at home and in public. They are hoping that you won’t notice the game is rigged and the only choice you are being given is to support more gun control.
Remember, gun control does absolutely nothing to increase public safety and the answer to fix that shortcoming is always to implement more gun control.
Bob
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The Latest Operation Choke Point – Paused
You may have heard about credit card companies adding a new merchant category code (MCC) specifically for “gun stores”. This was advertised as being all about ‘public safety’ by allowing credit card companies to flag suspicions purchases and report them to law enforcement, thereby preventing mass shootings. This is an outright lie and not even close to the actual purpose – to deny credit card purchases at firearms retailers.
Let’s be crystal clear about what this is. It is NOT an attempt to create a firearm registry or flag suspicious purchases. It IS nothing more than a new version of Operation Choke Point, this time tageting the ability of consumers to make purchases at gun stores.
For those that don’t remember, the original Operation Choke Point was the 2013 US Department of Justice program to ‘investigate’ banks who work with businesses such as firearms and ammunition dealers, businesses the DOJ claimed to be a high risk for fraud and money laundering. In reality, the goal was to intimidate financial institutions into cutting off banking services to these businesses, effectively closing them down. It ended in 2017 after multiple lawsuits and promises the DOJ would no longer issue informal and unwritten “suggestions” to banks, the mechanism used to coerce them.
The new gun store MCC was issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). The ISO’s decision followed years of pressure from gun-control activist financial institutions such as Amalgamated Bank, gun-control lobbyists, and extreme left politicians to create the gun store specific code. US credit card processors, Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, etc. would then implement them across their systems.
Following the creation and planned implementation of the new MCC, Second Amendment supporters pointed out this could be used as a backdoor firearm registration system. Only due to the threated legal action of 24 red-state Attorneys General has the implementation plan by Visa, MasterCard and Discover been paused. American Express has not commented yet.
IF the intention was to track purchases made at a firearm retailer/Federal Firearms License (FFL), the credit card industry and gun-control zealots already had a way to do this. A quick trip to the ATFE (Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives) website allows you to download the complete current list of every FFL in the country in .xlsx, .txt or .pdf format. Even someone with prehistoric programming skills like me could write a program to flag sales from any firearm retailer in real time in about 15 minutes.
Side note: How many industries do you know where the entire list of retailers is available to everyone with only a click required to download it?
Keep in mind credit card companies ONLY get a total amount submitted to them for approval. They do not have access to item, or SKU (stock keeping unit) level information. Therefore, a $10,000 purchase at someplace like Bass Pro could be a bunch of firearms and ammunition or a fishing boat and trailer. The credit card company, or any government entity, has no way of knowing.
The true intent behind the new MCC is to allow your local bank, the people you get your Visa, etc. branded credit card from, the ability to deny your purchases from gun stores. They can, at their own discretion, implement a policy that says, ‘we don’t want to conduct business with the gun industry’ and not allow transactions at retailers as identified by this MCC.
The new MCC would be much less of a burden for large retailers such as Bass Pro/Cabela’s, Walmart, etc. who already have multiple MCC’s for different areas of their stores. Therefore, denying purchases from the gun store MCC would only stop purchase in the firearms area of the store. What the gun store MCC can do is stop smaller firearm retailers from making any sales because they most often use a single credit card processor for all sales, firearms and non-firearm related.
The rollout pause by the credit card processers is hardly the final word on the topic. Just as the 24 red-state Attorneys General have threated legal action if the new MCC is implemented in their state, you can be sure the blue-states will threaten legal action if they are NOT implemented. It’s possible a decisive action by Congress could put this to rest once in for all, however decisive action isn’t something we can expect from a RINO lead Congress.
As if this isn’t bad enough, ponder what happens with the U.S. Digital Dollar currently being tested by the New York Federal Reserve Bank and several other major banks. This allows the introduction of “programmable” money. In the simplest terms, programable money can have built-in rules and constraints. With these rules, money can be programmed to have an expiration date or be restricted for certain goods. Instead of being able to spend your money on anything you like, you can only spend it on approved items at approved retailers. With programmable money you can control what people eat, what they read, where they travel and who they associate with.
No, this isn’t a sci-fi alternative reality, it is being tested today. And it should terrify the living crap out of you.
Your local bank is the current battleground for your Second Amendment rights. Gun-control zealots have long pressured financial institutions into not working with firearms industry, from the largest manufacturers to your local mom-and-pop shop. Ask any firearm related business how difficult it is to get bank accounts or credit card processing in many areas of the country. The gun shop MCC is simply another attack on the ability of consumers to buy firearms.
Still think it doesn’t matter who you vote for?
Bob
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State of The Union Antics
This evening the President of United States will deliver the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress. While the focus is, and should be, on the content of message the President delivers, we can sadly anticipate a strong showing of outbursts from less than reputable members of Congress. I’m going to call this exactly what it is, disrespectable showboating by attention seeking members of Congress. There is absolutely no reason for it and shows the worst part of the politics in our country.
While tonight’s State of the Union is expected to be controversial, loose with facts, reality, and political comedy at its best, it is simply one President/one party’s opinion of what is going on our country. Nobody has to agree with it, and many will not.
A little history. The President provides the State of the Union per Article II, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution, which states:
“He shall from time to time give to Congress information of the State of the Union and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.”
In our nations early days, the State of the Union was delivered in writing. Only in the early 1900’s did the State of the Union begin being delivered in person as a speech. Now with the advent of the 24/7 news and instant internet access, the State of the Union is broadcast into homes around the nation and the world.
There is also a new tradition, members of Congress making outbursts or committing physical acts to interrupt and disrupt the President, as well as draw attention to themselves. These have included such things as shouting comments or even ripping the President’s speech.
Post State of the Union, unruly Congressional members have offered as an explanation that the behavior was an uncontrolled ‘excited outburst’ vs a pre-planned and executed disruption. Honestly, I don’t which is worse. Having a member of Congress who cannot sit still and control their emotions for an hour OR that they have consciously decided to ignore decency and decorum to disrupt the President during the State of the Union. BOTH options are blatantly unprofessional and disgraceful.
If a Congressional member does find themselves tempted to make an outburst, perhaps it would be better to step outside the House chamber and start your pre-written and rehearsed spontaneous interview to the press early. Or how about just sitting this one out in your Congressional office.
For the Congressional members who do find it necessary to act out, you are not a patriot, a leader, or a firebrand, you are a childish narcissist who doesn’t deserve the seat in Congress your constituents have entrusted you with.
Bob
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Gun Control: The Real Suicide Pact
Last week, California’s Governor and 2024 Democratic Presidential nominee hopeful made a propaganda stop in Monterey Park following a mass shooting, what turned out to be only the first of four in California within one week. Naturally, he used the catastrophic loss of life as an excuse to push for more gun control. He even managed to sneak in a new one liner against the Second Amendment saying: “The Second Amendment is becoming a suicide pact.”
First off, this was a horrific tragedy in which 11 people lost their lives and nine more were injured. While it is disgusting for anyone to use this as an opportunity to promote a political agenda, it is sadly typical for California’s governor and follows the guiding principle of “You never let a serious crisis go to waste.”
You have to wonder how long the Governor had the “suicide pact” line sitting on the shelf waiting for just the right time to bring it out. Of course, it made absolutely no sense in the context of a violent, criminal attack on unarmed victims and has pretty much been panned as an unsuccessful attempt to turn it into a gun control catch phrase for the 2024 elections.
Of his comments in Monterey Park, one San Francisco newspaper headlined the Governor “swats down CBS reporter’s Second Amendment question.”
“Nothing about this is surprising. Everything about this is infuriating, the Second Amendment is becoming a suicide pact. Large capacity clips are just insane, there’s just no justification. Period. Full stop.”
When the reporter commented: “When you said the Second Amendment is a suicide pact, but there’s many people in this country that support the Second Amendment and are lawful gun owners.”
“Yeah, I have great respect. I have no ideological opposition with someone reasonably and responsibly owning firearms and getting background checks and being trained and making sure they’re locked so their kid doesn’t accidentally shoot themselves or a loved one.” “Absolutely not. Never suggested that. That’s what they immediately do. ‘He wants to take away your guns.’ I just want to take away weapons of war that are illegal on the streets of California and should be illegal across the United States.”
It’s worth noting California is the envy of every gun control zealot. The state boasts every single one of the gun control laws the Giffords Law Center says is necessary for “gun safety”. According to Giffords, “Overall, California has the strongest gun safety laws in the nation and has been a trailblazer for gun safety reform for the past 30 years.”. Keep in mind this is coming from the extremist gun control group who is responsible for writing and promoting these laws around the country, as well as providing pro bono legal defense work for them.
Of course, being best in gun control has absolutely no bearing on crime or public safety. As is the case around the country, it has the opposite effect. But that’s only part of the California solution. The state also boasts some of the most radical prosecutors who refuse to charge criminal acts and actively pursue releasing those previously convicted from prison, including the most violent offenders. California has become a haven for uncontrolled criminal activity from low level theft to murder.
So what gun control crimes were committed here? The handgun, called an “assault pistol” by the Los Angeles County Sheriff, was illegal in California, as was the so-called “large capacity magazine”, although enforcement in the state is currently on hold due to legal action. The homemade suppressor was also illegal in California as well as federally. All these gun laws and criminals simply ignore them to go after the people who follow them.
It’s also worth mentioning the Governor was, as he always is, traveling with his heavily armed law enforcement protection team, all of whom I guarantee were carrying non-California approved/off-roster handguns with “large capacity magazines” as well as “assault weapons”. But then again, the Governor is a well-documented hypocrite.
So why do I say Gun Control is the real suicide pact?
People are being told by their ideological leaders that guns are bad, and they don’t need them. They should disarm themselves for their own safety and the safety of everyone else. At the same time, these leaders, who surround themselves with the very tools of self-defense they are telling everyone else they don’t need, know exactly what is going to happen to the disarmed masses. Without the ability to protect themselves and a government unwilling and unable to do so, they will become victims. Following gun control kind of sounds like a suicide pact to me.
Meanwhile, the Governor has made it clear he and his fellow gun control lawmakers will continue to pass more gun control in California.
Remember, gun control does absolutely nothing to increase public safety and the answer to fix that shortcoming is always to implement more gun control.
Bob
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The Next POTUS?
Warning: Political Commentary
January 20, 2023, is an important date for the political future of our nation. Should the President resign or otherwise vacate his office on or after this date, the Vice President can take over the Presidency, complete the final two years of his term, and still run for and complete two, four-year terms on her own. That’s potentially ten years as President of the United States.
This is due to the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution. Section 1 reads:
“No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.”
Jumping into our wayback machine, I’ve always thought this was the plan. Well, Plan B at least.
Plan A
A little history. Our current Vice President was part of the very large crowd running for democratic presidential nomination in 2020. She had all the right backers and was quietly the favorite of the party elite. She was young, ambitious and had the race/sex combination to attract the voters the democratic party was pandering to at the time. Those who were leading the race in the poles (Biden & Sanders, whom I refer to as the Lightning Rods), were put out to attract the attention of press and competition, but never intended to win. Something would come up where they would step aside and let the party’s real choice be substituted at the last minute, avoiding the long, intense scrutiny of the front runners.
Plan A Fails
Then the party favorite crashed. Maybe not crashed like the manufactured outrage to Howard Dean’s scream in 2004 that dropped him from front runner status, more like a failure to perform. So bad was her performance she dropped out of the race before of the first primary. This left the party with the front runners they didn’t want but were stuck with.
Plan B
Somewhere, somehow, some political genius came up with the idea to put the party favorite, a candidate that couldn’t make it to the first primary, on the ballot as the VP choice. Knowing the top of the ticket was occupied by someone who could barely string a comprehensible sentence together, let along draw anything more than tiny apathetic crowds to the few campaign trips outside his basement headquarters, it would be easy to finally install the chosen one in two years.
Plan B Fails
What started as the Biden/Harris administration was quietly dialed back to the Biden Administration, again due to a failure to perform. There are way too many examples to point to, but even a biased Google search can bring up dozens of examples of the Vice President’s word salad speeches, trademark nervous cackle when stumped, and lack of achievement in office. Clearly NOT the person anyone wants in the White House for 10 years.
Now with the 2024 election cycle beginning, there’s a problem. It’s doubtful on a day-to-day basis if the President will be able to make it to the end of his current term, to say nothing of a second. Having the Vice President take over the big chair would put her as the presumptive democratic party candidate in 2024, which would be a disaster for the party. And nobody wants to primary against a sitting president.
Plan C
My crystal ball is saying all the negative news ‘leaks’ about the President and his family are a subtle way to muddying him up just enough to make a valid excuse for him not running for reelection in 2024, but not enough to get him removed from office before then.
This means the democratic party can have an open primary and not be stuck with the Vice President as their nominee in November. Who will step up? We can absolutely count on perennial favorite lightning rods such as Sanders and Warren, but the names to watch for include Buttigieg, Rice, Newsom, M. Obama and everyone’s favorite blast from the past, twice failed presidential candidate, H. Clinton.
It is important to keep in mind political news does not get released randomly. It is a deliberately planned sequence of events and stories meant to shape a specific opinion for the voting public and provide the illusion of choice. All of what we are seeing now is setting the foundation for the 2024 elections. But is this the choice you want?
I’ve said it before. Every seat on every board in every community is important. If we are not showing up, we are ceding control of our communities, our states, and our nation to those who may not share our interests.
… and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” Excerpt from Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
The 2024 elections have already started. It’s time to catch up.
Bob
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