I think I’ve been crystal clear at what is at stake with school safety and gun control. The extreme leftist gun-control activists are willing to sacrifice your children to achieve their goal of disarming law-abiding citizens. But it’s not just willing to, it’s actively working towards getting school children slaughtered to sway public opinion to the only so-called “common sense” solution, 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.
Apparently losing traction on the imaginary “school-to-prison pipeline” argument of getting law enforcement officers out of schools, the new approach is student mental health.
A recent social media post from the Moms Demand Action – ME shows the level of absolute disregard for children’s lives they are willing to go to keep parents, teachers and school boards from stopping school shootings.
According to a senior director of research at Everytown: “The cumulative impact of shooter drills, lockdowns, metal detectors, armed teachers and other school-hardening measures is an environment that feels inherently unsafe for American’s school children. The most effective way to keep kids safe in school is to implement proven school safety programs and programs that prevent gun violence, including secure firearm storage.”
Let me translate this for you. It’s better to remove any means to deter a psycho/murderer from targeting the school, or stop them once they do get there, or keep children from getting killed in event of a school shooting incident, because that creates an environment “that feels inherently unsafe”.
Yes, you read it correctly, secure firearm storage laws will prevent the killer who already has possession of a gun, right along with the violence shield created by a Gun Free Zone sign.
As states and cities are pushing to provide funding for armed school resource officers and staff on school campuses, Giffords Law Center, the free legal provider for gun-control states, cities, and towns around the country, produced another one of their biased “research” efforts showing incidents occurring when people bring guns to school grounds.
As you might expect, it conveniently leaves out many details. Some incidents were firearms found in restrooms, a sad but extremely preventable occurrence. Others were by parents/guests at the school, completely non-school related off-school property issues, or the horrific ‘saw a teacher’s gun’. Everything is stuffed in together to make the numbers appear larger than they really are.
How many of these incidents were by school staff screened and trained for carrying firearms? That is usefully ambiguous. Also unmentioned is how many school shootings there have been at schools where staff and teachers are armed. Hint: The number is zero, but Giffords won’t tell you that.
Even in my own state, there is the insanity of thinking Gun Free Zones actually protect lives. A simple wording change to clarify the current law banning the discharge of firearms on private property withing 500 feet of a school to explicitly exclude self-defense has been met by fierce resistance from the usual suspects/zealots of gun-control.
In one person’s testimony against the bill:
“Gun owners living close to school zones should consider moving for the safety of the children if they can’t abide by the law. The reason why it is prohibited to discharge a gun in a school zone is to protect the public, specifically children. Children who may be on the playground during recess, children walking to and from school, children being dropped off and picked up in school parking lots.”
From a criminal’s point of view, what a bonanza! Not only are you free to bring a gun and commit whatever crime and violence they wish (because they’re criminals, and criminals don’t obey the law) at a school without any fear of being stopped, injured, or killed, but also at homes and on the street within 500 feet of the school.
By the way, have you ever wondered why 500 feet? Like many of the ludicrous zoning laws around the country designed to keep firearms retailers out of their cities, the 500-foot rule is meaningless and has no basis in any safety metric. A modern pistol or rifle bullet can fly a mile or more, although with very little accuracy save a few highly skilled marksmen. Yet a 500-foot imaginary safety zone, where you can actually SEE what could potentially be hit by a bullet, somehow makes sense.
Even the gun-control activists occasionally say the quiet part out loud. Without enough news stories about dead children, they can’t get gun bans in place. So, they do everything they can to keep these horrific incidents occurring.
As we’ve seen time and time again, killers prefer unarmed victims and the best place to find them is in Gun Free Zones. 98% of all mass shootings in the United States since 1950 have occurred in Gun Free Zones. Statements and writings from the murderers themselves show they choose locations where there is no armed security, and their intended victims are not allowed to carry firearms for self-defense.
Sadly, this insanity is happening in cities and towns across the nation. The fallacy that burying your head in the sand under a little plastic Gun Free Zone sign is the best and only way to keep your children safe at school.
Bob
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San Francisco Price Drop!
While California in general and San Francisco specifically are known as the nation’s high price leaders, there’s at least one area where the prices are going down, down, down. I’m talking about the price of committing crime. Thanks to the policies of the politically woke left, San Francisco’s cost of crime is dropping to far more affordable levels for the city’s criminals.
Wait, you say you aren’t a criminal and this adversely affects you and/or your business? TOO BAD! You are NOT San Francisco’s priority.
Having worked in San Francisco years ago, I can attest it was a beautiful city. The key word is was. It’s now an open sewer where those who dare to walk the street must navigate the homeless encampments, aggressive and assaultive homeless and other armed street criminals, as well as human piss and poop.
Nearly every day there is a report of another retailer who is closing their San Francisco stores. And I’m not talking about the multitude of family run, mom & pop shops who have been the lifeblood of their local neighborhoods for decades and nobody in San Francisco politics care about, I’m talking about the big, national brands where the wealthy people shop. You’d think that would give the city something to think about, but no.
Stores like Nordstrom, Nordstrom Rack, Whole Foods, Saks off 5th, Anthropologiem, Abercrombie & Fitch, H&M, Uniqlo, Arc’teryx, The RealReal, CB2, Banana Republic, Crate & Barrel, The Container Store, DSW, Marshall’s, Gap, T-Mobile, and multiple locations of both CVS and Walgreens have closed or are in the process of closing now.
The reason? Crime. Rampant, uncontrolled crime. Not only are the stores being looted daily thanks to the softer-than-soft on crime city policies, but the stores cannot provide a safe environment for customers or staff. Violent assaults are common as is property damage, drugs and harassment from the city’s homeless and criminal population.
A recent photo of Target showed rows of merchandise behind locked gates in an effort to stem the cost of the daily lootings. While I’ll give them credit for being willing to go to that extreme to stay in business at this location, what kind of a shopping experience does this provide? Every item requires a store employee to retrieve it. Even the most tolerant of the city’s remaining left-wing residents admit to going to other stores because of the severe inconvenience. How long before San Francisco stores need to go to the high-crime-mini-mart model where no customers are allowed in the store and all business is transacted through bullet proof glass?
Maybe you’re thinking, “Won’t Somebody Please Think of the Children?” YES the children are involved too. No longer is mass theft, looting, assaults and property damage the exclusive activity of adults. Children, including pre-teens, are involved in these crimes. Apparently, the concept of parenting left San Francisco long before the businesses did.
San Francisco has boldly responded to the cries for help from some of the remaining malls and will be stationing two city police officers at each mall, every day. Keep in mind this is the same city that defunded the police department to the tune of $120 million dollars, is down hundreds of officers and responds to calls in hours, if at all. But pulling two officers for each for the malls off the streets won’t cause a problem for the rest of the city, right?
However, the recent killing of a tech executive illustrates the level of lawlessness in San Francisco quite nicely. Prosecutors have said the accused killer could face a sentence of up to 26 years to life if convicted of all charges.
I guess I’m old because I remember when a premeditated homicide, which is what this is being charged as, called for the death penalty, or at least a mandatory sentence of life. Not so much in the City by the Bay. Technically speaking, California does have the death penalty, but the governor/Presidential wannabee decided to do away with that for all the prisoners on death row. This despite the citizens of California TWICE voting in favor of the death penalty.
Of course, getting sentenced to 26 years and serving 26 years are two completely different things in California. Although, the victim was wealthy, high up and connected in the ever-deteriorating San Francisco tech community, so that might play into the sentencing. Still, with California’s policies of emptying out prisons, even for the most heinous of criminals, I’d be damn surprised if the murderer served 10 years. We’ll see if the victim’s two young daughters have reached adulthood by the time their father’s killer is set free.
San Francisco, like the rest of the country’s large, liberal run cities are seeing what happens when you shun the police and embrace criminals. Crime is rampant and unchecked, businesses, and their customers are leaving in droves because they know they are not safe and their city governments, defunded police departments and social justice soft-on-crime prosecutors will do nothing to hold the CRIMINALS responsible for their actions.
But hey, the good news is the cost of at least one thing in San Francisco, California is going down. The bad news is it’s crime.
Bob
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Nashville, Part 1
Like most of the nation, I struggle to come to terms with the shooting at an elementary school in Nashville. Not only for the horrific tragedy and loss of innocent life, but now for the absolutely bizarre aftermath of justifications and blame shifting. When the focus should be on the families of the victims and the survivors traumatized by the shooting, our woke society is telling us to be more tolerant of the shooter’s community. Sorry crazy people, I’m going to focus on keeping children safe.
Let’s start off with the most obvious fact. There is no justification, no understanding, no acceptance of anyone targeting a school and killing three defenseless staffers and three innocent nine-year-old children. Absolutely none.
While we grieve with the families of the victims, let’s take note of some facts.
The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department (MNPD) should be commended on not only their handling and prompt ending of the situation itself, but for the level of immediate and unprecedented disclosure of detailed information, surveillance, and body camera video from the incident. I don’t ever recall seeing as much information released, and as quickly, as done by the MNPD. Getting complete, detailed information out as quickly as possible minimizes the wild accusations, lies, rumors and spin that inevitably follow high profile incidents. Let’s hope this sets the standard for other law enforcement agencies around the country.
As for the individual officers who ran towards the gunfire and quickly eliminated the threat, there is no other word than heroic. They put their lives on the line and prevented the further loss of life quickly and effectively. This IS the standard every single law enforcement officer in the country should be held to.
But then the absurd started. The MNPD released the identity of the shooter as a 28-year-old female, based on the corpse of the person shot dead by police. But no, that wasn’t correct according to the transgender community. This was a trans person whose pronouns were he/him and it was insulting to refer to the killer as a female.
Just a thought here, but perhaps the trans community should implement a Medic Alert type system so officers, medics and rescue personnel can get the correct, up-to-the-moment gender and pronoun information on murderers before they make statements to the press. I’m sure this would avoid a lot of hurt feelings. In the meantime, let’s all just use the proper pronouns for someone who targets and kills children, psychopath/murderer.
A bit facetious? Absolutely. But it’s difficult to take anyone who comes to the defense of a psychopath/murderer of children any other way.
I’ll be honest. When the information about the shooter came out, I figured one of two things was going to happen. The shooting itself was going to get buried in the news since the shooter was not the right race and sex, or the news media/gun-control community/government would toss aside said transgender shooter the way they had with women after the #metoo movement and the black community after #blm. Boy was I wrong.
Instead, you’ve seen a full court press on both gun-control and transgender rights.
Anyone that argues against gun-control is contributing to the killing of children. Gun-control mouthpieces specifically blamed Republicans and the NRA for being directly responsible for these killings. Never mind that to date no Republicans or NRA members have ever committed any mass shooting OR that their policies are the only ones that have ever prevented or stopped mass shootings. But it’s still their fault.
Remember, gun control does absolutely nothing to increase public safety and the answer to fix that shortcoming is always to implement more gun control.
Anyone that attempted to connect the shooting to the trans community was labeled transphobic. The justifications ranged from bizarre to disgusting. Some saying it was the anti-trans and/or religious community itself that instigated this, to the shooter having no other choice. Yes, there was no other choice but to kill innocent children.
A Trans Day of Vengeance rally scheduled just days after the shooting was cancelled and references to the event poster by others were removed by social media companies. Even though the group organizers tried to rationalize “Vengeance means fighting back with vehemence”, the association with violence was proving difficult to sell. This led to the new, kinder and gentler, Trans Day of Visibility.
What we’ve seen from the extreme left politicians to the White House since has been sympathy for the trans community and calls for understanding, but no condemnation of the killer for the senseless violence or deaths of the three school staff and three nine-year-old children. After all, it was the GUNS that were responsible for this, not the psychopath/murderer.
Among the numerous writings the killer left behind was a supposed manifesto. It is currently in the hands of the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit who is resisting releasing it for ‘public safety reasons’ as it is so detailed to be a “blueprint on total destruction.” There are also reports that the FBI doesn’t want to release it as the contents as would be unflattering to the transgender community. The FBI is rationalizing keeping it under wraps from an “investigative standpoint” vs. the public is only looking to see it from a “curiosity standpoint”.
Manifestos written by psychopath/murderers are notoriously nonsensical, self-centered, psychotic ramblings which often stray so far from the actual truth as to be considered fantasy. They are written to justify their actions to the world and increase their own notoriety once they’ve been killed for their cause. All of them should be read with a hefty grain of salt but reading them is important.
Shouldn’t the ordinary people who provide security for their local schools, churches, business, private event gatherings or even providing protection for yourself and family at home or in public have access to information that might help them prepare for and prevent future occurrences? Even if the text is 95% psychotic propaganda, knowing what a psychopath/murderer wrote can help save lives. I call that far more of a vested interest than a “curiosity standpoint”.
MNPD and Tennessee Governor Bill Lee have both recently commented the documents left behind by the shooter would be released to the public very soon. At the same time, the FBI has already ruled (ruled??) it cannot be released in its entirety, so we’ll see if full disclosure or restricting access to only the least accountable law enforcement agency in the country wins out.
In the meantime, let’s not forget what happened here. Three school staff and three nine-year-old students lost their lives at the hands of a psychopath/murderer. While mourn for the families and the community, we need to commit to placing someone who will stop further bloodshed between the innocent and the potential killers.
Bob
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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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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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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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Press Play For 2023
I don’t believe I’ve heard anyone claim 2022 was a good year. It certainly had its challenges in my neck of the woods. During the latter months of last year, I needed to take a little break from the keyboard to deal with them. A few have managed to spill over into the new year, but that’s life. Meanwhile, the folks who are bound and determined to strip others of their constitutional rights have been working overtime. Time to get busy again and the start the new year off right.
The assault on our rights isn’t limited to the Second Amendment, although that is a significant focus. Every part of the First Amendment, religion, free speech, press, peaceable assembly and the ability to petition the government for redress of grievances, is being attacked. Fourth Amendment protections are being eroded or simply ignored. Fifth Amendment rights are being swept away with judicial approval. The Sixth Amendment is being completely disregarded, along with the Eighth Amendment. It’s almost as if our Constitution is being shredded before our eyes.
For me at least, I say no. I do not intend to sit quietly while our nation’s 246 years of history, progress and independence is dismantled. No, I am not calling for armed revolt or the new trendy term “insurrection”, we are better than that. I believe we can and will restore sanity to our country, but all of us need to start taking this garbage personally. We can do this, one neighborhood, one town, one city, one county, one state at a time.
I’ve got some catching up to do, so expect some less-than-timely articles to provide the foundation of others to come.
2023 is just starting and it’s already turning into a bumpy ride.
Bob
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Washington’s Starter Magazine Ban
Following in the footsteps of other anti-Second Amendment states, Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed three new gun control measures last week. The bills include a ban on so-called “ghost guns”, further bans on carrying firearms in public places and of course, banning magazines over ten rounds. With this, the Evergreen State joins nine other states who have restricted magazine size in the unfounded claim of public safety.
In the Governor’s announcement, Inslee boasted, “The NRA’s stranglehold on this state has been broken. And the reason is because of the courage of the parents, and the courage of legislators, too …” Here we see the Governor evoke the past reputation of the NRA. Like all politicians who want to sound a little tougher than they really are, he adopted the ‘I took on the NRA and won’ lie.
In a further ridiculous move, the Governor attempted to imply a threat of violence from law abiding firearm owners, closing the state capital for several hours before and after the bill signing. The Washington State Patrol said there was no specific threat, but the closure was a “prudent precaution”.
News stories of the signing attempted to link the new laws to increases in public safety by noting the completely unrelated information that robberies with a firearm in Los Angeles, California, are “up 44 percent from 2021” and “57 percent from 2020. Missing from the story is California’s decades old ban on so-called “high capacity” magazines (the enforcement of which is being held up pending the resolution of Duncan v. Becerra) or that California has the “strongest gun control laws in the United States”, boasting a Gun Law Scorecard Grade of A.
Have you ever wondered why magazine bans are at 10 rounds? There really isn’t any rhyme or reason to it. 15 was apparently too many and seven as implemented and ruled unconstitutional in New York was too few. There certainly isn’t any science or research to support it. If you read the explanation from an extremist gun control, think tank/quasi law center, you see how careful wording is used to justify it. It explains how few self-defense shootings “needed” more than 10 rounds and how many firearms from unlawful shootings were found with “large capacity magazines”. No mention of the fact that more rounds HAVE in fact saved the lives of law-abiding citizens or the ACTUAL number of shots fired by criminals, just the capacity of their magazines. Facts matter, unless you’re trying to infringe on constitutionally protected natural rights.
Limiting the ability of law-abiding citizens to effectively defend themselves under the guise of making everyone safer implies everyone who buys a firearm with a standard capacity magazine is the next mass shooter in waiting. The vast, Vast VAST majority of the 400 million plus personally owned firearms in this country are owned and utilized lawfully. They prevent crime and defend their owners an estimated one to two million times per year in the United States, with defensive uses of firearms outnumbering felonious uses between 30 and 80 to one.
In the title I referred to Washington’s new law a “starter: magazine ban. I call it this because it includes a grandfather clause. Grandfather clauses are a popular way to get gun control legislation to pass. It’s illegal now, but since you already own it, you won’t have to give it up. This makes it easy to sell the ‘nobody is coming for your guns’ line when you don’t have to give up what you already have. But there’s a lot more to it than many realize.
One of the biggest problems with the grandfather clause is your property can never be passed along to your family. How many of us have been bequeathed a firearm or accessories from a parent, grandparent or other relative? Other than the actual monetary value, those items represent a passing of heritage from one generation to the next. Except now, your too-dangerous-to be-in-your-civilian-hands magazine will never see the light of day again. Hopefully your descendants will be satisfied with what they are allowed to own in the future.
The other, less publicized consequence of a grandfather clause is it is nothing more than words on a piece of paper. At some point, a gun hating politician is going to look at all those grandfathered items out there and simply say – let’s get rid of them. The grandfathered exemption is taken away and your property, the property they promised you could keep for as long as you lived, is now illegal for YOU to own and you must turn it in or be criminally charged for possession of illegal items.
Think it can’t happen? Way back in 2000 California outlawed so-called “high capacity” magazines. Anything over the arbitrary 10 rounds was ruled as too-dangerous-to be-in-your-civilian-hands unless you already owned them – the grandfather clause. Then in 2016, they changed their minds and removed that exemption. Go ahead and turn them in please.
Grandfather clauses are nothing more than deferred confiscation notices. It may not be for a few years or a few decades, but that grandfathered item is going to be taken and destroyed.
Washington absolutely will update their so-called “high-capacity” magazine law one day and possession of any magazine that holds more than 10 rounds will be made illegal. Count on it.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, it’s a fool’s errand to believe that once a law has been enacted, it can successfully be drawn back. Of the thousands of gun control laws passed around the country, precious few are successfully appealed and reversed. The only ones who win from this are the lawyers. The best way – the ONLY way to stop them is to prevent them from being enacted in the first place. And the only one who can do that is you.
Bob
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