Category Archives: Gun rights philosophy

I want you to go to a link and look at the first photo. It’s a clear photo of the two Boston bombers crouching in front of an SUV, shooting at the police.

I won’t steal his photo, so go look at it.

Now, tell me that my AR-15 wouldn’t have settled that argument rather decisively. I dare you.

Use the SGT Alvin York rules and shoot the one standing in the back before the one in the front.

“Suddenly a German officer and five men jumped out of the trench and charged me with fixed bayonets. I changed to the old automatic and just touched them off, too. I touched off the sixth man first, then the fifth, then the fourth, then the third, and so on. I wanted them to keep coming. I didn’t want the rear ones to see me touching off the front ones. I was afraid they would drop down and pump a volley into me.”

With the confusion of a gunfight it would probably never occur to them that they were taking fire from another direction.

My rifle is zeroed for 50 yards, so it would hit just slightly low at the 20 to 30 yards we are seeing here. It’s probably a gimme shot. Bang-Bang, Bang-Bang. If they move to continue the fight after getting shot, I’ve got another 16 rounds in the ready mag and 210 more in 30 round mags.

They are in a poor tactical position in any state but an anti-gun state like Massachusetts.

HT: Miguel

What if it was freedom of speech they were trying to take away?

The speech-control movement insists that stricter laws regulating speech instruments are the answer. By about 1970 convicted felons are prohibited from owning typewriters. A few years later all dealers in printing supplies, telephones, radios, and other communication equipment are required to have federal licenses as a condition of business, and are subject to government audits at any time. The announced intention of these laws is to prevent dangerous speech instruments from falling into the hands of criminals and madmen.

Read the whole thing.

When you change all the words from “printing press” to “gun” it starts to sound awfully familiar…

Read this

I think it’s a good idea to let the new gun control bill come to the floor of the Senate, to be debated and voted on. Here are my reasons.

Go read the whole thing. He hits all the high spots. We don’t want to win this quickly with something that looks like a trick. We need to defeat this bill in detail. We need to crush it completely so that it never raises its ugly face again.

When the law demands that people be easy victims, then the law is an ass.

In the chaotic aftermath of a Houston campus mass stabbing Tuesday, a Lone Star Community College student gave a brutally honest interview with Fox News, lamenting the fact that students can’t carry firearms to protect themselves and others.

“God protected us in our classroom,” he said. “We wish we could protect ourselves with guns and stuff. We wish that the law would let us carry guns because we’re legal adults, [to] carry guns on campus to protect ourselves. But so far all we have to rely on is God. But we would love to have God and the law on our side.”

The law says “You’re an adult, but because you chose to further your education we’re going to treat you like a child.”

Fox posted the interview video HERE. I can’t embed it.

No doubt the gun haters will be out in force telling us how we can’t possibly trust a redneck gun toter hillbilly X-tian on campus.

Has it ever occurred to anyone that maybe what they are really saying is that if you’re conservative, self reliant, or you believe in Constitutional Rights, you shouldn’t have access to a college education?

They speak with such classy accents, so they must be much more civilized, right?

The murder rate in the UK is either equal to or higher than the murder rate in the US.

WHAT???!!!???

But I thought that their murder rate was incredibly low, and it was all due to the fact that they don’t have any guns there.

I fell into a definitions trap you may not be aware of. The shortest version is this. We count and report crimes based on initial data. The Brits count and report crimes based on the outcome of the investigation and trial. Yep, that says what I meant it to say.

Read the whole thing. He pulls out the data to show that per capita murder and non-negligent homicide in the UK is probably a bit higher than it is here, guns or no guns.

HT: The Smallest Minority

I’ll bet that the NY SAFE Act would have had no effect on this crime.

The two men whose mutilated bodies were found in a Howard Beach fire last week were killed trying to rob a group of drug dealers, cops said.

(Victim 1), 22, and (Victim 2), 25, both of Brooklyn, were both brutally killed after the dealers learned that the pair was planning stick them up in their Bushwick home, police said.

The dealers laid in wait for the duo to make their move.

It’s a sick and violent crime, but what do you expect out of drug dealers?

The victims’ criminal histories were not available because their records are sealed.

You know that Chuck Shumer, Governor Cuomo, and Mayor Bloomberg are absolutely sure that just one more gun law would have stopped this.

You know you can’t shout “Fire!” in a crowded theater, right? Why do anti gunners think that means they can ban whatever guns they like?

You see, you cannot yell fire if there isn’t a fire. You cannot libel or slander, incite violence, yell ‘I have a bomb’ on your flight to Poughkeepsie, or sit outside your neighbor’s window at 3 AM screaming the national anthem off key. However, even though there are limits to how you use your speech, there are no limits on speech itself. You are free to use every word in the English language, mixed with Portuguese and gibberish made up from childhood memories. You are not limited to syllables, you may use words that are newly coined or ones cribbed from ancient texts. You can even yell ‘Fire’ – either in the comfort of your own home or in a theater when yes, there is a fire. Every word, sentence, and dangling participle is at your disposal, it is the context or the use of that may get you into high temperature dihydrogen monoxide.

Yep. Taking my gun away because I might use it illegally makes as much sense as cutting out my tongue before I see a movie because I might scream “Fire!” once inside.

Bob Beckel thinks that rape on campus is rare, and that “date rape” isn’t worth shooting someone over. 

 I think it was Tam that posted something to the effect of, “aren’t the leftists always going on about how people will only shoot their friends and family, yet they are the same ones saying that women are getting raped mostly by people they know?” I can’t find the post, so if anyone can find it for my, please let me know.

Bob, echoing plenty of anti-gun fanatics, tries to tell us that there is some difference between shooting a “stranger” rapist and shooting a “date” rapist. Can someone please explain to me why shooting someone whose name you happen to know is worse than shooting a total stranger? If he’s trying to rape you, who gives a damn what his name is? Bob apparently subscribes to the Reverse Rumplestiltskin Defense.

You know the story of Rumplestiltskin. The Imp shows up in the tower and promises to spin the straw into gold. The only catch is, that if she can’t guess his name in 3 days, she has to give him her first-born child.

Bob apparently believes the opposite. So long as the rapist is a stranger, it’s ok to use deadly force to stop him. But if the victim happens to know the rapist’s name, Bob thinks she should have to let him rape her.

Does that make sense?

Because I might happen to live in a house where a gang member used to live.

The (Victims) were the unintended victims of a shooting that targeted a member of the VDM gang, an acronym for Very Dangerous Mexicans, investigator E.A. Welch stated in the search warrant. The intended target was (Intended Victim), a member of VDM who once lived at the Mendoza’s address with (Girlfriend).

This was just outside the Town limits in unincorporated Wake County, exactly 3 road miles from here.

The two thugs shot the place to pieces. One of the suspects’ girlfriend was arrested for possession of a weapon of mass destruction, which basically means she had a machine gun. They haven’t said it was one of the murder weapons, but they have been hinting at it. She’s on an immigration hold.

We can’t keep PEOPLE out of this country. These people have guns I can’t buy legally, yet my AR is a threat?

They can go to hell.