Assault Rifles

Watch out! Beto O’Rourke is coming for your “weapons of war!” If lightning struck and Beto prevailed, what might this mean in the over-all homicide rates. To find out, let’s go to the numbers:

2018 FBI Murder Statistics (see: Statista Site):
Handguns: 6,603
Firearms not stated: 2,063
Knives or cutting instruments: 1,515
Other weapons or weapons not stated: 900   [including poisons?]
Personal weapons (hands, fists, feet, etc.): 672
Blunt objects (clubs, hammers, etc.): 443
Rifles: 297
Shotguns: 235
Other guns: 167

And in 2016: 39 murders out of 11,961 were committed by AR-15s, AK-47s and like weapons (0.3%)... see: Extranosalley Site.

Perhaps these type of statictics are why the last “assault weapons ban” in the 1990’s was not renewed. If the Congress really wants to reduce firearm murders, they would need to eliminate all guns. And, to do this, it would need to repeal the Second Amendment. Good luck with that!

It seems to me, kind reader, that just outlawing these “weapons of war” again would not be, in the grand scheme of things, very influential on these murder statistics ... even mass shootings ... and could be likened to pissing up a rope.

Flamethrowers

Gun grabbers often mention that the government doesn’t allow bazookas, flame throwers or machine guns, therefore why should they allow other “weapons of war” like AR-15s? Well, as it turns out, Elon Musk has found a way around the flame thrower ban ... see above. And Hollywood studios obviously have lots of machine guns in their prop rooms. What is next for American “exceptionalism” ... bazookas?

Gun Control

“We must do something to stop this gun violence!” — suburban women and Mr. Wimpples all across America

Every time some demented youth shoots up a venue ... for any reason ... the knee-jerk public shouts the above ... and suggests that more gun controls will fix things  ... “even if they save just one life.” The following are a few of the insisted solutions ... then some generally unknown or little-known facts about each:

Universal background checks — The gun grabbers often cite the gun show and Internet loopholes as the way that guns are sold without background checks. Not true. Federally-licensed gun dealers at gun shows (only ones allowed there) must do background checks on any gun sales. And any retail outlet Internet gun sales must ship guns purchased to a federally-licensed dealer who then does a background check before the purchaser can pick up said gun.

Yes, I can sell a gun to you, dear reader, without a background check. But how the federal government is going to restrict realistically such transactions is beyond me ... after all how are all the Chicago gang-bangers going to get their gats? No matter what federal restriction might next be put in place, the only ones suffering would be legitimate sales between known parties. The back-alley deals between bad actors will go on and not be restricted.

Banning “assault rifles” — This pejorative primarily refers to AR-15 and AK-47 semi-automatic  rifles ... which are also cleverly dubbed “weapons of war.” The rifles are both basically 22-caliber guns ... the lowest caliber there is. Yes, their bullets are higher velocity, but they never would be used in serious battle situations today where greater lethality is required. The real hit on these weapons is that they look “scary.”

However, hunters and target shooters love these weapons because they are light-weight and have little recoil. (They would also work against home invaders and oppressive government.)

Bump stocks — These devices convert semi-automatic (need a trigger pull for each shot) into fully-automatic weapons. They have been banned by the Trump administration by executive order.

High capacity banana clips — most semi-automatic rifles and pistols already logically have 16 bullet magazines as standard. Banning ammunition clips of higher capacity makes some sense ... but it is mostly illusionary because standard clips can be changed in a matter of seconds. If banning these larger capacity clips satisfies the rabid hunger of the gun grabbers (of course it won’t), then they might be outlawed. Then the next mass shooting will blame some other Second Amendment “loophole”  ... excepting, as always, the copy-cat shooter.

2nd Amendment Comment

From Powerline blog

Being Briefed

"There has been a shooting at a large shopping mall in Munich, Germany ... and now more shots have apparently be heard in the city center and the train station has been evacuated. There are unconfirmed reports that at least six persons are dead. It is thought there are as many as three shooters. People in Munich have been advised to shelter in place. President Obummer is at the White House and is being briefed on the situation."

Thank God! The president is being briefed ... therefore everything is under control! Pretty soon we will hear that Obummer's "thoughts and prayers are going out to the German people" ... and that the president has been in contact with the Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, and has offered to provide her any assistance that she needs to deal with this incident. Even though the motivation of these shooters is currently unknown. Ms. Merkel is expected to state that this mayhem and the other axe-wielding attack on a nearby train a few days ago have nothing to do with the hundreds of thousands of Muslim refugees that Merkel had welcomed into Germany earlier this year and last.

It is also quite predictable that both Obummer and Merkel are prepared to blame this current atrocity on scary looking weapons of war. This will certainly be the focus and locus of their recriminations.

You Might be a Liberal ...

If you have attended Burning Man more than twice

If you think Al Sharpton is a real Reverend

If you believe that "women's reproductive health" means women's reproductive health

If you majored in Gender Studies at MIT

If you donated your SSI check to Black Lives Matter

If you can use "diversity" and "inclusion" in the same sentence

If you still display your college Che poster in your retirement home

If you have a Bernie bumper sticker on your Prius

If you have more than five EBT cards

If you passed out doobies during Occupy Wall Street

If you wore Birkenstocks to your 25th high school reunion

If you never mouth the words to our National Anthem

If you call 22-caliber rifles "weapons of war"

If you make fun of rednecks

Blood on Our Hands

The Senate Democrats are in high dudgeon ... they just had a 15 hour filibuster demanding that our government should get tougher on our immigration enforcement so that Muslim  terrorists cannot slip into our country among the thousands of unvetted migrants from the strife-ridden Middle East ... and kill dozens of innocent Americans.

They didn't do this? ... What? They instead were jumping and screaming about what these terrorists were using to kill Americans ... the so-called  Rambo-style weapons ... or the weapons of war ... or the assault rifles ... or "guns designed to kill people". (Don't liberals really manipulate language well?) See: New York Times Story. Now assault rifles are semi-automatic (each shot takes a finger-pull) but both Bernie Sanders and The View's Joy Behar have called them "automatic" weapons or machine guns (a single finger pull dispenses dozens of bullets). And, according to our professed American Indian Senator from Massachusetts, Elizabeth Warren, if we don't outlaw these evil guns, we "will have blood on our hands."

This anger is clearly misplaced ... it's like blaming the big scary automobile if its drunk driver kills someone.

OK ... but  if the media won't stop exorcising and Democrat Senators won't listen to reason, Therefore, I think that Republicans should bend and pass this Democrat's feel-good legislation. However, there should be a number of Republican provisos attached to this Second Amendment stricture. They are:

- The guns to be outlawed MUST be actual military weapons of war using military ammunition which are actually designed to kill people.

- All current gun laws MUST be fully enforced. Obummer and Hellery cannot wave away any statute that offends them or for their political advantage. And absolutely no existing compulsory gun charges can be plea-bargained out of any felony prosecution.

- If any government lists are used to exclude the purchase of any such firearms, such persons excluded MUST have the right of judicial appeal of their placement on such a list. This due process MUST be concluded within 30 days.

- The vetting process for Muslim immigrants MUST be at least as vigorous as the vetting process for such gun purchasers ... and any BS statements by Obummer about how this process now takes six months needs to be independently verified. If this turns out not to be the case, then this law is automatically null and void.

Then, if another Islamic terrorist finds it necessary in Allah's name to kill multiple Americans, I would hope that the main stream media will point out those who really have blood on THEIR hands ... Obummer and Hellery.