Of Hand Wringing Hoplophobes, and Hollow Points

"Freedom isn't for wimps." —Neal Boortz

On Sunday, January 6, The Nashua Telegraph featured a, Letter to the Editor from Andrew Mazer of Hollis. Ordinarily, letters like Mazer's are piss-poor subject matter for any edifying blog. But painfully, the nation is rife with Middle-aged sensitive new-aged progressive guys like Andy Mazer. We use to call them, "Whiners," or, "Wimps." Now they are called something else. Pick whatever "PC" label that doesn't piss anyone off. Just don't call them wimps because you will have to go to PC rehab.

Mazer takes issues with a statistic David Hunt uses in his December 20th LTE asserting "Gun Control Does not work." Using Wikipedia as a source Mazer states,

"A more meaningful metric would be to compare homicide rates in the United States to that of the United Kingdom. According to Wikipedia, in 2009, the U.S. had a firearm-related death rate of 10.2 as compared to 0.25 in the U.K. – a rate more than 40 times greater."

First, Wikipedia is not a valid source, Andy. (But seeing the reference kind of made me laugh, so Okay!) Citing a Wiki source is akin to reading Dr. Seuss and deciding that Green Eggs and Ham are not good for you.

This is where the real UK homicide numbers live. While the UK has considerably less gun crime, ( and, I wrote about why that is in earlier articles) but three times the violent crime as the U.S! Three times, Andy! Mazer shares that he wrote a letter to Senator Kelly Ayotte asking her to support a ban on "assault weapons and high capacity magazines. Ergo, the liberal-guy, "Hand-wringing."

"Restricting the availability of assault guns, hollow-point bullets and high-capacity magazines is the least we can do to protect schoolchildren – and, for that matter, ordinary citizens – from these all-too-frequent murderous rampages."

And there you have it: Hoplophobia. Guns and bullets and mags, Oh my! Ignorance is bliss. My guess is that Andy Mazer has had little or no experience with how guns, bullets or magazines operate. Andy Mazer is one in a sea of many, drinking the leftist Kool-Aid errantly thinking the guns are at the heart of the problem. Imagine their disappointment and dismay when they later find out that levels of violence does not change, even after they get their gun ban, if they get it.

Hollow-point Bullets? You want them banned? A hollow-point bullets are used to control penetration in an effort to keep over-penetration in check as not to inflict unintended damage to people nearby.

U.S. crime keeps going down unlike others places where Guns are banned and the crime rate is still at epic high levels. As American citizens buy more guns, society become a more tenuous place for n'er-do-wells and thugs.

Paul Ali Slater is a criminal who broke into a home where a mother and two children were doing nothing than what they usually do. Armed with a .38 caliber handgun she shot him in the face and neck five times. He now clings to life in a Hospital. The mother and children are okay.

It is fruitless telling these "vox hoplophobus" to dummy up on their facts. These martyrs of metrosexual, manicured "she-ish" men, have become comfortable in their skins drinking the Kool-aid Whine, and thinking big brother government will protect them from the bad elements life visits upon us.

In A World Where Only The Police And Military Have Guns…

CROSS-POSTED AT GRANITE GROK

Waterbury CT Police Chief Cancels Gun Show

"Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power." —James Madison

Waterbury Connecticut Police Chief Michael Gugliotti has cancelled the Northeast Gun Show's January 12th and 13th dates scheduled at the CoCo Key Waterpark Hotel and Convention Center.

Why? Chief Gugliotti says he's concerned a firearm purchased in his city might one day be used in a mass shooting. "We are not going to go ahead and issue a permit for the show until further notice," said Chief Gugliotti to WTNH New-8.

"I felt out of honor and respect that the least I can do was to, for the time being, postpone an event like that from occurring so close to the incident," said Chief Gugliotti.

The problem is that a gun show is not an illegal activity. The Chief's reasoning to clamp down on the gun show bears insufficient legal reason to do so and can be construed as a governmental restrain on trade. Morover, this issue touches on free speech so this unilateral action by the Waterbury Chief could be construed as a prior restraint.

Of course, all the whiners are going to weigh in here...call me insensitive, callous, and not respectful of the Newtown tragedy. But certainly, they won't be arguing anything hard and fast that is legal, to support their pablum. There simply is none, unless of course, one ascribes to the dictatorial doctrine of, "because I can."

We need only look back 35 years when an ACLU fought for the right of Nazis to march in Skokie Illinois. (National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie, 432 U.S. 43 (1977)). And a gun show is an activity that is only offensive to hoplophobes.

Interestingly enough, transfers of firearms are tightly controlled at this show:

But, lets not let the facts get in the way of the Waterbury Police Chief's PC emotional, knee-jerk response...that may be later deemed illegal...or lacking sufficient basis on which to act.

CROSS-POSTED AT GRANITE GROK

You Can't Hunt With That!

"The gun control extremist has at least two things in common with the Islamic extremist. He has a willingness to die for his fundamental beliefs. And he has the sanctimony to demand that others go with him." —Dr. Mike Adams

The Remington R-15…Chambered in “30 RAR(introduced in 2009)” Designed for…yes…well…”Hunting….”

Gun Confiscation, "Could Be An Option"

"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."  —George Orwell 

In a previous post, I posited the notion that Gun Guntrol advocates are, in fact "Coming for our Guns."

During a radio interview New York Governor Andrew Cuomo stated, "Confiscation could be an option," referencing semi-automatic rifles, liberals like to call, "Assault Weapons." Cuomo told WGDJ-AM of his  gun control proposals that he will outline at his State of the State Address on January 9.

Gov. Cuomo said:

“I don’t think legitimate sportsmen are going to say, ‘I need an assault weapon to go hunting.' There is a balance here, I understand the rights of gun owners.”

“Confiscation could be an option. Mandatory sale to the state could be an option. Permitting could be an option — keep your gun, but permit it.”

Governor Andrew Cuomo is a liar. Saying he, "understands the rights of gun owners," is just one more lie. Cuomo also suggested the state will likely institute a permit process for owners of semi-automatic “assault weapons,” what many of us know as scary black guns. 

I wrote in my last entry, No Firearms Ban Coming? Think Again:

"Citizens who own guns are scolded for being paranoid, called conspiracy theorists, tin-foil lined hat wearers and other enumerated pejoratives. Liberals dismiss these groups and citizens claiming,  “Nobody is going to take away your guns.” "

So let us ask our gun control friends exactly  what they mean when they call for sensible or common sense gun policy. Gun Bans. Stop insulting us by telling us, "Nobody is going to take away your guns..." They (the liberal gun banners) are already saying it. They have been saying it for years. And these Kool-Aid drinkers cannot be written off and dismissed as a fringe element on the left because the fact is, registration laws always lay the groundwork for confiscation legislation.

He (Andrew Cuomo) said it here; Senator Feinstein Said it in 1995.

"I believe all handguns should be abolished."  - Sen. John Chafee, 1/9/97.

"If it were up to me, We'd ban them all."  - Rep. Mel Reynolds, CNN Crossfire, 12/9/93.

"Ultimately, I would like to see the manufacture and possession of handguns banned except for military and police use." - Rep. Bobby Rush, Chicago Tribune, 12/5/99.

"We need much stricter gun control, and eventually we should bar the ownership of handguns except in a few cases."  - Rep. William Clay (D-MO), St. Louis Dispatch, 5/8/93.

"If it was up to me, no one but law enforcement officers would own hand guns." —Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, 11/13/98.

"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights or ordinary Americans to own firearms ... that we are unable to think about reality."  —President Bill Clinton, March 1, 1993.

"We are going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission!"—Representative Chuck Shumer, 12/8/93.

My position is we should ban all handguns, get rid of them, no manufacture, no sale, no importation, no transportation, no possession of a handgun." —Senator John H. Chafee, (R-RI), 6/11/92.,/p>

"I am introducing the Handgun Control Act of 1992. This legislation would outlaw the possession, importation, transfer or manufacture of a handgun except for use by public agencies, individuals who can demonstrate to their local police chief that they need a gun because of threat to their life or the life of a family member, licensed guard services, licensed pistol clubs which keep the weapons securely on premises, licensed manufacturers and licensed gun dealers."—Rep. Stephen J. Solarz, 8/12/92.

Journalists and the Media

"We will never fully solve our nation's horrific problem of gun violence unless we ban the manufacture and sale of handguns and semi-automatic assault weapons."—USA Today, Dec. 29, 1993.

"Ultimately, a civilized society must disarm its citizenry if it is to have a modicum of domestic tranquility of the kind enjoyed by sister democracies such as Canada and Britain.  Given the frontier history and individualist ideology of the United States, however, this will not come easily."  —Charles Krauthammer, columnist, "Disarm the Citizenry".

"As you probably know by now, Time's editors, in the April 13 issue, took a strong position in support of an outright ban on handguns for private use." —Time Magazine, Letter to NRA, 4/24/81.

"Whatever is being proposed is way too namby-pamby.  I mean, for example, we're talking about limiting people to one gun purchase, or handgun purchase a month.  Why not just ban the ownership of handguns when nobody needs one?  Why not just ban semi-automatic rifles?  Nobody needs one."  — Jack E. White, Time national correspondent, Washington Times, 5/8/99.

The one thing you will now hear from the likes of these same people, (except for John Chafee)long before ever telling us they respect the second amendment, but need sensible gun policy, they said, "ban Guns."  When you hear, "Nobody is going to take away your guns..." also know that is a bald-faced lie.