Divemedic

There is a lesson here

Some things are coming to light about the shooting in Texas.

  • The gunman walked around the outside of the school, firing shots for 12 minutes before entering. No one thought to lock the doors.
  • There was no cop on the property to defend the kids.
  • The cops that did arrive retreated as soon as they received incoming fire.
  • Then 150 cops stood around outside and defended the shooter from angry parents. Why? Because they knew that the parents were less of a threat that the shooter. It’s safer to Taser Suzie Soccermom than it is take on an 18 year old crazy man armed with a gun.

Nothing I have seen in the past few days has changed my opinion that the majority of America’s cops are pussies. This is good news for those of us who own guns. There will be no confiscation of guns by police in this country. The cops have no stomach for it. They would rather drive around shooting at unarmed people who they know won’t return fire.

Leftists on Twitter have been saying that this shooting and the response of the cops proves that good guys with guns don’t stop bad guys with guns. Wrong. Any armed man who “takes cover” for an hour while a madman shoots children in the face isn’t a “good guy” with a gun. He’s a gutless coward who can’t even call himself a man, much less a good man.

Now the an official from the police is dodging responsibility, and frankly engaging in a coverup of the cowardice and ineptitude of his fellow officers.

These are the cops who, armed with machine guns, body armor, stun grenades, armored shields, and a fucking armored vehicle, hid outside while children died because an 18 year old kid with mental issues and a semiautomatic rifle scared them away.

By Divemedic, ago

Biden Wrong Again on 2A

President Biden said that the Second Amendment is not absolute before going on to explain that you couldn’t own a cannon when the Bill of Rights was ratified. This remark is identical to one he made back in February that I have already debunked.

The Amendment didn’t say that, for two reasons: First, the Amendments to the Constitution don’t say that people can do anything. The Amendments say that the GOVERNMENT can’t do things. The government can’t infringe on the right keep to bear arms, is what it says. Second, people DID own cannons. Privately organized and funded artillery companies in the colonies date all the way back to the 1630s. A century later, in the 1740s, there are records of Benjamin Franklin helping organize artillery companies while stressing that they were made completely of volunteers and armed at their own expense.

One of the driving forces behind the first major battles of the Revolutionary was because the British soldiers were coming to confiscate privately-owned arms – including cannons and mortars – such as ones that were being held by veterans of the French and Indian War as war trophies.

In fact, there were people who owned entire warships. See my post on this from 2013.

During the course of the Revolution, approximately 1,700 letters of Marque were issued to privateers. In the War of 1812, President James Madison issued more than 500 letters of Marque to privateers. These letters of marque created what was, essentially, legal piracy, and it was sanctioned by the government and even deemed necessary. So how did these privateers arm their vessels? With cannons that they purchased as individuals.

Our colonial navy had approximately 1,200 cannons on board less than 65 ships. The privateers, on the other hand, had almost 15,000 cannons – all privately owned.

The National Firearms Act of 1934, which is, by far, the most restrictive piece of Federal legislation related to the ownership of arms, says nothing about cannons. It wasn’t until 1968 that things we regard as modern artillery were regulated further when ‘destructive devices’ were added to the law.

But muzzleloading cannons, like the ones used during the Revolutionary War remain conspicuously absent in any legislation. You could buy a cannon as an individual in the Revolution era, and you can still buy one today as an individual.

By Divemedic, ago

Spacey a Pedo, Too?

Or just a gay rapist? The rapes happened in 2005 to 2008. The victims are in their 30’s and 40’s. Doing the math, his victims could have been as young as 16. Spacey was in his 40’s at the time.

Is there anyone in a position of wealth and power in this country that isn’t a sexual deviant?

By Divemedic, ago

Mexican Government Weighs In

Now the Mexican government is putting their two cents’ worth into the gun debate.

The gun lobby has succeeded in selling weapons of war, of a military nature, with the potential to leave victims unrecognizable, to civilians knowing the damage they cause. This failure to foresee, to prevent the damage is negligence, and the gun firms must be held responsible.

Alejandro Celorio Alcántara, Mexican Foreign Ministry’s legal adviser

I want to tell the Mexican government this: When you can stop your citizens from entering the USA and murdering our citizens, murdering their own children, and getting in deadly DUI accidents, you can have an opinion. Until then, either shut the fuck up, or you can pay for a wall between our countries to keep your citizens the fuck out of our country.

By Divemedic, ago

Most Cops Are Pussies

During the recent school shooting, the cops were all “pinned down” and taking cover for an hour and a half while the shooter was busy killing ten year old kids. I first saw this from JKB over at GunFreeZone. JKB was catching some flak in the comments about slamming cops over unverified reports. I actually believe that the cops waited, because it explains some inconsistencies in the shooting timeline that didn’t make sense before.

We see this all of the time in third world shitholes: the cops and military are great at abusing and bullying unarmed civilians, because they have all of the guns. This is why American cops use the SWAT unit for everything from serving warrants on grandma to arresting fugitives. It’s also why you see SWAT running around in tanks behind bulletproof shields while they toss grenades into baby cribs. It’s why they run around in groups, slashing tires and doing drive by shootings on unarmed citizens.

Initial reports were that the SRO exchanged fire with the shooter as he entered the school. That turns out to have likely been a lie.

There was a huge coverup of police malfeasance. False statements and all. There is even 18 minutes of radio traffic missing from the recordings on Broadcastify, which the cops are attributing to “technical issues.”

Then the cops stood there, Tasers in hand, and not only refused to help the kids, but refused to let the parents do it, either.

Any officer involved in this shooting who turns out to have lied about being a hero while cowering outside, listening to the sounds of ten year old children getting shot in the face needs to be fired and have his pension revoked. Then they need to put him on the Biden list of cops who can never work as cops again, and then press criminal charges against them for falsifying reports and for being a cowardly pussy, but you know, in legalese because I don’t think you can use the word “pussy” on a legal document.

Sure, there are a few upstanding cops who will run to the sound of the guns, and for them I reserve respect and admiration. It must be tough trying to do your job while surrounded by cowardly bullies and catching all of the shit that they earned but you don’t deserve.

The rest of those cops? They can eat my shit. I have less forgiveness in my heart for them than I do for the shooter himself. Those cops swore an oath, and those kids deserved more from those shitbag cops than they got.

UPDATE

It also turns out that the cops went in rescued their own kids, but were pinning fathers who weren’t cops to the ground to prevent them from doing the same.

If my kid had been killed because one cop pinned me to the ground while another cop went in to rescue his own while leaving my kid in there to die? The cops who did that? Their lives would belong to me. I would get a list of the cops who were there, and I would hunt them down one by one. Pussies.

By Divemedic, ago

Musk: I Support 2A, but

Elon recently continued his shift to the right by claiming to support the 2A. He then showed that his journey isn’t complete when he went on to say that he supports Universal Background Checks and thinks “assault weapons” should be restricted to range owners and “people who live in gang areas.”

I am not going to be to hard on him. In this case, it is obvious that he isn’t a dogmatic liberal who supports his cause over facts and logic. It looks to me like he is a new convert away from leftist dogma, and it takes some time to see that everything you have believed in the past is wrong because the information you relied upon to come to those beliefs was bullshit. The confusion over assault weapons was a deliberate misinformation campaign.

The weapons’ menacing looks, coupled with the public’s confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons—anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun—can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons.

Josh Sugarmann, 1988

He will come to realize the truth. This is one of those times when attacking him for his mistaken belief would be counterproductive. Someone needs to educate him without attacking him.

By Divemedic, ago

Hard to Trace?

That doesn’t appear to be the case, because they had no problem here. I’m wondering where the ‘tip’ that he was making guns came from. We all know about the NSA analysis of internet traffic. Was it that?

I’m glad he was caught, but what is a guy with 9 felony convictions doing as a free man?

By Divemedic, ago