While the attack on semiautos is ramping up, it’s easy to forget about the ongoing efforts to make homemade firearms illegal.
A felon in Florida reached a plea deal for making firearms and got 87 months (7 years, 3 months) in Federal prison. So he was caught and went to jail for most of a decade. Why do we need another law?
This guy was 3D printing lowers, handguns, and Glock switches at his home. It’s almost like criminals ignore the law. What he was doing was already illegal, and I don’t see how making it even more illegal would change anything.
This 14 year old had a ‘ghost gun’ with a Glock switch installed, making it a machine gun. So it was already for a 14 year old to own a handgun, illegal to possess a machine gun, and illegal to manufacture a machine gun. How would one more law have changed anything?
This is why I no longer argue about gun control. The only answer you get from me is: NO!
Any further debate is useless and is a waste of time.
Imagine the anguish, the despair, the downright anger you would feel when you listen to a recording of your child begging the police to come save their life, knowing that over 100 police officers were standing just yards away preventing other parents from saving your child before he got shot in the face.
The cops are not looking good in this. Now both the left and the right have lost respect for the law.
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.
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.
Texas DPS official refuses to say why officers didn't breach the door of the classroom for the hour that the Uvalde shooter was in there shooting children. pic.twitter.com/br2fdYruty
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.
So I was awakened this morning by the beeping of UPS devices. The power is out. I had a longer post in mind for the day, but don’t like typing on small cell screens. Maybe later.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Officials first said a school officer and the gunman exchanged fire. On Wednesday night, they said they could no longer confirm that initial report. We will stay with this to fully understand what happened.
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.
— TheFamily'sSoup TV (@FamilysSoupTV) May 25, 2022
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.
Here’s a Texas DPS Lieutenant telling a local station that some officers breached the school to get their own children BEFORE the shooter was taken down. pic.twitter.com/BrvS4sCqp6
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.
