Divemedic

Knowledge

There are many people nationwide who are calling the AR-15 a weapon of war, and demanding another assault weapons ban. So, I am putting together a little test, using pictures. Below, you will see pictures of seven rifles, and there will be questions to follow. Look at the pictures below:

Rifle A:
 Rifle B:
 Rifle C:
 Rifle D:
 Rifle E:
 Rifle F (top) and
Rifle G (bottom)

Question 1:
Of the seven weapons above, three of them are semi-automatic, and four of them are fully automatic. Which are which?

Question 2:
Of the seven weapons above, which of them would have been illegal to own under the 1994 assault weapons ban, and why?

Question 3:
All but two of the above weapons have been issued to the soldiers of either the United States or a European nation. Which of them hasn’t?

Question 4:
What characteristics make a weapon lethal enough to ban, or what criteria would you use to specify what constitutes a weapon that should be illegal?

If you cannot answer at least three of the above questions correctly, then how can you claim enough knowledge to demand laws be changed? How can you hope to ban something that you cannot even accurately describe?

By Divemedic, ago

NICS

In the seven and a half years since Obama became President, there have been 130 million background checks performed through the NICS system. That is compared to the 78 million that were performed in the 11 years prior to that. (source here)

Now the number of NICS checks doesn’t always mean that the same number of guns were sold. Each check may be for more than one gun, as the check is done for each transaction, not each firearm. With that in mind, we use this as an approximation for the number of guns sold. Even so, the fact that there have been over 200 million guns sold in the past 18 years makes me seriously doubt that there are only 300 million firearms in the US.

If I were to guess, I would say that there are more like 400 or 500 million firearms in this country. Tell me again how you are going to confiscate all firearms, when you can’t even tell me how many you want to confiscate, especially when there are hundreds of millions of them.

By Divemedic, ago

He self identified as

So when a man self identifies as a woman, I am supposed to believe him to the point of letting him use the same restroom as an 8 year old girl, but when a man self identifies as a Muslim terrorist, I am supposed to call him a liar and say he is a closet homosexual who is only killing gays as a hate crime against LGBTs?
Even though he posted on the Internet that he was a terrorist, he told his coworkers that he was part of al Qaeda (which is what got him investigated in the first place), and called police AND several news stations during the attack to claim the attack was done in the name of ISIS, we are supposed to ignore all of that.

By Divemedic, ago

Suspected terror list

There is a lot of talk about prohibiting anyone who is on the suspected terrorist list from buying a gun. Here is the main problem that I have with it:

My son is on that list. He is listed as a suspected terrorist. He was even visited by DHS agents, and his passport was revoked.

Now, I raised my son better than that, and he is most certainly not a terrorist, so how did he wind up on that list?

My son is a travelling nurse. He flies all over the world, treating and transporting patients from one place to another. It pays very well. He recently got paid for a 4 day trip, escorting a patient to Australia, and was paid $4000 for 4 days’ work. This week, he is in Milwaukee, and is being paid $12,000 for ten days’ work. In between trips, he works at the local trauma centers, and was one of the nurses on duty this past weekend in the Orlando area.

Now that you have the background, here is how he wound up on the terror watch list:

A known terrorist was arrested, trying to enter the country with my son’s passport. Well, not his actual passport, but a forgery with all of his information on it.

In all of his travels, he once had to go to the Dominican Republic to bring a patient home. While he was there, a government official photocopied the passports of the entire crew: 3 members of the flight crew, a respiratory therapist, and my son. Those photocopies were sold to people who make forged identity papers, and that information was used to create fake papers.

My son received a visit from DHS, they revoked his passport, and he had to apply for a new one. His name, birth date, and other information is now on the suspected terrorism watch list, because that information is now known to be used by terrorists.

This proposed law would prevent my son from buying a firearm, even though he has not broken a single law, nor is he likely to.

By Divemedic, ago

4473 questions

Form 4473 is a form that is required to be filled out whenever a person buys a firearm from a dealer. It contains a list of questions that are required to be answered before the dealer can transfer the firearm to the buyer. Some of those questions are:

Are you the actual transferee/buyer of the firearm(s) listed on this form? Warning: You are not the actual buyer if you are acquiring the firearm(s) on behalf of another person. If you are not the actual buyer, the dealer cannot transfer the firearm(s) to you.

This question is designed to see if the buyer is actually performing an illegal straw purchase.

Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance?

Because users of illegal drugs are always truthful, and will admit to being a criminal.

Are you an alien illegally in the United States?

Again, criminals always admit their crimes, because they are honest people.
Because of this, it is obvious that we can eliminate the problem of terror attacks by simply adding one question to the 4473:

Do you plan on committing an illegal act with a firearm? An illegal act would be murder, workplace violence, a hate crime, or any other crime which would involve shooting or threatening to shoot, another person or persons?

Problem solved. Unless, of course, you admit that this would do nothing, which would mean that all of the questions on those hundred million or so 4473s are a useless waste of time.
By Divemedic, ago

failed policies

When I advocate carrying a concealed weapon as a solution to mass shootings, I frequently get, “but what happens when innocent people get caught in the crossfire” as a response. Now we know what happens when no one gets caught in the crossfire.

20,000 gun laws, and decades of gun control have delivered us to the point where 50 people die in a terror attack. This plan obviously isn’t working. Can’t we go back to the gun laws of 1967, when anyone could buy a gun by mail, and these sorts of things didn’t happen?

Of course, there is always this response:

“I just think in a world that is as complex as it is, that it is very important for us to be able to forge partnerships as opposed to simply dictating solutions. Just to try to crystallize the example,we are talking to ISIS leaders and trying to convince them that we are sorry for all the bad things we have done and the disgusting things Donald Trump has said.”
By Divemedic, ago