A couple called 911 because they heard the neighbors yelling, “Shoot, shoot, I dare you.” The police responded and asked the residents of the apartment where the guns were.
There were no guns. It was a guy and his friends watching the Tampa Bay Lightning play the Colorado Avalanche in the NHL’s Stanley Cup Finals, and they were screaming “shoot” at the players on TV.
“Call of Duty has more gun control than the US” is the headline. I think it shows how real gun control, such as red flag laws, work:
How many lies can the press put into one editorial? I couldn’t even finish it. I quit when I got to the part about “the Nazis in Charlottesville in 2017 marching with machine guns.” If you have to lie to make your point, your point is not valid.
Here is the online discussion I am in:
Rando Karen: Get rid of all the automatic weapons there is no need for them. You certainly don’t need them to hunt & you’re not taking away the 2nd amendment right. If the house & the senate don’t pass this kind of a bill then maybe they don’t need their jobs. Let’s vote in those that will pass a bill that makes sense to the American people & get rid of those that want to lobby with the NRA & spend our hard earned tax dollars.
Divemedic: Name one automatic weapon being manufactured and sold to anyone but police and military.
Antigun Rando: Splitting hairs for deflection, delusIon, and avoidance. Good job!
DM: How is that splitting hairs? The OP said outlaw automatic weapons. No one is selling any.
AR: Semi automatic is still automatic. It also doesn’t say “fully automatic” which is what you’re erroneously running away with.
DM: Wrong. Automatic means that the firearm fires more than one shot with each function of the trigger. Semi-automatic means one shot is fired with each function of the trigger. Important difference. There is no “fully automatic” in the law or in mechanics. That is a term invented by people who don’t know what they are talking about.
There has been reportedly been a deal reached on gun control, with 10 republicans signing on to support it. I will wait for more details since the text hasn’t been written yet, but it doesn’t look too bad. The overwhelming sense I get is that this is mostly a mental health bill. One thing that is concerning, however, is that this law will include a red flag law.
I don’t think for a second that this law will never be abused. After all, I already know from first hand experience that Domestic Violence restraining orders are routinely abused by people that want to get revenge on former paramours. A woman even was awarded one against David Letterman because, as she reported, he was beaming secret messages to her through his TV show.
I would feel better if there were a legal mechanism in place that allows for the punishment of those who abuse these legal processes in the form of what has become known as “lawfare.”
For so long, the left has wanted to frame gun ownership in terms of hunting. As in: “You don’t need that kind of gun for hunting.”
Now hunting is under attack by “science.”
New York now, among other things, requires that all handguns sold in the state have microstamping technology installed in them.
New York citizens buy approximately half a million firearms a year. In contrast, Floridians buy about three times that many, 1.5 million.
My prediction is that this law will do nothing for solving crime, but that isn’t the goal. The goal here is to make owning a firearm impossibly expensive.
In case you are interested, Texans buy the most guns (1.6 million), Florida the runner up (1.4 million), then California (1.1 million), Pennsylvania (1 million), and Tennessee rounding out the top 5 with 700,00 firearms sold per year.
All of this because of an average of less than 20 fatalities a year involving shootings on school campus. Not mass shootings on school campus, ALL shootings on school campus, even those that happened when no students were present (at night, summer break, weekends, etc.) and it was simply one drug dealer shooting another.
The DOJ has assembled a panel of “experts” to study the Uvalde incident.
Every one of them is an antigun, pro police Democrat. I can already tell you what the findings of this whitewash will be.
The entire 4th circuit court of Appeals has ruled that the AR-15 is a “weapon of war” and is not protected by the Second Amendment. Shit is about to get spicy. Don’t count on the courts to stave this off.
The left is still hammering the “collective rights” theory. This attorney thinks that SCOTUS got it wrong on the Heller decision.
Carrying their logic to its extreme, if there is no limitation on the right to own a gun, all 330 million citizens of the United States must be part of a “well regulated Militia.” Are you? I’m not.
Actually, you ARE a part of the militia, whether or not you know it. The militia is actually composed of two parts: The organized militia (the National Guard) and the unorganized militia, which is comprised of all male US citizens between the ages of 17 and 45. See 10USC246:
§246. Militia: composition and classes
(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.(b) The classes of the militia are—
(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.
This so-called lawyer doesn’t have a clue what he is talking about, but that doesn’t stop him. He goes on:
No one would seriously argue you have the right to own a land mine or a nuclear-armed submarine.
Who says? The Second Amendment says “shall not be infringed,” and I believe that it DOES protect the right to own a nuclear armed submarine. Now, I am equally sure that many people would agree that citizens SHOULDN’T own a submarine armed with nuclear weapons. In that case, there is a process for changing that. It should not be difficult to get three quarters of the state legislatures and a two-thirds vote of both Houses of Congress to agree to add an Amendment to the Constitution that reads something along the lines of “No person shall be permitted to own a nuclear warhead.” I mean, the process is outlined right there in the paperwork.
What I can’t find in that Constitution is a clause that permits the government to ignore any clause which it, in its own judgment, finds inconvenient or irrelevant. That is EXACTLY what he argues, however:
The fundamental constitutional proposition many Republicans overlook is that no right is unlimited. That there is a limitation of our rights is fundamental to being civilized. So, for instance, the Supreme Court long ago held that your right to self-expression stops at the tip of the other guy’s nose. You have the right to own a car, but you don’t have the right to drive it at 100 mph through Downtown San Diego.
Of course no right is unlimited. He is just making a poor argument. No one has a right to own a car. There are all sorts of reasons why a person’s ability to own a car may be restricted, as any decent lawyer would know. I would also agree with him that a person doesn’t have the right to drive downtown at 100 miles per hour. A person does, however, have the right to own arms, to include firearms. What a person doesn’t have is the right to stand in the middle of a crowded street and fire that gun into a crowd, and no one is saying that they should, absent a legitimate exception like self defense.
If we are to allow the government to simply ignore the parts of the Constitution that they disagree with, then we can all agree that the founding documents of this nation are no longer relevant and are null and void. In that case, we might as well admit that might makes right, and we are a dictatorship after all.
If I lived in San Diego, I would not hire this moron as an attorney. He doesn’t seem very competent or knowledgeable.