Antigun

Lies and Misrepresentations

I have seen a meme on social media, something about “Arguing with a leftist largely consists of them deliberately pretending to not understand something that is obvious, and then arguing against that misstated position.” What you are describing is a logical fallacy called a strawman argument. We see it everywhere. I don’t think its entirely ignorance, I think in many cases the leftist you are arguing with knows they are being disingenuous, but they are hoping others are too stupid to know it.

A leftist blog complains about a gun dealer who has lost his FFL, stopped selling actual firearms, and pivots to selling parts and accessories for firearms. One of the major misstatements is this:

The M16 bolt carrier group is the part worth flagging. It’s legal to own and common in semi-auto builds. But it’s also a prerequisite for converting an AR-15 to full-automatic because the geometry of a standard AR-15 carrier won’t work with an auto sear. 

Of course, they fail to mention that there are several parts required to convert an AR15 into full auto, and the full auto BCG is only one of them. The one the ATF has chosen to define as the key component of converting an AR15 to a machine gun is the auto sear. If an FA BCG is legal to own, then why wouldn’t the store be able to sell them?

The blog article then meanders off topic into the non sequitur of COVID death rates in the same county where the gun dealer is located:

People there apparently were so anti-life, they maintained the highest death rate from COVID-19 compared to any other county in the nation: One death out of every 132 people.

before pivoting into yet another accusation that this is because they are all racist there because something racist once happened there:

Speaking of heavily armed white supremacists being anti-life, Mann today still lives in an area known for the 1989 naming of “noose road“, near a sundown town of many lynchings. It was said in Hays, Kansas that “Blacks were not allowed to stay overnight”, keeping alive a Jim Crow “legacy that kind of hung over the town going back to the lynching.”

Then goes on to babble about another unrelated meandering:

On the same day Custombilt filed for bankruptcy, California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit against distribution of 3D-printable ghost gun files and machine gun conversion devices. One state is suing over digital blueprints. Another is goosing a revoked dealer to liquidate physical machine gun components from a bankruptcy warehouse into unknown “noose” hands, no questions asked.

Showing that the left doesn’t REALLY support the First Amendment, or they would realize publishing plans is protected speech. Still, that last quote is about as coherent as Joe Biden rambling about Corn Pop and children braiding his leg hair. (That’s how you use a non sequitur for maximum effect.)

By Divemedic, ago

More Dishonesty

Now the anti-gun idiots are saying that the 2A is irrelevant because gun owners won’t rise up and fight the very policies they voted for.

Let me clue you in:

  • You said cops and the military should be the only ones armed
  • You are STILL opposed to citizens owning guns
  • Therefore, you are a disingenuous ass who doesn’t really think guns are needed UNLESS they are used for your purposes
  • I wouldn’t fight for you. Hell, I wouldn’t piss down your throat if your tonsils were on fire

We aren’t fighting it because this is what we voted for. You keep bragging about what you are going to do to us and to ICE Agents once you reclaim power. That’s when the real games will begin. Deporting a few illegals is nothing, a prelude.

By Divemedic, ago

Federal Firearms License

Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Andy Kim (D-NJ) introduced the Federal Firearm Licensing Act, legislation that would require that individuals obtain a federal firearm license before purchasing or receiving a firearm. A license would require:

  • Fingerprints and background checks
  • Signoff from local officials
  • Be required for each firearm
  • Expire in 5 years
  • even being arrested or accused of a crime is enough for denial
  • License holders would be placed on a ‘watch list’ called “RAP Back”
  • prohibit a licensee from giving or loaning a firearm to someone else without using a dealer

No. Just no. This is so incredibly unconstitutional.

By Divemedic, ago

Dangers of Imagination

A middle school in the Orlando area was placed on lockdown after a student was seen carrying a clarinet by an automated weapons detection system, which decided the child’s clarinet was actually a gun. My thoughts here are that your automated weapons detection system sucks. That isn’t how the principal of the school saw it, however.

A student was walking in the hallway, holding a musical instrument as if it were a weapon, which triggered the Code Red to activate. While there was no threat to campus, I’d like to ask you to speak with your student about the dangers of pretending to have a weapon on a school campus.

What danger was there, actually? None. No one was hurt. No one could be hurt. The real danger was that your system doesn’t work correctly, and it caused unnecessary panic. Not only that, but just like The Boy Who Cried Wolf, it creates alarm fatigue in that people will be less likely to believe future calls for lockdowns when they remember all of the times that they were forced to hide because of stupid nonsense like this.

By Divemedic, ago

Peak Stupidity

This picture has been making the rounds on liberal social media accounts:

So you need a background check and a waiting period to purchase healthcare with your own money? Is healthcare not permitted in certain cities? Do some cities require a permit to see a doctor?

Or are they saying that they support giving everyone all of the guns they desire, free of charge?

They call us the stupid ones, but then post stupid, easily refuted drivel like this…

By Divemedic, ago

Citizens vs. Subjects

One of the things that a dictator does, is ban those it intends to rule from having or using weapons. That’s been true for centuries. For example, Great Britain had the 18th century disarming acts. Scottish citizens had laws passed against weapons in 1715, 1716, 1725, and 1746.

  • Disarming Act of 1715 (Highlands Services Act): Enacted after the 1715 Jacobite Rising, this act of Parliament aimed to disarm Jacobite clans in the Scottish Highlands.
  • Disarming Act of 1716: Officially titled “An act for the more effectual securing the peace of the highlands in Scotland,” it outlawed specific weapons like broadswords, pistols, and guns in designated parts of Scotland.
  • Disarming Act of 1725: This act was passed to more effectively enforce the previous disarming efforts, with Major-General George Wade leading efforts to confiscate weapons.
  • Act of Proscription 1746: Passed after the 1745 Jacobite Rising, this act further strengthened the disarming efforts and also included the famous ban on Highland dress, such as kilts and tartans, as a way to suppress Highland culture.

In 1776, the Great Britain outlawed weapons in Massachusetts. That is why the Second Amendment exists. Technology changes, but people and despots do not. The founders were well aware of that.

By Divemedic, ago

A Modest Proposal

I think it would be fun to propose and pass a law which states that transgenders, gays, and blacks are not permitted to own guns. The left will fight this tooth and nail. Then we can sit back and watch as the left argues in favor of the Second Amendment.

Within a year, the left will be pushing for a government program that issues guns to people.

Just sayin’.

By Divemedic, ago

Tampa Bay Times

The recent court decision striking down Florida’s open carry ban prompted Publix to issue a statement stating that it would not ban individuals who openly carry firearms from its stores. Even though other stores like Aldi issued statements saying that anyone seen open carrying in their stores would be asked to leave, Publix realized that such policies don’t reduce the number of firearms in their establishment, but only cause them to be concealed. Being that the left is all about emotion and not logic, this really pissed off the left.

In typical leftie fashion, the Tampa Bay Times immediately launched an op-ed that compares apples to bowling balls. See, Publix plainly states in their policy:

Publix follows all federal, state and local laws. In any instance where a customer creates a threatening, erratic or dangerous shopping experience — whether they are openly carrying a firearm or not — we will engage local law enforcement to protect our customers and associates.

But that isn’t good enough for the communists at the Times. So they immediately launched an imaginary Q&A, comparing various items against open carry. They compare bringing pets into the store (which is prohibited by health regulations), policies limiting the number of coupons you can redeem each day, and the Publix policy against cakes with any flag that isn’t the US Flag against cakes with the Mexican, Canadian, or the flag they really want- the Fag Flag against the policy of not prohibiting open carry.

They claim that the sight of guns bother some Publix customers, so Publix should ban open carry. Do you know what else bothers some Publix customers? Seeing men wearing dresses pulling their dicks out in the women’s restroom. I would bet that the Times wouldn’t like it if a business banned that.

I can’t wait for newspapers to eventually go the way of the telegram. They are nothing more than leftie propaganda. To quote Thomas Jefferson:

The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth

However, as he rightly points out, newspapers are preferable to tyrannical government:

The people are the only censors of their governors: and even their errors will tend to keep these to the true principles of their institution. To punish these errors too severely would be to suppress the only safeguard of the public liberty. The way to prevent these irregular interpositions of the people is to give them full information of their affairs through the channel of the public papers, & to contrive that those papers should penetrate the whole mass of the people. The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers & be capable of reading them.

However, newspapers have indeed become the propaganda arm of the communists. It is Social Media, and to a lesser extent, blogs that are informing the American public. The days of newspaper editors telling us what to think is long past. That’s why the media’s influence has faded to nearly zero- most people know that it is nothing more than slanted propaganda.

By Divemedic, ago

Walz Wants Your Guns

He claims that Australia and Scotland are “just as free as we are.” Let’s check into that.

Police Scotland has warned the public not to spread misinformation after a 12-year-old girl was charged for brandishing weapons in Dundee when she was being attacked. Police can arrest you for “spreading misinformation.”

In Australia, people who have COVID or have been exposed to COVID were sent to internment camps until late in 2022. If you escape, you were arrested. Democrats in the news media denied this, saying that camps in Australia aren’t technically internment camps because they were only for the quarantine of travelers, even though that’s exactly what the Aussies were calling them. As to the claim that it was a quarantine camp for arriving travellers, well, let’s hear from one of the internees:

Go ahead, Tim. Start sending police to confiscate people’s guns. Light that match and see what happens.

By Divemedic, ago