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The Washington Times (as opposed to the WAPO fishwrap) has two very good ‘points’ in two editorials today…
One is Emily Miller (aka Emily get your gun), writing on the MD kefluffle HERE.
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One is Emily Miller (aka Emily get your gun), writing on the MD kefluffle HERE.
A perverse side effect of Maryland’s gun-control hysteria is that certain proposed legislation could leave American soldiers disarmed. The General Assembly should slow down and think about what it’s doing.
The state Senate voted 28 to 19 on Thursday to prohibit manufacturers from holding any “assault weapons” in their inventory or receiving magazines with a capacity over 10 rounds. The state House of Delegates opened committee hearings on Friday on the companion measure needed for final passage. Maryland-based suppliers to the military services are concerned.
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Opponents of Mr. O’Malley’s gun-control agenda are considering asking the courts for an injunction to stop the General Assembly’s assault on Second Amendment grounds. That’s an extreme step, but extremism invites extremism.
And another from Jim Bovard, writing on police gun violence HERE.
President Obama is promoting his gun-control agenda by appealing to “all the Americans who are counting on us to keep them safe from harm.” Some perils, however, are not worth registering on Mr. Obama’s scorecard. While the president’s strident warnings about privately owned guns evoked a hallelujah media chorus, his administration is scorning a mandate to track how many Americans are shot and killed each year by government agents.
The same 1994 law that temporarily banned the sale of assault weapons also required the federal government to compile data on police shootings nationwide. However, neither the Justice Department nor most local police departments have bothered to tally such occurrences.
Instead, the Justice Department relied on the National Crime Survey of citizens to gauge the police use of force. Yet as professor James Fyfe, one of the nation’s foremost experts on police shootings, observed in 2001, “Since dead people can’t participate in such a survey, this work tells us nothing about how often police kill.”
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Jim Fisher, a former FBI agent and criminal law professor, compiled a database of police shootings and estimated that police in the United States in 2011 sThe federal government has no credibility condemning vast numbers of private gun owners as long as it refuses to compile the casualty count from government agents. Washington has deluged state and local law enforcement agencies with billions of dollars in aid in recent years. Is it too much to ask the recipients for honest body counts?
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The federal government has no credibility condemning vast numbers of private gun owners as long as it refuses to compile the casualty count from government agents. Washington has deluged state and local law enforcement agencies with billions of dollars in aid in recent years. Is it too much to ask the recipients for honest body counts?
Both ‘interesting’ reading, and I cannot help but wonder if these are ‘intended’ or ‘unintended’ consequences…
I know, I know, that’s dangerous… Sigh…
Had to go out and replenish the food stocks yesterday and standing in line at the checkout behind two very obviously liberal women. They were prattling on about how ‘well’ things were going with the gun bans, and one from MD was crowing about how close the new bans were to passing and how GREAT and SAFE the state would be when guns were banned.
I couldn’t help it, I laughed when she said that, and of course she snapped around and glared at me, asking what I was laughing about.
I told her she was dreaming if she though that would actually increase safety, and I asked her how she would defend herself. She said she’d call the police; so I asked her how long did she think it took for the police to get there. Something to the effect of a minute or so; she thought.
I told her the ‘average’ was 4-5 minutes, in the county 10+ minutes, and that in large cities the best response times were up to 9 minutes. And that, OBTW, the police had NO reason to actually protect them. It’s not actually in their charter. They are just there to clean up the mess, take statements from the survivors and put out an APB for the perpetrators.
She couldn’t think of a comeback to that, so she said I must be a Republican (said with a sneer), and I was just against all the GOOD things the democrats were doing.
I told her actually I was an independent and a conservative, and “I” was not the one trying to ban everything or institute nanny state laws or overturning our freedoms in the Bill of Rights; and that since she was trying that, she HAD to be a liberal democrat. And she vapor locked… 🙂
Another line opened up and I moved quickly to get away from them. I wonder what they would have done if they’d known I was carrying???
And last night I talked to my grandson for a bit, he’s 13 and I’ve been working with him on his shooting and safety for the last couple of years.
He asked me what I was ‘afraid of’, and when I asked him what he meant, he told me that one of his teachers (this is in Kalifornia) said that anyone that kept guns was scared of something or getting ready to do something bad.
So I turned it around to him and asked him if HE felt like doing something bad when he went to the range with us. Of course he didn’t, so I asked him if he thought his mother or his aunt would do something bad and he said they wouldn’t.
I also asked him if he knew why his mother and aunt both had fire extinguishers in the house, and his answer was to protect themselves and him in case of a fire. So I asked him if he felt safer or less safe with the extinguishers.
I also asked him if he knew why his mother and aunt both had pistols in the house, and his answer was to protect themselves and him. So I asked him if he felt safer or less safe with a gun in the house.
He thought about it for a minute, and said he felt safer in both cases. So I asked him if he though the teacher was right or wrong.
Then he circled back to my being ‘afraid’, and I wasn’t afraid of anyone but I was going to protect myself and my family and that included him. And that I knew I was too old to fight, and with the situations and gangs out there, anything I could do/use to diffuse a situation I was going to use it just like the fire extinguisher in the kitchen in case there was a fire. And I told him I hoped I never had to use either of them to protect any of us.
He finally came up with the analogy of the fire extinguisher and gun being used to keep him safe, one in the kitchen and one in life; and that the teacher was wrong.
I also cautioned him again about our privacy and to never tell anyone there was a gun in the house or where it was. That it was no ones business outside the family. He said he doesn’t talk about it, and when asked he only told his friends he had gone to the range with his papa and the cop (actually a deputy sheriff but he doesn’t remember that part).
Other things I continue to wonder about are the bills pending in various states, like Colorado that would ban pump shotguns and I wonder if that is an intentional inclusion or not… No question it is a quick way to turn an entire middle class into criminals. I’m betting there are a LOT of shotguns sitting forgotten in closets all over Colorado and most other states.
And DHS releasing over 2000 ‘low level’ illegal criminals back onto the streets (not the ‘hundreds’ the administration admitted to) in California, Arizona, Texas and Georgia. And ‘nobody’ knows who authorized it??? BS… Low level bureaucrats NEVER do things like that without approval from higher authority; but this administration and Big Sis claim they had NO knowledge??? And all these releases were not ‘payback’ to CA, AZ, TX, GA for not toeing the party line? I dunno what they’re smoking, but I want some of that…
And NY now going back and excluding Hollyweird from the NY gun ban, so they can still make movies??? WTF???
And I’m hearing through the mil-email grapevine that there is no movement on allowing DOD to do any re-programming of funds, to purposely maximize the impact on DOD. I’m at the point that I’d like to see them go ahead and shut the damn government down the end of March. At least if they’re shut down they can’t cause anymore problems… Sigh…
And this from a friend of mine’s daughter…
Had to go out and replenish the food stocks yesterday and standing in line at the checkout behind two very obviously liberal women. They were prattling on about how ‘well’ things were going with the gun bans, and one from MD was crowing about how close the new bans were to passing and how GREAT and SAFE the state would be when guns were banned.
I couldn’t help it, I laughed when she said that, and of course she snapped around and glared at me, asking what I was laughing about.
I told her she was dreaming if she though that would actually increase safety, and I asked her how she would defend herself. She said she’d call the police; so I asked her how long did she think it took for the police to get there. Something to the effect of a minute or so; she thought.
I told her the ‘average’ was 4-5 minutes, in the county 10+ minutes, and that in large cities the best response times were up to 9 minutes. And that, OBTW, the police had NO reason to actually protect them. It’s not actually in their charter. They are just there to clean up the mess, take statements from the survivors and put out an APB for the perpetrators.
She couldn’t think of a comeback to that, so she said I must be a Republican (said with a sneer), and I was just against all the GOOD things the democrats were doing.
I told her actually I was an independent and a conservative, and “I” was not the one trying to ban everything or institute nanny state laws or overturning our freedoms in the Bill of Rights; and that since she was trying that, she HAD to be a liberal democrat. And she vapor locked… 🙂
Another line opened up and I moved quickly to get away from them. I wonder what they would have done if they’d known I was carrying???
And last night I talked to my grandson for a bit, he’s 13 and I’ve been working with him on his shooting and safety for the last couple of years.
He asked me what I was ‘afraid of’, and when I asked him what he meant, he told me that one of his teachers (this is in Kalifornia) said that anyone that kept guns was scared of something or getting ready to do something bad.
So I turned it around to him and asked him if HE felt like doing something bad when he went to the range with us. Of course he didn’t, so I asked him if he thought his mother or his aunt would do something bad and he said they wouldn’t.
I also asked him if he knew why his mother and aunt both had fire extinguishers in the house, and his answer was to protect themselves and him in case of a fire. So I asked him if he felt safer or less safe with the extinguishers.
I also asked him if he knew why his mother and aunt both had pistols in the house, and his answer was to protect themselves and him. So I asked him if he felt safer or less safe with a gun in the house.
He thought about it for a minute, and said he felt safer in both cases. So I asked him if he though the teacher was right or wrong.
Then he circled back to my being ‘afraid’, and I wasn’t afraid of anyone but I was going to protect myself and my family and that included him. And that I knew I was too old to fight, and with the situations and gangs out there, anything I could do/use to diffuse a situation I was going to use it just like the fire extinguisher in the kitchen in case there was a fire. And I told him I hoped I never had to use either of them to protect any of us.
He finally came up with the analogy of the fire extinguisher and gun being used to keep him safe, one in the kitchen and one in life; and that the teacher was wrong.
I also cautioned him again about our privacy and to never tell anyone there was a gun in the house or where it was. That it was no ones business outside the family. He said he doesn’t talk about it, and when asked he only told his friends he had gone to the range with his papa and the cop (actually a deputy sheriff but he doesn’t remember that part).
Other things I continue to wonder about are the bills pending in various states, like Colorado that would ban pump shotguns and I wonder if that is an intentional inclusion or not… No question it is a quick way to turn an entire middle class into criminals. I’m betting there are a LOT of shotguns sitting forgotten in closets all over Colorado and most other states.
And DHS releasing over 2000 ‘low level’ illegal criminals back onto the streets (not the ‘hundreds’ the administration admitted to) in California, Arizona, Texas and Georgia. And ‘nobody’ knows who authorized it??? BS… Low level bureaucrats NEVER do things like that without approval from higher authority; but this administration and Big Sis claim they had NO knowledge??? And all these releases were not ‘payback’ to CA, AZ, TX, GA for not toeing the party line? I dunno what they’re smoking, but I want some of that…
And NY now going back and excluding Hollyweird from the NY gun ban, so they can still make movies??? WTF???
And I’m hearing through the mil-email grapevine that there is no movement on allowing DOD to do any re-programming of funds, to purposely maximize the impact on DOD. I’m at the point that I’d like to see them go ahead and shut the damn government down the end of March. At least if they’re shut down they can’t cause anymore problems… Sigh…
And this from a friend of mine’s daughter…
Kicking the soapbox back in the corner…
If I remember correctly, this young lady is 13 years old…
But according to most states (and Uncle Joe) she’s not capable of shooting a weapon safely nor defending herself…
I’d like to see those pols try to do as well as this young lady does…
Just sayin…
But according to most states (and Uncle Joe) she’s not capable of shooting a weapon safely nor defending herself…
I’d like to see those pols try to do as well as this young lady does…
Just sayin…
This guy gives GOOD advice, especially for newbies going to a gun store for the first time…
And all of these people DO exist, and if you get one “my” recommendation would be to just leave and go to another store. If that isn’t an option, politely ask to see what you wanted to look at and tune the guy out. For the ladies, if you’re getting patronized, ask to speak to the manager or someone else. I’m seeing more and more stores where women are behind the counter too, and the are more knowledgeable and less critical of newbies than most of the other salespeople…
And all of these people DO exist, and if you get one “my” recommendation would be to just leave and go to another store. If that isn’t an option, politely ask to see what you wanted to look at and tune the guy out. For the ladies, if you’re getting patronized, ask to speak to the manager or someone else. I’m seeing more and more stores where women are behind the counter too, and the are more knowledgeable and less critical of newbies than most of the other salespeople…
Supporting young shooters…
Danno has a link to a raffle for a good cause.
Danno has a link to a raffle for a good cause.
A chance to win a Winchester SX3 Sporting shotgun for $10? And the proceeds go to help an organization that teaches kids how to shoot clays? There isn’t a downside here that I can see.
The truly sad part about this is the dogs ARE better dancers than I am…
Sigh…
h/t JP
Well, by the time you read this, Sequestration is reality…
The Prez ‘claims’ he’s not a dictator, but he’s sure trying to act like one…
He held ONE 52 minute meeting yesterday with leadership on sequestration, then spent 37 minutes in a press conference blaming the Pubs for the crisis…
And the dems are dancing in the streets, because they’ve gotten their wish and are gutting the military. After all, the military/DOD doesn’t ‘pay’ for any votes for them…
And both the Blue Angels and Thunderbirds will be grounded.
With $85 billion in automatic cuts to the military budget taking effect beginning Friday, millions of fans across the country will miss out on the precision flying by the Navy’s Blue Angels and the Air Force’s Thunderbirds, military officials said.
Blue Angels shows scheduled in more than two dozen cities between April and September are expected to be canceled as part of the cuts, said the team’s spokeswoman, Lt. Katie Kelly. Some shows featuring the Blue Angels already have been called off in the face of budget uncertainties.
The Prez ‘claims’ he’s not a dictator, but he’s sure trying to act like one…
He held ONE 52 minute meeting yesterday with leadership on sequestration, then spent 37 minutes in a press conference blaming the Pubs for the crisis…
And the dems are dancing in the streets, because they’ve gotten their wish and are gutting the military. After all, the military/DOD doesn’t ‘pay’ for any votes for them…
And both the Blue Angels and Thunderbirds will be grounded.
With $85 billion in automatic cuts to the military budget taking effect beginning Friday, millions of fans across the country will miss out on the precision flying by the Navy’s Blue Angels and the Air Force’s Thunderbirds, military officials said.
Blue Angels shows scheduled in more than two dozen cities between April and September are expected to be canceled as part of the cuts, said the team’s spokeswoman, Lt. Katie Kelly. Some shows featuring the Blue Angels already have been called off in the face of budget uncertainties.
The Thunderbirds entire 2013 season, beginning April 1, has been canceled, the Air Force said in a statement. The Air Force said that all aviation support for the public has been halted, including air shows, trade shows, flyovers and open houses.
Full Article HERE.
DOD is NOT allowed to move $$ between accounts, so all the money comes out of Operations and Maintenance (O&M) which is day to day funding for the military.
And I friend of mine’s son just landed at Baghram last night to start his year of deployment… Thoughts and prayers for him and all the others that are downrange and now being hung out to dry…
And from a source I trust, this is the priorty for the Army on bullets…
Prioritized within the funding.
1. OEF
2. Deployed/deploying units
3. Korea call forward
4. Homeland Defense
5. Rapid Deployers
All Joint Service Training ammunition support stops 1 March except as noted above.
So a VERY perishable skill will be stopped for the Army (and probably the Marines too)…
I hope you F**KERS in Washington are proud of yourselves… And I for one no longer have ANY confidence in Congress or Obama being willing to do what is right for or actually LEAD America. I respect the office, but I DO NOT have to respect the individual sitting in the chair…
And as Tim points out HERE, DHS has $9B in their slush fund, so WHY is Napolitano BSing us with how bad it’s going to get at TSA/airports/Customs???
At this point, I hope they shut the whole damn mess down the end fo the month…
Sometimes I wonder why I still do this crap for a living…
People keep expecting me to pull a rabbit out of the hat, but this week…
Well, so far…
Rhinoceros
Rhodesian Ridgeback
Rat
Reindeer- had to let him go, couldn’t get the antlers back in…
Right Whale
Rattlesnake x2
And STILL no damn rabbit…
People keep expecting me to pull a rabbit out of the hat, but this week…
Well, so far…
Rhinoceros
Rhodesian Ridgeback
Rat
Reindeer- had to let him go, couldn’t get the antlers back in…
Right Whale
Rattlesnake x2
And STILL no damn rabbit…
I’m just gonna call this one a loss and pack it in.
Not too far from the truth… And I’m wondering what will happen if I have to change doctors…
by C. M. Hunt, Jr., M.D.
My Medical Appointment
I visited a physician last week. It was a “new” doctor in the practice–a young lady (at MY age, EVERYBODY is “young”–when I was born, the Dead Sea wasn‘t even sick) who was quite enthusiastic. She was obviously a liberal by her dress and manner. I was thinking of hitting on her, but I don’t like the phrase, “You remind me of my grandfather.”
She asked me what was wrong, and I replied, “I have a cut on my leg; and I think it may be getting infected.”
She said, “Before we start, I have to ask you a few questions. Are you allergic to any medications?”
I replied, “No.”
She said, “Do you have any guns in the house?”
I said, “HUH??”
She replied, “Guns. Do you have any guns in the house?”
I asked, “Why?”
She said, “I’ve got to ask this question. It is required under the Affordable Care Act.”
I asked, “What are you going to do with the data?”
She said, “We compile it, amalgamate it, and submit it to the government.”
I said, “Well, I have a Tommy Gun. I let my kid Tommy play with it.”
She said, “What’s a Tommy Gun? I don‘t think that is the kind of gun they are concerned with.”
With THAT, I knew I had a live one. I said, “It’s similar to a B.A.R., but a little heavier and shorter. I have a B.A.R. also.”
She said, “A B.A.R.?”
I said, “Yes.”
She looked puzzled. Then she brightened up and asked, “Do you have any assault rifles?”
I attempted to look puzzled, and said, “I don’t know. What is an assault rifle?”
She said, “That’s a gun that is used in wars.”
I said, “As a matter of fact, I do. I have a replica of a Revolutionary War musket.”
She began to look a bit exasperated. I pretended not to notice and kept up the appearance of trying to be helpful.
She said, “Do you have anything more modern than that?”
I replied, “Well, yes I do. I have a replica muzzle loader from the Civil War. Do you know the difference between a musket and a muzzle loader?”
She rather peevishly said, “No, I don’t; and I don’t want to. What else do you have?”
I said, “I have an M-1.”
She asked, “What’s that?”
I said, “A rifle.”
She asked, “What kind?”
I replied, “It is called a Garand.”
She rather loudly said, “I don’t care if it is a grand rifle or not. Is it an assault rifle?”
To which I replied, “I don’t know. I don’t know what an assault rifle is. You say it’s a rifle used in war, yet you say that my musket and muzzle loader are not assault rifles.”
She calmed down (a bit) and asked, “Anything else?”
I said, “I have an MG-.30, and an MG-.50. I‘m also part owner of an Apache. But they are not rifles.”
She stated, “Well, then, I’m not interested in them. Anything else.”
I replied, “Well, yes. I also have a 12-gauge and a 20-gauge pump. They are not rifled though.”
She said, “I’m not interested in pumps; I’m interested in guns.”
I replied, “Well, then, I have a Colt, a Luger, a Glock, a bazooka, a Parabellum, a Kalishnikov, a Henry, a Uzi, a Llama, and a Beretta–but they are not rifles.”
She then said, “I’ve had enough of this. I think you’re toying with me. Let me see your leg.”
I then said, “Excuse me, but before you look at my leg, I have a few questions to ask of you.”
She replied, “Of course. What are they?”
I said, “I have given you a lot of information about my guns. I am somewhat concerned about your knowledge and ability to assimilate, make coherent sense of that information, and report it correctly. Do you know the difference between a .22 caliber and a .223 caliber? It’s a rather fundamental difference.”
She replied, “Actually, I don’t.”
I said, “I see. Let me ask some more relevant questions. “How much money do you make?”
She said, “That’s personal, why do you ask?”
I said, “Well, in pushing the Health Care Act, my president cautioned the population about doctors that would amputate a leg rather than treat a cut because they make more money that way. Consequently, I wish to know if you are financially troubled. What kind of car do you drive? What are your house payments? How much is your mortgage? How much credit card debt do you have? Do you have a student loan; if so, how much?”
She said, “I’m not going to answer those questions. You have no right to ask them.”
I then asked, “Do you have training and education in homeopathic techniques? Do you know the benefits/effects of CoQ10, ginseng, fish oil, Creatine, BCAA, and other such herbal treatments?” Do you know the difference between Panax ginseng, American ginseng, and Siberian ginseng?”
She replied, “Well, no.”
I then asked, ”Well, have you studied it at all?”
She replied rather defensively, “NO; it’s all a bunch of hogwash anyway.”
I said, “Oh, then you have read the research on it. What have you read?”
She then said, “I don’t waste my time reading such things. Why are you asking me these questions?”
I said, “Well, if I’m going to turn my body over to you for treatment, I believe it is reasonable for me to know something about your motivation, training, experience, and competence. Do you know anything about the practice of holistic medicine?”
She said, rather angrily “No, I don’t.”
I said, “Oh. O.K. How much experience do you have in practicing medicine?”
She replied, “Well, not very much.”
To which I said, “Well, we all have to start somewhere. What medical school did you go to; what is its rank in terms of other medical schools; where did you intern; and where did you do your residency? What is the rank of the hospital where you did your internship and residency?”
She rather peevishly said, “All my credentials are posted in the waiting room.”
To which I said, “Really? The rank of your medical school is posted in the waiting room? Do you have any experience with leg injuries? If so, how much?”
I guess that was too much for her. She rather crossly said, “I think it would be best if you saw a different doctor.” and started to leave the room.
I said, “You know, doctor. You asked me irrelevant questions about my guns, and I answered them. Whether or not I own guns is really none of your business and has absolutely nothing to do with any treatment you might prescribe. On the other hand, I ask you questions quite relevant to my situation, and you refuse to answer them. Isn’t that somewhat backwards?”
She said, “But I HAVE to ask those questions. It’s the law.”
To which I replied, “Actually, it is NOT the law. Here is what the law says–taken directly from the Affordable Care Act:”
‘‘(1) WELLNESS AND PREVENTION PROGRAMS.—A wellness and health promotion activity implemented under subsection (a)(1)(D) may not require the disclosure or collection of any information relating to—
‘‘(A) the presence or storage of a lawfully-possessed firearm or ammunition in the residence or on the property of an individual; or
‘‘(B) the lawful use, possession, or storage of a firearm or ammunition by an individual.
‘‘(2) LIMITATION ON DATA COLLECTION.—None of the authorities provided to the Secretary under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or an amendment made by that Act shall be construed to authorize or may be used for the collection of any information relating to—
‘‘(A) the lawful ownership or possession of a firearm or ammunition;
‘‘(B) the lawful use of a firearm or ammunition; or
‘‘(C) the lawful storage of a firearm or ammunition.
“You may verify this at: http://housedocs.house.gov/energycommerce/ppacacon.pdf and
http://wizbangblog.com/2013/01/10/obamacare-amendment-does-not-forbid-gun-and-ammo-registration/.”
http://wizbangblog.com/2013/01/10/obamacare-amendment-does-not-forbid-gun-and-ammo-registration/.”
“As you can see, you have broken federal law TWICE–once by asking, and once by collecting data. It is perfectly legal for me to own guns; it is not legal for you to ask and/or collect such data. YOU are breaking the law, and yet YOU are the one that is angry. Not only that, but you erroneously stated that you must ask such questions, and you did it in a very authoritative and convincing manner. You gave me false information, which I then acted upon by answering your questions. On that basis, how can I be expected to trust your medical judgment? When I attempted to ascertain your medical competency, you became defensive and hostile.”
“There is really no need for me to see another doctor in this practice. I‘ll go somewhere else, where my privacy is respected, and I can trust the information I receive.”
h/t JP