Tag: gun control

Joe Biden gave bad (read: illegal) advice on responsible gun use. To his WIFE.

:holding head in hands: Of course he did.

Background: in what may end up being the most epic Joe Biden Opens His Mouth EVER the Vice President told a Facebook ‘town hall’ hosted by Parenting Magazine that he had advised his wife that her proper firearms strategy in case of home invasion should be to… get a shotgun, brandish it, and empty the barrels into the air… Hold up!  Wait, wait, I know what you’re going to say.

  • You’re going to say Do not wield a firearm unless you are prepared to use it; do not point a firearm at a person unless you are prepared to shoot that person; do not shoot a person unless you are prepared to kill him or her.  And you would be right.  Those are all true things.  But that’s not Jill Biden’s only problem if she follows that advice.
  • You’re also going to say, like Reason.com did, that “since hypothetical frightened Jill Biden has just fired two shells into the air from a double-barreled shotgun, she is now disarmed, and has to reload before she can defend herself.”  And you would be right there, too.  Because that is also true.  But those are not Jill Biden’s only two problems if she follows that advice.

It’s the third problem that is going to really complicate Jill Biden’s life: what her husband suggests that she do in this situation is actually a felony in the State of Delaware*. Continue reading Joe Biden gave bad (read: illegal) advice on responsible gun use. To his WIFE.

Media Matters for America: GUN FELONS.

Well now.

A staffer at left-wing Media Matters for America committed numerous felonies in the District of Columbia and around the country by carrying a firearm to defend the organization’s founder, David Brock, The Daily Caller has learned.

According to a knowledgeable source, multiple firearms used to protect the Media Matters founder were purchased with Brock’s blessing — and apparently with the group’s money.

So, why did an ostensibly non-profit organization allegedly flout DC gun laws – some of the most vicious in the country, mind you* – while at the same time working so hard to inflict those laws on the rest of us? Oh, right, because Media Matters for America is a hypocritical bunch of progressive mercenaries who just cash the checks, man. And clearly the laws shouldn’t apply to them.

Via

Moe Lane

*Unless you’re David Gregory (translation: “white”).

New York gun owners planning to ignore New York gun registration?

Never give an order that you know is going to be disobeyed. It merely makes it easier for people to ignore the next order, too.

New York Governor Cuomo the Junior may have rushed through his new gun control law with such speed that police will avoid its restrictions only through the blessed miracle of selective enforcement, but he may have a little trouble getting the state’s firearms owners to attend his party. The new law requires owners of those scary-looking rifles known as “assault weapons” to register their property (amidst assurances that, oh no, the registration lists will never be used for confiscation), but gun rights activists are actively urging gun owners to defy the new mandate.

Also… check out Reason’s URL link itself.  Surely that’s not intentional.

Surely.

Via Hot Air Headlines.

Joe Biden has another neurological incident.

This time, about where he was and what he was doing during a 2006 atrocity.

Mr. Biden told a meeting of mayors in Washington Thursday that he was about a quarter-mile away from an Amish schoolhouse on Oct. 2, 2006, when a gunman shot and killed five students and wounded five others.

[snip]

But a search of maps of the area in Lancaster County, Pa., shows the nearest golf course to the site of the shooting, Moccasin Run Golf Club, is about five miles away. Rodney King, the golf pro at Moccasin Run, said Friday he was working at the course on the day of the shooting and never saw Mr. Biden, who was then a U.S. senator.

Continue reading Joe Biden has another neurological incident.

TAKE THAT GUN AWAY from Joe Morrissey (D, Virginia House of Delegates).

Before the idjit hurts himself with it.

Background: the aforementioned idjit decided to wave around an “AK-47-style rifle” on the floor of the Virginia House of Delegates as part of a fairly bizarre gun-grabbing stunt.  Now, Morrissey claimed that the gun was unloaded, but then…

“Del. Todd Gilbert, R-Woodstock, interrupted Morrissey’s speech to ask him to take his finger out of the trigger guard…”

…Joe Morrissey is apparently not exactly qualified to be an expert on gun safety. Continue reading TAKE THAT GUN AWAY from Joe Morrissey (D, Virginia House of Delegates).

New York’s new gun ban does NOT exclude cops.

I would very much like to swear about this.  Using polysyllables:

Magazines with more than seven rounds will be illegal under the new law when that part takes effect in March.

As the statute is currently written, it does not exempt law enforcement officers.

Nearly every law enforcement agency in the state carries hand guns that have a 15 round capacity.

Mark Levin was kind: he merely used the terms “idiot” and “damn fools” (the first specifically directed towards Andrew Cuomo).  And if you think those terms are harsh, consider this last paragraph:

State Senator Eric Adams, a former NYPD Captain, told us he’s going to push for an amendment next week to exempt police officers from the high-capacity magazine ban. In his words, “You can’t give more ammo to the criminals.”

So, I guess that we’re just admitting right off of the bat that criminals are going to, amazingly, ignore the law when it comes to firearms possession? Continue reading New York’s new gun ban does NOT exclude cops.

QotD, The New Republic Is Projecting Their Behavior On Us Again edition.

Oh, irony, how I miss thee.

…[One] element of the old law should not be repeated. [snip]: the 10-year sunset clause.

Superficially, having a time limit on the law makes sense. Congress is then forced to examine new evidence, gauge public opinion and make adjustments. But in practice, the sunset clause gave gun rights absolutists in Congress the power to ignore public opinion and new evidence. All they had to do is sit on their hands, without ever having to take a recorded vote and face their constituents.

…You know, if you just replaced ‘gun rights absolutists’ with ‘Democratic tax enthusiasts,’ you’d end up with something that was actually true and a fairly accurate description of Democratic tax policy over the last decade. As for the ‘sunset clause’… :shrug: I’m sure that it drives people nuts that the post-repeal decade demonstrated that there was never a need for the “assault weapons ban” in the first place, but I can’t imagine how any of that is MY fault.  Because it’s not.  Neither are any of the psychosexual neuroses that seem to be rampant among the anti-gun folks these days…

Moe Lane

(Link via Hot Air)

Tweet Of The Day, The Second Assault Weapons Ban Is Farce edition.

This is exactly what happened last time.

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…but God forbid that political activists who are terrified of guns be kept from having to shell out money for a therapist like the rest of us.

Moe Lane

PS: Another blast from the past: banning the manufacture of larger magazines will simply mean that the gun manufacturers will stockpile them beforehand. Banning their manufacture and sale without compensation will probably not fly, and if by some strange happenstance it does fly the court cases will start twenty minutes later. They’re metal boxes with springs attached, people. Not hard to make.