Tag: guncontrol

HF 3022 is not going to pass the state legislature, but the fact that the anti-gunners are even trying is sufficient cause for tarring, feathering, and generally Concord/Lexington-style reaction:

HF 3022 is now in the Legislature

– Permit required to own a gun
– Permit required to buy a gun
– Permit required to sell a gun
– Local law enforcement gets to deny all types of gun permits
– Local law enforcement gets to deny permits to carry
– Personal medical information must be shared with law enforcement
– All firearm transfers must be reported
– All guns must be registered (fees set by local law enforcement)
– Registration must be renewed annually
– Local law enforcement may conduct warrantless “safety inspections” of gun owner’s homes
– Local law enforcement sets “safe storage” policies
– Five day waiting period for all transfers
– Transfers must be done through an FFL (even between private parties)
– Fees may be charged for transfers
– Local law enforcement may conduct background investigation on transfers
– Total ban on any gun which meets broad “assault weapon” definition – banned guns must be destroyed or surrendered
– Ban thumbhole stocks
– Ban adjustable stocks
– Ban pistol grip stocks
– Limit fixed magazine capacity to 7 rounds
– Ban any magazine capable of holding more than 7 rounds
– Suspension of gun rights based on complaints from anonymous parties
– Recriminalization of suppressors
– Bump stock ban
– All ammunition sales will be registered
– Permit required to purchase ammunition

Almost forgot an important thing —

HF 3022 would also make gun owner private data public. This would include:

Number and type of guns you own
Your address

It’s time for 2nd Amendment advocates to get serious and go on the offensive. If advocating the boycott of Israel can be criminalized, then advocating the infringement of American gun rights can damn well be criminalized too.

Gun rights activists should start demanding that their representatives pass laws requiring fines and jail time for anyone who advocates violating the unalienable rights of Americans by calling for gun laws. In case it’s not obvious to you, the 2nd Amendment is considerably more important than the 1st Amendment.

Sometimes the God-Emperor can’t seem to get out of the way of his own emotions. On the other hand, it is always dangerous to assume that you know which Trump Mode happens to be operative in any given situation.

Yesterday, the President held a bipartisan meeting on school safety and gun control. It was a nightmare. Trump taunted lawmakers by telling them “you’re afraid of the NRA.” He’ll soon find out why politicians are afraid of the NRA during the 2018 elections if he doesn’t walk balk some of the insanity he was tossing about in that meeting.

Some of the ridiculous changes to firearm laws Trump seemed amenable to include outlawing private guns sales, raising the age to 21 to buy a long gun, and taking people’s guns without due process. Like I said, what a dumpster fire. Not one of those things will stop criminal maniacs from getting a firearm.

Dick’s Sporting Goods, which is a crappy, over priced place to buy anything a firearm will not sell “assault-style” weapons. Quick question: what is the difference between an “assault-style” long gun and a long gun that is not “assault-style”? Let me know in the comments. Sadly, Walmart, where I occasionally purchase Federal 12ga 8 shot but will not do so any longer, says it will not sell firearms to consumers who are under the age of 21.

President Trump mentioned in his gun control conclave that he was going to issue an executive order banning bump stocks. And in a mind-blowing move, Trump dismissed Rep. Steve Scalise when he suggested national reciprocity be included in any gun legislation.

Dumpster fire barely begins to describe it. However, as always, I counsel patience when attempting to analyze and understand Donald Trump’s words and actions. First, what has actually changed? Nothing. At the very least, wait and see whether this is strategic posturing, tactical maneuver, or simple emoting.

If nothing else, Trump is an astute observer and a fast learner. He’s not a complete idiot, and it’s hardly going to escape him that all the parties and people who are most implacably opposed to him are literally rubbing their hands over his latest outburst. And possibly Trump’s greatest political skill is his ability to a) realize he has made a mistake and b) walk it back without hesitation, regret, or apology.

The other thing to remember is that Trump is neither a savior nor is he Alt-Right. He is absolutely going to get things wrong from time to time. On those occasions, we should oppose him as steadfastly as if he were Hillary Clinton or Judeo Christ himself. But we should do so with the awareness that he can change his mind and the hope that he will do so, and the understanding that he is mistaken rather than the enemy.

The lesson, as always, is never count the God-Emperor out. That’s not an expression of loyalty, merely one of experience.

Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump
Many ideas, some good & some not so good, emerged from our bipartisan meeting on school safety yesterday at the White House. Background Checks a big part of conversation. Gun free zones are proven targets of killers. After many years, a Bill should emerge. Respect 2nd Amendment!

I’ll bet that Dick’s Sporting Goods will not remain one of the largest sports retailers for long in light of this utterly bone-headed move by the CEO:

One of the nation’s largest sports retailers, Dick’s Sporting Goods, said Wednesday morning it was immediately ending sales of all assault-style rifles in its stores. The retailer also said that it would no longer sell high-capacity magazines and that it would not sell any gun to anyone under 21 years of age, regardless of local laws.

The announcement, made two weeks after the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., that killed 17 students and staff members, is one of the strongest stances taken by corporate America in the national gun debate. It also carries symbolic weight, coming from a prominent national gunseller.

Late last week, after coming under attack on social media for their ties to the National Rifle Association, a number of major companies, including Hertz car rental, MetLife insurance and Delta Air Lines, publicly ended those relationships, issuing brief, carefully phrased statements.

But Edward Stack, the 63-year-old chief executive of Dick’s whose father founded the store in 1948, is deliberately steering his company directly into the storm, making clear that the company’s new policy was a direct response to the Florida shooting. “When we saw what happened in Parkland, we were so disturbed and upset,” Mr. Stack said in an interview Tuesday evening. “We love these kids and their rallying cry, ‘enough is enough.’ It got to us.”

I look forward to the future articles denying that this decision by the CEO to steer the company “directly into the storm” has anything to do with the totally unanticipated 18-percent decline in annual sales in 2018.

“The whole hunting business is an important part of our business, and we know there is going to be backlash on this,” said Mr. Stack. “But we’re willing to accept that.”

It will be interesting to see how long it takes him to change his tune. Notice how it is almost never the founders of companies who ever do anything this stupid? It’s always heirs and infiltrators, which tends to demonstrate that those who do not create businesses may understand how to work the internal machinery and manage the processes established, but they lack an inherent understanding of why and how the business exists in the first place.

In addition to the one four Broward County deputies who were sitting on their hands rather than intervene in the recent school shooting, eyewitness reports are increasingly disproving every aspect of the Official Story. Why, for example, was the son of a police officer wearing a bulletproof vest during the attack?

In the classroom where Mackenzie Hill had been hiding, police broke through the door. As the officers were guiding students out, they noticed something odd: One of the students had put on a bulletproof vest. The student said he’d been given the vest by his father, a police officer. Even in the safest city in Florida, he’d brought it to school with him, just in case.

Just in case. Right. Occam’s Razor dictates that the father knew something was happening that day, and had his suspicions that the scheduled “drill” was there to cover something more ominous. Such as the attack by the real shooter, who was probably the reason that the Broward County deputies were ordered to stand down.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School teacher Stacy Lippel was grazed by a hot bullet which left the chamber of the shooter’s gun as she closed the door to her classroom after letting a number of students file into what would presumably be safety. However, nothing could have prepared the teacher for what she was to witness next.

“I suddenly saw the shooter about twenty feet in front of me standing at the end of the hallway actively shooting down the hallway, just a barrage of bullets, and I’m staring at him thinking why are the police here,this is strange because he’s in full metal garb, helmet, face mask, bulletproof armor, shooting this rifle that I’ve never seen before,” Lippel told Good Morning America last Wednesday.

The brave teacher said she told fellow Stoneman Douglas H.S. teacher Scott Beigel, 35, to get back in his room just before the shooter fired a number of rounds into his room killing him and other students.

At this point, it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that Cruz’s AR-15 was never even fired. And frankly, this false flag appears to have been so ineptly staged that it also wouldn’t be a surprise to be informed that the ballistics eventually prove the rounds that were fired at the school were neither .223 Remington nor 5.56×45mm NATO. Which may be the reason why the school is being demolished.

Gun experts, what rifle or carbine that is standard issue for the Florida police fires .223 Remington or 5.56x45mm cartridges? I mean, one would naturally assume that whoever staged the false flag would be competent enough to use ammunition that is AR-15 compatible, but then, as Q informs us, these people are stupid.

Here is a list of companies with whom you will want to avoid dealing if you support the U.S. Constitution and the Second Amendment.

• Allied Van Lines/North American Van Lines
• Avis and Budget
• Avis Car Rental
• Best Western
• Chubb Insurance
• Delta
• Enterprise Rent-a-Car
• First National Bank of Omaha
• Hertz
• MetLife
• National Rent a Car
• Paramount Rx
• Starkey Hearing Technologies
• Symantec 
• TrueCar
• United Airlines
• Wyndham Hotel Group

The Parkland students/crisis actors speaking out for gun control are actors. Literal actors, as in, members of the school’s TV and drama clubs.

Here’s where it gets a little more intriguing. Note the two “Stop Joseph Kony” groups on the Facebook page of Alex Wind. That is quite odd because the Kony 2012 campaign was a US State Department misleading propaganda campaign (largely considered to be a psyop) used to expand the presence of AFRICOM in Africa…. Now guess who helped head up the Kony2012/Invisible Children campaign for the US State Department? None other than Brennan Gilmore who was the main media personality/witness for the Charlottesville car incident in summer 2017. Thus, it is quite an interesting coincidence that these Kony2012 groups are the only groups on the Facebook page of Alex Wind, student actor and one of the lead media promoted personalities for the Parkland shooting event….

So there you have it, they just happened to be running a bunch of active shooter drills that day and wearing lots of gory makeup and a crazy kid who looks comatose just happened to show up at the school and shoot a bunch of people for real and then they just happened to fortunately be a bunch of student actors that had well rehearsed lines about how angry they are about guns, except when they were caught smiling for the photo shoots, of course.

As I said before, it’s all fake. Risibly so. As I have often said, the only thing you can be absolutely certain did not happen is the Official Story that is reported by the media.

Apparently the supply of young actors isn’t what it once was. I blame #MeToo.

Now the media is desperately trying to explain away the California video. He was just visiting friends and family! It was just a super interesting encounter, which is why it was covered by the local news in Los Angeles!

“I witnessed this event, why are you guys doing this to me? I’m trying to be as well spoken as possible because these politicians won’t,” he tells Fujii. “I hate that people think I’m an actor, but I don’t have time to care about that. I have to keep going.”

Hogg’s father is former FBI, but he claims that despite some speculation, his dad has nothing to do with his views.

“I am not fed any lines. My father is a retired FBI agent,” said Hogg. “I’m not working with him or anybody else on this. I’m speaking from my heart.”

It’s a philosophical conundrum. If the crisis actor denies he is a crisis actor, isn’t he, by the very act of his denial, confirming precisely what he denies being? The thing is, it’s quite easy to distinguish between scripted dialogue and normal human communication. There is a sort of aural uncanny valley that is hard for the average individual to articulate, but they pick it up nevertheless.

“I’m not working with him… I’m speaking from my heart.” Those are the sorts of phrases that simply screams SCRIPT. And why doesn’t he “have time”? He’s a high school kid! He has nothing but time!

Keep in mind that a false flag doesn’t mean that there were no real victims. When General L.L Lemnitzer, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, signed off on Operation Northwoods on March 13, 1962, it was specifically planned for “the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or other U.S. government operatives” to “commit acts of terrorism against American civilians.”

Back then, the Deep State wanted to drum up support for a war with Cuba. Now, it wants to drum up public support for gun control. But it’s all fake and it has been for at least the last 56 years. Do you seriously want to argue that human nature has somehow evolved past that sort of thing in that time?

The ironic thing is that it never occurred to me to think that the high school kids might be plants until they started “speaking out”. But after hearing them talk, it never occurred to me for a second that they might be genuine. People being held hostage by ISIS have recorded more convincing speeches on camera with a knife held to their throat.

Meanwhile, the Official Story continues to change.

Not one but four sheriff’s deputies hid behind cars instead of storming Marjory Stoneman Douglas HS in Parkland, Fla., during Wednesday’s school shooting, police claimed Friday — as newly released records revealed the Broward County Sheriff’s Office had received at least 18 calls about the troubled teen over the past decade.

Were they cowards? Or were they ordered to stand down? We certainly can’t believe a single thing that the Broward County Sheriff’s Office says either.

At least part of the police cover-up of the recent school shooting at Douglas is related to the way in which the County Sheriff and School Superintendent are trying to hide their corrupt scheme to NOT enforce the law when faced with more criminal behavior by students than their monthly crime quota will permit. The Last Refuge explains:

I spent about 18 months in 2012, 2013 and 2014 investigating Broward and Miami-Dade school policies and how those policies transfer to law enforcement practices. My interest was initially accidental.  I discovered an untold story of massive scale and consequence as a result of initial research into Trayvon Martin and his High School life.

What I stumbled upon was a Broward County law enforcement system in a state of conflict.  The Broward County School Board and District Superintendent, entered into a political agreement with Broward County Law enforcement officials to stop arresting students for crimes. The motive was simple.  The school system administrators wanted to “improve their statistics” and gain state and federal grant money for improvements therein. So police officials, the very highest officials of law enforcement (Sheriff and Police Chiefs), entered into a plan.

As soon as Miami-Dade began to receive the benefits (political and financial) from the scheme, Broward County joined on.  The approach in Broward was identical as the approach in Miami-Dade. It’s important to remember, this was not an arbitrary change – this was a well-planned fundamental shift in the entire dynamic of how teenagers would be treated when they engaged in criminal conduct.

The primary problem was the policy conflicted with laws; and over time the policy began to create outcomes where illegal behavior by students was essentially unchecked by law enforcement. Initially the police were excusing misdemeanor behaviors.  However, it didn’t take long until felonies, even violent felonies (armed robberies, assaults and worse) were being excused. The need to continue lowering the arrests year-over-year meant that increasingly more severe unlawful behavior had to be ignored.  Over time even the most severe of unlawful conduct was being filtered by responding police.

We found out about it, when six cops blew the whistle on severe criminal conduct they were being instructed to hide.  The sheriff and police Chiefs were telling street cops and school cops to ignore ever worsening criminal conduct. The police were in a bind.  They were encountering evidence of criminal conduct and yet they had to hide the conduct. There were examples of burglary and robbery where the police had to hide the recovered evidence in order to let the kids get away without reports.

The police would take the stolen merchandise and intentionally falsify police records to record stolen merchandise *as if* they just found it on the side of the road. They put drugs and stolen merchandise in bags, and sent it to storage rooms in the police department.  Never assigning the recovery to criminal conduct.  Stolen merchandise was just sitting in storage rooms gathering dust.

They couldn’t get the stuff back to the victim because that would mean the police would have to explain how they took custody of it.  So they just hid it.  To prove this was happening one of the officers told me where to look, and who the victim was.

At first I didn’t believe them.  However, after getting information from detectives, cross referencing police reports, and looking at the “found merchandise”, I realized they were telling the truth. A massive internal investigation took place and the results were buried.  Participating in the cover-up were people in the media who were connected to the entire political apparatus. The sheriff and police chief could always deny the violent acts (assaults, rapes, beatings etc.) were being ignored; that’s why the good guys in the police dept gave the evidence of the stolen merchandise.  That physical evidence couldn’t be ignored and proved the scheme.

From 2012 though 2018 it only got worse.  In Broward and Miami-Dade it is almost impossible for a student to get arrested.  The staff within the upper levels of LEO keep track of arrests and when a certain number is reached all else is excused.

Well it didn’t take long for criminal gangs in Broward and Miami-Dade to realize the benefit of using students for their criminal activities. After all, the kids would be let go… so organized crime became easier to get away with if they enlisted high-school kids. As criminals became more adept at the timing within the offices of the officials, they timed their biggest crimes to happen after the monthly maximum arrest quota was made.

The most serious of armed robberies etc. were timed for later in the month or quarter.  The really serious crimes were timed in the latter phases of the data collection periods.  This way the student criminals were almost guaranteed to get away with it. Now.  You can see how that entire process gets worse over time.  Present corruption (the need to hide the policy) expands in direct relationship to the corruption before it.   This is where the School Police come into play.

Understanding the risk behind the scheme, it became increasingly important to put the best corrupt cops in the schools.  *BEST* as in *SMARTEST*.  Those SRO’s became the ones who were best at hiding the unlawful conduct. Again, over time, the most corrupt police officers within the system became the police inside the schools.  These officers were those who are best skilled at identifying the political objectives and instructions.

Those “School Cops” also have special privileges.  It’s a great gig.  They get free “on campus” housing close to the schools they are assigned to etc.  They’re crooked as hell and the criminal kids how just how to play them.  It’s a game. Also an open secret.  A lot of it came out during an earlier *internal affairs* investigation. Unfortunately the behavior never changed because the politics never changed.  It’s still going on. For years this has been happening and no-one cared.  Crimes happen; students excused; victims ignored; etc.  The Broward County School and Law Enforcement system is designed to flow exactly this way.  It’s politics.

Only then a Parkland school shooting happened.  For Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel this had to be an “oh shit” moment; but not for the reasons the media initially thought. If people start digging, they’ll discover the shooter was one of those previously excused students. The same sentiment applies for Sheriff Scott’s partner, School Superintendent Robert Runcie (previously from Chicago)….  things are very risky if people start digging.

Forget the occasional school shooter. The much more serious danger is from the corrupt police and the criminals they enable. And you’re going to disarm yourself and count on those corrupt clowns to protect you? That would be absolutely insane!

UPDATE: The Broward County school shootings also look increasingly like another false flag. Quelle surprise.

That popping sound you just heard is the explosive end of the media’s most recent failed trial balloon sent up to generate a groundswell of support for gun control. It has now been reported that the armed policeman whose job it was to guard Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, ran and hid rather than confront the accused gunman.

‘He never went in’: Parkland school’s designated armed campus cop resigns as it emerges he ‘HID’ outside the school as 17 were killed.

A police officer who was on duty at a Florida high school and did nothing to stop gunman Nikolas Cruz when he started his massacre has been suspended. Deputy Scot Peterson, who was armed with a handgun, did not follow police procedure and immediately confront Cruz when he started his rampage killing 17 people with an AR-15 assault rifle, according to the Broward County Sheriff’s department.

Instead he took cover at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School for upwards of four minutes and ‘never went in ‘, according to Sheriff Scott Israel who said Peterson’s actions left him ‘Sick to my stomach. There are no words.’ Israel added that the school resources officer should have have ‘gone in, addressed the killer and killed the killer.’

 And in an interview with the New York Times, Coral Springs Officer Tim Burton revealed Peterson hid from Cruz when the teenager started shooting.

Burton said Peterson ‘was seeking cover behind a concrete column leading to a stairwell,’ because he was worried Cruz could be lurking in the lot. He said Peterson couldn’t hear gunshots or screams to lead him to the precise location of the shooting.

Even more shocking was the revelation that Peterson had been told in 2016 about Cruz’s Instagram posts about opening fire at a school. Call logs released by the Sheriff’s Office show that on February 6 of that year, a neighbor’s son called police and told them Cruz ‘planned to shoot up the school on Instagram’.

The deputy who responded determined Cruz had knives and a BB gun and the information was forwarded to Peterson.

And here I thought hiding and waiting for backup is police protocol. Anyhow, it will be interesting to see if the disgraced deputy is ever interviewed, as one reason he hid might have been that he saw more than one shooter, as was reported by some students at the school. And it will be even more informative if the Deputy Peterson, reportedly unable to face his disgrace, commits Arkansas suicide with six shots from a nail gun to the back of the head inside a gym bag.

As is increasingly often the case with these high-profile mass shootings, the whole thing is beginning to stink of a manufactured crisis. Sure, perhaps Peterson was just a coward. Or perhaps he was called off. I very much doubt the media is ever going to inquire as to what actually happened.

Regardless, let’s not hear any more talk about how brave the police are, ever again. Or even talk about how the police are being “militarized”. It’s an insult to the U.S. military.

Peterson was reportedly ‘distraught’ about the deadly shooting, but ‘believed he did a good job,’ president of the Broward Sheriff’s Office Deputies Association said.  He believed he did a good job calling in the location, setting up the perimeter and calling in the description [of Cruz],’ Jim Bell told the New York Post. 

Trump falls for the media blitz… or at least appears to do so:

President Donald Trump took action on Tuesday to outlaw bump stocks like the one used in the Las Vegas shooting last fall.

‘I signed a memorandum directing the Attorney General to propose regulations to ban all devices that turn legal weapons into machine guns,’ Trump said in the wake of a Florida massacre in which the killer did not use such a device.

Trump’s directive, which he pointedly brought up at a White House Medal of Valor ceremony, followed his press secretary’s announcement minutes before that the president had ordered his administration to look at ways it could unilaterally deter mass shootings like the one in Parkland.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders also said that Trump had not closed the door on new gun controls, including an assault weapons ban that is unpopular with the president’s base.

The only thing the President should have said in response to the expected calls for gun control is this: “All federal gun laws are clearly unconstitutional. I am ordering a review of them and will put a proposal before Congress to legalize all firearms in accordance with the Second Amendment to the Constitution.”

What is the point of this sort of useless do-nothing gesture? It’s wrong, it’s senseless, it’s not going to accomplish anything positive, and it’s going to weaken Trump’s position. One of the most difficult skills to develop is the ability to do absolutely nothing when everyone else is losing their heads and demanding that SOMEBODY do SOMETHING!

That being said, I expect Trump will care more about the genuine outrage of his base than about the fake outrage of the media. Remember, the man makes mistakes, but he learns quickly from them.