This Day in History: April 20

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"Do You Know What a Barrel Shroud Is?"

Amazing. These people don't even know what it is they want to ban. And she's their "leader." What an incompetent fraud. In any other professional field, this would be considered malpractice.

From your legislation, Congressthing McCarthy, which you apparently neither read nor understood, but insisted on banning anyway:

`(36) Barrel Shroud- The term `barrel shroud' means a shroud that is attached to, or partially or completely encircles, the barrel of a firearm so that the shroud protects the user of the firearm from heat generated by the barrel, but does not include a slide that encloses the barrel, and does not include an extension of the stock along the bottom of the barrel which does not encircle or substantially encircle the barrel.

[Via "Anonymous"]

A Media "Conservative"

The Second Amendment itself is debatable. But my position is the same as it was before this tragic week: I support a ban on all privately held handguns, period. In fact, I believe the manufacturing of handguns for private use should be outlawed.

That's the "liberal" position according to USA Today. What do the antis call that? "Reasonable gun control"?

Here's what they'd have us believe is the "conservative" counterpunch:

As for the assault-weapons ban, life went on for the 10 years that the ban was in place, so I'm not averse to reauthorizing it.

Neat trick by the "authorized journalists"--if you fall outside their parameters of a total ban on handguns and a total ban on semiautomatics, why you're an extremist!

Cal Thomas, you are a hollow fraud.

At least a fleeting mention of VTech's disarmament policy made it into in the "debate."

[Via 45superman]

The First Obligation

College officials in the U.S. are considering measures including better surveillance cameras and passes to improve security after the shooting at Virginia Tech University that left 33 people dead...

"We have been meeting all day; there's been endless discussion," Massachusetts Institute of Technology spokeswoman Patti Richards said in an interview. "The first obligation is to reassure the community that we hear people's fears and we're on the situation."

No, the first obligation is to not create a haven for psychopathic predators, you nitwits. You can have all the endless discussions in the world, and none of them will stop a deranged murderer.

But I guess it makes it seem like you're experts, and like you're doing something. But it's all an illusion, all for show. You people don't have a clue, and want to address everything but the obvious.

How reassuring is that?

Let's Pass the Ban--Before it's Too Late

Maniacs should not have easy access to hammers. We must have tool control.

Madame Nicki Knows All, Sees All

And I'm sure the armed criminals are appreciative of the General Assembly's actions as well. This will help them victimize their prey and give them a full college campus of disarmed targets.

Nicki Fellenzer said this about the death of the bill to provide for concealed carry on Virginia college campuses--in February 2006.

Believe it or not.

Eisner to Manipulate Public with Propaganda

So I think the solution is to get the public, in an emotional, story-driven way, behind the goal of an abolition of handguns and automatic weapons.

Coming from a guy who made money selling illegal toy guns, that's pretty hypocritical.

He comes right out and admits he never shared values with middle America while he was social imagineering Disney, and that he compromised his principles to keep his job.

The Best Tyranny Money Can Buy

Mayor Michael Bloomberg and a coalition of 214 mayors are using the Virginia Tech massacre to pressure Congress to give local cops the information they need to trace illegal guns used in crimes.

CBS 2 has also learned that they're also launching a TV ad campaign starting Sunday...

The ads are funded by Bloomberg, who said he will personally spend whatever it takes to stop a bill that would allow the feds to withhold crucial information on illegal guns needed by local cops.

"In terms of how much money to spend I don't know," Bloomberg said. "The last time I was on a campaign I spent $85 million."

Well, he spent $70 milliion to buy the mayor's seat--that's some campaign finance reform in NYC, eh?

And the thing is, having a comparable war chest wouldn't be enough--not that any rich pro-2A champion will ride to the rescue, and not, heaven forbid--that gun owners will ever chip in to launch a pro-gun media campaign of their own. No, even if such an effort existed, it still would pale compared to the free media exposure the citizen disarmament camp get every day via bias, ignorance, omission and outright lies by the establishment press.

So Bloomberg will use his millions to put on a propaganda blitz aimed at a mass audience the experts are, well, experts at manipulating. He'll demand what this idiot "authorized journalist" Marcia Kramer brainlessly parrots: "Give local cops the information they need." And the mayor is not above exploiting the Virginia Tech murders to convince people this is so--even if the police somehow managed to "trace" those guns without having a national gun owner registry, which is really what he's after (and which some friends of mine have figured out how to stymie, but their idea is getting even less support than the COA ad campaign).

Yeah, I'm sure "The Only Ones" need a lot of things that would make their jobs easier, if only that pesky Bill of Rights didn't get in the way.

Butchers With Immaculate Hands

These butchers with immaculate hands are, to my mind, just as guilty as the shooter. They are the enablers of mass murder, by setting up a huge "free fire kill zone" where any criminal KNOWS IN ADVANCE he's not at risk; where anyone who has the temerity to try to obtain the legal means to protect himself or others is prosecuted as if he is the criminal. In today's body count do we see today the inevitable fruits of the insanity of gun control.

Mike Vanderboegh has some thought on shared culpability for the Virginia Tech massacre.

Fox Quotes Alphecca

"(The Republican candidates) must appeal to folks like me to get my vote. I don't expect them to be calling for further gun control," said Jeff Soyer, who runs www.Alphecca.com, a Web log popular with supporters of the Second Amendment guarantee for individuals to bear arms.

"Simply put," Soyer said, "there is no law that could be enacted that would have prevented this tragedy. You can't legislate against insanity.

It's nice to see deserving bloggers gain access to a mass audience. Here's Jeff's take.

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