Friday, November 21, 2014

The Ignorance, It Burns

Comment posted under yesterday's GRE:
I wish I had time to properly fisk this -- first impressions will have to do.

With the power grid down, getting troops to mobilize -- and do so in any semblance of a timely manner -- becomes problematic in itself.  Plus, there simply aren't enough of them to secure the entire nation -- leaving, as  projected, most areas on their own. And under the scenario testified to by Admiral Rogers, foreign dangers requiring manpower are going to be heightened. Then we have the bipolar attitude toward "our sons and daughters" with shoot-to-kill orders, and then alternately citing and then disparaging the Oath Keepers concept.

This person evidently thinks under the martial law situation she describes (stereotyping me, I'm just too old and conditioned to imagine a man using that avatar), she will be free to move about -- where she gets the gas from, or how she safely navigates L.A. without a car, remain unstated, but fortunately, she won't need her shotgun to get there and back again.  It's not like scary rampaging mobs have ever paralyzed the city and terrorized and victimized targets of opportunity before. I guess she doesn't remember last time, although -- again, stereotyping me -- you would think someone from there who adopts a Korean screen name would at least have heard the stories that youth and/or privilege appear not to have heeded...

Note she's assuming triage centers will be eager to accept -- and feed and house-- "volunteers" of unstated qualifications.  Thank God you're here -- we need this coffee pot and cookie tray for the firemen filled up stat! More likely, we'll be talking about setting up a tent city within the Coliseum or some such, a la the hell that was the Superdome in Katrina, with no way to supply the refugees, or remove the stinking waste, or treat the injuries, or the disease -- and good luck deciding you don't like it and wish to leave.   First of all, where to?

Also note the automatic "progressive" distrust and paranoia in that "fair play turnabout": The question I posed asked if anti-gunners would maintain that position or engage in the LAWFUL activity of defending themselves and their loved ones. She automatically presumes it is conservative/libertarian gun owners who will turn into predators -- as we no doubt have in every riot situation I can recall, from Watts to Katrina. No "progressive" projection there.

The things such people need to believe. Now seems a pretty good time to reintroduce readers here to a three-part essay I've linked to before.

To restate something I've said before: I don't highlight trolls on occasion to feed them -- I do it because their own words do more to expose them than mine can.

This Day in History: November 21

I Received your Excellencys Letter of yesterday on the subject of hard Bread, as we had none on hand, it was out of my power to give an immediate Answer, have this day been to West Point, and have taken the most effectual measures to have it Baked seasonably... [More]

Thursday, November 20, 2014

Painful to Watch

You guys are not doing yourselves -- or anyone else besides those who ridicule you -- any favors. And careful where you point that thing. [More]

And yes, of course there's such a thing as bad press.  You just facilitated some. And no hearts and minds were changed.

We can't be so eager for publicity that we place ourselves in "no win" situations, where there is no practical way to exploit the venue and just the opposite will result. Plus, well, it oughtta be obvious...

[Via Michael W. Dean]


China power grid attack would allow anti-gunners to demonstrate convictions

Will those who advocate citizen disarmament change their tune when it is their lives, their family and their property on the line? Will they still reject the need for guns in the home? Will they change their mind on concealed or open carrying? Will any resort to keeping and bearing “assault weapons”? Will they respect “gun free zone” signs ordering them to disarm? Will they insist on background checks before engaging in any firearm transfers? How will they license and register guns (where “required”) if authorities are preoccupied fighting literal and figurative fires? [More]
Today's Gun Rights Examiner report notes brutal reality has a way of stomping some real "gunsense" into survivors.  Too bad (for them) so many will dismiss that with ridicule and contempt.

Menace to Society

I feel lots safer now, don't you? [More]

[Via Florida Guy

I've Got a Dirtier Word

The real question is, who's got what on you poltroons? [More]

We're the Only Ones For the Children Enough

Ah, securing the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity, I see... [More]

"...a Pulsating Population of Prisoners..."

I'll bet. [More]

We're the Only Ones Irresistable Enough

An Oklahoma City police officer accused of sexually assaulting 13 women while on duty will face trial for 35 felony counts including rape and sexual assault, court officials said on Wednesday. [More]
So following the "logic" of the antis, if an armed woman had blown this guy ...away, would they consider it an act of insurrection?

Open Rebellion

Damn right. [More]

Some of us ain't puttin' up with this crap, @$$holes.

A Real Reporter

Oregon Firearms Federation introduces us to a member of that "legitimate news media" we've been hearing so much about. [More]

Commiesense Gun Safety on Exhibit

Thanks, I-594! We feel a lot safer going to the museum now! [More]

Also see Workman's take.

[Via cydl]

Active Stabber

Six nurses and a janitor were killed Thursday in a knife attack blamed on another employee at a military hospital and resort in a northeastern coastal town favored by the country's Communist Party elite, police said. [More]
Fortunately for all concerned, there were no human rights violations.

We're the Only Ones Secret Enough

So the crack guards wouldn't have known anything until the guy came up and talked to them like a nutjob? [More]

Interesting video-- doesn't "uniformed Secret Service" kind of give everything away?

I also like that they "may raise the fence."  Why does that seem...I don't know ... contradictory?

You Can't Have Our Cake...

...and beat it, too. [More]

Naming Names

When the list comes out, be sure and check for any Everytown affiliations... [More]

Since You Asked...

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UPDATE: Well, that was certainly time well spent.

The Proper Response

Kurt urges defiance. [More]

Bolsheviks to condemn JPFO as a treasonous terror group in 3...2...1...

Every Picture Tells a Story

And it was one of those assault pictures, with no legitimate reporting purposes... [More]

Isn't it time we had commonsense gun photo laws?

Kamala the Red thinks so...

[Via Steve T

One for the Books

When someone with a gun a gun walked into Strozier Library this morning, presenting an imminent threat to the lives of students studying at Mr. Halbrook’s alma mater, his book provided the philosophical and legal frameworks for the right of those students and library employees to defend themselves, but provided no physical defense. [More]
The librarian couldn't "Shush" him?

I don't suppose the "No Guns" policy helped much, either.

[Via Andrea Shea King]