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2015-02-21 -Land of the Free

This Week In Guns, February 21st, 2015

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Posted by badanov 2015-02-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 From the link;

…a video of his speech in which he advocated for cities to bar minority males up to age 25 from having guns…Bloomberg’s racial disarmament proposal a key to distancing supporters.

I feel like a real peckerhead defending Bloomberg but twisting his statement into a racist proposition is not only foolish but counterproductive. First, he correctly identified that the majority of US violent crime is committed by young minorities in larger cities. He followed with an expressed desire to find ways to get guns out of their hands. The real issue here is that none of Bloombergs’ anti-gun proposals would accomplish his stated goal. The overwhelming majority of guns used in those crimes come from the Black market – not legally purchased. A wiser choice to counter the anti-gun folks is to continue to expose their ideas as both anti-constitutional and totally ineffective. But, please leave the Alinsky bullshit for the race-baiting turds.

Posted by DepotGuy 2015-02-21 10:01|| 2015-02-21 10:01|| Front Page Top

#2 One of the possible problems is that the ATF violated the law when the ban was imposed

Please, laws do not apply to this Administration.

Posted by Glenmore 2015-02-21 12:31|| 2015-02-21 12:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Thanks DG for being the caricature for 90 percent of gun owners.

You're fine with the RKBA as long as you have your rights, but when someone else's rights are assaulted or violated, they're just wife beaters, or criminals, and so you're fine when those people's rights are violated.

Until the moment your rights are threatened.

It is much the same when I illustrated how the ban on 7N6 ammunition went into effect, with not even a wiff of protest from AR owners. But ban M855 for the AR, then whoa! Holy Hell! Rights are violated! Someone do something!

I would bet that users of the AK-74 are saying, "F*ck you and your AR receiver! Where were you when the 7N6 were banned?"

So, let's play a game I call government statistics. Let us say that even though minorities comprise the grand majority of felons, they are still less than two percent of the population at large and a very small percentage of the total of all minorities.

How will you justify disarming the others, maybe in toto 40 percent of the population at large? Potential criminals? What would be your answer? Would I be "race baiting", when I point out that, like the 7N6 ban, it was just a test to see how far the government could go, when they finally conclude that the grand majority of AR owners should have their rifles taken from them? What do you do now? Do you appeal to the 40 percent of the population whose rights were violated? Or do they do, as you did? Conclude that those complaining are just "race baiting", just "using Alinskiitie tactics"

So, allow me to "'splain something" to you. Rights are for everyone, not just people you like, and if one group's rights are violated by the government, then YOUR rights are violated.

Otherwise the government moves with absolute impunity, as they are doing now, confident that people such as yourself won't give a flying f*ck about anyone else's rights until their own rights are violated?

You still get to decide.

Posted by badanov 2015-02-21 13:08|| http://www.chriscovert.net 2015-02-21 13:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Switchout racial profile with political profile and see the hook through the lure.

A tyrant who takes away rights from minorities will eventually find a way to make you a minority.

Bloombooger has nobody's interests in mind but his own legacy. Its really an infuriating comment that not all people are equal before the law, prejudicing you on how you were born, not what you have done.

Posted by swksvolFF 2015-02-21 13:55|| 2015-02-21 13:55|| Front Page Top

#5 Sorry to be so harsh about all this, but this is the main reason I am even writing this column: Trying to do whatever good I can.

I know how those f*ckers work and if I can get folks to stop them cold, then what I do now will be worth it.

If not, it will still be worth it to let as many people as possible know what's on the menu for an expanding government: you.

Posted by badanov 2015-02-21 18:11|| http://www.chriscovert.net 2015-02-21 18:11|| Front Page Top

#6 So, allow me to "'splain something" to you. Rights are for everyone, not just people you like, and if one group's rights are violated by the government, then YOUR rights are violated.

Bad -so let me splain something to you as well. Rights are NOT for everyone. So who doesn’t deserve their rights? Criminals! By simply being criminals they have forfeited their rights. And that doesn’t in any way shape or form violate my or your rights. But you knew that already. Bloomberg doesn’t want to disarm just minorities. He wants to disarm everybody! My guess is the reason he doesn’t want the audio of his statement released is NOT because it’s racist. It’s because it totally refutes his bullshit arguments of expanded background checks and the like.

Posted by DepotGuy 2015-02-21 21:17|| 2015-02-21 21:17|| Front Page Top

#7 The way they take rights away from everyone is to make everyone a criminal.

Posted by Glenmore 2015-02-21 21:32|| 2015-02-21 21:32|| Front Page Top

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