Gun control should be about your grip and your trigger technique

So the Senate Democrats wanted to do some new gun laws in the wake of Orlando, despite admitting that none of their new laws would have stopped Orlando.  The Democrats wanted new restrictions on law-abiding citizens so that they could feel like they'd done something.

And we aren't doing that in America right now.  The Senate failed to pass any of the bills.  Even the Republican-sponsored bill was shot down by the Democrats because it included due process protections.

The Democrats support due process for violent criminals.  They just don't want anyone who honors the Second amendment to be protected by the Fourth amendment.

I do think we need new gun legislation though.  We need to ban gun-free zones and waiting periods at the Federal level. Any state, city, town or establishment that disarms its citizen patrons, and then watches them get slaughtered, must be held civilly liable and criminally liable.  If a waiting period gets someone killed, whoever established that waiting period is guilty as an accessory, and liable for wrongful death.

Then, and only then, will we be solving the problem.

Exploring the liberal mind

The workings of the modern liberal mind never cease to amaze me.

When a militant Islamist uses a scary looking rifle to slaughter innocent people, the modern liberal wants to ban an entirely different, hugely popular, also-scary-looking rifle.

The modern liberal never responds to a tragedy like this by saying, "Why didn't somebody just shoot him sooner?". Instead of admitting that the "common-sense gun laws" at the club only apply to the victims, the modern liberal calls for more laws - laws that make people less safe, but make the liberal FEEL BETTER.

When the perpetrator is from a reliable leftist client community, the perpetrator cannot be blamed.  The modern liberal can blame literally anyone else for the slaughter of innocent partiers.  Blame the gun. Blame the gun manufacturers. Blame the other white people who own the guns. Blame Republicans. Blame the second amendment. Blame the cops for probably accidentally shooting some of the victims themselves.  Blame the cops for not going in soon enough.

The modern liberal, however, has been placed in a corner by the horrific massacre in Orlando.  The modern liberal must decide: are all cultures equal?  

Will the modern liberal give militant Islam a pass on murdering homosexuals... because diversity?  

Will the modern liberal hate armed gays now, as he hates armed Americans in flyover country... because peace?

Over the next few weeks, you will see countless modern liberal minds coming up with creative ways to avoid these questions.  Instead, you will see liberals trying to empower our government to ban more things, while making more things mandatory... And these things will require your tax dollars, and a continued expansion of the bureaucracy that enforces these things.  And not one of them will work.  Not one of them would have stopped this shooting.  Not one of them will stop the next one.

But to a modern liberal, their work is done. They expressed outrage, they increased the power of the government, they didn't let any annoying facts get in their way...

...and by golly, they FEEL BETTER.

It's time to get serious about keeping each other safe

The shootings in Orlando have proven several things beyond any reasonable doubt...

When evil attacks, the SWAT team will enter when they're ready.  In Orlando, this would be about 3 hours.

When the evil person is the only one with a gun in a locked building for 3 hours, he will kill and maim many, many people.

If every patron in Pulse had been armed, the events at Pulse wouldn't even be on the news anymore.  Suppose half of them were armed. A quarter of them. 10 percent.  The psycho would have been dropped, in his tracks, before he could accomplish any of his evil, murderous goals.

People who cannot be trusted with their own safety, or that of others, offer childlike suggestions like more laws about guns, or banning guns.  This is like banning fire extinguishers during an arson spree because they are noisy and can damage stuff.  

So if you're thinking that 'banning the AR-15' or 'common-sense gun laws' are the answer, it's probably just because you can't imagine yourself standing up against evil with violence.  That's okay. You need to recognize your limitations.

But you also need to stop thinking that the rest of us are as incapable.  Stay at the center of the herd with your head down, if you must.

But don't interfere with the rest of us.  We can, and will, stop evil in its tracks.  All you need to do is keep your head down and say thanks.

The adults are here.  We are heavily armed.  

Impeachment

For my liberal friends:

So, President Nixon had his cronies bug some meetings of his political opponents.  He then covered it up. He was threatened with impeachment, took responsibility for the actions of his underlings, and resigned. I am fine with that.

If President Nixon had instead refused to send the military to rescue an embassy staff that was under attack from our sworn enemies, and the staff died, and his administration organized the sanitization of talking points to avoid blaming our sworn enemies, and then tried to cover it up, and got caught, I believe that again, he would be threatened with impeachment, would take responsibility for the actions of his underlings, and would resign.  I would be fine with that too.

If President Nixon had also, at the same time, sent the IRS to AUDIT his political enemies, instead of just spying on them, and he had joked about it several years ago, and the IRS was forced to apologize, again, he would have resigned.  Again, I would be fine with that.

So, for my liberal friends... Will Obama be man enough to resign for his crimes?

Will you be fine with that?

Or are you just a partisan hack?

Obama administration email to Feds: make sequester as painful as promised

Yep, that's right.  Certain federal agencies are working hard (commendably, I might add) to reduce the impact of mandatory cuts caused by the Obama sequester on the taxpayers and citizens who need their services.

However, this directly contradicts the Obama agenda of trying to blame the Republicans for Obama's sequester, because for voters to punish the Republicans for Obama's sequester, there has to be enough suffering for the mainstream media to cover.

From the Washington Times:

In the internal email, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service official Charles Brown said he asked if he could try to spread out the sequester cuts in his region to minimize the impact, and he said he was told not to do anything that would lessen the dire impacts Congress had been warned of.

“We have gone on record with a notification to Congress and whoever else that ‘APHIS would eliminate assistance to producers in 24 states in managing wildlife damage to the aquaculture industry, unless they provide funding to cover the costs.’ So it is our opinion that however you manage that reduction, you need to make sure you are not contradicting what we said the impact would be,” Mr. Brown, in the internal email, said his superiors told him.

So, for those of you Obama voters sitting at home, unemployed, trying to find evidence that Obama cares about you, just think about the skyrocketing gas prices, the fact that there are no jobs available, and don't forget the record high stock market!
 Then reread the paragraph above.  Obama wants to make sure that you FEEL the sequester.  It needs to HURT.

That way, the press will blame the Republicans, and you'll believe it - and you'll be more likely to go to the polls in 2014 to solidify his power.

Obama: "I'm not a dictator"

Today, the WSJ points out a fascinating conversation between a CNN reporter and our President:

Yellin: Mr. President, to your question, what could you do--first of all, couldn't you just have them down here and refuse to let them leave the room until you have a deal?

Obama: I mean, Jessica, I am not a dictator. I'm the President. So, ultimately, if Mitch McConnell or John Boehner say, we need to go to catch a plane, I can't have Secret Service block the doorway, right?

Why isn't Ms. Yellin asking the President to compromise?  Why isn't she urging him that any deal is better than inaction, even if he doesn't get what he wants?  Why isn't he being encouraged to 'move to the center'?

Well, it's because 'compromise' and 'move to the center' is code for 'do what the liberals want'.  Compromising with Republicans takes things in a direction that CNN finds totally unbearable.  Hence, the idea just never seems to come up.

Mayor Bloomberg thinks telecommuting is dumb

Thanks to NBC New York, we learn that Mayor Bloomberg thinks telecommuting is dumb.  Wow.  Let me make sure I understand the big picture here.

• Bloomberg taxes vehicles coming into the city, to reduce traffic, emissions, noise, and a lot of other things that are bad for people and nature.
• Bloomberg wants everyone who works for every New York company to come to the office.

No, that can't be right.  Maybe it's like this:

•  Bloomberg taxes vehicles coming into the city, to increase taxes. He does this under the auspice of reducing traffic, emissions, noise, and a lot of other things that are bad for people and nature.

• Bloomberg wants everyone who works for every New York company to come to the office, to maximize the taxes that are paid.

That actually makes sense. For a Democrat. How could this guy ever have been a Republican? I'm all for a big tent, but the Republican Party really needs a way to eject guys like him who are just nowhere near our part of the circus.