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Showing posts with label NRA. Show all posts

June 3, 2019

58 Shot in Chicago, The City that Never Learns. City run like an episode of "The Wire."

https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2019/6/1/18648305/chicago-weekend-shootings-52-8-killed

58 people in Chicago got shot over the weekend. 44 if you ask CNN. Why they're downplaying it is another story altogether. This isn't a record. That stands at 72 over the weekend of August 8, 2018, but Chicago never learns. Watching the mayor on TV this morning, I had a flashback to "The Wire." She was talking metrics. Bullshit stats on crime. Can't scapegoat the #NRA on this one. Can't blame a gun maker. The blame falls squarely on city leadership. Liberal democrat leadership. When is the last time they had a conservative in the mayor's office? It was William Hale "Big Bill" Thompson, who left office in 1931. Wait! Now I know why I channeled "The Wire" when I saw the mayor. Chicago really is just like Baltimore (and Detroit, Atlanta, Washington DC, Seattle, San Francisco). Democrats have run those cities into the ground, yet after all the wailing and gnashing of teeth over murders, urban blight, drugs, homelessness, etc., they just elect another, then another. It's Einstein's definition of insanity (doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result). Nothing changes. Well, except for corruption and liberal privilege. That just keeps getting worse, along with the problems in the city. Why did they sweep the whole Jussie Smollet racist hoax under the rug? Why did people protest gun violence two years ago but do it in the Miracle Mile instead of where the crime is happening? Did protesting white shoppers have an effect on black crime? No. Did Rahm Emmanuel or Charles Daly or Harold Washington or any of those liberals even make a dent in the issues? No. I've seen "The Wire." Maybe Mayor Lightfoot should also.

September 5, 2018

The Liberal Mainstream Media Hates Me.

https://youtu.be/1Au4I6gNwy0
Don't watch the video yet. Listen to me first. It's obvious. The mainstream liberal media in this country hates me. They don't tell me the truth. Why would they lie to me? I'm supposed to trust them. Isn't that what they tell me? Tell us? They give me their opinion rather than telling me the issue and letting me form my own opinion. They decide what news I see and hear and read. Instead of giving me information and allowing me to form a belief system regarding the topic, they try to tell me how to think, and what to believe. They lie to me. They try to manipulate me. Purposely mislead me. I served my country and they hate me. Now they pay more attention to illegal non-citizens than me, a vet. They tell me who's bad and who is not based on their liberal agenda, not the truth. They try to make me think 30 people at some rally somewhere is more powerful than the millions of people quietly supporting a cause. I'm the native son of an insurance salesman gringo-type born in South Jersey to an Irish father and an Italian mother, but to them I'm white, privileged, and a racist. They don't even know me. Should I make ignorant decisions and form ridiculous opinions as fast as they do? To me, there are only two types of people; good people, and a-holes. Which one are they? They bombard me with disinformation. They want to seem timely, and hip, and on my side, but I know it's all bullshit. They're deceptive, and sneaky. Their opinion and viewpoint seems absurd to me, yet they keep coming. They fake sincerity. They patronize people to satisfy their pandering instinct. They put up people as heroes that are anything but. They martyr people who are not martyrs, but people who fit their agenda. They don't really care about me. I want safety. I want security. I want prosperity. I want freedom. I would like an objective voice telling me the events of the day, instead of interpreting the events of the day to me. I know I won't get it. It's like everything my parents tried when I was four. Well, I didn't believe it then, and 50 years later, I still don't. Why does the liberal mainstream media hate me? What did I do to them?

For an example of Liberal Media Hate, watch the Colion Noir video and hear his lesson to the race-bating Liberal media.

August 27, 2018

Gun Nerds Listen Here!!! Rules to Live By...

Look, I'm a gun owner. I shoot. In fact. I shoot a lot. I own guns. In fact, I own lots of guns. Liberals would think I was a nut. Liberals would be wrong. I'm not. Some people spend thousands of dollars on things they like; shoes, clothes, fishing gear, hats, figurines, baseball cards, antiques, Pez dispensers, video games, booze, model trains, and on and on. No one bats an eye at a woman with 50 pairs of shoes she'll never wear, but find disgust with a man who has 15 guns and shoots them all. This isn't even counting the shotguns. However, there is one thing I still don't get, and that's gun nerds. They seem to be gamers that take their tricked-out AR-style rifle from their virtual video game world into reality. I see these guys at the range. They scare me. Oh, and annoy me. Some dress like wanna-be military contractors complete with keffiyeh around their necks and everything from the 5.11 tactical catalog. The others are just gadget goons. Mostly overweight. Usually around 22-25 years old. They trick out their weapons with every sort of sight and grip and accessory imaginable... then go shoot on the 10-meter range. Yep, it's sad. The maximum effective range for a 5.56 caliber M16A2 is 550 meters, and these nitwits shoot at targets close enough to throw the gun and hit. They're not alone. At a range near Naples (which I won't mention so I don't piss off a bunch of people with guns) there is a group of Mexicans who shoot at these same 10 meter targets basically without even aiming. It's like a bad Eastwood movie. One day they'll just point their guns at the sky and pull the trigger and shout Ayeee!!! in which case I'll hit the deck and then never go back there because someones going to get shot. I think they do it for the whole testosterone-laden nature of just slinging some lead and making some noise, but these guys need to listen-up too. I want the gun nerds and everyone else to hear me. These are basic rules for gun ownership. It goes far beyond the "I bought it for protection" bullshit and gives the post video-gamer a little perspective. T

June 30, 2018

The Constitution and the #NRA: The View from my Foxhole

I hear a lot of people talking about the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution. Here's a bit of clarification: In the premable of the Bill of Rights, it says "The Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added." It is clear to me that the 2nd Amendment is meant to allow citizens to "keep and bear arms" to protect ourselves from the government. The founders were clearly taking steps to prevent the government from abusing its power. Politicians clearly hate this. Any time someone says the Constitution is out-dated, or not specific, I call bullshit. Sure, we can talk about a citizen's right to high-capacity magazines or weapons of war (I don't think people need), but the basic right to keep and bear arms should be maintained, as the amendment says "shall not be infringed." The laws regarding felons and mental patients already exist. Enforce them. It's tricky business because of a thing called the 4th Amendment (Rights against unlawful search and seizure). It's illegal to just bust in someone's house because they're a felon or mental patient to see if they're armed. Background check laws already exist. Enforce them. The Gun-Show loophole is gone. Enforce it. Automatic weapons are already illegal unless you are a licensed federal dealer. Bump stocks should be too. Provide mandatory gun training just like a driver's license, hunting license, or scuba certificate. NRA has been advocating all these things for years.