Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Well, he's not wrong

Don't know this GOP Representative and don't care to, but oh, how terrible for Rachel Maddow to be called a cheerleader for the Obama Administration.  If she isn't, then what is she? Oh, the outrage!  How terrible to be called out for supporting something you believe in (whether any of us believe in it or not).

TSU Shooting - how can this be?

Huffington Post reports that there was a shooting on the campus of Tennessee State University. Reports are that an argument over gambling debts led to a larger altercation and one man shooting another.  Kudos, at least at this point, to the Huff Post that they did not overdo the reportage - although, let's be honest - the only reason a wounding (one man shot in the leg) on a Tennessee campus deserves anything other than local coverage is to make a liberal point (I bet lots of other crime happened around the country yesterday that they are not reporting on - probably at least one person got knocked out).  And I have to ask why this local story gets such play when all those local stories of firearms being used to stop crime do not get this kind of notice (why didn't HP publicize this video of Piers Morgan and Sheriff Nocco?).

And given the shoddy logic we always here, I have to ask - how can this shooting even have occurred at TSU - it is not possible.  After all, TSU has a no-firearms on campus policy. From their Police Campus Handbook - "Police officers are the only authorized individuals to carry firearms on the campus of Tennessee State University."  So this gun could not be there; how could this gun have been on campus at all?  Its against policy! I wonder if they have a no gambling policy, too.

You guys make me laugh - even when it's not really funny.

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Oh Huffington Post...put down the bong and wake up.

So, a shooting on the campus of Purdue University.  Of course, the calls go out from all quarters to ban guns on campus - oh, wait, most campuses (including Purdue) already ban firearms.  Well, it is a good thing that policy was in place - for the perpetrator.

But then, as usual, Huffington Post goes off the rails on it even further.  There are no details, there is a suspect in custody.  Don't let that stop you!  They go on to have a little ditty at the bottom of the report about "People who want more guns in schools".  Of course, in the spotlight first is Louie Gohmert.  well, let's hold up a real straw man!  Now I am no Louie Gohmert fan - too many stupid things come from his pie hole. But although I have posted this many times, I feel a need to do so again. Perhaps it has been long enough.

So, to Huffington Post and those who feel as they do:

Do you really think that banning guns on campus would stop someone who wants to shoot someone else from bringing one? As ABC just reported, Purdue University policy forbids gun use and possession on campus.   Purdue prohibits “the possession, use, or distribution of any explosives, guns, or other deadly or dangerous materials or weapons reasonably calculated to cause bodily injury is prohibited in University Facilities.” 

Well, how did that work out?  No one wants more guns in the hands of people who will not follow laws and policies anyway.  All this rule did was disarm the victim (given that I do not know whether he would like to have been armed or not).  While I would like to think that any one who works in such an environment would like to have one in case they need it, I am not that foolish.  I know some out there, including most of my colleagues, prefer the fiction of safety and security, to the real world of taking care of yourself. They would rather die nobly than defend themselves.  Their choice.

Sadly they keep wanting to make it for me as well.

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Well...

If you don't want it called a "convenient little massacre" then don't treat it or use it as one.

From Huffington Post:

"Fredric Dicker, widely regarded as one of the most influential media voices in New York state politics, made the comment on his radio show Monday. He was speaking about gun control legislation passed by the state's governor, Andrew Cuomo.

"That was his anti-gun legislation, which he had promised not to do, but then he had a little convenient massacre that went on in Newtown, Conn., and all of a sudden there was an opportunity for him," Dicker said."

He's right - it was a convenient little massacre, used by Cuomo, Obama and many others to push an agenda, an agenda that they continue to try to push.  It seems pretty clear that underneath their public horror, they salivate at the opportunity to use such events to further their agendas.  It matters not that none of the actions they want to take will prevent such events, that the laws they put in place to control firearms affect only those who hold them lawfully.

So - sad to say - he is right.  If you don't like it being called that, then don't use it that way.

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

How terrible! If only you cared about rights you DON'T like!

You know I might care that "Utah delivers a HUGE blow to same-sex couples" if same-sex couples and their liberal friends had not thrown me, as a gun owner, under the bus so many times. Where the headline that "New York [or Connecticut] deals a HUGE blow to gun owners"?  So far my state has avoided such resttriction - no thanks to the gay community.

Said it before - rights are rights - and the right for law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms is enshrined clearly in the Second Amendment of the Constitution.  All those other rights - well they make sense - but they are not enshrined there.  Still, rights are rights and if you wnat yours and want me to help you defend them - then I suggest you not tread on mine. I don't want to marry another man - but do not wish to restrict you from doing so.  You don't want to own a gun - fine, but don't tell me I can't.

Until then - not a tear shed, my gay friends, not a tear shed.