Writing Friday at the Dallas Morning News, a former federal prosecutor reached what may have been an unpleasant realization by acknowledging, “More gun control laws would not have prevented what happened in Dallas, Atlanta or Boulder.”
Erin Nealy Cox, former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, also stated a fact routinely lost or at least misunderstood by the press and public: “There’s no question that we need to limit access to weapons for these extremists, but contrary to the popular view that such limitations don’t exist, those of us in law enforcement know that they do.”
Translation, though Cox may not realize it, is that criminals—including people intent on doing great harm though they have no prior criminal record—do not obey gun laws.
The country does have background checks, even at gun shows. Unlike voting, gun buyers must show photo ID to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
Simultaneous to Cox’s Op-Ed in the Dallas Morning News, Rutgers political science Professor Ross K. Baker laments at USA Today that “gun control is a lost cause.”
“What kills (gun control) efforts in Congress,” Baker complains, “is the recognition in the minds of politicians that there are voters in their states and districts who are Second Amendment absolutists, whether they be the kind of people who shoot at targets for practice or those who might shoot at people because of malice or derangement.”
I write in response to the April 18 letter from Max Schreiber of Cedar Falls. He laments the recent gun laws in Iowa. He said the Founding Fathers wrote the Second Amendment when firearms were single shot muzzle loaders. So, you are saying the only weapons that fall under the Second Amendment are ones in use in the 18th century? I guess that would also apply the First Amendment. This is the one that protects (not gives) your right to express your opinion. I would imagine you expressed it on a computer. Sorry, those weren’t around in the 18th century, so you had no right to express that opinion.
I have had a carry permit for over 36 years. I have never broken a law with my guns. I once had my life saved because I was carrying a revolver when I caught a guy trying to break into my house. I never even pointed it at him. My training kicked in and the sight of it made him want to leave.
I will continue to carry weapons to protect me and my family. If that scares you I suggest you go to a safe room.
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) – Deputies with the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office say a fatal shooting near Siegen Lane Saturday night was an act of self-defense.
According to EBRSO, Aaron Hudson, was shot and killed by Kenneth Jobbers April 24.
The shooting happened at Motel 6 on Rieger Road around 7:45 p.m.
Allegedly, Hudson began questioning Jobbers about dealing drugs in his area.
Deputies say Hudson then entered Jobbers’ motel room and pulled out a gun.
Jobbers allegedly retrieved his own gun and shot Hudson.
At this time, the alleged shooter is not being charged for the homicide.
He was arrested on other charges including possession of marijuana and possession of schedule I drugs.
Rutgers University political science professor Ross Baker thinks we have too many guns in this country and not enough gun control laws. He also thinks the gun control movement that he’s a part of is a lost cause, declaring in a new column at USA Today that it stands alongside “legitimating polygamy and scrapping the national anthem for something more singable” in the pantheon of failed movements.
Obviously Baker isn’t happy about this, but he does seem to be seriously giving up on the idea that Americans are ever going to wholeheartedly embrace a gun ban agenda.
The brief flicker of hope that somehow the financial problems of the National Rifle Association, and the profligate spending of members’ dues by one its top executives, might stifle the effectiveness of the opposition to even the most modest efforts to control firearms or reduce their lethality became an iridescent dream — and seemed to prove that the organization itself was never much of a factor in blocking gun-control legislation.
As my colleague Tom Knighton pointed out recently, despite its legal challenges, the NRA hasn’t disappeared. In fact, it’s launching a $2-million campaign to defeat Joe Biden’s ATF nominee. Still Baker is on to something; the power of the NRA comes from its members, not its executives. And who are those members? Millions of American gun owners, and even if the Second Amendment organization were to be dissolved by the New York Attorney General, those gun owners aren’t suddenly going to decide that their right to keep and bear arms is unimportant to them. In fact, I’d imagine that an assault like that would end up energizing millions more gun owners to become politically active.
The gun grabbing circus lead by Nanny Bloomberg’s Moms Demand Action, Everytown, Giffords, Brady United (Handgun Control Inc.), etc. would just love to see every protection for responsible gun owners abolished. Coming from none other than Senator Bob Menendez, from the freedom crushing land of New Jersey, is S. 974: Gun Records Restoration and Preservation Act. The bill’s description is a little misleading, “To repeal certain impediments to the administration of the firearms laws.” If you start to dig through what on earth this is or might be all about, you’ll be greeted by a nice pile of legalese gobbledygook, but the intent is clear; to destroy the privacy protections for gun owners built into current law and to lay the groundwork for a national gun registry.
People who write for a living aren’t required to be knowledgeable on the subjects they write about. That doesn’t stop most of them from writing about stuff like gun control, though. They do it all the time.
In fairness, there are plenty who don’t think I know what I’m talking about most of the time either, so what can you do?
Regardless, though, sometimes someone gets so far out of their lane that it’s almost comedic. Other times, not so much.
He raised even further concerns though when, in announcing these orders, he claimed that “no amendment — no amendment to the Constitution is absolute… the idea is just bizarre to suggest that some of the things we’re recommending are contrary to the Constitution.” Americans are understandably concerned then that their Second Amendment rights are at risk.
Fortunately, Gov. Greg Gianforte (R-MT) on Friday signed into law H.B. 258, which will protect gun owners in Montana from federal gun control laws.
Today, I proudly signed Rep. Hinkle’s law prohibiting federal overreach into our Second Amendment-protected rights, including any federal ban on firearms.
— Governor Greg Gianforte (@GovGianforte) April 23, 2021
According to Iris Samuels with AP, the legislation “prohibits state and local law enforcement in Montana from enforcing federal bans on firearms, ammunition and magazines.”
As proof that a change in administrations really can make a difference, the former Gov. Steve Bullock had vetoed such legislation multiple times before, Samuels reported, in 2013, 2015, and 2017.
Bullock ran a failed presidential campaign in the Democratic primary and was also defeated by the Republican incumbent, Sen. Steve Daines during his senatorial campaign. As governor, Bullock vetoed a host of Republican measures, another one being born-alive legislation, which would require that babies born alive from abortions be provided medical care.
Kill the plants! That’s what John Kerry advocated for during today’s global climate summit lecture fest.
Joe Biden declared this morning that SCIENCE IS BACK!
Uh huh. Let’s have the U.S. cut MORE emissions while China laughs in the background. Let’s have the U.S. host a global climate summit that end up resembling a gong show due to all the technical difficulties.
But science baby! It’s back! Never mind that screeching harpy Greta Thunbergblames the U.S. for its role in emissions when India, China, and Russia are the world’s leading culprits, the SCIENCE is clear!!
If we don’t achieve 50% emissions decrease within the next few years, we are all doomed. So, how do we get there?
“By 2030, half the country’s electricity would come from renewable sources such as wind, solar or hydropower, up from one-fifth today.
New natural gas plants would largely be built with technology that can capture carbon dioxide, instead of releasing it into the atmosphere — technology that is still in its infancy.
Virtually all of the 200 remaining coal plants would shut down unless they, too, can capture their emissions and bury them underground.
By 2030, two-thirds of new cars and S.U.V.s sold would be battery-powered, up from roughly 2 percent today.
All new buildings would be heated by electricity rather than natural gas.
The nation’s cement, steel and chemical industries would adopt stringent new energy-efficiency targets.
Oil and gas producers would slash emissions of methane, a potent heat-trapping gas, by 60 percent.
The nation’s forests would expand, and farming practices would be reworked, so that they pull 20 percent more carbon dioxide out of the air than they do today.”
Oh. Is that all? Read item two again. Then read the last item. Now let’s listen to John Kerry. Don’t whine, it’ll be over quick.
I’ll admit it, I laughed so hard at this. First of all, what Kerry said is the very epitome of junk science. Secondly, he did so with all the lemmings nodding their head while he sits in front of a …PLANT display!
Refer again to the “ideas” list above, then listen to John Kerry again. Add more forests, but get rid of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere! The dude needs a refresher in biology!
“Carbon dioxide is a gas consisting of one part carbon and two parts oxygen. It is one of the most important gases on the earth because plants use it to produce carbohydrates in a process called photosynthesis. Since humans and animals depend on plants for food, photosynthesis is necessary for the survival of life on earth. [Emphasis Added]”
Fresh air, air that helps plants GROW so that we can use them for food, warmth, and shelter is necessary to the Earth’s survival. It’s hugely necessary for OUR survival. To be sure, as the push grows for more air tight energy efficient buildings (which take fresh air away from us), carbon dioxide INSIDE our homes, hospitals, and businesses is and should be a real concern.
Yet Kerry is advocating for killing all the plants by taking CO2 out of our atmosphere.
Does he want this plant to freeze? Evidently so. But hey! Once all the plant, animal, and human life is gone, we won’t have to deal with climate activists wheeling cute pink wheelbarrows loaded with cow manure around will we?
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) – No charges will be filed following the shooting death of a man in New Albany last weekend.
Police and prosecutors said they believe the person that killed 42-year-old John Anthony Robertson was acting in self-defense.
Floyd County Prosecutor Chris Lane said Friday the victim in the case is actually the woman who pulled the trigger, saying she acted in defense of herself and her family.
“This is the worst outcome possible, and now this family is torn asunder,” Lane said.
Police said Robertson was shot and killed Sunday.
On Friday, the Floyd County Prosecutor’s office laid out the facts of the case, saying there would be no charges filed.
Chief Deputy Prosecutor Evan Bardach said Robertson was the instigator in a fight that took place in the home of a former partner of his. Robertson got physical with his juvenile son, punching him and his ex-partner’s daughter in the face. Bardach added that Robertson also was biting the face of the woman who lived there.
When the fight moved outside, the woman grabbed a gun that was in Robertson’s waistband and shot it four times, hitting Robertson three times.
The risk of being exposed to Covid-19 indoors is as great at 60 feet as it is at 6 feet — even when wearing a mask, according to a new study by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers who challenge social distancing guidelines adopted across the world.
MIT professors Martin Z. Bazant, who teaches chemical engineering and applied mathematics, and John W.M. Bush, who teaches applied mathematics, developed a method of calculating exposure risk to Covid-19 in an indoor setting that factors in a variety of issues that could affect transmission, including the amount of time spent inside, air filtration and circulation, immunization, variant strains, mask use, and even respiratory activity such as breathing, eating, speaking or singing.
Bazant and Bush question long-held Covid-19 guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization in a peer-reviewed study published earlier this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America.
“We argue there really isn’t much of a benefit to the 6-foot rule, especially when people are wearing masks,” Bazant said in an interview. “It really has no physical basis because the air a person is breathing while wearing a mask tends to rise and comes down elsewhere in the room so you’re more exposed to the average background than you are to a person at a distance.”
The important variable the CDC and the WHO have overlooked is the amount of time spent indoors, Bazant said. The longer someone is inside with an infected person, the greater the chance of transmission, he said.
Opening windows or installing new fans to keep the air moving could also be just as effective or more effective than spending large amounts of money on a new filtration system, he said.
Gov. Greg Gianforte on Friday signed a bill that prohibits state and local law enforcement in Montana from enforcing federal bans on firearms, ammunition and magazines.
Supporters of the law have said it would protect the Second Amendment from stiffer gun control laws that could come from federal legislation or executive orders by President Joe Biden in the wake of several mass shootings that took place this year, including a shooting last week that killed eight people in Indianapolis.
Biden warns if Americans don’t get COVID jabs they might have to cancel July 4
President Biden on Wednesday warned Americans they may have to cancel “small” outdoor gatherings on the Fourth of July if there’s a slowdown of COVID-19 vaccinations.
Jeff Bezos on Thursday restated his ambition to build floating space colonies where people could stay in orbit in excellent climates, with weather like “Maui on its best day, all year long.”
The Amazon founder made the comments at a press conference in Washington, DC, where he unveiled the Blue Moon lander, a giant vehicle designed to deliver payloads — and perhaps astronauts one day — to the surface of the moon.
Bezos also branched out into his far-flung ambitions to put up to 1 trillion people in space with O’Neill cylinders, a hypothetical technology meant to sustain human life.
BLUF: The Sinai has been a hotbed of jihadi activity and terrorism, particularly after the Egyptian army, in response to popular uprisings, ousted President Muhammad Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood in 2013. Christians have especially been targeted for abduction, slaughter, immolation, and mass displacement.
In a video released last Saturday, April 17, Muslims connected to the Islamic State executed a Coptic Christian man in Sinai, Egypt.
The slain was identified as 62-year-old Nabil Habashi Salama. In the video, Salama appears on his knees, with three masked men holding rifles stand behind him. The one in the middle launches into a typical jihadi diatribe:
Okay.
I couldn’t help myself (and if you believe that one, I’ll tell you another) and picked up one of the Turk TİSAŞ 1911 ‘Tanker’ models, which is their version of a commander sized .45.
Nothing special here. The trigger pulls very clean around 4 libra pondos. It has a flat parkerized finish. Brown plastic checkered grips. Plain military style, and sized, fixed sights and one (1) 8 round magazine for just under 5 Benjamins, out the door, tax included.
As soon as I’m confident in its performance and reliability, it’s going to be added to my group of guns I carry. There is only one thing I’m going to do to it, and that is to install an ambidextrous safety since I’m predominately a left hander.
I’ll work up a post like AK and I used to do ‘way back’ and report my shooting results etc.
We now return you to our regular programming. Miles Out.
On Wednesday, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed a bill into law that will provide more protection for drivers who unintentionally injure or kill protesters while fleeing from a riot.
On April 21, Stitt signed House Bill 1674 into law, effective November 1, 2021.
The new law states that:
A motor vehicle operator who unintentionally causes injury or death to an individual shall not be criminally or civilly liable for the injury or death, if:
1. The injury or death of the individual occurred while the motor vehicle operator was fleeing from a riot, as defined in Section 1311 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes, under a reasonable belief that fleeing was necessary to protect the motor vehicle operator from serious injury or death; and 2. The motor vehicle operator exercised due care at the time of the death or injury.
House Bill 1674 also makes unlawfully obstructing a roadway a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail and a fine of up to $5000.
Rep. Kevin West, who authored House Bill 1674, explained why he created the legislation.
“Last summer, during the height of violent riots that were sweeping the nation, resulting in loss of life and millions of dollars in property damage, a motorist in Oklahoma traveling with his wife and two school-aged children was surrounded by aggressive protestors in the roadway,” West said. “The protestors beat at his truck and threw things at it, scaring both him and his family. The driver was severely chastised for trying to hurt the protesters and he even faced the possibility of criminal charges for his actions in attempting to evade the protestors. This measure would clarify a motorist’s rights in a similar situation going forward. It also would clarify punishments for rioters acting illegally to impede traffic or seeking harm of other individuals during the course of a riot.”………..
