Too Many Guns? It's Obama's Fault

Gun Salesman of the Decade: Barack Hussein Obama:

The voice of the American people is heard loud and clear through gun sales.

Secondly, on December 02, 2015, it was reported that Black Friday gun sales broke all previous records, this information coming directly from the FBI.

Fortune magazine reminds us, that on December 21, 2012, shortly after the alleged Sandy Hook incident, when the government started upping its rhetoric on restricting gun rights, that Americans headed out to the stores and armed up in droves.

In other words, Barack Hussein Obama is the gun salesman of the last decade.

The alleged Sandy Hook incident?

Because the author of "Gun Salesman of the Decade: Barack Hussein Obama" did not correctly link to "the alleged Sandy Hook incident" I'll assume that it is an alleged link. Just joking. Unfortunately it is real. Here is the link. Do people actually believe this? That no children died? I mean, come on, even Victoria Jackson believes that children died.

The author of "Gun Salesman of the Decade: Barack Hussein Obama" is Bradlee Dean. He is a Son Of Liberty. He also does a show on the Genesis Communications Network.

Bradlee Dean may have been on LSD when he wrote "Gun Salesman of the Decade: Barack Hussein Obama" because he quotes some mighty strange Bible verses.

Here are some examples:

Disarming Americans in the face of domestic terrorism, and telling Americans that this will help combat ISIS? Really? (Psalm 94:20)

Remember America, Barry cannot go a day without thinking about the first graders that were allegedly shot and killed at Sandy Hook Elementary. Yet, no administration to date has advocated the murder of innocent children in the womb more than this criminal (Proverbs 6:17).

So, what Americans are being told by this lying administration fails the test of truth. In fact, the opposite is true (Isaiah 5:20).

Over the last 7 years of this, as well as the preceding administration, Americans have been under attack because of the crimes of the administrations. To parallel these crimes against the people, consider that our forefathers threw off the tyranny of King George for such activity with the cry of Thomas Jefferson, “Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God” (Romans 12:21).

I didn't know that the Bible has hyperlinks.

I assume that Bradlee Dean owns a few guns. If he is an example of a responsible gun owner, then we are all doomed. No wonder these guys are against background checks.

This can't be real, can it? Maybe I've been punked. I sure hope so.

Why does God want us to have guns?

And if God really does want us to have guns, why can't people like Bradlee Dean see that Obama is doing HIS work?

Because The World Needs More Guns

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For some reason, Ted Nugent thinks that guns are like millions of American families.

What Would Jesus Carry?

What the hell is wrong with these people?

Tis the season to be packing heat. Nevada Assemblywoman posts Christmas card online festooned with firepower:

Courtesy of TPM: 

For Nevada Assemblywoman Michele Fiore's (R) 2015 family Christmas card, which she posted on Facebook on Monday, her family was each outfitted with a gun. If it wasn't immediately obvious, Fiore is a staunch defender of Second Amendment rights. 

"It's up to Americans to protect America. We're just your ordinary American family. -With love & liberty, Michele," her message read. 

In the top left corner the card lists the guns photographed: a Beretta 92FS, Glock 30 .45ACP, Serbu Super-Shorty 12-gauge shotgun, Extar EXP-556, Walther P22 (LR), Glock 19 9mm and Glock 30 .45ACP. 

Fiore's daughters, Sheena and Savanah as well as her grandchildren Jake, Jayden, Mara and Morrigan, and her mother Lill are pictured. Jake, who a bio on Fiore's website says is at least 5 years old, is pictured holding the Walther P22.

But wait, there's more.

Arm yourselves against ‘Islamic terrorists’, Liberty U. president tells students:

(Reuters) Jerry Falwell Jr., president of Christian-based Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, is encouraging students to carry concealed weapons on campus for protection, a local newspaper reported.

Falwell made his remarks at the school’s weekly convocation on Friday night, according to The News & Advance in Lynchburg. The comments came two days after a shooting in San Bernardino, California left 14 people dead and in the wake of other shooting sprees in the United States, including some on college campuses.

“It just blows my mind when I see that the president of the United States that the answer to circumstances like that is more gun control,” Falwell said, according to the newspaper. “ I’ve always thought if more good people had concealed carry permits, then we could end those Muslims before they walked in.”

Fake Quote Of Note - God

"Look, I’m too busy to stop all the gun violence in America, try some new laws." - God

Guns Don't Kill People, Anti-Christian Opinions Do

Hey progressives, why aren't you demanding a 'national discussion' on anti-Christian bigotry?:

In the specific case of the Oregon shootings, the far left wants to exploit the crime in an effort to push an anti-gun agenda, but they won't want to talk about the shooter's beliefs and motives. Mostly, that's because they agree with his anti-Christian attitude.

No, I'm not saying they want to kill Christians.  I am, however, suggesting that the same kind of anti-Christian bigotry the killer allegedly espoused has become a rallying cry for the disaffected, anti-establishment, radical left. In short, the base of the Democrat party despises Christianity, its values, and its practice.

So they'll downplay this killer's agenda, and they'll blame the weapon to advance their own.

They have no interest in a "national discussion" about this monster's anti-Christian opinions because, by and large, they share them.

Yes, let's get right on this. We all know that guns were only used once in all of the mass-shootings that have ever occurred in the United States. We all know that anti-Christian opinions are the mass murderer's weapon of choice. We definitely need an anti-Christian opinion ban.

Mass Shootings

The gun debate isn’t about mental health, religion or race – it’s about too damn many guns:

As a people we are bound and determined to talk about these shootings as long as we agree that the problem of easy access to guns won’t be part of the conversation. And there is a contingent of folks ready to extinguish the last spark of humanity left in their souls in order to run interference for the NRA — who, it just so happens, officially run interference for the gun makers who think Americans need more powerful weapons of war in their households.

Stop giving the NRA money!

Scary Stuff

4 things you didn’t know could be hacked:

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The Austin, Texas-based company TrackingPoint makes auto-aiming rifles that increase a shooter’s accuracy and have Wi-Fi connectivity. Within the 100- to 150-feet range of the Wi-Fi and using a mobile phone, a hacker can compromise the weapon and change the target of the shooter, says Runa Sandvik, one of the researchers who presented at the annual hacker gathering Def Con last week.

In a demonstration for Wired, Sandvik and a research partner finagled with a rifle’s software to shift aim 2.5 feet to the left, hitting a different target.

The company posted a notice on its website in response to the Wired article, saying that it is working with the researchers and will offer a software update if one is warranted. Until then, the note says, you can continue using the Wi-Fi intended for downloading photos, among other functionality, “if you are confident no hackers are within 100 feet.”

Sandvik says the Wi-Fi must be turned on to hack into the rifle and manipulate the target, and attackers cannot force the rifle to fire remotely, though they could unlock the trigger. Plus, she added, researchers have in the past found ways to boost Wi-Fi signals from other devices and stretch connectivity to longer distances.

“A successful attacker could cause the rifle to misbehave on every single shot without the shooter knowing how or why,” Sandvik told MarketWatch. “The short version here is that you cannot underestimate a motivated attacker.”

Is there such a thing as a responsible hacker? I'm sure that when the Second Amendment was written that all of this was taken into account.

Guns don't kill people, software does.

Absolutely Insane

It’s ‘awful late’ to get prepared, warns Jim Bakker:

Trouble looms on many fronts, but if you are just starting to prepare, says evangelist Jim Bakker, “You are awful late.”

Bakker made the comment in a discussion with pastor, talk-show host and author Carl Gallups on “The Jim Bakker Show.”

Gallups was discussing his new book, “Be Thou Prepared,” which shows Christians how to survive persecution and disaster.

But as Gallups noted, preparedness isn’t just about natural disasters. It’s about responding to man-made tragedies, too.

Bakker said the recent shooting at an African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina, was part of a trend of churches under attack. Bakker also spoke of reports alleging terrorist infiltration of churches.

Gallups urged people to reject paranoia but embrace preparedness, because the possibility of danger is always there. Gallups observed that the murderer in South Carolina was able to reload five times.

Because the church was a “gun-free zone,” all victims could do was sit, huddled in fear.

“That ain’t gonna happen at my church,” said Gallups.

Let's Arm Those Parishioners!!!

I guess they don't believe that God will watch over them.

I'm glad that I don't go to Gallups's church. I'm glad that I don't go to any church, especially ones with a pistol-packin' pastor and pistol-packin' parishioners who aren't paranoid, they're just prepared.

Yet Another Case Of Responsible Gun Ownership

Officer shot his own patrol car, Massachusetts police say

This senseless violence would not have happened if the patrol car had been armed.

Another Day, Another Shooting

The Gun Policy Debate in Four Sentences

What About The Guns?

The conservative case for reforming America's sick gun culture:

But my conscience has been talking at me ever since. And on days like yesterday, it is screaming: What about the guns? I have no answers, but I have some doubts about our gun culture that American conservatives should consider:

An armed citizenry is not the same thing as an armed consumer public

Increased firepower among citizens is leading to an arms race with the state

Americans may be more violent precisely because we have guns

Firearm-related deaths are one of the only truly "exceptional" things about America, and that's embarrassing

If the Virginia killer did not have easy access to guns, if his scheme for murdering his former colleagues had to be accomplished with knives, hammers, or a home-made explosive device, the truth is that those murders would have been much less likely to occur. Conservatives who generally support the idea of an armed citizenry should let that thought sink in.

We must cut down on firearm-related deaths because they are so embarrassing.

The Donald Acts Out

Do actions speak louder than words?

The words:

On Immigration:

You got to build a wall. It’s not an easy thing to do. And I’ll get it done. And believe me, I’ll do it for the right but I’m also going to have Mexico pay for it. Mexico is making a fortune off of us. They will pay for it. So, just mark my word. That’s called “negotiation.” …Before I even start a wall we’d get rid of the bad ones. We have a lot of really bad apples. We have a lot of bad dudes that are causing tremendous problems… I was very proud of bringing up illegal immigration. It was not easy to do. I would get rid of the bad ones, the criminals, we have a lot of people who are here who shouldn’t be here. And, I don’t want to house them in our jails because it’s costing a fortune. I want them to go back to the country where they came from. Not only Mexico, plenty of other countries. They are pouring across the border. So that’s number one. Then there’s number two. There’s some great people. But, you either have laws or you don’t have laws. I would get them back to where they are and I would try to work out a process to where they could come in legally. But, they have to come in legally, Sean. It’s about laws.

On Gun Control:

I am against gun control.

The actions:

On Immigration:

Jorge Ramos, the Univision anchor and journalist, extensively squabbled with Donald Trump twice in testy exchanges at a news conference before his rally here Tuesday, with a security officer at one point ejecting Ramos from the event.

"Go back to Univision," Trump told Ramos early in their first back-and-forth. Ramos had attempted to engage with Trump on his positions, though he had not been called upon, standing and lobbing concerns about Trump's plan at the candidate.

Ramos did return, but the ensuing exchange was far from polite.

"Here's the problem with your immigration plan. It's full of empty promises," Ramos said, when allowed back into the press room.

He charged that Trump's agenda to deport 11 million undocumented immigrants and to stop giving automatic citizenship to their children born on U.S. soil was unrealistic, but Trump defended his plan as simple and possible.

On Gun Control: (My imagined scenario)

A reporter asks Donald Trump a question about gun control. The reporter says: "Every day the news is filled with another shooting tragedy. With so many losing their lives to senseless gun violence, why are you against gun control legislation?" Trump pulls out his handgun and shoots the reporter, and says "That's called negotiation."

My imagined scenario will not happen, even though Trump probably thinks he could get away with murder. I'm not saying he would murder someone, just that his ego thinks that he could. Actually, Trump would have the guy executed, and them claim that he did it himself.

If the response by Trump to a question about immigration from a Hispanic-American reporter is to expel him ("We’d get rid of the bad ones.")("I want them to go back to the country where they came from."), then what would be the response to a reporter asking a question about gun control?

I know that my imagined then scenario sounds crazy, but is it? What Trump says certainly sounds crazy. Thinking that rational gun control legislation will not curb the epidemic of gun violence in the United States certainly is crazy.

My imagined then scenario does not seem crazy or extreme to me if I think about the people who support right-wing GOP candidates. After all they favor crazy and extreme solutions to problems. Problem: Black people. Solution: Send them back where they came from. Problem: Mexicans. Solution: Send them back where they came from. Problem: Black president. Solution: Make it impossible for him to accomplish anything, then point out how ineffective he is. Problem: The middle east, ISIS, Muslims, Terrorists. Solution: Bomb the shit out of the middle east and take "our oil". Problem: Gun violence. Solution: If blacks are killing other blacks, there is no problem. Problem: Gun violence. Solution: More guns, no legislation, guns at churches, guns at school, guns at stores, letting people with huge motherfucker guns parade around ANYWHERE AND EVERYWHERE.

"I am against gun control" says The Donald. If a reporter asking a question can get tossed out of a Trump news conference, I wonder what would happen to me if I tried to walk up to Trump with an assault rifle strapped to my back? I suspect that some form of "gun control" was in place at this news conference, and that Donald Trump was not against it.

Dumbass Quote Of Note - Glenn Beck

"Do you have food, cash on hand, guns and GOD?" - Glenn Beck

Shooters Comitee On Political Education

Take a look at this.

SCOPE is a pretty weird acronym if you ask me. Their emblem has crosshairs in the O, and what looks like an eagle below the word SCOPE. What they probably think this says is FREEDOM. What I think it says is that they want to shoot the real version of our national bird. I also find it weird that they describe themselves as a "civil rights organization". Because, somehow guns don't, in my feeble brain, equate to "rights deserved by all people under all circumstances, especially without regard to race, creed, religion, sexual orientation, gender and disabilities".

Plenty of New York state conservatives are up in arms over the SAFE act. (SAFE is certainly a much nicer sounding acronym, don't you think?)

Governor Cuomo seems to think that people have a right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness". These things are impossible to achieve if, you know, you've been shot to death. Plenty of New York state conservatives seem to think that the rights of gun victims should not exist. In their minds the second amendment takes precedence over EVERYTHING, including inalienable rights. Therefore, Cuomo should be impeached.

A couple more things. I know we all make proofreading mistakes, but what is a peptition? And why should several peptitions be repealed? Also, what the hell is a Ladies Shoot n Hoot?

Left And Right

Victims of words and victims of violence.

Contrast fantasy (the world of Sarah Palin, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck):

From The Right Word: Fox News under fire by Sadbh Walshe:

In the wake of Tucson, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck unite in their sense of victimhood from leftwing hate speech.

With reality (the world the rest of us actually live in):

From Another Isolated Incident by digby:

-- July 2008: A gunman named Jim David Adkisson, agitated at how "liberals" are "destroying America," walks into a Unitarian Church and opens fire, killing two churchgoers and wounding four others.

-- October 2008: Two neo-Nazis are arrested in Tennessee in a plot to murder dozens of African-Americans, culminating in the assassination of President Obama.

-- December 2008: A pair of "Patriot" movement radicals -- the father-son team of Bruce and Joshua Turnidge, who wanted "to attack the political infrastructure" -- threaten a bank in Woodburn, Oregon, with a bomb in the hopes of extorting money that would end their financial difficulties, for which they blamed the government. Instead, the bomb goes off and kills two police officers. The men eventually are convicted and sentenced to death for the crime.

-- December 2008: In Belfast, Maine, police discover the makings of a nuclear "dirty bomb" in the basement of a white supremacist shot dead by his wife. The man, who was independently wealthy, reportedly was agitated about the election of President Obama and was crafting a plan to set off the bomb.

-- January 2009: A white supremacist named Keith Luke embarks on a killing rampage in Brockton, Mass., raping and wounding a black woman and killing her sister, then killing a homeless man before being captured by police as he is en route to a Jewish community center.

-- February 2009: A Marine named Kody Brittingham is arrested and charged with plotting to assassinate President Obama. Brittingham also collected white-supremacist material.

-- April 2009: A white supremacist named Richard Poplawski opens fire on three Pittsburgh police officers who come to his house on a domestic-violence call and kills all three, because he believed President Obama intended to take away the guns of white citizens like himself. Poplawski is currently awaiting trial.

-- April 2009: Another gunman in Okaloosa County, Florida, similarly fearful of Obama's purported gun-grabbing plans, kills two deputies when they come to arrest him in a domestic-violence matter, then is killed himself in a shootout with police.

-- May 2009: A "sovereign citizen" named Scott Roeder walks into a church in Wichita, Kansas, and assassinates abortion provider Dr. George Tiller.

-- June 2009: A Holocaust denier and right-wing tax protester named James Von Brunn opens fire at the Holocaust Museum, killing a security guard.

-- February 2010: An angry tax protester named Joseph Ray Stack flies an airplane into the building housing IRS offices in Austin, Texas. (Media are reluctant to label this one "domestic terrorism" too.)

-- March 2010: Seven militiamen from the Hutaree Militia in Michigan and Ohio are arrested and charged with plotting to assassinate local police officers with the intent of sparking a new civil war.

-- March 2010: An anti-government extremist named John Patrick Bedell walks into the Pentagon and opens fire, wounding two officers before he is himself shot dead.

-- May 2010: A "sovereign citizen" from Georgia is arrested in Tennessee and charged with plotting the violent takeover of a local county courthouse.

-- May 2010: A still-unidentified white man walks into a Jacksonville, Fla., mosque and sets it afire, simultaneously setting off a pipe bomb.

-- May 2010: Two "sovereign citizens" named Jerry and Joe Kane gun down two police officers who pull them over for a traffic violation, and then wound two more officers in a shootout in which both of them are eventually killed.

-- July 2010: An agitated right-winger and convict named Byron Williams loads up on weapons and drives to the Bay Area intent on attacking the offices of the Tides Foundation and the ACLU, but is intercepted by state patrolmen and engages them in a shootout and armed standoff in which two officers and Williams are wounded.

-- September 2010: A Concord, N.C., man is arrested and charged with plotting to blow up a North Carolina abortion clinic. The man, 26-year--old Justin Carl Moose, referred to himself as the "Christian counterpart to (Osama) bin Laden” in a taped undercover meeting with a federal informant.

Guns Don't Kill People…

2 wounded at LA school when gun in backpack fires

What Is The Matter With Us?

From Helpless in the Face of Madness by Bob Herbert:

What is the matter with us? Are we really helpless in the face of the astounding toll that guns take on this society?

More than 30,000 people die from gunfire every year. Another 66,000 or so are wounded, which means that nearly 100,000 men, women and children are shot in the United States annually. Have we really become so impotent as a society, so pathetically fearful in the face of the extremists, that we can’t even take the most modest of steps to begin curbing this horror?

Where is the leadership? We know who’s on the side of the gun crazies. Where is the leadership on the side of sanity?

Mr. Herbert, I agree with you and ask the same questions. Many Americans, however, see this issue in a way that is completely reversed from how you present it. To them gun control is crazy, and the sane solution is more guns, not less. This is a big part of what is the matter with us.

Where is the leadership on the side of sanity? Well, The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence is one starting point. The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence is another. Send them some money if you want to support them. I agree that we are facing madness, however, I like to think that we are not helpless.

Gun Worship

The Supreme Court says we get to have guns.

This makes President Bush happy.

From High court strikes down gun ban by Bill Mears:

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a sweeping ban on handguns in the nation's capital violated the Second Amendment right to bear arms.

In a statement, President Bush also praised the decision, saying he agreed with the court's interpretation of the Constitution.

On a local television news broadcast last night a person being interviewed at a gun shop said that gun ownership was a right granted to us by God. I have never heard that one before, and do not know how one goes about proving it.

My neighbors and fellow citizens of the United States have a hard time keeping themselves safe when using automobiles and fireworks. The intended functions of both are not meant to cause any bodily harm or death, yet they do.

“In 2006, eleven people died and an estimated 9,200 were treated in emergency departments for fireworks-related injuries in the United States.” Fireworks are illegal where I live, yet every Fourth of July brings me the fear of my property being set on fire by one of my neighbors. They have managed to do this in the past, so it seems likely that they may do it again.

“In 2006, 42,642 people were killed in traffic accidents.” All these deaths from a machine whose function is transportation. A machine that requires a license, registration, insurance, an age requirement, and the passing of a test before it can be operated anywhere in the United States.

So when the Supreme Court says that my fellow Americans and my neighbors have the right to have a device in their homes whose main function is to kill, I get a little nervous.

My neighbors are irresponsible in their use of automobiles and fireworks. I don’t have much faith that they will use firearms responsibly either. And of course, they already don't.

Since the Constitution supposedly (and apparently even the Almighty) says that my neighbors can have guns in their homes, could we at least take some steps to ensure that they use them as safely as possible? Things like a license, registration, insurance, an age requirement, and the passing of a test before they can be operated anywhere in the United States might be a good start.

After all, I can't pursue my Constitutionally (actually the Declaration of Independence, but close enough) protected right to the pursuit of happiness if I'm dead.

Only In America?

From US car dealer in free gun offer:

A car dealership in the United States is offering a free handgun with every vehicle sold.

Max Motors in Butler, Missouri, says sales have quadrupled since the start of the offer.

Customers can choose between a gun or a $250 (£125) gas card, but most so far have chosen the gun.

Owner Mark Muller said: "We're just damn glad to live in a free country where you can have a gun if you want to."

Where in the Constitution does it grant us the freedom to murder one another?

If Guns Are The Problem, Is The Solution More Guns?

From I don't know where to begin:

America...seriously? Guns in England aren't legal. While we still get gun crime, we don't get as much of it as you do in America, and I honestly can't remember the last time we had some kid go into school and blow his friends brains out...but regardless it was a long time ago.

Does this not make sense? You don't need a gun to defend yourself with if no-one else has a gun to attack you with!