Monday, November 19, 2007
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As tre as it has ever been...
"Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." - Mark Twain
Friday, November 9, 2007
Assult rifle ban...
Here we go again with this poorly written piece of legislation, HR 1022. The best place to get the text and information on a bill is from the Library of Congress. First of all an assault rifle is a Sturmgewehr 44. This is the gun that originated the term. The basic specs of such an arm are, as based upon the originator's design:
1) Fires and intermediate powered cartridge. Examples of these cartridges are 5.56x45/.223(M16/M4), 7.62.39 (AK47, 6.8 SPC (M16/M4), 7.92 Kurtz (Stg.44), etc. Full power rounds such as 7.62x51 (.308win) and pistol rounds such as .357 magnum are not in the same class. The .30 M1 Carbine is in a middle ground since it was developed for a long arm, but it has about the same energy as the above mentioned .357 Magnum.
2) Selective fire. This mean that the gun can be set for semi-automatic or full-automatic/burst.
3) Fires form a detachable box magazine
4) I'll give them full pistol grips. The wording in the bill ("(42) Pistol Grip- The term `pistol grip' means a grip, a thumbhole stock, or any other characteristic that can function as a grip." [sic]) is so ambiguous as to effectively ban all guns except for cannon, since they need to be held some how.
It is important to note that the Stg. 44 did not have provisions for a bayonet or a flash hider. The AK47, as to most military long arms, has a bayonet lug. This mostly due to every military's conservative nature and bayonets have been relegated to mostly ceremonial roles. Assault rifles do not make good pikes. Flash hiders are mostly for the benefit of the shooter since a bright ball of fire can really hamper your night vision. The possibility of limiting your visibly to your enemy is a bonus and not something engineered into all flash hiders. Muzzle brakes important on som guns and they are lumped in with flash hider since they do redirect the flash.
Select fire, and therefore fully automatic, arms are already covered under other extremely restrictive legislation. Try to go to your local gun shop and by a machine gun and tell me how that works out for you. It is damn near impossible, unless you have a lot of money and a perfect criminal record or an FFL. Id love to have an original Thompson, but I don't have $20,300 lying around.
This bill is silly for a couple of more practical reasons. One criminals very, very rarely use rifles, in any configuration, in the commission of a crime. They are to hard to conceal vs a handgun, to cumbersome in tight spaces, and ammo is more expensive. There was no decrease in crimes involving "assault weapons" due to the bill and no similar rise after its sunset. The number was so small as to be barely significant.
What is even funnier is the inclusion of the Ruger Mini-14 in this list. The late Bill Ruger pushed for a magazine limitation and other such restrictions so that his rifles wouldn't be included on such a list. It is funny that they include the Dragunov SVD/U, but not the M1 Garand, M1A, SVT 40, G41 which have nearly identical capabilties.
Section five could be easily interpreted to effectively ban 99% of all sporting long arms.
I fail to see how any of the listed features:
Make the the gun any more deadly. This a bill written by people who know nothing about guns, are scared of guns, and scared of gun owners. These people wouldn't trust them selves with guns and so how can they trust you.
I wonder how many people will loose their job if this passes? How much tax revenue will be lost?
This is a shameles attempt to get votes in an election year and I pray to God that this joke of a bill doesn't pass. Liberals seem to forget how well the passage of the '92 ban worked out for those who voted for it.
1) Fires and intermediate powered cartridge. Examples of these cartridges are 5.56x45/.223(M16/M4), 7.62.39 (AK47, 6.8 SPC (M16/M4), 7.92 Kurtz (Stg.44), etc. Full power rounds such as 7.62x51 (.308win) and pistol rounds such as .357 magnum are not in the same class. The .30 M1 Carbine is in a middle ground since it was developed for a long arm, but it has about the same energy as the above mentioned .357 Magnum.
2) Selective fire. This mean that the gun can be set for semi-automatic or full-automatic/burst.
3) Fires form a detachable box magazine
4) I'll give them full pistol grips. The wording in the bill ("(42) Pistol Grip- The term `pistol grip' means a grip, a thumbhole stock, or any other characteristic that can function as a grip." [sic]) is so ambiguous as to effectively ban all guns except for cannon, since they need to be held some how.
It is important to note that the Stg. 44 did not have provisions for a bayonet or a flash hider. The AK47, as to most military long arms, has a bayonet lug. This mostly due to every military's conservative nature and bayonets have been relegated to mostly ceremonial roles. Assault rifles do not make good pikes. Flash hiders are mostly for the benefit of the shooter since a bright ball of fire can really hamper your night vision. The possibility of limiting your visibly to your enemy is a bonus and not something engineered into all flash hiders. Muzzle brakes important on som guns and they are lumped in with flash hider since they do redirect the flash.
Select fire, and therefore fully automatic, arms are already covered under other extremely restrictive legislation. Try to go to your local gun shop and by a machine gun and tell me how that works out for you. It is damn near impossible, unless you have a lot of money and a perfect criminal record or an FFL. Id love to have an original Thompson, but I don't have $20,300 lying around.
This bill is silly for a couple of more practical reasons. One criminals very, very rarely use rifles, in any configuration, in the commission of a crime. They are to hard to conceal vs a handgun, to cumbersome in tight spaces, and ammo is more expensive. There was no decrease in crimes involving "assault weapons" due to the bill and no similar rise after its sunset. The number was so small as to be barely significant.
What is even funnier is the inclusion of the Ruger Mini-14 in this list. The late Bill Ruger pushed for a magazine limitation and other such restrictions so that his rifles wouldn't be included on such a list. It is funny that they include the Dragunov SVD/U, but not the M1 Garand, M1A, SVT 40, G41 which have nearly identical capabilties.
Section five could be easily interpreted to effectively ban 99% of all sporting long arms.
I fail to see how any of the listed features:
`"(i) a folding or telescoping stock;"
`(ii) a threaded barrel;
`(iii) a pistol grip;
`(iv) a forward grip; or
`(v) a barrel shroud.
Make the the gun any more deadly. This a bill written by people who know nothing about guns, are scared of guns, and scared of gun owners. These people wouldn't trust them selves with guns and so how can they trust you.
I wonder how many people will loose their job if this passes? How much tax revenue will be lost?
This is a shameles attempt to get votes in an election year and I pray to God that this joke of a bill doesn't pass. Liberals seem to forget how well the passage of the '92 ban worked out for those who voted for it.
Ouch!
I'm sure that, at the very least, one of Clinton's aids has read this.
It is a more scathing than the editorial I saw on the London Times website that wondered why we would consider somebody as under qualified has Hillery Clinton and why we seem to be electing dynasties (i.e. Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton?).
I have a friend who wants here to get elected. He expects here to screw things up so badly that a major political correction is all but guaranteed.
It is a more scathing than the editorial I saw on the London Times website that wondered why we would consider somebody as under qualified has Hillery Clinton and why we seem to be electing dynasties (i.e. Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton?).
I have a friend who wants here to get elected. He expects here to screw things up so badly that a major political correction is all but guaranteed.
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Elections
Nutter has won the election for the Mayor of Philadelphia's with over 80% of the vote. Today I saw the first indication that the Republican candidate had a name (let alone that there was a challenger). The press is unbiased and objective my ass. Well, after street the only place they can go is up.
Monday, November 5, 2007
Always remember the 5th of November...
Remember, remember the Fifth of November,
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,
I know of no reason why Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t'was his intent to blow up King and Parliament.
Three-score barrels of powder below to prove old England's overthrow;
By God's providence he was catch'd with a dark lantern and burning match.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, let the bells ring.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!
A penny loaf to feed the Pope
A farthing o' cheese to choke him.
A pint of beer to rinse it down.
A faggot of sticks to burn him.
Burn him in a tub of tar.
Burn him like a blazing star.
Burn his body from his head.
Then we'll say ol' Pope is dead.
Hip hip hoorah!
Hip hip hoorah hoorah!
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Now try and say this five times fast:
Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V. – V's introduction to Evey
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,
I know of no reason why Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t'was his intent to blow up King and Parliament.
Three-score barrels of powder below to prove old England's overthrow;
By God's providence he was catch'd with a dark lantern and burning match.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, let the bells ring.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!
A penny loaf to feed the Pope
A farthing o' cheese to choke him.
A pint of beer to rinse it down.
A faggot of sticks to burn him.
Burn him in a tub of tar.
Burn him like a blazing star.
Burn his body from his head.
Then we'll say ol' Pope is dead.
Hip hip hoorah!
Hip hip hoorah hoorah!
--
Now try and say this five times fast:
Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V. – V's introduction to Evey
Friday, November 2, 2007
ah... All The News that is 'Fit' to Print
I've seen Pravda listed as impartial news source on several occasions so none of this surprises me. Pravda is, by the way, the official paper of the Communist party and founded by Lenin; It rarely tries to hide its bias and past. The continual drop in circulation does not surprise me at all. Many media outlets seem to forget that (at least in PA) 50% of the population can't vote in the Democratic Primary, and therefore, don't care what Hillery or Obamba say at this point.
I will say that studies, including the Harvard one linked above, are very limited in scope. The talk radio references are an example. Rudi is the apparent front runner for the GOP nomination. He gets ripped all of the time on his social record as mayor of NYC - which is to be expected, considering talk radios conservative bias. I think that is important to point out that, in my opinion, talk radio is conservative because most of the media is so liberal. It is reasonable to assume that if the major news outlets were not so biased their would be the void that talk radio, and to a lesser extent Fox News, fill. Air America fail because it was redundant: People already had what they offered in damn near ever TV show, newspaper and NPR.
Bernstein has a point here too.
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Things like this make me fell less regretful about not going to college, though they have appeared to back tracked. This is pure Bolshevism if I have ever seen it. I though that institutions of higher learning were places of free thought and free speech; I guess I was wrong.
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I thought that we were doing this already, but then aren't we supposed to not do things unilaterally? I'm confused...
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An interesting list....
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Grr... Who supports this guy again?
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I haven't read it, but on the surface it looks Ok...
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Screw those who appose tightening the boarder..... Here's why.
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WHOIS?
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I will say that studies, including the Harvard one linked above, are very limited in scope. The talk radio references are an example. Rudi is the apparent front runner for the GOP nomination. He gets ripped all of the time on his social record as mayor of NYC - which is to be expected, considering talk radios conservative bias. I think that is important to point out that, in my opinion, talk radio is conservative because most of the media is so liberal. It is reasonable to assume that if the major news outlets were not so biased their would be the void that talk radio, and to a lesser extent Fox News, fill. Air America fail because it was redundant: People already had what they offered in damn near ever TV show, newspaper and NPR.
Bernstein has a point here too.
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Things like this make me fell less regretful about not going to college, though they have appeared to back tracked. This is pure Bolshevism if I have ever seen it. I though that institutions of higher learning were places of free thought and free speech; I guess I was wrong.
--
I thought that we were doing this already, but then aren't we supposed to not do things unilaterally? I'm confused...
--
An interesting list....
--
Grr... Who supports this guy again?
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I haven't read it, but on the surface it looks Ok...
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Screw those who appose tightening the boarder..... Here's why.
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WHOIS?
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