Jump to content

What is better, no guns, or more guns?


Recommended Posts

47 minutes ago, Tommy Callahan said:

So the cops were called by his family that stated he was trying to break in with a gun.  Then ***** at cops when they arrived.  And the media runs with no details and spins it..

 

 

Body cam footage will likely exonerate the POs.  But you probably won't hear a retraction from the media.

  • Like (+1) 3
Link to comment
Share on other sites

 

 

We CAN defend ourselves.

 

Imagine that.

 

 

 

Federal Judge Clobbers California's Silly Ban on Billy Clubs in Devastating Ruling

by Jeff Charles

 

A federal court has made a critical ruling related to the Second Amendment and the concept of self-defense. The decision strikes at the heart of California laws intended to limit one’s ability to protect themselves against violent criminals.

 

Judge Roger Benitez handed down a ruling in the case of Fouts v. Bonta on Friday, striking down a ban on citizens possessing or carrying billy clubs and other forms of less lethal weaponry. In his decision, Benitez questioned the legality of the statute, which criminalized Californians simply for owning a billy club, a tool that is commonly used by members of law enforcement, but is also used by civilians for personal defense.

 

"Americans have an individual right to keep and bear arms, whether firearms or less lethal arms,” the judge wrote, also arguing that “The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution ‘guarantee[s] the individual right to possess and carry weapons in case of confrontation.'”

 

The ruling underscores a fundamental tenet of American liberty: The right to keep and bear arms. It is commonly assumed that this only refers to carrying firearms, but the reality is that it protects one’s right to possess the means by which someone can protect life and property. In this case, it allows people to use alternatives to guns to safeguard themselves and others.

 

{snip}

 

The fact that this legislation ever existed in the first place further demonstrates California’s dedication to shielding criminal elements by making it harder for their victims to defend themselves. Let’s hope we see more rulings like this one.

 

 

 

https://redstate.com/jeffc/2024/02/25/federal-judge-clobbers-californias-silly-ban-on-billy-clubs-in-devastating-ruling-n2170556

 

 

.

  • Awesome! (+1) 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

 

Justice Jackson's Comment About Bump Stocks Just May Be the Most Ignorant Thing You've Ever Heard

By Nick Arama 

 

It never ceases to amaze me how so many people on the left are so ignorant about guns. Yet, many of those same people endlessly expound on guns, despite their complete ignorance on the subject. We constantly hear them describing ordinary AR-15s as automatics or machine guns, or some other such nonsense. It never occurs to them that the problem, if there is one, isn't the gun, but the person behind it. Somehow, it's always the evil gun's fault and that's why they must be banned. 

 

However, when you're on the Supreme Court, you would think that they would have a little more knowledge, particularly if they're going to be considering a case involving guns, that they wouldn't be making idiotic comments. But I guess that might be asking too much. Some of the justices and the government attorneys exhibited some real ignorance about guns on Wednesday during the oral arguments in the Garland v. Cargill bump stock ban case. 

 

I wrote in January about when Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson asked some very intelligent questions in regard to the Colorado Trump ballot case and whether the officer provision of the 14th Amendment even applied to former President Donald Trump. I wondered if maybe I had been wrong in my assessment of her on some level. 

 

Unfortunately, on Wednesday, that momentary sense she seemed to have displayed in the ballot case was definitely lacking, and the woman who refused to answer what a woman was because she was "not a biologist" was back in full force. 

 

 

You can hear her say it twice, including a "whatever," showing she doesn't even care about the accuracy of what she's saying.

 

 

 

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/02/28/justice-jacksons-comment-about-guns-n2170723

 

  • Like (+1) 1
  • Haha (+1) 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

800 rounds per second! Lol. Just when you think they can't get any dumber.

 

Even if they figured out how to do that (impossible) nobody could afford that. 5.56 or .223 is like .50 cents per round times 800 is like $400 per second. You will have to take out a loan to shoot for 10 seconds. Then how are you going to pick up all of that brass? What a mess!

  • Like (+1) 1
  • Agree 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

4 hours ago, Thurmal34 said:

we have the most guns< and the most gun deaths

 

do we need more guns to prevent gun deaths?


Who’s shooting the guns?

  • Like (+1) 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

5 hours ago, Thurmal34 said:

we have the most guns< and the most gun deaths

 

do we need more guns to prevent gun deaths?

We have far more guns then the 1980s and far less murders with guns than the 1980s, but somehow you think the issue is the guns themselves. In my neighborhood I know for a fact that there are more guns than people but the worst crime in 20 years is teens stealing from unlocked cars. I also find it shocking how often liberals only care about gun deaths but don't worry about any other version of murder. My goal is to lower all murder rates but that clearly is not your goal 

  • Like (+1) 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

5 hours ago, Thurmal34 said:

we have the most guns< and the most gun deaths

 

do we need more guns to prevent gun deaths?


look at New Hampshire. One of the highest gun ownership states and one of the lowest rate of gun violence. Why?

  • Like (+1) 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

 

 

And Then There Were 28: Louisiana Becomes
Most Recent State to Pass Constitutional-Carry Law

by Ward Clark

 

On Tuesday, Louisiana became the 28th state to pass legislation allowing the carry of handguns without a permit, often referred to as "constitutional carry." The law, originally Louisiana Senate Bill 1, was signed into law by Governor Jeff Landry."Today, we join 27 other states in passing Constitutional Carry. I promised the folks of Louisiana that I would champion Constitutional Carry into law, and within two months, I have honored that commitment," Republican Gov. Jeff Landry told Fox News Digital. "It's fundamentally clear — law-abiding citizens should never have to seek government permission to safeguard themselves

 

https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/03/05/and-then-there-were-28-louisiana-becomes-most-recent-state-to-pass-constitutional-carry-law-n2170969#google_vignette

 

 

 

.

  • Like (+1) 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites

On 3/2/2024 at 2:26 AM, Thurmal34 said:

we have the most guns< and the most gun deaths

 

do we need more guns to prevent gun deaths?

I have more than I know what to do with. It might sound strange, but I've never shot anyone before. Weird! I'm 3D printing a new holster as we speak!

  • Like (+1) 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

 

 

Civil Rights Update:

 

 

Ohio Supreme Court Rules 'Warning Shots' Can Be Self-Defense, but the Real News Is Who Made the Decision

By Mike Miller

 

52c0b085-fabb-4e2d-a227-cba535e2e2a9-105

 

The Ohio Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that firing a warning shot in lieu of shooting a person can be considered by courts as an act of self-defense. In today's America, that's a big deal.

 

In a split decision, the court ruled in favor of Tyler Wilson, who had been convicted by a lower court on charges of felonious assault with a firearm but not guilty of attempted murder. Four of the justices reversed the lower court rulings that found a claim of self-defense isn’t viable from a person who didn’t shoot to wound or kill. 

 

The court held that Wilson’s shooting with a stated intent to “back [an aggressor] off” is protected by Ohio’s self-defense laws.

 

While the decision was a victory for gun rights, which is sure to incense the gun-grabbing left, Second Amendment supporters were surprised to learn that the decision was made by three liberal justices and one conservative justice.

 

https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2024/03/09/ohio-supreme-court-rules-warning-shots-are-self-defense-but-who-made-the-ruling-is-the-real-news-n2171146

 

 

Because. . . . . . . . . . . . it's common sense ?

 

.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

13 hours ago, SCBills said:

I think I might want a gun if I lived in Pittsburgh..

 

 

What a mess.  All caused by Biden and his dimwit buddies.  

Link to comment
Share on other sites

 

 

 

I can just imagine the wailing (and misinterpretations) for this post.

 

 

Be Afraid, But More Importantly Be Armed:

Citizens Will Be Best First-Line Defense Against Terrorists Coming Across Border.

 

 

FBI Director Christopher Wray must be frustrated. He issued one of the strongest terrorism warnings earlier this week, but few seemed to notice and even fewer seemed to care. Instead, the legacy media remained fixated on the testimony of former special counsel Robert K. Hur, who concluded that Joe Biden committed multiple federal crimes but was too incompetent to stand trial. While Hur’s findings were certainly newsworthy, they were not news. Most of the country already knew Old Yeller’s best days are behind him.

 

Wray’s warning, however, was dire. He told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that known or suspected terrorists were infiltrating the country across the wide-open southern border using counterfeit documents. One of the smuggling networks, he said, has ties to ISIS. Add to this the thousands of unknown border crossers from countries that hate us, and the more than 80,000 military-age males from China, and you have a terrorist hellbroth just waiting to bubble over.

 

“The threats from homegrown violent extremists that is jihadist-inspired, extremists, domestic violent extremists, foreign terrorist organizations and state-sponsored terrorist organizations all being elevated at one time since October 7, though, that threat has gone to a whole other level,” Wray said. “And so, this is a time I think for much greater vigilance.”

 

We should thank Director Wray for his timely information and for his candor. This is precisely why we have fought so long and so hard to restore our Second Amendment rights, so that law-abiding Americans no longer have to bend a knee and beg the Crown to sell them back their constitutional rights in the form of a permit to carry defensive arms. Constitutional carry levels the playing field, making it easier for the good guys and gals to lawfully carry arms.

 

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/be-afraid-but-more-importantly-be-armed-citizens-will-be-best-first-line-defense-against-terrorists-coming-across-border/

 

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

 

 

Civil rights update:

 

 

 

Youngkin vetoes 30 gun bills, signs 4, amends 6

Cardinal News

 

With the deadline for taking action on the legislation that the General Assembly sent him this month just two weeks away, Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Tuesday announced that he has vetoed an additional 30 bills that he said would “punish law-abiding gun owners and violate their constitutional rights.” He also signed 31 measures into law and offered amendments to six. 

 

“I swore an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States of America and the Constitution of Virginia, and that absolutely includes protecting the right of law-abiding Virginians to keep and bear arms,” Youngkin said in a statement. 

 

At the top of the list of proposals that Youngkin rejected was SB 2, sponsored by Sen. Creigh Deeds, D-Charlottesville, that would have banned assault-style weapons in the commonwealth. HB 2, the companion measure sponsored by Del. Dan Helmer, D-Fairfax County, shared the same fate. 

 

https://cardinalnews.org/2024/03/26/youngkin-vetoes-30-gun-bills-signs-4-amends-6/

 

 

.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

On 3/30/2024 at 9:39 AM, BillStime said:

I can't decide if this Karen or Ditz...

 

 

 

Not saying that a drag show will result in making someone gay... but around 60% of suicide attempts today are from the LGBTQ+ community. 48,000+ suicides on average per year, that's a lot of people who identify as non-straight. 

 

So then you kick out the suicides via firearm, the numbers aren't even close. 

 

Around 4500 under 18 (vast majority are due to gang violence) die each year with a firearm. 

 

I'd say drag shows ARE worse than firearms if those shows negatively influence children to question their sexuality too early. I work with a counselor who is working with a 12-year old who identifies as a cat (furry). Why? She read about it in a magazine her LGBTQ parent let her read. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

3 hours ago, ArdmoreRyno said:

Not saying that a drag show will result in making someone gay... but around 60% of suicide attempts today are from the LGBTQ+ community. 48,000+ suicides on average per year, that's a lot of people who identify as non-straight. 

 

So then you kick out the suicides via firearm, the numbers aren't even close. 

 

Around 4500 under 18 (vast majority are due to gang violence) die each year with a firearm. 

 

I'd say drag shows ARE worse than firearms if those shows negatively influence children to question their sexuality too early. I work with a counselor who is working with a 12-year old who identifies as a cat (furry). Why? She read about it in a magazine her LGBTQ parent let her read. 

 

Does the 12-year old (also) have a litter box at school?

  • Haha (+1) 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

15 hours ago, Doc said:

 

Does the 12-year old (also) have a litter box at school?

 

I've actually heard (rumors) of this being requested at schools. Not in this case.... but she does try to lick other students and will get on all 4's at recess to eat grass. 

 

Home life is horrible. 

 

It's really quite sad that the late Gen X/Millennial parents are raising kids to be this way. That's who I blame for a lot of this insanity. 

15 hours ago, BillStime said:


Another hoax.

 

 

 

So you think I'm making it up? 

  • Like (+1) 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

3 hours ago, Doc said:

 

Wrong.  But not sure why this is so hard for you (and y'all) to accept?  

 

Seems he wants to live in a box/world where anything that a conservative or libertarian says... it's fake. Guess he hasn't noticed his woke party thinking it's cool that kids change their gender at 4 and identify as therian at the age of 12 (this girl also IDs herself as that... I had to look up what it even meant). 

Edited by ArdmoreRyno
Link to comment
Share on other sites

×
×
  • Create New...