Senators propose bill to eliminate 2nd Amendment rights

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May 192022

‘‘Federal Firearm Licensing Act’’

Introduced by Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.).

Except as provided in subsection (d), it shall be unlawful for any individual to purchase or receive a firearm unless the individual has a valid Federal firearm license.

The license will be issued if the Attorney General feels like issuing it, only after the prospective gin owner has completed a lengthy, inconvenient and expensive series of bureaucratic red tape procedures. And even then, the license will only be for *one* gun (the serial number of which will be recorded with the Feds, thus creating a Federal gun registry, just the thing for when they decide to confiscate), and only last for five years. So you’ll have to spend probably around a thousand dollars every five years for each firearm you own.

This does not *technically* strip a person of their right to keep and bear arms, but it *effectively* will do so. For starters, a vast number of people won’t be able to take time off from work to drive the fifty miles to take a multi-day series of classes and tests, nor will they be able to pay the exorbitant fees. They certainly won’t be able to do this every five years for a number of guns. And since issuing the license will be at the discretion of the Feds, *after* the prospective gun owner has lost work and spent money, receiving the license will doubtless end up being a matter of who you know, how politically connected you are, how skilled you are at greasing palms.

This new law would require that this process be carried out for private transfers as well, including gifts and inheritance. You will no longer be able to sell your shotgun to your neighbor; you’ll have to go through the process *and* transfer the firearm through a federal firearms dealer, often many miles away.

What’s better: for each license, the prospective gun owner will need a background check. In the list of things that would automatically strip you of the right to such a license is included this nugget:

any recent acquisition of firearms, ammunition, or other deadly weapons

You will be barred from buying a gun if you’ve recently bought *ammunition.*

Someone should have taken note

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May 192022

Y’all may have noticed that over the years I get kinda twerked when I hear about a local cat that has been abused by a human. A lot of this is of course because I like cats and cannot countenance abusing them; and a lot of it is that abuse of a cat is a damn big sign that abuse of humans is coming. And well what do you know, it turns out that the Buffalo mass shooter, a left-wing white supremacist nutter, did horrible things to a cat. What’s more, he published reports of this online. Given that he was on law enforcement radar, this *should* have been picked up on.

Buffalo mass shooting suspect wore hazmat suit to school once in-person learning resumed

The hazmat suit thing, I dunno. It may have been that the governments efforts to create fear among the public worked especially well on this kid. Or it may be that he was having a laugh. I could believe either. But later the story relates that on March 25 he described repeatedly stabbing, beating and eventually beheading a feral cat that had attacked his pet cat. I get being irritated that a feral cat has attacked your pet. But the description of his response to this is wholly bugnuts. It was the sort of thing that should have gotten him a nice little visit from the sort of people who should pay nice little visits to kids who are demonstrably wacko.

And on the subject of mass shootings, here’s one from a few days ago that received virtually none of the media traction that the Buffalo shooting did. There are a few important differences:

The Milwaukee incident resulted in 21 injuries, but no deaths.
The Milwaukee incident had at least 11 arrests.

One might argue that the Milwaukee incident is less important than Buffalo because there were fewer deaths. But I would argue that incompetent marksmanship is no reason to not pay attention to the attempt. I would argue that a mass shooting involving perhaps a dozen or more shooters is more important than one lone wacko. Lone wackos are… well, alone. But groups? That’s *bad* on a whole other level.

Oh. Good.

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May 182022

What fresh hell has 2022 done brung us? Monkeypox.

First case this year of mysterious monkeypox virus reported in US

And…

UK confirms more cases of monkeypox

And…

Portugal finds 5 monkeypox cases in men as outbreak spreads

And…

Monkeypox alert in Spain after 23 people show symptoms

Monkeypox is a relative of smallpox, but less utterly horrifying (one straight is 10% fatal, the other is 1% fatal). At least in its current form. What a future mutation will bring… shrug.

How serious is monkeypox and what are the symptoms?

It can be transmitted through the air, riding on respiratory droplets, but it seems like a lot of the current cases were transmitted the old fashioned way: bangin’. Under normal circumstances, this disease would be fairly straightforward to stop transmitting… but given that the bulk of the people who have been determined to have caught the disease caught it via male-to-male bangin’… well, I’m old enough to remember the 80’s, and how telling people to Stop Doing That wasn’t even allowed *then,* and *that* disease was 100% fatal. Time from infection to display of chickenpox-like symptoms – fever, lesions, etc. – is about ten days, so a bit of self control would go far in shutting this one down.

Bidenomics

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May 182022

Washington gas stations run out of gas, add extra digit in anticipation of $10 dollar prices

Neat.

And then:

Dow drops more than 1,100 points, retailers’ profits crushed by inflation

Everything is going to be vastly more expensive at the same time that people will have less money. *AND* at the same time that large numbers of “migrants” are being allowed in, while anyone who complains about it – or even *notices* it – will be tarred as a racist/white supremacist/conspiracy theorist/domestic terrorist.

I don’t remember Looney Tunes having this much body horror

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May 162022

This is all I’ve seen of Current Year Looney Tunes. It looks like they decided to hire the folks behind Ren & Stimpy.

Well, this is gonna get weird

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May 162022

One of the “lesser” news incidents in the last day or two was the mass shooting at the Laguna Woods church, lesser because the shooting was not carried out by a politically exploitable person based on a politically exploitable ideology. Still, it appears that this was a political act, which surprised me… I figured based on minimal initial evidence that this was a case of someone disgruntled at either his church or family or something. But it seems to be more interesting: the church was filled with Taiwanese people, while the shooter was an import from Communist China, and reporting now is that he was P.O.ed at the Taiwanese for political reasons and had no links to this church… he chose them simply because they were Taiwanese. Was the shooter a good and faithful Commie? Was he annoyed that Taiwan refuses to knuckle under to the CCP? If so… expect this little detail to vanish like a fart in the wind. A trivial number of “far right” extremists, why, that’s a threat to national security of the highest order, while *millions* of actual communists? Pah. Piffle. Nothing to see here, move along.

Internally Inconsistent

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May 162022

It’s in basic human nature to hold contradictory views from time to time. But where politics are concerned, this cognitive dissonance can be taken to a high degree of professionalism. Witness:

Has Tucker Carlson created the most racist show in the history of cable news?

Much of this NPR interview with a New York Times reporter who penned a hit piece on Tucker Carlson focuses on Tucker’s repeated discussion of the “Great Replacement.” This is the notion that Democrats are importing large numbers of third worlders in order to change American demographics, as immigrants from the third world are much more likely to vote for free goodies, i.e. for Democrats. (This NPR piece aired a few days *before* the Buffalo mass shooting, so expect them to revisit it in light of their new opportunity to dance on graves.)

The reporter several times refers to “Great Replacement” as a “conspiracy theory” and “factually wrong.” And yet…

“…it harkens back to an earlier era, Carlson’s childhood and mine, when America was not just majority white but disproportionately and overwhelmingly composed of white citizens.”

“Disproportionately.” How can a nations natural population be “disproportionate?” Is Japan disproportionately Japanese? Is Quebec disproportionately packed with French speakers? No. The fact that the author believes that it was wrong for the US to have once had the demographics that it did – and now no longer does – does in fact point to a belief on the authors part that replacing, to some degree or another, the existing population with another one is a good thing.

As with virtually every other PC media piece that mentions “Great Replacement,” it is called racist… but it’s never explained *how* it’s racist, or explained why the facts about it are wrong. And how can they, when they gloat that, regardless of the motive, the end result is exactly what the “Great Replacement” theory says it would be? This “Replacement is a conspiracy theory, and it’s wonderful” ranks up there with “the Holocaust never happened, and it was a great thing” often touted by actual neo-Nazis.

That’s a lot of crazy

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May 152022

Since yesterday’s mass shooting in Buffalo, NY, plays directly into The Narrative, there’s little point in my going on about it: the media will blat on about this for *weeks.* Still, the shooters manifesto has been found and published online several places, such as HERE. It is one hundred and eighty pages. It is bad news: the ghouls in the media and the political class will eat this up. The shooter is a straight up neo-Nazi white supremacist. A lot of his complaints are fact-based, a lot are garbage; his conclusions are nuts.

Something that immediately leaps out when your eyes glaze over at the sheer scale of his jibberjabber is how much effort he put into planning… and in documenting his plans and thoughts and whatnot. He has a long section on the weapons he planned to use: the primary one was a legally purchased AR-platform rifle that he illegally modified. He goes into detail on where he got it, how he modified it, opinions on the relative quality of various manufacturers, blah, blah, blah. It’s the sort of document that would be described as “autistic” in its detail.

While I can’t imagine the level of nuttery that would cause someone to decide that shooting up a grocery store is any kind of good idea, I also cannot imagine the thought process behind documenting the whole thing… or the reasoning that concludes that this act will cause a whole bunch of like-minded folks to rise up and wipe out millions of people they don’t like. All it will end up doing is shutting down valid debate and eroding rights a little more. And driving up the cost of guns, magazines and ammo, which you can now expect yet another run on. Even though he did this with an illegal gun (and specifically targeted a New York store, due to the 10-round limit and low number of legal concealed carriers), expect New York to decide that a new round of laws are needed to prevent this sort of thing. Laws that won’t do diddly to quash the less newsworthy and far more voluminous homicides that take place regularly.

ADDITIONAL: Ruined Leon’s video on the subject is worthy of a view.

So how do you kick a country out of NATO?

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May 142022

Turkey’s president opposes letting Finland, Sweden join NATO

Turkey always seemed an odd choice for NATO membership. Maybe time to rethink where they belong in the grand scheme of things. Sweden and Finland certainly seem like better fits than Turkey.