Sunday, September 22, 2019

The Right to Keep and Harm Hairs, Flairs, Bears, Chairs, Whatevs.

Okay. I am tired of the Gun Fuds. All of them. Always screaming about ‘The Gubmint coming to take muh Gunz, oh, dur, hur…” Sick of them. All of them. Especially the writers of gun mags and gun articles and gun blogz. Totally sick of them. Done with the whole lot of stupid, inbred, incompetent idiots.

Why?

Well, in the Bill of Rights, we have the 2nd Amendment, which says,

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

Further analysis of 18th Century writing style shows that the primary statement is, “…the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

Which the gun fuds all think is about, well, guns.

NO.

NO IT IS NOT.

CAN’T YOU (bleeping) READ? OR COMPREHEND?

Apparently not!!!!

So where am I going with this?

Well, a couple days ago… in the comments to this blog post: http://oldafsarge.blogspot.com/2019/09/guest-post-john-in-philly.html#comment-form , one comment peeved me off. Royally. Heavily. 



RHT447September 20, 2019 at 7:47 AM    Slippery slope indeed. For some years now in Kalifornia, a misdemeanor conviction denies you your constitutional right. Scroll to page 2--

https://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/firearms/pdf/cfl2016.pdf

Now we have this--

https://www.newsweek.com/gun-control-hate-crimes-house-bill-1458826

Stay frosty. If anybody here needs technical advise on the AR platform, I'm available.

Are we being monitored? Ya think? I like the story G. Gordon Liddy told about back in the days of dial telephone. When they heard the "click" of the wiretap, they would yell into the phone "EFF J. EDGAR!". Works for me.

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OldAFSargeSeptember 20, 2019 at 9:02 AM I will state it again: all gun laws are, by their very nature, unconstitutional. I say again, ALL GUN LAWS.   (no, OAFS, I am not picking on you, just... well... It really wasn't you.  It was reading this comment after all the other stupid GUNFUD stuff I have been reading about for the last couple of weeks and I love you like a brother but your comment was just the last straw on an already broken back and I am so sorry I am using you as an example but please don't be angry with me but...)



 

And now you know maybe what I am peeved about.

ARMS. All Arms. As in:

  Arms /ärmz/ noun plural noun: arms

      1. 1. weapons and ammunition; armaments.

      Similar: weapons (of war) weaponry firearms guns ordnance

I know, you’re saying, “So? What’s the big deal?”

Well, yeah. That’s it. That’s it right there. Arms are, well, arms. Things that one uses in a way to, well enhance one’s arm or foot in causing damage to things or creatures.

Like, well, David’s SLING re: Combat Between David and Goliath (Goliath being the armed representative of an overbearing government.)

Or, well, Robert de Bruce’s SWORD re: Robert vs English Armies (English armies being the armed representative of an overbearing government.)

Or, well, William Tell’s CROSSBOW and Bolts/Quarrels re: William vs German Conquerors (German Conquerors being the armed representatives of an overbearing government.)

Or, well, getting the picture? 


Back in the early days, arms meant sticks, rocks, stuff like that.  

Then the world got technologically better and we get sharpened sticks, knapped rock or glass (obsidian) spear and arrow and atlatl points, stick and rock maces, hatchets and axes and other ‘advanced weaponry.’ 

Then, the wonders of metallurgy come about, and we get metal versions of the previous stuff, and new things, being copper, bronze, iron then steel versions of daggers and swords and maces and spears and bows and crossbows and ballistae and onagers and trebuchets and warships armed with rams and chariots and lances and pikes and all sorts of stuffs. 

Then gunpowder was invented in China (well, they say it was invented there, they say everything was invented there…) and then Europe made it useful and we get guns and cannon and petards and mortars and flying witches in mortars (if you’re Russian, and she’s flying around in the food-processor type of mortar, not the gunpowder type of mortar) and grenades and aerial bombs and rockets and all sorts of stuff like that, including zip guns and stuff. And then some smart Frenchmen (they had them before they lopped off everyone’s head) invented the first practical air rifle, and there you go, first instance of “Tu vas mettre ton oeil avec ça, gamin!” 

Meanwhile, civilians get access to all sorts of mil-tech, like swords, axes, cannon, muskets, organ guns, mortars (not the flying ones, the other ones) and such because, well, pirates and oppressive governments and rascally natives and rascally neighbors and just rascally rascals everywhere. Pretty much the same thing as the military of whatever country one supposedly belongs to is using. And also a lot of stuff that’s better than mil-tech, like rifled muskets and stuff like that.

Industry gets industrial, and we get steam powered stuff like locomotives and ships and carriages and tractors and all sorts of stuff, which the military starts using usually after some civilian decides to make an uparmed and uparmored version FIRST, no, seriously, artillery tractors by the French invented by civilians and that type of stuff.

The age of flight appears, first in gasbags of one form or another then by powered gasbags of one form or another then by planes (thanks to two bicycle makers from Ohio) and then autogyros (vs auto-gyros, a self-eating sandwich with tadziki sauce) and helicopters and rockets and missiles and orbital death platforms (thanks, USSR, for weaponizing Space, you dirty commie bastiges!!!! No. Really. An early version of a Soviet orbital platform had a gun, which they shot, mounted on it. Against all treaties. Wow, who would have thunk that the USSR would cheat on a treaty, amiright? Shocking! Not!)

And chemicals were used by civilians against others, then by the military against everyone, and that turned out real well, so they were banned by everyone civilized, which is why terrorists and Iraq and the Soviets created and kept huge stockpiles of them even after we got rid of them (in the late 1990s…) and bio weapons have been used since time immemorial in the form of tuna casserole or dead bodies or plague blankets or stuff like that (See movie “Flesh and Blood” for a good representation, and Rutger Hauer.) Long before the modern militaries got their hands on Small Pox and Anthrax (the powder, not the band) and other wonderful deadly things like Ricin and such and before we all got very smart and got rid of all the stockpiles of Small Pox and Anthrax and other biologicals (well, except for those blown up in that Russian lab last week, geeze, what is it with Russians and lying about getting rid of stuff, amiright?)

And ships and boats starting with the first logs all the way up to nuclear powered subs and flying subs (well, at least on TV) and all sorts of stuff.

All of those are Arms. Weapons and weapon systems. 

Including brass knuckles. And switchblade knives. And, well, weapons and arms and weapon systems and armaments and ordnances and all that.

So, now, we have a country – The United States of America – and quite a few states within that country – like Florida – who have as part of their premiere laws – like the Bill of Rights (for the USA) as enshrined in the 2nd Amendment (see above, oh, heck, here it again) “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” The Right (granted by our creator, GOD) of the people to keep and bear (carry, wear, strap on, stand on, swing from, handle, fold, spindle, mutilate) Arms (weapons, weapon systems, armaments, weapons platforms of varying types and degrees) shall not be infringed (DO NOT EVER ATTEMPT TO STOP SOMEONE FROM OWNING OR HOLDING OR FONDLING OR CARRYING said Arms(et al.)) 

Got that. If’n it’s an Arms, we here in the US of A should be able to own and have it.
Knife? Yep.
Brass Knuckles? Yep.
Pistol, wheellock, flintlock, caplock single shot, caplock revolver, caplock revolver with a center mounted shotgun barrel, modern revolver, modern semi-auto, modern gyrojet, gauss pistol, et al? Yep.
Shotgun, (see above for variants possible)? Yep.
Shoulder arms (see above…) Yep.
Phase Plasma Rifle in a 40watt range? Yep.
Fully automatic weapons? Yep.
Cannon, old old style? Yep.
Cannon, old style? Yep.
Cannon, modern? Yep.
Cannon, rail gun? Yep.
Cannon, particle or meson accelerator? Yep.
Fokker DVII with working machineguns? Yep.
P-47D with 8 fully functioning Browning M2 machine guns and a wingload of ordnance? Yep.
F-84G with God’s Lightbulb in junior form hanging underneath? Yep…. As long as GLiJF is maintained properly following all state and national regulations as to storing nuclear material, but, really, if you can afford it and want it and maintain it and store it safely (not in your bathroom in an apartment building, geeze… do you trust your plumber? Well, do you, punk?)
F-4 Phantom fully loaded? Yep. Same with F-105s if the friggin Congress hadn’t ordered the engines destroyed… bastiges)
A nice Gearing class destroyer, fully loaded? Yep.
Heck, a German class XXI submarine, fully loaded? Yep.
M3 light tank fully loaded? Yep.
M3 Medium tank, fully loaded? Yep, even better if haunted by Bogie’s ghost!
M1 Abrams, fully loaded? Yep.
Paladin gun system? Yep.
V2 with warhead? Yep.
Me163? Yep. Just… you better be storing your T-Stoff and C-Stoff correctly, like, better than the EPA (hwack-ptoie) would store them.


Get the idea? If’n you can potentially use it offensively or defensively, you can have it, according to the Mighty 2A (some assembly required, some items may be subject to a storage fee or storage requirements, may require maintenance…)

Seriously. Arms. What you use to whack-bonk your enemy. From close up to, well…

Nowhere does it say you have to use or store or carry said weapons of whack-bonkiness in a responsible manner. Why? Because the founding fathers didn’t think we’d be raising a bunch of brain-dead idiots, that’s why.

And, really, if there were no restrictions on the 2A by any local, state or federal agency, a lot of the bullscat done by brain-dead idiots would have been self-corrected or forcibly corrected by others by now.

So, well, juvat should, if he has enough money, and the space, be able to go out to the boneyard and snag an early model F-15 off the government auction lot.

Which, actually, he can. But… Because our federal government is scared of us, the citizens of these United States of America, Congress has passed laws saying that all military equipment will be de-milled, which means, cut up, chopped up, all neat stuff like engines and guns removed, and mangled and destroyed. 16” rifle barrels for an Iowa? You can buy them, if you cut them up into mangled portions that can’t be reassembled. B-52? Yep, cut into mangled chucks by the world’s largest guillotine. Tanks or APCs?  Yep, chopped up into little chunks.  Machine guns? Plasma cut into little bits, and, if not already listed as a machine gun prior to 19whatever with the ATF, then you can’t giggle-switch it even if you manage to reassemble it. (which, well, is patently illegal according to the 2nd Amendment of the Bill of Rights.)  

And, well, let’s get into all the gun control acts that have been passed, illegally, by the Federal government. Lawdog, a wonderful LEO blogger from Texas who, like Peter Grant or Kim du Toit, hails originally from Africa (does that make him African-American? One wonders, because one is a jerk…) first stated the obvious and then it was done in a comic form and here’s the link to both:


http://thelawdogfiles.blogspot.com/2017/10/gun-rights-cake-analogy.html



Basically, Screw all Gun Control, it’s wrong, it’s illegal, and we want our rights back, you Anal circular-muscles, you.

What is it about the 2A that people in Government can’t understand. It was intended to Protect US against an evil, oppressive government that would enact laws like, oh, mass sterilization of undesirables or forced internments of ethnic populations or forced massacres of ethnic populations or forced removal of grazing rights so the Senator from Arizona can sell the land to foreign buyers or or or or or…

Wait? You think I was talking about maybe the USSR or Red China or the Ottoman Empire or the NAZIs? Noooo. More like the treatment of American Indians by the Federal and State governments, Treatment of Blacks and other ethnics by Woodrow Wilson’s administration, or German-Americans during WWI and WWII or Italian Americans during WWII or Japanese Americans during WWII or the Bundy’s or Waco or Ruby Ridge or…

So what is so scary about us citizens that our ‘elected betters’ who are protected by all the above weapons and weapon systems don’t want us to have?

Funny that.

Our Elected Officials. Most of them are self-serving jerks who would be better dangling off the upper levels of the Capital building, along with a whole host of bureaucrats and other thieving evil government workers. 

They forget that they are supposed to serve us, the people. They only think that they are better than us, and treat us as royalty has always treated the peasants and subjects of kingdoms and countries where royalty rule.

But that’s just it. We aren’t subjects. We don’t have a ruling class. We are CITIZENS. We are mostly all equal (varying differences due to criminal records and such) WE are the Rulers of this country. It’s just that we are all too busy doing stuff that we elect representatives to do the crap-work and to follow our instruction and do the stupid stuff that keeps this country going.

So… They (our elected officials and the faceless bureaucrats that control them (ooops, did I say that?) who are supposed to serve us are scared of us and pass laws and regulations to keep us from getting our hands on anything more deadly than a kitchen knife just in case we the people get so tired of the situation that we take armed means to stop the thieving bastiges…

So. Well, I hope you understand what I just tried to say. Hopefully.

I want my rights back. All of them.  And I stand for my God-given right to Keep and Bear ARMS!

And I know, what about using stuff in a bad way?

Well, there's a host of laws against assault, battery, murder, killing, torturing, mutilating, defenestrating, etc.

None of them I have or will (hopefully) ever do, because, well, they're WRONG and ILLEGAL in God's Eyes and in the People's Eyes.  Not the Politicians' or faceless bureaucrats' eyes, the People and God, you Feckless BASTIGES!

If someone uses their Sherman to blow their neighbor away, they'd better have a darned good reason, like the neighbor was using his Flak 36 to shoot the 1st neighbor's cows or something.

So, once again, I want my God-given right to own and coon-finger any arms I can afford to own.  From swords to maces to M3 grease guns.  Any.  Because it is my right as an American Citizen. 

(And, hah, was cruising over at Angus McThag's place after penning this missive and he had much the same to say, though his was aimed at the gunfuds who are wanting gun people to stop pushing the envelope and freaking the mundanes even though it's legal to do what the gun people are doing.  I'd say 'Right ON, McThag, but he's got his comments turned off, so he's really pissed right now.  So, well, Angus, if you're reading this, I support 100% what you said and I am tired of all the gunfuds out there, too.)





31 comments:

  1. Glad you're (obviously) feeling better, Beans. As usual, you phrased it in a more erudite fashion than I would have, but I think we're singing from the same page of music. (Even if I'm off key as usual)

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    1. Thank you. Actually just working off of one eyeball right now as the Shingles Gnomes are busy stabbing and punching my right eyeball, the little bastiges.

      I mean, I was working for a police department, actually passed a harder background check as a staff ass than what was required by the cops, why couldn't I carry even a friggin pocket knife as a 'civilian'? Or have anything that could be construed as a weapon in my car on City Property? Whut? So I just parked my car always on not-city property so as to keep the contents (usually camping stuff like hatchets, swords, spears, various knives and such (no guns, too expensive...) out of the hands of the overbearing jackbooted thugs (oh, yes, a couple times I 'accidentally' parked on city property had my car searched, I threw them a bone once in a while and just had the normal hammers and framing hatchets and stuff in there. Used to peeve off one guy who ended up my last supervisor that no actual 'weapons' were ever found. Dumbass. My definition of weapons and his were, and are, vastly different, as I have used a piece of rattan to form a 16 gauge cold-rolled steel sheet into a piece of armor by whacking it.

      And I am sure you sound good singing if enough alcohol is applied to the listener's ears, internally applied, that is.

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  2. Beans, what a man, what a mighty man. Welcome back! And Ditto.

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    1. Thanks. Ranting, I don't do it as eloquently as Tuna, but I make up for it in sheer volume. I am not allowed to talk to representatives of our various insurance companies anymore due to my ranting.

      Now, if some dumb bastige wants to talk to me about my car's extended warranty, well, they have about a 1 in 3 chance of me actually talking to them, and then RANT ON!!!

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    2. I ask if it's about my 1965 Ford pickup, and when, exactly, did that warranty expire? I get a thank you, never mind. Every time.

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  3. At the time the 2nd was written, private citizens owned combat ships, with cannon, and on land private citizens owned cannon as well.
    Both are crew served weapons, with long range, and can be very destructive.
    It almost sounds like you are starting to go down the same 'OH, BIG SCARY WEAPON' slippery slope that the gun grabbers have already taken.
    You might want to give a bit more consideration and reasoning as to where you draw the line, and why.
    No, I don't want my neighbors to have nukes; but none of them want any of the blasted things either.

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    1. At the time the 2nd was written, some private citizens had organ guns (a series of barrels on a fixed or mobile platform that could fire all at once or in sequence.) Private citizens had rifled muskets which were far more accurate than regular muskets. Private citizens walked down the street open-carrying pistols, swords, daggers, tomahawks, axes, and rifles andd muskets.

      The citizens of San Fransisco, twice, rose up against the corruption of both the rest of the inhabitants and the city government (nothing's ever changed there, apparently) and with guns and cannon, formed Committees of Vigilance (yes, vigilantees) and cleaned up the city, until both times the Fed Gov in the form of Big Army could take over and run it as a military governorship until things quieted down. After the second time, a reporter asked someone what happened to the vigilantees? Answer, "We're still here..."

      Nukes might be a problem, there aren't a lot of peaceful uses for them, except maybe a Project Orion spaceship. Which would be totally cool. But storing nukes? We have enough regulations as to handling nuke material now as to cover, way cover, nukes. Or bioweapons, which, these days, anyone with a reasonable kitchen can create.

      We can't regulate weapons away. We can make using said weapons in an inappropriate method so painful that the user's ancestors come back to life, rip out their DNA and cause said dirtbag to cease to exist. That we can do. Murder is murder is murder, and should be punished as such. Same with Assault. Or Battery. Or terrorism. Or taking people hostage. The solution should be short, sweet, messy and final. Like hanging, or firing squad, or riding the lightning. In public, in the area the person committed the crime. For all to see. Both as a deterrent and as an example that government is actually doing its job.

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    2. My comment above was a good example of why you should not try commenting when you body is saying 'sleep now' - by making the room spin around when you look at it.
      Yes, regulation is a strange request - at some point we ARE going to have rednecks playing around with antimatter :)

      The US started as a high trust society.
      Since then some people, for reasons of their own*, have decided to create a more perfect union (sarcasm note) by demolishing the existing structures and replace them with something created in their own image. One item being destroyed is the trust factor - and we're supposed to trust Them????
      * - I think this involves themselves as lords in their manors, while we happily ignorant serfs serve them.
      A number of years ago, author Christopher Stasheff had some characters noticing the creation of high tech serfs, and did the bugout boogie to another planet...or something like that, it's been a while.
      Frank

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    3. Stasheff's Warlock series was a fantastic Christian series of books. Still have them, read them about every 5 years or so. And yeah, they did the bug-out boogie to get away from the nanny state that infiltrated everywhere using tech.

      We can still have a high trust society. If we only allow high trust individuals (those that can prove the understand and will follow the rules of our society) to become citizens and only support citizens.

      And, yes, our elected officials, who used to be our inferiors, now think themselves to be our lords and masters. It is a situation that needs fixing. Either by ballot or by bullet. Before it is too late.

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  4. Spot on Beans. Too many elected officials at every level of government treat the working American citizen as a voter or even worse, as a taxpayer rather than an American citizen. The oath of office has become a meaningless ritual for too many.

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    1. What oath of office? If they don't mean it, it doesn't count. Like if you buy a car from someone, and you ask if it's been wrecked, and the person says it hasn't and then you drive it for a while and find it has, you, not him, screwed up for not checking.

      Too many officials mouth the words but don't mean it. We need to hold these officials, elected or not, to the letter of their oaths. Enemies foreign and DOMESTIC. Those Domestic ones would be those who mouthed but didn't follow the oaths.

      And the citizenship also pledged an oath, or used to. The Pledge of Allegiance. Still an oath, a pledge, to support the Flag and the Republic it represents. Which is why flag protestors from dirty stinking commies to big babies in sportsmoneyball uniforms would, in my world, be beaten, soundly, right then and there. Violate your pledge or oath of office, you get beaten and lose all citizenship perks. No vote, no more special gov money projects. You are now the same level of person as a resident alien, all the responsibility of a citizen with none of the perks. Until you grow up and act like a citizen. Don't wanna be a citizen? Fine. Don't hold the responsibility. Poof. There. Fixed it for ya.

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  5. I don't agree on the VLFB (Very Large Flash Bulb) point, but other than that point, yes.
    And even if we don't agree, I respect your right to have thoughts different from mine.
    I wanted to correctly attribute the quote, "I Disapprove of What You Say, But I Will Defend to the Death Your Right to Say It."
    That turned into quite the rabbit hole.
    https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/06/01/defend-say/

    Back to VLFBs.
    Based on the possibly sarcastic comment of Rep. Eric Swalwell, I don't think some of our elected officials should be in control of
    VLBs.
    https://reason.com/2018/11/16/rep-eric-swalwell-thinks-gun-confiscatio/

    I remember reading that Condoleezza Rice had spoken on the subject of gun control and gun registration.
    “Let me tell you why I’m a defender of the Second Amendment,” Rice said, the Blaze reported. “I grew up in Alabama in the late ‘50s, early ‘60s. There was no way that Bull Connor and the Birmingham police were going to protect you. When knight riders would come through our neighborhood, my father and friends would take their guns and fire in the air if anybody came through. I don’t think they actually hit anybody. But they protected the neighborhood.”

    And on that whole leftist idea of registering gun owners and collecting their names and personal information to put into some sort of Big Database in the Sky?

    “I’m sure if Bull Connor had known where [the guns and gun owners] were, he would have rounded them up,” Rice said. “I don’t favor some things like gun registration.”
    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/mar/2/condoleeza-rices-brilliant-defense-guns/

    Words of wisdom indeed.

    Great post.








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    1. Change "VLBs" to "VLFBs" (I checked the acronym page first) and I forgot to link to what Chaplain Tim at Blue Collar Prepping said in a recent post.
      "I'm not sure which way things are going to go in the near future. We could see more incremental erosion of our rights, or the current push for more laws may stall out. Any attempt at confiscation on a large scale would be enough to push a lot of gun rights supporters into becoming criminals and their opponents would label them terrorists or worse. I believe this would create a spiral into that “Civil War 2.0” that some are seeking, leading to a lot of grief and bloodshed."
      http://bluecollarprepping.blogspot.com/2019/09/a-potential-man-made-disaster-part-1.html

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    2. Thanks. I have been simmering for a while, just too painful to get really angry.

      VLFBs do have civilian uses, and modern VLFBs are much cleaner and safer than old school VLFBs. But, seriously, citizen-ownership of VLFBs would not be a problem if people took the responsibilities of citizenship correctly. And there are plenty regs on nuclear material already. And, really, if Zuckerberg, Musk or Bezos wanted one, they could afford to build one. The darned things are actually kinda easy to make. Really. I mean, who knows how many unregulated nukes are already out there? Seriously.

      It's not the device. It's the dumbasses who use devices in bad ways that cause problems. If we show the world that we take improper use of devices very seriously, like in the commission of a felony, by capital punishing said improper user, then the message will get out. Don't improperly use devices!

      And Ms. Rice. Dang, she shoulda been the next President. Of either the USA or the NFL. Either way, a lot of crap in both organizations woulda been stopped.

      Oh, well.

      Just look how little looting occurs in the SOUTH after a hurricane, well, except in New Orleans (Hwack-sptooied) versus the wide-spread looting after Hurricane Sandy in New York and New Jersey. Funny that the government couldn't get to all those people on a timely fashion but hordes of human maggots could.

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    3. As to Rep. Swallowswell, if'n you or I had said that, to that many people, we'd have a stadium worth of Feds and Locals up our keisters. In a just and righteous world, He would have been censured by the House, been recalled by the people who elected him and faced federal hate crimes and terroristic threats. But, noooo... He's 'better' than us. POS!

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    4. Re: Civilian use of VLFBs.
      I hate to amend my point, but yes, Elon Musk and a Project Orion launch would be a legitimate civilian use of VLFBs.
      And it would be awesome.

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    5. Totally friggin awesome. Man, I wanna see that!

      Though the original design, with 5" gun turrets, woulda been frigging cool too!

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  6. Thanks for your support and noticing that closed comments means I'm flipping furious.

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    1. Yer Welcome, my friend. Between Gun-Burka-Lady and Those Two Idiots on That Blog, I mean, why do we even count them as supporting 'gun rights' when patently they don't, except for their little world and what they do?

      Gun-Burka-Lady only wants people who spend $10,000 or more on CQB classes and such to be able to carry concealed. Screw you, Beyotch.

      And Those Two Idiots ranting about open carrying of one's weapons? It's legal, so screw them. Mayhaps if more people followed the law there would be less fainting by girly-men and liberals and more respect for our friggin gun rights.

      But, noooo. Two completely perfect examples of the GUNFUDS that piss me off. They wanna carry their $10,000 race gun concealed but don't want me carrying a tomahawk or small sword? Piss on them, with an elephant!

      Hope your car work goes well. Can't wait to see what you say next.

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    2. I mean, weapon rights are just that. Rights. I shouldn't have to pay for to exercise a fundamental right. What's next? Charging for air?

      Some, well, most of the people who need to carry open or concealed are the ones who, due to economic reasons, aren't allowed (fed subsidized housing, some states or cities (not able to pay for the bribe or process to be allowed to carry or own) to own or carry guns are the ones that most need to be able to.

      At the Apartment, I have had to, yes, bring out Mr. Springfield pistol and Mr. Remmy shotgun because crap was exploding around my apartment (cops called, SWAT called, open blood in the street, that type of fun. Yehaw.) But because my and my wife's meds and rent and such are more important than getting a CCW license, well... maybe this year, if the rent don't go up too much and nothing bad happens to the car and we don't have a hospital visit and food prices don't rise too much. Yeah, love living on the Edge, Baby!!!

      I cannot stand smug people whose life is friggin perfect looking down their noses at me because I'm struggling, but yet my marriage is stronger and my love for my wife is stronger than what those people have. I am rich, except in money. So quit judging me and quit denying me my rights because I don't have the money to play your stupid games. Poop on y'all who want me to jump through hoops and pay a tax and a fee and get fingerprinted and have to swear to do all sorts of things in order to exercise my 2A rights. What next, a poll tax and get fingerprinted and have to take classes in order to vote?

      Am I mad? Yes. Very mad. Want to hang people up by their toes until some common sense runs down to their pea-sized brains.

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  7. Well said. Might quibble on a point or two, nothing important. Enhanced civil penalties against irresponsible people would be high on my list.

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    1. Well, to paraphrase, with great powers comes great responsibility. I also feel that improper use of one's weapons should carry a huge-assed penalty that may mean one learns not to ever do it again, in a fatal lesson. As in 'You obviously are too friggin stupid to learn, so out of the Gene Pool, baby!"

      Seriously. When did killing someone become less of a crime than driving without a license? (Repeatedly DWLSR - driving with license suspended or revoked) can get one up to 20 years in some places. Murder? pled down to manslaughter and 5 years... What's the justice there?

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  8. Obviously I used the gun related links in my comment as two-chips-out-of-the-entire-bag examples of a much lager issue that is CONSTITUTIONAL. A softball over the plate, then wait and see who swings, and how. You sir, hit it out of the park. We need to have a beer (or three) sometime.

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    1. Sounds good, as long as mine is a root beer or diet coke. Trust me, I can talk treason over diet soda just as easily as other can talk over beer.

      And why, oh, why is it so easy to exercise some rights and so hard to exercise others. I mean, if you're a dem you can say anything you want with no repercussions. But me? Wanna say something? I'd be buried under the prison. As to walking outside with a gun in my socialist city? OMG! Endz of the Worldz! Ahhhh!!!

      Sorry. If I was strong enough to backpack a Lahti, then I should be able to carry it, amiright?

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    2. Ice Tea (un-sweet) is fine for me. I'm a light weight, always have been. One 12oz beer on an empty stomach and it's nappy time for me. As my army buddy used to say "Yeah, he's no fun, he just falls right over".

      Funny you should mention a Lahti.

      Back in the early 90's, I made the acquaintance of an older gentleman who came into our shop in Chico, CA. It was obvious that in his prime he was a strapping lad. 6'5", slim waist, a full axe handle across the shoulders. He was the salt of the earth type, had always made a living with his hands. Quit school after 8th grade to help his mother support the family.

      So it was that sometime around 1960-ish, he mail ordered a Lahti. At the time, he lived in the Monterey, CA area and had access to a range on Ft. Ord. For a target, he had a piece of scrap armor plate. He would hire some high school kid for a day, and have the kid help him hump the target down range "Until our tongues were hanging out", and then help bring it back when he was through shooting. Said that 20mm made the target flip end over end in the air.

      As I said, salt of the earth. Safe to say the infamous Gun Control Act of '68 was off his radar. He moved north to San Jose a short time later. He said he figured some goodie-two-shoes neighbor ratted him out. First thing he knows is the local constabulary is pounding on his door, and they confiscate his Lahti. He shows up for his court date and the Judge tells him to "sit down and shut up". Not knowing any better, he did. The "resolution" was no fine, no jail time, no Lahti, and no compensation.

      About six months later, he got a phone call from the neighboring constabulary. "Hi, our department has recently acquired a Lahti. We understand you might have some ammo and we'd like to buy it". His reply--"Sure. It cost me a buck a round. You can have it for $10 a round". Click.

      So one day he stops by our shop again, holds out a couple of Lahti "leftovers" (which I will not detail here) and asks me if I want them. Just gives them to me. I still have them.

      Even living here in the DFW area, I play my cards close. Right across our cul-de-sac live a grey haired husband and wife, both college professors. They had a Beto yard sign. So our neighbor to our immediate right took his pressure washer to his drive way and cleaned off "TRUMP" in 6 ft. high letters. I put our out Betsy Ross flag.

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    3. Damn about the Lahti confiscation. Bastiges. And I wanted a 60mm mortar, myself. There's something about indirect fire.

      At my apartment complex, ex-meth mom (no, really, an actual ex-methhead mom) had Bernie 2020 signs on her front and back porch. So I flew the American flag. Signs finally disappeared when she left. Seems she was a perfect Bernie follower. As the apartment was rented for her by someone, someone else gave her a car, someone else helped her with her kid, and she was shocked when everyone decided she needed to work for a living and lost the apartment, damn near lost the car, almost lost the kid, but she got a job real quick. Hmmm, wonder if they know she partakes of the Devil's lettuce. So, yeah, Free Shite Army member definitely. A perfect Bernie babe. Tried to discuss politics with her and she made my head hurt...

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  9. Ahh yes, Kalifornia. Lovely weather, beaches and scenery, but all else kinda sucks, especially the gun laws. Several years ago the state legislature passed a law requiring every weapon sold to have the tech that would mark every round with some sort of micro stamp, ID'ing it to the gun used. Unfortunately, that tech was only a prototype and was very expensive. And wasn't even available for a while. Didn't matter to the kommies in the законодательный орган (legislature). It stopped every weapon from being sold here for a bit. Now, only the few weapons makers that are willing to spend the certification dollars and add to the price of the gun are able to be sold here. It went from 500+ handguns viable, to less than half. Might have to use my LEO relative to help me with a straw purchase.

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    1. Our AG at the time was Kamala Harris.

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    2. Kneepads Harris. The slaver gift that keeps on giving (her family in Jamaica, mon, were slave owners...) Yeah, microstamping, which doesn't work past about 60-100 rounds... A good reason to get a caplock pistol, maybe a LeMat so you have 7 barrels of pistol goodness and a 16ga shotgun, very shortbarreled, but it's a pistol.

      As to the LEOs.. you mean like the latest scandals sweeping the LA and SF police departments? Seems that lots of guns that aren't available for the average Jose to buy legally are being sold by LEOs without background checks as straw purchases which violates the 4457 agreement the rest of us have to sign but no-one until recently was actually holding the officers to the letter of the law.

      Yeah. California is the perfect example. Deny everyone except a few the right, and the few will abuse the right and criminals will get what they want anyways. Bastiges in California need to be lined up against the wall and buried by all the garbage and feces covering the once boring but okay streets of California. Trap them all in a homeless camp.

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  10. Epic rant.

    (I use the term "guns" as that's what the idiots understand. 2nd Amendment does indeed apply to ALL weapons. Heavy emphasis on the "ALL.")

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    1. Weah heah in the Great State of Florida have had some gunfuds blogging about how the open carry people are queering it for all the other gun people. And it's been a constant bombardment of "See my new $10,000 dollar titanium/unobtainium Glockobrowning 7-11" and the $600 holster to make it fit against me so no one can see me wearing it while I dress like a hobo in order to conceal it from sight (yeah, lady, we get it, you dress ugly because....)" and at the same time the gunfuds complain about people with sheathed knives on their belts {"No one needs a knife over 3" long that's not a $500 Kershaw-SpycieSlasherSlayer spring retained folding knife in 2.5" long Tanto style, dur-hur...").

      No. The law says Open Carry of Weapons is cool and legal. I don't, and a lot of people don't, care about bed wetting liberal turd-burglars who get freaked out by a piece of cheese held by a 3 year old that is vaguely in the shape of a 'gun' or such nonsense. It's our rights. Just like we can drive SUVs or trucks or other gas guzzlers while you organic freaks drive your electric cars that require a diesel generator, at the least, to charge.

      Screw it. Tired of playing nice with others.

      Thus, when you used 'guns' after many a bad day of physical pain and many a bad day of mental pain, I just lost it.

      Glad you liked the rant. I haven't ranted in a while. Just it seems like every time we take 1 step forward, some event is orchestrated to shove us 10 steps back. I'm not saying that these shootings and such are purposely orchestrated by the anti-gunners, but, dang it, sure seems like it.

      (Hey, Andrew, mellow out...)

      So, take a few more days, come play in the comments section. We gots dis!

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