Dogs, Lies and Idiots.

I know I haven't posted in a few days. I've been feeling pretty badly and didn't have anything much to say :(

I apparently missed Ted Nugents breakdown. While I respect his views, he really needs to be careful how he expresses them. While I am 110% against any form of gun control other than hitting the target, and I think any politician who thinks gun control works is missing the important logic circuit in the brain, talking towards them in the manner he did hurts more than helps.


Meanwhile at the The Washington Post some AntiGun cannot even keep guns out of an article about Micheal Vick. (sorry i couldn't link to the original article.)

The relevent portion is ...

Perpetrators of gun violence ought to be taken so seriously.

According to data recently released by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, nearly half of more than 10,000 guns recovered by law enforcement authorities in the Washington area came from Virginia. Hundreds, if not thousands, of people — human beings, not dogs — have been killed by these guns. But you won't find any gun manufacturers — or even many killers, for that matter — being hauled into court on conspiracy charges.

Apparently you have to be a dogfight promoter for that.

I'll point out all the ignorance I can think of the first time around.

First is "According to data recently released by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, nearly half of more than 10,000 guns recovered by law enforcement authorities in the Washington area came from Virginia"

After checking to see what data the BATFE has released recently I found this here. Which is the ATF trace data for 2006. The very first page of each bit of trace data states..

Not all firearms used in crime are traced, and not all firearms traced are used in crime

So that bit done I checked the numbers, the only way to get the stated "more than 10,000 guns recovered in the DC area" is to add up all firearms traced in DC, Maryland, and Virginia, which came to 16 thousand and change. The total amount of guns from Virginia? 4,764. Which if we remove the guns bought in Va and later "recovered" in Va the total comes to a staggering 725.

Funny how the author doesn't point out the fact that he considers a trace request from Dam Neck, Va. as a gun recovered in the DC area.
If you look at just the DC data, Virginia is only the second largest contributor to DC's "recovered" firearms with Maryland being the number one.


next up, how many of these 16,000(ish) guns have been used to commit the "Hundreds, if not thousands, " of homicides? Well according to the data the answer is 413. I don't know how many homicides were committed in those three states during 2006, if anyone know please clue me in.

The rest of the statement is just the normal whiny crap you'd expect to hear from someone with the mental age of a 13 year old.


I wonder if the Brady Bunch sends out "Press Releases" to the people they know are not smart enough to do their own research. Knowing that these "pet journalists" would slavishly and mindlessly repeat the crap as the truth, and with the sheep believing every single lie.

Gun Control works... Really...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/24/nshot424.xml

According to the above link, gun crime in the UK has been going up. Which seems to be the opposite from what I hear from the Brady Bunch and the rest of the Anti-Gun Zealots. I wonder if they will post a news release on how incorrect the above article is and how gun control works.
Every so often I find myself perusing the Brady bunch's various websites, and like watching a slow motion Brittany Spears video I am generally disgusted but unable to look away.
While some of the tripe they come up with is laughable ignorant and so full of holes that my 9 month old son could see through it, some of it looks on the surface to make alot of sense, it's only when you think about it and not just absorb what you are reading that you see the emperor has no clothes.

Interesting Corollary

I originally saw the reference to this article at the View from the Porch blog.

After reading the tripe that Harvey Wasserman & Bob Fitrakis are spouting in the article "Will Bush cancel the 2008 election?" . I started looking around to see who would believe something this disingenuous.
At 911truth.org they say

There. Someone finally said this, in print. Their conclusion?

"From the public side, the only conceivable counter-force might be a national strike or an effective long-term campaign of general non-cooperation... For only one thing is certain: denial will do nothing."

Bravo, gentlemen.

Well Now I see who would believe stuff like that, the same people who believe that our own government planted explosives and faked 9/11.

I thought I'd point out that the very people who are worried that the president will call off the election and seize control of the government are the same people pushing for absolute gun control.

I'll phrase it another way, The people who want to take away the 2nd Amendment are the same people now worried about someone doing the exact thing that the 2nd Amendment was designed to protect against.

If for some reason the president did call off the elections and by some weird dimensional warp he had the support of the military and law enforcement to put down the protests and even riots that would follow what would happen?
Why the very people that the liberals think they are superior to, using the very tools that the liberals vilify, would likely put forth a grand argument for the use of arms by individuals.

Does this fall under the definition of Irony?


I've put alot of thought into the possible need for the use of force towards the government after all legal and constitution avenues of redress have failed. Not every person would stand up at once to throw down the government, at least not at first. At first it would be individuals and small groups sabotaging operations and assassinating government officials. Some would be caught and others would not, but the government would start to crack down on everyone. The more arrests in the middle of the night, kangaroo courts, and people shot "Escaping" and the more people will be willing to act. With the internet and modern communications there is nothing to stop people from sharing intelligence and coordinating actions.

The hardware and software sides of the issue are easy, Firearms are plentiful, explosives are easy to make, and unbreakable encryption is easy. The hard part is personnel , as the ATF and FBI have shown. Every potential recruit is also a potential informer, the Resistance would not be one large force, but hundreds and thousands of unconnected cells formed of close friends and family members hiding among the population. Perhaps larger units could be formed but only when every single person knows that everyone else is trustworthy.