“It’s ridiculous. Invisible? Whoever heard of anyone being invisible? Unless, of course, you have the ring of power.†– Soap
I told Pugsley the other day to sign my name for a note for school. At least he’ll be in practice.
I once heard some psychologist (I think it was a psychologist, it was a very long time ago) on a television show say: “Children are naturally truthful.â€
With that one statement, I knew that the psychologist had no children. As a child, I was a horrible liar. My lies were horrible in every sense of the word. I told lies that couldn’t possibly be true based on laws of physics that even I knew at my age. And I told them in ways that weren’t convincing even to casual observers. As a parent? Oh, my, I assumed anything any of my kids told me before the age of ten was a lie.
I do recall telling one other little kid that I could turn invisible – I think I was five.
Why? I have no idea. But if you tell someone that you can turn invisible, eventually they’re gonna want to see some sort of proof, even if they’re five.
Now, however, our politicians and media are teaming up to tell a lie that’s just as stupid as my “I can turn invisible†lie. That lie is this:
Mass shooters with AR-15 weapons are a national problem.
Well, no, they’re not. At all.
Last year, about 364 people in the United States were killed with “long guns†– rifles. More people have died from vaccinations than have died from AR-15 style weapons this year. More people died falling out of bed (450) and over 2,500 left-handed folks die using right-handed items incorrectly.
People who are left-handed score higher on standardized tests than people who died as infants.
Yes. More people die from being left-handed than from the dreaded “assault†weapon.
The odd obsession of the Left (not the left-handed) to take assault weapons, in particular, has long fascinated me. Here is a gun that is provably twenty times safer than doctors with bad handwriting scrawling out prescriptions in what appears (to me) to be some sort of script that only a retarded (yes, I’m taking it back) chimpanzee with shakes from palsy could produce.
Honestly, for a device produced to expel a projectile at around 3,000 feet per second, the AR-15 is about the safest invention ever. It’s like the ten million or so AR-15 shoot Nerf® darts if they only manage to kill 364 people a year. So what’s the deal?
Let’s dissect the idea: what really scares the Left about guns?
- First, most gun deaths are Leftists shooting other Leftists.
Washington, D.C., had 920 people shot last year. 95% of the people in Washington, D.C. are Leftists. People shooting each other isn’t a problem for the people on the Right, it’s just Leftists shooting each other. People on the Left don’t understand why people on the Right aren’t upset.
Well, it’s because we’re not killing people and we’re not being killed. Duh.
In fact, if you took lawful gun owners on the Right and their homicide rate (using guns) it would be among the lowest in the world for any country, including those that ban guns outright. The gun homicide rate of people on the Right is similar to people on Mars, and Elon Musk hasn’t killed anyone recently.
People on the Right don’t shoot each other. Generally, the only time people on the Right shoot people on the Left is when the people on the Left are trying to kill people on the Right. Sure, you can come up with a few oddball examples where somebody on the Right shoots someone, but they are really the “man bites dog†stories because they are so unusual.
People on the Left killing each other? That’s what you call “Friday†in Chicago.
What did the German say when he went into the French bread store? “Gluten tag!â€
So, when the latest shooter (FedEx shooter in Indianapolis) showed up, the Left pounced. It was and is the man bites dog story that they’ll use to prove their lie.
To prove the point: the Left was ecstatic when the Boulder killer showed up. They were even more thrilled when it appeared that he had an AR-15. Then reality hit. When the killer proved to be an “intersectional†member of two of the Left’s worshipped classes – an immigrant and a Muslim, the Left was quite sad.
How to get out of their lie?  Blame it all on unfounded claims of “white supremacy†for the killing of nine white people. If that’s white supremacy, the guy, just maybe, is doing it wrong. Now if the goal was to kill white people in Boulder, well, he got that part just right.
NPR® had a lovely story: “Why Boulder Is Trying To Keep The Focus On The Victims And Not The Shooter.â€Â See, if it’s a Muslim, they can’t even call him what he is – a killer. This was all so that the story could be properly memory-holed. It was the story they were looking for, but just the wrong killer.
Betcha $5 that NPR™ doesn’t run a similar story about Indianapolis.
Now, after half a dozen fizzled attempts to get the narrative they were looking for (someone who wasn’t a Leftist shooting other Leftists), they found it.
- Second, individuals with guns scare Leftists, because Leftists love the State.
Leftists love statist solutions. To them, the State is power. It’s power for their ideas. Leftists don’t see a world where they can go and create and change things they don’t like. Nope. Leftists see a world where the State has to exist to right all of the wrongs that have been done to them.
Go and create a business that serves thousands or millions of people? Or wait for the State to forcibly take money from other people to give to you as reparations for a crime that occurred decades or even hundreds of years in the past?
Are the hieroglyphs in the pyramid hard to read because they’re encrypted?
The second one seems ever so much more fun.
But people forget that the Second Amendment was specifically written to prevent tyranny that the People wouldn’t put up with. An armed populace are citizens. An unarmed populace are subjects. A stoned populace are Oregonians.
Leftists want subjects, not citizens. Leftist want masses who vote for collectivist politicians so they can take power, and never let it go.
People on the Right? Mainly they just want to be left alone.
- Finally, Leftists politicians are scared because armed citizens limit what they can do.
January 6, 2021 was quite a surprise: a group of people petitioned their government for redress. Was there violence? Yes. Was it less than nearly any of the 2020 Some Black Lives Matter protest? Certainly. Damage was minimal. The only death due to violence was one girl in a red hat who was shot by a cop.
That wasn’t the damage.
The damage was to the minds of the elite. They realized that, as I’ve said before, the governance of an armed nation requires the consent of the governed.
Prior to this, the biggest fear of Congress was chlamydia.
I’ll take a second to make an aside. People keep talking about “majority rule†as if there is some sort of magical win that comes from 50% plus one vote. Let me ask a fairly simple question: if a law or rule is so repugnant that 20% of the country finds it intolerable, is that a good law?
Probably not.
Here, however, the elite have figured out Wilder’s Law: 20% of the people, if armed, can stop 100% of the laws, if they are committed enough. And it scares the elite to death. An armed populace always scares tyrants.
My prediction is fairly simple: Americans will continue to own guns. Lots of them. Legally or not.
The Left lies like a group of five-year-olds. They say that “assault weapons†are a problem.
They’re not. Provably not. The left is lying.
Okay, if I really was invisible for a day? I’d kick a mime nearly to death.
Children are not naturally truthful. And neither is the Left. And the Left is certainly not invisible, even when they try to convince you they are.
I recommend that anybody who thinks “defunding the police” is a good idea should spend some time cursor-hovering over and clicking on the mugshots at http://mass-shootings.info/ .
Everything the Left does makes perfect sense once you realize they only care about power. One of the oldest negotiating tactics in the book is to ask for a lot more than you think you can get, then bargain down. The Left has done this for decades, asking for craziness then the Republicans bargain them down to what is still a victory for the Left but which the Republicans claim is a victory because they stopped the Left from getting whatever their original crazy claim was.
In this case, what they think they can get is increased federal control over local police forces. Ask for anarchy, get totalitarianism. Good deal, right Republicans?
I don’t think that people realize that if there are no police, no justice system, that eventually we’ll administer it ourselves.
Which should scare everyone.
An acquaintance I vaguely know commented on the fact that despite the Fedex installation being a “gun free zone”it was no reason the shooter couldn’t be stopped. After all they said, Fedex has letter openers and scissors which could’ve been used against the assailant. I laughed in her face and said yeah, like schools telling kids to bring in canned veggies to throw at a school shooters right?
They really are that stupid.
They are. They think that laws are magic. If someone is going to commit murder, what’s a weapons charge?
Let’s not mince words. It isn’t really Leftists shooting each other, places like Vermont with lots of kookie liberals are still incredibly safe. It is black on black violence, aided and encouraged by White leftists for sure, but still the fact remains that minus the black population the U.S. has very little gun violence. The reasons the Left targets assault weapons are simple:
– The are mostly owned by White people while black shooters prefer handguns
– They are dangerous to the state.
– They look scary making it easier to convince people to support banning them, even though they are rarely used in crime.
John Wilder is getting closer all the time, but still not naming the real threat in unequivocal terms. “Leftists”, hmmm? The monsters most responsible for the mass shootings very likely do not identify as “leftist” at all, if indeed they even know what the term means. They don’t have any political affiliation, nor any motivation beyond gibsmedat and “ya’ll owe us”.
There is crime, and there is “political crime” – and, statistically you are correct, but so am I – there are higher levels of black violence (much higher) and also demographically they are Leftists.
But as was pointed out by Codex, do a search on Antifa, which is certainly more dangerous than crime.
Sociopathy can only be diagnosed once someone is over a certain age, as all children display the symptoms of being sociopaths.
I’m glad people are pointing out how ridiculous the Left’s demands are, but let’s not forget that such demands aren’t done because the Left is dumb. They are done because they have a goal in mind and this is the best way forward for them to achieve it. So far all their other “dumb” ideas have paid off for them, as we are in a situation where a 1 party socialist state is about 1 election away from being cemented.
Also, let’s throw this out there so we don’t end on a downer:
“In a 2017 survey by the political scientists Lilliana Mason and Nathan Kalmoe, 18 percent of Democrats and 12 percent of Republicans said that violence would be at least a little justified if the opposing party won the presidency. In February 2021, those numbers increased to 20 percent and 28 percent, respectively. Other researchers have found an even bigger appetite for extreme activity. In a January poll conducted by the American Enterprise Institute, researchers asked respondents whether “the traditional American way of life is disappearing so fast that we may have to use force to save it.” Thirty-six percent of Americans, and an astounding 56 percent of Republicans, said yes.”
https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/april-may-june-2021/americas-next-insurgency/
Both are great takes – look how after drilling was approved in ANWR, that the Leftists let it drop. Now, no drilling, and they’ve moved on to “pipelines”
I’m glad I wasn’t the only young, bad liar. Way back when I was just a little physicist, I’d reluctantly leave off playing and come inside when my mother called me for supper. The deal was, I was free to go back outside after grudgingly eating “enough,” but only after brushing my teeth. As I headed for the door, after a quick trip to the bathroom, my father would ask, “Did you brush your teeth?” Of course, my “yes” was a lie — that stuff took too long, when there was dirt and trouble to be gotten into outside.
Came the day, when I did this lying maneuver, I eventually came back inside after it was dark, only to be confronted by my father, telling me that he had inspected my toothbrush and found it to be “as dry as a bone.” Okay, I was busted, and I learned my lesson … thereafter, I always turned on the tap just long enough to wet the toothbrush before going about my proper business.
A few days later, my father again confronted me. “Did you really brush your teeth?” Sure, I said; wasn’t my toothbrush wet?
“Bring me the toothpaste.” I went and fetched the tube of Crest. (This was back when toothpaste tubes were made of sheet lead. The young people here won’t believe that, but it’s true.)
“Take the cap off.”
I’m sure you can complete the story from here. My father, a tool and die maker with a normal adult man’s grip strength, had tightened that cap … uhhh, firmly. My pudgy little hands would have needed pliers to have any chance of backing that cap off.
Finally, I was defeated. I had to start actually brushing my teeth. And I had to find other things to lie about. That last, of course, was no problem.
Yup. At least you had a lie that *might* have been true. (Man, I was a stupid kid.)
Chicago Tribune article from 2 1/2 years ago. Their censors must have been asleep.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-mass-shooters-russia-public-shootings-thousand-oaks-mercy-hospital-chicago-1121-story.html
Wow! How did that get published???
Every famous shooter I can recall had serious mental-health issues long before the shooting started. Bullied in school, perhaps, or at the workplace. If they didn’t have a gun, a knife, a strong pair of hands, or some other weapon, they’d still be just as miserable with their lives. Doesn’t anyone care about mental illness any more? And I suspect that the anonymous Chicago, LA, or SE DC shooters are mostly shooting for “respect”: to assert their claims over a drug deal, a block of turf, or a woman. It can’t be easy for a man to maintain his self-respect when every job he’s qualified for has been off-shored to some place in Asia where they can turn a blind eye to slavery, and inflation makes saving a little money when you can look foolish.
Well said, and especially where there’s a deficit of fathers to provide good examples.
I was very happy to see an announcement from my County Executive that $20M was reprogrammed from a new police training center to a “behavioral health” center. That is, mental illness and substance abuse treatment. From the announcement:
“One third of the people housed at our Department of Corrections suffered from [diagnosed] mental health illnesses, and about 70% of those who arrived to the correctional facility each day were intoxicated.”
I added the bit in brackets. Who knows how many people in jail have subtle mental health issues? If you’re feeling bad about being unemployable and hungry, is that “crazy”?
Knocked this one out of the park Dude !!! Extremely well reasoned and written so even people like me understand.
Thank you! It actually took less time than normal to write this one. Got an extra hour’s sleep!
Hussein Hopenchange signed us up to the UN small arms treaty with the historic pen and phone as part of the Fundamental Transformation.
Comrade Chairman Xhou Bai Den will deliver the prize known as FUSA while Chicago Jesus wears sweats and chooms up in the resistance bunker basement.
False flag Kabuki shootings will continue as part of the burn it all down by any means necessary plan.
I no longer speak to family stuck back in time 80 years ago and prattling on about the CPUSA (democrats) helping the working man.
Nope. Before this election, I saw many former Dems (working men) give up on the party.
The Left lies for the same reason dogs pee on fire hydrants: they can’t help it, it’s in their nature.
But when the dog rips up your garden and eats your chickens, you beat the dog, and then you go beat the owner.
If beating doesn’t take, you try firmer methods.
One can always find new neighbors to fill the place next door, after all.
As I was telling my new neighbor just the other week…
But in terms of crime, back when Wm F. Buckley still ran the joint, National Review noted that in the U.S., violent crime was high only compared to Western Europe/Japan, Oz.
But compared to Trashcanistan, Shitholia, or anywhere else in the Turd World, it was an Edenic paradise pre-Cain.
But that if you took black perpetrators out of the crime stats, the U.S. violent crime rate was lower than Luxembourg. If you took out hispanic perpetrators as well, it was lower than the violent crime rate in Leichtenstein.
Despite us American citizens privately owning a few hundred million more weapons than not just the residents of a country the size of something between Disneyland, and Disneyworld, but in fact, us owning more weapons than everyone in Europe, combined, including their combined armies. (One could look it up.)
We don’t talk about those inconvenient facts much these days.
We don’t have a gun problem.
We don’t have a crime problem.
We have a criminal problem.
As in too many of them are not simply executed, and the rest not thrown into Chateau D’If-like solo accommodations in perpetuity, to leave only in a burlap sack tossed into a burial hole.
Forever in a dungeon has a 0% recidivism rate, since ever. And violence, against other prisoners, and staff, when you’re housed one to a hole, also drops to zero. Mirabile dictu!
Now, the Leftards want to monkey with crime, punishment, the justice system, and the rule of law itself.
Using actual monkeys, apparently.
Fair enough.
Say ‘When’.
It’ll be Cowboys and Everyone Else in about 0.2 seconds. And then we can start over from where we were in about 1800.
Including one helluva lot less Leftards. Definitely not a voting majority anywhere. Possibly not even a single breeding pair.
Boo frickin’ hoo.
Well said. I think that the justice system (which is awesome, really) will be missed.
Personal retribution will be much less popular, though it will soon enough be common.
Welcome to the end of empire.
I do like your omega point.
The Left lies for the same reason dogs pee on fire hydrants: they can’t help it, it’s in their nature.
But when the dog rips up your garden and eats your chickens, you beat the dog, and then you go beat the owner.
If beating doesn’t take, you try firmer methods.
One can always find new neighbors to fill the place next door, after all.
But in terms of crime, back when Wm F. Buckley still ran the joint, National Review noted that in the U.S., violent crime was high only compared to Western Europe/Japan, Oz.
But compared to Trashcanistan, Shitholia, or anywhere else in the turd World, it was an Edenic paradise pre-Cain.
But that if you took black perpetrators out of the crime stats, the U.S. violent crime rate was lower than Luxembourg. If you took out hispanic perpetrators as well, it was lower than the violent crime rate in Leichtenstein.
Despite us owning a few hundred million more weapons than not just the residents of a country the size of something between Disneyland, and Disneyworld, but in fact, us owning more weapons than everyone in Europe, combined, including their combined armies.
We don’t talk about those inconvenient facts much these days.
We don’t have a gun problem.
We don’t have a crime problem.
We have a criminal problem.
As in too many of them are not simply executed, and the rest not thrown into Chateau D’If-like solo accommodations in perpetuity, to leave only in a burlap sack tossed into a burial hole.
Forever in a dungeon has a 0% recidivism rate, since ever. And violence, against other prisoners, and staff, when you’re housed one to a hole, also drops to zero. Mirabile dictu!
Now, the Leftards want to monkey with crime, punishment, the justice system, and the rule of law itself.
Fair enough.
Say ‘When’.
It’ll be Cowboys and Everyone Else in about 0.2 seconds. and we can start over from where we were in about 1800.
Including one helluva lot less Leftards. Definitely not a voting majority anywhere. Possibly not even a single breeding pair.
Boo frickin’ hoo.