No Supersoakers, no Rubber Dart guns, No Nerf Guns!? Can I be a kid please?
One 14 teenager got tired of political correctness run amok & took on the Washington Terrace Utah City Hall by himself, & is getting results!
Good for you Matthew Taylor! Keep up the great work, & I hope you become a political leader!
~Dan Lee
From the NRA website.
In April 2008, with NRA’s support, the Legislature stood up for your rights and passed legislation allowing you to keep a firearm locked in your private vehicle in publicly accessible parking lots. Governor Charlie Crist stood up for your rights and signed the legislation into law to protect us from corporate giants.
While many business owners, including Sea World and Busch Gardens, respect our constitutional right to keep and bear arms, the Florida Chamber of Commerce and the Florida Retail Federation are not speaking for them. The Florida Chamber and Retail Federation are speaking for The Walt Disney Corporation, Publix Supermarkets, Georgia Pacific and other corporate giants that are funding the assault on our constitutional rights.
In this legal challenge to defend our rights, NRA depends solely on your support. And we can’t do it alone and won’t succeed in protecting our rights unless you act today.
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I will not be shopping there anymore, & I would encourage anyone who values their Second Amendment rights to avoid these companies as well. If corporate anti-gun bias is going on in Florida, it’s going on everywhere in the country, bubbling below the surface waiting to rear its ugly head.
You maybe wondering why I only linked to the Publix Corporation so that you can send them your thoughts. Well here’s why; For them to assist in the violation of citizen’s Second Amendment Rights is particularly devious, since people NEED groceries, & NEED to go to some Supermarket to get their food.
In my personal opinion they are thumbing their noses at everyone by getting involved in this anti-gun bias, when what they should be doing is processing & selling food. Using the very powerful position of being one of the largest retailers of ESSENTIAL SERVICES to muscle through, &/or buy anti-gun legislation is particularly egregious behavior.
Here is an NRA compiled list of additional people/organizations that certainly would not want our tainted gun-toting, bible clinging cash either.. One of the most humorous entries is Uma Thurman. No, she certainly wouldn’t want anyone to “Kill” an anti gun “Bill“, or to promote like, gun violence in a movie or anything.. *Roll Eyes*
~Dan Lee
I was born in Worcester Massachusetts, but now reside near Nashville Tennessee. I paid $100 for a STATE APPROVED gun safety course required for a handgun carry permit in the state of Tennessee, & then an additional $115 to the State of Tennessee’s Dept. of Safety, as well as being fingerprinted (every digit) & having my handgun model recorded by officials.
Yet somehow If I want to return to my home state of 36 years, where I was born, I will now have to disarm & leave my personal defense weapon at home. Yes that’s right. I can drive a 2 ton weapon into the state of Massachusetts on my Tennessee drivers license, while across this country’s automobiles are the number one thing that kills & often dismember our nations teenagers, yet I will be stopped at the border &/or probably arrested if I bring my firearm into Massachusetts, even though I have paid my due. Of course I do have the unreasonable option of paying to fly into Massachusetts, paying for taking a second redundant hand course safety course approved by THAT State to the tune of another $100 & a couple of days of my time, & then paying Massachusetts for a hand gun carry permit.
Since I’ve already paid here in Tennessee, that would of course constitute Governmental “double dipping”. Also, while I am in the process, I will be there with no self defense weapon, & fully vulnerable to armed thugs in Massachusetts who unlike me, HAVE been arrested before. Or wait! Do I really have that option? Or do I have to be a resident? So far I haven’t been able to get a straight answer anywhere. This description on eHow.com seems to point to a very “over complicated” process that is designed to discourage my right to bear arms. In part is reads: “You will be required to justify your request in writing. Make your request as detailed and specific as possible. Valid reasons for requesting a concealed handgun include personal threats, being in a high-risk profession or routinely carrying large amounts of cash.”
Oh really? Not according to the recent Supreme Court Ruling in Heller Vs. The District of Columbia since the core holding in D.C. v. Heller is that the Second Amendment is an individual right intimately tied to the natural right of self-defense. Do not criminals shoot people in the streets? Do I not have a right to protect myself in Massachusetts under the Supreme Court Ruling? Or will we have no consistency in our country with regards to citizens rights under the Constitution?
As it stands I can’t go home while maintaining my 2nd amendment right to protect myself, under any circumstances. Yes, that is right. I cannot return to the place of my birth unless I give up my some of my constitutional rights. So what I need is a lawyer who is willing to help me to either mediate a reciprocity agreement with the state of Massachusetts, or to sue for one, to protect my second amendment rights. I am a citizen of the United States, & as far as I know, I should enjoy the same rights under the US Constitution in Massachusetts, as I do in Tennessee. This is not currently the case however.
The framers of our constitution believed that Americans possessed a natural right of self defense, which no government could abrogate. Now mine & others rights are being abrogated, in that we may not return to my own home state unless we give up our right to self defense with an implement that has clearly been deemed reasonable by the highest court of the United States of America, a hand gun.
I am anxious to hear from any natives of Massachusetts who have moved away, & face the same problem as I do. For the purposes of this article, I will call you “those of duel citizenship” since Massachusetts now treats us as if we are entering the state as foreigners. Please contact me if you are interested in supporting my effort to have my legally obtained hand gun permit duly recognized starting in my home state, as well as eventually extending to anywhere else that my constitutional rights are protected. As far as I know, that should be any U.S territory.
*Update* 7/29/08 Passing This Legislation would make all of our lives much easier, save tax payer money for legal costs to the states, & protect our Constitutional Rights.
Please Send me some mail! if you would like to help.
Plain Text (cut & paste) info@danleereport.com
Thanks!
~Dan Lee
Dick Heller is the man who brought a much needed lawsuit against DC, to lift the unconstitutional handgun ban that has threatened the personal safety of it’s citizens for years.
Despite a recent ruling by the high court, Heller’s (post SCOTUS decision) registration of his hand gun was recently denied on the basis that it was a bottom loaded semi-auto, & therefore the same as a “machine gun”. So here we are again, with liberals in DC being completely dishonest & playing with semantics.
Webster’s Dictionary defines a “machine gun” as the following:
Main Entry: machine gun
Function: noun
Date: 1867
:a gun for sustained rapid fire that uses bullets; broadly : an automatic weapon
Sustained rapid fire with seven rounds??? Doesn’t sound like Heller’s pistol even comes close to qualifying as a “machine gun” to me.. Clearly the DC moonbats had long ago gotten away with taking it upon themselves to break away from societal standards (such as the trusted Merriam Webster dictionary) to completely & arbitrarily redefine what a “machine gun” actually is.
The problem is that their little games will lead to more court cases to define the obvious for them, & it will be at the expense of the taxpayers. Meanwhile, the liberal media will black the stories out, & most of the public will never know that DC is wasting their money on trying to deny the Constitutional rights of it’s own citizens, unless people start to speak up for their rights.
Remember in November.. REMEMBER come November.. ~ Dan Lee
Liberals seem to never run out of ways to be stupid. Seriously, they think they can stop gun owners from carrying a lot of firepower by banning Semi-Autos?
Like most things the Democrats do, it makes no sense, but that’s not stopping the fascist anti-gun nuts in the Washington D.C. government from trying to impose more unconstitutional laws on citizens. Of course it will backfire in their face when people start carrying a revolver on each hip just like the old west, & speed loaders to make up for the low ammo capacity of revolvers..
They will also carry larger caliber/more deadly weapons to make sure that 6 bullets is enough to stop an attacker..
But just like most liberal policy, they didn’t think through any of that before they rushed to please the MoveOn.borg & the like, by putting out this saber rattling press release about banning semi-autos..
Go ahead D.C., ban them.. I’m sure there are plenty of people who are just waiting for a good excuse to get one of these:
However wonderful this may seem for the manufacturers of revolvers, I don’t think the D.C. anti-gun loons have thought this through long enough, & I’m not the only one.. My guess is that they’ll have an epiphany any day now & realize how incredibly dumb they are to even suggest a semi-auto ban.. If they continue with this talk, they will be seriously embarrassed in the end.
~Dan Lee
It’s all right here in his own words.. He wants to play “lets make a deal” with lying terror sponsoring nations, & then disarm us.. What a genius.. Watch the video, & then vote accordingly.
Obama’s racist anti-semitic friends would like to see this country disarmed too.. Coincidence? Watch Obama the stutterer futilely try to explain away all his racist/radical associations.
What you will see in the video below is a very powerful assembly of facts.
~Dan Lee
“They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
-Barack Hussein Obama
Turns out Mr. I won’t pledge allegiance to the flag tried to ban gun shops withing five miles of any school. If you think about it that would ban gun shops in just about any city, & effectively put them out of business. I’m not surprised, he’s the most liberal fascist Presidential candidate in History. If elected he’ll do everything he can to violate your second amendment rights & score points with the MoveOn.borg & Code Pink crowd.
More on this emerging story over at Michelle Malkin’s site.
~Dan Lee
Tonight I watched the Democratic National committee stand there & flat out lie to the American people about what THEY can do for this country, & what Bush hasn’t done. The truth is they have had control of most of this country’s power for two years now, with their control of the US Congress, & they’ve gotten less done than any congress in history. They have the lowest approval rating of any Congress in history. They have the nerve say that “On Bush’s watch” this, & on Bush’s watch that, when they are the ones who had the opportunity to change things, & they completely squandered it.
How we let morally corrupt trash like Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid & Howard Dean become leaders in this once great nation, is beyond reason. They lie constantly & do it with absolutely no remorse or conscience.
They have the gall to blame the Gas Prices on Bush, when they were the ones proposing more taxes on companies that bring us our energy, thus eventually driving up the prices even more. Their party is the party that keeps us from drilling for our own oil & natural gas resources on OUR OWN SOIL.
I really don’t know what to say to my fellow Americans other than you’d better get your head out of your XBox, Sex in the City, & whatever else is distracting you from caring about what kind of corruption is occurring in the Government of the United States. These people are intentionally destroying the sovereignty of this nation because they believe in selling out to our enemies for a quick political payoff. Most Democrats do not fear God, because they don’t believe in him in the first place, so why would they have a problem with lying? They don’t believe that they will face eternal consequences for their actions, so what do these old farts like Pelosi & Reid care if they destroy the nation? The way they see it is when they’re dead they’re dead, so they might as well get all they can while they are alive.
It is critical that we take out the trash in the next 8-12 years, starting with most of the Democratic Party. As I said, I have never in all my life seen more people in a position of such power who are so willing to flat out lie to our faces for personal & political power & gain. Remember, one of the biggest problems facing this nation today is an energy crisis, & these people have the nerve to point the finger at others after 2 years of controlling the congress & doing almost nothing.
There is one comfort I have in all of this, & that is that I know that those who lie & cheat without conscience will face the wrath of God when he returns. That includes people like Howard Dean who’s viral lying words about President George Bush go far beyond constructive criticism.
Then there’s that complete scumbag Senator Debbie Stabow who has the nerve to blame Bush’s economic policies for her democratic tax & spend government’s failures in Michigan. Democrats have run Michigan into the ground, & this psychopath had the nerve to get up on CSpan & blame Bush. Bush is to blame for everything if you’re a Democrat. A manhole transformer explosion can occur in Moscow, & the Democrats will say that’s Bush’s fault too. These people are less insane than they are just plan evil, but they are a some of both.
My fellow Americans, I hate to be the one to tell you this, but you have turned your government over to one of the most vile broods of viper in all history, & they want to put a closet Muslim Extremist sympathizer in office to further undermine our sovereignty, & submit to like minded liberal,fascist,communist,socialist governments around the world. If we don’t begin to take out the garbage soon, you will be living under a tyranny that will be painful to remove.. It’s critical to your future & the future of your children that you remove this tumor that is growing on our nation.
After I watched the horrid drivel coming from the DNC, the idiots (like Mike German) from the ACLU had their turn spewing their hypocrisy & rhetoric (since they are are a front for the Democrats) on privacy & surveillance.
They sadly & pathetically try to use the abuse perpetrated by ONE police officer using an infrared camera to spot a couple making out on a roof, as proof that “Bush’s” surveillance policies have violated the privacy of the American people. Yet I’ve worked for Democrats at a college they run, & they monitor people’s phone calls, confiscate the hard drives & IM Logs of any employee that’s quit or been fired, & regularly try to brainwash employees about global warming & a host of other social issues that have nothing to do with their Job requirements.
In short, Democrats are largely vile & despicable lying hypocrites, & the way you can tell if they are lying to you, is if they are communicating to you in any way whatsoever, be it speech, writing, or hand signs. Turn this country over to these people, & we will be doomed to more than listening to the Liberal employees at Starbucks trying to force us to say “Grande”, “Venti”, & “Tall”, instead of speaking english in the United States. We will be doomed to bowing to the whims of the democratic party & whatever terms they have made with the devil while selling out our country to terrorists & their sympathizers.
My message to my fellow countrymen & women is to wake up & see what evil is creeping up on you. They want to tell you what size car to drive, take away your guns, & tell you that you can’t have bibles or prayer in public schools, yet they speak out the other side of their mouths about their concerns of over liberty & Government surveillance. These people are lying scum, & the Democratic party as it currently exists, must be defeated & destroyed, period. It has lost it’s moral compass, & besides it’s advocation of murdering babies & pushing the gay agenda on the American people, & blatantly lying to the public about phantom environmental concerns like “Global Warming” it’s list of moral atrocities grow exponentially every year. They have infiltrated & completely taken over the news media & educational system so that they can control the information the American people receive, & they regularly attack any media outlet with whom they either don’t agree, or who tries to present anything other than a liberal view. Liberals these days only believe in their own liberty. If you want proof, watch C-Span. It really should be call “C-Spam” (for cerebral spam), but that would be too much honesty for a liberal network to handle.
Oh. one more thing.. I wonder if it’s any coincidence that there was a man in some hardcore Muslim garb sitting in the CSPAN audience & listening intently to Mike German from the ACLU? Talk about surveillance…
~Dan Lee
We’ve all heard the horror stories. The worst & most embarrassing one I’ve ever seen was this DEA agent doing a Gun safety class in front of adolescent School Children. He makes a HORRIFIC misjudgment in handling a weapon that has a full clip in it, & especially in the presence of children.
The Result? He was lucky. He only shoots himself in the thigh, & the bullet stays there & thank God does not further injure him or the children & other adults in the class.
Watch the video below, & how the children unfortunately used better judgment than the officer who partially tried to save face in the situation. He misguidedly tries to keep from alarming the kids further by picking up a rifle, & trying to foolishly go on with the presentation. The kids tell him to put it down! Good call kids!
Do I feel bad for him? Yes of course I do. However he broke several important rules that are absolutely not to be broken in regard to gun safety. I think unfortunately he got a little too caught up in his dramatic approach to gun safety, & forgot about the gun safety part in the process.
1. On the video, he stated himself that “This is an unloaded weapon. This is an empty weapon.”
he then goes & gets gets a “nothing in my hat, nothing up my sleeve” type confirmation from an assistant asking if it’s an empty weapon, the assistant concurs, but probably only looks in the chamber. The officer does NOT clear the weapon himself by ejecting the magazine, as well as looking into the chamber. As a result, when he locks the slide back, & then releases it, he unwittingly cycles a live round from the magazine into the chamber. Again, He did not treat the gun as loaded, & check both the magazine & chamber himself before handling it.
2. He’s handling a Glock 40 cal, (likely a model 22 or 23 with no thumb safety lever) & not the best weapon to bring into a classroom or demonstration.
3. There should have been no ammunition present in any weapon on his person, or he planned to un-holster for any demonstration. Any weapon he planned to demonstrate with, should have been void of a magazine & had the slide locked back at all times, or disabled with the firing pin completely removed, & devoid of a magazine or ammunition. It would also have been handled very minimally, & placed on a table with the muzzle in the most currently safe direction.
4. Though he eventually points the gun down to possibly put it away (not sure), somehow he gets his finger on the trigger, or gets the trigger hung on something. The gun discharges, & he’s hit in the thigh with what is mostly likely a very damaging hollow point bullet. Hollow point bullets are designed to inflict the maximum damage, without exiting the intended target & possibly injuring an innocent bystander. Also notice that in the commotion, his female assistant hands him the rifle at one point, & has the muzzle pointed at the man standing against the wall!
Now, I believe this officer in his heart of hearts truly wanted to teach Gun safety to these children this day, & had nothing but good intentions for being there. Unfortunately he ended up giving an even better example than was necessary, or safe, by forgetting some of his own training.
I recently took my Handgun Safety course with The Academy for Self Protection in Joelton Tennessee. My instructor was Rob Corcoran. Rob is a former USAF Combat Arms Instructor and Security Police Officer. Rob currently teaches all Handgun Carry classes for A.S.P. He is an NRA certified Pistol Instructor and a Tennessee State certified Pistol Instructor.
Rob’s training skills were very clearly & well defined throughout the 8 hour course. During the training, He always got us to the point of the matters at hand, while at the same time keeping things light enough with a perfect balance of humor, gun trivia, & mechanical composition, without being too distracting from the serious nature of gun safety as a whole. He warned us ahead of time, that if he repeated something several times, it was probably going to be both highly important, & also on the written exam, or part of our firing range test. He covered everything from good/bad gun handling practices, to good/bad guns & ammunition by themselves, & the types that we may encounter in the real world.
Rob’s approach was not only to make sure that we knew how to fire a gun safely, but also that once the bullet left the barrel, there are potentially serious consequences, both legally & morally. His course also covered tips on being a more controlled shooter, which is also important to safety, & limiting your targets to only intended ones.
While my impression on his feelings about handguns was that he’s clearly an enthusiast, I felt that he made it glaringly obvious that a gun is not like a golf club or ball. When you go to the range with a gun & make a mistake, it could mean more than someone getting a concussion from a golf club that’s slipped out of your hand, or a wayward ball. It could mean instant death for you or an innocent bystander, or lives changed forever, & he made that responsibility very clear in his course, by covering Tennessee law on the use of firearms for self defense.
After having completed this course, I can tell you that as soon as he saw someone holding a weapon up with the magazine still in it like in the video above? He would have said: ” Clear that weapon immediately by removing the magazine, & I don’t want any ammunition in this classroom. Period”
He has signs in the classroom to remind everyone.
If you’re thinking about taking a handgun safety course in the middle Tennessee area, I highly recommend Rob & his Academy of Self Protection. I don’t see how the course could have been any better to be honest. After taking it, I’m only reasonably confident that I’ll never have an accident. I say “reasonably”, because one of the sentiments Rob was able to get across was to “never get cocky or overconfident handling a firearm.” The gun is always loaded, period. No exceptions.
~Dan Lee
The Department of Justice has a program (at least in South Carolina), called the “Cease Fire” project..
Sounds like a good thing if it helps prevent gun crimes. HOWEVER, ahem.. On their website, they have a very ominous poster that is not very constitutional in my opinion as an educated U.S. born citizen. In fact it’s wording is a bit scary to say the least.
I have just a little teensy weensy question though..
Since when does a broken tail light alone lead to probable cause for a search of a person’s trunk?
Or is law enforcement doing courtesy tail light bulb changes that we didn’t know about? 
As a legal gun owner & advocate, I don’t want people having guns illegally either, but at the same time, DUE PROCESS is imperative to our Constitutional rights. Although motor vehicles have “less” protection under the fourth amendment, they are still protected against illegal or harassing searches. A broken tail light alone certainly does not justify rifling through a citizens trunk, or vehicle. Once police have validly stopped a vehicle, they “may”, based on articulable facts warranting a reasonable belief that weapons may be present, conduct a Terry-type protective search of those portions of the passenger compartment in which a weapon could be placed or hidden. The poster I linked should be changed to reflect a respect for constitutionality in law, & due process.
Just food for thought.. ~ Dan Lee
Founded on the web circa 25-Apr-05 The so called American Hunters & Shooters Association is a dishonest organization, that curiously popped up right after the 2004 Presidential election loss of the Democrats. This Johnny come lately organization has been critical of the NRA, despite their glaringly obvious lack of tenure or credibility on Gun rights or Hunting issues.
One needs not look farther than their “Who We Are” to find the inconsistency & dishonesty of this organization. In this section of their website, they make the following statements. A simple look at the survey they refer to, reveals that the survey said no such thing about Assault Rifles or Bullets. I suppose they are counting on people’s laziness in not actually reading the survey. That’s a typical elitist liberal response, & usually their downfall incidentally. Contrary to their delusion, REAL gun rights advocates are concerned with more than chewing tobacco & 4 wheel drive trucks. We do in fact read between the lines.
From the “Who We Are” section of the huntersandandshooters.com website.
According to a 2003 Field & Stream National Hunting Survey, sportsmen overwhelmingly support reasonable gun safety proposals. Moreover, an overwhelming majority of hunters support proposals like background checks to purchase guns, keeping military style assault weapons off our streets and the elimination of cop killer bullets.
Now lets looks at what the survey ACTUALLY Said..
There a was only actually one question on the survey that was relevant in any way to the claims made above in the “Who We Are” section of the American Hunters & Shooters Association website.
15. Do you consider assault-style rifles to be legitimate sporting guns?
67% No
33% Yes
As you can see, this question & it’s responses have NOTHING to do with getting assault rifles off of the street. The question only addresses the relevancy of the assault rifle as a sporting gun.
Nowhere in the survey are the readers asked whether or not the assault rifle is a legitimate self defense gun, yet on the website, they try to spin the question & response to mean that Hunters don’t think anyone should own an assault rifle. They were asked about it for hunting, not self defense.
This website/organization is clearly & deviously bending the truth for their own political agenda.
Furthermore, nowhere in the survey were “Cop Killing” bullets mentioned, or asked about.
Secondly, if we were as citizens eventually subject to a government agency who went completely bonkers, why would we want them to be the only ones with access to armor piercing rounds?
Remember, Hitler disarmed German citizens, before he went on his genocidal assault against Jews, or anyone who didn’t agree for that matter..
This would also of course be a completely fascist position for any Gun owner/advocate to take, because the second amendment guarantees us the right to own any type of rifle, or ammunition we want. Whereas the Second Amendment includes the phrase; “being necessary to the security of a free State“, it’s clearly addressing our right to have sufficient firepower to protect ourselves against the rise of a fascist Government.
The authors of this website are trying to slowly disarm us, by giving you a couple Hershey kisses, & then stealing your King sized Hershey Bar (with almonds), while you sleep.
Don’t fall for it! They are a Johnny come lately political front, who will change their tune as soon as they & the Democrats have enough power to have a sing along.
I have just given you a clear example of this organization twisting, no correction MANGLING, the truth, in the most crafty ways imaginable. On certain parts of their website, they claim that they do not agree with the Hand Gun prohibitions in D.C. & Chicago ect.. This too is a crafty tactic. Why? Let me explain.
They know that hand guns are essentially ineffective beyond 50 feet or so, (150 ft. if you’re weapon uses the higher velocity rounds, & you have a horseshoe up your @$$) whereas an assault rifle has an effective range of as far as 2000 feet. So if they concede everyone the right to own a hand gun, then they could keep the really effective weapons in the hands of the Government, (assault rifles) & out of the hands of the people. What are we supposed to do, defend the republic against a rogue government/regime with pistols against these weapons? Oh that’s rich…
This is a very devious & crafty strategy, especially knowing how the handgun free zones are turning out to be a joke (VT shootings,D.C./Chicago gun crime rate still high, a Supreme Court defeat looming for Anti-hand gun proponents.) They know they are about to lose the handgun battle on constitutional grounds, but now they are (almost) ok with that, because they know you can’t fight a rogue Police state with handguns, & after all, it’s mostly inner city people they don’t really care about killing themselves with them. These are voters they can replace at the current child illegitimacy rate in their minds. So now they are trying to convince people that assault rifles are bad, (as if they bounce around on their stock & randomly murder people on their own.)
DO NOT be Fooled. Do your family a favor, & own an assault rifle, before these nuts have a chance to deprive you of your right to self protection through their cloak & dagger schemes. Also, keep your membership with the NRA, or get one. There’s a reason behind why these idiots keep attacking the NRA. They are trying to undermine the REAL GUN RIGHTS ADVOCATES.
“The NRA is extreme,” says Ray Schoenke, the former Washington Redskins lineman and failed Democratic candidate for governor of Maryland who is president of the American Hunters and Shooters Association. Schoenke also previously made a $5,000 donation to Handgun Control Inc., predecessor to the main anti-gun lobby, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
Be sure to read up on this guy carefully. He’s an anti-gun hypnotist, plain & simple. Ask yourself this: After Barack Hussein Obama’s “Clinging to Guns & Bibles” remarks about small town America, why in hell would any REAL pro-gun rights group endorse him?
Oh, & for anyone who thinks they can successfully criticize me as an paranoid about our Government, Just remember that those who forget the harsh lessons of History are bound to repeat them.
Charlatans! ~ Dan Lee
Obviously the Chicago “Gun Ban” still doesn’t mean anything to criminals, & it isn’t helping to stem the tide of violence in the city. Instead of only evil or morally confused people having guns, responsible citizens should have them also, that way the criminals never know who will take them down if they try to shoot anyone else in the citizenship. We know that criminals will always find a way to get guns, just like drugs. Even legal drugs are abused by a few, compared to the millions who use them for their intended treatments or purposes. Should we ban all pain killers then? Make good law abiding people suffer severe pain, because a few idiots abuse prescription drugs?
A half baked quote from The Superintendent of the Chicago Police:
“There are just too many weapons here,” the superintendent, Jody P. Weis, said at a news conference. “Too many guns, too many gangs.”
Well that’s about half right… Guns don’t go off without a homicidal idiot behind them. How about cleaning out the gangs?
Also, why are these anti-violence programs that actually work, being cut? People talking to people… Wow, now there’s a novel concept huh?
Like I’ve said before, this just proves that politicians have been on the wrong track with imposing gun bans. These handgun bans haven’t done anything to stop crime in D.C., or in Chicago, & that’s now become an irrefutable fact.
When only criminals have guns, only innocent people get shot or victimized. That is an injustice, & a crime against humanity in of itself. That is also why our forefathers instituted the second amendment.
In fairness, Superintendent Weis eventually went on to touch on the real crux of the matter:
“We’ve got to get children back into being children,” Superintendent Weis said. “Not cold-blooded killers. Law enforcement cannot replace parents. Parents have to take a very aggressive role.”
That’s right Chicago.. If you take every gun off the planet, & have bad parental guidance for children, they will sharpen sticks, plastic, & butter knives to stab each other to death with if they have to.
~Dan Lee
Well before I start, I want to say that I’m very sad for the families & victims of Seung-Hui Cho. It is one of those tragedies that none of us will ever forget.
However it’s also my responsibility to expose the truth wherever the gun hating leftist media in our country will not. The truth is, what ended up being a 1 against 32 slaughter, could have been much different if a few students & faculty were allowed to defend themselves against an attacker. Even a handful of trained & lethally armed security guards would have cut the carnage down significantly. Logic dictates that if a few responsible individuals trained to use a firearm were present, Cho would have been taken down, or at least chased off before he could kill more than perhaps 5 or 10 people. But all those things were against the “Campus Rules”. Rules that people like Seung-Hui Cho will never follow.
But on this day one year ago, Viginia Tech was a campus completely owned & operated for all practical purposes by Seung-Hui Cho. He was the rule of law. He was the purveyor of twisted justice in his own mind, & because he was the only one who had the firepower to enforce it, it went exactly how he planned it. He was judge, jury, & executioner.
Anti gun proponents like Thom Mannard, president of States United to Prevent Gun Violence, will tell us bold face lies by saying that; “What never really seems to occur is a real, thorough discussion on the fact that often the only common denominator in these tragedies is the use of guns. There is no other weapon that is legally available that can kill so many in such a short period of time. It’s amazing that more people don’t make that simple acknowledgment.”
What’s amazing to me Mr. Thom Mannard, is that you left out these other common demominators in these tragedies; The Immorality of the perpetrator(s), their Rage, their Malice, & often times their mental illness, substance abuse, & alcoholism.. Just a few little details you forgot to mention hmmm?
He also said this: “How many innocent victims must we lose on college campuses, in shopping malls, city halls and other public places before we say this is enough and start to discuss the role that guns are playing in all these tragedies,” Mannard continued. “We can no longer avoid the fact that guns are the common denominator in all these events, and that guns are the only type of weapon legally available in this country that can kill so many people in such a short period of time.
Oh really Thom Mannard? Here’s proof you are deadly wrong. A driver who wasn’t even trying to aim his car at anyone hit a crowd of people killing 8 of them instantly. Imagine if he was purposefully aiming it at a densely packed crowd of people?
New Hybrid vehicles have almost zero operational noise, making it a stealth weapon, even with the coming “noise makers” to protect blind pedestrains added to them. Those “safety features” will of course be easily defeated by crafty car owners & modders who are bitter over buying a car that could be quieter. One could drive a vehicle like that through or around barricades & take out 20- 30 parade goers or first night celebration attendees in a blink of an eye. That’s with out first loading the vehicle up with large metal gasoline containers wrapped with sheets of automatic nail gun nails, & igniting those when the perpetrator gets into the crowd. The car, the Gasoline, the nails, the automotive spark plug, & spark plug wire are all readily available to anyone who wants them. So only two conclusions remain, either Thom Mannard is a very naive soul, or he’s a liar with an anti-gun & second amendment agenda. Are we going to ban all Home improvement items too?
From the National the Centers for Disease Control:
In 2004, poisoning deaths exceeded those related to firearms by 2%; however, the difference increased to 7% in 2005, with 32,691 poisoning deaths compared with 30,694 firearm deaths. Motor vehicle traffic (MVT) deaths were the leading cause of injury death from 1999-2005, accounting for 43,667 deaths in 2005. From 2004 to 2005, MVT deaths increased 1%, firearm deaths, 4% and poisoning deaths, 8%. (1,2)
Much of the poisoning is related to drug abuse by the way.
Number of Death in Population by Motor Vehicles between 1999 & 2005: 268,732
So here’s my question to people like Thom Mannard. Since the U.S. constitution specifically guarantees our right to bear arms (most legal scholars believe the Supreme court will confirm & uphold that fact this summer), but the constitution does not specifically guarantee our right to own say a wagon or a horse, which is what they had back then when they wrote it, why then aren’t you trying to stop us from driving the automobile which is statistically proven to be more deadly than the gun?
A Podium Vs. a Gun
Erin Sheehan was a fres
