tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post125233510622339631..comments2024-03-27T19:38:49.490-04:00Comments on The Silicon Graybeard: Confidential to the Gun GrabbersSiGraybeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-37533219364795424202012-08-03T20:24:41.658-04:002012-08-03T20:24:41.658-04:00Yeah - I blew it on the "everybody had musket...Yeah - I blew it on the "everybody had muskets", and really do know better. This was when the German rifle makers were first getting started in Pennsylvania. The history of all this in Rose's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/American-Rifle-Biography-Alexander-Rose/dp/0553384384/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1344039608&sr=1-1&keywords=american+rifle" rel="nofollow">American Rifle: A Biography</a> - a really cool book. <br /><br />I'm also under the impression that the whole reason the BATFE started was to keep the IRS officers hired during prohibition on the government payroll. Except for killing folks in Waco, shooting dogs and stomping kittens to death, they are largely just a tax agency.SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-65590917764156362222012-08-03T19:14:42.613-04:002012-08-03T19:14:42.613-04:00Prior to 1934 the civilian market was better armed...Prior to 1934 the civilian market was better armed, and trained than our military. Thompson designed the 1921 for the Army, but ended up selling on the civilian market,due to peace dividend savings in Washington. Revolutionary militia men were better armed than the military, because the military used muskets, and minute men/ woodsmen used rifles with a much better accuracy range, effect. The NFA of 34 was instumental in reducing nothing criminal, and has only been a revune generator for the gov., and left a toxic legacy known as the BATFE, which I never understood since tobbacco, alcohol, and firearms are all now legal.HalfElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02835121762417884144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-40512161429909474242012-07-31T18:34:05.313-04:002012-07-31T18:34:05.313-04:00Thank you very much.
I guess the beauty of the ...Thank you very much. <br /><br />I guess the beauty of the web is that if enough people like it and spread it around, the NRA might even quote it!SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-73141034115095905152012-07-30T23:42:55.997-04:002012-07-30T23:42:55.997-04:00As always... u da man!!! Well done. Now if only th...As always... u da man!!! Well done. Now if only the NRA talked like that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-794860332654658292012-07-30T20:59:27.052-04:002012-07-30T20:59:27.052-04:00Plus, she has been a contender for the "Upper...Plus, she has been a contender for the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSqkdcT25ss" rel="nofollow">"Upper Class Twit of the Year"</a> for the last 20 years, and even won it a few times!SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-66038175362762570302012-07-30T20:53:50.826-04:002012-07-30T20:53:50.826-04:00I think an important point, and I forgot to make i...I think an important point, and I forgot to make it, is that the 2A gave the citizens at the time access to the most state of the art military weapons of the day. Everyone had a musket, whether British Redcoat or American farmer. <br /><br />By that standard, we all have the right to any fully auto weapon in the arsenal. I'd like a Ma Deuce, thank you. If what Justice Scalia was saying yesterday about "'to bear arms' means to carry it, so the right doesn't apply to weapons like cannons or artillery that one man can't carry" is the limit, (I probably butchered that quote), the 2A should include RPGs, Stinger missiles, and all sorts of heavy weapons, but stop short of B-2 bombers and M1A tanks. <br /><br />Senator Feinstein? Why do I need a 100 round magazine? Because f*%k you.SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-32462552092177603252012-07-30T12:19:19.354-04:002012-07-30T12:19:19.354-04:00What I can't stand is when the anti-gun and pr...What I can't stand is when the anti-gun and pro-gun people debate the issue on liberal media. Feinstein was on some news show right after the Aurora shooting complaining about why a person needs a 100 round magazine to hunt with and ties it in with how the 2nd Amendment was never intended to cover this. Then the pro-gun person stooped to her level of the argument trying to explain why you don't need a 100 round magazine hunt, but how the 2nd Amendment still covers your rights to purchase one. It makes the whole argument stupid, which in turn causes the 2nd Amendment to look stupid. Look! The pro-gun answer should have been something like this (just more elegant with big words to make the person sound smarter), “The 2nd Amendment is not there to protect my hunting or shooting sports rights or to tell me what sort of gun I need for protection. The 2nd Amendment is there to protect my RIGHTS in CHOOSING what sort of ARMS I need to have to protect myself from all enemies foreign and/or domestic EVEN if that include my own government from City Hall to Washington D.C.. This is what I believe the Founding Fathers just fought a war over, the right to choose and to be free. The right to own a gun needed to hunt with or to complete in sport shooting is a by-product of that right. If I believe if I need military style weapons with high capacity magazines to protect myself and my family, that is what the 2nd Amendment protects. Any law that chips away at those rights in this area should be and in some cases have been found to be unconstitutional.<br /><br />So, the gun I hunt with as to the 2nd Amendment, apples and oranges argument. What guns, ammo and magazine capacity I need to protect myself from a gang of blood thirsty people hell bent on death and destruction, or a pack of hungry wolves, or zombies or my government that is being taken over from the inside by some socialist dictator and his/her political party as to the 2nd Amendment, that is a true debate. The pro-gun person should ask Feinstein, “What weapon(s) would you have on hand go to war with at a moment’s notice?” If she can’t answer that, then she is way out of touch. <br /><br />Oh, and to give a hint to her, going to war includes protecting your family, home, block, sub division, city, county, state, country and so on from… (fill in the blank).Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06771962212883634130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-74709013991671676212012-07-30T02:59:18.086-04:002012-07-30T02:59:18.086-04:00Excellent arguments, I'll link to this.Excellent arguments, I'll link to this.Blog Authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08294787592544255585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-15599287648878269042012-07-29T22:19:44.138-04:002012-07-29T22:19:44.138-04:00BRAVO, sir!BRAVO, sir!drjimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05647484115197408897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-63508627598732741892012-07-29T22:16:06.961-04:002012-07-29T22:16:06.961-04:00Sorry. that should have read "hypocrite"...Sorry. that should have read "hypocrite"RegTnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-48741066745035825942012-07-29T22:13:46.062-04:002012-07-29T22:13:46.062-04:00Diane Feinstein is a total hypocite. When she was ...Diane Feinstein is a total hypocite. When she was Mayor of San Francisco, and she pushed to have everyone turn in their handguns, she had six handguns registered in her name. I happen to know that for a fact, as someone in our communications division at the California Highway Patrol ran her for weapons registered in her name. In California - at that time, at least - when you had a CCW permit, you had to list the make and serial number of any gun you wanted to carry under that permit. She had six listed. She probably owned more than that, and I have no idea how many firearms her husband might have owned.<br /><br />Many years ago (1968), a British author named John Brunner wrote a dystopian novel about a future America. In it he explained the stance of liberals on any issue: I can't, so you can't. I CAN, but you musn't. <br /><br />The bastards haven't changedRegTnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-69722066053720579842012-07-29T22:10:07.324-04:002012-07-29T22:10:07.324-04:00Excellent post. Chicago shooting incidents is one...Excellent post. Chicago shooting incidents is one of those things the Marxist wish they could just keep hidden.CDPhttp://libertyendanger.comnoreply@blogger.com