Obama...ZOMBIES

I'd make the obligatory gunnie zombie comments, but then someone might call the secret service on me.

Thanks to FYRARMS of Supraforums.com for the pic.

Quote of The Day - Admissions Edition

"If I had to commute on the NYC subway, for that matter. I'd probably want to be armed regardless of the law."

Anti-gunner MikeB, in a stunning admission.

So I guess Mike will admit that if he wanted to carry right now he could, regardless of the law. Right? If he makes the value judgment that carrying illegally is worth the risk of getting caught, then he carries anyway. That's exactly what every violent felon who owns and carries a gun does, despite a myriad of laws proscribing such actions.

How do you stop that? Laws, no matter how numerous, cannot stop criminals from carrying weapons if they so choose.

I'm getting quite thet laugh out of an anti-gunner admitting he'd want to be armed even if it meant committing a felony. Odd, he wants to restrict the rights of all of us with more laws, yet openly admits that he might not follow them. Even worse, despite this admission he will still claim that "more laws" are the solution to the problem. I see a career in politics for MikeB.

Mystery Gun

Saysuncle posted this picture of weaponry that the US media claims is being bought here and smuggled into Mexico. I see quite a bit there that is most certainly NOT coming from U.S. gun shows or gun shops.

Anyway, what's the pistol on the far right of the picture? It looks to have a magazine well forward of the grip, which I believe makes it illegal to purchase in the U.S. without an NFA tax stamp and all of the extra regulations that go with that. (of course it's entirely possible I'm wrong)

Can't Find Ammo Anywhere

When is this crap going to go back to normal?  I was able to pickup 500 rds. of Fiocchi 45ACP for a great price a few days ago (cheaper than Wolf .45 from Ammoman) but now that's gone too.

All of my usual sources are out of the ammo I usually buy.  I actually had to search around online just to find some Federal HST in .45ACP.

Quote of The Day

"When you disarm your subjects, you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you. "

-Machiavelli

Obama A Narcissist?

Breda says she thinks he is. I concur, hell, I live with a narcissist. President Obama is definitely full of himself.

See these links for more.

BTW - Breda's post title reminds me of the Our Lady Peace song.

1st State Liberals

A few of the intellectuals in my state continue to blame everything but the criminal and insinuate that every shooting that happens is the fault of law-abiding gun owners.  They say we are responsible, that we need to do something, and that we hate the police.

The fact that today's murder of several police officers happened in #1 Brady ranked California is irrelevant.  These people disgust me, but thankfully I remind myself that they are the minority even in this state.  Most of my fellow Delawareans area not like them, rather they are normal, decent people who know where to place the blame rather than politicizing every tragedy.

Dana says all that needs to be said here,

"Our friends on the left want to do something about the guns, because they are so unwilling to do something about bad people."

Their logical disconnect is astounding, as is their insistence on remaining untethered from reality.  It really is as simple as Dana states above, but they're unwilling to accept that.  Their mental deficiencies prohibit it.

Sig Sauer + CCR's Work + Stainless

Here's my P228 and my P229R. The slides are done in CCR's ceraplate and house black respectively.

P228 with Ceraplate slide

P229R with House Black slide

And of course now we have this big hunk o' steel that I picked up too late to make it to the range. Next weekend.

Go Heels!

Blogging will be light as long as Carolina is still in the Tourney.  It's March Madness baby!

Quote of the Day

"Our friends on the left were very busy telling us just how brilliant our new president is, and how he would run an administration of competence. What I’m seeing in these first two months is an administration of people who think that they’re so smart and that everyone else in the country is just dirt stupid."

- Dana @ Common Sense Political Thought

Yeah, I'd say Dana sums it up pretty succinctly in the above quote. He calls the group of nitwits now in charge "an administration of people who think that they're so smart and that everyone else in the country is just dirt stupid."

I'd like to add an emphatic "DUH" to that statement. There were many American's who'd known the real Barack Obama a good year before he became President. You know, an arrogant, disrespectful, pompous elitist who looked down upon his fellow Americans. Well that and a man who was woefully naive and inexperienced and who's love affair with Marxism was obvious and well-documented. All we're seeing now are the logical implications of having such a man as President.

We truly do get the government we deserve. We got it when we elected Bush, and we got it with Obama. Hell, we got all the Hope & Change we could ever want and then some. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

I Don't Know Whether to Laugh or Cry

You know, when Bush was in office I often cringed at his lack of tact in foreign affairs, inappropriate off-the-cuff comments, and downright abysmal speeches. Former President Bush did give me a good laugh from time to time with his gaffes though. I'm glad to see that the more things change, the more they stay the same.

We were told Obama = Change. Not so much. The guy is a gaffe machine when he doesn't have his trusty teleprompter, or when it breaks. Maybe Biden is rubbing off on him.

So Stupid it Hurts

"I think it is time to start a “People’s Party.” The basis for this party would be to help those millions of us caught in the middle. Decisions would be based on what would be best for the majority."

Ken Workman, Avondale, Pa. in Delaware Online

Holy shit Ken, what an awesome idea! I mean hell, we've never seen this idea in practice before, so there's no way we could know what might happen to the people in the minority.

I guess the names Mao, Marx, Stalin, Pol Pot, or Castro are completely foreign to Mr. Workman....

h/t to Delawareliberal

Quote of the Day - "Fuck the Troops" Edition

"It became apparent during our discussion today that the President intends to move forward with this unreasonable plan. He says he is looking to generate $540-million by this method, but refused to hear arguments about the moral and government-avowed obligations that would be compromised by it."

-Commander David K. Rehbein of The American Legion

You mean a liberal is adhering blindly to his ideology and absolutely refusing to hear facts or dissenting opinions? Inconceivable!

RTWT! - If you didn't consider President Obama a contemptible asshole before you will now.

h/t to Tam

St. Paddy's Day....Mmmmm

Happy St. Paddy's Day everyone, hope you enjoy a couple of these. 

Schumer and AIG Bonuses

Schumer, as he's wont to do, proposes that Congress write a bill to tax the AIG executive bonuses if the execs don't give back the money.

Chuckie says,

If they don't we plan to tax virtually all of it."

Schumer says that AIG executives should not be getting bonuses considering they ran the company into the ground. I actually agree, but consider that the Democratic Congress voted themselves a pay raise despite the poor economy and the nearly the lowest Congressional approval ratings in history. Do you think any members of Congress will approve legislation to remit this years pay increase?

Furthermore, where does Schumer think he has the legal authority to pass a new law in order to impose a specific retroactive tax on one small group of people?  That's not how the U.S. legal system works, but perhaps this is what Obama had in mind when he spoke of "redistributive change?"

I'm sorry, but if legislators didn't want this to happen they shouldn't have bailed out AIG. They shouldn't have given them billions with no preconditions or conditions on how to use the money. I can't help but think "Well what the fuck did you expect to happen morons!?"

Both the media and lawmakers seem to be blatantly ignoring the simple fact that these executive bonuses were part of private contracts agreed upon prior to AIG taking any bailout money.  That's the most pertinent point in all of this.  I don't care what Congress or Obama think is "fair."  I care what the contracts say about the matter, since that trumps the "feelings" of the bigheaded fucktards in Congress and the White House.

Do I think it's insane that the company was giving out contractual bonuses that were not dependent upon the actual performance of the executives? Absolutely, but that's water under the bridge at this point. (and Congress does it with their own pay)

If the language in their contracts says they get paid bonuses no matter what happens to the company then AIG has every right to pay out these bonuses. Actually it's more than that, they have a legal obligation to pay out the bonuses.

I'm pissed that my taxes are going to pay out bonuses to these clowns but contract law is one of the things that's the basis of a civilized society. The last thing I want is for the government to be able to come in and retroactively & arbitrarily nullify and/or amend mutually agreed upon contracts between two private parties.Give the government the power to do that and you go down a road with freedom nowhere in sight.

Those Local Liberals

Weer'd Beard has been commenting over at the home of my old friends at Delaware Liberal.  They're responding in their usual rational, logical, and mature manner.....

On that note, Nancy Pelosi says something that can only make you say "WTF?"  "I'm not partisan" were her words.

I guess "I'm not partisan" is a lot like "I'm not anti-gun, just pro-law" eh?

Frankly given the necessary level of intellectual dishonesty over at Delaware Liberal I suspect Weer'd comments will start being "moderated" very shortly if they haven't already.  You know, reasoned discourse and all.  Who was it that said anti-gunners can't survive without maintaining an accompanying sea of misinformation?  Delaware Liberal epitomizes that statement.

I notice one commenter says "ammo isn't all that expensive."  As has been said by myself and many others, anti's really do live in an entirely different reality from the rest of us.

Looks like a few folks are commenting.  Good, because I've been banned from their site for months now.

More BS from the Media

In a WSJ article on the prospect of a new AWB we get this gem.

"Unlicensed dealers, such as those at gun shows, may sell semiautomatic assault rifles to anyone of any age without conducting a background check."

The quote gives the impression that "unlicensed dealers" (I.E. private citizens) can sell AR's and AK's to 12 year old kids.  The really scary thing is that the majority of people will take this kind of crap spewed by the MSM at face value.  They assume it's true even when the media lies.

Another Free Sig

Enter to win a 9mm Sig P229 SAS

Sweepstakes ends March 31st.

We've Seen Her Before....

Sebastian points out that the "experts" believe Europe needs even more gun control. Apparently these folks aren't experts on European history.

One of those "experts" was Gisela Kallenbach, a member of the German Green Party. Kallenbach's statement from the article.

Gisela Kallenbach, a German Green Party deputy who steered the bloc's
upcoming legislation through the European Parliament, said some EU member states have been "very progressive" in restricting the availability of gun laws while
others "still have something to do."

Ah yes, banning guns is "progressive." Geez, and this woman is German? Has she not learned anything from the history of her own country? I guess if your goal is to increase the power of the state then gun control IS progress.

We've seen Kallenbach before, making similarly inane statements.

In a November 2007 article on school shootings and the needs for tighter European gun laws she said,

"We in Europe have a different culture than in the United States and we do
not consider the freedom to buy weapons a human right....Civil liberties
can be sacrificed if we can prevent people from being killed."

Yeah, how has curtailing civil liberties, particularly gun ownership, prevented people in Europe from being killed? Europe, not the US, has seen numerous genocides throughout history. It seems the enlightened Europeans are determined to continually ignore the lessons of history. Then again, Europe has never been big on individual freedom.

Also, consider her 2007 statement for a second. "Civil liberties can be sacrificed if we can prevent people from being killed." There's not a single freedom that's safe from such thinking, and a society governed by such principles isn't one I ever want to live in.

Holy Bad Gun Laws

In this post Jay says,

"Since I'm in MA, remember, all ammo must remain under lock and key..."

So Jay is required BY LAW to lock up ammo? Oh boy!  Let me guess, it's "for the children."

Wow, it's amazing what we end up with when liberals have run amuck for long enough.

Jay, I feel for you man.

He Didn't Get The Memo.....

If you're going to be named after a firearms manufacturer you should lay off the irrational PSH. Mr. Walther apparently didn't get that memo.

Also, toy guns are toy guns, real guns are well....guns. Let's treat them as such. It's how they are used that really matters.

h/t to Robb

They Don't Ensure Anything

Once again a violent crime occurs at the University of Delaware. This time it's a young woman who's raped by 3 guys behind Christiana East Tower. (where I lived junior year)

The head of UD public safety had this to say,

"The department has increased foot patrols and visibility in the area and is providing all available resources to the detective assigned to the case. "

Furthermore, he calls the crime,

"an aberration from the overall safe environment that exists at the University of Delaware."

"Overall safe environment?" Was it safe for this girl? Those who are victims of crime in Newark know that this is bullshit. There's no such thing as an overall safe environment. It's an illusion, and such rhetoric means nothing once YOU are the one who's safety has been violated. If it's so safe then why was this girl assaulted by a man with a handgun? I thought U of D was a "Gun-Free Zone?" Hell, according to the student code of conduct it's a "Weapons-Free Zone"

Yeah, a lot of good lighting and foot patrols will do for the girl who was raped. One of the routes I walked my Freshman year was nicknamed the "rape trail" because so many women had been assaulted while walking in that area. I knew women who had been raped. I knew guys who'd been robbed, assaulted, and put in the hospital by armed thugs. The campus is only a safe environment in the minds of liberal bureacrats and academics out of touch with reality.

The University campus is expansive. There's just no way in hell for every area of campus to be well lit, and many places are not. In most areas of campus you're not going to see a cop on any given day, and outside of certain areas you're almost guaranteed not to see one at night. Despite what the University might say about this "overall safe environment," the campus is no safer than the city it's intertwined with. Common sense would tell you that it cannot be safer.

He also had this to say,

"We have dedicated Public Safety officers who are fully committed to ensuring the safety of students and staff in and around campus."

Yes, I'm sure they want to keep us safe, but not only are the not obligated to provide safety, they simply cannot do so. But hey, we'll keep telling college kids that government and "the authorities" are both responsible for and capable of protecting them. Wouldn't want them to come to a realization that stresses self-reliance and individual responsibility over collective dependence. Nope, it'd be hard to mold people into good little sheep that way.

Also, it's ironic that Public Safety says they're so committed to safety, since another article discusses how the University is doing away with the escort service. (basically a free taxi service for students)