The irony of this would have escaped the “Democrats” in Congress:
…consistency not being a noted trait among Marxists, hypocrisy ditto.
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Weapons-Grade Stupidity
…and no, this isn’t a dig against the .dotmil. But you have to admit that this kind of stupidity is kinda different — an upgrade, if you will — from just the usual Congressional idiocy:
Pennsylvania state Rep. and former Democratic Party Vice-Chair Malcolm Kenyatta pushed a ban on “military-grade weapons” after the handgun/shotgun attack that occurred at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner (WHCD).
Yeah, by all means let’s ban include pump-action shotguns and handguns in the category of “military-grade weapons” (whatever that means) — because after all, the military does use them, right?
Sheesh, when clowns like this can be elevated to the position of Democrat Party Vice-Chair, what does that say for the people who couldn’t make the grade? And to use a sporting term, how deep is their bench of quality politicians?
Simple answer, of course, is that the current Democrat Party has no bench; their talent pool, which may once have contained intelligent men like Tip O’Neill and Sam Rayburn have all been driven out of the party leadership in favor of vacuous idiots like AOC and larcenous malcontents like Ilhan Omar, all by the hard Marxists who are now the nomenklatura of the Party Of Jefferson — who by now would have used a handgun on pretty much all of them if he could see what they’ve done to it.
As for this moron Kenyatta, he’s just trying to leverage any opportunity to get guns out of the hands of citizens. At least he’s behaving quite like his namesake, who was also an Afro-Socialist.
Amateur Hour
I suppose that we should be grateful that this latest Leon Czolgosz-wannabe wasn’t as well prepared as he should have been. Clearly, he went straight to the “Suggested Assassin’s Weapons” tab at Amazon or something — that is to say, he got some things quite right, and a lot of other things very wrong. Consider this series of pics of his “arsenal” which he hoped to use at the Hilton D.C.:
Okay, let’s look at this “arsenal”.
- Pump shotgun: Yes of course. If you’re going for “maximum damage in a confined area”, there are few better choices. One might argue that a semi-auto would be a better choice, but potato-potahto.
- Colt 1911 model: Also a solid choice for a handgun, although he may have been better off with one of those guns which carry a 500-round magazine, e.g. a Glock. Still, the chances of him getting to actually use a handgun (any handgun) during a mass shooting are going to be minimal, unless the 1911 is backup for when you run out of 12ga ammo. But:
- Knives (4, assassin for the use of): Four knives? For a gunfight? Okay, by all means carry a knife as part of your EDC accoutrements (I do), but let’s be honest about this: in his proposed scenario, a knife — any knife, let alone four — will be about as useful as a golf club, maybe less so. And: two throwing knives? Useless; toss them for a couple spare magazines (which you are going to need if shooting a 1911; ask me how I know this.) Also, a Ka-Bar is too unwieldy; that boot knife (which I carry when wearing cowboy boots) would be the only decent option here.
I still think that the Secret Service missed a trick by not shooting the asshole dead on the spot, but that’s just me. Given how inept the SS have been with their handguns in the past, however, subduing the scrote might have been the better option; at least there was no collateral damage.
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My old office building in downtown Johannesburg, 1985
Yeah, I Don’t Buy It
Here’s a piece about former-AG Blondie and the power hierarchy she inherited at the DoJ:
She inherited an agency riddled with holdovers, careerist prosecutors, and institutional muscle memory tuned to the prior regime’s priorities. Her mandate, executed with the cold ferocity of a Florida prosecutor who once stared down the Clintons and lived to tell it, was never to play the long public game of show trials. It was to do the lethal, invisible labor: purge disloyal elements, redirect investigative task forces, shutter the foreign-influence shops that had become political protection rackets, and…most critically…build the factual scaffolding of cases that could survive judicial scrutiny once the political headwinds shifted. That is precisely what she delivered.
And:
First-term chaos taught the lesson: the Senate-confirmed loyalist who survives confirmation must serve as the institutional wrecking ball. The public demands scalps; the law demands airtight cases. Bondi supplied the latter while the former were still being assembled. Those who call her tenure “incompetent” reveal either their ignorance of how the executive branch actually functions or their desire to keep the machine broken so it can never be turned against its former masters. She was never meant to be the permanent face of the Justice Department. She was the architect who laid the rebar and poured the concrete under fire. The structure now stands. The new tenants can furnish it with indictments. That is not failure. That is lethal, disciplined statecraft.
Yeah. Unfortunately, while I may be ignorant of the big-league governmental powerplays and what have you, I’m not ignorant of the need to look after the interests of ordinary folk, i.e. the voters, who put this lot in power to do all the above, but also to address and right the wrongs perpetrated by the previous bunch of scumbags on ordinary people.
How difficult would it be for the AG to look at, say, the case of Patrick Adamiak — you know, the innocent man railroaded by the ATF (who fall under the DoJ, lest we forget) — and get him out of jail? Or to withdraw the dozens upon dozens of criminal cases that are still being prosecuted by the DoJ despite the cases being prima facie contrary to both new policy and the law?
Doing both the above may be difficult, but when you are the CEO of an outfit, it’s easy to say to a small task force, “Find all the cases that are being prosecuted but shouldn’t be; set out a legal (or Constitutional) rationale for nolle prosequi, and I’ll sign the authorizations.” That’s called “delegation” and it’s what good managers do.
And Pam Bondi didn’t do that.
Let’s just hope that her successor does.
Because Of Course It’s The Guns
Here we go again:
Forty-five years ago, John Hinckley Jr attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan as he left the Hilton hotel in Washington, injuring the US president and three others. Obsessed with the actor Jodie Foster, and seeking to gain her attention, the shooter had initially pursued Reagan’s Democratic predecessor, Jimmy Carter.
On Saturday night, the hotel again rang to shots as it hosted the annual White House correspondents’ dinner. Tuxedo-clad politicians and journalists dived under tables as bangs were heard from the lobby, and Donald Trump was rushed from the stage. A secret service agent was shot, though saved by his ballistics vest. The echoes of the 1981 attack are a potent reminder that violence has long been a tragic strand of the American political tradition. Gun violence is grimly familiar. This does not diminish the seriousness of an incident that was widely and rightly condemned. Rather, it highlights its importance. …
The shooting also demonstrates once more the calamitous effect of gun culture. The US has 120 firearms for every 100 residents. While shooting homicides fell last year, on average they killed 40 people each day. A 2024 study by the violence research programme at the University of California, Davis suggested that many recent firearms purchasers were open to political violence.
Well, it’s The Guardian (no link because fukkem) so let me just address a few of the fallacies therein.
Let’s start with “the calamitous effect of gun culture.” The really calamitous effects of an unarmed citizenry (the opposite of a gun culture) is when the government starts the wholesale massacre or imprisonment of its citizens. To use but two such examples, we have the Soviet Union in the 1930s and the Cambodian killing fields of the 1980s. Of course, the fucking Guardian isn’t ever going to talk about those because the massacres happened under the type of government — that would be “Marxist” — that they themselves support and wish were in power.
“While shooting homicides fell last year, on average they killed 40 people each day.” Sounds horrible, dunnit? Except that in 2024, the total number of deaths was 3,072,666, or 8,418 per day. Ummmm carry the three… so gunshot deaths (assuming that 40/day is accurate hem hem) accounted for 0.48% of the total. Let’s do a little comparison, shall we?
Gunshot deaths per day: 40. Now the U.S. daily death rate (according to these guys) breaks down by category as follows:
- Heart disease: 1,873 (22%)
- Cancer: 1,698 (20%)
- Accidents (all causes): 541 (6.4%)
- Stroke: 457 (5.4%)
- Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 399 (4.7%)
- Alzheimer’s: 317 (3.8%)
- Diabetes: 258 (3.1%)
- Liver disease/cirrhosis: 143 (1.7%)
Oh, and I’m willing to bet that the Guardian‘s 40 gunshot deaths per day includes suicides, which each year account for about half of all gun deaths.
Okay, one last thing: “…many recent firearms purchasers were open to political violence.” Yeah, and considering the recent spate of would-be assassins, almost all those thus predisposed were lefties or nutcases. In this country, they are akin to Guardian readers.
Fucking prats, the lot of them.