If we go with the sometimes stated goal, complete removal of firearms from the people of the US, you can find the answer to your question changes depending on how close to power a gun rights infringer is.

For people at the bottom they fall into the category of emotional response. They are either fearful of guns in the hands of those they don’t know and those that don’t have shiny badges or they think it makes “others” safer. Generally kids.

These are the people that believe that by banning guns they will remove guns from society without understanding that there will always be guns in society. The other day I had to sanitize a room for a service call. It took two large blankets and 15 minutes of double checking and I still didn’t remember a revolver until right before the service person came in.

And with all of that, my reloading bench was still exposed.

This is the reality that the emotionally driven don’t understand. They can firmly state the tutology of “If there are no more guns then there will be no guns to commit crimes with.” They firmly believe that over time all guns will be removed from society including guns owned by criminals.

They fail to understand that even if they removed all guns from society, people can still make guns. People can still make black powder, people can still make everything required to make a functional gun.

The next step closer is the people that want to control people. These are the petty bureaucrats (this includes school officials and teachers) that don’t need to be polite because they know that the person on the other side of the desk/table from them is powerless.

I watched a TV show the other day, it was sickening. A mother was trying desperately to get the police to look into the death of her son as murder. The police were unwilling. Her calls to the police were ignored. When she did get in contact with a detective in charge and her anger and frustration came through he hung up on her telling her he wouldn’t talk to her until she calmed down.

These petty bureaucrats do things like have metal detectors because somebody might have a gun, while having lots of cops with guns going around the detectors and plainclothes officers flashing badges to get in. It is intimidation.

It is the school boards that order parents silenced when they read from books from the school libraries.

If there were armed people in these situations, these petty bureaucrats would have to be polite and actually have conversations. The power would not be one sided.

The next people are people that actually understand that they might be targets if they do things that people really really dislike. These are the people that have no issue demanding you close your business “to save the children” while demanding you open to give them services. These people understand that they are angering huge parts of the country.

They are actually fearful that they will be held to account for their actions outside of judicial review.

These are the people that have no problems saying that because you hold the wrong opinion you should be removed from polite society by what ever means are necessary for the good of the people.

These people that are this close to power believe that they will be amongst the privileged. They are going to be more equal than the rest and they are going to be given the extras because their work is so important to the people.

• The original quote has been edited for better grammar as a title.

I have a long article on this coming but I just haven’t had time to get it finished. I hate it but I have four long articles in progress for GFZ right now and never seem to have time to finish any of them

We watch as the alarmist create fake words and phrases to try and touch something at an emotional level. I remember reading about how scientist were looking at ways of spreading pure carbon over the ice caps in order to combat “global cooling” which was going to kill us all in the next 10 years as the glaciers all extended south.

10 years later the same scientist were screaming that we were all going to die in 10 years if we didn’t stop “global warming”.

Today the term is “climate change” and in some cases the same scientists are pushing this new “we’re all going to die” alarm.

The gun rights infringers use the same methods. They can’t sell the ban they want so they hide it in scary words.

Grandpas bolt action deer rifle with a 5 power scope becomes a “sniper rifle.”

A semi-automatic with a pistol grip and box magazine becomes an “assault rifle” which becomes an “assault weapon” which is now a “military-style assault weapon”.

In some places you hear this as “military-style semi-automatic weapon”.

The adjectives just get layered on until you can no longer see the actual thing.

From patch.com reporting on State Senator Steve Santarsiero (D-10) latest emotional plea.

“It’s time that we stand up with a single voice and say, enough. No one needs to have a military-style assault weapon. They just don’t,” said Santarsiero, who was joined at a press conference in Lower Makefield by political, religious, community and local school leaders from throughout Central and Lower Bucks County.

“The time has come for us to take a stand and make this a reality. This is about protecting each other. This is about protecting our loved ones. This is about protecting our community. And above all, this is about protecting the kids,” said Santarsiero.

In direct violation of the Constitution.

Article I, Section 21 of the Pennsylvania State Constitution states: “The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the State shall not be questioned.”

From KOMO News comes a story that is balanced. Go read it. Give them the click.

“When Black folks came to this country we didn’t have guns. We were slaves. So, the gun was something like a Bible in the slave masters’ quarters. It was something you looked at but you didn’t touch. Now that’s been demystified,” said Philip Smith, president of the National African American Gun Association.

On their website, NAAGA says single Black women are one of the fastest-growing groups of firearms owners as exemplified by Lucretia Hughes during her testimony before the House committee hearing on gun violence this week.

“You think that the Second Amendment doesn’t apply to me? You, who are calling for more gun control and are the same ones calling to defund the police,” Hughes said to lawmakers. “Who is supposed to protect us?”

Via WTAP in Ohio As of June 13th, 2022 Ohio recognizes the Constitution and will no longer throw people in jail for failing to have government permission to exercise their right of self-defense.

Ohio Constitution Article I, Section 4, states: The people have the right to bear arms for their defense and security; but standing armies, in time of peace, are dangerous to liberty, and shall not be kept up; and the military shall be in strict subordination to the civil power.

Until today, the people of Ohio were required to get permission slips from the state in order to exercise their rights. With the passage of SB215 this is no longer the case.

It is also the case that people that are carrying are no longer required to inform the police that they are carrying if involved in a traffic stop.

WPRI Rhode Island is reporting on new criminal safety laws passed by the RI House.

With this bill, we are finally saying we will not tolerate these dangerious [to criminals] weapons,” Rep. Justine Caldwell continued. “our neighboring states have already prohibited highstandard-capacity magazines, and we should join them in refusing to accept the risks they present to Rhode IslandersIsland [criminals].”

So she wants to ban boxes with springs in them because she is afraid. Ok.

The house rejected a number of amendments including all grandfathering clauses.

So if this bill passes a bunch of subjects in RI will suddenly have to get rid of their magazines or face charges if found in possession of standard capacity magazines.

Of course they have no problems violating the constitution.

Article I, § 22 of the Constitution of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations provides that “[t]he right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” Article I, § 24 states that “[t]he enumeration of the foregoing rights [of the Constitution] shall not be construed to impair or deny others retained by the people. The rights guaranteed by this Constitution are not dependent on those guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States.”

Having reached the point in life where I’m old and look more like a victim to young animals, I carry everywhere and try and keep my head on a swivel.

Fox News is reporting that four animals lay in ambush waiting for victims. An elderly man was shoot during the ambush. Four suspects are being sought.

I don’t see the race of the victims but the still picture of the animals meets our standard stereotype of the sort of animals that haunt parks looking for vicitims.

Likely there were drugs involved, but that’s just my guess.

A Texas deputy on assignment at Uvalde after the shooting was fired for being intoxicated.

While not on duty, he was in the temporary barracks. He was so drunk he was deemed a danger to himself or others.

Texas Deputy on Assignment in Uvalde Fired for Off-Duty Drunkenness: Police

Man trying to enter Gadsden school shot to death while attempting to take officer’s gun, officials say

AL.com reports that man was attempting to break into a school and and SRO’s vehicle. When they attempted to arrest him, the suspect tried to take the officers gun.

This lead to the suspect slowly reaching room temperature. A happy ending.

That Clay Watkins wasn’t willing to pay $8 for LaCroix sparkling water. He had to buy a store brand.

NPR is reporting that elites are actually having to make spending decisions. That they’ve actually noticed that amounts are smaller and prices are up.

The Labor Department is reporting consumer prices are up 8% or more over last year. What they don’t say in those numbers is that only certain things are counted as “consumer prices” so the fact the price of gas has doubled doesn’t really get included in those numbers.

Of course it is being blamed on the pandemic. You see it was happening BEFORE Joe got in office.

And it is just the Ukraine war that got people to notice inflation, the Putin price hike, don’t you know.

But the only thing that will stop inflation is if we plebs stop buying things…

From the New York Post

A hard-to-find key to a locked classroom door was the ultimate reason police waited 77 minutes to enter a Robb Elementary classroom to kill a gunman, stopping the massacre that claimed the lives of 19 students and two teachers, the under-fire police chief said.

Oh, it was their inability to find a key that kept them from entering the room.

“Not a single responding officer ever hesitated, even for a moment, to put themselves at risk to save the children,” Arredondo told the newspaper. “We responded to the information that we had and had to adjust to whatever we faced.”

The door jamb was steel so they couldn’t just kick it in. I don’t know, I’ve seen a few police rams designed to do exactly that. And every fire and rescue vehicle I know carry those magic pry bars. I’ve seen fire fighters open doors in contests in less than 30 seconds.

The door to the classroom that Ramos was in had a steel jamb and could not be kicked in, Arredondo told the paper. He spent more than an hour in the hallway trying dozens of keys.

The school district police chief also tried to justify his decision not to take his police radios into the school with him, believing he needed both hands to take down the shooter instead of holding the devices that might give away his position if the gunman heard them. Arredondo also did not have a bullet resistant vest, he told the paper.

“Our objective was to save as many lives as we could, and the extraction of the students from the classrooms by all that were involved saved over 500 of our Uvalde students and teachers before we gained access to the shooter and eliminated the threat,” Arredondo said.

But Arredondo’s decision not to take his radios in with him meant he did not know that students were calling 911 from inside the two classrooms the gunman targeted, begging for police to stop him.

In Robert Heinlein’s book The Number of the Beast they endup in a world where justice is an eye for an eye. The example given is that of a man found guilty of hitting a pedestrian and leaving. The pedestrian survived.

The punishment? They tied the man to the road and drove over his legs, the same as the victim. They then stood around and waited while the guilty screamed and begged for 45 minutes. At the end of 45 minutes the rescue team went to work. The same 45 minutes that the original victim waited before rescue arrived.

I think we should find a suitable punishment for Pete Arredondo, a monster.