Mjoilner1911
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Hello all,
last nite I had had enough of listening to the whining firearm-o-phobed on myspace, and was compelled to write. This is what I came up with at 0300 hours. feel free to comment.
Sunday, January 21, 2007
GUN CONTROL
Hello oh best Beloved…..
Once again I'm compelled to take quill in hand and attempt to educate those about me.
The subject of tonight's essay you ask? Simply stated…Gun Control and American Domestic Policy.
Many of you know me, but for those who do not I'll enlighten you. I own Guns. I carry Guns. I firmly believe that the 2nd amendment is the one that guarantees all others.
My favorite quote was given by the late great Col. Jeff Cooper who, when asked if he believed that violence begets violence stated "I certainly intend to see that it does. If a man visits violence upon his fellow man then I see it as our duty as a society to ensure that he receives much more in return than he can hope to enjoy." Now having said all that, if you are the tree hugging, turn the other cheek, bunny hugger type you may want to toss in a Yanni CD and read the latest issue of better homes and ghetto's. There will be much Political incorrectness in the following paragraphs and I'd hate to destroy your precious paradigms. For the rest of you, read on…….
There are more Gun laws on the books than ever before in the course of American history. This is fact. The first such enacted is the National firearms Act.
And it states:
The National Firearms Act (NFA), cited as the Act of June 26, 1934, Ch. 757, 48 Stat. 1236, as amended, currently codified as Chapter 53 of the Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C. § 5801 through 26 U.S.C. § 5872, is a United States federal law passed in 1934 that, in general, imposes a statutory excise tax on the manufacture and transfer of all Title II weapons and mandates the registration of those weapons. Title II weapons are defined as all sound suppressors or 'silencers', all machine guns, all rifles with a barrel length less than 16 inches (406 mm) (SBR) and shotguns with a barrel length less than 18 inches (457 mm) (SBS), shoulder fired weapons with an overall length less than 26 inches (660 mm), weapons classified as "Any Other Weapon" (AOW) and weapons classified as "destructive devices" (DD). For weapons with folding, collapsing or telescoping stocks, the overall length is measured with the stock fully extended.
In layman's terms this means that machine guns, sawed off shotguns and silencers, as well as short barreled rifles are far too dangerous for civilians to own. A machine gun is a weapon which will continue to fire as long as the trigger is depressed and there is ammunition in the magazine. This is also known as an "Automatic". A Semi-Automatic is a weapon which requires the shooter to release the trigger between the firing of every round so as to reset the hammer and sear assembly before the subsequent round can be fired. Now that we have cleared up that piece of nomenclature we can move on.
We regularly hear of something called an "Assault Weapon". The meaning of this designation seems to be a tad unclear. These rifles are semi-automatic, have barrel lengths of the requisite 16 inches, and overall lengths of the requisite 26 inches.
Why then are they branded with the designation of "Assault Weapons"?
Assault, is defined by our dear friends at Merriam-Webster as:
1 a : a violent physical or verbal attack
To my mind this implies an action. By this definition if I were to smack someone with a large fish it could then be designated an "Assault Mackerel". Would this be fair to the fish do you think? After suffering the indignity of a forceful impact with an unwashed head, it would then lose its benign status and become somehow more dangerous and untrustworthy. As silly as this sounds, the Federal Governments standards for designating an "Assault Weapon" are even more ridiculous. An "Assault Rifle" is described as:
A Semiautomatic firearm with the ability to accept a detachable magazine, and two or more of the following:
• Folding or telescoping stock
• Conspicuous pistol grip
• Bayonet mount
• Flash suppressor, or threaded barrel designed to accommodate one
These appear to me to mostly cosmetic features, with the possible exception of the bayonet mount. Obviously we need to have that removed so as to deal with the recent trend of inner city drive by bayoneting of innocent children. All joking aside this has become a major hot button issue in modern politics and the trend is alarming. Our Government believes us too stupid to learn the facts and judge for ourselves.
I want you all to ask yourselves a difficult question. Is my Government giving me my moneys worth. Your answers are personal, closely held and damn important. I would like to share mine with you.
The most important issues to me are these: Education, Health Care and Public Safety.
In all three of these fields I believe our government has failed.
Education first. Test scores are appalling. My daughter is growing up in an era of "No Child Left Behind" legislature. While a good idea on paper, the implementation of this has been one of the most dumbfounding goat rodeo's in the course of human history.
What seemed like a good idea, namely making sure no child is deemed a "lost cause" in the eyes of the education system, has been perverted into an excuse to cater to the lowest common denominator of human evolution. The child with the brightest intellect is forced to dress down so that the inbred product of cousinlove that they have the unfortunate experience of sitting next to, can be taught to spell D-O-G- for the 25th time.
Next, Health Care. The fact that we are the only "Civilized" nation in the world without socialized heath care is one of the most flagrant abuses of public funds I have ever seen. If you work, or ever have worked, or are the minor child of someone who works, this should be part and parcel with citizenship in our beloved country. If you don't work, don't intend to work, and are from a family of people who refuse to work, when you get there tell my grandma I miss her.
Lastly, Public Safety. Lets face it, we as a society are not safe. Our government regularly drops the ball and then claims ignorance when the verdict should be incompetence. The handwriting for 9-11 was on the wall since the first time the bastards tried to drop the towers. Our Fearless Leader (snicker) is borderline illiterate, and has us out playing in the sandbox long after recess is over. His well thought out "PLAN" for Iraq, submitted after his poorly drafted first "PLAN" for Iraq has gotten 3048 US servicemen killed? Send 21000 more targets so the Iraqi Insurgents can have more trigger time.
When I took the oath and joined the U.S. Army I made a commitment that I would defend my Country and Constitution of The United States Of America from all threats Foreign and Domestic, but at the same time my Government made an implied commitment to me. They promised that they wouldn't put me in harms way without having a damn good reason. I don't see that commitment to our servicemen being upheld today.
So how about domestic public safety? Police departments throughout the country have been castrated by pencil necked bureaucrats that have never seen the depth and field of the human condition on an average inner city street. Any kind of proactive crime prevention role taken on by the individual officer is seen as racism or harassment, and the offer is chastised. "Profiling" is seen as the antithesis of good police work, even though it brings results. The individual officer has 3 seconds to make a decision that the review board has 3 months to pick apart, and for his trouble he makes a lower wage that someone in middle management at the crate and barrel store in your local mall. More and more Police jobs are cut every year to the point that the average city department has one sworn Officer to every 7000 residents, and of those sworn only 2/3 are assigned to patrol. This is clearly unacceptable.
So now I go back to the original topic. Gun control. If uneducated individuals turn to a life of crime because their education and socioeconomic situation has allowed this to become a viable option for their continued survival, the Police are overworked and under manned, not to mention driven to approach their jobs as "damage control" rather than prevention, and my Government is unwilling to treat any injuries I receive pro bono as a result of a confrontation with a criminal they could not protect me from, Than I am forced to take up arms (Assault Mackerel's included) and show that real Gun Control is a Steady Hand.
last nite I had had enough of listening to the whining firearm-o-phobed on myspace, and was compelled to write. This is what I came up with at 0300 hours. feel free to comment.
Sunday, January 21, 2007
GUN CONTROL
Hello oh best Beloved…..
Once again I'm compelled to take quill in hand and attempt to educate those about me.
The subject of tonight's essay you ask? Simply stated…Gun Control and American Domestic Policy.
Many of you know me, but for those who do not I'll enlighten you. I own Guns. I carry Guns. I firmly believe that the 2nd amendment is the one that guarantees all others.
My favorite quote was given by the late great Col. Jeff Cooper who, when asked if he believed that violence begets violence stated "I certainly intend to see that it does. If a man visits violence upon his fellow man then I see it as our duty as a society to ensure that he receives much more in return than he can hope to enjoy." Now having said all that, if you are the tree hugging, turn the other cheek, bunny hugger type you may want to toss in a Yanni CD and read the latest issue of better homes and ghetto's. There will be much Political incorrectness in the following paragraphs and I'd hate to destroy your precious paradigms. For the rest of you, read on…….
There are more Gun laws on the books than ever before in the course of American history. This is fact. The first such enacted is the National firearms Act.
And it states:
The National Firearms Act (NFA), cited as the Act of June 26, 1934, Ch. 757, 48 Stat. 1236, as amended, currently codified as Chapter 53 of the Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C. § 5801 through 26 U.S.C. § 5872, is a United States federal law passed in 1934 that, in general, imposes a statutory excise tax on the manufacture and transfer of all Title II weapons and mandates the registration of those weapons. Title II weapons are defined as all sound suppressors or 'silencers', all machine guns, all rifles with a barrel length less than 16 inches (406 mm) (SBR) and shotguns with a barrel length less than 18 inches (457 mm) (SBS), shoulder fired weapons with an overall length less than 26 inches (660 mm), weapons classified as "Any Other Weapon" (AOW) and weapons classified as "destructive devices" (DD). For weapons with folding, collapsing or telescoping stocks, the overall length is measured with the stock fully extended.
In layman's terms this means that machine guns, sawed off shotguns and silencers, as well as short barreled rifles are far too dangerous for civilians to own. A machine gun is a weapon which will continue to fire as long as the trigger is depressed and there is ammunition in the magazine. This is also known as an "Automatic". A Semi-Automatic is a weapon which requires the shooter to release the trigger between the firing of every round so as to reset the hammer and sear assembly before the subsequent round can be fired. Now that we have cleared up that piece of nomenclature we can move on.
We regularly hear of something called an "Assault Weapon". The meaning of this designation seems to be a tad unclear. These rifles are semi-automatic, have barrel lengths of the requisite 16 inches, and overall lengths of the requisite 26 inches.
Why then are they branded with the designation of "Assault Weapons"?
Assault, is defined by our dear friends at Merriam-Webster as:
1 a : a violent physical or verbal attack
To my mind this implies an action. By this definition if I were to smack someone with a large fish it could then be designated an "Assault Mackerel". Would this be fair to the fish do you think? After suffering the indignity of a forceful impact with an unwashed head, it would then lose its benign status and become somehow more dangerous and untrustworthy. As silly as this sounds, the Federal Governments standards for designating an "Assault Weapon" are even more ridiculous. An "Assault Rifle" is described as:
A Semiautomatic firearm with the ability to accept a detachable magazine, and two or more of the following:
• Folding or telescoping stock
• Conspicuous pistol grip
• Bayonet mount
• Flash suppressor, or threaded barrel designed to accommodate one
These appear to me to mostly cosmetic features, with the possible exception of the bayonet mount. Obviously we need to have that removed so as to deal with the recent trend of inner city drive by bayoneting of innocent children. All joking aside this has become a major hot button issue in modern politics and the trend is alarming. Our Government believes us too stupid to learn the facts and judge for ourselves.
I want you all to ask yourselves a difficult question. Is my Government giving me my moneys worth. Your answers are personal, closely held and damn important. I would like to share mine with you.
The most important issues to me are these: Education, Health Care and Public Safety.
In all three of these fields I believe our government has failed.
Education first. Test scores are appalling. My daughter is growing up in an era of "No Child Left Behind" legislature. While a good idea on paper, the implementation of this has been one of the most dumbfounding goat rodeo's in the course of human history.
What seemed like a good idea, namely making sure no child is deemed a "lost cause" in the eyes of the education system, has been perverted into an excuse to cater to the lowest common denominator of human evolution. The child with the brightest intellect is forced to dress down so that the inbred product of cousinlove that they have the unfortunate experience of sitting next to, can be taught to spell D-O-G- for the 25th time.
Next, Health Care. The fact that we are the only "Civilized" nation in the world without socialized heath care is one of the most flagrant abuses of public funds I have ever seen. If you work, or ever have worked, or are the minor child of someone who works, this should be part and parcel with citizenship in our beloved country. If you don't work, don't intend to work, and are from a family of people who refuse to work, when you get there tell my grandma I miss her.
Lastly, Public Safety. Lets face it, we as a society are not safe. Our government regularly drops the ball and then claims ignorance when the verdict should be incompetence. The handwriting for 9-11 was on the wall since the first time the bastards tried to drop the towers. Our Fearless Leader (snicker) is borderline illiterate, and has us out playing in the sandbox long after recess is over. His well thought out "PLAN" for Iraq, submitted after his poorly drafted first "PLAN" for Iraq has gotten 3048 US servicemen killed? Send 21000 more targets so the Iraqi Insurgents can have more trigger time.
When I took the oath and joined the U.S. Army I made a commitment that I would defend my Country and Constitution of The United States Of America from all threats Foreign and Domestic, but at the same time my Government made an implied commitment to me. They promised that they wouldn't put me in harms way without having a damn good reason. I don't see that commitment to our servicemen being upheld today.
So how about domestic public safety? Police departments throughout the country have been castrated by pencil necked bureaucrats that have never seen the depth and field of the human condition on an average inner city street. Any kind of proactive crime prevention role taken on by the individual officer is seen as racism or harassment, and the offer is chastised. "Profiling" is seen as the antithesis of good police work, even though it brings results. The individual officer has 3 seconds to make a decision that the review board has 3 months to pick apart, and for his trouble he makes a lower wage that someone in middle management at the crate and barrel store in your local mall. More and more Police jobs are cut every year to the point that the average city department has one sworn Officer to every 7000 residents, and of those sworn only 2/3 are assigned to patrol. This is clearly unacceptable.
So now I go back to the original topic. Gun control. If uneducated individuals turn to a life of crime because their education and socioeconomic situation has allowed this to become a viable option for their continued survival, the Police are overworked and under manned, not to mention driven to approach their jobs as "damage control" rather than prevention, and my Government is unwilling to treat any injuries I receive pro bono as a result of a confrontation with a criminal they could not protect me from, Than I am forced to take up arms (Assault Mackerel's included) and show that real Gun Control is a Steady Hand.
