Yesterday (24 March 2009) afternoon was depressing for all the lies about guns and Mexican gun cartels. Feature after feature of just plain WRONG information.
'Drug cartels are using machine guns and RPG's and getting these from America via gun shops and gun shows.'
Yeah right. RPGs in US gun shops. I've never seen an RPG and every machine gun I've seen costs at LEAST $10,000 for a $1000 item, and it takes 2 months to take possession after purchasing, MINIMUM.
'The ATF has traced 90% of cartel guns found in Mexico to US sources. '
These non-existent or unavailable machine guns and RPGs? Ok, I can go along with that. THe US Government sold/supplies the Mexican army with Colt M-16's. These Mexican Army guns get sold by deserters to the cartels, maybe. That's not a lie, then. The sourcing percentage. Just misleading.
And Senator Lieberman said it was because of, 'the gunshow loophole where gun dealers are selling guns without a background check, so that loophole legislation needs to be looked at again.'
It is already illegal, Senator, for a Gun Dealer to sell guns without a background check of the purchaser. Or do you mean you want to set it so YOU can't give a old gun to your grandson without permission of some gov't bureaucrat? If you MEAN you want to pass a law saying no private sale person to person, ANYWHERE, then come out and say that. Why won't you? Because you know your constituents wouldn't like that. That's a bit too much gov't nose in their personal business.
And there was one more, sorta in our favor, about SWAT abuse where the over zealous cops proned out an innocent family and 'held them with .50 caliber sniper rifles'
While I don't doubt the cops pointed guns at the family, I do doubt they were .50s. Not the first choice of dynamic entry teams terrorizing a family in their own yard. Probably just abusive use of 9mm MP5s or some iteration of .223 AR types. Maybe a bolt action .308. Cops just don't engage at ranges that make the use of 2000 yard .50 caliber Barrett jobs. A bunch of cops with .22LR pointed at you while you are cuffed is intimidating enough, though.
Stop lying to us, gun banners. Stop pretending to be journalists and actually fact check stuff if you do. Stop inventing horror stories, or, if you do, at least make them something a bit less easy for a slow-head like ME to debunk.
Thanks for taking one for the team, and listening to NPR. Do you remember what show that was? They're a bit dated in their propaganda, and a healthy dose of ridicule is needed.
ReplyDeleteNevermind, I just saw the link. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteThis way leads to madness!
ReplyDeleteexcept for car talk, those guys crack me up.
Listen closet, ditto. I call it "anti-car talk." They're full of the same cant as the rest of the agenda. "Woist..cahh..EVAH" always means something made you-know-where. Cahhs may be an amusing necessary evil, but evil nonetheless. They too look forward to the purification of our souls, and the (Baast'n) elevated life, everlasting.
ReplyDeleteAt one time there was a list of 10 questions that would never be addressed on NPR. i emailed the NPR Ombudsman and asked whatever happened to that list. Was it ever addressed. She replied "I never heard of it, if you find it please send it to me." Sounds like an invitation to me. Now if I could just find that list. One of the questions was about the defensive use of firearms. Have you heard of it?
ReplyDeleteit's only going to get worse
ReplyDeletehttp://www.pervasivelight.com/blog/2009/03/25/blame_mexico/
No offense, but for those of us that carry weapons for something other than zombies and malltrolls, NPR is the only media outlet that still knows there's wars on. Just sayin'..
ReplyDeleteJovian,
ReplyDeleteFrom a friend in the AM mail:
""You're going to love this: Yesterday Fox News ran pictures of recent interdictions headed into Mexico, seized near Tijuana. One was a large pile of drug cash -- ho hum. The other was a small table of guns, perhaps a half-dozen, shown briefly. At least four were beautiful doubles -- really nice stuff, fancy wood. I don't doubt that they were seized at the border, but just wonder who had his collection raided.""
How 'bout that?
'stable'-- an appropriate spot to discuss the varieties of political horsedung
John the Red