In Forced Buy-Back Scheme, How Do You Round Up All Those Guns?

By William Teach September 23, 2019 – 10:30 am

The Associated Press’ Lisa Marie Pane asks an important question

In gun buyback talk, how do you round up so many weapons?

Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke’s recent vow to take away people’s AR-15 and AK-47 rifles raised one big question: How is it possible to round up the millions of such guns that exist in the United States?

The number of AR-15 and AK-47s in the U.S. is estimated at a staggering 16 million, creating logistical challenges to take them out of circulation. Many gun owners are also unwilling to turn over the weapons, and if the government offered to buy them all back at face value, the price tag could easily run into the billions of dollars.

O’Rourke’s pointed declaration during a recent debate — “Hell yes, we’re gonna take your AR-15, your AK-47” — stoked longstanding fears among gun owners that Democrats are less interested in safety or finding a middle ground, and just want to confiscate guns. Even some gun-control advocates aren’t so sure that confiscating firearms will work.

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Democratic candidates pushing gun buybacks have also pointed to similar moves in Australia and New Zealand. However, the number of AR-style long guns in those countries pales in comparison to the United States, and neither has gun rights enshrined in their constitutions.

In those two countries they banned most privately owned firearms, not just those scary “assault weapons”.

Chipman believes an assault weapon ban should be handled similar to the machine gun rules, requiring they be registered and heavily regulated but not confiscated.

“I think it would be far more likely that we would find more of the weapons under comprehensive regulation by the government than sort of a forced buyback ban scenario,” he said.

There’s also the optics of the government taking away guns, presenting another challenge for the Democratic proposals.

The idea of outlawing and then rounding up firearms alarmed many gun owners who believe it will not solve the problem of gun violence and would only serve to take firearms away from law-abiding Americans. They point out that while AR-style guns have been used in some high-profile mass shootings, most gun deaths involve handguns.

“Once you start talking about taking guns away, especially legally owned firearms by responsible gun owners, you’re just going to alienate a whole huge portion of American citizens. They’re just not going to stand for that,” said Chris Waltz, the president and CEO of AR-15 Gun Owners of America. “This is what they feared.”

So, one proposal is simply to make them highly regulated to attempt to get them registered, which would make it easier to confiscate later. See, again, that registration part is what was missing from Australia and New Zealand banning weapons. It’s been reported that only 20% of firearms were turned in when Australia banned them in the late 1990’s, and the number of weapons turned in in New Zealand has been rather low.

Even some self-identified liberals who own firearms question the legality of gun confiscation and even the practicality.

“Constitutional rights aren’t based on what you like. What’s the slippery slope of this?” said Lara C. Smith, the national spokeswoman for the Liberal Gun Club, a nonprofit group of liberal gun owners. “If they’re going to take away these rights, what other rights are they going to take away?”

And this hardcore push will drive liberals away from voting in 2020. They may not vote for Trump and Republicans, but, they won’t be giving their vote to Democrats. And it is a slippery slope. And, Democrats keep moving the goal posts. But, they’ve said it when they started talking about the Australian solution even before the 2016 election.

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Climate Nutters Plan To Shut Down D.C. Commute This Morning

By William Teach September 23, 2019 – 8:13 am

This should surely endear their cause to ordinary people, right? Especially since many who are commuting into D.C. vote Democrat already

(USA Today) Activists calling for action on climate change were disrupting morning commutes across Washington, D.C., Monday morning, just days after hundreds of thousands demonstrated alongside school children for Global Climate Strike rallies.

Shut Down D.C. aimed to “disrupt the systems that created and perpetuate the climate crisis” and block key intersections across the city to disrupt traffic.

Videos posted on social media showed protesters waving flags and tied to cars donned with banners that had messages like “ROAD CLOSED CLIMATE EMERGENCY” in the middle of major intersections. Police appeared to be breaking up some of the blockades.

The group said on its website that demonstrators would meet early Monday at four locations across the city, which are near high volume intersections, busy metro lines and Union Station.

Intersections including Massachusetts Avenue and North Capitol, New York Avenue and I-395, and 2nd Street SE and Independence Avenue were planned to be disrupted, and the group also was also planning to gather near the White House, Capitol Hill and ICE headquarters, the Washingtonian reported.

You’re getting things like this (#shutdowndc is trending)

What are they shutting down? There’s no traffic. But, there are other places where they are causing problems

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Bummer: So-Called Ukraine Issue Whistleblower Made Claim On Hearsay

By William Teach September 23, 2019 – 7:48 am

Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine just doesn’t have the ring of Russia Russia Russia, but, it’s going to end the same way: a big nothingburger against President Trump. But, it could end up hurting Joe Biden and his son. And Obama. But, hey, CNN was nice enough to commit a random act of journalism, though they tried to bury it

(Daily Caller) The anonymous White House whistleblower suggesting President Donald Trump had an inappropriate conversation with a foreign power now known to be Ukraine reportedly made that claim based on hearsay.

Fox News’ senior political analyst Brit Hume noted Saturday how CNN admitted that the political firestorm is all based on a whistleblower, thought to be a White House intelligence agent, with second-hand information:

The CNN story cited by Hume suggests, “It is hard to see how any of this ends well” but doesn’t mention the whistleblower’s precarious grip on his inside information until the reader is deep within the report.

“The whistleblower didn’t have direct knowledge of the communications, an official briefed on the matter told CNN. Instead, the whistleblower’s concerns came in part from learning information that was not obtained during the course of their work, and those details have played a role in the administration’s determination that the complaint didn’t fit the reporting requirements under the intelligence whistleblower law, the official said.”

That last bit is directly from the CNN piece, which is a rather important point, wouldn’t you say? But, they waited till paragraph 22 to post it. It’s almost like they didn’t want you to know that the allegations are, charitably, based on the whistleblowers office mate’s friend’s coworkers sister’s Twitter feed or something

(Fox News) Rudy Giuliani channeled President Trump Monday with a wee-hours Twitter blitz aimed at turning the Ukraine story currently roiling Washington into a big problem for Democrats.

Giuliani, the personal attorney for Trump and outspoken critic of Joe Biden and his son’s relationship with Ukraine, accused Kiev of laundering $3 million to Hunter Biden, suggested that the Obama administration turned a blind eye and made the prediction that the scandal is in its infancy.

“If Dem party doesn’t call for an investigation of Bidens’ millions from Ukraine and billions from China, they will own it,” he tweeted. “Bidens’ made big money selling public office. How could Obama have allowed this to happen? Will Dems continue to condone and enable this kind pay-for-play?”

Regardless of your opinion of Rudy, he does have a few salient points. And, for all the focus on Trump, are any reporters attempting to dig in to what the Biden’s did in Ukraine? It’s not actually a new story, but, it’s like the people who get paid to report the news are avoiding the answers intentionally. But, as long as they continue to cover this one sided, what the Biden’s did will cause people to use the ‘net to look up what the non-traditional media have already uncovered. And make Biden look bad.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 22, 2019 – 6:30 pm

…is the need to move into the mountains to avoid sea rise, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Just One Minute, with a post on back in Ukraine.

It’s ladies mountain biking week. And, I forgot to hit schedule earlier.

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Say, Why Does Big Oil Have Such Power In The Fight Against Hotcoldwetdry?

By William Teach September 22, 2019 – 4:49 pm

Advance Media’s Jonathan D. Salant is rather vexed by this

Why big oil has so much power in Washington as it fights climate change activists

More than 600 people are registered to lobby for Exxon Mobil, Chevron and the rest of the oil and gas industry in Washington. That’s more than one for each member of Congress.

During the first six months of 2019, big oil spent $63.5 million to lobby. Only three industries have spent more, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a research group.

Also this year, the industry has made $19 million in campaign contributions, 89 percent to Republican candidates and committees. That’s the seventh highest, according to the center.

That’s the juggernaut facing off against efforts to reduce fossil fuels in order to curb carbon emissions contributing to climate change.

See, this is all part of “Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 220 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story.” What they aren’t covering is a very easy notion: Big Oil has power because 1) they are a legal industry that is Constitutionally guaranteed to be able to speak freely, petition the government for redress of grievance, and protest peaceably, and 2) because people are unwilling to give up their fossil fueled autos, including most Warmists. Which includes the papers listed with Advance Media owned NJ.com, and those 220 news outs, many who need them to distribute their dead tree editions.

When Warmists start giving up their own use of fossil fuels an masse I will start believing they really think it is a crisis. How many kids took a fossil fueled trip to the protests Friday?

It’s fun how Warmists always attempt to deny people their ability to the speak out, eh?

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach September 22, 2019 – 10:12 am

Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in America. The sun is shining, the birds are singing, Trump is driving liberals nuts. This pinup is by Vaughan Bass, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Chicks On The Right covers some nutter coming out as sapiosexual
  2. DaTechGuy’s Blog explains why climate protesters are full of it
  3. Jihad Watch features Ilhan Omar finding the real victim of 9/11
  4. Legal Insurrection notes that the media going after Trump on Ukraine is going to backfire
  5. Moonbattery has 5 stories the MSM didn’t tell you about
  6. MOTUS AD discusses sandwich shaming
  7. Pacific Pundit covers volunteers cleaning up Los Angeles, without skipping school
  8. Powerline has an obituary for Bill De Blasio’s campaign
  9. Raised On Hoecakes covers a Free Speech case won in Arizona
  10. White House Dossier wonders if Nikki Haley is getting back into politics
  11. The Last Refuge notes a report about Minnesota Dems switching to Trump support
  12. The Lid covers a woman confronting Beto on gun confiscation
  13. The Other McCain discusses Feminists freaking over a guy getting laid
  14. The Right Scoop features climate crisis activists trying to explain why they use fossil fuels
  15. And last, but not least, No Tricks Zone shows data on Greta Thunberg’s Sweden getting early snow and cooling

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your “Pinups for Vets” calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

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Post #ClimateCrisis March, Climahypocrisy Abounds

By William Teach September 22, 2019 – 8:39 am

So, the kiddies had their little hissy fit on Friday, demanding that Other People do something, refusing to give up their own big carbon footprints, then headed home in fossil fueled vehicles, then surely did things that require vast amounts of fossil fuels on Saturday. Adults are not immune to climahypocrisy, and this is perfect

Thom Yorke calls himself a ‘hypocrite’ when it comes to climate change

Radiohead singer Thom Yorke has called himself a “hypocrite” and admitted that his campaigning on climate change has often been at odds with his jet-setting lifestyle.

In an interview with BBC Radio 4’s “Desert Island Discs,” the British musician said: “The thing I’ve always struggled somewhat with, is if I’m campaigning on climate change, I’m someone who has to fly for my work so…

“I totally agree I’m a hypocrite but… what do you want to do about it?” he told the show.

“You can do stuff but the real stuff has to happen in Parliament and the UN, and has to happen now, we’re out of time,” he said.

See? It’s OK that he’s a climate hypocrite, because Someone Else, ie, Government, should force him to not be hypocritical. Now, imagine that the UK Parliament came out with a bill that took away fossil fueled travel, limited travel, limited or stopped the eating of meat, and the rest of what the Warmists demanded: think Yorke would be supportive? All these climate laws would kill his business. Radiohead surely wouldn’t be able to put on the types of concerts they’re used to, because energy would be too expensive as well as restricted. That’s even if they could travel anywhere. It just goes to show that climate crisis disciples are hypocrites.

The singer has been vocal in his support of Friends of The Earth and Greenpeace. In June, Radiohead released hours of unheard material from the mid-1990s in aid of Extinction Rebellion, after the material was stolen by cyber-attackers.

Oh, good, he supports complete nutjobs. Of course, he’s not the only climahypocrite.

Harry, Meghan and Archie set to woo Africa on first royal tour as a family

Britain’s Duke and Duchess of Sussex and their baby son Archie kick off their first tour as a family on Monday in southern Africa.

At the request of the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan will travel together to South Africa before Harry continues on to Angola and Malawi. While in the region, Harry is also set to visit Botswana on a working trip.

While not all details have been released, Buckingham Palace has revealed the trip has a packed itinerary that will focus on “community, grassroots leadership, women’s and girls’ rights, mental health, HIV/AIDs and the environment.”

By “environment”, they mean Cult of Climastrology business. This is on the back of their visit to the Google meeting, where they met other like-minded climahypocrite big wigs. They’ve claimed they only want two kids because of Hotcoldwetdry. Traveling around Africa via fossil fueled vehicles isn’t particularly friendly to the CoC, eh?

Then there’s this

(Twitchy) Many of the 2020 Democrats are big supporters of the Green New Deal and all that entails, including calls for dramatic reductions in meat consumption. Cory Booker has said current meat consumption levels aren’t sustainable. Kamala Harris would like a reduction in the consumption of red meat. Bernie Sanders has indicated support for a “meat tax” to bring down consumption. Andrew Yang has proposed an emissions tax for beef to change Americans’ diets by making it too expensive to eat meat (well, too expensive for the non-well-to-do that is).

All of those Green New Deal supporters and more are making their cases this weekend at the… Iowa Steak Fry?

That’s right, they were cooking and eating meat (and dancing horribly)

See, it’s not about their own hypocrisy, Government needs to Do Something!

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Wisconsin Governor Is Open To Mandatory Buy-Backs Of Firearms

By William Teach September 21, 2019 – 5:13 pm

This would also be known as “confiscation of legal acquired property by law abiding citizens who passed a federal background check for pennies on the dollar”

Gov. Tony Evers announces red-flag bill, says he’s open to mandatory gun buybacks

Gov. Tony Evers rolled out red-flag legislation Thursday and said he would consider requiring gun owners to sell off some of their weapons.

Republicans who control the Legislature immediately rejected both ideas, much as they resisted an earlier proposal from Evers for expanded background checks. The red-flag legislation Evers touted Thursday would allow judges to take guns away from people who are deemed to be a danger.

“Each and every day officials choose cowardice over common sense,” Evers said at a Capitol news conference. “That choice has significant consequences. The consequences of inaction are too high, folks.”

Responding to a question at the news conference, Evers said he was open to a proposal by Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke that would require people to sell their military-style weapons. But Evers said he was putting his attention on expanded background checks and red-flag legislation — ideas that polling has shown are overwhelmingly popular with the public.

“I’d consider (mandatory gun buybacks), but my focus is on these two bills and on the two offices that would be able to prevent it from going to hearing and to a vote,” Evers said, referring to the Legislature’s GOP leaders.

Funny how all the gun grabbers who tell us they aren’t trying to grab guns are now saying they want to grab guns

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos of Rochester and Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald of Juneau have rejected Evers’ past ideas on guns.

In a joint statement Thursday, they said his red-flag legislation “poses threats to due process and the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens.” Similar laws have been upheld by courts in Indiana and Connecticut.

Vos and Fitzgerald called mandatory gun buybacks unacceptable.

“With Governor Evers considering confiscating firearms from law-abiding citizens, it shows just how radical Democrats have become,” they said in their statement.

Oh, they’ve been radical for quite some time, they’re now willing to admit it publicly.

(NRA) Gun confiscation is the goal. Gun confiscation has always been the goal. Thanks to a recent outburst by 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Robert (Beto) Francis O’Rourke, potentially millions more Americans are now aware of this fact.

Exactly.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 21, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible carbon pollution rising from the land from even fossil fuels, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post on IKEA learning that peas are racist.

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Climate Cult Grand Poobah Al Gore Thinks That The Climate Crisis Is A War We Can Win

By William Teach September 21, 2019 – 11:23 am

Manbearpig crawled out of his hole to drop an op-ed at the NY Times

The Climate Crisis Is The Battle Of Or Time, And We Can Win

Things take longer to happen than you think they will, but then they happen much faster than you thought they could.

The destructive impacts of the climate crisis are now following the trajectory of that economics maxim as horrors long predicted by scientists are becoming realities.

More destructive Category 5 hurricanes are developing, monster fires ignite and burn on every continent but Antarctica, ice is melting in large amounts there and in Greenland, and accelerating sea-level rise now threatens low-lying cities and island nations.

Tropical diseases are spreading to higher latitudes. Cities face drinking-water shortages. The ocean is becoming warmer and more acidic, destroying coral reefs and endangering fish populations that provide vital protein consumed by about a billion people.

He has his talking points down, you have to give him that

Worsening droughts and biblical deluges are reducing food production and displacing millions of people. Record-high temperatures threaten to render areas of the Middle East and the Persian Gulf, North Africa and South Asia uninhabitable. Growing migrations of climate refugees are destabilizing nations. A sixth great extinction could extinguish half the species on earth.

Now we need to ask ourselves: Are we really helpless and unwilling to respond to the gravest threat faced by civilization? Is it time, as some have begun to counsel, to despair, surrender and focus on “adapting” to the progressive loss of the conditions that have supported the flourishing of humanity? Are we really moral cowards, easily manipulated into lethargic complacency by the huge continuing effort to deceive us into ignoring what we see with our own eyes?

Remember, polls say that roughly 68%-75% are unwilling to pay more than $10 a month to stop the “climate crisis.”

This is our generation’s life-or-death challenge. It is Thermopylae, Agincourt, Trafalgar, Lexington and Concord, Dunkirk, Pearl Harbor, the Battle of the Bulge, Midway and Sept. 11. At moments of such crisis, the United States and the world have to be mobilized, and before we can be mobilized, we have to be inspired to believe the battle can be won. Is it really too much to ask now that politicians summon the courage to do what most all of them already know is necessary?

Fortunately, there’s a tax to solve this

Yet for all this promise, here is another hard truth: All of these efforts together will not be enough to reduce greenhouse gas emissions sufficiently without significant policy changes. And right now, we don’t have the right policies because the wrong policymakers are in charge. We need to end the mammoth taxpayer-funded subsidies that encourage the continued burning of fossil fuels. We need to place a direct or indirect price on carbon pollution to encourage the use of cheaper, sustainable alternatives that are already out there. New laws and regulations may be needed as well to encourage innovation and force more rapid reductions in emissions.

See? We can fix it with a tax!

Oh, and when is Gore going to give up his own use of fossil fuels, especially for his private jet usage?

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