We Can’t Agree On Gun Control Because People Don’t Listen Or Something

By William Teach November 15, 2018 – 2:37 pm

Washington Post writer Jen Zamzow actually attempts to provide a balanced point of view, but misses two big thing (I’m using the NJ.com reprint)

Why we can’t agree on gun control. Hint: Because you don’t want to listen

In the wake of yet another mass shooting — this time claiming the lives of at least 12 people in Thousand Oaks, California –  it’s painfully obvious that the United States has a problem with gun violence. In our current political environment, it’s also obvious that little can be done about it.

Sixty-one percent of Americans favor stricter gun laws, according to a recent Gallup poll, but this statistic hides a strong partisan divide: Eighty-seven percent of Democrats support tougher gun laws, while only 31 percent of Republicans do. How can we solve the gun violence problem when Republicans and Democrats can’t seem to come together on anything these days, let alone on an issue as politically divided as gun control?

If we want to overcome the political divide on guns, we first need to understand why we have it. The cause of partisan conflict is generally not a lack of evidence or an inability to understand it. In fact, for contentious issues, having a greater understanding of the information can actually increase belief polarization, leading people with opposing views to end up even further apart.

Jen dives into all sorts of things, like psychology, the way our brains are wired, party affiliation, and more. This is the same type of stuff they attempt to trot out for why we won’t Do Something about ‘climate change.’ That said, they first big thing she’s missing is that she’s approaching this from a position of “we must have gun control.” That right there will get pushback.

Anyone serious about building consensus on gun policy needs to be slower to judge and quicker to listen to those who disagree. I understand why gun-safety advocates might not want to listen to those who are skeptical of gun-safety laws. People are being killed in their places of worship and kids gunned down at school; this kind of crisis can make people feel they don’t have time for dialogue.

However, listening to those who are resistant to gun-control laws is more than just a sign of respect. Understanding what motivates people can help us come up with better solutions that are more likely to stick.

See? It’s assumed that we have to have gun control, so, the gun grabbers should listen more to find out something something garble garble.

Which is issue two. Those of us who are “resistant” have listened. We know what these “gun-safety advocates” want. The disarming of law abiding citizens. Again, California has every bit of law in place that the gun grabbers have pushed, and more, yet, there are still shootings.

The “gun-safety advocates” want more and more laws, right up to the Australian solution (banning and confiscation), yet, the existing laws aren’t being fully enforced. We saw this with the failure to implement California’s red flag law with the latest mass killer.

We know what the gun grabbers “gun-safety advocates” want: to make it harder and harder for law abiding citizens to engage in their 2nd Amendment Right, while at the same time the GSAs want to go easier and easier on criminals. I’ve listened to the GSAs: I don’t need to listen to more to know what they want.

This is from the comments at NJ.com

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 15, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible fossil fueled vehicle causing heat snow, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Coyote Blog, with a post on a transpartisan approach to healthcare reform.

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Warmists Are Demanding House Democrats Investigate Exxon Over ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach November 15, 2018 – 10:30 am

Good idea. Let’s have people who use way more in terms of fossil fuels than the average citizen investigate a fossil fuels company

Environmentalists Urging New Democratic Congress To Investigate Exxon

An influential environmentalist organization is urging the upcoming Congress to investigate ExxonMobil and other major fossil fuel companies regarding their alleged contribution to man-made climate change. (snip)

350.org, an environmental activist organization, is circling a petition that encourages Democratic lawmakers to investigate ExxonMobil over its knowledge and contribution to climate change. The accusations ring very similar to the #ExxonKnew campaign that’s been waged for several years against the major oil company.

“Launch a congressional investigation into ExxonMobil and other fossil fuel corporations for propagating confusion and denial about the scientific truth of climate change and for hiding the risks posed by their business activities to the planet,” read a portion of 350’s letter demanding “real climate leadership” from the upcoming 116th Congress.

Jamie Henn, a 350 co-founder, told Axios that an investigation into Exxon and other big oil companies should be a priority for the House Technology, Science and Space Committee.

Here’s an idea: if Warmists do not like fossil fuels, then they do not have to use them.

Democrats are already planning to dive in come next year and hold hearings on ‘climate change’. Would they attempt the same types of investigations we’ve seen in states? Most likely not. Exxon and other fossil fuels companies are beating back all sorts of legal assaults, and, most likely, the House Democrats are going to go full overreach after Trump, having no time to overreach by going after Exxon.

Regardless, what this is about is attempting to use the power of Government to go after entities involved in Wrongthink. Nothing Fascist about that, eh?

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Democrats Who Didn’t Want Obamacare To Apply To Them Now Want Vote On Single Payer

By William Teach November 15, 2018 – 8:12 am

Harken back to the early days of Obamacare, when we learned that members of Congress and their staffs were exempt from Obamacare, and that they wanted nothing to do with being in it. Now we get

Left wants a vote on single-payer bill in new Congress

Progressive Democrats are pushing for a vote on a controversial health-care bill after the party takes control of the House early next year.

But the left’s push for “Medicare for all” legislation would likely divide Democrats and pose a headache for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who is poised to become Speaker in the next Congress.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), who is co-chair of the Medicare for All Caucus in the House, told supporters on an organizing call Tuesday night that simply expressing support for the idea is not enough.

“When we have that majority, we need to make sure that we put it to use,” she said.

Yet, many other House Democrats, including members of the leadership, are not on board with the idea of government-run universal health insurance.

Supporters say they are going to push for a vote and organize grass-roots efforts to pressure Democratic holdouts to sign on to the legislation. However, any floor vote would probably fail, with all Republicans and some Democrats rejecting the measure.

In all fairness, a decent chunk of these hardcore Progressives (nice Fascists) were not in Congress when Ocare was passed. And Ocare was really just a stepping stone to move towards Single Payer, which is really what Medicare For All is. A government run and dominated system.

Republicans used Medicare for all — otherwise known as single-payer — as a leading area of attack on Democrats during the 2018 midterm elections. They touted a recent cost estimate by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, which put the bill’s price tag at $32 trillion over 10 years.

If they’re saying $32 trillion, the real cost is probably more like $50 trillion. Not too mention the declining standard of care. Don’t forget, even tiny Vermont couldn’t make it work, as the costs derailed the whole thing. But, Democrats do not care. They don’t care about the quality of your healthcare or access to it. Nor your health. This was shown by Obamacare and the implementation. It’s all about patronizing people to get them beholden and controlled by the government. That’s not a conspiracy theory, that’s what Democrats do.

That said, they might be setting themselves up for an inter-party fight with the old guard who realize this is a bad idea, and further create a situation where their push for single payer helps lose the House and makes sure Trump wins in 2020.

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The Republicans Are Dancing To Trump’s Autocracy Tune Or Something

By William Teach November 15, 2018 – 7:54 am

There’s an old article from 2006 entitled The Left, Online And Outraged, which was about how George W. Bush and his administration were making lefty bloggers absolutely barking moonbat deranged. They were obsessed. It starts

In the angry life of Maryscott O’Connor, the rage begins as soon as she opens her eyes and realizes that her president is still George W. Bush. The sun has yet to rise and her family is asleep, but no matter; as soon as the realization kicks in, O’Connor, 37, is out of bed and heading toward her computer.

Out there, awaiting her building fury: the Angry Left, where O’Connor’s reputation is as one of the angriest of all. “One long, sustained scream” is how she describes the writing she does for various Web logs, as she wonders what she should scream about this day.

Kinda like the official opinion writers for the Washington Post, which would include Excitable E.J. Dionne

Will the Republican Party keep dancing with autocracy?

When a national leader urges that votes be ignored, or that an election result he doesn’t like might best be set aside, we label him an autocrat or an authoritarian.

When it’s President Trump, we shrug. Worse, many in his party go right along with his baseless charges of fraud.

We are in for a difficult two years. Surviving them will require that Republican senators take seriously the pledge they made in their oath of office to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” What we have seen so far is not encouraging.

Interesting. We all remember reading the op-eds from E.J. blasting Obama for doing whatever he wants with his phone and pen after he lost the House in 2010, right? Or that elected Democrats and the Dem voters ignored his Executive Orders? Oh, and, hey, if EJ wants Senators to take their oath of office seriously, then he should be pushing for all to pass legislation that stops the foreign invasion that illegally crosses our borders.

E.J. goes on to trot out more of the old Florida 2000 derangement syndrome over Bush winning it fair and lawfully. He forgets to include the relevant information on how Gore and company were trying to skirt state law.

All this is about more than Trump’s obvious meltdown since an election that was bad for him and his party — and gets worse as more votes are tallied. It is about whether Republicans are willing to contain and, when necessary, oppose a man who repeatedly demonstrates hostility to the rules, norms and constraints of constitutional democracy.

Now do Obama.

Trump yammers on Twitter. Obama actually implemented rules that blew off those constraints.

Of course, what E.J. really wants with this bit of #TrumpDerangementSyndrome is to count every single vote in Florida regardless of whether they are legal. He wants all the irregularities that have occurred to be ignored. The saying should be “count every legal vote.” If the things going on in those Democrat run voting precincts was reversed and was happening in a Republican run one, you can bet E.J. and the rest of the media would be outraged. And they’d be right to be outraged.

BTW

Looking back through the last few months, the vast majority of his op-eds are about Trump. The rest usually involve Trump. Refer back to The Left, Online And Outraged.

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Well, What If We Gave The Anti-Shark Shark’s Guns?

By William Teach November 14, 2018 – 9:18 pm

The gun grabbers might want to ignore this lunatic, but, then, most of the other gun grabbers are lunatics (via Twitchy)

But, hey, perhaps David would back the bans on catching sharks and skinning their fins off, after which they are just dumped back in the sea. Bad for the biosphere. Reduces the population, which is necessary.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 14, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is massive amounts of early snow due to carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Flopping Aces, with a post on Florida recount’s hidden gun control agenda.

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Surprise? Illegal Alien Who Murdered Three Was One Of Obama’s DACA Recipients

By William Teach November 14, 2018 – 10:19 am

I wonder if Obama feels any remorse? Or the Democrats who backed DACA? How about the media, which also backed DACA? Will the media ask Mr. Obama any pointed, tough questions?

Illegal Alien Accused of Killing Three Was a DACA Recipient

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spokesperson told the Springfield News-Leader that Luis Rodrigo Perez, 23, a Mexican national accused of killing three people in Missouri after jail officials released him on domestic violence charges in New Jersey, was a recipient of the DACA program in 2012 and 2014.

It is unclear whether he was no longer eligible or did not re-apply for the program in 2016. Illegal aliens who came to the U.S. as children can qualify for DACA, but felony or significant misdemeanor convictions are grounds for disqualification from the program.

ICE spokesperson Shawn Neudauer said before Perez was accused of murder, he was arrested in Middlesex County in December 2017 on suspicion of aggravated assault, assault, and child abuse.

And this is exactly why DACA was a bad idea: the Obama admin was simply giving executive amnesty to illegal aliens without truly vetting them, all in the hopes that the status would be normalized, which would also mean that their parents wouldn’t be deported.

This same illegal was released by a sanctuary jurisdiction

ICE Acting Executive Associate Director Corey Price said Friday that federal immigration officials placed a detainer on Perez while in the New Jersey jail, but jail officials did not honor the request and did not let ICE know when he was released.

But Middlesex County officials say its ICE’s fault the detainer was not honored because the agency’s request did not meet specific criteria, adding that the federal immigration agency never requested to deport Perez while he was in jail.

ICE has slammed Middlesex County in the past for their “sanctuary” policies, especially after the federal immigration agency arrested 37 criminal illegal aliens in the area in July.

Middlesex is just making excuses. Because they would have let the illegal go regardless. I’ll write again, it’s beyond time for the detainer system to become formal warrants. Then all the sanctuary jurisdictions would have to comply.

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Neil Young Blames Trump For Losing His House Due To ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach November 14, 2018 – 8:11 am

Man, if only President Trump had done something about ‘climate change’ during his previous terms over the last 30 years, eh?

Neil Young Blames ‘So-Called President’ Donald Trump After Losing His Home in the California Wildfires

By Sunday, the devastating wildfires across California were only 25 percent contained as the death toll rose to 31 across the state. An estimated 200 people still remain missing, and in response to the disaster, President Donald Trump took the opportunity to blame California’s “gross mismanagement of the forests” for the mass destruction.

Hundreds of structures have been destroyed in the fires; among them is Neil Young’s home. On his website, Young called out Trump for his refusal to believe in climate change.

“California is vulnerable – not because of poor forest management as DT (our so-called president) would have us think. We are vulnerable because of climate change; the extreme weather events and our extended drought is part of it,” Young wrote. “Imagine a leader who defies science, saying these solutions shouldn’t be part of his decision-making on our behalf. Imagine a leader who cares more for his own, convenient option than he does for the people he leads. Imagine an unfit leader. Now imagine a fit one.”

On one hand, Trump should have not dropped that tweet. There are times when it’s best not to do what he does, don’t send the tweets. Even if he was right.

On the other hand, what, exactly, was Trump supposed to do in the 1 3/4 years he’s been in office? Nothing Obama did during his 8 years in office made a difference, especially since large parts of California have always been dry and windy, making them prone to turning small wildfires in to massive blazes.

I’ll hold off in calling Neil a “so-called” musician. He’s made a lot of records in his life, but, has there really been anything good since the release of Live Rust in 1979, which is one of the best live rock albums ever? I’d put it in the top 10, along with ones like Rush’s Exit…Stage Left, The Band’s Last Waltz, Jimmy Buffett’s Feeding Frenzy, and a few others. Anyhow, Yahoo decides to drop a whopper

Even firefighters are blaming the blaze on climate change. In a press conference, Los Angeles Fire Chief Daryl Osby said, “The fact of the matter is if you look at the state of California, climate challenge is happening statewide … it is going to be here for the foreseeable future.”

And this is why the news is not trusted: Osby didn’t blame it on ‘climate change’, he essentially said it was made worse, because we already know that it was started by downed power transmission lines.

Anyhow, I wonder if Neil realizes how much carbon pollution he’s released through all the years of touring and traveling in fossil fueled vehicles, what gets released from the stadiums he’s played and the people coming to see him in fossil fueled vehicles, and so forth.

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Peak 2018? Men Refuse To Give CPR Because Of #MeToo Movement

By William Teach November 14, 2018 – 7:51 am

People talk a lot on social media and blogs and in comments about Peak 2018. And there always seems to be something the following week, day, or even hour that is more peak. We might have an actual contender for true Peak 2018, especially since we are closing in on the end of the year

Men now afraid to give women CPR in fear of being accused of sexual assault and #MeToo

An article on Yahoo stated that researcher had surveyed people regarding CPR and their attitude when it comes to giving women CPR. The researchers, from the University of Colorado, had reported that many of the interviewees stated they feared giving a woman CPR because they would not want to be accused of touching them inappropriately or accused of sexual assault.

This is not good news for a woman who might suffer a heart attack or any other medical issue and require CPR on the spot to save them. Some call this the side effect of the #MeToo movement.

The Yahoo article stated, “Men were twice as likely to cite this fear as a reason for not administering CPR, the researchers found.”

Study lead author Sarah Perman of the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Denver, said: ‘The consequences of all of these major themes is that women will potentially receive no CPR or delays in initiation of CPR.

It doesn’t get any worse than this, does it? Especially since women are also afraid to give CPR to women lest they be accused of inappropriate touching, as the article notes

The real fear is that the accusation alone could ruin someone’s life, because even after someone is proven innocent, the damages are already done.

When the accusations fly, the media covers them heavily. When the result is that the accused is proven innocent, there is little fanfare, and brings up the old saying “where do I go to get my reputation back?” It’s entirely too easy nowadays to make an accusation on some Internet platform, once which is one-sided and gets tons of likes and traction. But are often false or blown up from an anthill to Mt. Everest.

And the #MeToo 3rd Wave feminists have no one to blame but themselves.

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