90%?

Well, ok, not quite 90%. 87.1% of Colorado Sheriffs think that the Denver Democrats are insane fascists. Michael Bane brings the news.

I got a letter from Mark Udall (Dumbass, Colorado)

Dear Fellow Coloradan,

The horror of the Newtown shooting, arriving on the heels of the mass shootings in Aurora, Columbine, Virginia Tech and Tucson, has appropriately reignited a national debate over gun violence.  Sadly, this week even a bipartisan compromise to expand background checks to keep firearms out of the hands of criminals and the mentally ill, drafted by two conservative U.S. senators — Republican Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania and Democrat Joe Manchin of West Virginia — failed to pass the U.S. Senate, despite being supported by 90 percent of Americans and over 70 percent of NRA members. [citation needed]

Last week I met with the mothers and fathers of the children who were murdered in Newtown [IS FOR THE CHILDRENS!!!]; although they told me about how thankful they were to the families and community of Aurora for their support, I know they are uniquely disappointed in the Senate’s failure to pass meaningful gun-safety measures.  This gulf between public support and congressional inaction cannot continue.

As with many issues, Colorado serves as a roadmap for the steps we must take: Our state closed the gun show loophole through a ballot initiative in 2000 and in March this year, Gov. John Hickenlooper [The future one term governor of Denver Colorado {they're different? who knew!}] signed into law several bills that require universal background checks for all gun purchases and limit high-capacity magazines.  These actions mirror my votes in the U.S. Senate this week in favor of background checks, supporting a ban on high-capacity magazines, cracking down on illegal gun sales and trafficking, and improving mental health services. [And now the Denver Democrats are out there leading the charge off the cliff all alone]

The U.S. Senate also considered an assault weapons ban.  And while I’ve previously called for an effectively crafted ban on military-style weapons, the specific ban we considered went much further than the 1994 assault weapons law and also would have banned legitimate hunting rifles and even some shotguns.  I spoke to sportsmen from across Colorado and they voiced their concerns about how this ban would restrict their ability to hunt and responsibly practice their sport, which is an important part of our economy and way of life.  I know some Coloradans may say that banning some legitimate hunting weapons is a small price to pay to keep other, more dangerous weapons off of our streets — especially for a state that has suffered mass gun tragedies.  I can relate to that sentiment, but after years of seeking to find common ground on gun-safety issues, I also know that overreach can spur the backlash that we’ve seen undermine even the most common-sense solutions – like universal background checks. [sign of intelligent life?]

But an assault weapons ban alone should not serve as a litmus test for people who want to reduce gun violence.  Even if a perfectly drafted assault weapons ban were signed into law, we would still be left with easy access to millions of military-style weapons on our streets today – which is why it is so important to also ensure that a background check is conducted on every gun sale. [Good luck getting gang bangers to go along with that]

There are no easy answers, but we should all agree — and a large majority of NRA members do [citation needed] — that we must keep firearms of any kind out of the hands of criminals and the mentally ill by requiring universal background checks.  But loopholes — which the Manchin-Toomey proposal sought to correct — continue to prevent many of these background checks from occurring today.  Disturbed individuals should not get a chance to fire even one round into their communities, let alone the 30 rounds a high-capacity magazine would allow.  Together, background checks and a ban on high-capacity magazines achieve much of what an assault weapons ban seeks to — preventing the wrong people from having access to weapons [like pressure cookers] that can inflict mass casualties in a matter of moments.

Coming from a state with a long and storied tradition of gun ownership that has also suffered through too many gun tragedies, I know we must simultaneously renew our commitment to keeping our children safe while safeguarding our Second Amendment rights.  My friend Gabby Giffords [yeah, I know a guy who knows a guy with brown skin], a survivor of the senseless violence in Tucson, knows too well how important this debate is and her strength has only affirmed my conviction that the status quo must change.  I will keep fighting for Colorado’s [I think you meant to say "Denver" there] families and values.  Our nation deserves nothing less.

Warm regards,

Mark Udall

quote of the gun control

From The Miller:

“The biggest question I have today is why was President Obama more upset about this than the terrorist bombing in Boston?”

Indeed.

Quote of the whiny president

“For Barack Obama to suggest that the nation should be ashamed for not blindly submitting to his gun grabbing political agenda is not simply arrogant, it’s absurd. His attempt to create national guilt because millions of citizens refuse to be subservient to his political desires sounds more like the rant of a spoiled emperor than a sensible president.”

–Alan Gottlieb (Click on the SAF sidebar link for more!)

Sow the wind

Reap the whirlwind.

2014

Democrats R Dumb

“Majority of people.” This lady apparently never checks her email, voicemail, snail mail, listens to the news, or to the cars honking outside the capitol building or anything but the tiny voices inside her head that whisper “Breath in. Blabber out. Breath in. Blabber out.”

Quote of the whole damn week. Since October, probably

“The Democrats have just handed me a sledgehammer and I get to walk through their china shop in the 2014 election”

Dudley Brown, director of the RMGO (see upper left sidebar for link)

That article lays out some serious stupidity on the part of the Democrats. John “Let the Cleansing Begin” Morse now says that he doesn’t really think these laws will do anything. And here’s John “Look At Me, I’m A Moderate, No Really” Hickenlooper saying that he didn’t mean it when he made a bunch of laws that turn ME into a felon for letting my range buddy load a magazine for me without us PAYING and WAITING for a background check EVERY TIME we pass it back and forth to each other. Does he really think that me telling a zealous, irritable, and half-clueless police officer “No, that’s not what they meant when they wrote it that way!” will get him to stop trying to arrest me? REALLY?

I was really looking forward to seeing the dumb looks on their faces when they were pitched out of the capital building come November 2014; it’s a little bit gratifying to see said looks so much sooner than that.

And for all the cluelessness around the national Republican Party, it is very good to see that it seems the locals have their heads on straight–rather than getting discouraged, they’re getting pissed off.  And it’s time to start lighting some torches, as they say.

A big tip o’ the hat to Billll and Michael Bane, for the nice articles.

Boy, and now I’m angry

Publicola has a rundown on all the wiffle-waffling from our Governor, outside influences on our state, and how Biden is now moving his clownish yet somehow effective gaze onward to other states. This is not over here, and it’s not over wherever you live, either. And as I have said before, I look forward to seeing the recalls and lawsuits.

Bad news everybody

I have just heard that the good Gov. Hickenlooper will sign all of the anti-gun bills that have hit his desk on Wednesday vwith a ceremony, thus becoming the next ex-governor of Colorado rather than the next President of the United States. And then he’s coming over to my side of the state (HEAVILY Republican, and THOROUGHLY pissed off) for a speech on Saturday.

I actually expect effigies.

Pyrrhic victory? Yes…

…assuming another [tinfoil]convenient[/tinfoil] mass shooting doesn’t happen between now and November 2014, which is my big fear now.

Black gold

So I walked through Cabela’s, and wonder of wonder, they actually had a metal AR magazine.

Then I got home, and the other half of the Boulder Airlift arrived.

Huzzah!

Gun Case Questions

It’s a day of blegging, apparently.

Since it appears that I should be doing more gun-and-magazine-locking-upping in the near future, I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for easily lockable cases. I would prefer one that could hold more than one rifle at a time, and was a nice sturdy hard case. The plano-esque one that my ORC came with is ok, but firmly on the flimsy side. I was thinking that I should also get a separate lockable box for my OMGEEEEVILLL (but still ok enough to be grandfathered in) over-15-round magazines, just so when Officer Friendly stops you for your burnt out tail light he can’t start jumping to conclusions right away. Something that doesn’t scream “GUNS!!!!” would probably be good.

I was looking at this and this (not affiliated with Amazon or it’s affiliates, and any affiliations are purely in the mind of the FCC or FTC or Effin-whatever-the-hell-your-stupid-government-organizations-who-seem-to-be-obsessed-with-making-our-lives-more-difficult-are-called, merely linked for educational purposes.) A bit rich, maybe, but, as my Uncle says, “It’s only a dollar more to go first class.” And despite the recent stock market run, I have my doubts on the long-term worth of my money, so why not convert it into something useful? Something that might usefully help me stay out of jail for malum prohibitumy things? After all, you wouldn’t want any of your high-velocity rifles to escape, since they can go so fast, apparently.

Wow, that turned kinda ranty there at the end, didn’t it?

2014

I look forward to seeing the moronic, pitiful looks on your faces when you are unceremoniously dumped on your asses outside the capitol building. It’s on, bitches. And DO NOT say that WE, being THE VAST MAJORITY of the people inundating your mailboxes, did not give you fair warning.

BREAKING

My friend the history major, who has been watching the state Senate all day, reports that the assault weapon liability and campus carry bills were killed, with the magazine limit and universal background check bills on shaky ground.  John Morse reported as “angry, disorganized, and full of vitriol.” 

Reportedly he said, and I quote, “we need to start the cleansing.”

I can’t really argue with that; I figure we’ll start in early 2014, and work until November til we get a goodly number of Democrats booted out on their behinds.

Unfair Advantage

Hey, all you Colorado Democrats! Look what I just got in the mail!

And that’s only the first part of my order–.223 mags were backordered.