The Future of our Youth

Looks a lot better after watching this. If only some adults could see things this way.

I Don't Buy It

Admittedly, I still want to like the guy, but maybe he should have picked someone other than Charlton Heston to mock.
What do I not believe? This bit from his follow-up piece at HuffPo:

For those who say I'm a hypocrite because I have an armed bodyguard, lets make one thing clear: No one in my employ is allowed to carry a large magazine

I think I might another employer if he went out and declared to the world that I was under-gunned.
Then there's this:

Every American has the right to bear arms. But it is up to every American to draw the line when it comes to the type of guns that are considered a reasonable means of self-defense.

I do believe the line is being drawn, but it isn't where many people of Jim Carrey's mindset would like. Go read it.

Wow. Just Wow.

Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO): "I will tell you these are ammunition, they’re bullets, so the people who have those now they’re going to shoot them, so if you ban them in the future, the number of these high capacity magazines is going to decrease dramatically over time because the bullets will have been shot and there won’t be any more available." 

Found here at Sipsey Street.
Then the follow-up from her mouthpiece:

“The Congresswoman has been working on a high-capacity assault magazine ban for years, and has been deeply involved in the issue; she simply misspoke in referring to ‘magazines’ when she should have referred to ‘clips,’ which cannot be reused because they don’t have a feeding mechanism,”

So, I guess he doesn't undertand that clips are reusable, too? Oh, that's right, they don't know anything about guns, but they want to ban them anyway. Wow.

Dear Senator Feinstein

or should I say Senator Whinestein?

"A fear has set in that if they vote for the bill they won't be re-elected. It's that plain, it's that simple," Feinstein said during an appearance before the Commonwealth Club. "My view is they shouldn't go up to the Senate if they are unwilling to stand up and vote."

If a Senator's constituency supported gun control the Senator would vote for it. If a Senator feels that there are enough single-issue voters that can be reminded at the appropriate time to vote against and unseat them, them maybe said Senators should not be following the herd over the cliff. Go read it.

Fun With Math

I struck pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard at least, and came up with the following figures for what a stack the Department of Homeland Security is layin' in. That recent Forbes article said 1.6 billion, but that figure has creeped up since then to more than 2 billion. So, living in a modest home built in the 1950s where storage space is at a premium, I wondered what the DHS is looking at for warehousing all that brass, copper and lead.
Here's my scratchpad with roughish numbers.

Working from this link at MidwayUSA a 50-round .40 S&W carton is 6.1875 inches X 3.25 inches X 1.5 inches.

A football field, between the goal lines, is 300 feet X 12 inches = 3,600 inches long

and 160 feet X 12 inches = 1,920 inches wide

one layer of cartons would be 3,600 inches divided by 6.1875 inches = 582 cartons long

and 1,920 inches divided by 3.25 inches = 591 cartons wide

582 X 591 = 343,962 50-round cartons per layer

2 billion total rounds divided by 50 rounds per carton= 40,000,000 cartons

40,000,000 / 343,962 = 116.3 layers

116 layers X 1.5 inches = 174 / 12 = 14.5 feet deep

So, the DHS will have a football field's worth of .40 S&W hollowpoints stacked 14 and a half feet deep. Think about it. 

We Cannot Allow This to be Ratified

“The Senate has already gone on record in stating that an Arms Trade Treaty has no hope, especially if it does not specifically protect the individual right to bear arms and American sovereignty,” Sen. Thad Cochran, a Mississippi Republican who backed Mr. Inhofe’s motion, said in a statement. “It would be pointless for the president to sign such a treaty and expect the Senate to go along. We won’t ratify it.”

Go read it.

But This is a Quiet Neighborhood

The break-in sent shock waves through the community, which one 44-year resident described to Fox News as safe and relatively crime-free.

It turns out okay, though. Go read it.

Something's Missing

What a great bit of history. Too bad it all points to an incorrect conclusion. Mr. Parry dances all around the logical conclusion, but doles out some wrong-headed, hare-brained, ninny drivel instead.

Alaskan Opine

This one just because I like it when somebody says, "asinine."

At the outset, there is this: Universal background checks -- like recent asinine gun and magazine bans -- will not work, despite what the White House, the Democrats' leadership and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg are peddling. 

Go read it.

Emotions

Many citizens reacting to the mass murders in Newtown, Conn., Aurora, Colo., and Tucson, Ariz. — or yearning to curb the daily toll of domestic violence or gang shootings all over the country — have gone to their legislators with excellent intentions. But emotion overwhelms the logic of their ideas.

Go read it.