Smart Guns Redux

A company in Georgia is claiming to have technology to make Smart Guns viable.

Computerworld: Smart gun company aims to begin production soon

“According to Miller, had smart gun technology been available to Nancy Lanza, she could have programmed her guns so that only her fingerprint could have activated them; she could have enabled her son to shoot them at a firing range and disabled them upon returning home, or she could have enabled them for her son to use all the time, Miller said.

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Liberals meet Reality

While I am not surprised that the whiny Newtown parents are actually hypocrites that don’t really care about child safety, it was shocking for me to see that they are so open about it:

Newtown Voters Reject Budget Hiring Security Guards for Schools

“Newtown voters on Tuesday rejected town and school budgets that contained an extra $770,000 to cover the cost of hiring new police officers and security guards for Newtown’s public and private schools.

Legislative Council chairman Jeff Capeci said: “At the end of the day, Newtown voters thought it was too much of an increase.”

Yeah, it’s not like there’s childrens’ lives at stake or anything.

They had no problem loudly and obnoxiously agitating for unconstitutional state laws that will cost many millions of dollars to implement (and will end up bankrupt and ineffective like Canada’s now-scrapped registration scheme), but when it is coming our of their own wallets, child safety is apparently not important enough to pay for.

I shouldn’t be so hard on them I guess.  It takes a lot of money to pay for their mansions, pleasure boats, and zoning restrictions that keep minorities out of Newtown.  They might not have any cash leftover to protect their own kids.

I wonder if sad-sack crybaby Neil Heslin will drag his framed paintings to the town budget meetings to protest this dangerous breach of child safety?

Well, folks, it’s been a rough 4 months for those of us who believe in the Bill of Rights.

Ever since a crazy kid used some stolen guns to kill schoolkids a few towns from where I live, the rights of non-crazy legal gun owners have been under assault.  Of course there is no logic in attacking something besides the actual problem, but no one can accuse liberals of comprehending logic or displaying consistency.

So far, New York, Maryland, Colorado and Connecticut have rammed draconian (and unenforceable) gun laws down their citizens throats.  None of these new laws would have prevented the Sandy Hook or Aurora massacres.  None remove guns from criminals hands.  And gun companies have begun to relocate from those states to friendlier turf, damaging the economies of these blue states even more.

On the federal level, gun control has stalled and looks to be moribund thanks to the memory of 1994.  That will last until Harry Reid decides he doesn’t want to run for re-election and stabs the NRA in the back on the way out to pasture.

But we can not relax.  The gun grabbers will not stop attacking us, and as long as that is the case, we have to win every fight, and they only have to win once.  Playing by their rules is just a form of slow suicide.

Here’s an article in the American Thinker:

Gun Bill Defeat is Not Enough

It’s time to stop playing defense, and start making the gun grabbers pay a price for their actions.

I am referring to legal methods, of course.

What have you done?  What are you planning to do?  (Don’t email or comment about it; it’s a rhetorical question)

I hope you can answer those questions for yourself honestly.  And I hope the honest answer is not “nothing”.

Idiot-in-Chief

I apologize for the sparse postings lately, but we have been extremely busy fighting the gun grabbers and making preparations for the worst-case scenario.  By now you have probably heard the news.  The worst-case scenario has come true.

In a knee-jerk response to Sandy Hook, Connecticut’s Democrat-controlled legislature passed a comprehensive array of vague, contradictory, unconstitutional and virtually unenforceable gun laws in the dead of night.  Somehow, these idiots think that they can register high-capacity magazines!

The police report on this incident has still not been released.

We still have not seen the autopsy or toxicology reports on the killer.

None of the proposals address mental health.

None of the proposals address school safety.

And the Asshole Governor rammed the law through the legislature under bogus emergency protocols, avoiding public debate and committee review of the law.  Someone must be pulling his strings, because Dan Malloy’s former secretary says that he was too stupid to turn on his own computer while mayor of Stamford.

The law took effect immediately, when it was signed by the Asshole Governor at 12:30 at night, but the specifics of the law were not spelled out for dealers or citizens to read.  Result: gun stores are sitting on unsaleable guns because this Frankenstein monster of gun laws neglected to exactly define what was and was not permissible under the law.  Ammunition manufacturers like Nutmeg Sporting Cartridge can no longer sell to police departments because police departments are not considered a FFL.

Lawsuits have been filed.  This will be fought.  Many CT-based gun companies are planning to relocate.

Dan the Hat

Author, liberal and gun owner Dan Baum wrote a book (“Gun Guys: A Road Trip”) about the conflict of his gun ownership and his otherwise liberal politics.  The Atlantic has published an interview with Baum, which I am going to dissect below.

Why am I going to dissect it?  Quite simply: his beliefs are for the most part mutually exclusive.  He has to engage in some elaborate rhetorical dancing, and employ pretzel logic, in order to truly accept both beliefs.  And at some point he will have to jump one way or the other from the fence he is sitting on.

Full disclosure: I verbally sparred with Baum a few times in the comments sections of gun blogs.  While our exchanges were not abusive, he is stubbornly liberal, while clinging to some distinctly non-liberal views and attitudes (and I am not referring exclusively to “good” non-liberal traits).  He took particular exception to the common (and accurate) practice of referring to liberal gun grabbers as “gun grabbers”, so much so that he quit participating on one blog over the issue.

My issue is not with Baum personally (although his ever-present hat is kind of pretentious, LOL), but rather with the erratic logic which he uses to make his arguments as well as the inconsistencies in his beliefs.

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