pigfarmer
tall, thin, irritable
They did that with Sandy Hook
nivek
As Above So Below
Apparently he caused a car accident by running a stop sign drunk...
REVEALED: Nancy Pelosi's drunk husband Paul, 82, was five miles from his Napa home when he blew a stop sign while crossing highway at 10:22pm in his new Porsche crashing into a Jeep, arrest report reveals
DailyMail.com obtained his arrest report which reveals he was driving eastbound on Walnut Lane, a quiet tree-lined street in Oakville, five miles south of the Pelosi's vineyard in St Helena.
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Rick Hunter
Celestial
How about just add "assault" weapons to the National Firearms Act? 200.00 tax stamp, fingerprints, and a looonng wait to get one. A dedicated enthusiast would still jump through the hoops to get one but a psycho couldn't just fill out the forms and walk out of the store with one.
Of course, regular hunting style firearms are still quite deadly against unarmed victims and if assault weapons vanished tomorrow you would still have lots of murders. I have a couple of AR's myself. They are fun on the range, but my go-to rifles of choice are bolt and lever action. My cold dead hands gun is a Marlin 336.
Of course, regular hunting style firearms are still quite deadly against unarmed victims and if assault weapons vanished tomorrow you would still have lots of murders. I have a couple of AR's myself. They are fun on the range, but my go-to rifles of choice are bolt and lever action. My cold dead hands gun is a Marlin 336.
pigfarmer
tall, thin, irritable
Excellent idea!
Never had an AR but I've shot them. They are fun. This recent round of mass shootings happen to catch me when my interest in guns and shooting is at an ebb. I've sold a few and will continue. My 'keeper' would probably be an m1903 Springfield. That and my Ruger Mark II .22 target pistol - probably shot that more than anything.
What was I saying about politicians grabbing hold of some detail to drub us with? WTF is a 'high caliber weapon' ? Is that the new catchphrase - last time it was 'ghost guns' and 'MiG-22s" and .... oh sorry, getting my media squawking all mixed up.
Comparatively speaking a 9mm is lightweight. There are good reasons why it's ubiquitous but being superpowered is not one of them. I had a Glock 9mm a while. Got rid of it. I reload and the physical components are just too small for me to manipulate - cases, bullets. What does that say about it's high caliberness? Meanwhile, those ARs are firing .22 caliber bullets and are quite powerful - not at all the .22 rimfire plinkers and squirrel shooters. Those are centerfire rifles with bottleneck cases. The 5.56x45mm was designed to be an effective people killer - and more importantly wounder - for military purposes.
When it comes to these things it's like this - all depends on the circumstances. My oldest niece had her car run over by a tractor trailer and came away without a bruise. Her sister got hit by a small pickup truck head on and 15 years later is still undergoing surgeries - she's on her 13th or 14th by now. It's about the circumstances and use - you couldn't just hang a label on say, Peterbuilts and decide they're the deadly problem. Or to continue the analogy with Biden's comments, on little Chevy S10 trucks and call them 'high powered vehicles'
Biden goes on anti-gun tirade, suggests there's 'no rational basis' for 9mm pistols
Biden goes on anti-gun tirade, suggests there’s ‘no rational basis’ for 9mm pistols
By Mark Moore
May 30, 2022 1:28pm
Biden speaks to reporters after returning to the White House on Monday. AP
President Biden ranted against ownership of what he called “high-caliber weapons” Monday — appearing to suggest that there should be restrictions on the most popular handgun in America, the 9mm pistol, and repeating a previously debunked claim that the Second Amendment prohibits ownership of cannons.
Speaking to reporters outside the White House after returning to Washington from a weekend that included a visit to the site of last week’s mass shooting in Texas, Biden recounted a visit to a trauma hospital in New York, where he said doctors had showed him X-rays of gunshot wounds caused by various firearms.
“They said a .22-caliber bullet will lodge in the lung, and we can probably get it out — may be able to get it and save the life,” Biden said. “A 9mm bullet blows the lung out of the body.
“So the idea of these high-caliber weapons is, uh, there’s simply no rational basis for it in terms of thinking about self-protection, hunting,” the president went on.
Later in his remarks, Biden appeared to rule out the possibility of taking major executive action on guns, saying: “I can’t dictate this stuff. I can do the things I’ve done and any executive action I can take, I’ll continue to take. But I can’t outlaw a weapon. I can’t, you know, change the background checks. I can’t do that.”
Joe and Jill Biden pay their respects at a memorial at Robb Elementary School.
AP
Biden’s statements about 9mm pistols are in keeping with his rhetoric before entering the White House. At a 2019 fundraiser in Seattle, for example, then-candidate Biden asked his audience: “Why should we allow people to have military-style weapons including pistols with 9mm bullets and can hold 10 or more rounds?”
According to Shooting Industry magazine, 9mm pistols accounted for 56.8% of all handguns made in the US during 2019. In all, more than 15.1 million 9mm guns were produced in this country during the 2010s. The possibility of outlawing or otherwise regulating such weapons are likely to be a non-starter among conservatives and gun rights advocates.
“Remember, the Constitution, the Second Amendment, was never absolute,” Biden said. “You couldn’t buy a cannon when the Second Amendment was passed. You couldn’t go out and purchase a lot of weapons.”
Biden seemingly ruled out executive action on gun control.
AFP via Getty Images
Biden has made that claim before, most recently when he announced new regulations to stop the spread of so-called “ghost guns,” and they have been repeatedly declared false by fact-checkers.
“The Second Amendment did not place limits on individual ownership of cannons,” PolitiFact stated in April when it rated his claim false.
see also
Joe Biden suggests razing Texas school where mass shooting occurred
The website pointed out the text of the Constitution: “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
Despite widespread public outrage over Tuesday’s massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and the racially-motivated May 14 mass shooting at a Buffalo grocery store, Biden said he had not yet spoken with any Republicans about potential gun control legislation, but expressed hope for a compromise.
“I think things have gotten so bad that everybody is getting more rational about it,” he said. “At least, that’s my hope and prayer.”
Asked whether Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) authorizing Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) to work with Democrats could lead to results, Biden said “I don’t know.”
“I think Senator McConnell is a rational Republican. I think Cornyn is as well,” he added. “I think there’s a recognition in their part that they — we can’t continue like this. We can’t do this.”
Without Republican support, Democrats are powerless to pass any gun legislation in the 50-50 Senate unless they manage to temporarily set aside the filibuster’s 60-vote threshold for passing most bills.
Biden called Mitch McConnell a “rational Republican.”
Getty Images
Biden’s comments came fewer than 48 hours after Vice President Kamala Harris called for an assault weapons ban after attending a funeral for Buffalo shooting victim Ruth Whitfield, 86.
“You know what an assault weapon is? You know how an assault weapon was designed?” Harris said Saturday. “It was designed for a specific purpose – to kill a lot of human beings quickly. An assault weapon is a weapon of war with no place, no place in a civil society.”
Never had an AR but I've shot them. They are fun. This recent round of mass shootings happen to catch me when my interest in guns and shooting is at an ebb. I've sold a few and will continue. My 'keeper' would probably be an m1903 Springfield. That and my Ruger Mark II .22 target pistol - probably shot that more than anything.
What was I saying about politicians grabbing hold of some detail to drub us with? WTF is a 'high caliber weapon' ? Is that the new catchphrase - last time it was 'ghost guns' and 'MiG-22s" and .... oh sorry, getting my media squawking all mixed up.
Comparatively speaking a 9mm is lightweight. There are good reasons why it's ubiquitous but being superpowered is not one of them. I had a Glock 9mm a while. Got rid of it. I reload and the physical components are just too small for me to manipulate - cases, bullets. What does that say about it's high caliberness? Meanwhile, those ARs are firing .22 caliber bullets and are quite powerful - not at all the .22 rimfire plinkers and squirrel shooters. Those are centerfire rifles with bottleneck cases. The 5.56x45mm was designed to be an effective people killer - and more importantly wounder - for military purposes.
When it comes to these things it's like this - all depends on the circumstances. My oldest niece had her car run over by a tractor trailer and came away without a bruise. Her sister got hit by a small pickup truck head on and 15 years later is still undergoing surgeries - she's on her 13th or 14th by now. It's about the circumstances and use - you couldn't just hang a label on say, Peterbuilts and decide they're the deadly problem. Or to continue the analogy with Biden's comments, on little Chevy S10 trucks and call them 'high powered vehicles'
Biden goes on anti-gun tirade, suggests there's 'no rational basis' for 9mm pistols
Biden goes on anti-gun tirade, suggests there’s ‘no rational basis’ for 9mm pistols
By Mark Moore
May 30, 2022 1:28pm
Biden speaks to reporters after returning to the White House on Monday. AP
President Biden ranted against ownership of what he called “high-caliber weapons” Monday — appearing to suggest that there should be restrictions on the most popular handgun in America, the 9mm pistol, and repeating a previously debunked claim that the Second Amendment prohibits ownership of cannons.
Speaking to reporters outside the White House after returning to Washington from a weekend that included a visit to the site of last week’s mass shooting in Texas, Biden recounted a visit to a trauma hospital in New York, where he said doctors had showed him X-rays of gunshot wounds caused by various firearms.
“They said a .22-caliber bullet will lodge in the lung, and we can probably get it out — may be able to get it and save the life,” Biden said. “A 9mm bullet blows the lung out of the body.
“So the idea of these high-caliber weapons is, uh, there’s simply no rational basis for it in terms of thinking about self-protection, hunting,” the president went on.
Later in his remarks, Biden appeared to rule out the possibility of taking major executive action on guns, saying: “I can’t dictate this stuff. I can do the things I’ve done and any executive action I can take, I’ll continue to take. But I can’t outlaw a weapon. I can’t, you know, change the background checks. I can’t do that.”
Joe and Jill Biden pay their respects at a memorial at Robb Elementary School.
AP
Biden’s statements about 9mm pistols are in keeping with his rhetoric before entering the White House. At a 2019 fundraiser in Seattle, for example, then-candidate Biden asked his audience: “Why should we allow people to have military-style weapons including pistols with 9mm bullets and can hold 10 or more rounds?”
According to Shooting Industry magazine, 9mm pistols accounted for 56.8% of all handguns made in the US during 2019. In all, more than 15.1 million 9mm guns were produced in this country during the 2010s. The possibility of outlawing or otherwise regulating such weapons are likely to be a non-starter among conservatives and gun rights advocates.
“Remember, the Constitution, the Second Amendment, was never absolute,” Biden said. “You couldn’t buy a cannon when the Second Amendment was passed. You couldn’t go out and purchase a lot of weapons.”
Biden seemingly ruled out executive action on gun control.
AFP via Getty Images
Biden has made that claim before, most recently when he announced new regulations to stop the spread of so-called “ghost guns,” and they have been repeatedly declared false by fact-checkers.
“The Second Amendment did not place limits on individual ownership of cannons,” PolitiFact stated in April when it rated his claim false.
see also
Joe Biden suggests razing Texas school where mass shooting occurred
The website pointed out the text of the Constitution: “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
Despite widespread public outrage over Tuesday’s massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and the racially-motivated May 14 mass shooting at a Buffalo grocery store, Biden said he had not yet spoken with any Republicans about potential gun control legislation, but expressed hope for a compromise.
“I think things have gotten so bad that everybody is getting more rational about it,” he said. “At least, that’s my hope and prayer.”
Asked whether Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) authorizing Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) to work with Democrats could lead to results, Biden said “I don’t know.”
“I think Senator McConnell is a rational Republican. I think Cornyn is as well,” he added. “I think there’s a recognition in their part that they — we can’t continue like this. We can’t do this.”
Without Republican support, Democrats are powerless to pass any gun legislation in the 50-50 Senate unless they manage to temporarily set aside the filibuster’s 60-vote threshold for passing most bills.
Biden called Mitch McConnell a “rational Republican.”
Getty Images
Biden’s comments came fewer than 48 hours after Vice President Kamala Harris called for an assault weapons ban after attending a funeral for Buffalo shooting victim Ruth Whitfield, 86.
“You know what an assault weapon is? You know how an assault weapon was designed?” Harris said Saturday. “It was designed for a specific purpose – to kill a lot of human beings quickly. An assault weapon is a weapon of war with no place, no place in a civil society.”
Rick Hunter
Celestial
Holy shit, Joe is doing an excellent job of making Trump look good.
nivek
As Above So Below
Biden is 'furious at aides for having to repeatedly walk back gaffes, having to remind staff he is President, his dire approval ratings and not being warned about baby formula crisis until this MONTH': Chief of Staff Ron Klain is also 'considering leaving'
The report paints a picture of a commander-in-chief who appeared to have thought his decades of Senate experience would have given him an edge only to be left struggling with public relations crises.
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The report paints a picture of a commander-in-chief who appeared to have thought his decades of Senate experience would have given him an edge only to be left struggling with public relations crises.
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AD1184
Celestial
Biden has a few too many decades of experience.
The shadow
The shadow knows!
We were doing our annual family picnic when all hell broke loose.
At least 4 injured in Memorial Day fights at Penn Park, Madison police say
We got out of there and found a different park ..
At least 4 injured in Memorial Day fights at Penn Park, Madison police say
We got out of there and found a different park ..
The shadow
The shadow knows!
The shadow
The shadow knows!
Conservative Radio Host Clay Travis Booted From Son's Baseball Game, Calls Ump 'Loser' in 8-Minute Rant (Video) (msn.com)
I don't agree with some calls but it is not my place to storm the field and berate an umpire. I have seen my sons coach tossed for arguing
I don't agree with some calls but it is not my place to storm the field and berate an umpire. I have seen my sons coach tossed for arguing
Rick Hunter
Celestial
It kills me how some folks can't understand that the refs aren't always going to make the call you want them to. And, that arguing has a zero percent chance of changing their mind.
I think Peter Falk delivered the best zinger of all time to an umpire after getting called out in a little league game. He popped out his glass eye and said something like "Here, you'll see better with this.'
I think Peter Falk delivered the best zinger of all time to an umpire after getting called out in a little league game. He popped out his glass eye and said something like "Here, you'll see better with this.'
nivek
As Above So Below
Worst President in my lifetime and we haven't seen the worst results yet from Biden's failed policies...JP Morgan is even warning of an economic hurricane on the horizon due to Biden's failings and reckless spending...
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Gas prices hit new RECORD high of $4.71 nationally and seven states top $5 a gallon as Bidenflation rocks the US and the president throws up his hands and admits he's powerless to help
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Gas prices hit new RECORD high of $4.71 nationally and seven states top $5 a gallon as Bidenflation rocks the US and the president throws up his hands and admits he's powerless to help
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nivek
As Above So Below
The nation is crashing while the president vacations...
Biden is on pace to take the most vacation than ANY other president including Trump as he prepares to head to Rehoboth Beach for the weekend
Joe Biden is preparing for another weekend away in Delaware as the president is on track to take more vacation than any other of his predecessors with a projected 1,106 days away from the White House.
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Biden is on pace to take the most vacation than ANY other president including Trump as he prepares to head to Rehoboth Beach for the weekend
Joe Biden is preparing for another weekend away in Delaware as the president is on track to take more vacation than any other of his predecessors with a projected 1,106 days away from the White House.
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pigfarmer
tall, thin, irritable
Fiddling while Rome burns
Rick Hunter
Celestial
Prior to this, the highest gas price I ever saw was $4.39 in 2008. This comes out to $5.89 today, according to usinflationcalculator.com. My commute is 50 miles each way and I'm hoping that my employer will soon allow us to work longer shifts four days a week.
pigfarmer
tall, thin, irritable
I remember paying $4/gallon after Katrina and being thankful I was on a motorcycle at the time.
From that calculator that's $5.92/gallon. I just paid $5.09 the other day - $75 and my truck wasn't empty.
Fortunately we don't use that much gas overall, I don't commute anymore. It's the home heating oil that worries me. This will be a rough winter for my wallet.
nivek
As Above So Below
My commute to work is about 80 miles a day round trip...Typically working 4 days a week at 10 hours a day and some Fridays like today I'll go into work...
Yesterday paid $5.09 a gallon for gasoline, dropped $40 and barely half a tank...Unfortunately Bidenflation hasn't peaked yet, I stopped at the grocery store yesterday and dropped $100 that barely filled two bags...
Also yesterday, my boss gave me a wage increase to help cover some of the extra expense, mainly gasoline...Didn't expect that but that increase was most welcomed and very appreciated...
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Yesterday paid $5.09 a gallon for gasoline, dropped $40 and barely half a tank...Unfortunately Bidenflation hasn't peaked yet, I stopped at the grocery store yesterday and dropped $100 that barely filled two bags...
Also yesterday, my boss gave me a wage increase to help cover some of the extra expense, mainly gasoline...Didn't expect that but that increase was most welcomed and very appreciated...
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