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OH THAT FASCIST UKRAINE! GOING TO ALLOW CITIZENS TO CARRY PISTOLS FOR SELF DEFENSE!

RT: Ukraine announces major gun control move.

Parliament is expected to pass legislation allowing pistols to be carried for self-defense, the interior minister’s adviser says.

Ukrainians could gain the right to carry pistols for self-defense as early as next year, according to an adviser to the country’s minister for internal affairs.

Citing an unspecified poll, Viktor Andrusiv claimed on Sunday that 70% of Ukrainians support the relevant legislation, which was approved at the first stage by the country’s parliament on February 23 – the day before Russia launched its military offensive.

He said amendments were now being prepared for the second reading of the bill.
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According to the explanatory note of the legislation, which was supported at the first reading by 274 out of 352 MPs, the law would allow citizens who find themselves “in a situation of extreme necessity” to protect their own, as well as other people’s “life and health,” with the use of firearms.

According to the note, “firearms are the most effective means for citizens to exercise their constitutional right to self-defense.” The legislation’s authors also claim that a “vast majority of the developed countries of the world” have provided their citizens with this right and thus reduced the number of violent crimes.

Oh, I can't wait to hear the anti-2A Crowd go into pretzel contortions explaining why this is good or bad, or good for Ukrainians but not Americans.

Testing...David Hogg, all gun-grabbing U.S. politicians and their duplicitous useful iditiots...awaiting comments...

"UKRAINE IS BEHOLDEN TO THE NRA! REEEEE!"

No Joe, a 9mm bullet won't, "blow the lung out of the body."

Breitbart: FACT CHECK: Biden Falsely Claims 9mm Bullet Will Blow ‘Lung Out of the Body’.

CLAIM: On Memorial Day 2022 President Biden claimed a 9mm bullet will “blow the lung out of the body.”

VERDICT: False.

The 9mm round is widely popular for concealed carry because it has effective stopping/penetrating power without significant recoil. The round’s stopping power is also attractive for law enforcement, but that power does not translate into blowing organs out of the body.

Breitbart News spoke to a Navy SEAL (ret.), who is a ballistics expert, and his response to Biden’s statement was, “No way.”

We spoke to a federal agent with 15 years experience in the field, and his response was “bullsh*t.”

We spoke to another individual who has been a federal agent for nearly 20 years and was a local police officer for years before that, and he responded to Biden’s statement by saying, “Not possible.”

Biden also said, "you can't buy a cannon", but you can.

SafeSide wins! Ralphie Northam loses! Judge rules Virginia gun range can open amid virus closures.

WJLA: Judge rules Virginia gun range can open amid virus closures.

A judge has ruled that a Virginia gun range must be allowed to open to customers despite a statewide executive order requiring nonessential businesses to close to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

The order issued Monday by Lynchburg Circuit Judge F. Patrick Yeatts says federal and state protections on the right to bear arms outweigh any emergency authority held by Gov. Ralph Northam to order the gun range closed.

The SafeSide gun range in Lynchburg filed the lawsuit challenging the governor’s executive order, along with Gun owners of America, the Virginia Citizens Defense League and the Association of Virginia Gun Ranges.

More at Bearing Arms.

DEM Debate 2; We've heard this before.

"Transformational plans."
"Keep what works, fix what doesn't."
"It's FREE!"
"We should be ashamed of our country."
"Tax and spend."
"Guns=All Bad!"
"Allow me to exploit the tragedy of others for my political gain and pandering."

All DEM candidates told a long, personal, motivational and moving story. None of them managed to say anything good about the country. We are in terrible shape, they say, and everything turned bad in the past two and one-half years all due to one man: President Donald Trump.

Joe Biden: "Look..." In claiming he fought the NRA, he said he banned, "the number of 'clips' for a gun." Okay... Joe. And...no one has done more for anybody, ever, than Joe Biden. We know this because he told us this. Often. We get it, Joe, you're the Rosa Parks of Caucasians.

Michael Bennett: Who Dis?

Pete Buttigieg: "I'm so Zazzy I didn't shave."

Kirsten Gillibrand: Ranted about "greed" of private industry, businesses and financial markets. Failed to mention the greed of skyrocketing higher education costs and tuittion and failed to mention the greed of politicians.

Kamala Harris: "I'm Michelle O. 2.0, damn it!"

John Hickenlooper:  "Does what's on my head look real?"

Bernie Sanders:  the uncle you wished would stop coming over at Thanksgiving. "Everything I say is yelling and shouting."

Eric Swalwell: "Like me. Please. See how forceful I am?"

Marianne Williamson: (Who Dis?) "I have a book coming out soon."

Andrew Yang: Forgot tie.

Pandering. Platitudes. Trump=Bad. And Everything is Free! FREE!

...and existential threats and c...c...cli...mate...ch..chan...ge.

Another weekend in Chicago: 10 dead, 52 wounded.

CBS News: Violent Chicago weekend leaves 10 dead, at least 52 wounded.

At least 10 people were killed and 52 others were wounded in a tragic outburst of Chicago gun violence over the weekend, according to police.
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A Chicago police spokesperson told ABC News that 19 people had been arrested on gun-related charges between Friday and Sunday evening. A total of 81 illegal weapons were seized since Friday evening.
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Police said 41 people were shot and seven were killed in the city during the previous weekend, according to the Sun-Times. 

Maybe pinhead, Pro gun-confiscation DEM presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand can fix this.

Then again, maybe not:

Washington Examiner:  Gillibrand calls the NRA is 'the worst organization in this country'.

"I think the most outrageous thing that has happened to our democracy is how much fear and division and hate has been spread. I think the NRA is the worst organization in this country for doing exactly that. They care more about their profits than the American people," said Gillibrand.

"Promoting fear, division and hate." Sounds just like the Dogma of the Democrat Party.

Gillibrand: Nice Sieg Heil, there KriSSy. All that's missing is the little mustache and a Swastika shoulder patch.

"Only in America." DEM Chris Cuomo mocks rape survivor Kimberly Corban.

Chris Cuomo Twitter

The Federalist: Chris Cuomo Mocks Rape Survivor For 2nd Amendment Views.

CNN Anchor Chris Cuomo thought he had a real sick burn on Wednesday when he mocked rape survivor Kimberly Corban on Twitter for saying she protects herself and her family with a firearm.

“Only in America,” Cuomo tweeted in response to a National Rifle Association video of Corban sharing about the night she was suffocated and raped in her dorm room at age 20.

Daily Mail: Backlash against Cuomo as he tries to backtrack his way out of his thoughtless tweet.

Janice Dean tweeted: ‘You might want explain this tweet a little better to those of us who’ve actually had to face predators in our own homes and defend ourselves without a big strong man like yourself?’

Liz Cheney, the Republican member of Congress, tweeted: ‘Yes, @ChrisCuomo, in America we believe women should be able to defend themselves. And we know the Second Amendment guarantees our right to do so.’

Cuomo then responded to a number of his critics, including McCain, when he wrote: ‘Read what I tweeted. You have my intentions wrong.

‘A survivor story and the right to bear arms is not where we are stuck...We can’t get past this deadlock on all or none to make reasonable changes to help reduce deadly violence.

‘Happy to talk if you have more questions.’

Daily Mail (October 2018): Chris Cuomo dubbed Trump's attack on Dr Ford as a 'shame campaign.'

[Dr Christine Blasey Ford's sister-in-law] Sandra Mendler said it was 'really terrible' to see Dr Ford's testimony misrepresented by Trump in an appearance on CNN's Cuomo Prime Time on Wednesday evening.
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During the interview, host Chris Cuomo dubbed Trump's attack on Dr Ford as a 'shame campaign,' adding: 'I didn't even see that coming.'

August 9, 2018; Cuomo gets a Lemon Birthday cake:

Cuomo: "What a wonderful surprise from Don Lemon CNN - a real birthday treat!"

Chris Cuomo..."only in America."

Phone thrown or tossed on stage during Trump's NRA speech. CoolSharpee.com looking forward to visit from Secret Service and FBI.

The Story - RT: Was a phone thrown at Trump.

Someone appears to have hurled a cell phone at US President Donald Trump as he walked on stage for a speech to the National Rifle Association. Trump won’t regret missing the call.

The person was reportedly escorted out. Though the throw missed by a country mile, many on social media jokingly said they hoped it would have hit its mark.

The video:

A Tweet excerpt below from a long chain of Replies and Retweets from @BradBrewer.

The homepage of CoolSharpee.com, as far as I can tell, has deleted their Tweet offering to chip in on a physical threat of the President of the United States. Huh. How 'bout that?

Nice touch, Hans100 @SomeFreedomDude.

@CooLSharpee...enjoy your chat with those who protect The President, and the rest of us, from people like you. Don't forget to Tweet us a post-interview update.

Someone commented at one of the stories I read viewed it as a phone that slipped out of someone's hands and went flying onto the state, rather than deliberately thrown at President Trump. 

Another comment was the phone could have been a trial run for a future, similar event using a thrown phone as an explosive device.  

Another comment replied to the above comment noting that if an electronic device containing explosive material would somehow bypass security measures, because of its size, any damage or harm to anyone would be minimal.

What do you think? I dunno - it looks accidental and unintentional, but because it appears that way, that could mean it was meant to look that way. Anyone?

Parkland School Security Footage on 20 Minute Delay

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Why on earth would there be a 20 minute delay...20 minutes!...as police watched surveillance camera footage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School?

From WTBK, LaCrosse News 8000:

When officers arrived on the scene of the shooting, he said, they wanted to gain access to the security footage to learn what happened and where the perpetrator could be.

But last Wednesday the footage was rewound, [Coral Springs Police Chief Tony] Pustizzi told reporters. At some point, there was a miscommunication and officers believed they were watching real-time footage.

"The issue was more of a communications failure on who was reviewing the tape, letting our guys know that it was a 20-minute delay in what they were reviewing," Pustizzi said.
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The Broward County School district said in a statement that its security system footage could be reviewed in both real-time or be rewound to see events that were previously recorded.

"During the immediate response to the event, the system was being viewed in real-time and the recorded footage was being viewed to retrace the actions of the shooter," the statement said, adding that the district no longer had access to the footage or the server it was stored on because investigating authorities have it.
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[Coral Springs Police Capt. Brad McKeone said,] " I expected to be in a gunbattle. "

While watching the footage, Captain McKeone concludes he expected to be in "a gunbattle" ... and then, at some point, realized the footage they are viewing is delayed by 20 minutes? Am I (we) understanding this correctly? If so, something is very strange here.

"... the district no longer had access to the footage or the server it was stored on because investigating authorities have it." - Well, we'll never know the truth now.

People at Reddit are saying  Broward Sheriff Scott Israel ignored 3 dozen calls to Nikolas Cruz’s home.

Yeah, I know..."Dave, you don't believe stuff on Reddit, do you?" No more or less than I believe anyone knew, or didn't know, that the surveillance footage was delayed by 20 minutes. Or that I know, or don't know - for certain - if there was a second shooter at Mandalay Convention Center.

Besides, it's not only Reddit.

It's unclear if, prior to the shootings, the surveillance footage was on a 20 minute delay, but if so, the is no reasonable explanation for this.

Further, if police viewing the surveillance camera footage thought that they were watching footage in "real time", but the footage they were viewing had been rewound, who rewound it, when and why?

Via: picclick.com

In related news, school resource officer Scot Peterson has resigned and retired. From WPTV - West Palm Beach:

Peterson took a position but "never went in" as the onslaught occurred, citing security footage.
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Peterson was "absolutely on campus" he was armed he was in uniform during the shooting.
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"But what I saw was a deputy arrive at the west side of Building 12, take up a position, and he never went in," the sheriff said.

Asked what Peterson should have done the sheriff said: "Went in, addressed the killer. Killed the killer."

Are we to understand, then, that Officer Peterson was unsure of what action to take because of either or both real-time and/or delayed security footage? Delayed or not, isn't that the task of law enforcement in a situation like this - to confront the active shooter(s)?

Numerous reports abound  about awkward encounters with Mr. Cruz long before February. The FBI admits they failed to investigate Cruz. 

The 1990 Crime Control Act, (introduced by Democrat Joe Biden) and yes, I know, signed by President George H.W. Bush (I've made no secret of my dislike of his politics), which designates schools as "Gun Free Zones" has simply identified easy targets for those who want to inflict carnage on defenseless people.

And the First National Bank of Omaha decided to end its relationship of their NRA-affiliated bank cards.

Well, I can think of at least two things that will happen with that last item.

1) Customers of the First National Bank of Omaha who are NRA members will be closing their accounts there and moving to a NRA-friendly bank, and;

2) Legal Gun sales by law-abiding citizens will again be on the upswing. And I fully support that.

The Blame Game here is wide open and I'm not pointing fingers at any specific person(s) or incidents, although I think reasonable people can conclude and agree there was at least one shooter and we know his name. But blaming the NRA is psychological displacement.

Joyless Behar Remains Clueless

Joyless Behar

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A few words regarding the below clip from "The View".

The "View" excerpts and clip are from the Friday, February 16, 2018 program. In the segment, the subject is the Parkland Florida tragedy and the inevitable conversation on gun-control, mostly from Joyless Behar and Sunny Hostin, who display a fundamental lack of knowledge on what they speak. (You're not surprised by this, though).

They'll never read or be made aware of this post on my limitedly viewed blog, but if Joyless and Sunny think it's easy to legally acquire a handgun or longarm (aka long-gun), then I challenge them to experience the process of legally obtaining one, especially any type of handgun, revolver, semi, or other.  Please Mss's Behar and Hostin - undertake the process of legally purchasing a gun, especially a handgun. Afterwards, let us know if it was EASY.

Neither Joyless or Sunny will do this - I fear they would find truths that drastically conflict with their anti-gun rhetoric and incorrect and pre-formulated, sacredly-held beliefs.  Oh, and one big deterrent for Joyless to actually experience the gun-purchasing process is that she'll have to provide her age and date of birth; something she probably avoids at all cost.

And pretending for a moment that the Second Amendment and hunting have anything to do with each other, which they don't, do note (I duplicated it a few times) when Sunny Hostin physically displays a "rat-a-tat-tat" semi-circle firing "spray" approach - implying this firing pattern is adapted or used in hunting. No true, respectable hunter (of which 99.99999% are) hunts in this manner. On a battlefield, armed and fighting for your life, yes, you may indeed fire off a sequence of shots in a pattern she demonstrates. Applying her method to hunting is abhorred by legitimate, respectful hunters.

Yes, I'm sure somewhere, some time, some rogue or inexperienced hunter, or a poacher, fired off a few rounds attempting to kill prey like that, but there is always a tiny fraction in anything that abuse, misuse and/or deliberately ignore the sportsmanship of  [ fill in the blank ]. To be redundant, no respectable hunter would ever hunt, or fire off a series of shots, as "demonstrated" by Ms. Hostin.  It's extremely dangerous to others in your hunting party and to anyone else in the area, hunting or not. Experienced hunters know that, at most - you have two shots to fell your prey. Not "Tommy-Gun-rat-a-tat-tat" style. Ms. Hostin has seen too many gangsta movies.

Regarding Ms. Hostin's comment of why don't hunters use a shotgun; many hunters do use a shotgun. The selection of shotgun or rifle and gauge or caliber depends on what it is one is hunting and its size.  I know deer hunters who use a .12 gauge (with a slug) for deer. Other, more powerful rifles are often preferred because the IDEA IS to fell and kill the prey as quickly and painlessly as possible. No respectable hunter wants to see their prey suffer. A clean "kill" shot is always preferred - always.  Why? If the bullet strikes a larger animal, a deer, or an elk, hitting it in its hind-quarters, it often continues running or limping  along, bleeding out and suffering. A quick kill helps in preserving the flesh from trauma that comes from suffering. The more prolonged the dying process, the more the tissue damage. The more tissue damage, the higher degree of trauma of edible meat, rendering it "tough" as opposed to smooth and "steak"-y.  I don't believe in hunting any animal that you do not plan to eat, or at least have processed and give to others to eat. I don't believe in trophy hunting. Seriously...you need the head of a tiger, elephant or boar hanging on the wall?  Now, if you mount a deer head with a 26-point antler-rack that you killed and consumed, I have no issue with that. Or, the taxidermy of animal or fish, again, as long as it is used as food.

I needed to move on with publishing a couple (rather easy) updates on Tech and one on News after publishing the post about my late brother. I didn't plan on updating anything for a while after the two updates following that one. But I realized that it is exactly one year today that I spent the day with my late brother who had ordered a S&W 9mm which had arrived.  I rode along and we spent that afternoon at a gun shop. His transaction took about twenty minutes, all paperwork previously approved. We spent about three hours looking at other merchandise and my brother spoke with every customer and employee there. Slightly unusual because he was rather reserved. I kept thinking, he doesn't know these people, and he's carrying on lengthy conversations with all of them - when are we going to get out of here? Those moments meant a lot to me at the time, but I wanted to get the heck out, but he kept striking up one new conversation with one person and then another. And then it became fun to watch and see who he would next talk to and about what. So today I hold those moments even more significant and, in a way, appropriate for an update today, on this subject.

Joyless also, knowingly or unknowingly (my money is on "unknowingly") attempts to use the annual amount of U.S. gun sales as the dollar amount of political contributions from the NRA as representing the dollar amount  used as lobbying by the National Rifle Associate (NRA.org). She is, of course, wrong and grossly off-point.  What else have we come to expect from Joyless? Joyless also states, "some of these guys..." [ I'm interpreting her words as "politicians receiving NRA money" ],  "...get $3,000.00."  Somehow, a $3 Grand campaign donation is not that much of an amount considering the large dollars of campaign contributions from other organizations.

[Spelling error fixed 2/20/2018]

Should background checks on Immigrants be as thorough as background checks done on gun buyers?

Would the Left object to vetting immigrants more than, less than or equal to that of a background check performed on American citizens who seek to buy handguns?

Certainly The Left wouldn't object to the vetting of a small portion of immigrants a background check that would be anything less than, say...that of a background check vetting an American citizen when purchasing a handgun.  Would they?

Immigrant vetting / Handgun purchase vetting.

It is NOT EASY to legally obtain a hand gun.

...[you] will need to furnish a photo ID and fill out Form 4473.  [This form] confirms your status as a citizen who is qualified to own a firearm in the United States.

[.] [the]  Background checks are performed through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) [.] and  easily available to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (BATFE), if necessary.

If and when a gun store closes, these forms become the property of BATFE.

  Further, please SEE THIS SITE:

It is a class C felony for any person who is not a citizen of the United States to carry or possess any firearm, unless...