I saw this and was surprised. I thought universal background checks (UBC) would
be a perfect tool to smoke out Demo-Dopes.
Several posts under, I’m too busy/lazy to point out exactly where, Lex
outlines conditions for a UBC system. Among them, it must be at no cost to
sellers/buyers for private transfers and delays mean automatic approval. No cost means the government reimburses FFL
gun shops for the cost of running a UBC for a private transfer, usually about
$20.
No doubt Demo-Dopes will scream bloody assault
weapons murder at the thought of free anything for gun owners. The more likely position will be an onerous
tax on the transfer to end what they see as the scourge of gun ownership. An
onerous tax on gun ownership or ammunition would likely be seen as an infringement
on the peoples’ rights under the 2nd Amendment.
So the party that wants to provide universal free
healthcare to the entire world if they can manage to drag their unskilled,
uneducated azzes across a US border somewhere, will be on record as not supporting
and not defending the constitutional right of American citizens right keep and
bear arms by providing a no cost UBC for private gun transfers.
It also would show that they are in no way serious
about curbing gun violence. We’ve heard
for year after year from Dopes about the need for closing the “gun show loophole”
and providing for a UBC system. Then
when given the opportunity to do it, Dopes refuse to fund the effort.
Apparently the Dopes will offer free everything to
everyone but will not fund a UBC that they have been bitching about for years. They will fund every harebrained scheme imaginable,
but will not a UBC system that they have demanded to keep guns out of the hands
of felons and lunatics and keep Americans safe.
I don’t UBC will work worth a damn. El Paso and Dayton shooters both passed
background checks. The Philly shooter
couldn’t pass. All of them got
weapons. Conclusion: UBC don’t prevent crazy. More importantly, it doesn’t pass the simple
question test, which is, “Would this legislation have prevented the El Paso or
Dayton shootings?” The answer is,
no. So it does nothing to prevent what
is supposedly the proximate cause for passing the legislation. So we’re passing it, why? “WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING!!”
All that aside, I think the UBC under those conditions
offers a pretty awesome juxtaposition of gun grabbers Vs. constitutionalists. It’ll smoke the Dopes out when they oppose it
and make them look like the pandering ineffective buffoons that they are.
Today’s JG rants
The
JG letters page gets funnier by the day.
Take David Maher’s letter “Paper vote backup essential for 2020 election”
of Aug 22, 2019. The idea of a paper
ballot isn’t what I find funny. I happen
to agree with that idea.
What’s funny as hell is the idea that we should take that technologically
regressive step because “Russians had practiced extensive and pervasive
interference in the 2016 election with the goal of supporting Donald Trump and
discouraging support for his competitor.”
Here’s why that statement is downright hilarious. 1) Russians have been interfering in our
elections since at least the early 50s.
2) The bloated duplicative ineffective keystone cop intelligence
agencies that warn of Russian meddling in 2020, are the exact same agencies
that allowed the Russian meddling to occur in the 2016 election. 3) They are the exact same agencies that
assure Americans that not one single vote was changed as result Russian
interference. 4) With regard Russian
meddling, President Obama famously told his ol’ buddy “Vlad” to “knock it off.” Then he allowed him to meddle. How can we get tougher than that? 5) President Obama further assured us that it
was impossible for a foreign entity to influence our presidential elections because
they were too decentralized, but he’s been known to fib, “If you like your
healthcare plan…” 6) The Russian “bot farm” Bob Muller indicted,
while clearing PDJT of colluding with the Russians, spent a measly $3,000 in
their effort. By contrast, PDJT’s “competitor” blew through nearly a billion
dollars in her failed campaign. 7) The indicted Russian “bot farm” has not
been shown to have any tie to the Russian government. 8) We
do the exact same damn thing. President
Obama overtly used tax payer dollars in his failed effort to influence Israeli
elections. President Obama very publicly
warned the Brits that they would “go to the end of the cue” on trade deals if
they passed Brexit, a statement akin to, “Nice country you have here. Be a
shame if anything happened to it.”
Paper vote backup essential for 2020 election
The Journal Gazette (July 30) reports that Allen County will
have a paper vote backup – truly a good thing when it was discovered, and
agreed to by Republicans and Democrats alike, that the Russians had practiced
extensive and pervasive interference in the 2016 election with the goal of
supporting Donald Trump and discouraging support for his competitor.
Not implementing the paper vote backup technology
until 2029 belies the fact that the Russians are going to interfere with our
2020 election (a contention supported by all of our
intelligence agencies). It is believed the interference will
probably be even more invasive, given the support for it by the White
House, with perhaps even attempts to change actual votes at polling
places.
I implore Beth Dlug, Allen County director of elections, to
realize the delay in implementing paper vote backup is a clear
message to the Russians it's OK to interfere in the 2020 elections as we will
have no backup to confirm votes at the polling places.
I read that it will cost $1.2 million to implement this
technology. In my mind, that is a small amount to secure our elections in
the future.
We must act now to get paper vote backup technology
for the 2020 presidential election. Act now to secure our democracy for
ourselves and to the world that depends on us as a beacon of freedom.
David Maher
Fort Wayne
The JG’s letters
page gets more and more curious. Take
the curious case of Chester Baran’s letter “’Draining the swamp’ requires
leadership” of Aug 22, 2019. Baran hops
in his time machine to re-litigate the 2012 Indian senate race. Huh?
What’s next, a letter detailing Homer Capehart’s moral sins and failings
in his loss to Birch Bayh in ‘62?
Richard Mourdock
was a flawed a candidate. His major flaw
was that he was not a career politician well practiced in the political art of
speaking out of both sides of his mouth.
Richard Lugar was
cast aside by Indiana voters because he didn’t even live in Indiana and as
result lost touch with Hoosier values. While
those values may not be “exclusive to Indiana”, yes, make that, hell yes they
are distinctly different from Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco values or Chuck
Schumer’s New York values or the values of the anti-Semitic raging racists like
the new face of the Democratic Party – AOC + 3.
So Hoosiers opted
for the more polished politician in 2012 and sent Joe Donnelly to Caligula, D.C.
where he dutifully toted Chuck Schumer’s bucket of slop wherever Schumer ordered
him to tote it, and then he sat quietly and drank as much of the slop as
Schumer ordered him to consume. Hoosiers
correctly dumped Schumer’s toadie in 2016.
Bipartisanship is
overrated. Where can “bipartisanship” be
found with a party that reflexively labels political opponents racists, Nazis,
white supremacist et al for nothing more than arguing in favor of an orderly
immigration system? What is the “bipartisan”
position on abortion with a party that has slipped past its “safe, legal and
rare” lie to a policy of “anywhere anytime” and openly advocates for the murder
– yes murder – of a child who miraculously survives her attempted abortion? Take as many words as necessary to try to
explain where the middle ground lies on legalizing the murder of a child.
'Draining the swamp' requires leadership
The passing of Richard Lugar evoked effusive praise from our two
U.S. senators and our district congressman. They consider him to be the ultimate
exemplar of a statesman and reserve a place for him in the pantheon of
America's greatest lawmakers.
No mention was made that he was unceremoniously dumped by
Hoosier voters in the 2012 GOP primary; Hoosiers opted for Richard Mourdock, a
tea party candidate with limited political experience, a disdain for compromise
and a muddled mind. Ironically, though these lawmakers verbally regard Lugar
with esteem, they share a much stronger political kinship with Mourdock. They
decry gridlock but are averse to bipartisanship and they consistently cast
their votes as directed by party leadership. Each of them professes a
commitment to “Hoosier values” – a common code of decency the people of Indiana
think they exclusively possess – yet they fail to remonstrate a president whose
virtually every action spits in the face of those values. They are pro-life,
willing to vest rights in the unborn while stripping the mother of the agency
to make the decision on whether bringing another being into existence is in the
best interests of her and the child. At the same time they promote an economy
of abundance for the here and now while showing no concern or misrepresenting
the climate catastrophes that will afflict the yet-to-be-born as a result of
their neglect of climate change.
Draining the swamp and making America great again may be the
goals of Indiana's voters, but let me tell you, they can't be accomplished by
sending a swamp rat to the White House and supplying him with toadies to do his
bidding.
Chester Baran
Fort Wayne
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