I'm Not Dead Yet

But they have placed me in “Hospice Care,” which means they’ve given up on keeping me alive and are “keeping me comfortable until I do die.” But my mind is as sharp as ever and I’m making some major changes in these blogs They will go from three to one, incorporating material from all three. Blog entries will be from one-liners to a full article as I see fit what to write and will not be on a daily schedule as before. It’s been a hard time for me physically and my time had to be devoted to getting my body under control. There may or may not be links attached to items as necessary. I’m officially shutting down the “Ray’s Shorts” and “The Unarmed Citizen” blogs as of today and directing their readers here. Entries will be my opinions based on facts and will “strip the labels off of the news.”

The Power to Say "No"

The Second Amendment makes no provision for an outfit like NICS to “approve or disapprove” an American citizen’s RIGHT to buy and use a gun, for whatever reason. The Second Amendment clearly states that, “[T]he right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” It makes no provision for background checks, which could, and sometimes does, form that infringement They SAY background checks keep ”the wrong people” from getting guns. It does NOT. People who wish do do ill with their guns do not go to a gun store to buy that gun unless that gun store sells guns “under the table.” And NICS is supposed to destroy the record of that purchaser’s name after a few days, and if you believe they do, I have a wonderful bridge in Brooklyn I’d like to sell you. If caught, they would just blame it on “bureaucratic inefficiency.” Add to that the fact that having the power to say “no” is also not in the Constitution. Criminals will always be able to get their guns, so it’s foolish to prevent honest people from getting guns with which to defend themselves. That only gets them killed by criminals with their illegal guns. Why the anti-gun fools can’t see that, I don’t know. I guess they just don’t care. (Just common sense)

Back to the Sixties

A recent Washington Post article thinks the way to “gun safety” is to revert to the loose gun laws of the sixties where you could buy a gun through the mail without any problem. They might be onto something there. Of course, like most anti-gun fools, the writer thinks the idea that the government guarantees you the right to be armed for self defense is a “NRA construct.” It is NOT. The Second Amendment says clearly, that “[T]he right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” That’s not something the NRA dreamed up, but it IS something they fully support, and fight for, in spite of the ignorant brayings of the anti-gun fools. I call them fools because they have to know their anti-gun laws do NOTHING to stem gun crime and, instead, promote it by disarming the law-abiding, making them “easy targets” for criminals, who usually are using ILLEGAL guns. They assume the criminals get their guns legally, and stand for background checks. They do not. They get them any way they can to AVOID having to get them legally and stand for a background check. Their laws therefore only apply to LEGAL gun owners, who are usually NOT the problem. But they keep making them, over and over again. (Washington Post)

A Sacraficial Lamb

That appears to be what Kyle Rittenhouse is. He killed two attacking thugs and wounded another in a clear case of self defense. But the liberals aren’t buying it, even though there is unedited video of it happening, and it was clear that he would have been seriously injured, maybe killed unless he shot those thugs. But the liberals not only filed murder and attempted murder charges against him, they are now trying to poison the potential jury pool against him. This is clearly a “legal lynching” by liberals who are sacrificing him to their narrative, KNOWING he is guilty of NO crime except maybe that of being in possession of a gun at 17. Which does NOT warrant a murder charge and maybe a death sentence of an innocent young man. This gun control out of control. Punish the innocent and ignore the crimes of the guilty. Get rid of the very concept of self defense—which I am now convinced is the long-term goal of the anti-gun fools. This is just one of the many cases I’ve seen of liberals charging innocent people of murder when they kill obvious thugs who are out to kill them. (Gun Free Zone)

Leftist Policies At Fault

Andrew Pollack, whose daughter, Willow, was murdered along with others, at the Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Florida. He rightly rejects the idea that anti-gun laws will, in any way, prevent such shootings, in the future. What will prevent them is actually PUNISHING students for their criminal acts instead of refusing to punish them to “reduce juvenile arrests.” You don’t “reduce crime” by refusing to punish the criminals. The shooter in Parkland PASSED a “background check” when he bought the gun he used in that massacre, because the school ignored previous criminal acts, so his record was clear, and he was able to pass that background check. Refusing to punish criminality among students to “reduce juvenile arrests” is a left-wing idea, and CONTRIBUTES to law-breaking, including mass shootings. Punishing student law-breakers is a good start, but allowing legally-armed teachers and other staff to bring their guns to school would be a good thing, too. But anti-gun fools will not hear of that, while they remain defenseless when somebody comes in and starts killing their students. Their ideas haven’t worked, so why not try something that WOULD? (Breitbart)

I've Said It Before

Many times. And I’ll keep saying it until somebody listens. Gun control is a useless endeavor because those that need to be stopped just ignore them and get their guns illegally, while the honest people are inhibited in their ability to get guns to defend themselves against illegal gun users, making them “easy targets” for the criminals, who don’t bother to obey any laws, much less laws that say they can’t get the tools of their “trade.” this means their laws don’t REDUCE gun crime, it INCREASES it. My job is a futile one, too. Because no matter how many facts I bring to the table, nobody’s listening. Do you know how frustrating that can be? But I’ll keep doing it because one day, somebody will be listening, and will take note. And DO something. Not just make useless, unenforceable laws nobody obeys while they kill people with their illegal guns. Find something that will WORK. And “getting legal guns off the street” is NOT the answer. We need to deal with the PEOPLE who USE those illegal guns. (Just common sense)

Chicago: 87 Shot; 17 Dead

That’s a horrible headline isn’t it? But it’s routine in Chicago, which has very tight anti-gun laws on the books. Of the 87, three were CHILDREN! And I don’t mean teenage gang members, either. Children at age 7 and younger who were just caught in the crossfire as one gang shot up a family belonging to another gang. Mayor Lightbrain has no idea how to put a stop to this carnage, so she just wants to make even more of those ineffective, useless laws that haven’t ever stopped a single shooting death. Like most anti-gun fools, she blames the gun, and not the shooter. It’s not the gun. It’s the PEOPLE holding the gun that must be controlled. But people like Lightbrain don’t know that. She isn’t smart enough, it seems. The numbers keep growing in Chicago while the Chicago politicians keep blaming sources OUTSIDE Chicago for their “gun problem.” Of course, that’s an easy excuse, since unless the gun is MADE in Chicago, it MUST “come from outside.” Guns always come from somewhere else. And, of course, that completely ignores the guns made right there. (ABC 7 Chicago)

Minneapolis Crime Spikes!

Remember what I said about what would happen if you took the cops out of the equation? Well, they did it. The fools sitting on their City Council voted unanimously to disband their police department. And crime predictably is out of control. A woman was beaten and robbed in a store parking lot and their security didn’t call the cops because there were no cops to call. It was up to that security officer to help her, and he did what he could—which was not much. Criminals who do these things are never punished, so they’re going to just take what they want, and anybody who objects will be beaten or murdered. Those fool Minneapolis politicians Should be removed from office for incompetence, then sued out of their socks by the citizens. Better yet, put them out on the street to be victimized by those criminals they have helped so much. If they can’t see the error of their ways by now, they should be removed from office and barred from ever being able to hold public office again. At the very least. And if they are sued, the amounts sued for should be financially crippling to them. The citizens should go out and get their own guns and to hell with legality. With no cops, who is going to do anything about it. Then you’ll truly have the “wild west atmosphere” the anti-gun fools talk about so much. (Breitbart)

The Power to Say "No"

The Second Amendment gives all Americans the undeniable RIGHT to “bear arms.” It does not specify what “arms” we may bear, of under what rules. But today’s limpid bureaucrats and politicos think they can “regulate” them out of existence. So they first apply the “need” for a license to be armed, a specific violation of the Constitution, which dictates the law. Under the Second, no such license should ever be required because the power to license gives the government the power to say “no.” And the government should have no such power. Yes, allowing free ownership and use of a gun means criminals will be able to get guns legally, too. But why would they? They can get them much easier illegally. Or just steal them. You cannot stop criminals from getting guns by making laws to limit the purchase and use of guns by honest, law-abiding people. It can’t be done, even if it were not allowed under the Constitution. Criminals will always get their guns, and there are millions of illegal guns already in the hands of criminals, crazies, and now Islamic extremists. I know why politicians favor gun control. They fear an armed populace. But the private citizens who favor it are either in for the money, or they’ve “bought the BS” put out by the politicians. (Just common sense)

Godawful Damned Fools!

That’s my description of ANYBODY who wants to defund or abolish the police, and/or get rid of prisons altogether, turning criminals loose to prey on the rest of us with impunity. Because without the police there to get between us and the criminals, and the prisons in which to keep them, we’re going to descent into a very dangerous world where those who have most guns will rule. And the criminals always have the most guns, no matter what the laws say. The movement to eliminate the cops and prisons can only benefit one group of people, and that is the criminal element. Anybody who favors eliminating the cops and prisons is either a criminal or a damned fool, one or the other, maybe both. Personally, I don’t want to live in a world where there is no police protection, and I’m far too old and infirm to resist, myself. Those ignorant politicians who go along with it must think they have something to replace them with, and I’d love to know what it is—and it isn’t a social worker. Having them answer police calls, as has been suggested, without being armed is sure suicide, for them, and everybody else involved. (Just common sense)

Minneapolis Crime Spikes!

Remember what I said about what would happen if you took the cops out of the equation? Well, they did it. The damned fools sitting on their City Council voted unanimously to disband their police department. And crime predictably is out of control. A woman was beaten and robbed in a store parking lot and their security didn’t call the cops because there were no cops to call. It was up to that security officer to help her, and he did what he could—which was not much. Criminals who do these things are never punished, so they’re going to just take what they want, and anybody who objects will be beaten or murdered. Those fool Minneapolis politicians Should be removed from office for incompetence, then sued out of their socks by the citizens. Better yet, put them out on the street to be victimized by those criminals they have helped so much. If they can’t see the error of their ways by now, they should be removed from office and barred from ever being able to hold public office again. At the very least. And if they are sued, the amounts sued for should be financially crippling to them. The citizens should go out and get their own guns and to hell with legality. With no cops, who is going to do anything about it. Then you’ll truly have the “wild west atmosphere” the anti-gun fools talk about so much. (Breitbart)

Happy Thanksgiving!

  I'm taking the day off so I can stuff myself. Have fun.