How long will the GOP tolerate Colin Powell?

We know Colin Powell is a compromiser when it comes to guns.

Powell added that he is a gun owner and reaffirmed his belief in the Second Amendment, but noted that the “responsibility under the Constitution and the Bill of Rights to protect our people” should be reason enough to “find some meeting of the minds” on the issue. Powell suggested implementing more comprehensive background checks, which is reportedly a top priority among Biden’s pending proposals.
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/13/colin-powell-gun-control_n_2467890.html

We know he supports something worse than Obamacare

“I think universal healthcare is one of the things we should really be focused on, and I hope that will happen,” Powell
Source: http://www.newsmax.com/US/Colin-Powell-supports-single-payer-healthcare/2013/12/09/id/540906#ixzz2shG4Ik9D

The man calls himself a moderate, “but I’m still a Republican, and until I voted for Obama twice, I voted for seven straight Republican presidents.”

And once again he has called the Republican Party racist: ““There are certain elements within the party which go out of their way to demonize people who don’t look like the way they’d like them to look like, or came from some other place. And I think the party has to deal with this. And the party says we’re doing it — they came out of last year’s election with a lot of ideas about how they were going to make themselves a little more acceptable. And yet you see things happening — you see members ot the party at the senior level make statements about women, make statements about minorities — that once again make the party look less tolerant than it should be.”
Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/colin-powell-some-elements-gop-demonize-minorities-n25021

How insulting, without the Republican Party you’d still be a slave, without the GOP there would still be segregation. We’re the party that embraced you for your military service, not the color of your skin, and now you turn against us? We’re the party that treated you like an individual, and now you call us racist?

Leave, Powell! Go back to your slavemasters, the Democrats. The GOP is for free men, if you want government chains around your neck, let Obama make you his bitch.

Ski and Shoot: Why Russians Love Biathlon

Russia suffers from gun control, but Biathlon is a different story, as the Boston Globe reported:

…biathlon in Russia is more than a sport: It evokes a multitude of cultural, social, and historical trends spanning more than a millennium. During the Soviet era,biathlon became a metaphor for expressing national values of speed, self-sufficiency, and military readiness, built on decades of rigorous inculcation by the state. In the aftermath of two recent terrorist bombings in Volgograd—formerly Stalingrad, a city equated with wartime devastation—the sport’s military overtones take on even greater significance at Sochi, located close to the home territory of regional Islamic separatists. So, while Americans are viewing biathlon as a quizzical sideshow, Russians will be watching their very national pride hang in the balance.

Although the USSR did not participate in the Olympics until after World War II, sport, and especially skiing, was part of the national defense program almost from the country’s inception in 1917. Along with the first five-year plan for industrial development in the 1930s, Joseph Stalin introduced the Ready for Labor and Defense Program, a physical fitness protocol for workers and students. Two of the mandatory disciplines, for both men and women, were cross-country skiing and rifle marksmanship. Thus, every citizen in the USSR was exposed to the fundamental principles of biathlon, decades before the sport was introduced.
Read the entire article here: http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2014/02/02/why-russians-love-biathlon/YoMnAtzOvC0QT8Ar69yf8J/story.html

Of course, this doesn’t Stalin was pro-gun, yes, some hunters were allowed to keep their weapons (massive gun ownership was never common in Russia), but as one anti-gunner pointed out:

Russians never had a tradition of gun ownership before or after the Bolshevik Revolution. The Czars, like most Royal rulers, never allowed the “right to bear arms” for their people, or many other rights that Americans think everyone is endowed with.

Most Russians in the early 20th century were too poor to buy a weapon. Sure people had hunting rifles, but they were mostly owned by the ruling & merchant class.

The Bolsheviks did not pass a law to confiscate guns from the ruling or bourgeoisie class when they took over. They murdered them en masse and confiscated all of their property including their guns, if they had any. 
Source: http://forums.military.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/409192893/m/1940079992001

How convenient, that sort of like saying Hitler was cool about guns because he mostly confiscated them from Jews. As Joseph Goebbels wrote in his diary after the Warsaw Rebellion,  “This just shows what you can expect from Jews if they lay hands on weapons.” 
Source: http://www.infowars.com/yes-hitler-stalin-did-take-the-guns/

The Soviet gun law passed in 1929 was aimed at the military officers and military retired (the only groups in Russia that posses guns of significant quantities,) whom Stalin planned to purge.  There was no mass confiscation of guns and then the defenseless population was slaughtered.  Stalin killed and imprisoned millions in the 1930s. He did not need a law gun control law to do so.
Two more facts:
Most countries who have a history of rule by royalty or dictators do not have a history of citizens owning guns (Japan, India, Germany, most countries of the world.) 

No federal law has EVER been passed that allows for the confiscation of any weapon that belongs to a law abiding American citizen.

The Point – freaking out about the government taking your guns and enslaving you is just crap.

Counterpoint?

You provided your own counterpoint by pointing out what happens in countries that don’t have a history of citizens owning guns. Frankly, with Scalia admitting that someday the U.S. Government will be putting American citizens in internment camps, just like FDR did, I would rather prepare for the worst than hope for the best.

I would rather fight like they’re confiscating my guns tomorrow.

Gun Control: A War Not a Conversation

 

Gun Control: A War Not a Conversation

By William A. Levinson

President Obama said previously that the nation needed to have a “conversation” about gun control, and he reiterated this agenda in his State of the Union speech. New York’s Governor, Andrew Cuomo, has subsequently boasted that his SAFE Act has criminalized law-abiding gun owners for “offenses” such as having too many bullets in their guns. This helps prove that Cuomo meant exactly what he said when he stated that there was no place for “extreme conservatives” in his state.  Cuomo defined his enemies as those who “oppose abortion rights and favor legalization of assault weapons.

Barack Obama’s ongoing anti-Second Amendment rhetoric, and the SAFE Act, prove that the left wing of the Democratic Party has declared war on all law-abiding gun owners. Moderate Congressional Democrats have, through their silence, given their consent to this agenda. There is not only no place for gun owners, almost all of whom are productive citizens, in New York State; there is no place for them in the Democratic Party.

This is emphatically a war, and not a conversation. The following, along with the Obamacare debacle (“If you like your Democratic Member of Congress, you can keep him”), are all strong arguments for voting straight Republican in almost every House and Senate contest this year. At the state level, Pennsylvanians need to be aware that potential gubernatorial candidate Allyson Schwartz shares Andrew Cuomo’s unethical and dishonest position that gun manufacturers should be held civilly accountable for misuse of their products.

(1) The enemy has deployed military-grade hate propaganda against gun owners.

 

Does any reasonable person believe that a German Jew could have had a constructive win-win conversation with the creators of this poster?

 

If not, does anybody believe that firearm owners can trust the creators of a cartoon that depicts an NRA member threatening to assassinate the President of the United States? Here is another that shows politicians who support the Second Amendment, along with the Republican Elephant, standing on the graves of the Sandy Hook shooting victims. These are but a handful of countless images whose purpose is to demonize law-abiding firearm owners the same way the Nazis promoted hatred of Jews or, for that matter, the way the Yellow Press fomented hatred of Spaniards in 1898. It is instructive to compare this image of a “Second Amendment supporter,” and this one by Steve Benson, to Grant Hamilton’s depiction of a Spaniard:

 

 

The anti-Second Amendment camp, as led by President Obama, has also waged other dishonest forms of psychological warfare and gaslighting to advance its agenda. It is difficult to have any kind of good faith “conversation” with somebody who is using against our side the only weapon of war (propaganda) that it is legal to use during peacetime.

I am not complaining like a child who has been hit by a bully on the schoolyard, because my knowledge of psychological warfare goes far beyond the amateur efforts of cartoonists like Steve Benson. Benson violates repeatedly a basic PsyWar rule by demonizing the opposing side’s rank and file, thus making his cartoons one of the best recruiting tools available to the NRA. If the other side uses a psychological weapon of war against my side, my side has the right to use it back, and with compound interest. If the other side starts a war, our side must finish it in a manner that leaves organizations and political careers in ruins. If the Million Mom March was the anti-Second Amendment side’s Hiroshima, then we must make Michael Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns its Nagasaki. As Lord Clifford put it in King Henry VI, “I will not bandy with thee word for word/ But buckle with thee blows; twice two for one.”

(2) A Blitzkrieg is not a conversation

Andrew Cuomo railroaded his aforementioned anti-Second Amendment bill through his Legislature, in likely violation of New York law that requires a public comment period. That is a blitzkrieg, and not a conversation.

 (3) Incrementalism is War

When Adolf Hitler says, “Today Germany, tomorrow the world,” nobody should delude himself into believing that appeasement will make his statement mean something else. When militant Arabs publish Israel-free maps of the Middle East, and run children’s shows that call for the extermination of Jews followed by Islamic domination of the world, a responsible person takes them at their word and treats them accordingly: like rabid animals, as opposed to negotiating partners with whom it is possible to have any kind of win-win conversation.

 

When Senator Dianne Feinstein says, “If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them . . . Mr. and Mrs. America, turn ‘em all in, I would have done it,” it is similarly best to take her at her word. The same goes for Jan Schakowsky’s (D-IL, wife of convicted felon Robert Creamerstatement that Congress can indeed get around to banning handguns.  Andrew Cuomo has added that confiscation of firearms is an option, while Handgun Control Inc. said openly that the Brady Bill is merely the nose of the camel under the tent.

Hitler’s successive demands, the Arabs’ open admission that peace agreements (hudnas) with Israel are only temporary truces, and the anti-Second Amendment movement’s calls for so-called “common sense gun laws” are all examples of incrementalist aggression. There is only one way to deal with an incrementalist aggressor, and it doesn’t involve a win-win conversation. Here, instead, is what we must do.

Retaliate with the rule of names

There is an ancient PsyWar principle (once depicted as magic) that the power to name a thing is the power to control or destroy it. This does not mean schoolyard name-calling, but rather control of the language of the argument. Allied propagandists stuck a German general, Fedor von Bock, with “Der Sterber” (“Let’s go get killed”) after he expressed his callous disregard for his soldiers’ lives by saying it was their duty to die gloriously for the Fatherland. Contemporary examples include:

  • “Shotgun Joe” for Joe Biden, noting his advice to commit a possible felony in Delaware, where he is licensed to practice law, by recklessly discharging a shotgun into the air.
  • “Genghis John” for John Kerry, noting his blood libel of American combat troops, perpetration of felony-level war crimes, or both during the Vietnam War.
  • “Client 9″ for former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, a supporter of Andrew Cuomo’s anti-Second Amendment agenda. This dismisses him as the kind of man whose indiscretions might expose him to blackmail, and expose his wife to a sexually transmitted disease.
  • “Climate Parasite,” or “Climate Change Parasite,” for individuals and organizations that seek to enrich themselves from cap and trade, carbon offsets, and so on, much like rainmakers exploited droughts to take advantage of desperate farmers. This name acknowledges that climate change is a proven geological fact, and thus prevents the enemy from denouncing our side as knuckle-dragging “climate change deniers.” Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), for example, identified (inadvertently) Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan Chase as climate parasites.

Depict enemies of the Second Amendment as common ghouls

Rahm Emanuel said openly that he was willing to exploit human tragedy for political gain: “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Former Pennsylvania Governor (and DNC Chair) Ed Rendell added, in effect, that one should never let a dead child go to waste. “The good thing about Newtown is, it was so horrific that I think it galvanized Americans to a point where the intensity on our side is going to match the intensity on their side.” Mayor Michael Bloomberg then expressed a wish for more firearm-related mass murders for the same purpose:

“No, I think that’s right this time. But that doesn’t mean you’re not going to come back again,” Bloomberg said.

“Keep in mind we’re likely to have more tragedies like you saw in Connecticut. Each one of these builds on things.”

Our side can accurately depict Emanuel, Rendell, and Bloomberg as “Ghouls for Gun Control” who feast ecstatically on the bodies of crime victims while they lust for more tragedies. Andrew Cuomo and Allyson Schwartz can be depicted accurately as bottom-feeding ambulance chasers because of their advocacy of frivolous lawsuits against gun manufacturers. “Bottom feeding ambulance chaser” is indeed the ethical level of an attorney who tries to sue General Motors when a drunk hit-and-run driver maims somebody with a Chevy, or Sears Roebuck when a criminal assaults somebody with a Craftsman hammer.

Our side cannot have a conversation while their side wages a war. Let us instead follow Lord Clifford’s advice to buckle with them blows, twice two for one, in the upcoming election.

William A. Levinson, P.E. is the author of several books on business management including content on organizational psychology, as well as manufacturing productivity and quality.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/02/gun_control_a_war_not_a_conversation.html#ixzz2sgJHSIsU
Follow us: @AmericanThinker on Twitter | AmericanThinker on Facebook

Bug-A-Salt: Weapon of Mass Entertainment

Here’s a gun Cuomo can’t ban…

The Original Salt gun. Fill with salt, pump the handle, turn off the safety switch, aim and shoot. Kills flies within 3 feet. Only uses a pinch of salt. Virtually no mess. Effective way to rid flies from the home, yard, or BBQ. Will not hurt glass windows or walls. High quality design and made to last.

 

d

Law-Abiding Blacks Need More Guns

The Violence Policy Center was promoting a story about black leaders saying that their community’s homicide rate was going down, yet what these statistics prove is that the NAACP’s disarmament campaign has resulted in a greater homicide rate for African Americans.

The homicide rate for black male victims was 31.67 per 100,000.

The overall homicide rate for male victims was 7.13 per 100,000.

For white male victims, the homicide rate was 3.85 per 100,000.

The homicide rate for black female victims was 4.54 per 100,000.

The homicide rate for female victims was 1.81 per 100,000.

For white female victims, the homicide rate was 1.45 per 100,000.
Source: http://www.wafb.com/story/24647942/local-leaders-say-homicide-rate-among-blacks-going-down

This is why black people need to embrace the 2nd Amendment. The cribs and the bloods are packing, you should to. You will never be free until you have the firepower to defend your freedom.