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Monday, February 4. 2013

A Newtown dad you never heard

Another, h/t reader, but this is no parody




Posted by Bird Dog at 17:29 | Comments (10) | Trackbacks (0)

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YES!!!
#1 dorf on 2013-02-04 17:39 (Reply)
I agree. Why do these politicians we hired to temporarily oversee the government for us believe they have the right to ignore and refute the constitution. Simply voting for a gun control bill should be grounds for impeachment. Do they not know what "shall not be infringed" means?
#2 GoneWithTheWind on 2013-02-04 18:44 (Reply)
That's one way to do it! Very refreshing!

I read that Bernie Goldberg said the NRA was being stupid in the way it defended gun rights. He suggested they put ads on TV showing all the people that were saved by a gun. I'd love to see it!
#3 mudbug on 2013-02-04 21:33 (Reply)
EXACTLY so! Obama today was in full tailfeather display, lugubriously penetrating how awful for everyone is the murder of a child.

The theme: St. George vs the Dragon.

Practically speaking, he was implying that since there is opposition to his feeling terribly bad about child slaughter, that opposition must then feel terribly GOOD about child murder, or they might as well, anyway, even if they do not.

That was his balanced approach --that gun rights don't necessarily make you evil, but they might as well.

So, he is offering salvation, if we go now and sin no more.

Powerful psychological attack, as always, from the admin's rhetoriticians.

There's really no fighting it short of Bernie Goldberg's idea (which ain't new, but it can't get traction somehow).

The attempt to fight it with empirical data --Wayne LaPierre's preferred approach --works exceeding well on citizens who are able to distinguish between their feelinga and the facts.

Obama knows this, and doesn't really address those people. He's got his numbers up with the bell-curve piedmont and that's who he's amping.
#3.1 buddy larsen on 2013-02-04 22:26 (Reply)
"Lockdown is not an option at the Stevens' residence" -- I like that.
#4 Texan99 (Link) on 2013-02-05 00:08 (Reply)
http://jpfo.org/filegen-a-m/deathgc.htm#chart

Take a look at the chart --
#5 buddy larsen on 2013-02-05 01:29 (Reply)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/123825509/Marshall-K-Robinson-testimony

Marshall K. Robinson testimony
Forensic scientist for the Bridgeport, Conn. Police Department testifies before the "Gun Violence Prevention Working Group," which was convened at the Connecticut State Capitol in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
#6 buddy larsen on 2013-02-05 02:07 (Reply)
Sorry to be hogging the thread --but these last two links are important in context, i believe.

Drudge this morning had this one:

http://www.wnd.com/2013/02/why-is-government-stockpiling-guns-ammo/

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--and then later i searched the terms [weimar republic gun control] knowing from recent experience that more pointed terms would throw up pages of propaganda on Bing and Google both howling about the wrongness and/or unfairness of studying the nazi gun control sequence.

The notorious site titles you know, natch, plus the grammer you expect, natch, all apparently -2A folks stung by the +2A folks' study of that history, and trying to bury it out of the front top of search results.

But i found what i was looking for --some reliable info describing something i'd read long ago, but wanted to refresh before mentioning it tonight.

It's Obama's 'background checks' --and LaPierre and others saying that these will become 'registreation lists' of law-abiding citizen gun-owners.

And that's where the TV talking heads always leave it. A person watching the tube is quite likely to surmise, "well, if THAT's the worst the gun-grabbers want, THAT ain't so bad" --and then from there lose interest in the debate.

What needs to be followed on is --see the Drudge link --and then read this (link follows the quote):

QUOTE:
The Nazi Weapons Law of 1938 replaced a Law on Firearms and Ammunition of April 13, 1928. The 1928 law was enacted by a center-right, freely elected German government that wanted to curb "gang activity," violent street fights between Nazi party and Communist party thugs. All firearms owners and their firearms had to be registered. Sound familiar? Gun control did not save democracy in Germany. It helped to make sure that the toughest criminals, the Nazis, prevailed.

The Nazis inherited lists of firearm owners and their firearms when they lawfully took power in March 1933. The Nazis used these inherited registration lists to seize privately held firearms from persons who were not "reliable." Knowing exactly who owned which firearms, the Nazis had only to revoke the annual ownership permits or decline to renew them.

In 1938, five years after taking power, the Nazis enhanced the 1928 law. The Nazi Weapons Law introduced handgun control. Firearms ownership was restricted to Nazi party members and other "reliable" people.

The 1938 Nazi law barred Jews from businesses involving firearms. On November 10, 1938--one day after the Nazi party terror squads (the SS) savaged thousands of Jews, synagogues and Jewish businesses through-out Germany--new regulations under the Weapons Law specifically barred Jews from owning any weapons, even clubs or knives.

Exhibit No. 62 (see reproduction) [added to the end of this document] is fascinating. This letter--dated July 12, 1968--is to Subcommittee Chairman Dodd from Lewis C. Coffin, Law Librarian at the Library of Congress. Coffin wrote:

"...We are enclosing herewith a translation of the Law on Weapons of March 18, 1938, prepared by Dr. William Solyom-Fekete of [the European Law Division -ed.] as well as the Xerox of the original German text which you supplied" (Subcommittee Hearings, p. 489).

This letter makes it public knowledge that at the end of June 1968 -- 4 months before GCA'68 was enacted -- Senator Thomas J. Dodd, now deceased, personally owned a copy of the original German text of the Nazi Weapons Law.

We are not the first to have seen this hearing record. But we appear to be the first to have recognized its importance. This hearing record suggests strongly that the late Senator Thomas J. Dodd (D-CT) himself implanted the Nazi Weapons Law into American law, or, at very least, helped others to do so.



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The nut graf, of course, let me repeat it for emphasis and add a line of bolding:

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QUOTE:
The Nazis inherited lists of firearm owners and their firearms when they lawfully took power in March 1933. The Nazis used these inherited registration lists to seize privately held firearms from persons who were not "reliable." Knowing exactly who owned which firearms, the Nazis had only to revoke the annual ownership permits or decline to renew them.


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The quote is from:

http://www.boogieonline.com/revolution/firearms/laws/us/origin.html

The site is serious and seems well-researched, despite being named ''boogieonline'' --but of course the facts ought to double-checked twice.
#7 buddy larsen on 2013-02-05 03:10 (Reply)
PS, it's not the fear of Obama dressing up like Himmler for a press conference --it's the patrimony of the gun control sequence, the increments with the same years between, the use of events to pull the next chapter of a 'long-plan' off the shelf. Note the date of the GCA of 1968 --June, with the Summer of Riots coming on. The nearness of civil order breakdown that summer. Corresponds with the 1928 law in Germany --a street-violence counter-measure, was the rationale. Then to find out that the German plan was being studied in DC --just adds weight to the feeling that these people in this admin plan to take all the liberty away from us that they possibly can, depending only on the amount of resistance as to whether the final grab plan goes back on the shelf --or not.

Look at the chart in comment #5 --the column on the right.
#7.1 buddy larsen on 2013-02-05 13:27 (Reply)
Again (see comment @ other post), no. It should come as no surprise that there are folks w/a variety of viewpoints on any topic, but there's no especial weight added, regardless of exposure to events. Why "we" give special time to "victims" (actually relatives of said victims) and allow that to influence policy is beyond me...
#8 Jess1 on 2013-02-05 10:38 (Reply)

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