Crazy People and Guns (UPDATED)

So my blog buddy Don Borsch just informed me that it can now be conclusively deduced that Sandy Hook shooter Adam Lanza was…

Um…

Crazy.

Batshit.

Insane.

Off his gourd.

Deranged.

Nuttier than squirrel shit.

As more information becomes available about Lanza and his actions before he decided to steal a few guns from mummy and shoot up a bunch of sweet, innocent kids, we begin to realize that the evil NRA, gun owners, “assault” weapons and high-capacity magazines were not responsible for the deaths of children that December day in 2012.

Lanza studied serial killers/school shooters and virtually every incident of mass murder in the United States – most notably, Anders Behring Breivik, who bombed government buildings in Oslo, killing 8, and then carried out a mass shooting at a camp of the Workers’ Youth Leagueof the Labour Party on the island of Utøya, murdering 69 people, mostly teenagers, in Norway, where guns are strictly regulated by law, and carrying firearms anywhere is prohibited.

The latest disclosure, coupled with evidence of how Lanza expertly deployed his AR-15 Bushmaster rifle in murdering 20 first-graders and six adults at the school after earlier attempting to destroy his computer hard drives, lends credence to the belief that he had been planning the deadly Dec. 14 assault for some time.

The source said that Lanza used what law enforcement professionals call “tactical loading” in firing the semi-automatic rifle, putting a fresh magazine into the weapon before completely emptying the previous one.

Authorities estimate that Lanza fired about 150 shots from the “assault” rifle in the span of 5 minutes, before he tactically shot himself.

That’s about 30 shots per minute, with a second or two to drop the magazine and reload. The typical rate of fire for a common pistol such as a Glock will depend on the shooter’s hand strength, the recoil and how fast his or her reaction is before the next shot.  Assuming he simply had a 10-round magazine, he could have emptied a magazine in about 10 seconds and popped in a new one, and he didn’t even empty the entire thing.

So if “high-capacity” magazines had been banned, and Lanza only had 15 ten-round mags, and could empty one in 10 seconds, he could conceivably have fired 50-60 rounds per minute, and have committed the same carnage in 3 minutes or less. With a handgun.

According to this report, the sustained rate of fire on a semi-automatic setting for an M-16 (the military version of the AR-15, such as the one used by Lanza at Sandy Hook), is 45 rounds per minute.

That’s on the military rifle.  That would be 225 rounds in 5 minutes. The AR-15 Lanza used didn’t even have that, and he didn’t even empty the mag, according to the report, in order to tactically load the firearm and murder people faster.

So was it the high-capacity magazine? All indications are that no… it wasn’t.

Was it the evil “assault” rifle? All indications are that no… it wasn’t.

Was it lax background checks that allowed him to purchase the evil “assault” rifle? All indications are that no… it wasn’t. He stole the rifle and other guns from his mom.

But Adam Lanza played violent video games and studied mass murders closely. He stole firearms and had no problem murdering innocent children with them.

And people like Chuck Schumer, Jim Moran and their posse of authoritarian hoplophobes want more restrictions imposed on you and me. They want bans on high-capacity magazines. They want bans on evil, scary “assault” rifles. They want bans on private firearm transactions. But what I haven’t seen is any effort to address the plethora of fruitloops walking among us, whose families are reluctant or unable to institutionalize them due to strict regulations.

Does that make any sense?

Yeah, didn’t think so.

UPDATE: The Washington Post reports that Feinstein’s assault weapons bill has passed committee along party lines, and includes a mighty heated exchange between her and Ted Cruz, where she completely loses her shit and angrily claims she has great respect for the Constitution, even as she takes a large, steamy dump on it.

This Is Teachin’ Our Childrun

If Detroit’s Schall Elementary School principal Susan Wright lived in California, she would almost definitely vote for Dianne Feinswein. That is how deep her ignorance about firearms is, and how complete her disdain for the members of the military who protect her very right to be an ignorant snatch.  This might sound incredible, but this school administrator – who ostensibly has some kind of background in education and has likely taught at some point in her pathetic life – has soiled her panties at the sight of toy soldiers.

Not. Even. Kidding.

The boy was chided, and so were his parents, for cupcakes featuring little green Army men on the top.

Schall Elementary School principal Susan Wright called the parents at home and said the cupcakes were insensitive in the wake of the Sandy Hook school shooting. School staff pulled off the Army men before they were served.

Child considers military men heroes.

Child has cupcakes for his birthday.

Child’s parents put little green Army men as cupcake toppings, because child loves Soldiers.

Stupid slit removes the little guys, and snottily chides the family for DARING to be insensitive to those who might perhaps be worthless pant-shitters who might be traumatized by the sight of armed Soldiers protecting their rights and their nation.

First, Feinswein insults every veteran by implying that PTSD has made us mentally unstable – too mentally unstable to be allowed to possess the scary black “assault” weapons she wants to ban, even though we, veterans, are trained with them, and are undeniably qualified to use them. (Not to mention the fact that the clueless old bat thinks PTSD didn’t exist prior to the Iraq war.)

Now school principal freaks out at the sight of little toys – representations of the very military that takes an oath to protect her right to be ignorant!

This, and the teacher who freaked out at the sight of a Pop Tart that sort of resembled a firearm… This is teaching your kids.

It’s teaching your kids to be afraid.

It’s teaching your kids not to respect the military, but to fear them.

It’s teaching your kids to shun firearms as evil, thereby shunning personal accountability and courage.

It’s fostering government dependency.

It’s destroying individualism.

I don’t know why I’m even surprised.

This is what they’re REALLY after

Universal background checks, which will force any private seller to dig into the background of any private purchaser and record the sale, which will give the government a nice little de facto gun owner registration database.

That’s why the bright, shiny object of the day is this crazy  “assault” weapons ban proposed by Dianne Feinstein, which has no hope at all of passing. But it detracts from what the gun grabbers are really after – the ability to track law-abiding citizens who choose to exercise their Second Amendment rights. And your “Republican leaders” seem to be all aboard, because… OH LOOK OVER HERE, THERE WAS THIS ONEROUS ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN AND WE BEAT THAT DOWN, SO THIS IS A MUCH SMALLER INFRINGEMENT ON YOUR RIGHTS! Ooops! Did we say that?

The number two House Republican said Tuesday that he supports beefed up background checks for gun sales, an indication of where potential gun control legislation could be headed on Capitol Hill.

Rep. Eric Cantor, the House majority leader, told CNN Chief Congressional Correspondent Dana Bash that a system put in place in his home state of Virginia following the 2007 massacre at Virginia Tech could be a model for a nationwide measure.

He said that model ensured mental health information was linked to databases used in background checks during gun sales.

Let me put this out there for your consideration:

I understand the concerns about the mentally ill having easy access to firearms. I understand the dangers truly unstable individuals pose.

However, this latest infringement – coupled with the current administration’s pressure on doctors and therapists to report their patients in greater numbers…

It could lead to trouble.

Let’s forget for a moment that pesky little doctor/patient privilege thing. Doctors are already required to report individuals who are a danger to themselves and to others. I signed this form recently, when I took a family member into therapy. The therapist was clear: what is said between us remains between us, but IF I feel you pose a danger to yourself and to others, I have an obligation to report you. I see nothing wrong with this. But now, with the paranoia and hysteria surrounding mental illness or even individuals seeking a bit of therapy to vent and get their heads on straight, I can see scores of perfectly stable, law-abiding people placed on a prohibited list and denied their rights.

The recent murder of American sniper and war hero Chris Kyle is shining a spotlight on veterans with Post Traumatic Stress. Let’s toss aside the morally reprehensible comments of Ron Paul and many of his equally repugnant supporters that imply that an American veteran who dedicated himself to serving his nation, and then later, dedicated his time and efforts to helping his brothers in arms overcome mental trauma and stress, somehow deserved what he got. Chris Kyle was murdered by someone who now claims he has PTSD, and the usual histrionics have begun. PTSD! MENTAL ILLNESS! WHY DID HE HAVE A GUN?

I can easily see American veterans being denied their basic rights just by virtue of needing a bit of help getting through the readjustment after war. Never mind that the link between PTS and violence is pretty puny. Most veterans who suffer from PTS never become violent.

People with PTSD avoid certain activities and environments, are hypervigilant, have intrusive memories and are often depressed. Anger, hostility and aggressiveness are less common symptoms. Headaches, troubled sleep, poor attention and muddled thinking are the hallmarks of mild traumatic brain injury. Impulsive behavior is sometimes seen, too.

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Numerous studies have shown that repeated deployment is a “risk factor” for the disorder. A study published this month examined the experience of 66,000 Marines who served in Iraq. Those with two deployments had almost twice the rate of PTSD as those deployed once. People with longer time at home between deployments had half the risk of developing the disorder as those with rapid turnaround times. There’s also considerable evidence that untreated PTSD tends to get worse, not better, over time.

Not all veterans who return from war suffer from post traumatic stress and traumatic brain injuries, and hardly any become violent.

And yet… couple this Administration’s directive to doctors and therapists to report anyone and everyone who may need some help getting over a hump with the politicians’ zeal to expand background checks to include mental health information, and you have a recipe for excluding thousands and thousands of stable, loving, law-abiding individuals who happened to have served their nation in the armed forces, from exercising their rights.

Nope. Not comfortable with this.

Additionally, as I said earlier… expanding background checks to include mental health information and forcing private sellers – individuals who merely want to dispose of their property – to report their transactions can lead to only one thing: registration.

And furthermore, the creation of an even bigger bureaucracy to facilitate background checks for everyone and the obligation of private individuals to participate in it will lead to cost increases, which will invariably be passed on to the prospective customer, making the purchase of self defense tools more prohibitive for people who may really need them – poor individuals, who may live in higher-crime areas.

So while our attention is diverted to, OH LOOK! ASSAULT WEAPONS! your legislators are hard at work crafting legislation they believe will have a much better chance of passing – a de facto registration bill.

Aren’t you glad you elected this scum?

Well, now we know what’s in it

And it sucks.

Remember when Nancy Pelosi Skeletor told us how cool the ObamaCare legislation was, and that we’d all be awesomely surprised after it was passed, because in order to find out what’s in this comprehensive health care reform, we’d have to pass it first? Or something?

Well, now the idiots who voted for it, and found out what’s in it, realized that what they voted for is shit, and they now want the shit delayed.

Sixteen Democratic senators who voted for the Affordable Care Act are asking that one of its fundraising mechanisms, a 2.3 percent tax on medical devices scheduled to take effect January 1, be delayed.  Echoing arguments made by Republicans against Obamacare, the Democratic senators say the levy will cost jobs — in a statement Monday, Sen. Al Franken called it a “job-killing tax” — and also impair American competitiveness in the medical device field.

The senators, who made the request in a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, are Franken, Richard Durbin, Charles Schumer, Patty Murray, John Kerry, Kirsten Gillibrand, Amy Klobuchar, Joseph Lieberman, Ben Nelson, Robert Casey, Debbie Stabenow, Barbara Mikulski, Kay Hagan, Herb Kohl, Jeanne Shaheen, and Richard Blumenthal.  All voted for Obamacare.

Two other Democrats, senators-elect Joe Donnelly and Elizabeth Warren, also signed the letter.  Donnelly voted for Obamacare as a member of the House.  Warren was not in Congress at the time.

Ooops!

See, this is how it works.

Massive, expensive, socialist legislation passes.

No one knows what’s really in it, because the Congresshits are too stupid or lazy (or both)  to actually read it. They only know that their constituents want free shit, and they’re there to give it to them.

But the Congresshits don’t really consider who will fund said massive, expensive, socialist legislation, so when they realize that said legislation includes a tax on something as critical as… say… medical devices, that will likely drive up the cost of buying a wheelchair or developing a new, life-saving technology, and will probably affect tons of… you know… jobs…

…they all of a sudden get nervous! After all, they voted for this tax, but they didn’t know it was in there, because they hadn’t voted for it yet… um… yeah.

Jagoffs.

How will this affect investment?

Industry thrives on investment. Individuals who back companies with their earnings and help them grow, allow companies to expand, create jobs, create wealth and produce.

So does anyone think that an extra 3.8 percent surtax on investment income and capital gains in order to pay for the politicians’ health care takeover just might affect investment?

And how much will it cost to expand the bureaucracy in order to enforce and clarify the mess ObamaCare has foisted upon us?

The tax applies to a broad range of investment securities ranging from stocks and bonds to commodity securities and specialized derivatives.

The 159 pages of rules spell out when the tax applies to trusts and annuities, as well as to individual securities traders.

Released late on Friday, the new regulations include a 0.9 percent healthcare tax on wages for high-income individuals.

Gee! Only 159 pages of rules to clarify one portion of the several thousand-page new law?

Gird your loins, America. It’s just the beginning.