Beyond the "Barrycade"

A Pro2A Mom's Answers to Moms Demand Action [NON!!!] Member Survey 2013

Moms Demand Action Member Survey 2013 * Required First Name *Chele
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Do you think your elected officials are doing enough to prevent gun violence in your state?

No: I think my elected representatives are doing way more than necessary to impede law abiding citizens in exercising their Second Amendment rights, and NOTHING to stop criminals and the dangerously insane from spree killings and more mundane forms of "gun violence."

I think New York should be a shall issue state, and all law abiding citizens should be able to concealed carry.

I think gun free zones are happy hunting grounds for the demented and evil and should be eradicated.

I think we should do away with parole for violent offenders and increase mandatory minimum sentences for violent crimes and crimes involving weapons. I think we should stop allowing criminals to plea bargain to lesser charges that erase any liability for using weapons in the commission of their crimes. I think we should prosecute 4473 violations (lying on background checks!) and enforce the laws we already have.

I think we need to fund mental health care to the point of actual parity rather than giving lip service to the idea and continuing to stigmatize people for seeking help.

I think the NYSAFE Act is unconstitutional and needs to be repealed or overturned by the courts.

What do you think are the most important issues concerning gun violence? Please check [[bolded type]] all that apply.

• Ensuring background checks for ALL gun sales

  We already have background checks and don't prosecute people who lie on them. Criminals do not buy guns in settings where background checks will occur. Back alleys, fellow criminals, unscrupulous friends and family and straw purchasers are their sources. All you are doing is adding more hoops for law abiding people to jump, and trying to discourage anyone from owning a gun by making it too expensive for all but your elitist cronies to afford. And Manchin Toomey had a lot of other land mines in it, like making me a felon if my husband went away on a business trip for more than a week, because his guns in the safe would have illegally transferred to me, sans background check.
  

• Keeping military-style assault weapons off our streets.

  Stupid. Cosmetic features do not make a semiautomatic gun into a machine gun. Boogie man scare tactics.

• Limiting high-capacity magazines

  Stupid. Only will affect law abiding people.

• Making gun trafficking a federal crime

  YES.

• Tracking the sale of large quantities of ammunition and banning online sales.

  No. You already require background checks for gun sales. Ammo registry is backdoor gun registry and enables potential confiscation a la New Orleans during Katrina. Besides... Define large. I go through 500 rounds a weekend at the range, practicing. If I were competing, it would be more.

• Establishing product safety oversight of guns and ammunition, and requiring child-safe gun technology.

  Stupid, doesn't work, keeps married couples from sharing guns, and if it fails and leaves a citizen defenseless in their hour of need, totally not worth it. If it costs one life...

• Support policies at companies and public institutions that promote gun safety

  Yes! If we are actually talking about gun safety! Fund Eddie Eagle as a required part of every elementary school's curriculum! Offer low cost adult safety courses and permit a tax deduction for gun safes.

• Other:

  Prosecute criminals. Address gang violence. Keep dangerous people in jail for as long as possible.

Have you been personally affected by gun violence? Please share your story if you would like to do so.

I bluffed a home invader into leaving by yelling for a family member to get our shotgun. Guns in the hands of law abiding citizens save lives. And to the extent they also take the lives of aggressive criminals, I am not shedding any tears.

Were you involved in the gun violence issue before the tragedy at Sandy Hook?

No. Gun crime and homicides generally are at a historic low. But I have been involved in promoting GUN SAFETY for years. It does not mean what you think it does. Civilian disarmament creates the illusion of safety. Allowing law abiding people to defend themselves with the most effective available tools increases safety. Training and education increase safety. Braying about guns as evil instruments of the devil and demonizing your neighbors makes you idiots who would leave the innocent at the mercy of the murderous, not crusaders for safety.

How have you been involved with Moms Demand Action so far?

Other: I debunk your propaganda and lies at every opportunity.

How else are you willing to take action in your community? Please check all that apply.
• Make calls to members of Congress
• Make calls to other Moms to stand up for the Constitution and the 2d Amendment rights of law abiding citizens
• Make calls to state legislators
• Email members of Congress and/or state legislators
• Use social media to fight misguided gun control attempts
• Meet with an elected official
• Lobby
• Go to events sponsored by elected officials
• Attend or organize rallies or events
• Knock on doors
• Gather petition signatures
• Make a donation
• Serve a spokesperson for Gun Rights groups
• Other:

  Blog, post, talk to people, and vote against your idiot attempts to abridge liberty in the name of security theater.

Do you live in a house with a gun?

Yes

If yes, how is the gun stored?

In a gun safe or lock box

When your children go to a friend’s house, do you ask about guns in the home?

Not Applicable

Are you a gun owner?

Yes

Please check all that apply. I am a…

Parent

Teacher

Please indicate your age-range.

46-55

Please indicate ethnicity or race if desired.

Caucasian

American Indian or Alaska Native

With what political party do you identify yourself?

Other: Pissed off Libertarian Constitutionalist.

Have you been involved in political campaigns or other advocacy campaigns before?

Yes

If yes, please describe.

Engaged in issue-based advocacy

Did you vote in the last Presidential election (2012)?

Yes

Do you vote in most other elections (federal, state and local)?

Yes

Are you a member of the NRA?

Yes, but only since post-Sandy Hook attempts to demonize all gun owners and violate our Constitutional rights. I never much liked Mr. LaPierre, so I never bothered joining before. But I am now a life member of the NRA as are all members of my household. I am sure that the NRA would like to thank you for our membership dollars, which are being put to good use in defeating your anti-American, anti-Constitutional anti-Civil Rights agenda.

Do you have any additional comments or questions for Moms Demand Action?

Stop censoring comments. If you can't refute opposing viewpoints, you are simply highlighting the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of your position.

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The 2nd Amendment

More Pathetic Propaganda About Guns from the Goldfish People

From the people who brought you the infamous Goldfish and a Gun video (see my previous post), there is also this equally inane piece of propaganda:

No, the best way to prevent accidental shootings is to teach gun safety. And not just to adult gun owners (who are required in much of New York State to take a gun safety course as a precondition to obtaining a pistol permit), but to children as well. Every child should know the rudimentary rules of gun safety, whether his/her parents have guns or not.

And yes, the NRA, the very organization demonized ad nauseum by the gun grabbing propagandists who claim to be anti gun violence but are actually anti-civil rights, is a good place to start educating young people about the dangers of firearms. Here's what the Eddie Eagle program teaches kids:

If the real concern was actually safety, rather than terrifyng the sheeple into giving up even more of their rights in the name of security, this would be taught in every school in America.

If the real concern was decreasing gun violence and keeping illegal guns out of the hands of criminals and people adjudicated a danger to self or others, the Democrats would have supported the Grassley-Cruz Amendment to the gun control bills recently voted down in the Senate, which actually addressed these prohibited persons, rather than infringing on the civil rights of every legal gun owner.

But clearly, throwing temper tantrums in the Rose Garden and elevating partisan politics above any real chance of improving public safety was the priority for their side. Emotion and othering are their stock in trade, though they love to mystically invoke the common sense and reason that their approach utterly lacks.

Lies, Damn Lies, and Gun Control.

The video below is an exercise in utter dishonesty. We already have background checks, and our government does not prosecute those who lie in connection with them. I have never been fingerprinted or investigated by the FBI and NYS police to buy a goldfish, but I had to be to get a pistol permit. It is even harder to legally buy a fully automatic weapon like an M16.

If they have to LIE to this extent to make their point, it just highlights the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of their failed policies. And BTW, where is the orange tip on that presumably toy gun? Oh, wait, this was filmed in NYC, where that isn't even good enough-- toy guns are supposed to be brightly colored plastic and not resemble real guns. Did they break the law in the making of this propaganda piece? Or did they actually obtain the proper film permits required to possess a prop gun, and follow all the regulations regarding use of same? If not, shame on them!

There are so many things wrong with this video, it's hard to even know where to begin.

First, if you walk into a gun shop in New York and try to buy a pistol, you are not going to get anywhere unless you present a valid NYS pistol permit. To buy that pistol, or a long arm, you will be required to fill out a federal Form 4473, in which you will need to assert that you are buying the firearm for yourself as the end user (i.e., you are not a straw purchaser), that you have not been arrested and/or convicted of a felony or misdemeanor, and that you have not been involuntarily committed to a mental hospital or adjudicated incompetent as a danger to yourself or others. Lying on that form is a felony. (But our government does not have time to prosecute "paperwork violations" -- see how much expanded background checks are likely to be worth if existing laws are not even enforced?)

After you fill out the form, the gun shop will run a NICS check on you. If it comes up clean, you will be able to purchase a firearm. If it comes up further investigation required, or denied, you will be shown the door.

Fully automatic firearms such as the M16 mentioned in the video are subject to even more regulation under the National Firearms Act of 1934. A prospective purchaser must jump further federal hoops and obtain a tax stamp ($200 fee), and be wiling to pay the usually thousands of dollars such a firearm will cost. If the purchaser lives in a state that permits civilians to own fully automatic weapons, that is. New York State does not!

This video is complete fiction.

Here's an idea:

Stop attempting to further your agenda by indoctrinating children and misrepresenting the facts. Do some research. Educate yourselves and your pupils on the actual state of the gun laws nationally and in New York. Educate yourselves on the actual causes of violence in our society. Think hard about what might actually make a difference. Then advocate for your (hopefully reconsidered) position from a place of knowledge and strength, rather than blatant misinformation and stupidity. An honest and principled disagreement (based on actual common sense and reasonableness, rather than the mere invocation of same) I could respect, but this fear mongering and puppeteering based on raw emotion and prevarication is simply despicable.

Gun Control Hypocrisy Rears Its Ugly Snivelling Head Again

Last weekend, 25 people were shot in New York, many in gang or crime related incidents, with nary a peep from Bloomberg's MAIG or Moms Demand Action.

Today they are braying about the the victims in Santa Monica. They are startlingly silent on the 47 people killed by the guy who set fire to a bus in China, or the soldier beheaded with a meat cleaver on the streets of London, because it is not really about the problem of violence in our society, or sympathy for those killed in a horrific manner. Rather it is all about civilian disarmament and the use of tragedy for political gain.

It seems they only care about mass shootings, because they are the boogey man that they can use to scare the sheeple into thinking that disarming every law abiding citizen (which will have zero effect on the criminals, who will still have whatever weaponry they desire, and free choice among defenseless victims) is a desirable goal.

Only when it's dramatic and furthers their political agenda does the bloody shirt get waved. The rest of the time, when the victims are brown, urban, and/or poor, they don't even cause a blip on these affluent elitist gun grabbers' radar screens.

It's no coincidence that they launched their assault on the Second Amendment only after a bunch of cute little white kids from affluent suburbia were killed. This is nothing more than typical Not In My Backyard-ism. It was fine when it was someone else's neighborhood, but now the well-to-do liberals have their knickers in a twist, and they will sacrifice the rights of their countrymen so that they can fall back into comfortable denial and the delusion that "it can't happen here." Only it can, and it will, until the underlying causes of violence, rather than the tools a misguided few use to perpetrate it, become the thing that requires a national conversation.

Gun control is racist, classist, ableist and anti-feminist, and let us not forget, HYPOCRITICAL!

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