O Sage One, please call your office so that we may send you your “new” item of gunny goodness.
Congratulations to you, and many, many thanks to all who participated. Thanks to your generosity, the Widow Irish will be getting $1,000 in her account tomorrow.
So Iranian protestors are burning down mosques? Why? Well, here’s the reason:
These mosques are not places of worship, they serve as operation bases for the regime’s militias in residential neighborhoods. Mosques house armories for the Basij militias. They function as headquarters for repression and temporary detention centers for protesters.
Sounds like an excellent reason to set fire to the things and destroy them, then. Then there’s this:
In Iran, for decades, mosques served as recruitment and indoctrination centers for the regime. The regime uses them to radicalize vulnerable people and transform them into hate filled killing machines against their own society.
If that sounds familiar, then it should, because we have similar institutions right here in the U.S.
Now I’m not going to suggest doing the same to American Ivy League universities, even though they’re doing pretty much the same thing (and not just with radical Islam, but with radical Marxism as well). But the above link does help us focus our thinking, does it not?
And for the faint-hearted, I’m suggesting that we shut the damn things down and not burn them to the ground. (College campuses could be used for so many good things, e.g. art galleries, shopping malls and shooting ranges; it’d be a waste just to level them.)
Via Insty, this:
Two things to note here: firstly, Keith Self is my local guy and yes, I’m going to vote for him every chance I get.
Secondly, that fucking Muslim-only EPCOT EPIC City was planned to be built in Keith Self’s district (or very close to it — the maps are a little unclear). Fortunately, that festering shithole was nuked by our worthy TxGov* but the assholes have renamed the thing and keep pushing it forward. Self and Roy’s caucus would (I hope) stop it dead, forever.
Like I said, we need an asterisk in the First Amendment, and this is a good start. It’s not enough just to trust the Constitution to protect our republic — see countless Second Amendment transgressions for examples — we need to start doing what the Texas constitution does and put in measures that actively resist and ban bullshit like shari’a.
*Yeah, Greg Abbott is also going to get my vote every time.
As Combat Controller put it when he sent me this link, “While the NRA buys Wayne LaPierre’s suits and luxury junkets, the GOA does what they were supposed to be doing.”
Gun Owners of America (GOA) is proud to support the introduction of GOA-drafted legislation in West Virginia by Senators Chris Rose and Z. Maynard that would authorize the creation of a state entity to purchase and transfer machine guns to qualified law-abiding citizens pursuant to existing federal law.
The legislation utilizes a clear statutory exception contained in 18 U.S.C. § 922(o), commonly known as the Hughes Amendment. While that provision generally restricts civilian possession of post-1986 machine guns, it expressly states that the prohibition “does not apply with respect to … a transfer to or by, or possession by or under the authority of” a State or any department or political subdivision thereof.
Under the bill introduced in West Virginia, the State would establish state-run distribution centers authorized to acquire machine guns and conduct transfers “by” the State to qualified members of the general public. By structuring transactions within the text of the federal exemption, the legislation seeks to restore access to constitutionally protected arms while adhering to existing federal law.
My only question then and now is: when will Texas follow suit?
Here’s the thing: I have no interest, zero, in owning a full-auto firearm for myself. (Okay, I could make a exception for the wonderful WWII-era M2 Subbie*, but they just cost too damn much, as would the ammo I’d be blasting away at whatever the $$$$ price of .45 ACP is these days.)
But I do support the idea of anyone who does want to own one being allowed to do so. (My old line: “AK-47s in Aisle 14” applies here.)
*Yes, I’ve fired one, on several occasions, and I frigging loved it.
A couple of Readers sent me this little invention. And it’s really cool.
Now build a “custom drum” with an attached 5″ barrel, and fill said drum with .22 LR or .22 WMR boolets.
Now we’re talking.
