Cats, Guns, and National Security

Yes, I really do hold myself better than most people here. You all thought about it. I DID IT. Federalist 46 . https://www.facebook.com/clare.lopez.54/posts/10223631652372309

The libertarians and purists of the Second Amendment community generally fail to understand how our social and government system works. The Constitution, contrary to Roy Moore and his acolytes, did not drop out of Heaven with its own angelic choir of interpretation. It is a human document written in the context of centuries--even millennia--of traditions and judgments by men. In a certain sense, the statements of "rights" actually are bumper-sticker shorthand for vast amounts of legal and social background.  Libertarians want to deny that. Purists want to ignore that. But it is the reality. We are NOT a libertarian system. TDF 79 . American law operates under the Common Law system we inherited from the Mother Country. Traditions, precedents, and caveats carried over, and were presumed in the writing of our governing documents, even without being explicitly mentioned. Americans were said to have the same rights as Englishmen--meaning the same guarantees with regard to what the...

Virtual copy of this non-TDF article from 04 FEB 2021:  Cats, Guns, and National Security: I know the vid is old, but it gave a soundoff point: Problems with self-seeking in RKBA. (catsgunsandnationalsecurity.blogspot.com) PLEASE NOTE THAT THE VIDEO DATES FROM MARCH 2020, LONG BEFORE THE ELECTION STEAL. SO WHILE THE GUY'S CHARACTER PROBABLY HASN'T CHANGED MUCH, HE MAY HAVE COME MORE TO HIS SENSES SINCE POSTING THIS. PRE-POST EDIT: I did look at his recent vids. He's more in panic mode, but still hangs on to his "But I want!" element. Watch This BEFORE YOU GO FEATURELESS - Pro Tips for Featureless Rifles - YouTube MY BRILLIANT ANALYSIS :  I'm gonna be the fudd here and say he's so busy trying to conform cosmetics to law that he gets stupid. Clear example was that pinned adjustable stock. It still rattles and moves. A more functional example is the muzzle brake, which from his description is actually counterproductive. NY has already banned those, but he can...

  First I'd say, "Partner? My love life's been DOA for years." Then I'd cue, " So long, it's been good to know you ."

When the post-Sandy Hook gun control drive started--a point marking the start of the modern, post/anti-Heller movement--there was a rather understandable panic among 2A-types. Heller was only four and a half years old, but the victory had already had a psychological impact on many, including yours truly. The role of firearms as part of American heritage had been confirmed.  As happens in a panic, people can be driven to at least consider extreme or out-of-the-box action. In 1999 following Columbine, I honestly wondered if moving to Switzerland was a legitimate answer to the potential loss then of gun rights pre-Heller. (I didn't, and I wouldn't have.) So I can't get too upset with people who raise even more intense--or simply crazy--ideas. Post-Sandy Hook, my response involved offering some fudd ideas, but even as now, they were rejected.  However, some suggested a far more extreme idea: Forming compounds for people to gather to protect their guns. (Actually, the idea was t...

Greg Penglis' "Action Radio" talked today about the showtrial for the officer accused of murdering a drugged-up Black thug. A lot was discussed, albeit with Penglis' usual TEA Party style and one of their regulars passing on a myth about Abraham Lincoln owning slaves. It's generally worth the listen. I called in, but he never got to me. That fine. I was going to say: All those pedestrian trees notwithstanding, the point of it all is opposition to White/Western civilization. It's not all race--though that's a component and a tool. To say it's specifically anti-Christian Satanic, as some would assert, falls short, as most Christian-professing people are outside White/Western civilization. And not some NWO thing. Just a commonality of agenda. Marine LePen has it right: It's more Patriot versus Globalist than Right versus Left. The answer is to throw off White/Western Guilt pathology, and urge our elected STATE leaders to read Federalist 46 and use th...

This blog is, of course, " CATS , Guns, and National Security." Lyrics to this wonderful song revised to fit my life with my feline. 

Briefly, American law operates under the Common Law system we inherited from the Mother Country. Traditions, precedents, and caveats carried over, and were presumed in the writing of our governing documents, even without being explicitly mentioned. Americans were said to have the same rights as Englishmen--meaning the same guarantees with regard to what they could do without government preventing it. Yet in that, the same limits applied, subject to how precepts had developed--dare I say, "evolved"--in their own direction in Colonial America. Much of what I have written about RKBA and 2A is based on applying this history. The 2A "right" carried with it the same limitations it had held in general terms at the time of its writing. So when a Common Law history is used to explain why, say, artillery is not 2A-protected, it's immaterial to counter, "But... 'Shall Not Be Infringed!'" The "right" not to be infringed was understood in a contex...

Andress modeled the song after her own extended family life--though the whiskey part was more her uncle than her father, she said. Then she ran a true-to-life situation through that template, added her amazing talent, and came out with a nearly perfect modern Country song. That's what Country music is: Real lives and stories put to song. OFFICIAL VIDEO: OPRY PERFORMANCE: CMA PERFORMANCE:  "BILLY YSC" REACTION:

BASELINE REGION TO ACCOMPLISH THE FUNCTION: "THE SECURITY OF A FREE STATE." 20-ROUND PISTOL-CALIBER MAGAZINES : COVERS MOST "STANDARD CAPACITY." PISTOL GRIPS ON PCCS : HOME-DEFENSE USE WARRANTS. IMPORTANT TRANSITIONAL REALITY NECESSARY FOR THE POLITICS OF IT ALL: NOT ALL LONG GUNS ARE CREATED EQUAL . MILITARY-GRADE FEATURELESS SEMI-AUTO RIFLES WITH GUARANTEED 10-ROUND MAGAZINES: FITS DEFENSIVE AND MILITIA USE (WORKING TO AVOID HAVING TO GO TO BOLT-ACTION ). WITH A PERSONAL  ADDENDUM TO THIS LATTER POINT: SOMETIMES THINGS CAN WORK OUT TO THE BETTER. TDF INDEX:  Cats, Guns, and National Security: THE DAILY FUDD index.    https://catsgunsandnationalsecurity.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-daily-fudd-index.html

In TDF 53 and TDF 54 ,  I discussed the "evil features" of "assault weapon" bans from political and tactical/practical levels. Today, I have to say something about how they have traditionally been defended over the past 30-plus years. TOO MUCH BULLSHIT. As I say in the title, I hate this. I hate giving voice and base to to the other side, but pro-gunners need to throw off the hickness. Shallow answers don't cut it ( TDF 63 ). When "assault weapons" features became prominent targets for anti-gunners, the most common pushback was that they were "cosmetic"--i.e., they did nothing, they just made the gun look cool. But it eventually became undeniable that most of the features actually did effect the use of the weapon. Hence, "ergonomic" became the term in vogue. That is technically accurate. However, the use for which these features improve ergonomics are in fact TACTICAL, often going into situations where no civilian acting on his own...

 

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