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But When a Long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, Pursuing Invariably the Same Object…

KeepandBearArms.com links to this story about how the fine legislators in California, seem to want to fix the massive debt their state is running by putting a 10¢ per round tax on ammunition. Actually, they say it’s to “help reimburse shooting victims and help pay their health-care costs.” but we know what legislatures do with money, don’t we? And if they’re going to put a $500 tax on a $200 case of .22 rimfire, then all they’re going to do is start a new black market. We’re already seeing it with cigarettes in the Northeast. Supply and demand, you morons.

They call it a “sin tax.” Gee, what was once a highly regarded practice, one guaranteed to us by the Bill of Rights, is now a sin? One of the ethicists interviewed for the piece states that “sin taxes” put the legislature in charge of labelling right and wrong. And here’s the money quote:

“Once you start doing that, then government becomes something above and beyond what the American founders thought it should be,’ Palm said. “Government becomes more of a parental figure.’

I’m not sure where Mr. Palm’s been, but our government’s been parental since the 1914 Harrison Act. Prohibition followed close behind.

Big Brother knows what’s best for us chillun’s.

No wonder politicians are concerned about the armor-piercing capabilities of the .50 BMG cartridge.

Ten cents a round, eh? How many legislators are there in Sacramento?

Give me a few minutes. I have more to say on this matter.

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Screw This, Time for Some Gun Stuff!

I have one of these:

but I want one of these:

And while I’m at it, one of these:

MSRP is $832, $1,153, and $1,058 respectively, though you can do a bit better at your local Kimber dealer.

Beautiful tools.

Oh, and just so you don’t think I’m an autoloader snob, I’d like a pair of these:

The S&W 627, eight-shot .357 revolver. They run around $800. But the guy responsible for putting “8 TIMES” on the barrel flat should be drawn & quartered.

Here’s a fine one, a Custom Shop snubbie 627:

I hate to think “How much?”

Our Collapsing Schools

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Remember when I said that parents were a big part of the problem? Well, here’s an extreme example.

Mother, Sons Charged With Beating Teacher Unconscious

NEWBURGH, N.Y. — Police say a mother and her two sons beat a teacher unconscious at school with a desk and a chair because she had suspended the younger boy.

The teacher, who works in an alternative school program for troubled youth, had suspended the boy for spitting in her face and pushing her, police said.

Jamie Mereness, 34, and her 17-year-old son William Ramos, went with her 12-year-old son to the school Tuesday afternoon to confront the teacher, who was not identified, police said Thursday.

Police said Mereness, Ramos and the younger son choked and punched the teacher, then used a desk and a chair to beat her in a basement classroom, Detective Lt. Santo Centamore said.

The victim’s 11 year-old son witnessed the attack and called 911.

I wonder why the hell anybody would want to be a teacher these days. Attacked from above and below, and unable to control your classrooms, it just sets you up to be a victim.

Much Crunchy Goodness

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Today’s Bleat is a helluva way to end the week:

The reason Abby Hoffman killed himself,

Andrew Sullivan channels the Force,

A review of an unreleased (and really bad) film,

A liberal reporter “outs” himself on Fark,

And gets bitch-slapped,

and, the one that made me laugh the loudest:

Real-life pr0n videos are doomed; it’s all going to be CGI in a few years as the technology trickles down. And it will be just as mindless as ever. Dixar Pictures presents Finding Reamo.

Unfortunately, he’s probably right.

Damn, that’s funny. I love the Internet.

Where the Hell Were the Parents – Follow-up

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Well, right on schedule: JoinTogether jumps on the “WE NEED MORE GUN LAWS!” bandwagon and fires up the calliope before the blood dries. Right. All the laws we’ve got now haven’t helped. Let’s do it some more, only harder.

“Sadly, school shootings and gun suicides have become all too familiar in the United States and Pennsylvania,” said Miller, “but they needn’t be. These avoidable incidents don’t happen in other developed countries, where guns are not readily available for disturbed youth to take to school to threaten or harm students, adults or themselves, like occurred today in Wellsboro.”

They don’t drug their children instead of raising them in other developed countries, either. We didn’t have these kinds of “disturbed kids” in the 40’s or 50’s or 60’s or even 70’s. Why was that? Guns were certainly “readily available” back then. What’s changed isn’t “gun availability.”

Edbril continued, “A law was recently passed in New Jersey which will soon require all new handguns to include childproofing technology that will prevent their use by anyone but authorized adult users, thus reducing the potential for the sort of tragedies we have seen three times in six weeks here.”

Which will have absolutely no effect on the 200,000,000+ guns already out there you IDIOTS. And the “child” was 12 years old. He’s probably more than bright enough to defeat any “safety mechanism” including a gun safe.

Miller expanded: “We don’t know where the guns brought to school today were acquired by this child, but we do know that prohibited underage purchasers can obtain handguns too easily through illegal street sales. The illegal market for handguns devastates Pennsylvania. We can drastically reduce the illegal market by disrupting straw purchases of multiple handguns through passage of CeaseFire PA’s Handgun Trafficking Reduction Act.”

Right. A 12 year old bought a duffelbag full of guns on the street. My sweet freaking jebus.

GUN LAWS WILL NOT STOP THIS!