Nom de plume: Rivrdog

MAJOR Gun Grab proposed in OR

This would be the most severe gun-grab in the Nation, if passed. A group calling itself "Interfaith Leaders" proposes to ban all semi-automatic, or magazine-fed firearms. The article says just "Assault Rifles", but the boasting out of the Commissar Knutson's "Church" (bull. commies don't have churches) was to include all semi-autos fed by magazines.

The Initiative process, by which Commissar Knutson proposes to enact this law, is operated by the State of Oregon, so...(my Facebook Post)

My answer to the "Inter-Faith Group" seeking to ban all semi-automatic firearms in Oregon - Here is YOUR future:

1. You have ALREADY conspired to restrict or remove an enumerated Right of the Bill of Rights. You have done that just by MEETING to discuss your ill-conceived Initiative. Legally, that means that Probable Cause might already exist for your arrest on 18 USC 242, Denial of Civil Rights under Color of Authority.

2. "Under Color of Authority" will probably have to be decided in a courtroom, but this 25-year Officer of the Circuit Court of Multnomah County believes that the "Authority" of the State of Oregon is extended willingly down to reside in those following the Initiative Process. The fact that this Initiative IS a de-jure Denial of Civil Rights cannot even be challenged.

3. Prior to the Finding that the Initiative Process DEPENDS on the Color of Authority of the State of Oregon, there is another legal facet to be perfected. That facet is the Racketeer-Influenced Corrupt Organization designation which will apply to the organizers, from the Chief Petitioner on down to the signature-collectors. Under any declaration that a criminal conspiracy exists (a simple True Bill from a Federal Grand Jury or a USAG's Information) the RICO process may be initiated. That process will freeze ALL the assets of the named conspirators, the financial supporters and yes, perhaps even the signers of the Petition (the instrumentality of the criminal conspiracy). A VERY wide swath can be cut by the RICO process, and it might indeed ensnare all governmental officials who had provable Notice of the Petition, were in a position to stop the approval of the Petition but didn't, and maybe even the Judge who approved the ballot title. BTW, for the uninformed, once a judgment of RICO has been rendered, the defendants may be assessed as much as treble damages, in addition to Court Costs, Attorney Fees and all such expense.

4. The final Sword of Damocles hanging over this entire legal proceeding would be Class Action. I believe that there are over two million gun owners in Oregon, and each would be entitled to join in a Class as Plaintiffs, seeking common damages. I should think that those damages would be at least $10K/Plaintiff, which would put the erstwhile gun-grabbers on the legal hook for $20 Billion dollars. Considering the VERY deep pockets of the likes of Soros, Steyer, Bloomberg and other Limousine Liberals who can be expected to empower this conspiracy via their wealth, they probably DO HAVE $20B amongst them.

Your essayist begs for many, many Shares, so someone at the top of this anti-Civil Rights cabal will get my notice. Pass this word, please!

Thank you.

Consensus for Peace in Our Time?

...Or is that Piss on our Times?

I read some gunblogs this past evening and early ayem just now. Consensus seems to be to have the GOPe let through a Bill to Pass an Act or as my Sainted Mother used to say, "Pack an Ass". That Bill would ban slide-fire (bump-fire) stocks and devices. One blog suggested that the GOPe hold out to trade that Bill for Suppressor Removal from the NFA or passage of Reciprocity. The dee-bait on that Bill could get you-gly. Amendment-City would result, but if you like butting your heads against brick walls, I guess you also get to eat tin cans.

Listen up. I'm only gonna say this twenty more times! The Dhimmycraps are an organized gang and the GOPes are not. That's a fact. Make book on it. Take it to the bank.

As I said yestiddy, pain must be applied to the Left if you are to ever convince them it is no longer in their interest to ban guns and trash the 2A. That pain has to be in the form of taking a couple of prominent leftoids, trying them for Denial of Civil Rights Under Color of Authority (18 USC 242) and locking them up for a LOOOONG time. If the target is Bloomberg, he's not a gummint ass-thority figger anymore, so all we can do to him is sue him civilly for the same law violation, RICO the lawsuit, and put him in the poorhouse. The moolah the Feds would get from him would pay for a lot of charter aircraft for Trump's Cabinet...

Guns and Suicide, a debunked study.

Jews for Protection of Firearms Ownership cites this "study", which debunks itself on the rule of statistical insignificance. The study's pushers (yes, anti-gun scammers are just like drug pushers, so we call them that here) survey Maryland's population, only 3.5# of the males there come from rural areas, and guess what the "study" concludes? It concludes that EEvil Gunzz are to blame for most male suicides in Maryland! Anyone drawing that conclusion from those facts should be publicly exposed as Charlatans, and thank God we have JFPO to do that.

I looked into the American Public Health Association, because as a kid, I remember my dad belonged to that org. Dad was a Doctor and diplomate of the Harvard School of Public Health. When I opened APHA's front page, the "issues" it addresses as a group appeared to be right out of a Democratic Party Talking Points briefing or a stump speech by a (D) Mayoral candidate for Baltimore, MD. (Human-caused Global Warming is a HEALTH problem?). Next, I looked for Bloomberg's ugly footprints in this rose-garden, and sure enough, I found some. Michael Bloomberg, the Daddy Warbucks of anti-2A politics, bought into the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health (Baltimore, MD) years ago just to lend "Authenticity" (read: pump anti-gun beeEss into his politics) to his anti-2A work.

So, another debunked anti-gun "scientific study" for which any dumb schmuck with a plugged-up nose could find the stink of Bloomberg on. Not fake news, but not really news, either. ALL of these "studies" have been engineered to give fake authenticity to anti-gun propaganda. Go over to Joe's Place, he will have many, many more listed over there. Between Joe and JPFO sleuthing around the the lairs of the anti-gunners, they just can't hide.

There IS real news here though, news which supports the debunking that JPFO did. For this news, you need a bit more education than the Democrats would give you. You need some actual study in the history of Philosophy. That's not hard to find, it is a freshman or sophomore-level course at almost every college and university. You can probably take it at your local Community College for $120 or so. After you've had that course or it's equivalent in self-study, you will find that discussions of suicide MUST involve studying Philosophy. Academically, and the Left is nothing if not "Academic", right? (Karl Marx said so, so it must be so, right?), the subject of suicide is ALWAYS philosophical, and most philosophies are against it, most religions, too.

Why does society fight the idea of self-destruction so hard? Simple: they always have. How did such anti-suicide policy get ingrained in Judeo-Christian society so deeply? Simple! It's numbers. When times are hard, and they ALWAYS were hard in the Olden Days, despair at the current life's status one finds one's self in was very common. To prevent society from collapsing of low numbers, Judeo-Christian leaders formulated TWO diktats: first, "Go forth and Multiply" (Book of Genesis 1:28 {KJV}) The second diktat is that one's body belongs to God, therefore, we lack the right to destroy it:

(1 Corinthians 6:19-20 NIV) [19] Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; [20] you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body. We are not our own. It is up to God when we die not us. It is hard to argue that a person who kills himself is honoring God with his body.) This last quote is via a very good source, Behind the Badge, btw.

Some philosophical codes don't go as far as saying your body belongs only to God, though. The Bushido code, for one. It was the behavioral code of requirements for the Samurai class of ancient Japan. This code DID include women, btw, so get lost with your feminist cant, ladies. The Bushido Code had a place where suicide was MANDATORY, and that was if you failed it's basic tenets, your military superior could order you to take your own life (Seppuku). I read the Bushido code, never subscribed to all of it. Some of my married-into-family had Samurai roots though, so I got to hear tales of the Bushido Code around the dinner table.

I subscribe to a simple Warrior's code, and yes, I'm a warrior so I can do that. In my Warrior Code, I get to choose the time and place of my own death. Me, Myself and I are the only ones responsible OR empowered for that. As a Warrior should, I have contemplated what conditions I would have to be in to choose to end my life. I KNOW when I would do that, and I only will know when and until that point comes, if it ever does. To give you salacious readers some respite, let me just say that I'm nowhere near that point, as old and decrepit as I might be, I soldier on and suffer through it all.

Did I just digress? No, I just put my literary spear in the belly of ALL these "suicide studies", the VAST majority of which are from simpletons regurgitating ancient philosophy, to say something nice about them. There is NOTHING nice to say about the anti-2A people, they are simply wannabe dictators, and our Constitution AND our Warrior Codes all tell us that those folks are Enemies of our State. If you actually read all my above screed, you KNOW that suicide is not about guns, it's about personal choices.

Now, go forth and multiply.

Go on offense, NRA-ILA

With a gun-friendly POTUS, and with a GOPe majority in both halls of Congress, why are we still seeing things like the horrible parade of anti-2A llaws enacted in in the Soviet Republik of Kalifornia, and Oregon's commie State Leges desperately trying to catch up to Kali and destroy the 2A for myself and other Patriots?

Where is the firm declaration, stand and ACTION to protect the 2A, in both law AND spirit, NRA?

From a conflict-management point of view, this is an easy fight. Just get Bloomberg's money out of the fight, and get it out VERY definitively, and the battle is over and won. Michael Bloomberg, ex-Mayor of New York and multi-multi billionaire, has been telling us and showing us for over a decade just what his filthy lucre buys in the way of caviling lefty politicians. His money-pot is available to anyone on the Left, as long as they sign on to his anti-gun agenda.

Get that money out of the game and the anti-gun side collapses.

Now that OUR side has a real, by-God conservative US Attorney General, he should hook up IMMEDIATELY with the Solicitor General and sue Bloomberg as a destroyer of Civil Rights, ENUMERATED Civil Rights. It might be a landmark case, and it might take three years for it to get to the SCOTUS, but it WILL prevail there and the now-standard Lefty attacks on the First and Second Amendments will be relegated to the history books.

In the meanwhile, NRA, why are YOU putting your entire corporate energy into selling dubious insurance schemes (first "Lifelock" and now "Carry Guard") instead of PROTECTING  our 2A?

Go on offense, NRA. It's why I still belong, the faint hope that you will actually DO SOMETHING.  

That "Ruh-Roh" feeling about the 2A

The feeling is, that the major attack on it which will be the hallmark of Obama's failed presidency is but weeks away, maybe days away.

Yesterday, Obama made a speech about terrorism and internal security. I listened. As the lies started to flow, I was lulled momentarily by the fact that it was all, well, so BOILERPLATE. We will kill ISIS....yada-yada. Home-grown terrorists are harder to catch and get ahead of....yada-yada. I almost zoned the prez totally out as I was doing scut work in the kitchen at the time.

Then the alarm bells started going off. the "Ruh-Roh Alarm" sounded loudly. I re-focused. I followed Fox' handy talking points crawl at the bottom of the screen. The Obama-rama Show wrapped up, and the alarms were still going off.

Why? What alarms? Glad you asked!

OBAMA NEVER MENTIONED GUNS IN THAT SPEECH, NOT ONCE.

He not only didn't mention it, but his two favorite follow-ons were missing: no words on "it's Congress' fault", no "It's the NRA's fault", no "gun-show loophole's" fault. Especially, no "I have a pen and a phone" reference to Executive Action.

Here's a little thing from my military days: when you are at war, a shooting war, and you stumble right onto the enemy and THEY DON'T SHOOT AT YOU, that is worth some brain work to find out why. In infantry warfare, when this happens with reconnaisance patrols, the usual reason is that the enemy has something major going on nearby they don't want you to discover (a hidden HQ, for example), so they let you on through without resistance, hoping that the major-something doesn't get discovered and quickly attacked by a larger force than you represent.

I had this vibe about Obama's speech yesterday. Just now, I got up at 0645, went downstairs to get a clean coffee cup, and while I was getting it, Fox News was expounding on the thoughts I have just expressed, above. Apparently, they did some digging (or just read some O-flunky's lips), and Fox has concluded, as I did yesterday, that some Gun Control Executive Action is forthcoming, fairly immediately.

A fellow blogger of this region, one I read most days (except when he's all pedantic about IPSC, because he is a Rules Monster in that sport), just pointed out that The Hill, a notable, if mostly Left, publication about "Washington Inside", ventures that Obama is readying his Un-Constitutional Edict now, and it will be released, with suitable fanfare, right after the holidays (or sooner, I would surmise).

What will the edict bring?

Well, if Bloomie was in on it, it will bring at least a National Capacity Limit for magazines (resurrect Clinton's, most likely), likely some sort of "Assault Weapons Ban" (again, resurrect Clinton's, but tighten it up so that chosen manufacturers can't grease palms like Bill Ruger did with his Ranch Rifle and buy their way out of it). I'm guessing that there won't be confiscation in it, for now. Obama is likely content to leave that up to Hillary, who has said that she would go down that road. If Hillary doesn't make it to POTUS, there won't be Federal confiscations, except maybe for a 50-cal ban and grab. 50BMG weapons are at risk because they are one RCH (look it up, it's military slang) away from being designated as Destructive Devices now, and that could be done easily by edict.

So, it's time to ask: if POTUS tries to kill the 2A by edict (Clinton did it with Congress, you will recall), what will the GOPe Congress do?

Absolutely Nothing. Need proof: Look at the super-pork bill they just passed. These are NOT the Conservative droids you are looking for...

What will Yours Truly do? Absolutely Nothing. Yep, I am not going to go to war over anything less than active confiscations, which I WILL use my skills against. Why am I promising nothing? You haven't read this blog for long, have you, my friends? If you had, you will note that I advised the purchase of all firearms, magazines and ammo that might be banned from sale, way back in '08, when it began to look like Obama was going to get the (D) nomination. If you DIDN'T follow this blog, and DIDN'T accumulate your weapons since then, you have an immediate task to do so, if you want any.

Told 'ya.

What if...

What if Jihad went silent.

Think about it.

On 9-11-01, 19 un-noticeable radical Islamic men hijacked 4 aircraft and kicked off a serious war with the USA.  We have fought that war, even though our current President won't even call it a war, ever since. Introspection and history reveals that we should have been fighting it a lot sooner.

In most terror-related events since 9-11-01, we have seen terrorists express their Islamic fanaticism in stereotypical ways (shouting "Allahu Akbar"), while dressed and even armed stereotypically. The terrorists want us to see their evil side, the better to strike fear into our hearts.

Suppose, for a moment, that there ARE some smart terrorists leading Islam's war with the West, and they recognize the political fact that with Obama and the Left, Islam has an opportunity of winning it's war with the West faster*, but to gain that advantage, they would have to end the practice of in-our-face-jihad, because the images of jihad give us a mental picture of who to hate. Would they change their tactics to suit the political reality here?

You can bet your last bullet that they would, and maybe already have done so.

How do we fight this war if the terrorists hide among us and don't show themselves until they strike?

Short answer: with great difficulty, given the present leadership. We have to re-think strategies and tactics ourselves, because in reality, what difference does it make if we lose our war to radical Islam or lose a war to a Socialist dictatorship? Liberty is gone in both cases.

The answer for us is to raise our personal levels of awareness, raise our personal levels of combat-readiness, and sell these higher levels of conflict-consciousness to the less-committed at every turn.

What if there had been a couple of trained concealed-weapons carriers in that Roseburg classroom? What if the de jure State position allowing campus concealed carry did translate to the de facto side and the campuses were forced to accept that? School shootings end when the campuses are properly armed. Israel proved that over 40 years ago.

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*Obama is losing the war for us, quickly. Ineffective military leadership from a de-professionalized and hyper-politicized military, deliberately pushing group-weakness over individual personal strengths (the rise of the gimme-gimme class), disarming veterans (the very people who, given a weapon, are the most likely to use it successfully against the enemy), all of these are war-losing strategies, not war-winning strategies.

Attention Fox News

A common definition of"fair and balanced" can NEVER include inviting a person on a show who favors removing enumerated rights guaranteed by the US Constitution. I never want to see Miss Roginski spouting Bloomberg anti-gun lies on any Fox show again, ever. That is all. Be warned Fox, I have channel selection, and I have a computer with which to complain to your advertisers, and I have the time to put all this together.

Support the US Constitution or go dark, FOX!

Roseburg, OR and the sidebars you will not read except here.

A fine little city, I've only stopped there a couple of times. It used to be a big lumber town, but that all went away  when the people there became less important than the Spotted Owls.

Now Roseburg is in the news again, reasons not of it's own choosing. A mass murder by firearm just took place there, at Umpqua Community College.

For unknown reasons, the authorities are hiding the name of the shooter, who was killed when counter-attacked by the police. No point in speculating about the shooter just yet, but we might speculate as to why the name hasn't been released, since a Court has already issued a search warrant for that deceased's home and the crime happened almost 7 hours ago.

It might have something to do with this. Yes, gun control. The Sheriff of Douglas County is a staunch defender of the 2A, and the Governor of Oregon, Kate Brown is not. Gov. Brown was whisked to Roseburg by helicopter this morning by the State Police, who were probably looking to take over this investigation so that the details could be put to "proper use" promoting Bloomberg's gun-grabbing agenda. My guess is that Sheriff Hanlin told the State Police to piss up a rope and the internecine fight was on.

I'll keep an eye on this for my readers.

 

Designed to destroy the Constitution

Observe this process. It is carefully calculated to attack the Bill of Rights.

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There was a mall shooting a year ago in Oregon. A crazy guy went into a mall full of Christmas shoppers and opened fire with a stolen rifle, killing two, but when a Concealed Carry person drew on and aimed at him, he ran off to a remote part of the mall and killed himself.

The simple fact of history from the Clackamas Mall shooting was that the Second Amendment didn't start the shooting, it ENDED it.

That simple explanation doesn't fit the agenda of the Left, who want to eliminate the Second Amendment, so, in a carefully-laid plan to "memorialize the victims", they have deliberately left out mention of Nick Meli, the armed citizen who stopped the shooter's rampage without firing a shot.

The Left is AGAIN revising history to suit their agenda. I am AGAIN bringing out the HISTORY book to remind folks of the truth of the incident.

Exhibit A: in today's Oregonian:

The "commentary" mentioned there is from a MAIG supporter, and does not mention the armed citizen. The link goes to a list of articles, none of which promenently mention the armed citizen. There ARE, however, plenty of mentions of gun control ideas with which to weaken the Second Amendment.

This blog does not believe in defensive warfare. Never has, never will. I offer the following solution:

Since the "free press" is not free, but is totally enrolled as a major political tool of the Left, it has ceased to deserve the protection of the First Amendment. In the State of Oregon, all political organizations which seek to press the Government for a political end must Register as Lobbyists.

It's time the press was Registered as lobbyists, and it's time that they are forced to follow the strict rules that all political lobbyists have to follow.

Register the Press, not our Guns.

 

Bloomberg buys Virginia Election

...or tries to. His gun control PAC just donated $1.1M to (D)onk Governor candidate Terry McAuliffe, hoping to use that money to smother gun freedom in Virginia.

If Bloomberg isn't Public Enemy No. 1 of the US Constitution, he's very close to it.