The Zombieslayer

Disasters happen in America too.  Just ask anyone from New Orleans.  Or San Francisco.  Heck, Chicago burned down before.

With disasters come looters.  Reading about the earthquake in Chile, Rene Orlellana sleeps with a shotgun in his hands and has already fired off 500 of his 2000 rounds of ammo.  Source BBC (see below).

“I’ve fired 500 of the 2,000 rounds of ammunition I’ve got,” says Mr Orellana, who works for the Ministry of Public Works, showing off his gun licence.

“I fire over their heads to scare them off, and so far, it’s worked.”

Can’t happen here? It already has.  Is your memory that short? Hello, New Orleans is in the US of A.

Or what about LA, California? Korean shop owners successfully scared away looters with semi-automatic rifles, you know those misnamed “assault rifles” that politicians love to ban.

You should have a thousand rounds of ammo to protect yourself and your family.  Just when you think it will never happen to you, it will.  Ask Murphy. Just like just when you stop paying your health insurance premiums, you get a major illness.

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Source - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8550960.stm. Good article to read. Please read it. I’m surprised BBC actually printed a pro-gun article.

By the way, had a conversation with my son today about guns. I am heavily invested in this country’s success. I have a lot of stock + Treasury Bonds. He asked me about Treasury Bonds so I explained to them what they were. He asked if there’s any way for the Treasury Bonds to go down. I told him yes, if the country collapses. If so, we’ll be thankful we have guns. I sure hope not as I quite enjoy my Middle Class lifestyle.

Have you ever heard of this guy Dalai Lama? I just read a quote of his and I’m thinking he’s got to be one of those crazy Right-wing whack job redneck sister screwing racist homophobic sheep fucking lazy ass racist conspiracy tinfoil hat wearing inbred hillbillies.

You know what he said? He said “If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.” (Seattle Times, May 15, 2001).  Well, we all know only Right-wing bigots like guns.  So screw this Lama guy.  What a weird name anyways.

Then there’s this Mahatma Gandhi guy.  ‘‘Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.’’

Huh? He’s for Indians owning guns? Probably so they could shoot each other.  Probably some racist bigot who thinks women should be barefoot and pregnant and chained up to the stove so they can cook him a meal when he gets home from work.

The only guy who really makes sense is this Heinrich Himmler guy.  He says that “ordinary citizens don’t need guns, as their having guns doesn’t serve the state.”  Well, I couldn’t agree with this guy more.  Himmler gets it.  Only the state should be trusted with guns.  Maybe I should have voted for him for President.  He’d make a good leader.

I’ve been a gun show geek for decades now, going to gun show after gun show.  I’ve never seen anything like this.  You have to get there early or else the ammo for common calibers is all gone.

Usually, I’d get there right around the crack of noon.  Or later.  Depends how late I slept in.

Now, I actually have to get up.

You ask why? It’s because Obama got elected so people started buying guns like crazy.  Not only that, the types of guns buyers bought were handguns and “sporting rifles.”

In all my years of being a gun nut, no year comes close to 2009 when it comes to sales.  The numbers prove it so it’s not just the gun shows I go to.  Unfortunately, prices have shot up as well, but the buyers are still buying.  Almost wish I invested more in guns than the S&P 500 index.  I would have actually made money this decade.

So, with this mad buying of guns, the murder rate shot up.  Right? Right?

Nope.  Sorry anti-gunners.  Looks like you’re gonna need a new argument.  The murder rate dropped 10% in the first half of ‘09.

Things that make you go “hmm…”

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Source - FBI: http://www.fbi.gov/page2/dec09/crimestats_122109.html

You know what Democrats and Republicans have in common? They’re both full of shit.

It’s funny how when Bush was President, Democrats loved it when I exposed the crap Bush was doing and they loved it when I went off on Bush.  Of course Republicans, who like Democrats, are binary thinkers, thought I had to be a Democrat.  Now that Obama is in power and doing his share of bullshit, I’m going to expose it and the Democrats, who like Republicans are binary thinkers, will all think I’m a Republican.

If you don’t know what a binary thinker is, it is simply if you aren’t one of us, you have to be one of them.  So, you’re either a Republican, or a Democrat.  If you insult the Democrat President, you must be a Republican.  And vice verse.

You’d think people are more intelligent than that, but apparently not.

Shootout in Acapulco

I’ve been to Acapulco.  In fact, I’ve been all over Mexico except the Sonoran Desert and Baja (besides Tijuana).  It’s gorgeous, like a lot of Mexico is.  Unfortunately, the majority of Mexico is also very corrupt.

Currently the Obama Administration blames American gun shows for the violence in Mexico.  I’ve done another post on that topic but I want this to hit home because I know a lot of Obama fans are in denial how much this guy has his head up his ass.

So 16 people were killed in the recent shootout.  Gunmen not only fired shots, but hurled around 50 grenades at the soldiers arriving at the house.  Now, if you STILL believe the Obama Administration that American gun shows are to blame for the violence in Mexico, here’s a homework assignment for you.  I want you to try to buy grenades at your local gun show.  Just don’t cry to me when you end up in JAIL.

I can almost guarantee you that the guns used against the Mexican soldiers did NOT come from American gun shows.  This whole argument is so stupid.  The Obama Administration goes out of its way to make people like me who frequent gun shows to look bad.  The thing that gets me is not that they lie, but you got idiotic Americans who actually believe their lies.

Where they’re coming from

Once again, here is a short list (and very incomplete list) of where Mexican criminals are getting their guns:

The Mexican black market.  It’s a lot bigger than people want to give it credit for and a heck of a lot more accessable than crossing the border and sneaking guns through security checkpoints.

FARC (Columbia) and other South American revolutionaries.  They got plenty of guns and need the money.

China.  If you know your guns, you’ll know what I’m talking about.  China has been a worldwide supplier of cheaply made guns for quite awhile now.

Deserters from the Mexican army.  You have 150k deserters within the past six years.  They don’t exactly turn their guns in when they desert.

Guatemala.

I’m still waiting for someone to prove to me the “gun show loophole” without ending up in jail.  They keep mentioning it with the hope that stupid Americans will start believing it exists.  Well, it doesn’t.  Gun shows have to follow the same laws that everyone else does, and the last thing a gun show wants is to be forced out of business.  If anything, gun shows are pretty anal.

But as any dictator will tell you, repeat a lie often enough and people will start believing it.

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In case you’re wondering, here is proof that criminals don’t get their guns from gun shows. This information comes from the Department of Justice itself. So instead of getting your “facts” from someone with an anti-gun slant, get it from the DoJ.

Of inmates with firearms, 39.6% got them from family members or friends. 39.2% got them from an illegal source “on the streets.” And 13.9% bought them from other sources - mainly retail stores (8.9%) and pawn shops (3.8%). Funny thing, a higher percentage got them from flea markets (1%) than gun shows (0.7%).

So if you really don’t want criminals to get guns, I suggest we ban families and friends.