The FBI is FINALLY updating significant records to NICS

It's not "OUR" fault that people who should not own guns have not reliably been caught during Instant Background Checks.

The Infinite Wisdom of the American public has often pointed their fingers at legitimate firearms owners for "Mass Shootings" over the years; but recent information suggests that governmental agencies who are responsibility for updating  the list of forbidden firearms purchasers have not been doing the job; the embedded article points right back to them.

"THEM" .. is the folks responsible for religiously maintaining current information on the Database which registers and tracks felons and madmen.


Report: FBI will add 400 million new records to NICS:

The Federal Bureau of Investigation will add more than 400 million new records to the database used to vet gun buyers, according to a report this week from the Trace. The National Data Exchange, aka N-DEx, contains incident and arrest reports, probation and parole documents, according to the report — a trove of information capable of preventing questionable gun transfers from proceeding, such as in the case of the Charleston church shooter.

Oh, Crap!

When "The Economist" weighs in on a subject, it's a signal that we're so f*cking tired that anybody can have an opinion ... even if it's bullshit.   Which it is. (Nothing new here; move on!)

A minority of gun owners have a veto over gun laws - More mass shootings:
The NRA’s membership is relatively small. It should be less powerful than it is.

That's it?

That's all "The Economist" has to say about that?

Okay, I'm officially NOT blogging about the Texas Chainsaw Madman With A Gun Massacre any more. 

Nobody doesn't understand what happened there, nobody is any more or less upset.

But when the Mainstream Media (The "Economist", for Crissakes?) weighs in with nothing new to say except "GUNS BAD!"  you can be pretty sure that they no longer give a shit about the people who died there

follow-up!

Still Crazy After All These Years

The latest Crazy Talk from anti-Constitutional Liberals reveals (again!)  the  maniacal Bias of Liberals against "good men with guns".

The Texas Church Massacre was stopped by a "good man with a gun", after a "bad man with a gun" slaughtered 26.  Who knows how many more would have died if nobody had been ready, willing and able to step up and shoot the crazy son-of-a-bitch before he could have murdered many others in the pews of their church.

You can't stop the "bad men with a gun" because they will defy current laws; you can only hamstring the "good man with a gun", because they will obey the law .. however unwillingly.  Because  "law-abiding".

And yet the crazy Gifford family ignores recent history, and allows their emotions to over-ride the Constitution because of their own personal tragic history.

We can't blame the Gifford family for allowing their experience to color their response, but it would be "nice" if the could step back and realize that none of the laws they espouse would be "common sense" ... because the "bad men" would ignore them.

Criminals will always have guns, because "Criminals"!

Trump administration sued by gun control group founded by Gabby Giffords:

“The Trump administration appears willing to let the National Rifle Association dictate its federal gun safety policy, which includes remaining silent on how to stem our nation’s gun violence epidemic,” said Robyn Thomas, executive director of the Giffords Law Center, according to the Huffington Post. “Protecting the safety of Americans should be the top priority of any president. Unfortunately, gun lobby profits seem to be more important to President Trump.”

Oh, thanks a HELLUVA LOT, Gifford Family, for making it much more complicated than the Constitution really needs to be:

SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED!

Kentucky church group considers NRA members "enemies"

Gun safety advocates pray for NRA members holding annual meeting in Louisville:

 Cecil-Hinds, interim executive director of the Kentucky Council of Churches, said many NRA members “are Christian people who believe that what they are doing is right”. “If we speak out against them without praying for them, then we do an injustice to God’s work in the world,” she said. “God calls us to be one body and love one another. Jesus said, ‘Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.’ That’s why I do it.”

Hmmm ... so, NRA members are their "enemies"?  Legal, law-abiding firearms owners are their "enemies"?   People who are responsible gun owners are their "enemies" simply because they possess firearms?

I can't quite get my mind around this concept.

Isn't there a biblical injunction involved here?

Something like "Judge Not, Lest Thee Be Judged"?

If this group had been referring to criminals who use firearms for nefarious purposes, I would have understood.  But they are specifically targeting NRA members.

It hurts my feelings.  I may weep.

Please, spare me your sanctimonious self-righteous hypocrisy.   Whatever God you are praying to, it's not the father of He who said, in Luke 22:36: ''

"... the one without a sword should sell his cloak and buy one".

If y'all are that religious that you think you ought to pray for armed total strangers, maybe you ought to consider buying a gun; because "Don't Bring A Sword To A Gun Fight".

(Yeah, I made that one up.)

Georgia lawmakers pass controversial 'guns everywhere' bill | MSNBC

Georgia lawmakers pass controversial 'guns everywhere' bill | MSNBC:
(March 21, 2014 .. revised March 23, 2014)

The Georgia House passed a sweeping gun bill late Thursday night that allows firearms in bars, nightclubs, school classrooms and certain government buildings that lack security personnel or devices. Lawmakers moved the bill through the House during the last hour of the night on Thursday, meeting their midnight deadline before the end of the current legislative session. If signed by the state’s governor, the law will give religious leaders the option to “opt-in” to allow guns on their worship premises, where violators cannot be arrested or fined more than $100 each. Additionally, it could grant citizens the right to carry firearms in bars, nightclubs, libraries, sports facilities, senior citizen and youth centers, and on K-12 premises by authorized administrators and teachers.

Not surprisingly, this MSNBC article presents a rather biased interpretation of the new Georgia laws, in order to present a view which accords with the author's anti-gun prejudices.


I intend to present a different interpretation, based on my own personal PRO-gun prejudices.

Now you know the "Full Disclosure", which is more than the MSNBC author allowed you; hopefully, you will evaluate both interpretations and find your own understanding to fall somewhere in the middle ground.

Surely you don't need to carry a gun in a CHURCH!

In another chapter of the continuing story of deranged gunmen attacking unarmed innocents in 'Gun-Free Zones' ... particularly in Churches ... a long gunman brought a 12-gauge shotgun into a Unitarian church in Tennessee, where two-dozen children were performing in a local-theater version of the musical "Annie".

The gunman, 58-year old Jim D. Adkisson of Knox County, apparently fired 3 shots from his shotgun, hitting "six or seven" people ( or as many as 9 people), two of which died from their wounds.

According to the MSNBC article:

The man slain was identified as Greg McKendry, 60, a longtime church member and usher. Church member Barbara Kemper told The Associated Press that McKendry "stood in the front of the gunman and took the blast to protect the rest of us."

(An omnibus of articles about this attack may be found the UK website Newstin. )

Early reports are always suspect, but there is no doubt that Greg McKendry will be heralded as the man who literally "took a bullet" for his friends and fellow congregation members in what has been describe as "a normal Sunday service".

The shooter, Adkisson, was "taken down" by members of the congregation (reported by the local WBIR webpage to include congregant Professor John Bohstedt. (See photo at right.)

This was a terrible thing, which might have resulted in an even more extensive loss of life it not for the heroic actions of Greg McKendry and congregants such as Professor Bohstedt.

McKendry, of course, gave his life.

The King James version of the bible says, in James 15: 13:
"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."

Greg McKendry certainly will remain an iconic representation of that sentiment. The congregants who pulled Adkisson to the ground are similarly blessed in their determination to lay down their lives for their friends, except that circumstances did not require the sacrifice which they offered.

Question #1: If Greg McKendry, described by his friends as "a refrigerator with a head", had in his possession any weapon more lethal than a thick body and an uncommon courage, would he have been required to lay down his life to protect his friends?

Question #2: Civil law may have prevented church members from carrying a weapon into a church. The cultural approbation against carrying a weapon into a church certainly insured that peaceful, non-aggressive church members were unarmed. What civil laws and cultural approbations disapprobations prevented Jim Adkisson from bringing his guitar-case disguised 12-gauge shotgun into a church with the sole purpose of slaughtering as many innocents as he could?

[previous posts on "Gun Free Zones"]