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    Gun Control Advocates Peddle Another 'Turning Point' Myth After Orlando Attack

    A candlelight vigil was held outside the White House to honor the 49 people killed earlier that morning at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla. Many held signs condemning gun violence and calling for stricter gun control.  (Jeff Malet Photography/Newscom)

    A candlelight vigil was held outside the White House to honor the 49 people killed earlier that morning at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla. Many held signs condemning gun violence and calling for stricter gun control. (Jeff Malet Photography/Newscom)

     

    Security: As night follows day, the mainstream press has been full of stories about how the Orlando shooting marks a turning point in the long battle for strict gun control laws. It doesn't, and it shouldn't.

    Here's a sampling of headlines that appeared over the past week.

     "Sandy Hook didn't change our gun laws. Orlando might."

     "Will This One Make a Difference?

     "Orlando could be a turning point."

     

     "Poll watch: After Orlando shooting, Americans back stricter gun controls."

     "Support For Gun Control Spikes After Orlando Shooting."

    The Washington Post ran an op-ed Sunday arguing that, because the attacker targeted a gay nightclub, the gay community could accomplish what gun control advocates have failed for decades to achieve.

     "This time, things might be different," University of Toronto sociologists Jennifer Carlson and David Pettinicchio wrote in a Post op-ed. "Not because of the record number of people killed in Orlando ... (but) because its victims were part of a social movement with infrastructure and know-how largely unmatched within the gun control movement."

    Except this is the same basic script gun control advocates have trotted out after every headline-grabbing shooting.

    After the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the New York Times claimed the attack was "profoundly swaying Americans' views on guns."

    Trayvon Martin's shooting was supposed to be another "turning point."

    The shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was also going to "shift the gun control debate."

    A 1993 rampage at a San Francisco law firm was once cited as "a crucial turning point in the gun control movement."

    And, as today, the media play up quickie polls that seem to show a big jump in support for more gun laws.

    Yet, more credible polls show support for gun control is weaker today than it was 16 years ago. Anongoing Gallup poll, for example, found that 66% backed stricter gun control laws in 2000. By mid-2014 — that is, two years after the "game-changing" Sandy Hook tragedy — support was down to 47%. It's moved up a bit since then, but support for gun control isn't anywhere near the 78% support it got in 1990.

    The January 2016 an IBD/TIPP poll found that 52% think increased gun ownership increases public safety, and more think stricter gun control laws will hinder self-defense than say it will reduce crime.

    Even in the wake of the Orlando attack, 64% said that letting more people carry concealed weapons would be effective in preventing such attacks in the future, according to Gallup. Just 34% thought it would be ineffective. Only Democrats oppose the idea of letting more people carry concealed weapons.

    Plus, gun sales among gays and lesbians shot up after Orlando, and Pink Pistols, a gun club for gays and lesbians, saw membership more than double in one day.

    True, the public supports tinkering around the edges of existing gun laws. But the ideas being offered are pointless -- or worse.

    A large majority, for example, supports banning gun sales to those on terror watch lists. It's an idea that has obvious surface appeal, but as we pointed out in this space earlier, it is poorly conceived, largely unworkable, ripe for abuse and could easily deny innocent Americans the right to buy a gun.

    Gallup also finds majority support for laws "making it harder" to buy "assault weapons," without explaining that this category of guns is largely a fiction of the gun control lobby, or that there are already millions of these so-called assault weapons in the market already.

    It seems that no matter how much supportive ink the gun control lobby gets from the mainstream press, or how much it tries to demonize the NRA, common sense continues to prevail.

    By and large, the public has come to understand that making it harder for law-abiding citizens to buy a gun won't make them safer, and could deny them the chance to stop a would-be attacker.

    In an age of lone-wolf Islamic terrorists like Omar Mateen or the San Bernardino terrorists — whom even President Obama admits are hard for the federal government to stop — having a well-armed citizenry is more important than ever.

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    4 PEOPLE WEARING HILLARY T-SHIRTS...
    2 CAR DRIVERS WITH BERNIE SANDERS BUMPER STICKERS...
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    2 FLAG BURNERS...
    AND A PAKISTANI TAXI DRIVER.
    SO FOR THE LAST TIME.  .
     
    THE DOG IS NOT FOR SALE!
    AND NO, I DO NOT APPROVE OF HIS SMOKING, BUT HE SAYS IT HELPS GET THE "BAD TASTE" OUT OF HIS MOUTH.
     
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  3. A man lost an arm when his golf cart rolled over on him on a down slope. He became very depressed because he loved to play golf.


    One day in his despair,  he decided to commit suicide and end it all. He got on an elevator and went to the top of a building to jump off.
      
    He was standing on the ledge looking down and saw this man down on the sidewalk skipping along, whooping and kicking up his heels.
      
    He looked closer and saw that this man didn't have any arms at all. He started thinking, "What am I doing up here feeling sorry for myself? 
     
    I still have one good arm to do things with." He thought, "There goes a man with no arms skipping down the sidewalk so happy, and  going on with  his life."
      
    He hurried down to the sidewalk and caught up with the man with no arms. He told him how glad he was to see him because he lost one of his arms and felt useless and was going to kill himself.
     
    He thanked him for saving his life and said he knew he could make it with one arm if the guy could go on with no arms. The man with no arms began  dancing and whooping and kicking up his heels again.
     
    He asked, "Why are you so happy anyway?"
     
    He said, "I'm NOT happy.
     


    My balls itch."
     

  4. DO I NEED SENSITIVITY TRAINING?

     

     

    1) I was devastated to find out my wife was having an affair but, by turning to religion, I was soon able to come to terms with the whole thing. I converted to Islam, and we're stoning her in the morning!

     

    2) The witfe suggested I get myself one of those penis enlargers, so I did. She's 21, and her name's 'Kathy.'

     

    3) Went to the bar with my girlfriend last night. Locals were shouting "pedophile!" and other names at me, just because my girlfriend is 24 and I'm 50. It completely spoiled our 10th anniversary.

     

    4) My son was thrown out of school today for letting a girl in his class give him a hand-job. I said "Son, that's 3 schools this year!  You'd better stop before you're banned from teaching altogether."

     

    5) The cost of living has now gotten so bad that my wife is having sex with me because she can't afford batteries.

     

    6) A man calls 911 and says "I think my wife is dead". The operator says, "How do you know?" The man says "The sex is about the same, but the dishes are piling up!"

     

    7) I was explaining to my wife last night that when you die you get reincarnated but must come back as a different creature. She said she would like to come back as a cow. I said, "You obviously haven't been listening." Then the fight started.

     

    8) My wife has been missing a week now. The police said to prepare for the worst. So, I had to go down to Goodwill to get all of her clothes back.

     

    9) The Red Cross just knocked on my door and asked if we could contribute towards the floods in Pakistan . I said we'd love to, but our garden hose only reaches the driveway.

     

    10) I was approached by a lady who asked me to buy a raffle ticket for an African orphan. I said, "Hell no! With my luck I'd win one!"

     

     

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  5. When Mahatma Gandhi was studying law at the University College of

    London, a professor by the name of Peters disliked him intensely and

    always displayed animosity towards him.  And because Gandhi never

    lowered his head when addressing the Professor, as he expected, there

    were always "arguments" and confrontations.


    One day Mr Peters was having lunch at the University dining room when

    Gandhi came along with his tray and sat next to him. The professor

    said,"Mr Gandhi, you do not understand. A pig and a bird do not sit

    together to eat."  Gandhi looked at him as a parent would a rude child

    and calmly replied, "You do not worry, professor. I'll fly away," and

    he went and sat at another table.


    Peters, red with rage, decided to take revenge on the next test paper,

    but Gandhi responded brilliantly to all questions. Unhappy and

    frustrated, Mr Peters asked him the following question:  "Mr Gandhi,

    if you were walking down the street and found a package; and within

    was a bag of wisdom and another bag with a lot of money, which one

    would you take?”


    Without hesitating, Gandhi responded, "The one with the money, of

    course."  Mr Peters, smiling sarcastically, said, "I, in your place,

    would have taken the wisdom."  Gandhi shrugged indifferently and

    responded, "Each one takes what he doesn't have."


    Mr Peters, by this time, was fit to be tied. So great was his anger

    that he wrote on Gandhi's exam sheet the word "idiot" and handed it

    back to him.  Gandhi took the exam sheet and sat down at his desk,

    trying hard to remain calm while he contemplated his next move.  A few

    minutes later, Gandhi got up, went to the professor and said to him in

    a dignified but sarcastically polite tone, "Mr Peters, you autographed

    the sheet, but you did not give me a grade   …. "
     
  6. A man lost an arm when his golf cart rolled over on him on a down slope. He became very depressed because he loved to play golf.


    One day in his despair,  he decided to commit suicide and end it all. He got on an elevator and went to the top of a building to jump off.
      
    He was standing on the ledge looking down and saw this man down on the sidewalk skipping along, whooping and kicking up his heels.
      
    He looked closer and saw that this man didn't have any arms at all. He started thinking, "What am I doing up here feeling sorry for myself? 
     
    I still have one good arm to do things with." He thought, "There goes a man with no arms skipping down the sidewalk so happy, and  going on with  his life."
      
    He hurried down to the sidewalk and caught up with the man with no arms. He told him how glad he was to see him because he lost one of his arms and felt useless and was going to kill himself.
     
    He thanked him for saving his life and said he knew he could make it with one arm if the guy could go on with no arms. The man with no arms began  dancing and whooping and kicking up his heels again.
     
    He asked, "Why are you so happy anyway?"
     
    He said, "I'm NOT happy, My balls itch."
     



     
     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  7. An elderly couple made a deal that
    whoever died first would come back and inform the other if there is sex after
    death. Their biggest fear was that there was no "after life" at all.
     

    After a long life together, Frank was
    the first to die. True to his word, he made the first contact: "Kris, Kris, can
    you hear me?  

     

    "Is that you, Frank?

    "Yes, I've come back like we agreed.

     

    "That's wonderful! What's it like?

     

    "Well, I get up in the morning, I have
    sex. I have breakfast and then it's off to the golf course. I have sex again,
    bathe in the warm sun and then have sex a couple of more times. Then I have
    lunch (and Kris, you'd be proud -- lots of greens). Another romp around the golf
    course, then pretty much have sex the rest of the afternoon. After supper, it's
    back to the golf course again. Then it's more sex until late at night. I catch
    some much needed sleep and then the next day it starts all over again.

     

    "Oh, Frank! Are you in Heaven?

     

    "No -- I'm a rabbit somewhere in
    Arizona."

     
     
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  8. Just now, Mileage Psycho said:

    So why don't you go out and buy a bunch of guns tomorrow and then let us know what your ROI is five years from today?

    Going to Tuscobia tomorrow.

     On average I buy and sell 2-3 guns each year, pistols and/or rifles, sometimes a shotgun or 2, last rifle I sold I paid $575 used and sold it for $1,100 so made a few bucks on it.

     

     

  9. 1 hour ago, Zambroski said:

    Gun maker stocks went through the roof this morning!  I'm purchasing stock in ammo suppliers tomorrow.  Democratic political leaders will be meeting with Islamic leaders and "glad handing" to show there are no hard feelings.  Those liberals...they got this all figured out, they just don't know it!  :lol2:

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    Exactly what I said would happen,  owner of one of the gun stores here told me today his sales have increased almost 100%.

  10. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Go Ice Fishing…

    How do you settle a presidential election when the vote is too close to call?

    With an ice fishing contest, of course!

    After the first round of votes were counted, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were deadlocked. Instead of going through a recount, the two agreed to a week-long ice fishing contest to settle the election. Whoever caught the most fish at the end of the week would be the President.

    The candidates decided a remote frozen lake in northern Wisconsin would be the ideal place. No observers on the fishing grounds, but both candidates would need to have their catches verified and counted each night at 5pm.

    After Day 1, Trump returned with a total of 10 fish, Hillary came back with nothing.

    Day 2 finished, and Trump caught another 20 fish, but Hillary once again came back with nothing!

    That night, Hillary and her cronies got together and accused Trump of being a “low-life, cheatin’ son-of-a-gun.” Instead of fishing on Day 3, they were just going to follow Trump to spy on him and figure out how he was cheating.

    Day 3 finished up and Trump had an incredible day, adding 50 fish to his total!

    That night, Hillary and her democratic buddies got together for the full report on how Donald was cheating. Hillary stood up to give her report and said, “You are not going to believe this, he’s cutting holes in the ice!”

    And that, my friends, tells you all you need to know about the intelligence on the left side of the aisle!



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  11. Psychiatrist Confirms: Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder

    As a clinical and forensic psychiatrist, Lyle Rossiter has treated over 1,500 patients and examined over 2,700 civil and criminal cases. Turning his hand to political psychopathology, the author of The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness, has diagnosed an alarming percentage of the population as suffering from the grotesque form of mental derangement known by some as moonbattery.

    Among Rossiter's observations:

    Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were founded. Like spoiled, angry children, they rebel against the normal responsibilities of adulthood and demand that a parental government meet their needs from cradle to grave.
    A social scientist who understands human nature will not dismiss the vital roles of free choice, voluntary cooperation and moral integrity — as liberals do. A political leader who understands human nature will not ignore individual differences in talent, drive, personal appeal and work ethic, and then try to impose economic and social equality on the population — as liberals do. And a legislator who understands human nature will not create an environment of rules which over-regulates and over-taxes the nation's citizens, corrupts their character and reduces them to wards of the state — as liberals do.
    The roots of liberalism — and its associated madness — can be clearly identified by understanding how children develop from infancy to adulthood and how distorted development produces the irrational beliefs of the liberal mind. When the modern liberal mind whines about imaginary victims, rages against imaginary villains and seeks above all else to run the lives of persons competent to run their own lives, the neurosis of the liberal mind becomes painfully obvious.

    Basically liberalism is a willful failure to mature beyond adolescence that can have catastrophic consequences for society. With luck, the official diagnosis of this disease by a mental health professional will facilitate the search for a cure.

    On tips from Jimbo and Hutchrun.

     

    Posted by Van Helsing 

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