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Bryan Miller exclaims: You can't make this stuff up!.

Bryan, we don't have to make stuff up, but you do.

You'll see that pro-gunners place much of the blame for Westroads Mall and other mass shootings, including the Virginia Tech gun massacre, on so-called 'gun free zones.'

"So called"? That's what the signs say. Signs that are allowed by law. We didn't make that up.

It's extremely difficult to gain a license to carry concealed in the Garden State, so we don't have testosterone-challenged bozos legally packing heat at the mall. Whew!

I know a lot of women who would take exception to your statement. Then again, compared to you, they may be carrying higher levels of testosterone. Whew!

For pro-gunners it's about arming everyone to the teeth.

Liar. You made that up.

I, sadly, have a little more experience with overwhelming firepower than do the pro-gunners seeking to rationalize their petty personal fears and desires by pretending that they're seeking to defend the rest of us. My only brother, FBI Special Agent Mike Miller, was one of three law enforcement officers killed (a fourth was grievously wounded) by a lone gunman wielding a concealed assault pistol at Washington, DC Metropolitan Police Headquarters in November 1994.

Quite possibly the only true thing you've ever written about guns. I'm sorry for your loss. I'm sorry any time we lose good people to bad ones.

But

What's a concealed assault pistol? No such thing, liar. You made that up, too.

So, rather than blaming those who would hope to reduce gun violence by seeking to limit the presence of lethal weapons in public, we should applaud and encourage them. We should also enact a meaningful federal Assault Weapons Ban (unlike the AWB that expired in '04, which gun manufacturers figured out how to get around in no time), similar to New Jersey's state ban, that would actually ban the sale and possession of these outrageous weapons. The secret to societal safety is not more firepower in civilian hands. Quite the opposite.

I'll consider supporting a ban if you can tell me, without equivication, what an "assault weapon" is. You'll also have to provide proof as to the effectiveness of such a ban.

Of course, you'll have to do this without making anything up.

(BTW: I urge readers to check out some of the 'you can't make this up' nuttiness that will undoubtedly appear in the Comments section below and has followed each of my earlier entries. Craaaazy!)

You sure do use the word "crazy" a lot. You have facts presented to you, but you refuse to accept them. You belittle anyone who disagrees with you. Is that not crazy? Pro-gun people come to your site, hoping to shed some light on your stupidity. They stay above the fray, calmly pointing out your many inaccuracies, but it's wasted time.

Me? I'm done with that. You call names, get all over-the-top and I'll do the same, liar. I'm not afraid to sink to your level rhetorically. The one thing I won't do is lie, because I don't have to.

You go ahead and get all Carolyn McCarthy on us, I don't care. You honor no one with your antics. Or your lies.

Common Dreams.org trots out this factually-challenged piece of VPC garbage: SKS Assault Rifles–A Menace to Public Safety, wherein we are told:

these high capacity rifles pose an enhanced threat to law enforcement, in part because of their ability to expel projectiles at velocities that are capable of penetrating the type of soft body armor typically worn by the law enforcement officers.”

1. High capacity? An SKS can't hold more than 10 rounds. 10 rounds, according to the now-defunct "Assault Weapons" Ban, was not considered high capacity.

2. All rifles can penetrate body armor. Always could.

They say that quote is from an ATF report (it very well could be), but no link is provided.

Meanwhile, Essentially Contested (Congested?) America reminds us that Guns Don't Kill, But Assault Rifles Do. They start out by quoting Paul Helmke:

"Having an SKS rifle and high-capacity ammunition clips enabled a troubled young man to kill and injure a large number of people quickly and efficiently.

See #1, above, then add the fact that the SKS doesn't accept "clips". I'm assuming the quote is referring to magazines, of course. The capacity of a true clip is irrelevant, it's the capacity of the rifle that matters. Again, I refer you to #1 above.

The notion that "guns don't kill, people do" while literally correct is contextually absurd ... People need to be involved. But just imagine the degree of lethality of a knife, a revolver, pistol, or even an ordinary hunter's rifle contrasted with an assault rifle. They just don't match.

The idiocy of this statement pegged my bullshit meter so hard the needle bent. Of course they don't match. An "ordinary hunter's rifle" is much more powerful than an SKS. Speaking from ignorance is what they do best, though.

When will we learn?

That's a question I ask myself every time I see garbage like this. When will you learn?

First, thanks to The Gun Shots, a new blog with a great group of folks. They got me thinking of Guns and Hollywood again.

I know calling out a member of the Hollywood "elite" as a hypocrite is like calling water wet. Still, it galls me to no end to hear stuff like this.

I don't believe that any gun should be in the hand of a thinking, feeling, breathing human being.

Of course, the subject of the interview is her new movie, The Brave One, aka "Death Wish" with a female lead.

She uses guns. A lot.

Just once I'd like to see these ivory-tower dwellers put their money where their mouth is. If you want to "save the earth", get rid of the Gulfstream and fly commercial like the rest of us. Better yet, give it up altogether.

If you don't think people should have guns, then stop making millions of dollars off them. Stay true to your convictions, and make movies where the bad guys are beaten by patience and understanding.

Once upon a time I thought Ms. Foster fairly rational and well-grounded individual. Anyone who would put her movie career on hold to finish her education gets high marks in my book.

However, hearing this

Americans are by nature filled with rage-slash-fear.

leads me to believe she's as out of touch as most of the others out that way. That, or else she's filled with rage/fear, in which case she needs help.

I got this from Ahab a little while ago. It's a quote from Ontario Liberal Leader Dalton McGuinty:

“Let’s ban handguns in Ontario,” he said. “Let’s ban handguns across the country. Let’s declare war against handguns.”

Run of the mill gun grabbing PSH you say? Not especially stupid, as quotes go, you say?

It is, once you find out it's a reaction to a stabbing.

It boggles the mind....

Via Sebastian comes another so-called ally in the war on guns speaking out against "assault weapons"*.

Joaquin Jackson of the NRA says "assault weapons" should only be in the hands of the police and military.

I agree, five rounds is plenty for hunting. Needing only one is bullshit. Limiting any rifles capacity is also bullshit. I wonder if the one he's holding in that NRA ad holds more than five?

Sebastian's link has further information on this issue.

* From now on, I'm putting quotation marks around this political construct of a term.

Via San Fransisco District Attorney Kamala Harris, I'd like to present you with the first ever Gun Blogs Stupid Quote of the Day In reference to the silly-as-hell gun laws SF is trying to enact, she says:

"It's focused on making it as inconvenient and as difficult as possible for people to possess guns in a way that people will be harmed"

Mere gun possession = harmed people? Geez Louise (I mean Kamala), where'd you pull that one out of? Never mind, I don't want to know.

Also, I'm the farthest thing from a grammer nerd, but that sentance just doesn't read right.

H/T to Stile and Cam Edwards