Bear Bussjaeger – Page 66 – 2A advocate, writer, firearms policy & law analyst, general observer of pre-apocalyptic American life.

I Can Hardly Wait For The Next USAToday AR Attachment

The Dusterbuster Bayonet, courtesy of super-genius Whoopi Goldberg.

Whoopi Goldberg suggests banning AR-15s, arresting owners: ‘Report them and we’ll put them in jail’
She said that people who don’t understand the need to ban AR-15s, “one gun,” she emphasized, will “never see the need to make sure that people get the [mental] help.”

Speaking of getting mental help, Goldie…

Setmayer said that people could still use handguns, like at the Virginia Tech shooting.

“A handgun does not turn people to dust,” Goldberg responded.

I want some of that ammo.

Guest host Tara Setmayer said that it would not be easy to ban guns in a country that has “more guns than people.”

“It actually is easy,” Goldberg said.

I’m sure Goldberg will volunteer to lead the first few stacks of the door-to-door confiscation squads to demonstrate to dubious cops just how “easy” it is.

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Missing The Target

Calling for new laws on gun owners is like a cancer researcher ignoring smoking or asbestos correlations to call for a ban on parakeet ownership.
— Moi, 2018

I was looking up something else I wrote some years back. But that turned up, and it’s as true today as four years ago.

Of course, whether they’re missing the target presupposes that their actual intent to to stop murderers, rather than honest citizens.

TZP Column: Jackson-Lee and Automatic Weapons

JACKSON-LEE HAS A LITTLE CORRELATION ISSUE
Texas Congresscritter Sheila Jackson-Lee is generally good for entertaining stupidity, and this is no exception.

Jackson Lee: There Was ‘Seismic Increase of Carnage Across America Using Automatic Weapons’ after Assault Weapons Ban Expired
Jackson Lee said, “I have committed, over the years, having introduced bills dealing with the ban on assault weapons post-2004, as you well know, Ayman, that’s when it ended. And we saw the seismic increase of carnage across America using automatic weapons. And in the instance of Buffalo and the instance of Uvalde, having gone there on Sunday, meeting with and just listening to the sheer desperation of families and children. That was an AR-15 as well.”

I’m sure even the most casual TZP reader caught the main problem, but let me take this a point at a time.

I’ll start with that skyrocketing use of “automatic weapons, known legally as machineguns. Happily for us, TZP tracks machinegun use, so the data I want is readily available.

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Why Harden Schools?

Karine Jean-Pierre Says Joe Biden Not Interested in “Hardening Schools” Because the Problem is with Guns
“The problem is with guns,” Karine Jean-Pierre said tp White House reporters on Tuesday.

“There’s been conversation about hardening schools, that is not something that [Joe Biden] believes in,” Jean-Pierre said.

What do they care; they’ve harden the Capitol and the White House.

Why harden 100,000 schools now, when they can just go after 434 million guns?

Sure, the problem of confiscating guns is three orders of magnitude greater — more expensive — than schools, but it isn’t their money.

Time To Ban Tylenol

Suicide by Poisoning Attempts Among Children Rise Sharply
There were 276 deaths among the self-poisoning attempts and 14,916 cases of “major effects,” which may include long-lasting symptoms.

The two most common substances used in the suspected pediatric attempted suicide cases were the over-the-counter pain killers ibuprofen and acetaminophen, according to the study.

Do it for the children. If it saves just one life…

Man, I wouldn’t have thought of acetaminophen as a method of suicide. For a reasonably sure, but horribly drawn out and painful death, you’d need to eat a whole bottle.

At least. Because the long term liver damage if you survie the overdose is going to make you miserable for whatever remains of your life.

One Known Threat, Or Millions Of Innocent Targets?

On May 24, 2022, a deranged sack of shit, seemingly well-known in his town for being a deranged sack of shit…

“He liked hurting animals,” Trevino said. “I’m told he killed the cats and carried around the bag of bodies for s–ts and giggles.”

…shot and wounded his own grandmother, at two children, apparently two or three police officers, and killed nineteen elementary schoolchildren, and two more adults.

On May 24, 2022, 100+ million Americans with around 434 million firearms, did not murder nineteen children.

On May 24, 2022, millions of Americans, with around 20 million AR-pattern firearms, did not murder nineteen children.

Guess which group — known psycho, or innocent Americans — Democrats and chosen to target and punish.

One lone nutjob murdered children with an AR-pattern rifle.

Millions of Americans with tens of millions of AR-pattern rifles did not.

Clearly, the fault lies in the AR-pattern rifle.

One crazed killer; previously known to his community.

Millions of innocents.

Obviously, at a ratio of 19:1, it will be easier and cheaper to attack the innocent and take their guns, than to locate the few known crazies already reported to the FBI.

Go after one crazed the feds already known about, or tens of millions of innocent gun owners who have done nothing?

If I had the money, I’d be investing in body bag companies. Because tehre’s no way this turns out well.

Apparently This Was The First Time These Researchers Ever Met Heterosexual Men

I don’t see a funding citation, but I’m guessing this was your tax dollars at work. Or play. Or… whatever.

Heterosexual Men Act Differently Around Women With Visibly Erect Nipples, Study Indicates
As before, the heterosexual men were asked to rate pictures of women with and without nipple erections, as well as being asked a range of questions designed to test their change in attitudes, such as whether they would lend her $100, help her if her car was broken down, or provide tutoring sessions. The male group, it transpired, was much more likely to help the women with erect nipples, particularly when that help would require them to be in close proximity to the woman with erect nipples.

I don’t know about researcher Rebecca Burch, but if David Widman is not exclusively gay, I’ll be surprised.

Us straight, adult men already knew this. Part of growing up is learning to think with our top heads, and not that easily distracted lower one.

Everything Old Is New Again

I ran across this alleged chemistry test answer this morning.

“First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let’s look at the different religions that exist in the world today.
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It’s baaaack.

It’s amusing. It seems like I first ran across that better than 20 years ago. But in a quick search this morning, the earliest iteration that popped up was merely a bit over 17 years old.

It’s variously attributed to a generic university student, University of Washington, or University of Arizona. Probably others; those were the ones I noticed.

Usually it’s just posted as a joke. But I found a few that took it absolutely seriously…

…as both proof of the nonexistence of Hell, and thus proof of the existence of God; and as proof of the nonexistence of Hell and therefore the nonexistence of God.

One of the seemingly serious ones — I think a pro-God post — started on a rant about the noncorporeal state of souls and whether Boyle’s Law applies. I got out of there before reading further. Either someone is a great troll, or he needs a life.

Some of the more recent iterations imply that this is from a recent college test. That’s fairly easy to disprove.

The answer isn’t prefaced with a rant about the concept of an immortal soul is an artifact of white male patriarchy.

It doesn’t begin with a 12-page exposition on determining the gender-identity of disembodied souls.

Compressed gas/souls would be “oppressurized,” while gases/souls of expanding volume would be “liberated.”

And did you notice that student assumed Theresa’s gender?

Yeah, this is silly. But I have no doubt my newsfeeds will shortly be chock full of infuriating BS, so I wanted to start my day on a lighter note. While I can.

Be glad I’m not posting cat videos. Yet.

Dim Rep Endorses High Capacity Magazines

He’s just too stupid to realize it.

Dem Rep. Allred: ‘How We’ve Approached Car Safety’ Is ‘Right Model’ for Guns
During an interview on MSNBC on Tuesday, Rep. Colin Allred (D-TX) stated that the appropriate model to look at with gun regulations is “how we’ve approached car safety over the years, to progressively find ways to make cars more safe on the road, whether that’s seat belts or speed limits, or moving forward with more safe technology in the vehicles themselves.” And that “Nobody’s talking about taking away your cars. They are saying though, that you can’t drive an F1 around, you can’t go certain speeds, you can’t do certain things because it’s dangerous.”

Sure treat guns like cars.

High capacity magazines go for hundreds of rounds per fill-up.

No more background checks to buy.

No more arbitrary age limits to buy or possess.

No more licenses unless you take your gun on a public roadway. (Of course, half the states no lonfer require carry licenses anyway, so we’re halfway there.)

Gun Mufflers! Finally.

Fully automatic transmiss… actions no longer NFA restricted.

Hmm… there goes the undetectable firearms act, seeing as feddie fleet mileage requirements encourage stripping out as much metal as possible.

Hey! Kit cars guns are back.

And 4473s are out.

Sure, there’s still downsides, like registration. But maybe we can work that out in negotiations, seeing as Allred has already caved on damned near everything else.

Why not email Allred and thank him… for being a complete idiot.

That Didn’t Work. Do It Some More.

Ah, Canada…

Trudeau moves to implement ‘national freeze’ on handgun sales across Canada
“Two years ago, our government banned 1,500 models of assault-style weapons… We also expanded background checks to keep firearms out of the wrong hands,” said Trudeau. “… Now, as we see gun violence continue to rise, it is our duty to keep taking action.”

Trudeau announced that he would put forward legislation that would implement a national freeze on handgun ownership. “What this means is that it will no longer be possible to buy, sell, transfer, or import handguns anywhere in Canada,” he said to applause.

Let me know how that works out for you. I’m sure it will magically be better this time.