Contemplations on the Arrogance of Gun Control Elitists

ON GUN CONTROL AND THE  CONSTITUTION:          There is not much that can be said about the anti-gun movement that has not already been said. As a citizen who is as terrified as any who do not understand how we have lost so much to this tyranny all I can do is write… it is somewhat therapeutic. Hopefully others will speak to any and all whose attention they attract to emphasize, add to, or correct these rather simplistic thoughts.      There is probably not anything that has been said that can obviate the ignorance of this congregation of America hating, Constitution loathing, socialist, frightened, mentally defective individuals who do not have the ability to comprehend the harm they are doing to all Americans, and even to themselves.      The anti-gun crowd is doing more damage to the country than all the perverted mass murderers perpetrated on the population as far back in our history as has been recorded. The C minus government that is leading the D minus apparent majority of the population is "feeding the monkey" (as in "watch the monkey mess in his cage").      The Second Amendment was written for all time. The right to keep and bear arms is for “individual” protection and for individuals to participate in a “well regulated militia” if and when needed. The militia is not specified as a government entity. It is rather a militia of like minded individuals who would protect themselves from tyranny by the government as well as any other threat by means of arms if necessary. Written any other way, the Second would be meaningless to the individual defense.       The Declaration of Independence inspired the Articles of Confederation in respect to the right to bear arms as is evident in the first paragraph: The Lexington Minuteman It is well to remember that in the colonies, and then in the several States, the "militia" was composed, normally, of all men between and including the ages of 16 to 60, who were not indentured, and who were free of court bond or criminal judgement or conviction. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~    “When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~        As a last resort, of course, the stick is necessary as it was especially in the American War for Independence as well as many subsequent foriegn wars.        Then, in the first sentence of the Preamble to the Constitution, the phrase “We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union…” means not only to perfect the imperfections and tyranny of British rule but more to perfect the ambiguities, defects, and disconnects in the Articles of Confederation. The Bill of Rights clearly and simply establishes law under God in the order by which it should be honored.        The Constitution of the United States First guarantees specific freedoms of individuals from government control. The First Amendment guarantees the freedom of speech, press, association, religion, and petition of the government for a redress of grievances etc .      The Second Amendment secondly guarantees individual rights to defend against violations of the First Amendment by government as in “petition the government for a redress of grievances” by arms as a last resort if it should, God forbid, escalate to that. We find ourselves today in a position where we have a government trying to circumvent the First Amendment by removing our last resort. They would disarm us by distorting the meaning and intent of the Second Amendment.        If and when that should happen, any people who would attempt to preserve their rights to bear arms (and all individuals of the United States for that matter) will be subjected to “unreasonable” search and seizure in violation of the Fourth Amendment.       We have already seen abuse of the commerce clause of the Seventeenth Amendment, and the taxing authority of the Sixteenth Amendment to falsely justify the ObamaCare Catastrophe. Both abuses would be constitutionally illegal if not abrogated by a renegade progressive Supreme Court.        By Executive orders, incompetent Federal judges, and our socialist congressional representatives we are losing our freedom and rights. Our Constitution is being deconstructed one amendment at a time.      The last bulwark may be the Tenth Amendment or maybe not. If the States cannot or will not take initiatives to turn this ship around the only course of action may be secessions by the several states.        Getting down to the most recent issue, gun control, we have a very serious situation that needs immediate and forceful action by pro gun supporters. Call, write, talk, yell, scream, or any other peaceful method available to reach those politicians who have it in their power to stop the Feinstein freight train and other anti-gun initiatives that degrade the Second Amendment.   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~        This writer has many guns. Some are old surplus collectables, some are for target shooting, some are for hunting, and some are for simply admiring. They are all potentially for personal protection. Among the guns are pistols… revolvers and semiautomatic ones.       Some are automatic shotguns, so-called. The shotguns are actually semiautomatic ones, holding 5 shells at a time. Some are bolt action rifles that will load only one round at a time.  Once again, one pull of the trigger, one shot.     Some are of the “military looking” type that accept magazines up to 30 rounds. They can hold larger magazines but that is unusual for most gun owners. These last rifles are not different from pistols which have a magazine with several rounds in that it takes, you guessed it,  one pull of the trigger for one shot to fire.      These semiautomatic guns were not invented or sold to the public to harm anyone but to make it easier and more convenient to shoot more rounds without having to go through the motion of changing out a magazine. Technology made it possible and technology cannot be denied.     The writer has one rifle (a Ruger Mini-14 .223 cal) that, at the time of the last weapons ban, would accommodate a 30 round magazine which could be displayed in the rear window of a pickup truck in its ranch style stock configuration; however, when equipped with its optional folding type stock it was prohibited. There was absolutely no difference in the function of the rifle, it just looked different.       These people trying to take guns away from the citizenry are so uninformed as to think an AR-15 is more dangerous than any other type rifle because “It’s scary looking”, it looks kinda like what they see in the war movies. The AR-15, AK-47, HK, FN, and all the other “military looking” rifles are great for personal defense but not as suited for military purposes because they are not capable of selective fire. They are not “machine guns” or “heavy weapons” (whatever heavy weapons are, a term made up by a much uninformed Bill O’Reilly).        The guns that are legal today have all the restrictions necessary and more than necessary for the law abiding population. More laws are absurd and will not stop killing as we have seen.  A scenario that comes to mind is that Adam Lanza could simply have made three or four pipe bombs, walked down the hall of the school and tossed them into three or four classrooms and be gone before anyone could have seen him. Those could have been hidden in a jacket, much less visible than the guns he used. They possibly could have quadrupled the deaths and casualties as were rendered with his guns. Not having guns would not have prevented this sicko from killing children!       If certain people are, or if a person is,  so deranged, or predisposed, to murder there are many more ways to kill and harm than with guns. The environments these killers are exposed to (pre-adolescent behaviour-modification drugs for hyperactivity, for instance) are the weapons, not the guns. The sick minded will always be with us. The answer to the problem is not so easy, however awareness and education are a better defense than more stupid laws.   There are presently over 19,000 specific laws controlling privately held firearms and ammunition on the books.  The killers are insane but so are the laws, and groups pushing them, that attempt to attach blame for the killings to these inanimate tools.         The Constitution is a document inspired by God. Not unlike Jesus Christ, it is being crucified.        The people of the United States must do everything in their power, individually and collectively, to protect this fundamental legal document from which all our rights and liberty are documented. It does not now or ever need to be “fundamentally changed”.      The tools that would protect this document are provided for within it; however, it is up to the beneficiaries of the Constitution to know what is in it and what it means. It was intentionally made simple for all to understand. The laws that are added to it only confuse, contradict, and compound the issues and multiply the problems.     We don't have to pass the this 6 page document (not 2,200 plus) to know what is in it. It has already been passed! El Zorro (who also operates under the alias of James Robert Hathorn, Texan - with Cherokee overtones,  self-reliant, professional, self-employed, semi-retired, veteran of Viet Nam War [two tours].  Typical stereotypical rube who clings to his guns, religious and philospophical notions, who can break down and fix a computer and put it back together...and is more well-read and studied on issues of history, culture, firearm mechanics - physics - and- law, Constitutional issues, and precedents than any of the babblers in the Obsolete Press Choir.  He is a collegiate, and  Southern gentleman and a patriot. He is El Gringo Viejo's go-to on all the above matters, plus many others...and is also a life friend since early days at Mirabeau Bonapart Lamar Junior High School in McAllen, Texas late in the decade known as The Fifties)

Tina Brown? Tina Brown? Ed Shultz?? Gentle Breezes Rest Home??



    This is truly amazing.  Ed Shultz says that Billy Jeff Blythe was never tried in the United States Senate on charges brought by the House of Representatives.     Sorry, Ed, but he was.  And there were four charges, two of which managed to gain a majority of senators to vote for conviction.  Remember we had Arlan Specter telling us that he was going to vote "not proven" like what is allowed in Scotland?    Ed also informed his listening and viewing audience that Chicago does not have "gun laws".  

Ed Shultz after stating that Chicago doesn't

 have"gun lawa' like New York.

Christina is just as good.  She wraps herself in Hillary's black trousers and jumps off the cliff, with this Ode to the First and Only True Wonder of the World.

"The idea of losing Hillary has seemed especially unbearable at this political moment. It's as if she has become, literally, the ship of state," she wrote. "What a disgrace that John Bolton and his goaty Republican ilk accused Her Magnificence of inventing a concussion to get out of testifying at the Benghazi hearings. Bolton is not fit to wipe her floor with his mustachio."

Christina Hambley Brown
Journalist, Magazine editor, columnist,
talk-show hostess, author,
deranged person



"Her Magnificence"?  Sorry, Christina.  John Bolton did not accuse "Her Magnificence" of inventing a concussion to get out of testifying at the Benghazi hearings.   He did point out that such inventions are commonly used in order to avoid difficult "diplomatic" situations.   It might be pointed out that (Sir Edmund)Her Magnificence Hillary, Perpetual Queen of the Universe has faked conditions, illness, and all manner of things....including perhaps "pitcher's elbow" (it's hard to grasp ashtrays and lamps and throw without doing some kind of damage to the shoulder and/or elbow).    After Billy Jeff came clean about the Monica thing...(he was painted into a corner of his own construction),  Her Magnificence went on a tax-payer paid (3,500,000 dollars) camel-ride in the Sahara in order to recover from a "back ache" and to repair her lonesome heart, along with her daughter (the one who jogs at The Battery, below the Twin Towers, on days that George Bush schedules dual passenger jet air strikes on those towers).

     A camel ride?   In Morocco?   You can pick up a good camel ride or elephant ride at the San Antonio Zoo...and they have been trained in chiropractics, you know....for alignments.  Charter Lear jet....round trip....couple of nights at the St. Anthony Hotel ...  see the Alamo, get back in time to see Billy Jeff feeling up Kathleen Willy....and then she could go over her files and take out Kathleen Willy's personnel records and release them to the press...have Bernie and Maggie remind the press what happened to Vince Foster....so as to make sure no one knows who "really" released the private, inviolate information.     The whole thing could have cost the taxpayers maybe...30,000 dollars...and Her Magnificence (Sir Edmund)Hillary would have been able to be back in charge of the White House, throwing ashtrays at Billy Jeff, and shrieking at lower level lackeys that she'll fire any and everyone who peeks around the door to look at her from behind when she passes by in the hall.   She's really an elegant, humble, kind person.  It's such a burden to be magnificent.   It's such a burden to have people write brain-dead pontifications like "It Takes a Village" for you to put you name on...you know....just like you really wrote it....all by yourself.....and everything.

    Truly magnificent.   And, just think of all the things she has done for women.   And children.  Just think of them all.    It makes a person wonder about how cruel the world is, when Hillary goes out on a stage...to "heal" from the Twin Towers disaster....and she's in New York, and the entire audience save for a very few Park Avenue billionaire women...boo her off the stage, while George Bush...who everybody knows is stupid and evil...receives a standing ovation when he throws out the first ball at the World Series.  Thank Beelzebub for low intelligence voters and low information voters,

Her magnificence...spare me.

El Gringo Viejo

A telling tale about Cuba.....

Cuban doctor says: Medical professionals to have same travel rights as 'any other citizen'

Published January 07, 2013

Associated Press

HAVANA – A Cuban doctor says the Caribbean nation is eliminating longstanding restrictions on health care professionals' overseas travel as part of a broader migration reform.   The doctor says hospital directors met Saturday with Health Minister Roberto Morales and were told of the new policy, effective Jan. 14.   For many years Cuban physicians have been limited in their ability to travel or had to undergo cumbersome bureaucratic procedures.  But now they are supposed to be treated "like any other citizen" when it comes to travelling abroad.
    The doctor was not authorised to talk to foreign journalists and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Monday.

 

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Two Reasons for this strangle hold on doctors and surgery nurses in Cuba for the past 200,000 years...or however long it has been.

   (1)  The medical people would almost always defect.  When the Castros sent a large contingent of Cuban medical staffers to Venezuela to help in some natural disaster or another during Chavez's first term, they arrived with 60 doctors and nurses, and 200 "minders" and "assistants" all of whom were secret police thugs.  The secret police thugs held all the passports for the medical people, but more importantly they had the pre-verified, by personal visit, addresses for each medical person's relatives to the 2nd level of relation.

    (2)   At times it would become apparent that a Cuban doctor was not the brave new worldsman and super human.   Cuban doctors were on a level of a Mexican registered nurse, and Cuban RNs were on a level of a Mexican LVN.   There were exceptions, and probably still are.   But while Mexico teems with double AA minor league and up to major league level surgeons and doctors and specialised nurses, frequently at American level, and frequently with American and European training and seminars....when Hugo Chavez went to Cuba for his cancer treatments and surgery, Cuba brought in Spanish doctors.   Cuban doctors had to be "minded" so as not to say..."I never studied that part..." or  "I have never seen this  procedure done this way", or "We do not have these (machines)(devices)(medicines) in La Habana".
 
    For many years, Fidel went to some hospital in New York City for treatment of his Parkinson's disorder.  Once again, because the myth of "free, world-class medical services brought to the People by the Revolucion" is one of those few myths in the history of mankind that has absolutely no basis in truth.

     And, truth be known, Hugo Chavez is in Cuba because he feared going under the knife in Caracas,  assuming that he would be "gassed" or "offed" somehow either by the doctors or by his loyal friends and supporters.  He has been paranoid....or even quadranoid...for several years, which is fairly typical of tyrants.  They are already casting lots for his raiment even as his body cools down to room temperature.   What is left of his soul will have to adjust to different climatic realities soon enough.

The Republic of Cuba when it was a corrupt, terrible, abusive place with 3,000 political prisoners, was a leading economic force in the Americas.  During the period from 1930 through 1960, it was the fourth leading economy in the Americas in terms of per capita income.  It was 3rd in terms of overall literacy.  It was 5th in terms of gross national product...coming in just behind the much larger countries of Brazil and Argentina.
    Now, it has 30,000 political prisoners, and the 2nd lowest per capita income and 3rd lowest GNP (counting Belize as an independent nation - population 378,000).  Thank goodness for Haiti, right Fidel/Raul?
    Hidalgo County of Texas...a hell-hole of welfare abuse...population 800,000, of whom 50% are on total welfare....has a GNP equivalent to Cuba's at this time.  Difference?  Cuba has 14 times as many people as Hidalgo County.

We pray for the early liberation of Cuba from the present government and political structure, and we pray for the early liberation of the Cuban Roman Catholic Church from the wolves in sheeps' clothing, satanic liberation theology advocates who have been "minded" and "guided" into the pulpits in that beautiful, long-suffering island. The Protestant "Churches" are not any better, actually.
El Gringo Viejo

To Begin With....

 

Memorandum to Gretchen of Fox and Friends:

    Gretchen, when you "wonder why" the Congress just won't get together and do the compromising that needs to be done...I have to pull the last three hairs in my head out again.   Gretchen...and all you nice, kinder, gentler, and "reasonable" people out in the Hinterland.....ONE CANNOT COMPROMISE WITH MARXISTS.    They are committed to the establishment of a one-party, socialist, rigid society with control being reserved by a group of elitist marxists ideologues who intend to prescribe and control every aspect of the lives of the people "under" them.  They are adamant about being empowered to control what you think, what you eat, what you learn,  what you say, where you go, when you go , how you go, what you drink, how many babies you have, what names your babies can have, what kind of home defence and safety systems you will have, what you will pay them to control you, what the limits of your attitudes can be, what and how you worship or philosophise, what you wear, what games you will be allowed to play, how long you can play those games, what holidays you will be allowed to celebrate, what you will do when you are ill, what money you can earn and how much, and on and on and on.   They are smarter than us, and they know more than we do, and they understand things more profoundly than we do.  We are proles at best, but normally just nothing more than humanoid amoebas, as far as they are concerned.

     Gretchen, why is Barack Hussein Obama so dug-in on this matter about raising taxes on the "rich"?   It is demonstrable that the amount of money raised, even if does come in, will not address more than a few days of operation of the central government (although even that is doubtful, because the "rich" people will shift and adapt so as to not expose themselves to the new taxes).   The adamance concerning the matter of raising taxes on the "rich" is like Obama said during the campaign when his true inner communist came out...blurted off teleprompter...."GET YOUR REVENGE...BY VOTING!!!" he shouted and snarled at his low-intelligence and low-information dolts.  

    Obama, Michelle, Valerie Jerrod...Janet Napolitano...Eric Holder...DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA...EXCEPT TO WORK TOWARDS ITS DESTRUCTION.   They hate and dispise the USA and you and your parents.   Look what happened to your father's automobile dealership!!!   Look what is happening to the self-sufficient.  Compare that to Obama's Auntie Zietuni Obama and Uncle Omar Onyango Obama...two illegal aliens living  in Massachusetts, totally on the public dime...welfare, housing, stamps, medicaid, etc....and Uncle Omar being a multiple DWI...both with high-powered law firms representing their "immigration issues'' and Uncle Omar's DWI issues (among other criminal problems)....Think, Gretchen and Greta, please think. 

SO, to Gretchen, and Greta, and all the Gretchens and Gretas, STOP SAYING THINGS LIKE,"Why don't they get together and compromise?   Everybody is patriotic in their own way.  We need to come together like we always have."   STOP AND THINK!!! Please!   Think of Miss Flukie, who goes to Georgetown University...a completely Jesuit subverted liberation theology satanic factory...and she demands that you and your daughters and my wife and I and our daughter and our granddaugthers pay for her birth control pills.

 

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AND NOW...WHY FEMA MUST BE DESTROYED ALONG WITH MOST OF THE REST OF THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT CONSTRUCT 

 

The posting below appears in the blog of "The Unrepentant Texan"...a veteran.   Following his post on his own blog, El Gringo Viejo responded with his concurrence.

This is what Galveston, Texas looked like after its hurricane of 1900.
  All of Galveston.  99.9%....gone. A minimum of 6,000...up to 12,000 dead.

I have been following the Hurricane Sandy Relief and the Fiscal Cliff negotiations with morbid curiosity (amusement?) lately. I find it depressing that our once-great nation has fallen so low into the depths of socialism.

I saw Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey lambasting the House of Representatives for not voting on a measure to pass a $60 Billion, pork-laden, "relief package" for the victims of Hurricane Sandy.

$60 BILLION.

On September 8th, 1900, a massive hurricane crashed into Galveston, TX. It claimed the lives of between 8,000-12,000 people (reports differ, but most agree on this range). It was the deadliest natural disaster in United States history.

This was before FEMA. This was before we were $16.4 Trillion in debt.

How did Galveston rebuild? The same way that Americans used to recover from tragedy: through tenacity and hard work. They picked themselves up from their bootstraps and rebuilt their city, erecting a seawall that, at the time, was a marvel of engineering.

During World War II, the beautiful city of Dresden, Germany was firebombed as part of an Allied Campaign to break the back of the Nazi Regime. One of the most notable casualties was the Frauenkirche, a landmark Lutheran Church in Dresden reduced to rubble. When the bombers were done, the citizens of Dresden began to collect bricks. Brick by brick, they rebuilt the church. Men, women, and children ventured out of shelter, dusted themselves off, buried their dead... and began collecting bricks.

Now, in New York and New Jersey, the epicentres of Blue State America, the victims don't venture out. They don't gather bricks. They demand that their government come in and fix it. Make it all better. Build them a new house. Pay for repairs.

See... when you vote for promises, sometimes you get disappointed when those promises don't materialise. When you become dependent on government for more and more in your daily life, you don't go collect bricks when tragedy hits. You want someone to collect bricks for you.

Look, I don't want you to get the wrong idea. I feel compassion for the victims of Hurricane Sandy. I do. I mourn the family members they lost, I am saddened by the damage that was done, the dreams and investments that were shattered. I am angered that two months later, some places still have no electricity or water. I am further angered that after the Galveston disaster more than eleven decades earlier, water was restored just four days later. But what I reserve my deepest compassion for, what I mourn more than anything else, is the death of the American Spirit. I mourn the demise of the can-do attitude, the "I can do this" work ethic. I will pray for those families.

Elections have consequences. Can somebody help me pick up the bricks? We need to rebuild the Old America.

Posted by The Unrepentant Texan at 11:09 AM

 

2 comments:

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   edmun49January 6, 2013 7:07 AM
   Great post.
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   El Gringo ViejoJanuary 7, 2013 8:05 AM
   My father was in the 1st Cavalry Division, 12th Regiment, Headquarters Squadron....1930 through 1933...stationed at Fort Brown, in Brownsville, Texas. That year there were four tropical involvements, including one horrific storm. In the aftermath, the Rio Grande ran 100 miles wide at the mouth, and the disturbance and disorder was total. The Mexican Cavalry and the American Cavalry horses...the ones who had survived...had mixed up on various "islands". Both armies went about recollecting the horses and mules. Many bore the same markings because of shared purveyours. They separated them by using the different bugle calls. By that manner each Army recovered about 98% of their mounts.
   
   
   Also...like Galvez Town....there was no FEMA...no posturing politicians...just 7,000 - 12,000 dead people and total destruction. It is hard for people to realise that Galveston had the first or second largest Roman Catholic, Episcopal, Lutheran, and Methodist Churches in Texas at the time. Over 90 percent of the city was totally gone. There were 30 X 40 inch members, 30 to 60 feet long found 20 miles from Galveston. Locomotives were carried off and found a year later. But, by the third day Negroes, Mexicans, Anglos, foreign sailors, prostitutes, doctors, teachers, labourers, etc. were out burying the dead, caring for the injured, cleaning up and separating chaff from leavings that could be used in the reconstruction. Bartenders and preachers, garbage men and city councilmen, all working side by side. Galveston was a rough town...still has a rough edge to it....but, by God, the Samaritan Rule was followed and we didn't ask then or in Brownsville, for some abominable Messianic Maniac to come and pronounce that things could start back to normal and that he would make sure every body got everything they needed. We have become a wanton race of people....waiting for Father O'bamaham to "give" us back our normalcy. I spit on the shoes of Christie and Cuomo. I lament the people lining up to become contestants in the "New Queen for a Day" program. I expected it fromNew Orleans...but the sociological cancer spreads even among those who before were productive and self-reliant.   We must redouble our efforts to eliminate this curse of dependency and desire for a Great Plantation Owner to come and "give" us our needs.   Ninety nine weeks of unemployment compensation...Great Yahweh intervene!   Just three days after the storm, Galveston had the water on.   Just three days after the Brownsville hurricane of 1933, two armies had separated almost 12,000 horses and mule to each others appropriate side, while simultaneously restoring order and assisting the in the restoration of the physical plant.   That's the way we used to do things.  What has happened besides the creep of government socialist nannyism?

Guns, Guns, Guns, and Idiocy (with addenda added, 21:45 6 June 2013)

    When El Gringo Viejo was in high school, it is his best estimate that 25 to 30 percent of all the autos parked in the high school's parking lot had firearms in the glove compartment or the trunk.  This was especially true during the various hunting seasons.

 

     In many areas, and especially in Central Texas, East Texas, The Panhandle, and actually almost all of the rural and suburban parts of Texas it was common...nay, normal...to see every other pickup truck equipped with a "head banger"...a term used for an in-cab rifle rack.

Folks would put their favourite ready-to-use rifle in one bracket and perhaps a nice .410 /.22 magnum over/under shotgun/rifle in the other bracket.

 

     In those years, carrying a pistol around in the auto was not permitted.  Carrying a pistol around on a person's person was not permitted, concealed or exposed.  But a person could lug a double-barrel 12 gauge shotgun into a skating rink full of pre-teens, or into a bowling alley, and there would scant attention paid to the event.

 

     That rather much flies in the face of the Roy Rogers and Hollywood image of Texas;  no pistols, no fast-draw events on main street during a dispute at the Tom Green County Fair with hearses lined up at Boot Hill every afternoon waiting to disgorge perforated cowboys by the score.   But, Texas law was a funny thing.   District Attorneys were wont to bring charges before a grand jury...and even more so a court-seated jury...that would result in no conviction.  Juries would predictably say among themselves, "A feller needs to be able to defend himself if he's in a strange stretch of country.  He doesn't know the Sheriff or the cops, so he might need to take matters into his own hands."

      And so, it became the normally accepted practise that a "Bona fide traveller" could carry a pistol in his auto (mount).   To be such a person, one had to be clear of criminal record, travelling across county lines, intending to stay overnight away from his homestead or normal place of abode.  A suitcase with clean underwear and a toothbrush and a razor, with attendant shaving mug and brush and toothpaste would help.

 

     Of course, no one locked up.  Most vehicles...even most houses...were left unlocked overnight.   And we had no killings, shootings, or even brandishing with the firearms during all my days in public schools, in McAllen, Texas.   Not much, if any, all over Texas, as I recall.   There were three major differences between then and now.

 

 (1)    99.8% of all of the people had a CATECHISM.   There were social complexes involving the Masons, the Protestants, the Jews, the Catholics, the agnostics, the gnostics and almost everyone that recognised and understood morality, ethics, and conscience.

(2)   Every fourth male from the 2nd grade on, WAS NOT on behaviour modification drugs to "cure and control"  ADDBEGGE and BBED and RNUDDW and ZZZSA)RRR - type III, and  Quakflapper's Syndrome.

 

 (3)   Then, there were almost no multigenerational participants in public assistance.   No gangs, no real "underworld", save for mafia sub-groups in the biggest cities...Houston, Dallas, San Antonio.   There was no abundance of fatherless, or no adult male in house,

situations.

 

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Charles Whitman -  said to have been an Eagle Scout, although
the rumours in Austin, Texas at the time was that his father had
"bullied" the scout-master of the troop into giving Whitman passing
marks in his qualifications.   Whitman was also a Marine, and
a highly trained sniper.   He was not a very good student at the
University of Texas.

 

     It all stopped one day, on the 1st of August,1966.   With Charles Whitman.  The University of Texas Tower shooter.   He had been medicated for several years for "adolescent hyperactivity".  Then one day he stabbed and shot his mother in her sleep, then went home and did the same to his wife, and then went to the UT Tower, killed 13 more, and wounded 30.   One shot was almost 3/4ths of a mile.   He also had a walnut sized tumour on the right side, rear part of his brain.  Sears and Roebuck solved all the problems after that shooting by stopping the sale of pistols.   No pistols were used by Charles Whitman in the Tower shootings.   Makes sense in Estrogenese, perhaps.

    Then the central government said that we couldn't buy rifles by mail-order any more.  That also solved all the problems, forever, again.  That law was first enacted in 1962 after the Kennedy assassination, then "strenthened'' in 1967.   The ATF was expanded both in bureaucratic size and in the scope its duties.   That also stopped all crime, forever.....again.   Especially gun crime.

 

      As days and times came and went, there was a steady, almost geometric, increase in crimes such of ethnic gang shootings, drive-by shootings, drug-trade and territory shootings, and the spontaneous mass shootings without specific intended victims or motive.  In Texas we had, stunningly, the Temple, Texas Luby's Cafeteria shooting.   Of course, we cannot count the Mr. Carmel murders of fifty or more low-class, low-intelligence religious kooks because that was official business, and its okay for the ATF and FBI to kill people when they think it is necessary.

 

     More gun-crime later, and much demagoguery by the Clinton administration.."cop-killer bullets",  "semi-automatics", "assault weapons"...all became part of the lexicon.   Women trudging down, acting as if their losses were more important than anyone elses losses, demanding the end of gun ownership, gun shows, guns, and gun retailers, and anything that goes "bang" or "boom".

      It is an approved method of eliminating un-preferred associates, friends, wives, enemies, unknown people, etc. by the employment of bludgeoning devices such as skillets, baseball bats, hammers, mountain climbing picks, front or rear end of an automobile, or samurai sable.    Various poisons remain legally employable for the purpose, as well as manoeuvres such as cutting brake lines, pushing off cliffs, out of 6th floor windows, or throwing the electric space heater into the bathtub while intended victim is bathing.    For a complete list of approved methods and procedures, please write ericholder@wecontrolyourlife.gov .

 

     The estrogenophiles are particularly disturbed with "semi-automatic" guns.   They apparently do not know what a semi-automatic firearm is, but they are certain that being semi-automatic makes them worse than a hammer.   They are also deathly afraid of what the Obsolete Media has branded as "assault weapons" .
        Once again; REALITY TO PLANET EARTH,  semi-automatic means one pull of the trigger - one shot....and ALL WEAPONS ARE ASSAULT WEAPONS.   A J.C. Higgins 9-shot, .22 revolver, w/ 9 inch barrel target pistol....IS AN ASSAULT WEAPON!!!!   An assault weapon is a weapon that is used in an assault.   And, of course, any bullet that kills or wounds a cop is a "Cop-killer Bullet".   Sheeeesh!

 

Bad gun. bad, bad, bad.  Meany gun.

      Fienstein and the Hillaryistas....long noted for straight-thinking and honesty....also decided that it was worse to be shot at and/or hit by a bullet fired from a "mean-looking" gun than a "nice, kinder, and gentler looking gun.  That is a gun that looks really "masculine" and "mechanical" and "militaristic" and "meany-poo".  This is because bullets fired by "mean-looking" guns are a lot meaner, and insensitive to the interests of women's issues, homosexuals, Native American Indian kleptomaniacs, Japanese-American hot-air balloon operators, and middle-sized city bus drivers, and manicurists who have heterochromatic eyes.


     The problem is that criminals like the ones in Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, name the country...will find weapons that shoot and stab.  In Norway, very recently, a Nordoe killed about 60 Muslims because they offended him for having been born.  Almost all were young people with long lives awaiting them.  Norway has draconian gun laws.   Following Hillarythink...all those children are still alive.   No one in Norway can have or hold a gun unless he is escorted by 300 pre-grief counsellors, a great-grandmother, two Romanian Orthodox priests, a chef, nine chimney sweeps, and a left handed beautician.  In Mexico, a person can obtain a pistol permit for his house...just by going to Mexico City and standing in line for 326 years and six months (not quite that bad).
     In the British Isles, everything is perfect.  They don't have gun crime...and the resultant murders...right?   Well, not so fast.  They have quite a bit of gun crime now, with the Commonwealth people having flooded into England with their British passports in hand.  Pilfering, burglary, home invasions, rape, assault, car-jacking, etc. is all much, much worse than say....in Texas...where almost all the innocent and law abiding are either armed or thought to be armed.   Our overall crime rate, including murder,  WENT DOWN SHARPLY after concealed carry became the law of the Republic of Texas.
  

     Texas or Detroit?         Texas is safer.

     Texas or Chicago?       Texas is safer.

     Texas or D.C.                 Texas is safer.

     Texas or anywhere?   Texas is safer.

THE ENTIRE PROBLEM CANNOT BE RESOLVED, only portions.   Only portions can be diminished.  There will always be evil.  There will always be wickedness.  Satan moves the mind and heart of man in bad ways.   Laws cannot prevent bad acts by people with defective souls or ill intent.  If not a firearm, a knife.  If not a knife, strychnine.  If not poison, then a bomb.  And so on.
     The biggest problem that El Gringo Viejo sees is the practise of loading up juvenile and adolescent males who are a bit hyper with drugs that dull their senses and turn them inward.  The mindless pursuit of meaningless scores and levels in a set of ultra-violent computer games becomes their understanding of reality.  One never seems to hear of them being involved with the church or synagogue, or being the the High School Marching/Symphony Band, or the debate club, or playing a good shortstop on the American Legion team.   Not even the cowardly thug of Fort Hood fame had much beyond a poor medical practise record and a consumptive obsession with death.
     If we could solve that problem, then there could be a bit of progress on the issue.   It will do nothing to address the 512 killings in Chicagoland,  where no guns are permitted, essentially.   It does nothing about the rack-up of a hundred there and two hundred here, in towns like New Orleans, Gary, Detroit, Philadelphia, Oakland, Phoenix, etc.  The inner-city killings are because life there has no value.  The spree killers kill because they know the people they are killing have value to someone....a value they have not felt for a long time, because they have been too drugged up, and too habitualised to violent outcomes by their Chop Her Head Off and Throw It in the Woodchipper games.
Thanks for your time and attention.  More later.
El Gringo Viejo

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 We add the following co-related set of thoughts.   Credit is given the author, David Kupelian who has specialised in the pointing out of the purposeful holes left in the reporting of events by the Obsolete Media.

The giant, gaping hole in Sandy Hook reporting

‎Today, ‎January ‎06, ‎2013, ‏‎7 hours ago | David Kupelian

Since last month’s horrifying and heartbreaking school massacre in Newtown, Conn., politicians and the press have, as everyone knows, been totally obsessed with firearms.
Indeed, President Obama has vowed to impose strong new gun-control measures on the nation – very soon, with or without Congress.
Other possible factors – from violent video games to the “failure of our mental-health system” to the unintended consequences of making schools “gun-free zones” – have taken a back seat to guns. Within hours of the gruesome mega-crime, the media had provided extensive, round-the-clock coverage of precisely which firearms, manufacturers and calibers the perpetrator had used, how he had obtained them from his mother, where they were originally purchased, and so on.
But where, I’d like to ask my colleagues in the media, is the reporting about the psychiatric medications the perpetrator – who had been under treatment for mental-health problems – may have been taking? After all, Mark and Louise Tambascio, family friends of the shooter and his mother, were interviewed on CBS’ “60 Minutes,” during which Louise Tambascio told correspondent Scott Pelley: “I know he was on medication and everything, but she homeschooled him at home cause he couldn’t deal with the school classes sometimes, so she just homeschooled Adam at home. And that was her life.” And here, Tambascio tells ABC News, “I knew he was on medication, but that’s all I know.”
It has been more than three weeks since the shooting. We know all about the guns he used, but what “medication” may he have used? (One brief mini-hoax emerged when the New York Daily News published a story claiming the shooter, according to his uncle, had been on the controversial antipsychotic drug Fanapt. That story was quickly withdrawn after the “uncle” turned out to be a fraudster with no relation to the murderer.)
So, what is the truth? Where is the journalistic curiosity? Where is the follow-up? Where is the police report, the medical examiner’s report, the interviews with his doctor and others?
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But let me back up. Perhaps you’re wondering why this issue of psychiatric medications should be so important.
As I documented in “How Evil Works,” it is simply indisputable that most perpetrators of school shootings and similar mass murders in our modern era were either on – or just recently coming off of – psychiatric medications:

• Columbine mass-killer Eric Harris was taking Luvox – like Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Effexor and many others, a modern and widely prescribed type of antidepressant drug called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs. Harris and fellow student Dylan Klebold went on a hellish school shooting rampage in 1999 during which they killed 12 students and a teacher and wounded 24 others before turning their guns on themselves.Luvox manufacturer Solvay Pharmaceuticals concedes that during short-term controlled clinical trials, 4 percent of children and youth taking Luvox – that’s 1 in 25 – developed mania, a dangerous and violence-prone mental derangement characterized by extreme excitement and delusion.
• Patrick Purdy went on a schoolyard shooting rampage in Stockton, Calif., in 1989, which became the catalyst for the original legislative frenzy to ban “semiautomatic assault weapons” in California and the nation. The 25-year-old Purdy, who murdered five children and wounded 30, had been on Amitriptyline, an antidepressant, as well as the antipsychotic drug Thorazine.
• Kip Kinkel, 15, murdered his parents in 1998 and the next day went to his school, Thurston High in Springfield, Ore., and opened fire on his classmates, killing two and wounding 22 others. He had been prescribed both Prozac and Ritalin.
• In 1988, 31-year-old Laurie Dann went on a shooting rampage in a second-grade classroom in Winnetka, Ill., killing one child and wounding six. She had been taking the antidepressant Anafranil as well as Lithium, long used to treat mania.
• In Paducah, Ky., in late 1997, 14-year-old Michael Carneal, son of a prominent attorney, traveled to Heath High School and started shooting students in a prayer meeting taking place in the school’s lobby, killing three and leaving another paralyzed. Carneal reportedly was on Ritalin.
• In 2005, 16-year-old Native American Jeff Weise, living on Minnesota’s Red Lake Indian Reservation, shot and killed nine people and wounded five others before killing himself. Weise had been taking Prozac.
• In another famous case, 47-year-old Joseph T. Wesbecker, just a month after he began taking Prozac in 1989, shot 20 workers at Standard Gravure Corp. in Louisville, Ky., killing nine. Prozac-maker Eli Lilly later settled a lawsuit brought by survivors.
• Kurt Danysh, 18, shot his own father to death in 1996, a little more than two weeks after starting on Prozac. Danysh’s description of own his mental-emotional state at the time of the murder is chilling: “I didn’t realize I did it until after it was done,” Danysh said. “This might sound weird, but it felt like I had no control of what I was doing, like I was left there just holding a gun.”
• John Hinckley, age 25, took four Valium two hours before shooting and almost killing President Ronald Reagan in 1981. In the assassination attempt, Hinckley also wounded press secretary James Brady, Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy and policeman Thomas Delahanty.
• Andrea Yates, in one of the most heartrending crimes in modern history, drowned all five of her children – aged 7 years down to 6 months – in a bathtub. Insisting inner voices commanded her to kill her children, she had become increasingly psychotic over the course of several years. At her 2006 murder re-trial (after a 2002 guilty verdict was overturned on appeal), Yates’ longtime friend Debbie Holmes testified: “She asked me if I thought Satan could read her mind and if I believed in demon possession.” And Dr. George Ringholz, after evaluating Yates for two days, recounted an experience she had after the birth of her first child: “What she described was feeling a presence … Satan … telling her to take a knife and stab her son Noah,” Ringholz said, adding that Yates’ delusion at the time of the bathtub murders was not only that she had to kill her children to save them, but that Satan had entered her and that she had to be executed in order to kill Satan.Yates had been taking the antidepressant Effexor. In November 2005, more than four years after Yates drowned her children, Effexor manufacturer Wyeth Pharmaceuticals quietly added “homicidal ideation” to the drug’s list of “rare adverse events.” The Medical Accountability Network, a private nonprofit focused on medical ethics issues, publicly criticized Wyeth, saying Effexor’s “homicidal ideation” risk wasn’t well-publicized and that Wyeth failed to send letters to doctors or issue warning labels announcing the change.And what exactly does “rare” mean in the phrase “rare adverse events”? The FDA defines it as occurring in less than one in 1,000 people. But since that same year 19.2 million prescriptions for Effexor were filled in the U.S., statistically that means thousands of Americans might experience “homicidal ideation” – murderous thoughts – as a result of taking just this one brand of antidepressant drug.Effexor is Wyeth’s best-selling drug, by the way, which in one recent year brought in over $3 billion in sales, accounting for almost a fifth of the company’s annual revenues.
• One more case is instructive, that of 12-year-old Christopher Pittman, who struggled in court to explain why he murdered his grandparents, who had provided the only love and stability he’d ever known in his turbulent life. “When I was lying in my bed that night,” he testified, “I couldn’t sleep because my voice in my head kept echoing through my mind telling me to kill them.” Christopher had been angry with his grandfather, who had disciplined him earlier that day for hurting another student during a fight on the school bus. So later that night, he shot both of his grandparents in the head with a .410 shotgun as they slept and then burned down their South Carolina home, where he had lived with them.”I got up, got the gun, and I went upstairs and I pulled the trigger,” he recalled. “Through the whole thing, it was like watching your favorite TV show. You know what is going to happen, but you can’t do anything to stop it.”Pittman’s lawyers would later argue that the boy had been a victim of “involuntary intoxication,” since his doctors had him taking the antidepressants Paxil and Zoloft just prior to the murders.Paxil’s known “adverse drug reactions” – according to the drug’s FDA-approved label – include “mania,” “insomnia,” “anxiety,” “agitation,” “confusion,” “amnesia,” “depression,” “paranoid reaction,” “psychosis,” “hostility,” “delirium,” “hallucinations,” “abnormal thinking,” “depersonalization” and “lack of emotion,” among others.The preceding examples are only a few of the best-known offenders who had been taking prescribed psychiatric drugs before committing their violent crimes – there are many others. Whether we like to admit it or not, it is undeniable that when certain people living on the edge of sanity take psychiatric medications, those drugs can – and occasionally do – push them over the edge into violent madness. Remember, every single SSRI antidepressant sold in the United States of America today, no matter what brand or manufacturer, bears a “black box” FDA warning label – the government’s most serious drug warning – of “increased risks of suicidal thinking and behavior, known as suicidality, in young adults ages 18 to 24.” Common sense tells us that where there are suicidal thoughts – especially in a very, very angry person – homicidal thoughts may not be far behind. Indeed, the mass shooters we are describing often take their own lives when the police show up, having planned their suicide ahead of time.
  So, what ‘medication’ was Lanza on?
  The Sandy Hook school massacre, we are constantly reminded, was the “second-worst school shooting in U.S. history.” Let’s briefly revisit the worst, Virginia Tech, because it provides an important lesson for us. One would think, in light of the stunning correlation between psych meds and mass murders, that it would be considered critical to establish definitively whether the Virginia Tech murderer of 32 people, student Cho Seung-Hui, had been taking psychiatric drugs.
  Yet, more than five years later, the answer to that question remains a mystery.
  Even though initially the New York Times reported, “officials said prescription medications related to the treatment of psychological problems had been found among Mr. Cho’s effects,” and the killer’s roommate, Joseph Aust, had told the Richmond Times-Dispatch that Cho’s routine each morning had included taking prescription drugs, the state’s toxicology report released two months later said “no prescription drugs or toxic substances were found in Cho Seung-Hui.”
  Perhaps so, but one of the most notoriously unstable and unpredictable times for users of SSRI antidepressants is the period shortly after they’ve stopped taking them, during which time the substance may not be detectable in the body.
  What kind of meds might Cho have been taking – or recently have stopped taking? Curiously, despite an exhaustive investigation by the Commonwealth of Virginia which disclosed that Cho had taken Paxil for a year in 1999, specifics on what meds he was taking prior to the Virginia Tech massacre have remained elusive. The final 20,000-word report manages to omit any conclusive information about the all-important issue of Cho’s medications during the period of the mass shooting.
  To add to the drama, it wasn’t until two years after the state’s in-depth report was issued that, as disclosed in an Aug. 19, 2009, ABC News report, some of Cho’s long-missing mental health records were located:
  

  The records released today were discovered to be missing during a Virginia panel’s August 2007 investigation four-and-a-half months after the massacre.
  The notes were recovered last month from the home of Dr. Robert Miller, the former director of the counseling center, who says he inadvertently packed Cho’s file into boxes of personal belongings when he left the center in February 2006. Until the July 2009 discovery of the documents, Miller said he had no idea he had the records.
  Miller has since been let go from the university.

  Although Cho’s newly discovered mental-health files reportedly revealed nothing further about his medications, the issues raised by the initial accounts – including the “officials” cited by the New York Times and the Richmond paper’s eyewitness account of daily meds-taking – remain unaddressed to this day.
  Some critics suggest these official omissions are motivated by a desire to protect the drug companies from ruinous product liability claims. Indeed, pharmaceutical manufacturers are nervous about lawsuits over the “rare adverse effects” of their mood-altering medications. To avoid costly settlements and public relations catastrophes – such as when GlaxoSmithKline was ordered to pay $6.4 million to the family of 60-year-old Donald Schnell who murdered his wife, daughter and granddaughter in a fit of rage shortly after starting on Paxil – drug companies’ legal teams have quietly and skillfully settled hundreds of cases out-of-court, shelling out hundreds of millions of dollars to plaintiffs. Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly fought scores of legal claims against Prozac in this way, settling for cash before the complaint could go to court while stipulating that the settlement remain secret – and then claiming it had never lost a Prozac lawsuit.
  All of which is, once again, to respectfully but urgently ask the question: When on earth are we going to find out if the perpetrator of the Sandy Hook school massacre, like so many other mass shooters, had been taking psychiatric drugs?
  In the end, it may well turn out that knowing what kinds of guns he used isn’t nearly as important as what kind of drugs he used.
  That is, assuming we ever find out.
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