Sipsey Street Irregulars: Dave Workman: "Mount Rainier shooting opens door for agenda pandering."

Monday, January 2, 2012

Dave Workman: "Mount Rainier shooting opens door for agenda pandering."

Well, of course. Why wouldn't it? This one comes fully equipped with a "stupid human tricks" story and a scary picture.

Nearly eight hours earlier, King County sheriff's deputies responded to shots fired at a party in Skyway, where an early-morning session of "show and tell" with guns among several armed partygoers devolved into a shootout, according to detectives. Four people were shot, and three people fled the scene. One of them was identified as Benjamin Colton Barnes, 24.

Expect more prohibitionist bleating about Saigas to go with it.

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SWIFT said...: There is a growing love affair around here with Saiga shotguns. I preach to everyone that firing from the prone position in a firefight, with an extended magazine, will get you dead. And, you WILL be in a prone position if you have a lick of sense. The length of the barrel reduces some home defense applications also. Looks like it might be a lot of fun at the range. I would be more concerned about a Brady backlash if this unfortunate event took place next year, rather than an election year. My heart goes out to the family of the Ranger. A senseless murder.; January 3, 2012 at 6:00 AM
Pat H. said...: First, I agree, the Saiga leaves a whole lot to be desired as a rational choice for shotguns. It's my opinion that the top choice, money no object, among the available shotguns is the Benelli M1 or its current iteration. Firing either 2 3/4 or 3 inch shells, changeable chokes (the 18" barreled version can be used to hunt winged game), and non-gas operated. It can put 72 .30 caliber projectiles in the air in about 1.5 seconds, no submachine gun can match that.

Choose wisely.; January 3, 2012 at 8:54 AM
Anonymous said...: This guy is repeatedly described as a veteran. Well, yeah, but only because we've defined veteran down. He had a general discharge, which means he was a shitbag. Whose commanders wanted him out the fastest way possible.

Usually that's druggies, barracks thieves, anybody whose misconduct is not bad enough to be worth a long stint in Leavenworth, but who's not a productive member of the unit.

I'll bet there's some interesting stuff in his records. I'll further bet that the MSM displays no interest -- they've already picked their narrative and they only want supporting data for the preselected story.; January 3, 2012 at 11:08 PM
Anonymous said...: And did you notice the report there were about 150 LEO types looking for one guy? If the LEOs have no civilian back-up should things go south, there will be a lot of burned out police cars in many areas and then it will really get bad.

Gunner; January 5, 2012 at 9:43 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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