Roundup
There’s so much news and so many good articles I thought I’d do a short roundup.
Here’s a piece further elucidating the treaty vs. executive agreement argument on the Iran deal. The gist of it is that although it is not a treaty, it may violate a treaty (nuclear non-proliferation), and that nothing in Corker-Menendez precludes the Senate from saying this and treating the deal as a treaty, but that Obama would successfully ignore that.
We are just finding out that Lois Lerner had a second secret email account, this one under the name of “Toby Miles,” that she used for IRS business during the time of the monitoring of conservative groups. This is how it came out:
According to IRS lawyer Geoffrey J. Klimas, the agency discovered the email account when it was assembling documents to turn over to Judicial Watch, the public interest law group that filed an open-records lawsuit to gain access to emails sent by Lerner during the time she targeted conservative groups seeking tax exempt status.
…”It is simply astonishing that years after this scandal erupted we are learning about an account Lois Lerner used that evidently hadn’t been searched,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said, accusing the IRS of concealing information from Lerner that could inform the targeting controversy.
Not all that astounding, actually. But interesting.
The French train defenders were lucky as well as heroic, but anti-gun opponents are trying to spin their successful capture of the train terrorist into some sort of argument that you don’t need a gun to stop an attacker who’s armed with an AK-47. Good luck with that; his guns were inoperative, and that’s probably the only reason the heroes all lived to get their Legions of Honor.
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The French train defenders were lucky as well as heroic, but anti-gun opponents are trying to spin their successful capture of the train terrorist into some sort of argument that you don’t need a gun to stop an attacker who’s armed with an AK-47.
Utterly ridiculous. The sort of courage displayed that day is rare; that’s why it was noteworthy and newsworthy. And the day would have ended more peacefully, with fewer wounded, had someone been able to stand up immediately and shoot back.
What this does demonstrate is that it’s up to the intended victims to be their own first responders — and they’ll respond with whatever they have. In this case, three young men responded with bare hands and raw courage — but few of us can do that.
For those of us not quite as heroic as them — get a gun, and learn to use it.
Get a gun and learn how to use it is excellent advice. Teach your children well.
Another good read is Brendan Bordelin’s NRO article on Hillary’s syncophants. Boy, there is so much to try to follow.
Another bit I found interesting is that Trump has restarted his Twitter war against Megan Kelly. Obama plays golf; Trump plays Twitter.
Daniel in Brookline Says:
August 25th, 2015 at 5:03 pm
The French train defenders were lucky as well as heroic, but anti-gun opponents are trying to spin their successful capture of the train terrorist into some sort of argument that you don’t need a gun to stop an attacker who’s armed with an AK-47.
In possibly related news:
Belgium reporter board Thalys train with terror paraphernalia, has no problems. use Google translate.
Frontsight has a very solid reputation for firearms training.
Without video evidence, it’s difficult to believe the retarded enemy of humanity media about much of anything. Even eye witness testimony, from incompetent flacks that have never had to fight or kill a single life in their life, are unreliable.
Doesn’t everyone have 2 different email and online personalities by now, in order to camouflage their tracks?
After all, if you own a huge personal stock of weapons, you are probably unwise in posting everything on facebook, which leads directly to your home.
“…The French train defenders were lucky as well as heroic, but anti-gun opponents are trying to spin their successful capture of the train terrorist into some sort of argument that you don’t need a gun to stop an attacker who’s armed with an AK-47. Good luck with that; his guns were inoperative…”
I am going to have to respectfully part company with our kind and wonderful blogger.
The above implies there was something wrong with the gun. His guns jammed. His guns were inoperative.
There is no gun around more reliable than an AK. At least, not a bolt action rifle.*
http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2011/08/04/canadian-rangers-to-retire-lee-enfield-rifles/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCTw6WNx_-4
I doubt there was something wrong with the gun. Something wrong with the operator, yes. That I will and can believe.
No gun is idiot proof but the AK comes about as close to it as any semi auto. Which is why groups like ISIS and Boko Haram use it.
Which takes away nothing from the guys who tackled the jihadi, which demanded huge brass ones.
*The Canadians are replacing their SMLEs with other bolt guns. The Danes are equipped with the US M1917 Enfield and apparently remain satisfied and (most importantly) supplied with replacement parts.
According to the guy that disarmed the terrorist, the primer was struck but the round didn’t detonate, that is a misfire, not a jam. That points to defective ammo, he was probably trying to cycle the action when they grabbed him.
I think neo-neocon’s point is to counter the anti-gun activists’ claim that risk can be mitigated through disparate treatment. Not to diminish the heroic nature of the men’s actions taken at great risk to themselves.
…but anti-gun opponents are trying to spin their successful capture of the train terrorist into some sort of argument that you don’t need a gun to stop an attacker who’s armed with an AK-47.
Only a moron would try to make that argument.
I only wished to part company with neo-neocon to a slight degree. I was picking nits about the gun jamming. I’m more amenable to the idea that there was something wrong with the ammo. In France it is possible to own guns, but not military weapons or ammo.
So you can own a Remington M7400/M750 in .280 Rem, because that’s not a military rifle in a military caliber. But not anything in .30-06, let alone an AK or a Garand.
I imagine you’ve got to make do with whatever stocks of ammo you can put your grubby mitts on.
I didn’t mean to nor do I imagine that I’ve detracted from neo-neocon’s larger point. Yes, it was unquestionably heroic to tackle the guy. I was not questioning the unquestionable. I was quibbling with the notion something was wrong with his rifle.
The Canadians, by the way, will be replacing their Lee-Enfields with a version of the Sako T-3. Which since nobody asked me I’ll offer my opinion. I can’t imagine anybody builds a better rifle for Canada’s Arctic Rangers than the Finns.
It’s a bolt action rifle so it will be dead reliable. The key, boys and girls, to working a bolt gun is that you have to work that bolt like you hate it. Slap it around, you’re not going to hurt it. All the way back, all the way forward. That way, you don’t short stroke it.
Of course, one option is to design a recruit-proof gun.
Which brings me back to why I don’t think there was something wrong with this guy’s AK.
Let’s hoist one to dumb terrorists who don’t know how to clear a malfunction, and most especially to the guys who took him down. And to neo-neocon, to whom I mean no disrespect.
You’ve got to act as if your enemy has trained for this day and knows what he’s doing. Always. Every once in a while you get lucky but you can’t count on it.
I don’t mean to come off like I’m some sort of life-taker and heart-breaker. I was never anybody special.
There was a period of time when I was stuck in a backlog and to waste my time while they figured out what they were trying to do with me the Navy kept sending me to various schools that, to my joy, sometimes involved weapons.
Sometimes they didn’t. I don’t talk about those mostly because I don’t remember them.
I never fired a shot at anyone in anger.
I think it made them feel better about themselves. Like there was a plan all along.
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Socialists are as clean as yellow snow…
every time… no exceptions…
promise to get power, lie to make winning promises
then blame the forces that could not stop you from being elected for ruining your work which prevents them from doing to you what they did to El Duche
then get ready for starvation, deprivation, etc..
maduro and venezuela is our future
cause the idiots that are the masses will not see that the ideology in terms of the people has had a 100% failure rate, but in terms of despotic control freaks that like to torture and force others so they feel power, its a decent deal and the adventure of a lifetime.
Black man (named Flannigan) fired from the news shoots white newswoman, and the cameraman who were also in a relationship… he kills himself, and leaves a 23 page “manifesto”…
Want to guess what this is about?
what political class writes “Manifesto’s”
Parker, 24, and photographer Adam Ward, 27, were killed at Bridgewater Plaza near Moneta
God rest their souls…
I was quibbling with the notion something was wrong with his rifle.
It’s useful to get a separate check on the MSM propaganda and disinformation.
Even eye witness testimonies are not necessarily accurate, that’s why all intel data must be analyzed from separate triangulated points of view, to verify the substance.
Only a moron would try to make that argument.
Enemies of humanity and allies of Islamic Jihad, also tend to make such arguments.
Let’s hoist one to dumb terrorists who don’t know how to clear a malfunction, and most especially to the guys who took him down.
A lot of people think swords or even the bayonet-rifles, are obsolete. But we can see that once the front moves to 4th generational warfare frontlines, such as civilian airports or train environments, things become much tighter and closer in terms of engagement ranges. Ranges where extremely long blades can have quite an effect. A box cutter is sharp, but its blade does not have the necessary lenthg to decapitate limbs and heads in one stroke, even by the strongest people in existence. Whether used as a backup or as a primary defense against paramilitary civilian terrorists, ancient weapons are still effective today. They are certainly not obsolete, perhaps not any longer.
but anti-gun opponents are trying to spin ….
Technically, they aren’t anti gun, they are allies of Islam and Leftist operatives. There’s a difference.
Ymarsakar, as long as I have a rock…
I point out for the record, Steve57, that the AR-15 (later, of course, to become the M-16) was originally designed as a survival rifle for SAC bomber crews, who were supposed to lob their nukes into Russia, flip around and crash land in the Arctic, it being assumed that there would be no bases in the US left to land on. The first M-16s, which I was issued (this was in the Army in 1970) had flip-down trigger guards so that they could be used while wearing mittens. I don’t know if they still do.
You mentioned that the Canadians were using number 4’s; and since the only No. 4 that I own is still mummified in cosmoline and linen wrappings, I can’t speak to how the bolt ought to be handled.
However, I think that you would probably agree that when it comes to the Number 1 Mark 3, it’s a bit of a different question. Slap the bolt handle up, and the bolt seems to spring back up off the camming slope of the right resistance shoulder, whether or not it is cocked. You don’t have to fight it.
You see movie scenes with actors portraying Wehrmacht* soldiers struggling to cycle their KAR 98s all the time. But if you take your SMLE No.1 Mk III to the range, when you fire it, it never has to leave your shoulder and hardly even moves off target, as you chamber a subsequent round.
I’ve read that the Krag was the smoothest action, or maybe the Mannlicher—Sché¶nauer. Never fired either one.
But it is difficult for me to imagine in the case of the Mannlicher—Sché¶nauer with its split bridge receiver and the bolt handle located forward – no matter how justly it might be esteemed as a neat and compact hunting rifle – could be operated anywhere nearly as fast as the Enfield.
*If our autistic obsessive friend decides to start lecturing on the divisions of that organization, I’m outta here for good LOL