Here’s the AP story (without any links to the actual report):
Here’s the DOJ press release:
The report is at:
Category: Proclivities of the Media
Be Afraid… Be Very Afraid… Playing with Balloons!
If you’ve paid attention to the media in the past two days you’ve seen them switch from leading with the Memphis police beating story to the new China spy balloon story.
I lead on last night’s newscasts, and tonight as it drifts into Kansas it is leading on the PBS News Hour.
That’s a lot of attention for a Chinese weather balloon that “Defense department officials are tracking across the central US”…
So… Be afraid. Be Very Afraid!
The truth?
While we can’t be sure, it’s probably a standard weather research balloon with a descent mechanism that has failed.
When it comes to quality journalism, this unfortunate work reads like the product of today’s woke advocacy journalism schools where the students have all studied by copying text in the scriptorium illuminated only by gaslight.
The Definitive Study of the Perversion of “Scientific Research”
Princeton University in a surprising stroke of honesty has done an extensive analysis and study of the actual rigor that “researchers” apply when doing studies. So much for “gun control” supporting “research” and “climate change”…
They gave a large number of them a set of data and asked them all to perform a study of it for publication. Since the media loves to take studies that purport to analyze “gun violence” (whatever that is) and heavily publicize it in the hope that the politicians will get the emotional boost that they need to pass more restrictive gun control laws, the NRA did an overview analysis of Princeton’s results.
The study itself is extensive and rather damning of the social “scientists” that participated. There were a large number that got involved. The net of this is that there was no reliable result from 73 experienced teams of social scientists that were all motivated to come up with the same result from the same data. Only one team did the initial analysis that rejected the data as inadequate for the work. The rest plodded through applying their individual biases and coming up with greatly varying results.
The study PDF is at: https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.2203150119?download=true
It’s quite clear that everyone should question the validity of any “gun violence” research that is presented to the public. I know of only one researcher, John Lott, who regularly makes his raw datasets available to the public so that anyone can do their own analysis and confirmation of his work. Critics of his work don’t actually do that, but rather apply their own biases and theories as is clearly evident in the Princeton study. Lott is a trained economist, not a “social scientist” and he approaches his work from that factual point of view. The Left hates him for it and the factual truth he teases from the data.
The public and politicians should be very skeptical of the myriad studies criticizing civilian firearm ownership in the United States – and especially those that ignore the impact of criminals and criminal organized gangs in American cities. Here’s an example of how a taxpayer funded study at the CDC has recently been corrupted through agency and administration bias:
In this case, real data existed and was removed because it was inconvenient to the intended conclusion of the study. That is both corrupt and dishonest.
It isn’t really “Science” when the Gaslight Ghouls get their way…
Interesting article:
It seems that the paying customer always gets what they pay for.
In this case, references to valid defensive gun usage were removed from taxpayer funded CDC studies on “gun violence” because it made use of the CDC studies to justify more gun control more difficult.
Yeah… the Gaslight Ghouls lie all the time. They don’t respect your right to defend yourself effectively. That is the Constitutional right to arm yourself against violent criminals. It’s so important to Leftists to disarm you that they will influence taxpayer funded CDC Federal agency “research” to fake the foundation of their work.
Politicians and their deep state agencies don’t care about the Constitution, your rights that the Constitution recognizes and guarantees or your safety. All they care about is getting their way.
For that reason, it’s important to never compromise with Leftists.
The Last 100 times the Leftist Gaslight Ghouls have called for Confiscating Your Guns
Here, one of my collogues in the Grass Roots North Carolina movement, recounts the last 100 times the Leftist Gaslight Ghouls have called for confiscating your guns:
https://parkerd.substack.com/p/all-the-proof-you-need-the-100-reasons
They will lie to you for a while and claim that they don’t want to take your guns, but by now, we all know the truth…
This list goes back to 1993 for the first article, then starts just a decade ago for most of the rest. That is a lot of lying to our faces…
You’d think that they would get the message considering the level of NICS checks in the past few years (which has broken all records), but that is not how it works when Leftists want to disarm you.
They simply don’t care. They don’t care about your right to defend yourself effectively. They don’t care about your security. They don’t care about the Constitution. They don’t care about their responsibility once they take office. They don’t care about the oath they take to uphold the Constitution – and oath they take to God if they believe in one, or that they “affirm” in a supposedly serious way. They simply don’t care.
For that reason, make it clear to everyone you know that “guns save lives”, and in the right hands they make you more secure because they can be used to stop violent criminals when criminals choose to put your life in jeopardy or sexually attack you. That said, make it clear – “we will not compromise”.
When the “Gaslight Ghouls” gaslight – all it takes is someone to light a match to make the world brighter.
Politicians Simply Don’t Care…
NYSRPA v. Bruen has some of the strongest changes to help resolve Illinois (and other state’s) infringements of gun related rights. The cases will take time to be resolved. They will be expensive. The process will be risky for those involved, and the delays will be frustrating.
Read Justice Thomas’ majority ruling opinion carefully. You’ll see how remarkably assertive and angry he was about the past ten years of abuse.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/20-843_7j80.pdf
Page 14 of this decision is crucial to understanding the major change that occurred on May 23rd of this year. This is when the “two step” process of reviewing the constitutionality of gun related cases was thrown out. Cases that were in process were remanded back to the courts for reconsideration. Future cases will be judged based on one thing only – compliance with the simple language of the Second Amendment based on it’s meaning in 1789 and in 1868 when it was incorporated into the states by the 14th Amendment.
This will complicate things for maintaining the kind of bans and infringements being enacted by Illinois and other states. Sorting this out will take time. Leftists everywhere simply DO NOT CARE. They will continue to infringe on your rights as long and as often as they can, because abuse of that power is natural to them. They believe it is advantageous to them. Until proven wrong by removal from office, they will continue to abuse their power by doing so.
If you don’t believe this, look to the history of how politicians have abused their power in other “popular” ways throughout the history of the United States. It doesn’t take much imagination to understand how this has always worked. Robber barons buying corrupt politicians… Check. Civil War Reconstruction… Carpetbaggers… Check. Over-regulation driving business overseas by newly formed executive agencies like the EPA… Check. Jim Crow laws restricting voting through literacy tests and poll taxes… Check. Establishment of a permanent class of subjects dependent on government transfer payments… Check. A “new deal” that favors some industries and destroys others… Check.
The fees you pay to exercise your right to carry a firearm concealed is the same as a poll tax. There is no difference. So are the courses and proficiency tests required by many states. While an excellent idea, they are required in order to exercise a constitutional right in those states. They are not prerequisites to a privilege – but a guaranteed constitutional right. these Things were not required in 1789 or 1868. Now, go back and read Justice Thomas’ majority opinion. There were no practical restrictions on where you could carry your firearm or how you concealed as long as you were not committing a crime or going armed to the terror of the people. “Gun free” violence attracting massacre zones did not exist.
Remember, the politicians taking these actions simply do not care. They are not exercising the people’s power in a responsible way. It is up to you as a citizen to hold them responsible for this. Subjects just accept their corrupt actions continue to vote them into office because they are scared of losing their government payments or benefits. That is just as corrupt.
It is expensive to challenge these abuses in court, and the Leftists are counting on that and the delays involved to overwhelm citizens. Never forget, and never compromise rights.
Gaslight Gangsters at Work
This morning’s “Meet the Press” is having a feeding frenzy on “gun control” and positively salivating on passing more “gun control” and “gun laws” and “blue states progress”…
They opened with a Leftist Democrat congressman from Colorado outright lying about ERPO “Red Flag” laws…
Not one word was mention about the 100,000 annual Opioid deaths being experienced in the US today as a result of Chinese manufacturing of drugs like Fentanyl, and their illegal transport across the porous Southern border with Mexico which the Biden Administration refuses to address. That is roughly 273 US residents a day that are killed through Opioid poisoning compared to the number of people they are obsessing about in firearm related incidents.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2021/20211117.htm
All this just goes to prove that the “Gaslight Gangsters” that want to disarm America just want to take your guns, and really don’t care about American lives. They have the characteristics of organized criminals… the violent arm that hurts people, and those that benefit by accumulating wealth and power at the expense of others – all while terrorizing the population and manipulating people with fear.
The False Flag is Flying High
This morning, the media was already parroting the senile ranting about controlling “semi-automatic weapons” by banning them…
The ignorant are blindly following the impaired over the cliff of fear and helplessness. There is only peril at the bottom of their downfall.
But these tragically “woke” can preach from their morally corrupt pulpits because they have hired fully automatic guns paid for by us – the tax payers… They wouldn’t go anywhere without them because they are not naïve about their personal safety – and you shouldn’t be either.
Your choice of firearm type and it’s action should never be dictated by a government – it should be dictated by your personal self defense requirements. That is rational, and responsible.
The same “woke” hypocrites fly massive carbon spewing 747 Jets from Washington DC to Delaware repeatedly every week instead of riding in motorcades – completely ignoring their “climate change” impact. Nobody in the media or UN is complaining about that abuse and irresponsibility are they?
More failing gun control will not stop the Democrat sponsored crime wave that they launched in 2020 and have done nothing to stop for the past two years:
- Porous borders,
- illegal invaders,
- irresponsible prosecutors,
- emboldened criminals,
- useless ERPO “red flag” persecution of gun owners,
- FBI focus on “domestic terrorist” parents at school boards,
- Trillions of dollars in corrupt government waste and debt,
- corrupt “Gaslight Gangsters” in executive control of government…
- questionable election integrity…
The entire executive branch is a “false flag” operation…
Rand Corporation (who basically wants to absorb more government “research” money for studying “gun control” approaches) has recently published criticism of the over 20,000 gun control studies. They found all but just over 100 wanting in statistical relevance.
Overview:
https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy/analysis.html
Propaganda for indoctrinating school children:
https://www.rand.org/pubs/tools/TLA243-1.html
Criticism of competing “research”:
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR2088-1.html
Realizing that their objective is to capture the marketplace for “gun policy research” money, and that they are a proponent for policies that implement “gun control”, their criticism of existing sloppy “research” is somewhat useful.
The fact is that there is a huge body of “junk science” behind the justification of every single “gun control” strategy that has been used to propel the over 22,000 “gun control” laws and all their strategies now active in the United States.
About every decade, a new and innovative “gun control” strategy launches from the Leftist tyrants. The most recent is called “Stocastic Terrorism”.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-stochastic-terrorism-uses-disgust-to-incite-violence/
This is how you – the conservative – is being blamed for the most recent shootings in Colorado Springs even though the actual criminal psychopath that did the murders is a disturbed non-binary person that attacked members of his own cultural diaspora. You will see more of this strategy used to justify Gaslight Gangster operations against conservatives in the future.
A Roadmap To Protecting The Nation
Here is the roadmap to countering the “Gaslight Gangster” lies which are driving the narrative against guns:
The media will, of course, suppress the response because they are part of the gaslighting of America on the gun issue. This is how to get in front of the issue…
- Individual Criminals making bad choices are to blame for the violent crime, not “guns”, the NRA, Republicans, MAGA, or anyone else politicians or the media brainwashing blames
- You are responsible for your own personal security, and nobody else will ever replace this
- Rich people and politicians hire people to provide their security for them, so they can and do freely lie about regular people’s risks
- When hypocrite elite Democrats feel threatened, the first thing they demand is that they be guarded by professionals with guns at your expense
- People that blame guns really don’t care about violent crime victims, they just want to disarm everyone else
- Your only option for stopping violent criminals is to adopt and acquire effective self defense – and that includes guns and learning responsible gun ownership
- Not every effective self defense involves firing a gun during an incident, in fact most don’t
- Criminals obtain their guns illegally, and ignore the processes that “gun control” put in place – they only affect lawful citizens
- “Gun Control” has failed for over 50 years, and will not make citizens safer – in fact it has created more opportunities for criminal violence
- “Red Flag” ERPO laws consistently miss real violent psychopaths, and are vindictively used to abuse regular citizens
- Democrats do nothing to stop crime, and only use guns to scare citizens and deceive voters
- Democrat policies that open the border to unchecked criminal invasion and instantly return captured criminals to the streets have enabled a new crime wave
- Firearms are the only effective and affordable means of security for average citizens
- Those demanding “gun control” are insensitive and uncaring because they are actually endangering the lives of citizens
The sales of hundreds of millions of firearms in the past two years is evidence that citizens innately understand this. The Gaslight Gangsters (politicians and their media lackeys) are working together to disarm the nation in the face of the constitution and rational citizens that would defend themselves. They use fear to manipulate the rest of the nation into supporting their lies by literally driving irrational manipulated people crazy in order to get their support to disarm the nation.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/11/22/bidens-not-so-subtle-lurch-toward-dictatorship/
There’s danger in Media GasLighting on School Shootings
There is great culture danger in the constant media gaslighting of America on school shootings. Considering that one of the Parkland school students was just elected to Congress at age 25 (youngest possible) on a “gun control” platform in Florida, it’s probably time for gun owners to pay attention.
Even though the Federal Gun Free School Zone Act has worked to create supposed “gun free” massacre zones nationwide, the actual incidence of these incidents is quite rare. Media propaganda stoked by these events would make you think otherwise:
Some statistics from the article:
Not once in two hours was the number of mass shootings (133 in 39 years, 3.5/yr) or students killed (1K, 28/yr) or injured (2.6K, 68/yr) relative to the number of children in America, 0.004%, mentioned. Nor were the odds of being shot in a mass shooting (1 in 11K), 1,571 times less than dying from cancer (1 in 7), presented. No one stated how often so-called “assault rifles” (10% of the time) are used or how many shootings are stopped by armed civilians (49% in 2021). Nor were gun-free zones, Israeli policy, or the effects of drug use and nihilistic ideologies (that deny God’s existence) on the mental state of shooters discussed. Perhaps most remarkably, no one mentioned that all public policy is legally constrained by the U.S. Constitution.
Although many on stage were paid to uphold the Constitution and most in the audience were U.S. citizens, the social compact that binds all Americans together was met not with praise, but with challenges as to the 2nd Amendment’s meaning of the word militia and whether the founders envisioned weapons beyond muskets — intimating that semi-automatic weapons (85% of handguns manufactured in 2018) are constitutionally out of bounds. Instead, the pain of survivors and what that pain demanded were most on display. In response, politicians added insult to injury by vowing to infringe upon yet more rights without deference to tragedies that have followed national firearm bans as night follows day — for if students gunned down by an evil and deranged person is a horror beyond words, what are tens of millions slaughtered by an evil and deranged government?
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