“Pernicious.”  The petulant, petty, pouty and pernicious president.

Why the alliteration update?  Where did that p-word come from?  That is the word his minion Josh Earnest used to insult gun-owners further.  So, I’ll just add it on.  And, when Democrats complain about the lack of civil discourse, it will help me to remember who called the millions of gun owners in this country and their member organization the NRA “pernicious.”

These people are beside themselves.  I think they should be denied guns.  Oh, that’s right.  They have the Army.  The Secret Service.  The FBI.  Guns.  Lots of guns.  That’s truly scary.

The Idiocracy is livid.

Geraldo, O’Reilly, even Rush.

Consider that Democrat legislator caught on camera expressing her moronic belief that once a “magazine clip’s bullets” are expended, then it is useless.  Done for.  It’s bullets are gone and won’t be back.  She reasoned, therefore—if you can call it reasoning when you are reasoning from such errors in fundamental facts—that banning 30-round magazines would eventually expend the supply and they would be gone.

These are the people out here influencing others and making our laws.  To be more clear: in the case of the lawmaker, she is passing legislation that would make some of the rest of us criminals.  This should not be taken lightly.  It should certainly not be undertaken from ignorance.

And she is stupid.  Willfully so, since a single day with anyone knowledgeable about firearms would cure her gross ignorance.  Is there no one around her who knows anything at all about firearms?

The commentators need educating, too.  Perhaps the egos are insurmountable.  In the case of Rivera, any efforts to correct his factually erroneous assumptions are quickly deflected.  His statement that the AR-15 is easily convertible to full automatic from parts you can order off the Internet was his last position before he cut the caller off and went to commercial.  Yes, of course it is possible to order and modify.  You can make a lawnmower into a racing machine, too.  But, not easily.  Not easily at all.  I can install a drop-in trigger, but making my Bushmaster rock and roll is first illegal, and second hard to do.  (Not to mention that such converted weapons are as rare at crime scenes as a spending cuts are in Washington.)

O’Reilly probably does not care to get guns straight.  Surely, there is someone on his staff who can get his ear.  Rush is probably teachable.  At least he does no harm and he argues our cause, even though he misunderstands firearms.  Rush: you are in the same state; call Massad Ayoob.

If they misunderstand the weapons, then they misunderstand their practical use and, therefore, they cannot correctly assess the issues that arise in self-defense and in maintaining arms against the threat of unlawful government.

Someone please invite these people out to handle, examine, and familiarize with firearms.  Forget about shooting.  That should come later.

They should watch how fast an average IDPA contender can change magazines, for example.  Then, try it a few times.

Put on an average kit, and practice changing AR magazines a few times.

For that matter, practice loading stripper clips and cycling the action  of a bolt-action, .303 Enfield to see how fast this antique will fire 10 rounds.

After awhile, equip them with a holstered Airsoft pistol and demonstrate to them how quickly an attacker can close the distance and knife them.  Not that there is any risk of getting knifed.  That just doesn’t happen anymore, right?

It is up to us to convert these people.  The first task is inviting them to learn.  They are the people influencing and writing the laws that govern the rest of us.

And they do not know what the hell they are talking about.

I used to walk after school to the local family-owned grocery store to buy a box of (50) .22 shorts.  Then, I’d walk to the local city dump and shoot bottles and tin cans with a bolt-action, single-shot.

Now, you either can’t find .22 or it’s 40 cents a round.  Click here fast: LG has only two more of these in stock and by the time you read this, those will probably be gone.  Poof!

Nowadays, if as a teenager in high school, you tried to buy ammo, you’d either be arrested or investigated as the next psycho.

We traded guns on the baseball field.

Now, they trade gunfire.

Local murder rate during that era: 0%.  Year after year.

Only shooting at school was basketball.

So, you tell me.  What’s changed?  Why?

We didn’t need gun control because people—generally—behaved themselves.

Now, supposedly, we need gun control.

Why?  What changed?

We are living all of the Democrat Utopian ideals, made into law, funded by working taxpayers.

We have all of their programs.

And, now, they tell us we need gun control.

Maybe, it’s time to say no.