DC Ignores Gun Laws for The Media Elites

For the second time in as many weeks, the District of Columbia has chosen not to prosecute members of the media who have violated their assault weapons ban. 

The Daily Caller reports

A staffer at left-wing Media Matters for America committed numerous felonies in the District of Columbia and around the country by carrying a firearm to defend the organization’s founder, David Brock, The Daily Caller has learned.
According to a knowledgeable source, multiple firearms used to protect the Media Matters founder were purchased with Brock’s blessing — and apparently with the group’s money.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/27/illegal-guns-david-brock-media-matters/#ixzz2JJKEGGff

Back in December, David Gregory illegally possessed and brandished a banned AR-15 magazine and got off scot free after the Attorney General of the District of Columbia decided it was better to selectively enforce it's pointless gun laws such as the Army veteran and federal employee James Brinkley who was arrested for transporting his unloaded Glock 22 and two 15 round magazines to a shooting range.

Recently, Senator Diane Feinstein raised questions with her show casing of illegally possessed rifles and handguns.  She on numerous occasions would pull out AK-47 variants and AR-15 type rifles to use as props for her failing attempt to ban certain semi-automatic rifles (rifles I might add work exactly the same as your grandfather's revolver--one trigger squeeze fires one bullet).  Once again the capitol police and DC Metro turned a blind eye even adding that the firearms were in police possession.

As Emily Miller writing for the Washington Times puts it: "It is shameful that the politicians running the nation’s capital have sent the clear message that there are two systems of justice in the city -- one for the rich and powerful and one for everyone else."

PA Gov Double-Speak

Our wonderfully naive governor is apparently an expert at Orwellian double-speak. He's been in the news as of late showing his 'support' of the Law Enforcement community by pushing to make their civilian firearms illegal.

In a clever bit of double-speak.

CNBC: Assault Weapons 'Nuts' for Ordinary Citizens: Governor

"Assault weapons are difficult to operate, they jam easily. If you want a gun to protect your home it’s the last thing you should have." . . .
"These weapons have one purpose," added Rendell. "...They’re to kill and to maim, and they shouldn’t be in the hands of anyone else but the police and the military."

Now I'm a bit confused, maybe our governor can explain how this makes sense. 'Assault weapons' are poor choices for home defense weapons, but they should be used by the police and military?

Gov. Rendell, I thought you said you supported the police!

Now you want them to use weapons that are difficult to operate and jam easily?

And you say that these weapon's only purpose is to kill and maim but the police and military should have them, so are you saying that our police aim to kill and maim people?

This guy makes me ashamed to be called Pennsylvanian... when's his term up?

Fox News Calls Bull on Mexico Myth

Props to Fox News for doing their journalistic duty and shedding light on this Myth LIE that's been promulgated in the news media.

You've heard this shocking "fact" before -- on TV and radio, in newspapers, on the Internet and from the highest politicians in the land: 90 percent of the weapons used to commit crimes in Mexico come from the United States...

There's just one problem with the 90 percent "statistic" and it's a big one:

It's just not true.

In fact, it's not even close. The fact is, only 17 percent of guns found at Mexican crime scenes have been traced to the U.S.

What's true, an ATF spokeswoman told FOXNews.com, in a clarification of the statistic used by her own agency's assistant director, "is that over 90 percent of the traced firearms originate from the U.S."

This is something I've been saying for quite a while. Why would a monumentally powerful drug cartel try to aquire arms at great cost and risk (purchasing them in the U.S. and smuggling them across the Mexican border) when they could use other cost effective and reliable means?

The Fox News exclusive report breaks it down for those of us that can't fathom weapons coming from anywhere other than the U.S.

So, if not from the U.S., where do they come from? There are a variety of sources:

-- The Black Market. Mexico is a virtual arms bazaar, with fragmentation grenades from South Korea, AK-47s from China, and shoulder-fired rocket launchers from Spain, Israel and former Soviet bloc manufacturers.

-- Russian crime organizations. Interpol says Russian Mafia groups such as Poldolskaya and Moscow-based Solntsevskaya are actively trafficking drugs and arms in Mexico.

- South America. During the late 1990s, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) established a clandestine arms smuggling and drug trafficking partnership with the Tijuana cartel, according to the Federal Research Division report from the Library of Congress.

-- Asia. According to a 2006 Amnesty International Report, China has provided arms to countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Chinese assault weapons and Korean explosives have been recovered in Mexico.

-- The Mexican Army. More than 150,000 soldiers deserted in the last six years, according to Mexican Congressman Robert Badillo. Many took their weapons with them, including the standard issue M-16 assault rifle made in Belgium.

-- Guatemala. U.S. intelligence agencies say traffickers move immigrants, stolen cars, guns and drugs, including most of America's cocaine, along the porous Mexican-Guatemalan border. On March 27, La Hora, a Guatemalan newspaper, reported that police seized 500 grenades and a load of AK-47s on the border. Police say the cache was transported by a Mexican drug cartel operating out of Ixcan, a border town.

I think the old adage is of pertinence here, Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear.