AP NewsBreak: Gun Safety Groups to Host Presidential Forum​

First, like the Democratic debates we've already seen, this will be an attempt for the leftists to outdo each other. Whoever promises door-to-door confiscation and summary execution of any registered Republicans with firearms would probably win the "Most Far Left" award of the debates. 

Second, this is nothing but a political stunt to take advantage of a tragedy to exploit victims for gun control. Remember, no law would have prevented October 1 or Gilroy for that matter.

• They will choose a venue that will isolate attendees from 2A supporters;
• They will choose a venue where they can legally exclude carriers, like a school or renting private property or the convention center;
• They will bus in crowds to fill up the room for the cameras.
• None of these organizations are about "gun safety" but gun control. They are the abstinence only method of gun safety.

It's all political theater and will be a gigantic advertisement for Trump 2020. The Las Vegas area will appreciate the revenue provided by your stunt. Keep shining on that Boogaloo.

​A friend speculated that we, the gun owners, should give something up to avoid something worse. As if the gun banners care about nice, but meaningless gestures. Nothing we can legislate against can realistically keep people safe. Giving up rights is just giving up rights and exactly what the disarmamentists want us to do. If they’re already talking about full confiscation and semi-auto bans now, what will they talk about once we start giving in?
 
Yes, it really sucks that after the political terrorism at Walmart some copycat spree killer goes on a rampage in Ohio. I hate these mass shootings as much as anyone else, but I don’t have any guilt for something I didn’t do. The media and the political left is responsible for much radicalization and the demonization of guns and gun owners. I’m not a murderer just because someone keeps shouting that some of my possessions are capable of making murder easy.
 
I didn’t murder anyone yesterday or any day before that. I seriously doubt I will murder anyone today, or ever, for that matter. The same goes for 99.998% of you (assuming 1m murders and 500m Americans in the last 50 years).
 
So no, no compromise. If you want to eat my cake, I’m not going to feed it to you slice by slice. You can have my cake when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.

If you think this was about guns, you’re wrong. If you think this was just someone who wants to “watch the world burn,” you’re wrong. This was a loser fighting a one-man civil war.
 
The El Paso shootings were part of the opening salvo in our second civil war. The killer posted a manifesto online in which he explained his motive was to kill Hispanic to “encourage” them to return to their home countries so that they cannot replace European Americans. He warns of a  diabolical plan to replace traditional American ideals with socialism by promising the third world freebies in exchange for them giving their votes, and thus power, to the Democrats.
 
Are his sentiments wrong? No. Such a replacement is in full swing and will be completed by the end of the next decade. Yet being right about that and deciding to shoot shoppers makes about as much sense as hitting the mailman for delivering bills. Rather than look at Hispanics and third-worlders as enemies we should instead see them as pitiful pawns and future victims of the coming totalitarian state.
 
Many mass shootings have been just as the Nolan brothers wrote, “some men want to watch the world burn.” Other have done it as revenge for perceived slights, like Columbine and Borderline. San Bernardino was radical Islamic terror. Anders Breivik attacked a leftist youth camp to publicize his manifesto calling for the removal of Muslims from Norway. In Gilroy, the killer appears to have had some white supremacist ideas, but his target was essentially random.
 
Like The Troubles in Northern Ireland, what happened today is part of ethnic and political violence. Rather than a revolution or rebellion, which the Civil War of 1861-1865 was, this is a true civil war—members of society attacking each other. This was killing with a goal of political change. As this kind of thing increases, it will progress from random, misguided losers killing innocents into direct retaliation. In time, an equally radicalized killer from “the other side” will target who he thinks are his enemy.
 
In the future, we will see worse attacks. When this kind of ethnic/political violence becomes more common, as in Israel during the Intifada, the attacks will be targeted better and methods will be sophisticated. This attack was an idiot loser who couldn’t think of anything better than shooting up a Walmart; I would look to a future of political assassinations, voter intimidation, and bombings. It will not be pretty.
 
This was not just another mass shooting. This was a salvo in something far worse, much more disturbing, and with far greater effects than just gun control. For more in depth information about what the second civil war will look like, please check out Forward Observer on YouTube who has a great video series about the topic. Now on to guns.
 
Pundits will blame the guns because they know that guns erode leftist’s power. We are way beyond discussing gun control as crime or mass shooting control. Any such claimed motivation is entirely false. Each mass shooting is used to rally support for incremental gun control. Once again, we will hear about banning “assault weapons.” The ultimate goal of gun control is disarmament so dissenters cannot interfere with or resist government directives.
 
The future is not a bright one. 

Lyon County Sheriff’s Office crowed about security at Yerington’s Night in the Country this week. To their credit, they had a large presence of deputies and private security as well as a sniper team. Unfortunately…
 
Sheriff’s deputies and private security prevented legal possession of firearms at the fairgrounds in Yerington. Unless I’m mistaken, this is a public facility and state preemption laws apply to counties and their employees, meaning that firearms cannot be prevented from being possessed at a public fairgrounds. 

Of course the Clark County fairgrounds are technically private property of the non-profit fair organization, but I believe Lyon County owns its fairgrounds. There is also the question of whether or not the deputies were enforcing the policy of the venue renter to prohibit firearms for their temporary private property and if this is even legal. So who knows, but the point is that disarming ordinary folks is security theater.
 
The RGJ [quotes source] dug up a country fan, who happened to be one of the tens of thousands of “survivors” of Route 91. 

​First, disarming guests doesn’t prevent someone who expects that kind of security to avoid the checkpoints. The guy in Gilroy never went through security; he cut a fence. In Las Vegas, the shooter shot from an elevated position in the safety of his room at the Mandalay Bay.
 
Second, keeping people from possessing handguns might stop the odd drunken shooting, which frankly doesn’t seem to be a problem with country fans. When was the last time you heard about a predominately white country bar shot up because of drunk violence or a gang shooting? The Borderline is the only country bar shooting I’m aware of and that was a terrorist act, not of ordinary criminal violence.
 
Black and Hispanic clubs on the other hand seem to have innocent bystanders injured in gang shootouts regularly. Here’s an example from Little Rock. Those don’t seem to make many waves.
 
Now no one is suggesting that a concealed carrier with a handgun go up against a guy with a rifle. Rather, a handgun is for shooting your way to safety, should the guy with a rifle be between you and safety. It’s also there to protect yourself in the campground and to and from the venue. No one should be disarmed on a road trip or in their temporary residence (campsite) because of the fear of some loser shooting the place up. Legally armed citizens with handguns are not a problem. The government and media really needs to stop making it out that they are.
 
You want to keep them out of the actual concert area? You got probable cause that the guy with a tactical plate carrier, an AR, and 30 magazines with no camping gear and a “country music sucks” bumper sticker isn’t there to enjoy the music and bang some chicks? Okay, we’ll grant you that. But handguns in vehicles in the parking or camping area should be off-limits to police to touch.
 
Finally, if you’re going to such events you probably aren’t too concerned about your safety. Those of us who are Second Amendment absolutists generally avoid large crowds for the obvious safety concerns. The rest of us are willing to make the sacrifice for the atmosphere or the members of the opposite sex. Getting laid is totally an acceptable excuse for disarming.
 
Those people who go to these events and normally carry guns generally go with the understanding they will be disarmed. That’s the risk you take. At least security was heavy and credible; far more than you’ll find at the average school or public building. It’s all a gray area, but it does leave a bad taste in my mouth reading about law enforcement telling people, without any apparently legal authority, they can’t have legal guns.