Thursday, February 07, 2013

COLORADO DEMOCRATS want gun manufacturers held liable for crimes committed with their guns. Right; and let's hold automobile manufacturers liable when drunks use their cars to kill others.

I don't know whether to call this one overreach or just plain stupid ... or both.
SPECIAL REPORT: Dream Jobs 2013. The interesting part of this is that while Spectrum is an Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering publication, these 'dream jobs' typically don't require an engineering degree -- or for that matter, a college degree.

For good jobs, a formal education isn't the ticket it used to be.
SOME NOTES ABOUT GUNS & GUN CONTROL:
S&W: Running at Full capacity making 300+ guns/day-mainly M&P pistols. They are unable to produce any more guns to help with the shortages.

RUGER: Plans to increase from 75% to 100% in the next 90 days.

FNH: Moving from 50% production to 75% by Feb 1st and 100% by March 1.

REMINGTON (Bushmaster): Maxed out!

ARMALITE: Maxed out.

DPMS: Can’t get enough parts to produce any more product.

COLT: Production runs increasing weekly...bottle necked by lack of bolt carrier’s.

LWRC: Making only black guns, running at full capacity...can’t get enough gun quality steel to make barrels.

SPRINGFIELD ARMORY: Only company who can meet demand but are running 30-45 days behind.

AMMUNITION: Every caliber is now allocated! We are looking at a nation wide shortage of all calibers over the next 9 months. All plants are producing as much ammo as possible w/over 1 BILLION rounds produced weekly. Most is military followed by law enforcement and civilians are third in line.

MAGPUL: Behind 1 MILLION mags, do not expect any large quantities magazines anytime soon.

RELOADERS: ALL Remington, Winchester, CCI & Federal primers are going to ammo FIRST. There are no extra’s for reloading purposes ... it could be 6-9 months before things get caught up. Sorry for the bleak news, but now we know what to expect in the coming months. Stay tuned.

Related commentary:

They didn’t know when they’d be getting anything back in stock, from magazines to rifles to pistols. Manufacturers are running full-bore, but can’t come close to keeping up with market demand. It isn’t just the AR-15s, the AK-pattern rifles, the M1As, and the FALs that are sold out. It really hit me when I realized that the World War-era M1 Garands, M1 Carbines, and Enfield .303s are gone, along with every last shell. Ubiquitous Mosin-Nagants—of which every gun store always seemed to have 10-20 — are gone. So is their ammo. Only a dust free space marked their passing. I’ve never seen anything like it.

Every weapon of military utility designed within the past 100+ years is gone. This isn’t a society stocking up on certain guns because they fear they may be banned. This is a society preparing for war.

Barack Obama, Dianne Feinstein and the rest of the Statists have done more to promote gun ownership than the NRA ever did.

IF Obama thought that he could take this country down without a fight, he was dead wrong.
From my email. And I can support every observation from my own experience.
SECRET AGENT MAN: President Obama gives himself permission to kill.

SPACE: Details Emerge of Chang’e-2 Asteroid Encounter. The most interesting part is trajectory the satellite followed to perform the flyby.
THE REPUBLICANS' primary problem is that they have no problem -- if they stay Republicans.
"THE PRESENT SYSTEM OF IMMIGRATION is far too often illegal and immoral. But it is also weirdly rational in the way that it serves so well so many lobbies -- and so poorly the shared public interest at large."
FEELING HUNGRY? Print your dinner.
WHO CARES ABOUT JOBS when you can regulate Happy Meals? Regulating is sooo much easier than governing.
U.S. DRONE USE could set dangerous example for rogue powers. Could? Or has? I suspect 'has' is the more accurate verb.
VIRGINIA BECOMES FIRST STATE to pass drone regulations. I'm inclined to agree with Virginia's restrictions. Until the privacy issues are addressed, publicly and transparently, drone surveillance should be tightly restricted.
BEN SHAPIRO: Rove vs. the Tea Party. Even the Republican establishment isn't above believing they know it all. Punch back.
FROMA HARROP: Tough Times for California Bashers. I'd find her a little more believable is she actually, er, lived in California.
JONAH GOLDBERG: Education spending isn't that smart.
Higher education in particular is almost universally championed as the key to "winning the future" .... New York Times economics columnist David Leonhardt calls education the "lifeblood of economic growth."

Now, obviously, education is important and necessary for a host of reasons. But there's little evidence it drives growth.

British scholar Alison Wolf writes in "Does Education Matter?": "The simple one-way relationship ... -- education spending in, economic growth out -- simply does not exist. Moreover, the larger and more complex the education sector, the less obvious any links to productivity."

Think about it this way: Growing economies spend a lot on education, but that doesn't necessarily mean that spending makes them grow. During the so-called Gilded Age, the U.S. economy roared faster and longer than ever before or since, while the illiteracy rate went down. But the rising literacy didn't cause the growth. Similarly, in the 20th century, in places like China, South Korea and India, the economic boom -- and the policies that create it -- always come first while the investments in education come later.
I submit that the national overemphasis on education is the problem, not the solution, and for proof, I offer Washington D.C. -- overfilled with overeducated people who can't do a damn thing that's even remotely productive.
HUH? How not to stop a massacre. Am I reading this right, that we can't institutionalize the mentally deranged so we must ban guns for everyone?

I'm afraid I am reading it correctly; the Left's standard solution to every problem is to punish the (non-Leftist) innocent. We are rapidly moving to a society where everything is criminal unless explicitly authorized (with waivers freely granted to the politically connected).
JOHN STOSSEL: Ban everything! So politicians will have more favors to grant their contributors....
MICRO AIR VEHICLES:


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I'm reminded of The Hellhound Project, first published 38 years ago in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact (Dec 1973).
WHY ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE CONSTITUTION? "The answer, of course, is that the political class doesn’t want citizens. It wants subjects."