Guns, Germs, and Feelz

The truth, well expressed.

And we are no longer surprised by such bureaucrat decision-making. Our lazy-assed Congress for decades has allowed this by writing laws that are deliberately and confusingly ill-defined. As a result unelected pencil-pushers with Civil Service sinecures and agendas of their own end up interpreting these laws any way way they damn well please.

I have been following the Rare Breed case. It is a classic example of how ATF, a bunch of un-elected bureaucrats, turns on a dime on some ticky-tack point that they were fine with one minute, and suddenly against the next. This agency blows in the wind depending on the political direction from above. Most of their decisions are completely arbitrary, and are based upon their interpretation of NFA 34 and GCA 68 at the time. In many cases, one agent will decide one way, and then another will look at the very same item and decide completely opposite. Now, with the winds blowing against gun owners, I expect more of this crap from ATF on anything that they can say 'skirts the intent' of the law. That's a very low standard for them to meet. Haven't seen it reported anywhere, but the Xiden administration quietly banned Russian firearms and ammo importations on Friday by executive fiat. Most common Russian calibers are directly affected.

I have always viewed the ATF as just a couple of guys wearing skinny black ties with an office the size of a hall closet chasing people for tax revenues. When the pencil pushers decided to wear black ninja outfits with ATF on the back, arm themselves it became a dangerous game. Think of Waco, think of Ruby Ridge there was no call for those two botched incidences along with Janet Reno that's what happens when un-electeds roam free and wild. The ATF are a bunch of frat house jerks I know when I had a license I had to deal with them.

I gave my FFL up years ago, #4, as well. I was sick of dealing with the ridiculous bureaucracy from ATF at this time, and by all indications, its worse now than it was back then.

FTA: "Teaching people to be afraid of firearms has taught Americans both to be afraid of defending themselves and to depend solely upon bureaucrats from agencies like the ATF to preserve their lives." It's not fear of firearms, rather fear of their neighbors who may own firearms. For many gun ownership is prima facie evidence of serious mental illness, perhaps worse than refusing vax or a mask in public encounters. America's middle class, in particular, no longer hunts. It no longer sees value in firearms for recreation or protection. We have the authorities to take care of that, which is why taxpayers lay out the big bucks for our badged men in black and their tactical equipment...problem solved, no longer the public's problem. The larger path has already been designed, with the full cooperation of the Commie Democrats and the Patriotic Republicans. What passes for political conflict is at the edges, which lane of the highway we drive in to arrive at the destination. Guns, the border, "infrastruture", even "Brainless Joe" and Kammie, all are sideshows. Funny how that funnel of personal liberty keeps narrowing worldwide, including for the USA.

Having read Guns, germs and Steel, I found it to be the most willful and pig headed denial of the facts about history that I have ever read. At every opportunity, the author denies all the obvious facts associated with the superiority of function of Christian and capitalist societies, and makes endless excuses for the failed, dysfunctional stone age tribes around the world which just FAILED. That book was a huge propaganda effort and I was appalled by several friends who I normally consider to be intelligent people who lapped up that garbage without question. Mr. Diamond is a fool if he believes what he wrote, or more likely just a propagandist knowingly writing lies.

Jared Diamond's book is idiotic.