Quotes of the day
posted at 10:48 pm on January 20, 2011 by Allahpundit
“Gabrielle Giffords on Thursday felt the sunshine on her face for the first time since she was shot, as doctors prepared her to leave behind the Arizona hospital where she dazzled them with her rapid recovery.
“Her next stop will be a Houston rehab center, where she will face an even more arduous task: Getting life back to normal…
“Late Thursday, trauma surgeon, Dr. Peter Rhee, said staff at University Medical Center in Tucson helped Giffords stand and get into a wheelchair. They then took her to a deck at the hospital, where she breathed in the fresh air and felt the sun.
“‘I saw the biggest smile she could gather,’ Rhee said, noting that Giffords loves the outdoors.”
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“Despite the use of terms like ‘miraculous’ to describe Giffords’s progress, numerous experts describe her survival and apparently good condition as an increasingly common outcome in brain-injured patients, thanks to aggressive surgery and meticulous care afterward.
“The ability of the brain to compensate for damage by at least partly rewiring itself and assigning new tasks to undamaged regions is known as ‘neuroplasticity.’ It’s one of the hottest topics in biology and an important one in medicine.
“Because of insights from functional magnetic resonance imaging and other technologies, scientists now realize that brain reorganization after injury is far more common and extensive than previously thought. They also know that neuroplasticity depends to a great degree on experience – which is to say, what the brain is forced to do in the critical weeks and months after it is injured.
“‘There is a relationship between the amount of therapy you receive and the degree of recovery,’ said Maurizio Corbetta, a neurologist who runs a brain injury unit at the Rehabilitation Institute of St. Louis at Washington University. ‘This is particularly true in the first three to six months when the brain is reorganizing.’”
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“Pelosi said she believed that Giffords, the victim of an assassination attempt on Jan. 8, would one day return to her seat in the House.
“‘Yes, I think so,’ Pelosi said on CNN’s ‘The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer’ when asked if she thought Giffords would return to Congress.”
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The other difference is the police and other government agencies don’t typically have cops just walk into the store to buy something. They usually buy in bulk on a contract that goes through the Request For Proposals (RFP) process where the manufacturer or a wholesale distributor provides bids on what they will sell to the agency and for what price.
Besides, if it’s a gun store in a place like NY – he already can’t sell those weapons locally, so he’s not likely to have anything in the store anyway.
dentarthurdent on February 25, 2013 at 11:24 AM
“Nothing we’re going to do is going to fundamentally alter or eliminate the possibility of another mass shooting or guarantee that we will bring gun deaths down to a thousand a year from what we’re at now,” Biden told reporters after meeting with Senate Democrats in the Capitol.
J_Crater on February 25, 2013 at 11:40 AM
I’d bet Romney’s $10k that violent crime rates go UP in the areas where law-abiding citizens’ gun rights are violated.
dentarthurdent on February 25, 2013 at 11:49 AM
But apparently Obama and his illegitimate NLRB can tell private companies where they may and may not build plants, witness Boeing. Every time somebody says but but but something-or-other can’t happen, I just laugh. Then groan.
Fenris on February 25, 2013 at 11:56 AM
Evidently, some ammunition companies are also refusing to sell to government – both because of 2d Amendment issues, and because of concerns about the quantity of ammunition some national government organizations are acquiring.
GWB on February 25, 2013 at 12:02 PM
Who’s doing this though?
Can’t find a comprehensive list anywhere. Jazz???
Also, from what I HAVE seen of the list, they’re mostly all small time companies – many I’ve never even heard of. So unless we see some big names join this list – S&W, Remington, Winchester, Colt, etc – I don’t see this causing much impact to the government entities they’re targeting.
dentarthurdent on February 25, 2013 at 12:17 PM
Perhaps not. However, “the cops” are the “tool” of politician’s and WILL use their guns, without hesitation, to execute these crafted laws.
And by the way, “the cops” don’t function based upon law … they function upon chain-of-command orders.
Carnac on February 25, 2013 at 12:34 PM
I don’t recall which ammunition companies were cited. I seem to recall the information was on a firearms blog/forum. (Which I will never be able to find right now.)
GWB on February 25, 2013 at 12:47 PM
I was hoping if Hot Air is going to post a thread on this topic, they would have a link to an actual comprehensive list somewhere.
I have the same problem with Fox News – way too many articles referring to photos or other things – but they don’t include the relevant photo or even links to it or other items.
dentarthurdent on February 25, 2013 at 12:57 PM
here you go:
blog 1
blog 2
Fenris on February 25, 2013 at 1:11 PM
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If you believe LEO’s are Nazi’s willing to follow any order handed down the chain of command, you know nothing about LEO’s.
In my experience, they are MORE tuned in to the failings of politicians than your average person because they live with the “unintended consequences” politicians generate.
Please spare us your OWS, gramatically challenged ““the cops” are the “tool” of politician’s” nonsense.
I have never met a LEO/Mil who wanted to be on the wrong side of 100:1 odds – and 95% of both groups have NO illusions about what it would be likeif some jacka$$ politician ordered them to confiscate legally owned weapons.
PolAgnostic on February 25, 2013 at 1:17 PM
I think it depends on the cops themselves and where they are.
My county sheriff has publicly stated he will NOT enforce any laws that violate the 2nd Amendment. Some of the city cops I’m not so sure about – although most of the cops I’ve known personally would more likely be on our side (us “gun nuts” that is) of this issue.
However, if you look at comments made by some chiefs/sheriffs from places like Baltimore and Chicago, I get the impression they seem to be very willing to run out and start confiscating weapons – from law-abiding citizens – probably not so quick from the gang-bangers who are the actual problem.
dentarthurdent on February 25, 2013 at 1:52 PM
if the LEO’s don’t like it .. vote the b*stards out that crafted this “law”
conservative tarheel on February 25, 2013 at 2:25 PM
oh and you can add Barrett to the list.
conservative tarheel on February 25, 2013 at 2:28 PM
Thanks for posting those lists.
However, now that I’ve seen the lists, they confirm my concern that this is mainly an advertising gimmick for the little guys who depend on the pro-gun civilian customer base. Don’t get me wrong – I’m all in favor of it. But I doubt these companies are major sources of weapons and equipment for government agencies – who typically buy in large quantities via RFP. So this will have little to no impact unless the big boys jump in. Until S&W, Remington, Glock, Winchester, and other big manufacturers/distributors get in, it’s kind of a hollow gesture – or perhaps a hollow point (ok – bad pun, couldn’t resist ;) ).
dentarthurdent on February 25, 2013 at 2:57 PM
Not going ot happen with Remington. That’s owned by Cerberus Capital Management, a notoriously left-wing company. They also own Bushmaster, DPMS Firearms, Marlin (owned by Remington),and Advanced Armament Corporation, all of which were organized under the umbrella of Freedom Group, which, last I checked, Cerberus was trying to dump after Sandy Hook. Don’t know if they succeeded, though.
totherightofthem on February 25, 2013 at 3:38 PM
Darn – I should have looked that up before I bought my Marlin .22. I had one back in HS and it was a decent little rifle, and they’re cheap, so I got another for target plinking. I guess I should have paid a bit more and got the Ruger.
dentarthurdent on February 25, 2013 at 3:47 PM
It just means the cops won’t get special deals for being cops
Sounds good to me
Feel sad for the good cops, if a couple years down the road, their bosses are buying them buffoon guns from the ‘bend over’ manufacturers willing to issue Bloomberg approved non hurtful weapons
entagor on February 26, 2013 at 3:56 PM
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