Whistling Past the Graveyard

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The NRA’s legal turmoil is welcome news for the millions of Americans clamoring for solutions to America’s gun violence epidemic — and a four-alarm crisis for the gun industry. For the last 30 years, the NRA has served as a suit of armor for the gun industry, one that was big enough to hide the corporations that profited from the organization’s “guns everywhere” agenda, and intimidating enough to keep Washington lawmakers in line. Lately, however, that suit of armor has been losing limbs faster than a knight in a Monty Python movie.

John Feinblatt
President of Everytown for Gun Safety
April 20, 2024
Opinion: Another legal loss for the NRA — and another warning sign for the gun industry (msn.com)

Feinblatt is just whistling past the graveyard. It is not the NRA he needs to be concerned about and he knows it. It is the GOA, FPC, SAF, and SCOTUS that are ripping his world apart.

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7 thoughts on “Whistling Past the Graveyard

  1. Jeez, I go away to a Scout summer camp with no cell service or wifi for one week, and everything goes nonlinear. C’mon guys, keep it together, will ya?

    On the other hand, starting the Saturday before last, it was rather relaxing. Last I knew, in the last bandwidth before arriving at camp, Biden has dropped out, and then I spent the week teaching Scouts how to shoot shotgun. But I came back to all the usual suspects crowing about Harris being the next most awesome President ever. Who the heck would believe that?

    • The media is trying to rally Democrats around her. Her record with that is pretty weak but she is the only game in town. General election is essentially unchanged. I am torn as to the Democrat strategy. Either they have selected her to ride the bomb down and thus be rid of her or they are going to prove that the fraud machine is invincible even with an absurd candidate.

      • If their consultants have any sense, they’ll turn off the fraud machine and cripple Harris for 2028. Then they can turn the fraud machine back on against Vance, assuming he’s the nominee and doesn’t get the Dan Qualye treatment.

        On topic, however, I find it interesting that the anti-gun rhetorical momentum is so great that they can only focus their flying monkeys on the NRA, and the GOA, CCRKBA, SAF, etc can run the field.

    • Tell me about it. In August 1983 I met some friends and we sailed a small boat from Marina Del Rey to Catalina Island in California. We got there after a six hour passage and all the people there were talking about the Soviets shooting down a KAL Boeing 747. We wondered, so is this a war?
      And your and my examples of amazing changes have nothing on John Steinbeck and his friends, including Doc Ricketts, who took a three month fishing expedition in the spring of 1940 to the Sea of Cortez (the Gulf of California to the Gringos). When they returned, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, AND FRANCE had fallen to the German Army, and they were parked on the English Channel contemplating an invasion of Great Britain.

  2. It constantly surprises that Watts, Hogg, et al never mention the NSSF which is the actual gun lobby. .
    But never interrupt your enemy when he’s making a mistake. The the NRA makes an excellent meat shield for the SAF and GOA.

    • When I was defending slip and fall cases in Mini-markets, that was our favorite gambit. Never interrupt your opponent during an unforced error.
      Plaintiff would sue the Franchisor, Very Big Corporation, and not the Franchisee, so we’d depose everyone they wanted to depose, and then in our Summary Judgement Motion we’d point out that the Franchisor was not responsible for maintaining the floor, and they should have sued the Franchisee. Many times the statute of Limitations had run, so another motion opposing their motion to amend the Franchisee, and the Plaintiff who was there exaggerating every element of the negligence case was left “looking through his fingers” as my Mom used to say, and the Plaintiff’s Attorney learned a valuable lesson.

  3. “Look in the mirror then accuse the other guy of what your doing.” (Or in this case what’s happening to you.)
    It’s really Feinblatt’s industry that’s in crisis.
    And this report is his desperation showing up. The NRA is dying because their useless, and even detrimental at fighting for us.
    So go ahead and kill it, please. You’re doing us all a favor.
    Mr. Feinblatt, if you don’t like gun violence? (Or more correctly, men doing violence with guns.) Your truly not going to like the way “Shall not be infringed”, gets enforced on the street level.
    For all you lawyer types information? That means never bring a brief case to a gun fight.
    Just say’in.

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