It was illegal to possess guns in the Orlando night club. How did that work out?
This was published on June 7, before the Orlando shooting, but it’s still applicable.
It’s time to eliminate “gun free zones” those are nothing but victim disarmament zones.
But let’s be clear about precisely what kind of decision is letting events like this recur.
Congress’s decision not to pass background checks is not what’s keeping the US from European gun violence levels. The expiration of the assault weapons ban is not behind the gap. What’s behind the gap, plenty of research indicates, is that Americans have more guns. The statistics are mind-blowing: America has 4.4 percent of the world’s population but almost half of its civilian-owned guns.
Realistically, a gun control plan that has any hope of getting us down to European levels of violence is going to mean taking a huge number of guns away from a huge number of gun owners.
Alright Dylan, let’s be clear. molṑn labé.
Are you going to be taking point on that project?
Don’t ever let anyone get away with telling you that no one wants to take your guns.
Tweeted yesterday:
I don’t want to ignore the shooter’s motivation. But I want to deny him–and every civilian–the means to kill 49 innocent people on a whim.
I suppose we could get along fairly well without pressure cookers but no gasoline or matches would be a huge step backward. Let alone the hundreds of other things that could be used. The only place where that would even be plausible would be a prison.
I’m going to say molṑn labé to that.
Don’t ever let anyone get away with telling you no one wants to take your guns.
Some people have the most bizarre fantasies:
Like that would work.
This is what they think of you.
Tweeted on June 13, 2016:
@AdamBaldwin @DLoesch @Alyssa_Milano Think of the incalculable benefit to the gene pool from one drone strike on an NRA convention.
Brian J Flanagan @bjflanagan
There is a reason progressives are so violent.
He needs them to compensate for his lack of intelligence,sense of self worth,pay rate,and penis size.
Edith McDonald @LoveNOLA4ever
Tweeted on December 18, 2015
[It’s another Markley’s Law Monday!
Via a tweet from Christmas Spirit @Duck_Hunter7.
We have SCOTUS decisions. They have childish insults.—Joe]
Not just keeping the guns out of the hands of mentally ill people and criminals but I really don’t personally think anyone should have a gun.
Bonnie Schaefer
DNC Platform Committee member in response to testimony by Lucia McBath, a spokeswoman for Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America.
June 2016
Woman Shaping DNC Platform: Nobody Should Have a Gun
[Via a tweets from Katie Pavlich and TriggerFinger.
Don’t ever let anyone get away with telling you that no one wants to take your guns.—Joe]
Carrying a concealed firearm is about personal protection and safety. It’s a choice that has life-and-death consequences. The purpose of carrying is to save your life and to keep away harm. Unless trust has been established, the personal question of whether a woman carries a concealed firearm and the details surrounding that choice shouldn’t be asked by strangers, and the answer shouldn’t be given to strangers, either.
Katie Pavlich
May 31, 2016
When Strangers Ask if you Carry a Concealed Firearm
[Via an email from Stephanie.
The one edit I would make is that “woman” should be changed to “person”.—Joe]
As a scholar of propaganda, I must agree that history may resemble creative writing more than any sort of historical reality. We live daily with Orwellian revisionism. But just as Haag accuses Winchester and Colt’s of manufacturing a gun culture mythos, Haag appears to be engaged in the business of manufacturing an antipodal Sarah mythos by the decidedly ahistorical methodology of free association.
Brian Anse Patrick
June 2, 2016
Review of “The Gunning of America”
[As Sean D Sorrentino said in the comments, “Ouch!”
See also what Sebastian and Clayton Cramer have to say.—Joe]
California is suffering terrible attacks by the anti-gun politicians. One of the battles is that Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom is running for governor in 2018 and has managed to put an initiative on the ballot for this fall which:
Bad stuff.
How do they imagine this cannot be infringing up on the specific enumerated right to keep and bear arms? Short answer, they don’t. They intend it to infringe up on the rights of gun owners. That is the entire point.
In response the California Rifle & Pistol Association (CRPA), which is the official state association of the NRA, put up a website asking for money and released this ad:
It’s a very emotional ad, but that is what it takes to reach a lot of people.
Even more so, when white men hold big black guns and shoot power out of the tips of them, it gives them a racial-psychosexual high.
Shaun King @ShaunKing
Tweeted on December 5, 2015
[It’s another Markley’s Law Monday!
Via a Tweet from Michael Z Williamson @mzmadmike.—Joe]
Human beings are morally self-governing individuals that are able to make up their mind about the speech of other people and decide how to respond. No politician or public opinion should have the power through criminalization and bans to hide opinions and speech from us, implying that we are not able to handle it in a reasonable and responsible way. It takes away our dignity because it is based on the assumption that we cannot be trusted to listen to certain kinds of speech. As Lincoln assumed in another context, free men should not be free to choose unfreedom for others.
Flemming Rose
May 25, 2016
Notable & Quotable: The Milton Friedman Prize
From remarks by Danish journalist Flemming Rose upon receiving the Cato Institute’s Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty, in New York City.
[Via email from Paul Koning who points out, “The same reasoning and the same principles apply to the right to arms.”—Joe]
Another one from Stephanie:
When Soechtig and her team plea to federal charges for violating the nation’s commonsense gun laws, we’ll know they’re serious about cutting down on gun crime. Until then, we’ll know they’re just a bunch of ignorant, gun-trafficking profiteers who want to take away our rights while they violate the very laws they demand with absolute impunity.
Sean Davis
June 3, 2016
Katie Couric’s Anti-Gun Producers Repeatedly Violated Federal Gun Laws
[The laws Soechtig and team committed should not stand up to scrutiny by the courts but other people are still going to jail for them. And as long as other people are going to jail over them it should doubly apply to Soechtig and her gang. Since she wants us to go to jail for violation of nonsensical laws then she needs to understand, first hand, the significance of what she demands.
Update: Image supplied, copyright free and no permission required, by Stephanie.—Joe]
This is a reference to my frequent suggestion that gun owners “come out of the closet”.
Image from an anonymous donor referencing my just one question post.
Update: Bill suggested I put this on a shirt. So I did. Get your shirt here.
