Gun clubs are becoming the new bingo halls for seniors. They’re places to meet friends, learn new skills, and swap stories. Who knew that gun oil could be the new smell of friendship? These clubs often organize social events beyond shooting, creating tight-knit communities for older adults.
It is a little over the top, but that appeals to my inclination to rub the noses of anti-gun people in a different view of things.
We are going to make the case to the American public that he [Biden] is wrong, anti-gun liberals are wrong, and that the right to self-defense is fundamental to every law-abiding American.
Cris Cox
Senior Advisor to The Secure Our Freedom Alliance
September 3, 2024
New gun group launches to fill NRA vacuum (msn.com)
Cris Cox, if you don’t remember, is the NRA’s former political director and chief lobbyist.
Here are a couple of The Secure Our Freedom Alliance’s ads:
I wish them well.
A lot of people foolishly believe that the gun control movement’s motivation is a misguided but good faith desire to stop criminal violence.
While that’s true of some people who have been personally affected by gun-related crime, for the party leaders and financiers of the left, it’s not really true. If stopping crime were the big concern, they wouldn’t embrace so many policies that quickly release violent criminals back into society.
Criminal violence isn’t the real target, the fact that broad gun ownership is a check on the erosion of other liberties is. What is happening in the UK and Brazil right now is much harder to do in the US. Millions being armed is a major deterrent to it.
Everything the modern American Democrat party does makes sense when you realize the goal is to turn us into docile and harmless western europeans.
Kostas Moros @MorosKostas
Posted on X on September 1, 2024
And what happens after becoming “docile and harmless western Europeans”?
Prepare and respond appropriately.
I am gun owner with many hours of range and tactical practice and a concealed carry license. You do not need an automatic weapon to hunt. Or to “protect” yourself. Stfu, you impotent crybaby losers. I’m sorry about your small weiners.
Makingthebestofshit (@Zoey_Lifts)
Tweetted on May 15, 2022
It’s not only another Markley’s Law Monday, it is another science denier (see also here)!
They are sorry about something that doesn’t exist? There is something quite fitting about that. I’m sorry their account doesn’t exist either. It makes further mocking difficult and less effective.
Incredibly, only about 8% of violent crimes [reported and unreported] in those cities result in someone being arrested. Only 1% of property crimes, both reported and unreported, result in arrests. These are just mind-boggling numbers. When criminals have a 92% chance of not being arrested, prosecuted or convicted, they don’t fear the consequences of committing more crimes.
The irony is that, as Biden refuses to criticize these district attorneys who are refusing to prosecute violent criminals, he also wants to make it more difficult and costly for law-abiding citizens to be able to protect themselves.
John R. Lott, Jr.
August 23, 2024
Shooting Straight with John Lott | An Official Journal Of The NRA (americas1stfreedom.org)
Wow!
Criminals have a 99% chance of getting away with property crimes. It is almost as if the politicians are communists and believe these criminals are their natural allies against property owners.
Prepare appropriately.
Well I decided you guys are very annoying so I’m hoping you will leave. I hope #HarrisWalz2024 win I hope they win the House and the Senate and pass huge gun reforms and get someone to go from door to door and take all of the guns and we can be like the UK and you will only have knives to defend yourselves with.
It will be awesome.
I will be dreaming about it.
Terry Posts ❤️💛💚💙 @Tplusthree
Posted on X (and here) August 23, 2024
Just keep on hoping and dreaming Terry. That’s all you are going to get because we are doing things like winning court cases, teaching new people to shoot, and stocking up on ammo and guns.
Oh! And making explosives.
Don’t ever let anyone get away with telling you that no one wants to take your guns.
A halfpinion looks at either the costs or benefits of a plan but not both.
Gaza residents were brainwashed to have a halfpinion about how to deal with Israel. October 7th was them getting the “benefit” too many of the residents wanted.
Now they are experiencing the “cost” side.
America has this same halfpinion disease. That’s why our national debt will turn us into Gaza fairly soon.
Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays
Posted on X August 24, 2024
The same “disease” affects the gun control nuts too.
Kamala Harris says, if elected president, she’ll use executive action to confiscate guns if Congress doesn’t act within the first 100 days of her administration pic.twitter.com/nHa605TUy8
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) August 26, 2024
Prepare appropriately.
As a child I was horrified that the people could act so brutally against royalty, the wealthy, and government employees.
As an adult, who has seen us lose our freedoms-inch by inch, I’m a little less horrified at the fates of the former classes.
William Ashbless
August 25, 2024
Comment to DNC Platform as Evidence at Their Trials
I don’t know how things will turn out. I see too many paths depending on too many variables to make any kind of prediction or to have a significant influence. I have resigned myself to giving whatever nudge I can in the direction of fair and just trials for the perpetrators. But mass psychology being what it is, and the thin veneer of rationality our species has means that is likely a low probability outcome.
Almost 30 years ago (I think it was the summer of 1996) Alan Gottlieb invited me to bring my family to dinner at his place with his family. It was a very special evening. Our kids were near the same age has his and I learned a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff from Alan and Julianne. One of the things that stuck with me was that Alan’s college major was nuclear engineering.
He told me of the history of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms and the Second Amendment Foundation. Also, it was a member of the Microsoft Gun Club (now, The Gun Club at Microsoft) who registered the domain names saf.org and ccrkba.org before most people knew the Internet existed. He gave the domain to Alan’s organizations when it was time to bring their message to the web.
Now, today, the Second Amendment Foundation is 50 years old.
SAF CELEBRATES 50th ANNIVERSARY – Second Amendment Foundation
Today, Monday, Aug. 26, marks 50 years of the Second Amendment Foundation’s (SAF) unwavering commitment to defend, secure and restore the Second Amendment rights vital to the defense of liberty.
From a landmark victory at the United States Supreme Court to triumphs in state courthouses, SAF has scored numerous successes in the past half century, including the all-too-important McDonald v. City of Chicago decision handed down by the Supreme Court in 2010. SAF’s win in McDonald has been critical to the fight against modern gun control, as it paved the way for legal action against states and municipalities for violations of the Second Amendment.
“The goal when I created SAF was to get a case all the way to the Supreme Court,” said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. “We did that in 2010, and that momentum hasn’t stopped. SAF has been part of more than 260 lawsuits since our founding and we currently have more than 55 active cases across the nation. This includes one case – Garland v. Vanderstok – that will be argued before the Supreme Court in October.”
Although SAF has won numerous critical pro-Second Amendment cases since 1974, the organization has shown no signs of slowing down. In fact, in 2022 SAF brought on board a new Executive Director – practicing attorney Adam Kraut – to lead the organization into the next half-century.
“When Alan started SAF 50 years ago, he laid out a comprehensive vision to fight for our right to keep and bear arms,” Kraut said. “Over time, he and those who joined him built a solid organizational foundation that was effective in winning where it matters. I think we continued to build on that foundation and have a tremendous team to lead the organization into the next 50 years. I’m looking forward to the challenge of continuing to build on the work Alan started.”
Over the past 50 years, SAF has been at the forefront of numerous legal battles, challenging unconstitutional firearms regulations such as “assault weapon” bans, magazine capacity bans, young adult carry laws, “sensitive places” restrictions, red flag laws, prohibited person and many, many more. Through aggressive, strategic litigation, SAF has successfully challenged restrictive gun laws across the nation, dismantling barriers that impede the right to keep and bear arms for all Americans.
It always cracks me up when I come back from the farm to see that a whole bunch of twidiots who substitute guns for their penises have spent the whole day tweeting at me, thinking their comments upset me because they know that people like me will take their precious guns away. 😆
Savi (@SavionWinter)
Tweeted on April 7, 2022
It’s not only another Markley’s Law Monday, it is another science denier (see also here)!
Yes, 2022. I have a long queue of Markley’s Law examples.
Don’t ever let anyone get away with anyone telling you that no one wants to take your guns.
And… it cracks me up that his account no longer exists.
We are on a path to concealed carry any state we want to visit:
A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction in favor of the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and its partners, challenging California’s prohibition on non-resident concealed carry permits. U.S. District Court Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett, appointed by President Joe Biden in 2022, partially granted the motion for preliminary injunction, setting the stage for further legal proceedings.
Even a Biden appointed judge admits we have the constitution on our side!
See also SAF SCORES VICTORY IN CALIFORNIA NON-RESIDENT CARRY CASE.
We are making progress… one lawsuit at a time.
Meme idea via MTHead. Image from here.
Never mind the AI gave us a poor excuse for a gun image and granny with five fingers on her right hand.
There is no legitimate basis for the Fourth Circuit to have concluded that the most widely owned semiautomatic rifles in the United States are not arms protected by the Second Amendment.
The Court must provide more guidance on which weapons the Second Amendment covers and they should do so in this case. This immoral and abusive gun control regime must end here.
Brandon Combs
FPC President
August 23, 2024
Gun rights groups ask Supreme Court to rule on sweeping Maryland firearm ban lower bench upheld (msn.com)
When it comes time to update my matched charity donations at work, I am increasing the amount I and my employer send to the FPC.
The DNC Platform states that the Democrats are determined to establish national universal background checks and red flag laws to keep guns out of the hands of people deemed a danger to themselves and others. According to the platform, the party also wants a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, to require safe storage of guns and end the gun industry’s immunity from liability “so gunmakers can no longer escape accountability.
“And, because the gun violence epidemic is a public health crisis, we will fund gun violence research across the Centers for Disease Control [CDC] and National Institutes of Health [NIH] as well as community violence interventions,” the DNC platform states.
Bill Hutchinson
August 19, 2024
Gun violence among top issues in DNC Platform – ABC News (go.com)
It is good they make this so clear. It makes it more difficult for them to get away with claiming they “support the Second Amendment”. Plus, should the occasion arise, it can be used as evidence at their trials.
Between 2017 and 2021, a total of 1,074,022 firearms were reported stolen in the U.S., averaging around 200,000 annually. However, these figures are estimates, as criminals typically do not report their illicit activities to law enforcement agencies for research purposes.
While this number seems exceptionally high, the truth is that less than a fraction (only 0.042%) of civilian-owned firearms in the United States are stolen each year. Therefore, it is safe to say that the vast majority of gun owners are, in fact, taking precautions to ensure thieves do not acquire their property.
Stolen guns in America are used in a significantly higher number of crimes than legally purchased firearms. However, many stolen guns are never used in crimes.
Cassandra McBride
August 2024
Stolen Gun Statistics 2024 (Recover Rates & Crime Usage) (ammo.com)
Interesting research.
When a cable TV news actor cites some farcical statistic about guns or gun owners, it’s important to understand how that number made it onto the teleprompter. It starts with donor dollars sent to researchers at left-leaning colleges, universities or other groups, who publish reports that mirror their donors’ views, which are then regurgitated by the corporate media. It’s a factory-like process. We don’t have anything like that. We don’t need it. We simply rely upon the truth.
Alan M. Gottlieb
Second Amendment Foundation founder and Executive Vice President
August 5th, 2024
Billionaire Anti-Gun Philanthropists Backing Biased Anti-Gun Research – TheGunMag – The Official Gun Magazine of the Second Amendment
There is a reason the truth is not part of the anti-gun culture. They cannot achieve their evil goals without the lies.
A new ruling from the the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals now will prevent California’s law limiting gun purchases to one every 30 days from taking effect.
While a federal district court had issued an injunction against the law, California sought a stay against the injunction via the Ninth Circuit. The Ninth Circuit issued a stay, reversing its stay after hearing oral arguments on the case.
The earlier federal district court injunction against the law now goes into full effect, preventing the law from being enforced.
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California cited gun restrictions and taxes, and licensing laws targeting Native Americans as evidence of historical precedent for its case, leading Hayes to write limits on Native American sales — and other “groups excluded from the political community” as a historical analogue is “dubious, at best,” and that the presented historical laws did not include a “limit on the quantity or frequency with which one could acquire firearms.
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Hayes placed a 30 day stay on the ruling pending an appeal, which is now complete, meaning Hayes’ judgment takes effect.
Kenneth Schrupp
August 19, 2024
Ninth Circuit tosses California law limiting gun purchases to one every 30 days (msn.com)
They can be very creative in their efforts to infringe upon our rights, so it will be interesting to see how California attempts to create a new law to get around this ruling. With the Bruen decision they said, paraphrasing, okay, we have to give carry licenses, but every place in a city, outside of your own home, is a “sensitive place” and the carry license does not apply.
As an example of their creativity:
California cited gun restrictions and taxes, and licensing laws targeting Native Americans as evidence of historical precedent for its case, leading Hayes to write limits on Native American sales — and other “groups excluded from the political community” as a historical analogue is “dubious, at best,” and that the presented historical laws did not include a “limit on the quantity or frequency with which one could acquire firearms.
I’m surprised they didn’t include the laws put in place by the KKK prohibiting people with black skin from firearm ownership as justification. Democrats got away with that kind of crap 100+ years ago, so why not try it again?
Muting this thread because you all are some of the stupidest MFers I’ve seen. You don’t need an assault rifle to protect yourself (and I’d bet you’ve never needed to protect yourself anyway) you’re just compensating for your small dicks.
The Queen Of Damn Near Everything @Queenofitall21
Posted on X, August 20 2023
It’s not only another Markley’s Law Monday, it is another science denier (see also here)!
Yes, 2023. The queue is backed up that far.
Typical.
I wonder if they know that believing they can read the minds of other people is a sign of a personality disorder.
In what may be the most poorly conceived and horribly researched study ever published by The Journal of the American Medical Association during its entire 141-year history, a trio of anti-gun researchers now claims deer hunting is associated with a substantial increase in firearm violence.
To arrive at their laughable conclusion, the authors used data from the infamous Gun Violence Archive, which has been debunked dozens of times and is well known for its shoddy research and biased statistics.
Even the authors admitted there were problems with the GVA data. “Our study relies on shooting data from a single source, the GVA. Data from GVA have been shown to have a bias toward incidents that receive more media attention and do not include comprehensive counts of firearm suicides,” the report states.
Despite these inherent biases, the researchers used the GVA data anyway. They didn’t allow the facts to interfere with their preconceived and biased narrative.
Lee Williams
August 14, 2024
Deer hunting causes gun violence, researchers claim | Armed American News
Of course they didn’t allow facts to interfere with their narrative. This has been the culture of anti-gun people for decades. Perhaps forever.
