I’m for the Second Amendment, but if it saves just one life to eliminate gun free zones, pass constitutional carry in all states, and ban all magazine limitation laws and ban laws that ban AR15s then it’s worth it.
Colion Noir @MrColionNoir
Tweeted on July 11, 2023
Nice twist!
I’m for the Second Amendment, but not everyone will get the joke here.
It’s not that the Left are against the death penalty, it’s that they’re against the death penalty for crime.
Alice Smith (@TheAliceSmith)
Tweeted on Sat, Aug 13, 2022
Where “crime” is defined as the violation of property and/or individual rights.
This gave me flashbacks to Darkness at Noon, Bloodlands—Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, and especially The Gulag Archipelago.
Prepare appropriately.
One does not have to put on a tin-foil hat to be suspicious of this:
Several major holster manufacturers/providers received notices from the Department of Commerce Census Bureau requesting order numbers, product descriptions, and where the items were being shipped. A few holster companies have refused to turn over the requested information to the federal government.
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Some companies reached out to Arbiter Weston Martinez of Texas for help. Mr. Martinez is the former Texas Real Estate Commissioner under former Governor Rick Perry. Mr. Martinez is well connected in the political sphere and believes that the companies are being targeted to gather intel on the gun market. He has vowed to help push back against the alleged government overreach.
If they were asking what state the holsters were being shipped to, and without order numbers, then okay, I could imagine the requested information was not intended for abuse. As it is worded here, I just roll my eyes. That isn’t fooling anyone.
Via email from Rolf
Why are we tolerating the slaughter of innocent children at schools? For that matter why are we tolerating the mass murder of innocent Americans in stores, malls and the workplace. The common denominator in most shootings is an AR-15 assault-style rifle developed for the military, where soldiers need to be able to shoot a lot of bullets in a hurry to stop the assault of an enemy.
David Op’t Hof
David Op’t Hof: Only banning assault weapons will stop the slaughter
One has to wonder if this guy was trying to set some sort of record for the number of lies he could pack into a single sentence:
And secondarily, am I imagining it or are there some sort of visual characteristics such that you “just know” some people are anti-gun?
It seems there might be some sort of thing like “Gaydar” for anti-gun people.
If this is true it is very “interesting”. The ATF was (is?) having difficultly maintaining staff for entry and quick reaction teams.
Many of them are obese and they are losing staff due to injuries from obesity, cardiovascular disease and parallel conditions.
Perhaps they should just shut the entire anti-gun operation down and stop infringing upon our rights.
Via a tweet from Chuck Petras @Chuck_Petras.
Prepare appropriately. Don’t let your dog get close enough to an ATF agent that the agent might fall on them.
The answer to that is based in the psyches of men for whom violence is a form of power, a means to force respect; who view guns as symbols of manhood, and manhood as requiring power over women. Machismo, male supremacy, guns, violence, power, and respect are all interlinked, so that, for such men, neither respect nor power nor manhood can be achieved without violence, and the use of violence against those—especially women, but also nonwhites and other minorities—over whom they demand power. (Without which, to complete the circle, they cannot truly be men.) And guns, with all their phallic force, are the best possible means.
Abigail R. Esman
July 6, 2023
The Most Egregious Case the Supreme Court Agreed to Hear Next Term
It’s not only another Markley’s Law Monday, it is another science denier!
An opinion writer on Slate demonstrating Markley’ Law is unusual. I expect it as a matter of course in a Twitter debate. But an opinion writer doesn’t have to fall back on childish insults because they have lost the debate. She invokes it as part of her main arguments. That’s really demonstrating how weak their case is.
Other things to point out are:
But what do you expect from someone so ignorant, stupid, and or evil they insist gun ownership is an indicator of compensation for inadequate masculinity?
Via a tweet from Jay (Parody) @jayhafe who tagged it with #JustOneQuestion
See also Just one question.
We’ve banned assault weapons. We’ve banned high-capacity magazines. We’ve banned switches that turn regular guns into automatic weapons and here in Illinois those are things that will keep people safe and alive, but we need a national ban,
J.B. Pritzker
Governor of Illinois
July 8, 2023
Pritzker Pushes For Nationwide Gun Ban While Illinois’ Law Challenged In Courts
Don’t ever let anyone get away with telling you no one wants to take your guns.
From the same article:
Just in Chicago, violent crime has risen 86% over the past two years, and 56% over the past four.
Pritzker is innumerate, evil, or both.
Prepare appropriately.
The proposed legislation is an abhorrent anti-civil rights effort. No community in Massachusetts faces this kind an intentional bigotry and oppression from the State Government! It is simply a post Bruen tantrum, very similar to Governor Wallace after Brown v. Board of Education.
Jim Wallace
Executive Directory GOAL (Gun Owners Action League)
June 28, 2023
Mass. Anti-Gunners Push More Restrictions; Gun Group Chief Fires Back
As I said almost 17 years ago, “Anti-gun bigots are the KKK of the 21st Century.”
Stabilizing braces gave me the ability to get back out and shoot things that I never expected I would be able to again and my life changed drastically. Since then, I have been traveling across the country teaching veterans how to shoot again. That brace is the foundation of everything I do because I can take someone who has limited strength in their hands or is missing digits and give them confidence and the skills and capability to grasp a firearm again and get them back to the things that were such a part of their life.
Rick Cicero
Co-designer of the stabilizing brace
July 30, 2021
LAWMAKERS: ATF STEPPING ON VETS WITH PISTOL BRACE RULE
I have never had any interest in one of them and so had no real opinion on them other than the government has no business regulating them. That they are considered helpful to people with limited strength, etc. has shifted my view on the government regulation some.
I think governments should change the laws such that pistol braces can be paid for using your health savings accounts (pretax dollars). I understand this will be controversial. But I’m will to go with this a small first step on the path to the elimination of all taxes on all arms.
While supportive of Brown, the legal scholar Alexander Bickel warned—via what he famously termed “the countermajoritarian difficulty”—that courts should be especially careful when invalidating legislation, lest legislatures flout their rulings and show courts to be powerless. Because we take legislation as representative of the will of the majority, courts are required to show legislation a degree of deference. They must justify themselves when they invalidate law in the name of constitutional rights.
Caitlin B. Tully
June 25, 2023
Rethinking the Liberal Giant Who Doomed Roe
I found this to be a very profound observation. This appears to be what is going on now in our battle for gun owner rights.
In the face of multiple Supreme Court losses, including the reversal of Roe v. Wade, the blocking of Biden’s student loan relief program and the end of affirmative action on college campuses. All these court decisions really amount to is a reversal of entitlements that never should have existed in the first place. Leftists see such entitlements as “civil rights,” never mind that they exist as a means to take the rights of others.
Tyler Durden
July 1, 2023
Democrat Rep. Has Psychotic Meltdown – Calls Supreme Court “Illegitimate White Patriarchy”
I have nothing to add.
For at least a hundred years the debate has raged and gun writers have written, ad nauseum, over the preferred defensive tool. The only point everyone can agree is: the BEST defensive weapon is a firearm, but it is totally useless unless accessible when defense is needed.
Chuck Klein
June 30, 2023
OFF-DUTY CARRY,
A SURVEY AND ANALYSIS OF CURRENT LE PRACTICES
And those who are opposed to the carry of firearms make their intentions abundantly clear. They are motivated to have you defenseless.
Alan Korwin proposed a new law:
The U.S. Constitution, for all its strengths, revered and imitated worldwide, has a fatal flaw. A weakness of Greek-tragedy proportions. The Constitution lacks punishment for those who would violate its terms. Yes, there are avenues of recourse, but these have been neutered and rendered feckless in so many ways.
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What America needs, what our Republic and Constitution need, is strict adherence to a policy of, “No infringement shall be tolerated.” Small encroachments—like licenses to carry arms or speech codes—must subject people proposing such violations to penalties. Gross infringements like, “We’re going to take away your favorite rifle—and of course we’ll keep ours,” require prison terms. Stiff penalties.
I’m not sure why 18 USC 242 doesn’t cover what his has in mind. Regardless, if there were a means of reliable prosecution I believe the concept is sound.
You may have heard Washington state has the highest gas prices in the nation. A huge contribution to this is the state gas tax.
As I frequently drive to and from Idaho this is rather painful. However, I have found a loophole. The difference in the price of gasoline in Idaho versus the Seattle area is so great than I can buy ethanol free gasoline in Idaho for approximately the same price as I can purchase the 10% ethanol blended unleaded in Bellevue.
Ethanol free gasoline gives my car a noticeable boost in gas mileage. On my last return trip from Idaho I was able to demonstrate that I can fill up in Moscow, just over the border from Washington, and, driving at or under the speed limit, I make it back to Bellevue on a half tank of fuel.
That means that if I bring back a five or six gallon can of ethanol free gas I can drive around town a little and still make it all the way back to Idaho without giving the commie Washington state government a single penny of gasoline tax.
Oh, and I can buy all the standard capacity magazines and guns I want in Idaho while I’m there too. All 100% legal*.
*I am legally required to leave any such newly purchased items in Idaho until the courts overturn the illegal gun laws in Washington. But that is what the armory in my underground bunker is for.
Via email from pkoning:
A 71-year-old man and his 61-year-old wife returned to their home in Seattle’s North Beacon Hill neighborhood around 1:30 p.m. Sunday to find the place in disarray. The kitchen window was shattered. Various items were out of order. The homeowner ventured farther inside to find the culprit lurking in his living room, wielding a pitchfork.
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The suspect followed the homeowner into the bedroom and wrestled him for control of the gun. Despite the alleged burglar’s best efforts, the homeowner managed to break free long enough to draw down on him. He aimed true and pulled the trigger, but the suspect was left still standing. The gun had jammed.
Since lead didn’t work, the homeowner opted for steel.
Police indicated that after his firearm failed him, the 71-year-old drew his samurai sword and skewered the suspect.
I would prefer backup guns to back up swords. That’s the good thing about the Second Amendment. It guarantees you can have either or both if you want.
The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing whether to review a lower court ruling that struck down a law prohibiting domestic abusers from possessing guns. Speaking as someone who has represented families of women and children killed by domestic abusers with guns, the potential danger of this decision is hard to overstate. But under recent Supreme Court Second Amendment precedent, that danger is treated as virtually irrelevant.
How did we get here? Doesn’t the right of a child to live outweigh the right to own a Glock or an AR-15? In most of the world, yes. But in today’s America, probably not.
Jonathan Lowy
June 28, 2023
Hey, SCOTUS — the right to life trumps the right to own a gun
Hey Jonathan – the 2nd Amendment IS the balance between private gun ownership and public safety. SCOTUS has repeatedly said this. This is the age of the Internet. People can find and start read SCOTUS decisions with only a few seconds of effort. Nearly every sentence in your screed is an easily disprovable lie or is deliberately misleading. So stop the lying. You are just demonstrating your evil intent.
But, of course, if they were to stop lying they would have no hope of winning. It is their only hope.
Aside from the willful misrepresentation of the scope of the problem, the creation of a new phrase “gun anxiety” they are ignoring the obvious:
Where would I hide or how would I get out?” These are the questions that Tess thinks about constantly, especially when she goes places with her two young daughters. She doesn’t like to take her kids into any big box stores because it feels too risky. There’s always the chance someone could walk in with a gun and start shooting, turning her mundane family errand into another tragic national headline with deadly consequences.
Many parents can relate to Tess’s anxiety over the increased levels of gun violence in the United States. There have already been more than 325 mass shootings this year according to The Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit group that uses police reports, news coverage and other public sources to provide near-real time data about gun violence in the United States. Data from the Centers for Disease and Prevention also names firearms as the leading cause of death for U.S. children and teens, while research has found that the risk of gun violence is significantly higher for Black and Hispanic children.
First the willful misrepresentation.
The National Institute of Justice has studied mass shootings. The database they use reports five mass shootings this year. NOT over 300 hundred.
The obvious and ignored solutions are:
Like other wars that feckless American “elites” have waged against inanimate objects (such as drugs) or military tactics (like terrorism), the war on guns will completely miss the mark.
The goal is supposedly about public safety.
Yet, of the roughly 81 million registered gun owners in the United States, hardly any of them—around 12 percent—have used their firearms to commit crimes. The vast majority of gun crime in America is done with illicit firearms, usually perpetrated by criminals.
So why is the Biden Administration intent on trying to make lawful gun ownership so hard? It isn’t about public safety at all.
In fact, it is clearly about control.
Brandon Weichert
June 17, 2023
Joe Biden’s War on Guns Misses the Target
“Registered gun owners”? I believe he is assuming facts not in evidence. His citation does not support his claim.
But that is nitpicking. His conclusion is sound.