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I Second That

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It is extremely rare that I use foul language and I don’t like to encourage others to use it either. In this case, however, I fully endorse what the FPC has to say about this wanna be dictator announcing she will infringe upon our specific enumerated rights.

Don’t ever let anyone get away with telling you no one wants to take your guns.

One Lawsuit at a Time

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Plaintiffs’ motion (Doc. 39) for summary judgment is GRANTED in part. The Clerk of Court is directed to enter judgment in favor of plaintiffs and against Commissioner Paris with respect to plaintiffs’ challenge to Section 6107 and the vehicle provision of Section 6106 of the UFA. The court finds those provisions to be facially unconstitutional and Commissioner Paris is enjoined from enforcing them.

Christopher C. Conner
United States District Judge
Middle District of Pennsylvania
Binderup-Order.pdf (saf.org)
July 24, 2024

In easier to understand language:

SAF SCORES VICTORY IN PENNSYLVANIA CARRY CASE – Second Amendment Foundation

District Judge Christopher C. Conner with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania issued an order granting summary judgment to SAF and its partners, finding the state’s law banning carry of a firearm in a vehicle without a license unconstitutional. He further declared that a ban on firearms possession without a license during a state of emergency is facially unconstitutional, and enjoined Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Col. Christopher Paris from enforcing those provisions.

These are small steps. But they create a slippery slope in the direction of eliminating even more egregious gun laws.

Just Not Thinking

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It would be difficult to find a more perfect example of the core flaw within the gun-control movement’s approach to politics than is provided here. Throughout the interview, both Arney and Vargo simply assume that the answer to the problem must be more gun control. They assume that the only important question is why America’s legislatures have not yet passed restrictions on our freedom.

In their estimation, the destination is set; what matters is how the media can build sufficient enthusiasm, anger or heartbreak to get the voters there. That the country might be filled with people who disagree with their monomania seems never to have occurred to them. To them, gun control is the obvious solution, and, if it hasn’t happened yet in the ways they favor, then it must be because Americans are a frivolous people who consider the criminal use of firearms to be “unimportant,” who resist calls for regulation out of childish spite and who prefer to ignore the issue than consider it seriously—none of which is true.

Charles C. W. Cooke
July 31, 2024
More Proof That Gun-Control Activists Just Aren’t Thinking | An Official Journal Of The NRA (americas1stfreedom.org)

I will accept the average “person on the street” isn’t thinking and/or they believe making private firearm ownership illegal will make people safer (it never has and never will). But the long time advocates and politicians? No. They have had it pointed out to them so many times by so many people and the data is so clear, they know better. And yet they still demand gun control. These people have an agenda other than public safety.

Prepare and respond appropriately.

What If You Are Wrong?

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Free question to ask #KamalaHarris for any #Journalist out there who wants to do First Amendment stuff instead of PR for the #DNC

When she says she intends to ban guns, or #AssaultWeapons to make American safer, ask her this:

J: What if you are wrong?

KH:Come again?

J: What if you are wrong? Suppose you are able to peacefully confiscate all (so-called) Assault Weapons. No civil war. No armed resistance. No states seceding. And you end your term in office, proud of making all those rifles disappear.

****Here’s the important part ****

But then someone like Donald Trump, or some other MAGA extremist manages to get elected POTUS. You know, someone you and your party labels as racist, Hitler, deplorable, etc……. And when they take office and actually start to round up political enemies, including you, what will you do?

J:So again, what if you are wrong? What if you are wrong that confiscating guns will make Americans safer.

Don Kilmer @donkilmer
Posted on X, July 29, 2024

Good question. Don’t expect an answer from any gun grabber. They will change the subject.

Although I saw it in my own feed, Michael B. also sent me an email about it as well.

The World the Anti-Gun Path Leads To

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This is the world the anti-gun path leads to.

Prepare and respond appropriately.

The Consequences of Government Harassment

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Waiting periods were always in bad faith, and never intended to stop violence.

Back in the 80s I would have been fine with a 10 day waiting period and background check for machineguns.

Senseless harassment by government has gotten me to the point of vending machines with them.

skeptical american @skepticalone44
Posted on X, July 28, 2024

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When the Stupid is this Thick

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So your dick is small. Just say that. You loud as hell about it

BardyC @BardyCee
Tweeted on April 5, 2022

It’s not only another Markley’s Law Monday, it is another science denier (see also here)!

With the stupid this thick it is not surprising the account has been deleted.

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.

Toxic Cult of Individualism

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It is hardly far-fetched to argue that America’s toxic cult of individualism might on some occasions lead folks to believe that the only way to accomplish anything is by taking matters – and guns – into their own hands.

Following Trump’s own brush with death, one wonders whether he’ll think back on his advice to Iowa residents devastated by a January school shooting: “Get over it”.

As they say, you reap what you sow. And if there is one thing the US needs to get over, it is the “right to bear arms”.

Belén Fernández
July 15, 2024
Is America’s gun fixation backfiring on its pushers? (msn.com)

This is what they think of you as an individualist gun owner.

Don’t ever let anyone get away with telling you that no one wants to take your guns.

If individualism is a “toxic cult” you have to wonder what socialism and communism are. I’ve always thought of them as death cult. But with this new calibration of individualism as a “toxic cult” I’m thinking socialism and communism must be something like an existential threat to the solar system.

Racist and Out of Touch

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Okay, I just want to add that the shooter was a 20-year-old kitchen worker from nearby Bethel Park in Pennsylvania. According to a CNN report, a senior law enforcement official said that he bought 50 rounds from a local gun store hours before the rally.

Shouldn’t that have been reported? Somebody buys…a 20-year-old white guy? I mean we’ve seen that many times now. Young white men with guns and nobody reported that he bought 50 rounds of ammunition?

Joy Behar
July 15, 2024
Lefties Horrified Young White Men Can Buy 50 Rounds of Ammo Without Triggering a SWAT Raid – Shooting News Weekly

“white guy”? Racist much?

“50 rounds of ammunition”? Out of touch with reality?

I wonder what she would think if she knew it is nothing special when this white guy buys buys 5,000 rounds of ammunition and/or assembles 2,000 rounds.

Stupid and/or Desperate?

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Minnesota cites common law evidence that (as minors) 18 to 20-year-olds did not have full rights. Minnesota, however, does not put forward common law analogues restricting the right to bear arms. Instead, Minnesota points to statutory law, such as the Militia Act of 1792 that required 18 to 20-year-olds to acquire firearms, as evidence the common law was the inverse. See The Militia Act of 1792, ch. 33, 1 Stat. 271, § 1. A mandate to acquire a firearm is hardly “evidence” that one was previously prohibited from owning one.

Duane Benton
Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
July 15, 2024
Worth-Opinion.pdf (saf.org)
Kristin Worth; Austin Dye; Axel Anderson; Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus; Second Amendment Foundation; Firearms Policy Coalition, Inc.

v.

Bob Jacobson, in his individual capacity and in his official capacity as Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety

Kyle Burton, in his individual capacity and in his official capacity as Sheriff of Mille Lacs County, Minnesota; Dan Starry, in his individual capacity and in his official capacity as Sheriff of Washington County, Minnesota; Troy Wolbersen, in his individual capacity and in his official capacity as Sheriff of Douglas County, Minnesota Defendants

Judges, Smith, Benton, and Stras unanimously held that Minnesota’s law banning 18-year old’s from carrying arms in public is unconstitutional. I found it amusing Minnesota would cite a law requiring 18-year old’s to acquire a firearm in support of their insistence that 18-year old’s can be denied the right to carry arms. Are they really that stupid? And/or that desperate?

Related:

SAF SEEKING PLAINTIFFS –
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Are you – or someone you know – a young adult 18-20-years-old, have a clean background and want to exercise your right to carry a firearm for self-defense? If you fit the criteria above, please email Legal@saf.org with your contact and background information, including the county in which you reside. Sign up here!

Self-Defense Law in the U.S., England, and Germany

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Common claims about U.S. self-defense law’s “exceptionalism” and “inhumanity” fail under closer scrutiny. Observers in the media, academia, and elsewhere tend to conflate access to deadly force (via firearms) with the legal authorization of the same. England and Germany’s self-defense laws, for example, far from being more “humane” toward the alleged attackers, place comparatively less legal restrictions on the circumstances under which deadly defensive force can be used.

Beyond assertions about U.S. self-defense law’s “harshness” being factually off-base, they are distractions. They get in the way of our embarking on a more informed national debate about the proper role of, and justification for, self-preferential deadly force in a modern, democratic society.

Eugene Volokh
March 15, 2022
Comparing U.S., English, and German Self-Defense Law (reason.com)

Interesting. I was under the impression that self-defense was essentially illegal in England. What about the stories such as a U.S. woman in England defending herself from attack with a nail file and being convicted?

Perhaps the law and the reality of prosecution are two different things.

Does anyone know more about this topic? This is kind of important to me. My step daughter is currently living in England.

If Fascism is Imminent, Where is Everybody?

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If fascism is imminent, then where was everybody?

That’s what Nadine Seiler was wondering. The 59-year-old had come all the way from Waldorf, Maryland, to be one of two protesters standing on a street corner near a Secret Service checkpoint, where attendees and reporters like me were entering the convention. “I Googled it, and America has at least 200 million adults over 18 years old,” she said. “Why, with democracy on the line, are there only two of us here?”

Seiler wore hot-pink lipstick and a T-shirt that read July 13 was a false flag. She told me that she didn’t actually believe that Republicans had staged the Trump assassination attempt. But Republicans had blamed January 6 on the FBI, so two could play that game. Democrats are “gutless and spineless,” she told me. “I am done being polite, and I am done being sane.”

Elaine Godfrey
July 19, 2024
The Democrats Aren’t Even Trying (msn.com)

I find it interesting Seiler is purposely seeking insanity. But perhaps she doesn’t really need to seek it. Maybe it finds her as soon as she lets her guard down.

Perhaps the jig is up and they know Fascism is not imminent. But that doesn’t stop them from being evil and/or insane.

Don’t be surprised if the public quiet is hiding a dark and sinister resolve to not miss next time.

Prepare appropriately.

Delusional

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Aren’t you just a full cup of stupid?!  Tiny micro peen feels the need to show of his big bad gun.  Dude, even with laser sights I doubt you could hit the broad side of a barn.

Jana B Warrior Angel @Janabw81
Posted on X, August 3, 2023

It’s not only another Markley’s Law Monday, it is another science denier (see also here)!

As is typical with people with some mental disorders, she imagines she knows things about other people which she has now way of knowing. In other words, she is delusional.

DEI Layoffs

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Many technology companies, including Microsoft, made commitments to improve diversity efforts after the 2020 murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer and the historic protests that followed.

In 2020, Microsoft pledged to double the number of Black leaders within the company by 2025.

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Despite those commitments, many tech companies have appeared to retreat somewhat from diversity efforts. Zoom laid off a DEI-focused team earlier this year, Bloomberg reported. Google and Meta also cut DEI programs last year, according to CNBC.

Ashley Stewart
July 15, 2024
Internal Microsoft Email Shows DEI Leader Blasting Layoffs – Business Insider

I don’t know the numbers for my company, but I do know that every single one of the people I knew who were working on DEI stuff, even occasionally, are no longer employed as of the last layoff.

We live in interesting times.

Spoofed Journalists?

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Crowdstrike is aware of reports of crashes on Windows 4 related to the Falcon sensor. Please monitor the status via the tech alert on our customer support portal.

A message on the Crowdstrike technical help line
July 19, 2024
CrowdStrike outage sparks global chaos with airline, bank and other disruptions | WMAY – 92.7 WMAY

There was a Windows 4. Better known as Windows NT 4. Which, of course, is something like 20 years past end of life.

The above quote was on many major news sites. But as of late July 19th, 2024 a search for “Crowdstrike is aware of reports of crashes on Windows 4 related to the Falcon sensor” will yield lots of hits. But clicking through, some of them do not have that quote.

I suspect someone managed to spoof a bunch of “journalists”.

Yet another data point demonstrating you cannot trust the media.

On Emperors

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We should be thanking the stupid commie bastards. We just wanted to elect him as president.

Shit like that will make him a f–k’in emperor.

MTHead
July 15, 2024
Comment to Call for Calm

As I am not a fan of emperors I won’t be thanking anyone about this.

That said, I did think this was rather funny. I really like sick humor…

Delusional or Evil?

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I remember from the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in 2016 and how it presaged our current era of political violence, before what is being called an “assassination attempt” on former president Donald Trump happened on Saturday evening. After the news broke, I paused. Was this appropriate? Actually, there’s never been a more important time to understand where this came from. It also looks like the shooter was a 20-year-old male registered Republican, but I don’t read too much into that—at 20, many young people are politically unformed, though they have access to guns. I won’t blame an ideology, except for the right wing’s gun worship. And we’ll never know why the Secret Service, maligned for its event security, let Trump pause after they rushed in to protect him, and stand and raise his fist in a fascist salute. He waved it around maniacally and almost hit the female agent closest to him in the head. Why they let him take a victory lap in a dangerous situation—there could have been other shooters—we’ll never know.

President Biden’s campaign pulled all his (increasingly wonderful and populist) ads down. I guess that’s what you do, if you’re a decent human being. Imagine the situation reversed: Trump would be running ads that say grazing Biden’s ear will worsen his (nonexistent) Parkinson’s. They are monsters; we are not.

To his political credit, in a somber Oval Office address Sunday night, Biden put the attack on Trump in the context where it belongs: of January 6, the brutal beating of Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul, and the kidnapping plot against Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.

But the monsters are still blaming Biden’s completely valid attacks on Trump as if they set up this (nominal Republican) to shoot the disgraced former president. Democrats must recover quickly and say Trump has been uniquely responsible for stoking the violence that apparently grazed his ear. There’s so much metaphor there, but he won’t hear it.

Joan Walsh
July 15, 2024
Where Our Current Moment of Political Violence Began (msn.com)

Was it a political attack on Paul Pelosi? I don’t think so.

How many of the kidnapping plot were found not guilty because of FBI entrapment?

January 6th was intentional violence? If so, then why did they all leave their guns in their cars?

They are decent people?

One has to wonder if Walsh is living in a different universe or is deliberately lying by omission of things like*:

  1. June 2017: Republican Congresswoman Steve Scalise and four others were shot by a left-wing activist during a congressional baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia. Scalise was critically injured but survived the attack.

  2. September 2018: A Republican campaign volunteer in Minnesota was assaulted and left unconscious while wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat. The attacker was later charged with assault.

  3. February 2020: A Republican campaign staffer in California was physically assaulted while registering voters. The attacker was later arrested and charged with battery.

  4. August 2020: A Republican National Convention (RNC) volunteer in Wisconsin was attacked and knocked unconscious by a group of protesters. The volunteer was wearing an RNC hat at the time of the attack.

And I love how she says:

what is being called an “assassination attempt”

And claims Trump raised

his fist in a fascist salute

Delusional or evil? You decide.

* This list was obtained from New Chat | Gab AI | An Uncensored and Unfiltered AI Platform via the query “Please give me a list of violent attacks against republicans in the last ten years”

Both Gemini and Copilot refused to respond to that same request.

They Don’t Trust the Science

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Duke University researchers embarked on a comprehensive journey to dissect the effectiveness of gun laws across the United States.  

Their focus? The relationship between stringent gun regulations and homicide rates. The results were unexpected—they found “no difference in homicide rates” between states with tough laws and those with more lenient ones.

Georgia Mckoy
July 12, 2024
Bombshell Study Finds Gun Restriction Laws Do Not Lead to Homicide Decrease Nationwide

See also the media release.

Anyone paying attention knew this decades ago.

But do they trust the science? See for yourself:

Gun ownership in America has surged, with over 82 million Americans now owning at least one firearm—a 28% increase since 1994.    

This uptick illustrates the growing urgency for effective gun regulation to keep pace with rising ownership rates.

In other words, “Gun ownership is increasing! No harm done! We must do something!”

These people are members of an evil, religious, science denying cult with an unshakable faith in gun control and the benevolence of government. They belong in the dustbin of history.

Emotion and Violence, it is What They Do

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We still do not know about the shooter in this assassination attempt. However, we know all too well how unhinged people can find justification in the incendiary rhetoric of our politics. This moment did not occur in a vacuum; it occurred in a time when our leaders long abandoned reason for rage.

Jonathan Turley
July 13, 2024
Opinion: The attempted assassination of Trump is not nearly as surprising as it should be (msn.com)

It is not just the “leaders”. Rationality, if it exists, is just a thin veneer over the emotions in nearly everyone. The political currency of the left is almost nothing but emotion and violence. It is what they believe in and what they do.

As I have said before:

The Second Amendment isn’t only not about hunting–it’s about protecting us from liberals.

Further evidence:

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