Notes from the Resistance
McGuire’s absurdly offensive contention disparaging armed defense while justifying disarming his constituents evokes nothing so much as the scene from the movie Independence Day when the president asks the alien, “What is it you want us to do?” [More]
That and they’ve given themselves a pass on a gun-in-car storage law violation penalty they exact on mere citizens. Could it be more in-your-face to gun owners?
Steve Hilton, a legal immigrant and political newcomer running as a Republican for governor of California, said the “absolute failure on every front” by current Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democrats means the GOP has a real shot at pulling off an upset in the Golden State. [More]
And he appears to understand 2A…
So are my critics right, and will I have to eat my words?
This “anecdote and isolated example” aside, it’s on them to show how legal immigrants who become naturalized citizens will vote our way gun issues, because the polls I’ve found say they overwhelmingly vote against us.
Plus, the California vote is hardly a lock and urban populations will decide it.
Then again, sometimes I wonder why I bother.
The Iran War Is Being Used By The Deep State To Distract Trump From The Domestic Prosecutions That Must Take Place Against The Deep State! [Watch]
I’ll find time to watch (with admitted mixed feelings).
Too bad these are so slow to load. I still stand by every one of them.
[Via bondmen]
Are regular marijuana users the modern equivalent of “habitual drunkards” at the Founding? What about someone who regularly takes a sleep gummy? In oral arguments before the Supreme Court today in United States v. Hemani, the federal government argues that they are the same. [More]
“Full might,” eh?
Anyone who can’t be trusted with weed and a gun…
Or booze and a gun…
I’m thinking Bondi needs lithium therapy…
[Via bondmen]
During the trial, the jury heard how Colin Gray had bought his son an AR-style rifle for Christmas the year before the attack, even though the boy had been questioned by police just seven months earlier about online threats to commit a school shooting. [More]
The AR reference is a bit of hyperbolic hand-wringing because there’d be just as much outrage over a Fudd gun being used, but there is a point here that merits discussion– when you know something is wrong and you enable it anyway, you do share culpability in outcomes.
Denial is one thing, and it’s understandable when admitting it can be so overwhelmingly devastating, but the fact that it is is your first clue. Those of us who have had to make tough decisions in child-raising that ultimately resulted in successful adult outcomes should thank God we were never faced with having to confront a child so broken he could not be fixed.
And if one of mine had been taken from me because his father was too weak to confront reality, I’d blame him, too.
[Via bondmen]
That’s gotta be a First Amendment “right to petition” violation. Not that their minds aren’t already made up and the hearings aren’t anything but theatrics to make it look like they’re responsibly deliberating.
I wonder if Harmeet would agree…
[Via Jess]
Cato Director: Immigrants Reduce Crime Rates, So You’re Less Likely to Be a Crime Victim [More]
What will happen to that crime rate when the pathway to citizenship Democrats and cheap labor Republicans/Libertarians succeed in changing the electorate to one that supports citizen disarmament?
I wonder if Bier and Cato will take the challenge that so far everyone else has run away from.
[Via Michael G]
Tangentially-Related UPDATE
Watch–Democrat Tells Angel Families: Sorry for Your Loss, But Americans Are More Violent than Illegal Aliens [More]
Leftist Rep. Steve Cohen channels his inner Cato.
As Gomer would say, “Surprise, surprise, surprise!“
[Via bondmen]
NRA Foundation Changed Bylaws to Cut NRA BOD Out of Governance [More]
I was wondering why the bylaws were so hard to find.
It certainly reduces incentive for any member to donate a dime to Foundation efforts. Especially if its name is forced to change.
Anybody know if the Board is going to establish a replacement fundraising arm securely under its control, or is the aim to wrest control of the Foundation?
Via email:
It never happened, so like a hate hoax, which this actually is, they had to make it up. The reality is:
Change in Concealed Carry Law Did Not Drive Violent Crime in Ohio Cities, Study Shows
It’s actually a riff on a meme they’ve been using for years” You’re a law-abiding gun owners UNTIL YOU’RE NOT!”
[Via CDT]
Establishment Democrats fend off far-left influencer…Kat Abughazaleh… She lost to Daniel Biss, the mayor of Everston, Ill., and a former state lawmaker. [More]
So, someone who is running on a platform to “Repeal the Second Amendment” is considered an “establishment Democrat” and representative of what Everytown/Moms Demand consider “commonsense gun safety laws?”
There’s no giving an inch to these lying tyrant wannabes. You’d think NRA’s “A+ rated and endorsed” rated John Cornyn would understand that.
[W]ould I word it differently? Would I use a different metaphor? Maybe… [More]
Note he didn’t say he doesn’t believe every word of it?
What do we do with viruses? Pretty much the same thing we do with vermin.
And James has just the plan to make that happen.
Don’t be a useful Fudd idiot like John, conveniently not identified so his creds as a representative Texas gun owner could be checked.
You sure about that? And fraud notwithstanding, that’s a lot of voters perfectly happy to vote communist you’d be flooding into our elections.
Still, opening up what will be a multi-day marathon debate on the bill wasn’t without its hiccups. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, joined all Senate Democrats to block the legislation. [More]
And following expected “Weasel Whisperer” tradition:
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., who threatened to do everything he could to block the bill, did not vote.
Thing is, there were “Aye” votes in there by Swampers who know damn well the thing’ll never pass.
The lawsuit challenges Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) regulation, and County Sheriff policy, that requires an applicant for a license to sell firearms in the state agree to warrantless searches by the State Police, or their designee, to ensure compliance with state law. Furthermore, these inspections would allow regulators to seize license holders or employees for up to two hours, compel them to answer any questions posed, provide documentation, and threatens to revoke their state license to sell firearms for refusing to comply with the demands. [More]
Nobody EXPECTS the Spanish Inquisition!
At least not in the land of the Bill of Rights.
In a case that has far-reaching implications, a District Court Judge in Texas held in favor of the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and its partners, confirming that all current and future members are covered by the injunction granted in the case which prevents the enforcement of the post office carry ban at most ordinary locations. [More]
I still don’t have my question about the sign answered .
And in true pincer strategy fashion, they’re making sure their enforcers will “just follow orders.”
[Via WiscoDave]
We have to continue actively winning the culture, and that includes defeating the dozen or so states that have AWBs or will soon. [More]
How, are you going to outvote the grabbers in blue states when you refuse to look at their “pathway to citizenship” strategy for increasing their numbers?
“New”?
Almost nine years ago, I wrote:
All credible polls show such populations buck the trend and favor gun restrictions by an overwhelming (71% to 25%) margin, as does the California experience. Further, after over 20 years the needle barely moves to the right.
Five years later, the most current study I have a link for, Pew Research says:
More than seven-in-ten Latinos (73%) say it is more important to control gun ownership than to protect the right of Americans to own guns, greater than the 52% of U.S. adults overall who say the same.
Looks like the needle moved to the left.
Oh, but those aren’t just new immigrants, they include established residents and citizens…? That kind of takes the wind out of the “wait for them to assimilate” argument.
That isn’t true, especially for their children and grandchildren.
Prove it. Got numbers? Because right now we’re dealing with almost 30 years of losing ground with no reversal in sight– nor is there any cohesive plan to win hearts and minds, because the gun groups ignore the issue.
[O]verperformance with hispanic voters is a big reason why President Trump made his improbable return to power. They are also a hugely growing demographic in the 2A space, especially here in California.
There’s some problematic trending going on for that in Texas right now. And if we’re talking California, show us some numbers, how they compare with the whole, what efforts by the Second Amendment community can be credited for, and what year you anticipate a vote still won’t be a landslide against 2A.
I’m challenging your claim. Come back with something that makes sense or admit you just made that up. Because reality looks more like this:
My parents are Greek immigrants. Aside from some hunting culture, Greece is, sadly, in no way a pro-gun country, at least not these days. Yet it took one generation for their kid to be a 2A attorney.
I don’t know what the laughing with tears emoji is for. We don’t have a generation. We have midterms coming up and ’28 is right around the corner. If the Dems take it, it’ll be their SCOTUS and game over for peaceable resolution. In one generation that’ll be ancient history.
Besides which, my challenge, which all critics have scrupulously avoided taking me up on, specifically excludes isolated, anecdotal examples. We’re back to the needle not moving and no cohesive plan led by deliberately indifferent gun groups to change that, with the ones that have been offered so far a mere drop in the bucket that is drowned out by the overwhelming influence of immigrants’ political and media influencers and the overwhelmingly anti-gun “mainstream press.”
These “smarter than me” guys are gonna be the death of us.
[Via Michael G]
Antifa Members Convicted in ICE Detention Shooting [More]
Nope. Still not a hate group.
[Via Sweet Babboo]
