Notes from the Resistance
A Rebuttal to Cam Edwards’ Article ‘Should 2A Groups Make Opposition to Legal Immigration an Issue? A Response to David Codrea’
By disparaging thoughts on what a “pathway to citizenship” means for future “gun votes,” widely followed “gun rights influencers” are discouraging even discussing the issue.
Trump has just announced thanks to Gun Owners America that they are going to reconsider the Biden era frame and receiver rule. Is this a shock? Should we have freaked out last week? Well, we’re going to talk about it because as I said last week in another video, I told you so. [Watch]
If so, great, but where I come from, “going to reconsider” doesn’t mean “will,” “may” can also mean “may not,” and we should all be hearing this in an unequivocal announcement from the administration, not parceled out to a select few supportive influencers.
Sorry if my first impression is that this sounds like an electioneering tactic from someone skilled at telling gun owners what they want to hear, but he’s been playing this game on us for years, so everyone will have to forgive me if I suspect this is more of the same — and if he does do it, it will be more out of manipulation than sincere conviction.
Change my mind.
[Via Jess]
I guess the homeowner not having a gun and having to grab a shovel while his “pregnant wife and 5-year-old child hid in the garage” is his choice.
Seems kinda irresponsible to me.
Dem-led push to extend protections for Haitians faces outrage after brutal hammer killing – Four Republicans crossed party lines to join Rep Ayanna Pressley in forcing a vote to extend TPS for three years – – Reps. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., and Don Bacon, R-Neb., crossed party lines in support of forcing a chamber-wide vote on Pressley’s bill. [More]
Or linked a different way:
Reps. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., and Don Bacon, R-Neb., crossed party lines in support of forcing a chamber-wide vote on Pressley’s bill.
UPDATE
A correspondent just forwarded me this email from NumbersUSA:
Told ya. May she be as successful with this as she was at accomplishing nothing over at 97percent.
And here she is praising a ‘No Kings’ rally. Her journey to the dark side is complete.
Be interesting to see her gun platform when she gets a campaign website up.
[Via Michael G]
Decades of national and state-level data on violent crime, homicide, and mass shooting show no consistent evidence that stricter gun laws reduce overall crime rates. [More]
Right, but as anyone with a brain knows, that’s just an excuse to give the suckers while they’re swindling them out of their rights, and never was what they’re intended to do.
GRASSROOTS NC IS MOBILIZING — AND WE NEED YOU IN RALEIGH ON APRIL 21st [More]
I wonder how many excuses not to participate are bull$#!+.
Migrants Overrepresented in German Violent Crime Data [More]
Saying it like that is one way to obscure who’s responsible for it.
Kind of like saying “The Disproportionate Impact of Gun Violence on Black Americans”…
[Via Michael G]
Ammo serialization has nothing to do with solving crimes [More]
You have to wonder what kind of useful idiot thinks it does.
And that reminds me– I never did get my question answered, and most likely never will.
[Via bondmen]
Chick-fil-A shooting in Union, New Jersey: Many injured in mass shooting; scary videos emerge [More]
And why is it significant to note an article from The Hindustan Times that emphasizes fear and doesn’t mention citizen disarmament edicts to its readers, you might ask?
[Via bondmen]
FAA Greenlights Laser Sentry Guns To Combat Attack Drones In U.S. Airspace [More]
As I wrote in “Things to Come” for Guns and Ammo back in 2002:
Designed for deployment on AC-X “Son of Specter” aircraft gunships, we’re told that “advances will be made and the power plant will shrink and one day it will dominate the battlefield.” Hardly a small arm suitable for individual combatants? Just remember, not so long ago your pocket calculator would have filled a room, requiring programmers, technicians and keypunch operators; and cell phones, laptops and GPS units would have been considered no more plausible than… um… paralyzer beams and death rays.
I wish I had a link to it but it’s not on the internet and they own the copyright.
And sorry, it’s not “in common use.”
[Via bondmen]
Billionaire Boots Eric Swalwell From His Mansion, Wants $1M Returned [More]
And what’s this “plans to resign“? Just do it.
I wonder when his wife is going to leave him — and take the kids and any property her lawyers can wrest from him, which his own antics will only ensure?
Maybe somebody ought to be making sure he doesn’t have access to guns by invoking one of those Red Flag Laws he’s been so keen on:
‘Please tell me this lunatic does not own a gun’
[Via Jess]
New York City’s Prohibition on Stun Guns, Tasers Survives Appeal [More]
And here we thought the Supreme Court was pretty clear whan it ruled:
The Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms, even those that were not in existence at the time of the founding.
Until such @$$hole judges face consequences, this kind of crap will continue.
Assuming you don’t want to pay Bloomberg Law to read their spin, Four Boxes Diner breaks things down for us.
[Via Jess]
“If a judge releases someone who goes on to commit a violent crime, the public deserves to know. Not to assign blame — but to be informed.” [More]
I dunno… there’s something to be said for assigning blame.
Anyway, this is a website that may be useful to you to bookmark. I’m not aware of who is behind it and if they have an agenda. If I find time to look, I will.
[Via Michael G]
More Than 16,000 Immigrants in Illinois May Lose Food Assistance in the Coming Months [More]
How many generations are we gonna have to feed until they come around?
And how will they, if this is the culture they’re immersed in?
Hey, maybe they’ll riot. While waving foreign flags.
[Via Michael G]
They Finally Said It Out Loud… And It’s Worse Than Anyone Thought [Watch]
Not me. I’ve been beating the “they want to disarm us” drum for years– and documenting every claim I make with the words of the infringers.
As for ultimately wanting to disarm cops, I wrote this back in 2000:
“I want an absolute ban on the manufacture, sale possession and use of handguns and automatic weapons in this country, with long prison sentences for violations,” Sallie commands. “The police need guns – at least until we get rid of the hundreds of millions of guns floating around,” Sallie lets slip.
Of course, then they wouldn’t be the “Only Ones,” would they?
[Via Jess]
Katy Perry fights back against Ruby Rose’s ‘categorically false’ sexual assault allegations [More]
So, how does #BelieveWomen work here, exactly? And what’s a woman?
And how do we choose between a “progressive” celebrity head case and a “progressive” celebrity gun-grabber?
Fortunately, the smartest woman in the world says the first one to scream “Witch!” wins the toss.
Albertans Who Declared Guns to Government Not Getting Paid For Them [More]
In an exclusive, WarOnGuns has obtained an official government response:
What are you gonna do, shoot us? Besides, you’ve already proved you’re cowards.
That Machiavelli, him plenty smart fella.
It was on this day in 1865 that President Abraham Lincoln was shot while watching a play at Ford’s Theater. [More]
And everyone here knows how much I value celebrity opinions.
Their “Diverse Coalition of Gun Rights and Gun Violence Prevention Advocates” includes rabid prohibitionist zealots who have made careers out of trying to eviscerate the Second Amendment through lawfare and gun bans, with not one recognized “no compromise” member. [More]
Oh, look, another covertly-funded AstroTurf group comprised of useful idiots and rabid prohibitionists trying to lure in low information gun owners who haven’t seen this game before. By “compromise,” they mean you do it.
