One of These Things is Not Like the Other

Researchers found that the average firearm mortality homicide rate for Black people of all ages was 21.05 per 100,000 people, compared with 1.93 per 100,000 for non-Hispanic white people. [More]

Tell us again why it’s Swiss gun laws that make the difference.

[Via Dan Gifford]

Trump/NRA Mutual Love Fest: Long on Promises, Short on Memory

The former president and — legal challenges aside — presumed GOP contender for the office in November, knew just which buttons to push to stoke the boundless enthusiasm of the thousands of supporters. [More]

This is what we’ve got to work with. And work we must.

Guilt by Association

Treasury confirms terms like ‘MAGA,’ ‘Trump,’ Kamala,’ ‘Biden’ used in private bank transaction searches – A letter sent from the Treasury to Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., also confirms the searches push began under the Trump administration [More]

I’m wondering why I can still pass thought TSA and Secret Service checkpoints, and think I need to up my “Hate” game more…

[Via Antigone]

Coming Soon, to a Soft Target Near You

So I just finished Kurt Schlichter’s new novel, The Attack. It’s a fictionalized account of an October 7 style attack that takes place on a large scale in the United States. It’s also a warning. [More]

I guess some suburbs, but I’m thinking bang for the buck means high population areas without a lot of armed “right wingers.”

Good thing this has nothing to do with that “single issue.” 

[Via Michael G]

The Bad Hands People

There are no places evil can’t go. Limited, though, are your choices to stand up against evil and stop it. Ideas are being discussed everywhere about how to protect our schools. The insurance companies have threatened to drop school coverage on schools that protect children and staff by exercising the right to self-defense with a firearm. [More]

Which insurance companies? Name names.

Are they the only ones, or the only ones the schools are doing business with? What about state rules saying if you want to do business here you can’t discriminate?

A Word of Caution

Attorneys representing the Second Amendment Foundation and its partners in a federal challenge of the Illinois ban on modern semi-auto firearms and “large-capacity magazines” have filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court, seeking certiorari in the case of Harrel v. Raoul. [More]

Be careful that you don’t turn “common use” into a precedential limitation.

Low-Hanging Fruit Proves Useful Idiot

In case you missed it: Newly surfaced footage shows a Donald Trump supporter (who later stabbed a man to death) firing a gun into the air outside the Capitol on Jan. 6. [More]

Did he also use rubber bullets?

We don’t really know anythin g about this “Trump supporter,” do we?

But DSM stalwarts are out there tarring all of MAGA with this as the “See? The insurrectionists were armed!” meme spreads.

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