Category: citizen disarmament

Here to Stay

Since assault weapons bans aren’t coming back and AR-15-style rifles are here to stay, the most important thing we can do is modernize the background check system, around which there’s a modicum of bipartisan consensus. [More]

What, you mean the system that the National Institute of Justice says requires registration to be effective, and that criminals won’t subject themselves to anyway…?

Still, nice of him to admit they don’t have the juice to get rid of them. In The New York Times, no less…

[Via Jess]

The Journalistic Turd in the Punch Bowl

Women are buying more guns, though studies suggest self-defense use is rare… A Harvard University analysis found people defended themselves with a gun in less than 1% of crimes from 2007 to 2011. More recently, a Stanford University study of 17.6 million Californians found that people who lived with handgun owners but did not own a gun themselves died by homicide more than twice as often as their gun-free neighbors. [More]

If what they say is true, NRA families must be self-destructing at an astonishing rate.

Somebody at Faux News decided it was important to offset reality by citing “statistics” and talking points from people who want to ban guns. Nothing like assigning such stories to a self-described “cat lady.”

Forbidden Knowledge

5 Things the Left Does NOT Want You to Know About the 2nd Amendment [More]

I suppose we could all come up with our own list. I’d have added they don’t want you to know it’s an individual right, that it’s the most egalitarian power-sharing arrangement ever devised, and that “in common use at the time” arms are the ones in common use by police and soldiers as well as by “sportsmen.”

[Via bondmen]

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Quorum

The far left “OPB” was right. The Democrats, in their zeal for retribution, screwed up. They now have zero leverage. The Senate Republicans have demonstrated amazing courage and selflessness and now the Democrats are wetting themselves. [More]

If you’re an Oregon gun owner, thanking the senators for standing up for rights at no small risk to their own careers is the right thing to do.

Biden’s New Gun Actions Could Not Have Happened Without Republican Help

And helping them do that this time out were the usual suspects from the Vichycon wing of the GOP, the useful idiot/self-serving swamp creatures who continually prove themselves adept at turning coats and stabbing backs. [More]

Nothing like seeing a “staunch supporter of the Second Amendment” carry the Democrats’ water for them…

Not Now

The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a request to block state and local laws barring the sale of assault-style weapons in Illinois while a group of challenges to those laws continues in the lower courts. There were no dissents publicly recorded from the unsigned order, nor did the justices provide any explanation for their decision. [More]

I’m going to resist reading more into this for now.

[Via Jess]

Ja Moron

This country’s gun addiction is fostered not by young Black men but by a far right that is drunk with reactionary fever dreams and visions of race war. [More]

I was just thinking that last weekend while shooting up Baltimore.

We’re told the hateful, self-enamored ignoranus who penned this prejudiced screed is “one of UTNE Reader’s ’50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Our World.’”

If that isn’t the benchmark on what’s of lasting importance, I don’t know what is.

Attack of the Vichycons

On the House side, “Republicans” Charlie Conrad and Kevin Mannix joined the Democrats to pass HB 2572. [More]

Just an observation: I don’t see Oregon gun owners tearing into these traitors on their respective Facebook pages.

I wonder how many think OFF volunteers are supposed to do all the work and how many just don’t care.