Notes from the Resistance
This week marks the halfway point in the 2023 legislative session. “Crossover” refers to the transfer of bills between the House of Representatives and the Senate. All House bills that have survived the committee process will now be considered by the Senate while all Senate bills that are still in play are headed to the House. Then the process starts all over again! [More]
Let’s hope support by gun owners isn’t half-hearted, especially with the swing to the Democrats in Arizona.
So far, 6,278 people have been died from gun violence this year in the U.S… [More]
What further proof do we need that the First Amendment should only apply to “real reporters”?
Five shot, 2 dead after celebration of life event in Minnesota [More]
This marks the second shooting in St. Paul in the past two days. On Friday evening, three teen boys were wounded in a drive-by shooting during a funeral reception for a 15-year-old boy who had been fatally stabbed at a St. Paul high school earlier this month.
If only they would disarm you and me…
Meanwhile, Carter said the city has many problems, including the crime surge that briefly made the city the nation’s murder capital for most homicides per capita before being unseated by Jackson, Mississippi, at the end of 2022. [More]
With about three weeks to go in the 2023 Legislative Session, none of the bills we are watching were heard in committee or were voted on in a floor session. However, that will change next week. [More]
Meaning this week, since I didn’t get this until I’d tucked the blog in for the weekend…
I joined 97Percent because they are a gun safety organization taking a different approach to this seemingly intractable issue. [More]
The kinder, gentler citizen disarmers.
Divide and conquer is hardly a different approach. Like all “progressive” ideas, it’s a dusting off of an old ruse relying on apparatchiks and useful idiots to draw the suckers in.
Not to mention make a buck.
There’s never been a shortage of gunkapos presenting themselves as Gun Culture 2.0.
WarOnGuns Correspondent Andy M. sent me a couple more examples that are a few months old but timely in regard to this:
Why one popular gun control measure wasn’t part of Colorado Democrats’ reform package [More]
That’s OK– by swindling the public into viewing tyrannical infringements as “reforms,” it’s just a matter of time before the prohibitionists use the incremental position they’ll gain as the launching point for their next incursion.
[Via cydl]
Two gun bills were filed this week that we think you should know about… a straight-up attack on core gun rights [and a supposedly ] pro-gun bill [that] has the potential to make things even worse for gun owners. [More]
Boquist’s conversion to the Dark Side is complete.
Colorado gun buyers would have to wait 3 days before accessing their weapons under waiting-period proposal [More]
No worries. They don’t mean everybody.
Would I be canceled for wondering if there are any DREAMers in the bunch…?
[Via Michael G]
North Carolina House of Representatives Speaker Tim Moore, another state congressman, and Moore’s security were driving back to the state capital from an event when a vehicle repeatedly rammed into the back of them, the speaker’s spokeswoman said Thursday. [More]
Coincidentally, with quotation marks, if you like, this was the day after the House voted to repeal handgun purchase permits. In any case, it’s fair to question if this was garden variety ‘roid rage or if he was targeted
Check out the cheesy excuse Rep. Michael Wray gave for voting against the bill he originally sponsored– no doubt his earlier feigned support was to sucker the Fudds at election time. What a weasel.
Ultimately, there is no such thing as a “pro-gun Democrat.” Besides, it’s never been about guns anyway.
“There are no coincidences in the universe, only convergences of Will, Intent and Experience.” [More]
To believe in such a conspiracy means to believe the government would lie to the people about everything, from Kennedy to Covid.
Next, you’ll be telling me there’s an ulterior motive behind “commonsense gun safety laws”…
[Via Maingun]
But did anyone bother asking whether California’s “cure” for mass shootings even works in California before peddling it to the nation? [More]
Hence the graphic.
Not that I expect the DSM to notice…
But it’s to their advantage for them to give an occasional platform to someone who is helping them advance on a major front.
[Via Remarks]
The couple had been off on a visit to Palawan and were staying in Makati, a district in the capital region of Manila, on Feb. 19 when a pair of robbers on a motorcycle stopped them and held them at gunpoint. [More]
But…but…but commonsense…
But if the merchant codes don’t go to the SKU (stock keeping unit) level and identify specific items purchased, some may question what the big deal is. For that, look to the proponents of the codes and how they have announced they intend to use them. [More]
The rope-selling “capitalists” don’t seem to realize what historically happens when their usefulness is up.
Seven killed in Brazilian pool hall massacre after losers mocked: video [More]
No worries. Now with Lula in power, look for this to be a catalyst for more citizen disarmament affecting the “law-abiding.”
Just in case anyone was looking forward to a resumption of the good old days…
According to House Bill 23-1169, which only has one sponsor, Denver Democrat Rep. Jennifer Bacon, the change is needed because “Public safety is served by responding to low-level offenses with increased services rather than custodial arrest because non-prosecution of low-level offenses has been shown to reduce reoffending, or recidivism, for these populations.” [More]
Because nothing says “Don’t go on to bigger violations” like excusing victimizing others in smaller ways without consequences.
It figures she doesn’t want you to be able to defend yourself against the sociopaths she’s helping.
Any government that allows this has deliberately reneged on its basic charter and absolved the governed of giving consent. And “whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it.”
[Via Michael G]
