Notes from the Resistance
“OK, you can have your guns, but you can’t have your AR-15. If you’re gonna get all in my business and tell me what my family can and cannot do, neither can you. They’re gonna come for those AR-15s and you better get ready to give them up!” [More]
Somehow, “nasty” doesn’t seem strong enough…
‘No one better’ than Susan Rice to lead gun effort, White House says, not VP [More]
Yeah, we’ve established she’s a shameless, power-mad liar…
[Via bondmen]
Yellow-flag laws allow law enforcement — and only law enforcement — to petition the courts to temporarily take guns away from those considered to be a threat to others or themselves. [More]
And they know a thing or two about yellow.
[Via Jess]
She’s still too dense to realize he just owned her.
We must identify every individual for their credentials for their mental capacity to bear arms. There should be proper qualifications for gun ownership, and proper testing. One should only own a gun if they’re qualified and schooled.” [More]
Don’t you have someone else’s lines to read?
In an interview with The Pillar, Bishop Daniel Flores of Brownsville, Texas, elaborated on a tweet he made following the horrific mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas and admonished gun-owning Catholics — and all Americans — that there is no “divine right” argument to be made about owning a weapon. [More]
Anybody see the Swiss Guard disarming?
[Via Mike F]
The 80% Coalition is non-partisan and is comprised of advocacy, business, education, faith-based, professional and service organizations committed to pushing back against hate and urging our legislators at the state and federal levels to pass commonsense gun violence prevention legislation. [More]
I see a lot of “faith” organizations claiming tax-exempt status in there…
[Via Lawrence S]
Schumer vows to force vote on gun control legislation after Memorial Day recess [More]
With Graham, Collins, Toomey, and Cassidy parlaying under a white flag, I guess we’ll see how badly Republican want a “red wave.”
Also of interest, look at the amount of attention the media is devoting to what this ever-treasonous, on-his-way-out GOP loser thinks.
Hernandez, who describes himself as a “once undocumented” immigrant and has previously run for Congress, continues to argue with Cruz as security gets involved and tells him to “back up.” [More]
Askandi, who’s Mexican American, attended the protest with her son, who’s also Persian American, because she said she’s become afraid after gunmen targeted people of color in Buffalo, N.Y., less than two weeks ago and in El Paso in 2016. [More]
So they came here with the understanding of the role of government they were indoctrinated with, and now want to impose what they fled on the people who took them in.
Good thing this has nothing to do with that “single issue” …
Fabricated image falsely claims Senator Ted Cruz has shared the same message about shootings a dozen times, fact-checkers say [More]
Even if he had, so what? There’s only one truth and it’s not like the grabbers don’t exploit these things with the exact same lies each time.
LULAC calls on Congress to pass legislation raising the age to 21 for persons to buy military assault high capacity weapons … The moment is now for Congress to pass the Bipartisan Background Checks Act. [More]
Good thing this has nothing to do with that “single issue“!
Governor Ducey Again Proposing the Exact WRONG Solution to Mass Casualty Events [More]
Man if a squad of cops is afraid to confront one AR-15 imagine how fun it will be to forcibly confiscate 20 million of them https://t.co/Ccsmlf0NJS
— Bennett’s Phylactery (@extradeadjcb) May 27, 2022
[Via WiscoDave]
Fears of a Chinese invasion have Taiwanese civilians taking up target practice [More]
Just not with anything that would work.
I hope a country that won’t let its own people defend themselves doesn’t expect anyone else to…
[Via bondmen]
