Notes from the Resistance
With this being SOP for the GOP, it’s no wonder lesser luminaries like Fitzpatrick and Kean feel like they can do anything they want, and “lesser of two evils” gun voters won’t have a choice but to keep rewarding them with power. [More]
If the turncoats will betray gun owners on something as clear-cut as this, what won’t they betray them on?
It’s about official as it can get. Senate Minority Leader Tim Knopp has made a deal with the Democrats and you are on the chopping block. Personally made firearms will be banned under Knopp’s sell out and while there is some talk of getting something on the record that it will not apply to AR style uppers, we have no reason to think they are actually going to change the language of the bill to clarify that. [More]
Yeah, throw the circling jackals a scrap of flesh. That’ll make ’em go away!
Mayor’s proposed gun control ordinance passes Public Safety and Criminal Justice Committee [More]
They didn’t want him to be the only one getting his name in the paper.
And that’s as far as it will get.
[Via Sweet Babboo]
If you want to have a gun, you need to join the militia. [More]
Inigo would like to have a word about “well regulated.”
Marsha hasn’t read Heller, has she?
Or found anything from the Framers to support her ignorance?
Still, we ignore those first 13 words at our peril. Just understand that the “well regulated” part applies to when on duty and your rights go back home with you intact.
Does this mean we get new M16s?
[Via Jess]
Third Circuit, En Banc, Range v. Lombardo: Not All Modern Felons Lose Second Amendment Rights … Several judges dissented. [More]
Which ones?
Who nominated them?
Who voted to confirm them?
I could go find out but it would take time I don’t have right now.
It would be nice if there were a website that provided judicial ratings and a way to hold those who enabled them politically accountable. It would be even more useful if it also politically scaled and rated inferior court judges running in “nonpartisan” elections and showed who backs them so their partisan allegiances could be inferred.
I guess I’m talking something like Ballotpedia on steroids. Too bad the name “Judicial Watch” is taken, although come to think of it, they’d be the perfect ones to take this on.
Whether any of the Vichycon Republicans are actually gutless and dumb enough to believe that the prudent play is to listen to the commies and betray their base remains to be seen. While the urge to believe they won’t be is strong, we’ve seen “moderates” snatch defeat from the jaws of victory before. While they might not cave on everything, their baffling propensity to give up “something” and showcase an aptitude for “bipartisan compromise” is a factor that can’t be ignored. [More]
They only need five turncoats in the House, and those aren’t that hard to find.
Our rights are now dependent on ignorant neuroses ginned up by professional fear mongers…? [More]
Like the song goes, “Feelings, nothing more than feelings…”
Colleague José Niño examines the varied and in-your-face ways states are getting away with undermining the right to keep and bear arms and gets some quotes from one of my favorite people along the way…
White House threatens to veto GOP resolution against its pistol brace ban [More]
Was there ever any doubt that it was anything but symbolic, with no chance of going anywhere?
Let’s see what the Republicans do if they keep the House and regain the Senate and the White House, that is, if they don’t blow it.
[Via Jess]
Illinois’s legal brief seeks to defend their recently-enacted “assault weapons” ban by arguing that the lethality of these semi-automatic firearms means that they may be banned consistent with the 2nd Amendment. Mark Smith discusses this lethality argument here. [Watch]
Because the last thing you want to do when fighting armed attackers is kill them!
Be sure to also open up Illinois’ brief and Smith’s review on Beccaria, linked under the video.
[Via Jess]
They have unlimited resources to drag things out until the bitter end.
That said, it’s also entirely appropriate to show how the so-called “justice system” treats the president’s son and a highly connected Democrat apparatchik differently than it does people of modest means and people of color FOR THE SAME CHARGE. [More]
It’s a big club Hunter Biden and Nikki Fried belong to, and unconnected black people ain’t in it.
While Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposal for a 28th Amendment is an admirable effort to confront the gun violence epidemic, a better proposal would be to repeal and replace the 2nd Amendment through Congress and the states. By replacing the convoluted language of the 2nd Amendment with a list of specific rules for gun ownership, gun violence can be reduced. [More]
I see Bob Ladendorf is as inconsequential a fool as he always was.
You kind of get the feeling that some people were pantsed once too often in high school…
[Via Remarks]
Some insurance companies currently offer different types of coverage for firearm liability under homeowner, umbrella and renter policies because there is not a specific exclusion. However, most insurers do not offer separate stand-alone gun liability coverage and no insurer would provide coverage for illegal or “criminal” acts, such as mass shootings. [More]
So what we’re talking about is a special punishment tax for the “law-abiding” being fraudulently offered as a sop against violent crime.
Knowing what kind of rights swindlers are behind it could have told us that.
[Via Jess]
Giving the Constitution Teeth: The Truth About Aggravated Infringement—a Felony [More]
I agree.
I’d just like to see the way around the speech or debate clause fleshed out.
“I have a message tonight for Merrick Garland and Jack Smith and Joe Biden — and the guys back there in the fake news media, you should listen up as well, this one is for you,” Ms. Lake said. “If you want to get to President Trump, you are going to have go through me, and you are going to have to go through 75 million Americans just like me. And I’m going to tell you, most of us are card-carrying members of the N.R.A.” [More]
And many of us are Wine Club members!
Or shouldn’t we believe that people who can’t even elect a new board can impact the fate of the government?
Didn’t Oath Keepers say essentially the same thing about the vote certification?
So what’s this, defeatist language?
No, I’m just saying Kati Lake shouldn’t involve others in her grandstanding, particularly when she has been powerless to do anything but make noise about Arizona. And I’m the NRA. I’ll decide when and if to answer a muster call, and I’m not 100% on having the back of someone who so often doesn’t have mine.
It sounds more to me like she’s bucking for a Vice President spot on a ticket we might not see happen.
Besides, if and when things go kinetic, expect it to be unexpected.
[Via Dan Gifford]
Related UPDATE
Besides, with food stamp recipient Jason Kirell against us, what chance do we stand?
[Via WiscoDave]
Neocons in the 80s and 90s used to warn people off of the CoS rout always bringing up the runaway convention argument. Amendments proposed by the CoS still have to be ratified by 38 states, thus killing worries for runaway conventions. We all know congress will NEVER vote to limit themselves, so lets try a CoS. We are already quickly headed down the path the late great Mike Vanderboegh warned us about repeatedly. [More]
I’d be careful about invoking Vanderboegh’s name to make your case.
As for the “38 states” redirect/deferral, I see nobody’s considering what’s happening all around us, every day, with no end in sight…
In other words, they’ll be able to enact any damn ban they want to, up to and including a total prohibition on “civilians” owning guns… [More]
But “no one’s talking about taking your guns,” right?
