Notes from the Resistance
While the case could be made that you need to start people out slowly and get them to dip their toes into the pool and splash around a bit before wading into deeper waters, couching the Second Amendment exclusively in “self-defense” terms limits the right and invites infringements. And Cox has supported plenty of those in his tenure at NRA. [More]
He’s right about the need. But is he the right person for the job?
How Many Gun Owners are in America? (2024 Statistics) [More]
Great. But I’m not uncorking the champagne just yet.
How do they vote?
US Gun Demand Hits Highest Level In Eight Months As Protection Needs Persist [More]
I’ll get excited when I see it translate into votes.
[Via bondmen]
Biden campaign warns second Trump presidency would mean gun violence gets worse [More]
You gotta wonder how many of these people are going to fall right back into old voting habits.
That’s why I caution against getting too ecstatic.
[More]
Sorry, wishful thinkers, 1/5 of 2/3 doesn’t alter the Democrat landslide with the overall demographic.
And still no takers…
US gun sales top 1 million for 49 consecutive months [More]
Not to keep beating a dead horse, but how do they vote?
[Via bondmen]
Liberal, female and minority: America’s new gun owners aren’t who you’d think [More]
If it’s the same way the mouthy broads do, they might as well break out the burqas.
[Via Jess]
DICK’S Sporting Goods (NYSE: DKS) has continued to expand the House of Sport brand as nine new locations celebrated their grand openings in July and August. These locations join the first three House of Sport stores in Victor, New York; Knoxville, Tennessee; and Minnetonka, Minnesota. [More]
So none of their customers own guns?
Or are the ones who do just further proof that “Gun Culture 2.0” is no reason for gushing “gun influencers” to sound so damn triumphant and instead enable the spread of 97percent subversion?
[Via Michael G]
In his last line, Mr. Codrea seems to be skating pretty near the legal edge of making threats of violence. [More]
While checking to see how the work is propagating, I ran across this 10-year-old letter to the editor I’d never seen before.
Here’s the article he objects to.
Funny thing… he uses the exact same words to attack it CSGV did.
All the while pretending his motive is to be inviting to shooters of all stripes…
Just like the phonies at 97percent…
The Ranks of Gun Owners Grow, and So Does Their Resistance to Scrutiny – Researchers report that many gun owners, especially newer ones, falsely deny owning guns. [More]
Good for them.
But that alone doesn’t mean it’s good for “us.”
[Via Dan Gifford]
“Women are the fastest-growing group of gun owners in America,” Milhans told Fox News. [More]
That must be why “In every presidential election since 1980, a gender gap has been apparent, with a greater proportion of women than men preferring the Democrat in each case.”
I had some deep thinker criticize me a while back for not being “a gun person” because I point such things out.
It’s not about guns. It’s about freedom.
[Via Andy M]
I’m a gun owner. I know I’m a sitting duck until common sense gun laws are on the books. [More]
This is the exact divide-and-conquer subversion the 97percent Astroturfers, the Gun Culture 2.0 squishes, and the Fudds for Biden are counting on. They are all AHSA on steroids, and coming at us on multiple fronts.
If I were an FFL and Carl came into my store I’d tell him to get the hell out.
[Via Dan Gifford]
Don’t Believe the Spin: Women are Empowering the 2nd Amendment [More]
I assume there are voting numbers to back that up?
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:
I’m a gun owner and this federal firearms bill is exactly what we need [More]
Another reason why I advise gun “influencers” not to wet themselves in giddy glee when parroting reports of increased gun sales…
[Via Steve T]
But when Rob Pincus told FOX News he supported Biden’s ideas, even shooting a shotgun out a door to scare away bad guys, it was too much. Even with Pincus’ previous statements calling for more gun control, he had crossed the Rubicon. There was no going back. [More]
He crossed the Rubicon for me when he came unglued and went all ad hominem over questioning one of his fellow trainers supporting Hillary. He secured his position in the enemy camp when he teamed up with one of its leaders and then joined up with the kinder, gentler gun-grabbers.
That makes his allies subject to scrutiny too, in my book. They’re the ones who advise ignoring the greatest threat.
The thing is, he doesn’t care about burning bridges. He knows he can continue to make a good living off of Gun Culture 2.0, where useful idiots have their “allowed” guns, for now, as they witlessly vote in rulers aiming to change that as soon as they think they can.
[Via Andy M]
UPDATE
In the interests of fairness, TTAG directs us to the documentation of incomplete quotes.
That has no bearing on my observations.
However, for those like Hudson who do have these concerns, I’d offer a suggestion. If you feel this way, you should start pushing the lawmakers asking for your support to oppose gun control. [More]
We’re well aware of Republican betrayals and failures. That said, what kind of utter moron says they’re for the right to keep and bear arms and then backs Democrats, and what kind of two-faced opportunists support that?
Just because the enemy has guns is no reason to mistake them for our friends.
[Via Andy M]
That was the third-highest NICS number ever, following records set in 2020 and 2021. [More]
So where’s that red wave?
Making happy talk assumptions doesn’t help.
[Via Jess]
Concealed carry permits surge to 22 million, 25 states don’t even require it [More]
You can’t tell it by the “red wave.”
That’s a distinction that not enough are making as they focus instead on being giddy over new gun owners.
[Via Remarks]
Liberal, female and minority: America’s new gun owners aren’t who you’d think [More]
What, bipolar, without a clue as to what the Second Amendment really means, then stupidly buying into the “commonsense gun safety law” bulls*** and voting for politicians who will end up disarming them…?
They’re exactly who I think. And the repackaged antis are counting on it.
[Via bondmen]
Defensive buys drive gun sales to 35th straight month over 1 million [More]
Everyone is aware of how the enemy is all set up to direct the noobs their way and how I see no organized attempt by established “gun rights groups” to inform their members and counter that? And how Gun Culture 2.0 cheerleaders are curiously silent about how they vote?
If owning guns was all it took, we’d have no better pals than Lon Horiuchi and David Chipman.
[Via Jess]
