Tag: propaganda

Broader Questions

A Congressman’s Gun Store Is Linked to a Federal Trafficking Case. He’s Trying to Defund the ATF. [More]

Wait– so someone apparently straw purchased “more than 40 firearms from gun stores in the Athens area between September 2020 and July 2021 … at least 20 of those firearms have since been recovered by law enforcement, several in connection with violent crimes,” and “Among the firearms recovered was ONE [emphasis added] purchased at Clyde Armory, the Georgia gun store owned by Representative Andrew Clyde” and someone is trying to make the case that “rais[es] broader questions about conflicts of interest, regulatory oversight, and the intersection of private business and public office”…?

Really?

That raises broader questions with me about the motivations and political leanings of the author and his publisher:

MeidasTouch

If Guns Could Speak

If guns could speak they would say nothing of solidarity or community; they would articulate only fear of the stranger and rage at life’s tenuous hold. [More]

But they can’t, can they?

I’ve talked before about Academia .edu because I get a laugh over how often a guy who was usually on the wrong end of the Dean’s List is cited there. This 10-year-old article was featured in a recent email they sent me, and it’s illustrative of the ivory tower mindset that controls monolithic narrative promulgators that represent themselves as “institutions of higher learning.”

Finally, Some Honest Science /s

Valeriefousheegiffords

Today, Congresswoman Valerie Foushee (NC-04) introduced the Gun Violence Prevention and Public Safety Database Act of 2026, legislation to direct the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to establish a publicly accessible federal database of gun violence and public safety research. [More]

To the tune of five million smackers…

We know what happened last time CDC had carte blanche…

There is no Marxist-enabling traitor or useful idiot Giffords, Everytown, and Brady won’t back, is there?

Prognosis:


1% chance of being enacted

That’s assuming Republicans don’t blow it, and you know them.

[Via Jess]

Tsunami Warning

What’s in the Trump administration’s ‘tsunami’ of gun deregulation [More]

Oh, no! Infringing on infringements! Head for higher ground!

Because we all know how ATF rules affect predator decision-making.

“Real reporter” Avery Lotz carries the prohibitionists’ water for them.

She probably also believes repeating talking points can’t ultimately be done a lot cheaper by AI.

[Via Michael G]

The Brown Bess Loophole

You ought to see the damage unregulated assault weapons from an even earlier time were capable of! And they were all “in common use at the time”!

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What can I say but “Associated Press“…?

Kicking Over The Trace

It should, of course, be noted that The Trace doesn’t seem to have reached out to anyone at the ATF, the NSSF, the NRA, GOA, SAF, or any other gun rights organization, advocate, or journalist. They could reach out to Brown, of course, but no one else. No attempt to get a balanced take on this. [More]

What a joke of a “reporter” you are, Chip Brownlee.

Between him and the girl with Daddy Issues, they’re assembling quite the team.

[Via bondmen]

The Stupidest Thing I’ve Seen on the Internet All Day

The Guardian view on Trump and the Washington shooting: political violence and gun culture endanger all [More]

So, with “gun law”-violating leftitsts who hate us wanting to kill us, the answer is for us to disarm…?

F-n’ Brits… No wonder the Muslims own these people.

And not wanting to be left out we have Brian Stelter and CNN…

[Via Michael G]

Not Here for the Ratio

So that’s how they get away with it!

And their “solution”?

Then again, even blind pigs can find the occasional acorn:

[Via Jess]

Lies of Commission and Omission

A recent news headline declared, “11,500 shootings occurred within 500 yards of US schools last year.” The obvious implication is that American school children are under daily fire on school campuses nationwide. But, as with most gun control narratives in national media written by reporters who mostly don’t understand the basics of firearms or criminal gun use, that narrative collapses under the slightest scrutiny. The first glaring red flag in this story is that Hearst Television Data Visualization Journalist Susie Webb and the WCVB Get the Facts Data Team built their agenda-driven narrative by relying on gun control advocacy site The Trace’s “School-Adjacent Shootings” dataset, which tracks Gun Violence Archive (GVA) incidents that fell within 500 yards of a K-12 school. Even that dataset warns that each row is a shooting-to-school match and must be deduplicated before anyone totals up the incidents, deaths or injuries. However, that was not done before Webb and WVTM’s story went live on several news outlets, on social media, on Hearst Television’s YouTube channel and was even—unsurprisingly—picked up by MSN. [More]

You don’t hate the DSM enough.