Notes from the Resistance
California Democrats Advance ‘Stop Nick Shirley Act’ to Shield Fraud From Citizen Journalists [More]
Only Authorized Journalists here…
Why should people who get away with eviscerating the Second Amendment be afraid to trash the First?
[Via Michael G]
So that’s how they get away with it!
And their “solution”?
Then again, even blind pigs can find the occasional acorn:
[Via Jess]
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.
FORENSIC BREAKDOWN: NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s and First Lady Rama Duwaji’s Wikipedia pages have been systematically sanitized, with praise for terrorists softened, endorsement of deadly attacks minimized, and verified racial & homophobic slurs blocked. [More]
Wikipedia commits lies of omission?
[Via Michael G]
From ‘Military Machine Gun’ to .22 Replica: KIRO 7’s UZI Story Changed Fast [More]
“The weapons’ menacing looks, coupled with the public’s confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons—anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun—can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons.”
“Authorized Journalists“– is it any wonder that I love them so?
Trump DOJ Refuses to Rule Out Second Amendment Right to Nuclear Weapons [More]
“Slate is now just making $#!+ up,” you say…?
And far be it from them to let us know in the article that Tess Fardon and Shira Feldman are lawyers for the National Council to Ban Handgu… I mean, Brady United…
[Via WiscoDave]
Let’s see, @5M in the U.S., 66% of those new immigrants after a 174% increase in 20 years… and India Today is a go-to mass influencer source for them.
No wonder they’re 83% against 2A.
And no wonder my challenge says anecdotes and isolated examples don’t measurably alter that.
You guys who disagree, you’d better step up those outreach efforts and start taking busloads to the range.
[Via Andy M]
Armed with military-grade weapons smuggled from the U.S., the 50-man force is one of dozens of “autodefensa,” or “self-defense,” groups that have emerged over the past decade in Mexico to fight increasingly sophisticated cartels in areas far out of the reach of security forces. [More]
Which FFL are they getting them from?
And just to show there are two sides to every story:
We Traced How U.S. Guns Get to Mexican Cartels [More]
How come commie Antifa/No Kings types never come after cartels? Are the defenders worth siding with? Let God sort ’em out?
American guns fueling Mexican violence, so we need to curtail rights here? This looks like just what the media narrative was before all hell broke loose.
Missiles hit Dubai. Influencer still claims it’s safer than US cities
Influencer Mike Babayan says he still feels safe in Dubai as missiles strike the region. [More]
Google AI…? What say you?
Many freedoms protected in the U.S. are illegal in Dubai, UAE, due to strict conservative laws and autocratic governance. Key restrictions include prohibitions on criticizing the government, public displays of affection, LGBTQ+ rights, independent media, public protests, and certain expressions of religion. Violating these can lead to fines, imprisonment, or deportation. U.S. Department of State (.gov)
Not that I’m saying AI is GIGO curated leftist opinion or anything, but it avoided something. I said “avoided” instead of “forgot,” because it knows:
Dubai has extremely strict gun laws under UAE Federal Law No. 17 of 2019, making private firearm ownership difficult and heavily regulated. Licenses are required for purchasing or possessing weapons, with illegal possession resulting in severe penalties like imprisonment and deportation. Ownership is limited to specific purposes like sport or hunting, requiring strict licensing.
Mr. Franklin…? (And yes, I’m aware of original context.)
Maybe the wrong people are “influencers.”
Still, he has a point about cities and the dangerous oppressiveness of Democrat rule.
19 Million Americans Have Seriously Thought About Shooting Someone, National Survey Suggests [More]
Outside of playing cowboy as a child, I don’t recall even fantasizing, let alone seriously considering. Even during my DGU, I hoped things would go no further.
So, what are we talking here about with homicides, like two-tenths of one percent of those who think about it act on it? And factoring in suicides and justifiable shootings, we need to impose fundamental rights-denying prohibitions on the 99.9+ percent, rather than focus on removing those who can’t be trusted from access to the rest of us?
[Via bondmen]
How the Trace found these three, no one knows! [More]
Through the law offices of Dewey, Cheatham and Howe…?
Outing a psychiatry professor as anti-gun [More]
So the gunquacks are promulgating a hoplophobe’s delusional political rantings as settled science? And “trusted” professional journals are basically propaganda rags?
‘Bridging the Divide’ on Firearms Laws [More]
Oh, look, kinder, gentler gun control couched as a meeting of reasonable minds. Where have we seen that before? And before that?
And when we no longer have to expend resources on these, we can focus on our next steps toward the goal.
If these rights swindlers wanted to attract more gun owners, they’d be stumping for BIDS– and not doing so reveals the fraud behind “background checks.”
Via email:
It never happened, so like a hate hoax, which this actually is, they had to make it up. The reality is:
Change in Concealed Carry Law Did Not Drive Violent Crime in Ohio Cities, Study Shows
It’s actually a riff on a meme they’ve been using for years” You’re a law-abiding gun owners UNTIL YOU’RE NOT!”
[Via CDT]
I mean, who would believe it if you told them that CNN would turn an Islamist terrorist attack on New York City into a tale of two brothers minding their own business until they were forced to protest the injustice of white supremacists who were committing an Islamophobic hate crime? [More]
[Via Michael G]
What we’re seeing is a practical repeat of what the anti-gunners and their media amplifiers were telling the American public prior to “Gunwalker” in an attempt to swindle them out of their rights… [More]
It’s déjà vu all over again.
We already saw it wouldn’t leave.
In addition to their website’s “contact us” and “media inquiries” buttons being disconnected, replies their X posts are disabled. Like all gun control groups, they like preaching to the choir.
I’d argue “mob,” not “choir,” but it’s a valid observation. Check it out:
Their whole purpose, at least their stated one, is to “foster a collaborative community to ensure our policies are shaped by comprehensive input,” yet they shut off inputs from the very community they purport to speak for. At least we see what they mean when they say they’re “taking back the conversation.”
Tell us they’re AstroTurf phonies without telling us they’re AstroTurf phonies. Of course, the fact that they’ve been around for years now, gotten all kinds of free publicity, and have only amassed 11K X followers in all that time, an unknown percentage being the people whose comments they muzzle, is our first clue.
The reason for the censorship, of course, is clear– every time they post something they get their @$$e$ handed to them in the ratioing, but that just goes to confirm they’re false fronts. The gun groups don’t have to do that and have more than enough supporters to drown out trolls or take them on on their own turf.
That pretty much proves out one other comment: Yes, in addition to being frauds, they’re cowards.
