By Stephen, on August 24th, 2010%
Blindly anti-gun bloggers like mikeb post a cartoon like this without even thinking it needs commentary. It just shows how ridiculous their outlook is and how they put no thought in it a all — they don’t like guns, guns scare them, and that is all they need to know.
Yeah … because if you work for the NRA or are an NRA member, you have to take resopnsibility for all those things!
The NRA is a gun owner/2nd amendment rights organization. As a grass-roots association it uses the political pull of its member’s votes (of which I am proudly one) and its voice to oppose anti-gun legislation. Period. You can read through the NRA site at whatever length you want, and you’ll never find anything to support workplace violence, school shootings, or any other crime.
Blaming the NRA for those things is like:
1. Blaming the ACLU for the white punks who beat up an African American after reading racists publications the ACLU defended as free speech.
2. Blaming people who are anti-prohibition for people who drive drunk.
3. Blaming gay marriage advocates for a reported rise in the number of gay people.
4. Blaming liberals/Democrats for fiscal and environmental policies that will bankrupt the U.S., . . . → Read More: Blaming the NRA for all the violence of the world …
By Stephen, on August 24th, 2010%
Interesting video from Jon Stewart as he covers the debate about the mosque in New York City near the ground zero 9/11 attack site. Picking and choosing the bits he wants, of course, to give it an anti-conservative/anti-FOX news spin. But at the end he has a great clip from Charleton Heston about the 1999 controversy of the NRA having their national convention in Denver after the Columbine mass murders. Which he then puts into perspective and then apologizes for his previous viewpoint that the NRA was somehow wrong to have their meeting in Denver anyway. It’s about time.
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The issue around the mosque has never been very motivational to me. On the one hand Islam IS a religion which follows a holy book that would seem to openly encourage some acts of violence in some situation (I would love to be proven wrong on that, BTW — but I have read enough to believe that the case can be made), versus Christianity, which has been used to motivate people to violence/rationalize violence but DOES NOT support violence in its sacred texts (a . . . → Read More: The NYC Mosque near ground zero … Jon Stewart’s opinion on Mosque criticizers and the NRA
By Stephen, on August 20th, 2010%
There is a common perception that American youth are generally (as in over 50%) pro gun control and not interested in CCW. While both of those points are arguably true, the latter more than the former, the second perception that always follows is that this does not bode well for the future of the gun industry and gun rights. I think that argument is pretty obviously false. Though admittedly I don’t have a crystal ball and the changes in the beliefs of societies/humans in general are notoriously hard to predict.
In his excellent Harper’s magazine article Happiness is a Worn Gun: My Concealed Weapon and Me (August, 2010), which I’ve commented on here and here, Dan Baum makes the observation that “Young adults buy markedly fewer guns than older people” and quoted a gun salesman as saying, “The younger people tend to be more liberal. They’ve been led to believe the police are going to be there for them …”. To which I say … Yeah. Sure. But …
When I was younger I was also much more liberal and at least passively anti-gun. But I got better. And all the polls I’ve seen indicate that the current youth believe in the 2nd . . . → Read More: The next generation (current 20 somethings) and guns/CCW
By Stephen, on July 9th, 2010%
I don’t think it’s possible to get anybody other than a liberal, anti-gun judge nomination, particularly for the Supreme Court, from the current administration (no matter what they say in committee interviews) but the NRA has decided to take a stand against Kagan. I agree with everything they’re saying, but if we defeat her we’ll just get another appointee with the same stances, but who’s better at hiding them, and they’ll ultimately oppose us. And while I certainly trust the NRA to be an effective lobbying organization, I hate to see them using up too much political capital on a battle we’ll ultimately lose.
The bottom line is however much history an appointee has or doesn’t have, or what they say in interviews … you can be sure that the President knows exactly how they feel. And while Mr. Obama has chosen not to take up gun issues now that he is president, his history and positions are clear.
Update: Steve in TN had a great comment, which is below, but I’m including it here because it’s an interesting perspective I’d never considered. As many have said … the NRA is playing chess, and every move is well thought out. If Steve is . . . → Read More: The NRA on Kagan’s nomination to SCOTUS
By Stephen, on June 28th, 2010%
This is well covered by many others. Just a few good ones (apologize for other’s I’m missing)
Snow Flakes in Hell
Holy Coast
Arms and the Law
Days of our Trailers
3 boxes of BS
But to highlight what other’s have said … it’s pretty clear the “liberal four” on the Supreme court will rule against anything positive for gun rights, and I think we can assume any Obama appointee will vote against gun rights no matter how they answer questions in their Senate reviews. Let’s hope the “constitutional five” manage to make it until the end of the Obama administration, and if Obama gets reelected … the expansion of gun rights ends with his first replacement of one of the constitutional five.
Frankly, I’m afraid even some of the five are soft on the issue, and at some point I think it’s clear they’re going to find a limit to gun rights. It might be that they’ll allow any kind of registration, however expensive or invasive, or an AWB, or whatever … but clearly we’re not returning to the early 1950′s when you could buy a gun just by walking into a hardware store.
Off Road The best book ever written! By me, anyway. Set against . . . → Read More: A win in McDonald — the 2nd amendment DOES apply to the states.
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