Heck no! The 2nd Amendment was never meant to apply to them, it was meant to apply against them! And, largely, still is. Oh, a black guy can go to the Bureau of Non-Regulation of Firearms, get a permit (because they have to give it to him), and carry a gun just like white folks. But […][...]
Posts Tagged ‘Gun Control’
May 13th, 2021 - 12:01 am § in Politics
Washington State outlaws displaying guns in public buildings and at protests
“Openly carrying guns and other weapons are now prohibited at the Washington state Capitol and public protests statewide, under a measure signed into law Wednesday by Gov. Jay Inslee,” the Associated Press reported on Wednesday, May 12, 2021. Read story here. “The new law, which &#[...]
April 26th, 2021 - 5:09 pm § in Politics
GOP gun control, Part 2
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GOP gun control, Part 1
Republicans want everyone to have a gun … except Joe Biden’s son. They’re up in arms about what they claim is a falsified background check form submitted by Hunter Biden when he purchased a gun in October 2018. They claim he committed a felony by answering “no” to a que[...]
Why doesn’t Canada have our gun problem?
In an essay published on CNN (read it here), an American college professor in Toronto writes: “You can’t read these news stories [about mass shootings] and believe that US gun laws are working.” Uh, duh. You don’t need a Ph.D. to see that. Canada isn’t violence-free, b[...]
Trevor Noah on Militias (video)
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Was this killing morally justified?
I’m asking this philosophically, not as a legal question. Facts: Five high school pals broke into a vacant rental house at 1 a.m. to party. A neighbor called 911, and they fled when the cops came. When 2 of them climbed over the neighbor’s backyard fence, the neighbor’s husband, wa[...]
New York’s AG sues to dissolve NRA
New York State’s attorney general filed a lawsuit against the NRA in state court on Aug. 6, 2020, seeking to dissolve the gun-rights organization after investigating its finances for 18 months. Read story here. The state alleges top executives siphoned off millions of dollars for their persona[...]
March 3rd, 2020 - 12:29 pm § in Misc.
Going postal
Police arrested a UPS worker Sunday after receiving a tip that he was planning a mass shooting at the facility where he worked. When they searched his home, this is what they found — weapons, ammo, body armor, tactical backpacks. Read story here.[...]
March 31st, 2019 - 2:51 pm § in Politics
What if Republicans had to choose between guns and police lives? It’s not a hypothetical anymore.
On Dec. 31, 2017, a deranged meth user with a history of mental breakdowns ambushed and shot five sheriff’s deputies and two neighbors at a Colorado apartment complex before being killed by a SWAT team. One of the deputies, Zackari Parrish, 29, a husband and father of two young daughters, died[...]