I hate to start a week with a news links post, but I have too many tabs, and they need a clearin’. This is a mix of old and new news.
Three Strategies to Beat the NRA. None of these will work because they still don’t get what really makes us successful. Hint: it’s not a top down movement.
Why are anti-gun people so violent? I hope the good professor here knows that NRA HQ being a gun free zone is a myth perpetrated by gun control groups.
Uber is and remains an anti-gun company.
Hawaii puts gun owners into FBI Database. Expect other states to follow this.
Forbes: “Law Professor Demands Repeal Of ‘Outdated’ Second Amendment, Makes Very Weak Case”
This reporter schools New York Daily News Reporter Gresh Kuntzman.
A way around California’s new AWB.
Gun Control groups target Rubio (R-FL), Ayotte (R-NH), and Johnson (R-WI). Good to see Ayotte’s capitulations paying off for her.
Charleston Church victim sues FBI over gun buy.
Fifth Circuit: No Second Amendment Right to a Machine Gun. In truth, we’ll be lucky to get protections against semi-auto bans.
Joe Huffman: Gun Access Makes Women Safer.
York Dispatch: A surprisingly positive article about gun shows.
Slate: “Whatever Happened to Michael Bloomberg’s Anti-Gun Crusade? It still exists—and it’s starting to work.” They don’t hate money in politics. They just hate your money in politics.
Times Union: “Second Amendment not an unrestrained license to kill.” Who argued that it was? It sure would be nice if they argued about things we actually believed.
Shocker: “Study Learns Chicago Criminals DON’T Buy Their Guns Legally.”
Non Gun:
The New Censorship: “How did Google become the internet’s censor and master manipulator, blocking access to millions of websites?”
City Journal: “Elected on themes of hope and renewal, his very ascendancy a powerful statement about the country’s racial journey, he chose to use the White House as a vehicle to introduce a new era of racial grievance into our national discourse. Unfortunately, he succeeded in this effort—and failed America.” I’m seeing a lot more articles along these lines, and not just from conservative media.
America has reached a point where its citizens aren’t guaranteed safety anywhere they go.
And we reached that point the second we became America. Because guaranteed safety was NEVER part of the deal.
With regards to the illegal guns story: I have recently wondered what would happen if we taught gang members self defense law, and techniques for de-escalation.
One sentence that particularly stood out to me: criminals buy guns for self-defense as well as for committing crimes. When one considers that ratting out fellow gang members could very well put a price on your head, should this be a surprise?
We *really* need to re-examine the belief that *any* person, felon or otherwise, can be denied their right to self defense, particularly when they are no longer in prison, and are now free to rebuild their lives (particularly since sometimes felons try to turn away from their criminal past, but still have to live in a world where their past has consequences…)