Nope, not blogging about cars, but blogging from a car. I got the MiFi set up, an inverter to keep the laptop topped off, and someone else doing the driving. So I guess we’ll see how this works out. I’ve been out of touch for a few days, so, balancing reading with the potential for motion sickness, I’ll be looking for things to write about.
Author: Sebastian
Left in a Panic?
Kurt Schlichter thinks the left is losing control of the narrative. I’m not quite as optimistic. The left has four years to wear us down. Remember that the anti-gun folks didn’t have the votes for an assault weapons ban or magazine ban, until they did. We also really have no idea what the President is planning on doing, or how hard he is planning on pushing. So I’m reluctant to suggest the left is in full retreat. It’s too soon to suggest we’ve beaten back the main push, or even seen it.
NBC Could be in Real Trouble
Lots of hay has been made of David Gregory flashing a 30 round magazine, which is illegal in Washington DC in Wayne LaPierre’s face on Meet the Press. Apparently they contacted the DC police, which warned them it would be illegal. Apparently the DC police are investigating. I agree with Uncle… let NBC and Gregory suffer under the laws they advocate. Ultimately, making this magazines illegal means putting a lot of otherwise peaceful, law abiding people in federal prison. Let David Gregory be first.
Poor Piers!
Turns out a lot of Americans don’t like being lectured to, and I’m not really sympathetic to Morgan’s whining. While deporting him was never going to be a serious policy proposal, it’s interesting the response to the petition. The article is even out of date; it says there are 45,000 signatures. As of right now, it’s pushing 75,000.
Merry Christmas
In these trying times, Merry Christmas for all who celebrate.
Other Loons Looking for their 15 Minutes
A shooter set a fire in upstate New York to lure first responders into a trap. You know, there are folks out there who say there’s no copycat effect, but the loons sure do seem to come out of the woodwork one right after another.
Glenn Reynolds thinks it’s a copycat too, and recommends a book on the copycat effect.
More TV Appearances
Gene Hoffman of the CalGuns Foundation:
A fair treatment of the issue, I thought.
The NRA Appearances on Sunday TV
Wayne was facing an outright hostile interview — one of the worst I’ve seen in recent memory. I think Wayne does a much better job with this interview than he did in the Press Conference Friday, and under much harder circumstances.
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That said, he still looks flustered and tired. He looks like he even may have a cold sore, I’m guessing stress induced. He has a lot riding on his shoulders, and I’m hoping he’s not getting too old to carry a burden like this, and at this pace. David Keene was on Face the Nation, and got a much fairer interview, which is not to say I think it was fair. Keene is a very good spokesman, but I still wish he would have mentioned CT already has the proposed ban, or talked about how quick it takes to change a magazine versus law enforcement response times to these kinds of incidents.
BTW, Mark Warner and Kay Bailey Hutchison were on afterwards, and (I think, because she was a bit incoherent) she went squishy on the magazine issue. In my opinion, this is the issue we are most vulnerable on, because it’s an easy place for cowardly politicians to split the difference and rally around as a compromise. That’s why we need to get everyone in this fight. If you’re an AR shooter, you need to be in this. You need to get every other AR shooter in this.
Supporting NRA’s Policy Proposal for School Security
Yet another White House petition, to demand the White get behind NRA, but unlike the one for Piers Morgan, this one is serious. Some folks are questioning the value of these petitions. Here’s the value:
- It shows the White House there are people out there with passion on the issue.
- It shows the White House we’re organized enough to reach real people, outside traditional top-down communication networks. Think Brian Anse Patrick’s horizontal interpretive communities.
- It’s really not that much effort.
So I think they have some value. Do I expect them to result in a reaction from the White House? Do I expect it to translate into real policy? No. But it at least let’s them know we’re here and paying attention.
Good Advice
If everyone who bought an AR-15 magazine since 2004 wrote their congresscritter and told them to not support any restrictions on gun rights, no bill would see the light of day. So, get on it.
This is truth. The fact is, there will be those who say “I got mine,” and then proceed to exit the fight, their purchase being their sole act of defiance. Even even half of the new buyers wrote their critters, no bill would see the light of day.