Category: Anti-Gun Folks

If I had access to the kind of money that Bloomberg has flushed down the toilet on his MAIG project, I could probably cure, or find a fairly good treatment for a few diseases that kill a lot more people than guns do. I’m not kidding on that count either, for those of you who know what industry I work in.

But yet he keeps trying, and even the New York Times notes it doesn’t amount to much. They note these fights are long, and they are. Expensive too. It’s a waste what both side spend on this issue. I think what really pisses me off, when you look at the numbers, if they were really interested in saving lives, there are many other ways this money could be better spent. Adam Smith said there was “a lot of ruin in a nation,” and that’s certainly true in this issue.

Whatever you may say about Bill Gates, he’s at least trying to find a way to help the developing world deal with the scourge of malaria. What’s Bloomberg doing? Spending millions trying to remove the freedoms of Americans. Whether that’s the constitutional right to keep and bear arms, or put salt on their food. When it comes to spending money where it counts, Bill Gates has the right idea. Bloomberg is a self-serving demogauge, and a disgusting creature. I’ll cheer the day his term is up and he departs the national stage.

Chicago Business lists them as the anti-NRA. That’s certainly true if you measure the effectiveness of each of the respective organizations.

Can be found here. It’s basically just another call for banning private sales. The media cycle is pretty busy right now, so I doubt if anyone will pay much attention to this.

I think I have to agree with Jacob on Bloomberg’s announcement that there’s going to be an announcement:

Whatever the announcement, you can count it it be obnoxious and totally useless at enhancing public safety.

We’ll see what it is in the morning.

UPDATE: Looks like it’s in regards to background checks. If I had to guess, I’m going to suggest he’s going to require drug screening to buy a gun if you’ve ever had a drug conviction.

Michael Moore says you own a gun because you’re afraid of black people.

Joe notes some of the same disingenuousness I speculated about yesterday. You’d think they’d jump on true tit for tat, but they aren’t willing to give any ground back to us at all, even if it gets some of their current purported concerns addressed. Thirdpower also notes some more example of why there is no common ground to be found. Compromise requires each side willing to take seriously the other sides concerns, and talk about what they are willing to live with. The problem with the other side is their concern is that we have guns at all. With that being the case, our only smart course of action is to drive them into political extinction, take back the lost ground to the greatest extent possible, and give up nothing in return.

I’ll tell you what doc, I’ll refrain from giving you advice on how to do surgery, and you can stop pretending to know anything about guns or gun policy. How’s that for working together?

Earlier in the day, Carl from Chicago alerted me to an NPR interview that was going on with Paul Helmke, Robert Levy, and some unknown person being touted as a gun rights blogger. Noting that it looks like her blog was just getting started, that immediately raised suspicion that something wasn’t going to pass the smell test. How did they pick out some unknown blogger who is just getting started while ignoring the whole of us? The answer, would obviously be this person is not an unknown blogger, but a false flag; someone flying under the banner of being pro-Second Amendment while in truth being no such thing. Google shows the truth:

So it would seem that Tracee Larson is previously associated with the false flag operation American Hunters and Shooters Association. This woman has no credibility as a pro-gun spokesman, and it’s quite likely the NPR interviewers are aware of that. It’s also likely that perhaps Helmke either got to pick his opponents here, or it was arranged to be  softball interview. What better people to use on the pro-gun side than Bob Levy, who endorses magazine restrictions, and Tracee Larson, who is an AHSA shill flying a false flag.

All so Paul could get away with saying police don’t use magazines that hold more than 10 rounds (which begs the question of why the ban exempt law enforcement), and conveniently gloss over the fact that this bill would ban large number of guns, both modern and antique. Levy doesn’t really know the issue, and the other woman is a shill for the anti-gunners. Great job NPR! I hope Congress defunds you shortly.

UPDATE: Paul also notes that the magazines banned by the 1994 AWB were as rare as hens teeth in 2004, before the ban expired. This is a complete and utter fabrication, as anyone here can tell you.