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The NRA = New KKK

Title of this post is according to Jason Whitlock, who was the author of the original piece that got Bob Costas in trouble. Our opponents in the gun control movement are salivating about this recent rhetoric, but in truth, this is the kind of coverage NRA feeds off of, because people who are even remotely inclined to side with NRA get galvanized by it. I know this is hard for many people in the gun control movement to understand, but suggesting people who enjoy shooting and value the Bill of Rights are the moral equivalent of a domestic terrorist organization bent on enforcing the kind of racial policy only Hitler could be proud of, tends to upset people enough to get more seriously involved:

You know, I did not go as far as Iâ€™d like to go because my thoughts on the NRA and Americaâ€™s gun culture â€” I believe the NRA is the new KKK. And that the arming of so many black youths, uh, and loading up our community with drugs, and then just having an open shooting gallery, is the work of people who obviously donâ€™t have our best interests [at heart].

That’s crazy tin foil hat stuff right there. What they fail to understand that there are a lot of gun owners, shooting enthusiasts, and other people inclined to our point of view who have better things to do, ordinarily, than to get themselves involved in a political scrap. Any hateful rhetoric such as this, is enabling for an activist. It brings people in, causes them to seek out kindred spirits, gather information, and makes them pay attention. It opens to them the idea that the only way to crush the hateful is political engagement. They begin to understand that people like this can not be compromised with. In short, it makes my job as an activist much, much easier.

NRA Sends Gun Owners to Respond to Kathleen Kane

Kathleen Kane wanted to sign anti-gun lobbying letters before she ever took office, so NRA is asking gun owners in Pennsylvania to air their opinions about her efforts before she has an official mailing address to ignore.

While it should come as no surprise, Pennsylvania Attorney General-Elect Kathleen Kane is wasting no time in demonstrating her hostility towards your Second Amendment rights even before she takes office next month. …

Please contact Attorney General-Elect Kathleen Kane TODAY and respectfully ask that she reverse her position on this important issue. Her contact information is provided here.

I love this because it uses her resume submission form to contact her. Why? Because it’s the only contact information Kane has bothered to post in her role as Attorney General-elect. She is using the title to “represent” the people of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, but otherwise doesn’t want to hear from those pesky constituents unless they are part of her agency-wide restaffing efforts. So, if she wants to claim a title and start signing lobbying letters, I see no reason why the citizens of Pennsylvania shouldn’t use the website she’s claiming in order to contact her – even if it’s about issues she doesn’t want to discuss.

Comment on Weekend Twitter Outrage over Costas’ Remark

I like it when I can take a break over a weekend to work on my basement office, get a new crown fitted at the Dentist Monday morning, and not have to worry about some media personality spewing nonsense about guns, because the other parts of the center-right coalition,Â and even some not part of it, areÂ already on it like stink on s**t. Zumboing has seemingly gone mainstream.

UPDATE: More here.

UPDATE:Â I have an Ex. I have an Ex who, in the process of becoming my Ex, made credible threats to kill me […]Â Do you know what kept me safe? Not some piece of paper. Not a judge tut tutting at him and shaking his/her finger and telling him to leave me alone. Not the police, who, after all, would only be able to respond once he had caused me harm. No, what kept me safe was my Glock.Â RTWT

UPDATE: Even Politico is acknowledging the backlash.

UPDATE:Â Nevertheless, Bob Costas wants you to know that if you sign on for the cultural preferences of the monied liberal urban elite, we can finally have an end to this whole murder business.

2010 SHOT Show Busts a Bust

Remember in 2010 at SHOT when the ATF raided the Smith & Wesson booth? Turns out nothing came from that. All charges were droppedÂ and the informant is in prison. Notes TFB:

So in summery, the BATFE and FBI made a high profile raid during SHOT Show to arrest a 21 gun industry people. Their case was hinged on the word of a thief, druggie and all round morally bankrupt individual. Bistrong got just 18 months while the accused spent two years fighting their case. This hardly seems like justice to me.

This is more and more what Uncle Sam’s justice actually does look like.

A Call to Action

NRA is trying to push people to call on the Sportsman Act of 2012, which would destroy at least one avenue for the EPA to regulate ammunition.

NRA to Brady: “Losers say what?”

NRA has an article rebutting Dan Gross’s assertion that NRA is now weak and ineffective:

Gross also failed to mention how his own organization scored in the 2012 elections.Â The reason for that is simple: the Brady Campaign was not included in the study because it just isn’t a player. Â It raised and spent so little money that it wasn’t worth measuring.Â However, if you apply the same standards to Brady as the Sunlight Foundation used, the Brady score would be 0.00.Â It did not spend money backing one winning candidate in the 2012 election.

In order to spend money to back any candidate, one must have money to back a candidate with. The Brady folks have been short of that for some time, and have not raised serious money for electioneering in many years. Bloomberg is the big threat now. Gun control is exclusively an issue for a handful of billionare moguls.

Kathleen Kane Already Sticking it LTC Holders

She’s already signed on to a letter to the Senate leadership expressing opposition to the National Reciprocity Bill, while I’m sure she’s champing at the bit to be able to recind our own reciprocity agreements.

Pennsylvania is on its way to no longer being a pro-gun state. It’s only been kept that way by the hard work of a lot of people over the years. We’ve long depended on the blue dog Democrat to keep their own party in line. Blue dogs are now critically endangered, even in Pennsylvania. The hard left is taking control of the Democratic Party, and they are still winning elections.

Aurora Mayor Declines invitation from MAIG

I don’t blame the guy. I wouldn’t want to be associated with that den of criminals and scoundrels either :)

Upholding the Sullivan Law

Miguel takes a look at exactly what the Second Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld. Yes, judges Katzmann, Wesley, and Lynch (Clinton, Bush Jr., and Obama, respectively), this is the racist claptrap, that sacred “one-hundred-year-old law” that you tacitly endorsed when you declined to “call into question the state’s traditional authority to extensively regulate handgun possession in public.” You know, slavery and Jim Crow were a tradition in many parts of the country until relatively recently too. Time don’t make right.

Why Does This Say Anything?

MAIG has commissioned polls:

The Mayors Against Illegal Guns survey of voters in Virginia, North Carolina and Colorado indicated 45 percent of voters trusted Obama on gun issues, while 40 percent trusted Romney, results released Thursday indicated.

Really? This is supposed to mean something? Do you have any idea how many staunch supporters of gun rights did not trust Romney on guns? I had more than a few people on here arguing with me that Obama was objectively better, because he at least signed two bills that contained two improvements to gun laws.

Obama won re-election by largely ignoring the gun issue. If NRA’s power really is waning, it’s because the gun voters are getting complacent and going back to sleep. Bloomberg’s theory is that the gun vote doesn’t really exist. If Bloomberg wants to team up with Obama, and wake the gun voter back up, I’m game.