Shall Not Be Questioned

Everyone should go through this site, of the National Institute For The Prevention Of Workplace Violence.  If you want to understand why it’s hazardous to speak about our participation in the shooting sports, our collecting or various other shooting related activities in the workplace, these set of Human Resources worms are a big part of it.  Look at early warning signs.  Also the section on gun violence.

Apologizes to Human Resources professionals who might be among my readers who are not corporate stooges, but I’ve met precious few HR folks who have a philosophy of HR that is truly beneficial to the employee, rather than focused entirely on preventing the company from being sued.

If I operated this blog under my real name, it would be a virtual guarantee I’d have a very difficult time finding employment.  What about people who show up on background checks, an activity companies are doing increasingly for new hires, as having a concealed weapons license?  It’s not just the politicians we have to stand up to, it’s the corporate weasels who promote this kind of stereotyping that must be stood up to as well.

VCDL has a legislative tracker for state matters that looks pretty good!   They are going to need a useful tool like this in Virginia, because 2008 is going to be a rough year for gun owners there.

“There is no reason for law-abiding gun owners to oppose a background check,” Kaine (D) said. “Now more than ever in the aftermath of April 16th, Virginians understand that this is a public safety issue.”

Yeah, except for the fact that we already banned private sales of handguns in Pennsylvania, and it’s been so effective at fighting crime, that Philadelphia is screaming for one-gun-a-month.  Wait a minute…

• One-gun-a-month has been oh so effective in Virginia that now we need to agree to end private sales.
• The ban on private sales has been oh so effective in Pennsylvania that now we must agree to one-gun-a-month restrictions.

Just making sure I get that straight.

I noticed that we have not heard any statements distancing the Administration from certain statements in the brief of Bush’s solicitor general.  Therefore I must conclude that Bush supports these statements, which basically outright state that we can’t have a second amendment that puts any federal gun laws in jeopardy, nor can we have any interpretation of the second amendment which might jeopardize certain other laws should they be reauthorized, nor can we think about jeapoarding possible future bans on certain firearms.

NRA’s weak statement on this matter can be easily explained with this metaphor:

Gun owners are the abused spouses of the Republican Coalition.  Yeah, he beats us, but where are we going to go?   And don’t we still love him?

Republicans should know this: it’s not like Americans love you guys.  Far from it.  Gun owners were a key part of starting the Republican Revolution in 1994, and were credited with defeating both Gore and Kerry in 2000 and 2004 respectively.  Even the Democrats in 2006 relying on pro-gun blue dogs to seize power.

Learn this Republicans: We stay home, or start taking a closer look at those blue dogs, and you lose.  Keep us happy, or we will decide we’re sick of this abusive relationship and will stop pretending and stay home, or go find another lover to court us.

Clayton Cramer goes into some detail.  Give it a read.