What is it with gun-grabbing pieces of Illinois Republican crap?
The latest to side squarely with Team Totalitarian is House Minority Leader Jim Durkin, who, like a true oath-breaker and traitor is the "Republican" driving force behind a proposed magazine ban.
Gov. Bruce Rauner is facing pressures of his own with new citizen disarmament measures including redundant state licensing of dealers and "rais[ing] the minimum age from 18 to 21 to buy an assault rifle ... a measure to ban the sale of bump stocks and other modifications and another which requires a 72-hour 'cooling off' period on assault rifle sales."
Years back Republican strategist Lee Atwater was reputed to have asked "Who else are they going to vote for?" meaning the GOP could basically do whatever they wanted and gun owners would eat whatever sh!+ they slopped in front of them. My advice (from years of observing the odious Mark Kirk) has been to reject that and teach the object lesson that betrayal will not be rewarded, but will be punished -- every time. The only way to change things is to force gunquislings out. Take the hit now so that next time the Party won't dare offer a dud. Do, it, make it known you are doing it, and let everyone know afterward that you did it. And make sure they know why. That is, if you're serious about sending the right message and getting an acceptable candidate next time around.
As we all know, no one listens to me, at least not in numbers big enough to make a difference, so we are where we are, with the "only" options being to write the governor and ask him "Please," to write Durkin and appeal to whatever motivates him, and to write to other Republican legislators and do the same.
I wouldn't waste my time writing any "safe seat"Democrats," unless the object is to give their staffers a laugh.
If you're an Illinois gun owner, I shouldn't have to give you this link. You should also know how to connect with your "representatives" via their social media accounts. Pessimistically, because of experience after experience, my guess is this guy from Ohio just did more with this post on a Sunday morning than 90% of Illinois gun owners will for the rest of the year.
Don't backtalk me on that, prove me wrong.
Sunday, March 04, 2018
A Brilliant Defense!
Bam. That’s it in a nutshell — this is why founders saw fit to put in place a Second Amendment. It wasn’t a right to hunt they were defending; it was a God-given right to protect one’s self and one’s family from harm. And specifically: from harm from the government.[More]Yeah, and why would "civilians need access to military weapons" to do that?
Brilliant!
So is The Washington Times really unaware of that, or more likely, are we being treated to Swamp apologia? It sure looks like that worked with most of the comment posters.
Me, I'm with Fletcher on this:
Nothing Like an Informed Opinion...
Talk about "deeply flawed" arguments. That and an oxymoronic last name. [More]
What are Glenn's qualifications to authoritatively instruct us again?
I wonder how much use he'd be if the "opportunity" to personally test the superiority of his "theories" arose -- or if the object is to render men who aren't contemptible and disgraceful as childishly helpless as he would be.
[Via Michael G]
So It's Not 'the Guns'?
One in 20 Ohioans have concealed carry permit, new report shows [More]And no "blood on the streets" over "Dodge City" "fender benders"...?
If peaceable armed Ohioans -- you know, the ones the LIARS at VPC smear as "Concealed Carry Killers" -- were the problem, we'd know it.
When the Stars Come Out
Stars to Wear Anti-Gun-Violence Pin at Oscars, Sources Say - The pins are being distributed by Michael Bloomberg's advocacy group. [More]I wonder how many hired guns will be protecting their superior lives from a Skip Coolzip scenario.
Between the absence of that or "ISIS" taking advantage of such opportunities, you gotta wonder how much of the fear is intended to justify increasing the power disparity -- and how many times something that does go down is no surprise.
Come Into My Parlor, Said the Spider to the Fly
An FOI request has revealed 'anonymous' browser Tor is funded by US government agencies [More]But don't worry -- if you're not doing anything we disapprove of, you've got absolutely nothing to worry about.