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Daughter of ‘Immigrant’ from Castro’s Cuba Calls for Confiscation of U.S. Guns

¿Armas para que? [More]

Any questions?

Why Would Anyone NEED Such a Shirt?

ANJRPC has demanded in a lawyer letter that the Gloucester County Institute of Technology immediately rescind disciplinary action taken against a student earlier this year for failing to remove a t-shirt depicting firearms in a non-threatening manner. [More]

Nobody thought this was just about the Second Amendment, did they?

[Via Felix B]

Thanks to You It Works

The introduced bill was an improvement over the initial proposal that was revealed to the media over a month ago, but it was still unacceptable and we opposed it. However, because your activism generated almost 37,000 emails to the Legislature, an 82 page strike-everything amendment, that completely replaced the original bill and corrected most of the issues, was offered and adopted at the committee hearing. [More]

Seeing what participation can yield, it's a reason I get disgusted with do-nothing profiles-in-apathy bloviators.

So why isn't the number 370,000 or more?

CDT notes via email:

This is how a gun-rights organization SHOULD work.  No namby-pamby, no compromise, no surrender.

AzCDL worked like hell, orchestrated *37,000* emails to legislators and the governor in the space of three weeks, and managed to get an absolute stinker of a bill de-fanged to the point where they could say they were now NEUTRAL on it.

I certainly can't remember the last time the NRA was anywhere NEAR that effective.

Oh yeah, I should add that they also managed to block any interference from NRA carpetbaggers flying into the state to compromise our rights away FOR us.  That's double-plus good.

Masking Real Intent

Militarized Cops At Tiny Georgia Neo-Nazi Rally Arrest Counterprotesters For Wearing Masks - They cited a state law from the 1950s that was initially intended to go after hooded KKK members. [More]

Is HuffPo against the law applying to Klan hoods too, or do they just think they're above edicts they would impose on others?

I wonder what the courts would say about someone wearing a surgical mask "for respiratory health reasons"?

[Via Roger J]

Pudgy Violent Punks Against Truth

Gun Control Advocate Assaults Student for Supporting the 2nd Amendment [More]

Funny how those bent on controlling the rest of us can't control themselves.

[Via Felix B]

Pushback

Pro-gun demonstrators rally in downtown Boulder against assault weapons ban [More]

So how many of these mothers, fathers and their children is the council willing to see its armed agents kill in order to bend defiant citizens to their will?

[Via cydl]

Captain's Log

• It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'reform' is
• We'd rather have their money than your approval
• Snitch soliciting low-hanging fruit
• Hoplophobocracy
• It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'originalist' is
• Sanctuary

A New Paradigm

Why We Are Losing the Fight for the Second Amendment and What We Can Do About It [More]

Glad to see another voice on this.

[Via Felix B]

Thor: Ragnarok

Where do you stand on the Second Amendment? Don’t tell me how you support the right to keep and bear arms. Tell me specifically what policies you support. Do you support “universal” background checks, which are really just a way to eliminate private gun sales? Do you believe that anyone on the terrorism “watchlist” should automatically be denied their right to keep and bear arms without due process and without even being notified that they’ve been watchlisted? Do you believe certain firearms need to be controlled or outright banned? How about certain accessories? [More]

Send him the questionnaire. Along with the challenge.

[Via Michael G]

That's Supposed to Be a Threat?

Amalgamated Bank, a New York-bank with $48 billion in institutional investment assets that emphasizes socially responsible practices, sent a letter Thursday to Sturm, Ruger & Company’s board, demanding that it adopt six reforms or it would not support the re-election of one of the gun maker’s board members, Sandra Froman, who is also an NRA board member. [More]

Interesting bedfellows. Excuse me while the shock and awe wears off.

I submitted my GUNS Magazine "Rights Watch" column earlier this morning (titled "Banking on Disarmament") and just asked the editor if he could add this news at the end.

[Via Florida Guy]

The Missing Link

Received via email:

Hi David,

I noticed this article yesterday morning.

When I clicked the link for the abstract at SSRN in the story - it was available. I made a mental note to come back asap and download the article. Yesterday evening, the link was dead and the SSRN site indicated that the requested abstract was not found. I then did a search on the site and it listed 16 papers from Kleck, the first of which was the article in the story above entitled - What Do CDC's Surveys Say About the Frequency of Defensive Gun Uses?. Clicking on that link led to the same unfound abstract message as before.

I checked again this morning and received the same message from SSRN. However, after searching using Kleck's name, only 15 articles appear and the CDC article does not show anymore.

This seems like it's a little more than a glitch with SSRN's system. Although there may be other, simpler explanations.

Thanks,
MM

I got the same results and just don't have time to dig deeper. Perhaps one of you  has the site navigation expereince to guide us?  Otherwise, I'd suggest notifying AWR Hawkins, whose story led us there, and see if he and the Breitbart machine have the clout to find out why the "unpublished study" has apparently been buried deeper.

UPDATE:

David,
Looks like there was an appropriate reason for the article being pulled. It's good to see that the process of actual scientific inquiry still matters to some. 

From the Reason article on the subject: "UPDATE: You will note the original link doesn't work right now. It was pointed out to me by Robert VerBruggen of National Review that Kleck treats the CDC's surveys discussed in this paper as if they were national in scope, as Kleck's original survey was, but they apparently were not. From VerBruggen's own looks at CDC's raw data, it seems that over the course of the three years, the following 15 states were surveyed: Alaska, Colorado, Hawaii, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Montana, Ohio, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. (Those states, from 2000 census data, contained around 27 percent of the U.S. population.) Informed of this, Kleck says he will recalculate the degree to which CDC's survey work indeed matches or corroborates his, and we will publish a discussion of those fresh results when they come in. But for now Kleck has pulled the original paper from the web pending his rethinking the data and his conclusions.

Link here.

Thanks,
MM

The Wrong Question

In Missouri and Kansas, African Americans are in peril. How can we reduce homicide rates? [More]

I know! I know!

By disarming me!

Right, Mr.  Pynchon?

[Via bondmen]

Well That Oughtta Make the Jackals Go Away

Gov. Colyer signs measure to keep guns out of hands of domestic abusers [More]

Sure it will.

But if that doesn't give him a leg up in the competiton, I just don't know my Fairfax.  Especially with Kobach calling to arm teachers.

[Via bondmen]

We're the Only Ones Back Enough

A former Sedgwick County detention deputy convicted of sex crimes against inmates is back in jail — this time he's accused of sex crimes against a child. [More]

"Back"?

[Via bondmen]

A Real Choice or a False Alternative?

Utah Republican delegates force Mitt Romney into a primary election with state lawmaker Mike Kennedy in the race for the U.S. Senate [More]

So Mike: What do you actually mean by "Defend Second Amendment and "Fix Immigration Process" and can you tell us how the two are related?

I've got no fondness for My Man Mitthead, but ask because...

South of the Border, Down Mexico Way

Mexico murder rate soars with 7,667 killed in 3 months [More]

Sounds like they could use some "commonsense gun safety laws."

If only more of them there could have unlimited access to those of us here.

This is the environment ATF allowed guns to "walk" to. Anybody see any actual consequences for that yet? Or for criminal "immigration" aka Homeland invasion?

Cullen the Herd

Boston Globe columnist Kevin Cullen fabricates details of Marathon bombing [More]

Not the same Kevin Cullen who fabricates reasons to impose Massachusetts disarmament edicts on the rest of the Republic...?

Gosh, I haven't been this let down by "journalistic ethics" (and there's an oxymoron for ya) since learning about WaPo's award-winning plagiarist.

You Mean 'Gun Control' is Just a Stop Along the Way?

China's Xi says internet control key to stability [More]

Of course he does.

What self-respecting totalitarian or lackey would suggest otherwise?

Circular Reasoning

The firearm ban would apply to a 500-foot radius around the demonstrations. [More]

Gee, I wonder what the real reason behind this is?

That's What You Get When You Waffle on Reality

Police believe the suspect in a shooting that killed four people at a Waffle House early Sunday could be armed, despite the fact that authorities seized his guns following a 2017 arrest. [More]

Not "gun-free" Waffle House...?

And he wasn't trusted with guns but was trusted without a custodian?

There oughtta be a law!

Two Can Play That Game

Protesters target NRA lobbyist’s home and wife’s business [More]

Really?

Now that they've made theselves public figures, perhaps the favor ought to be returned. Except factoring in that they're lunatics, I wouldn't be surprised to see a violent lunatic response from them.

UPDATE via Michael G: Newsbusters read the same story and concludes it lookslike WaPO wants to play.