Notes from the Resistance...
Should someone with the files for a 3D printed gun be charged with the same crime as someone who actually has the gun? [More]
"Staunch defender of the Second Amendment" John Cornyn approves!
[Via DDS]
And as long as we're on the subject:Facing gun and ammo shortages during the pandemic, internet searches among Americans for 3D printed pistols surged.
“This is the type of cleanup I would expect to see after a history of gross violations of nonprofit law”... [More]
Tell me this doesn't make you want to pay top dollar for mixed message swag!
I'm just trying to wrap my head around the cognitive dissonance of being shot to death by a SWAT team in a confiscation raid while wearing an NRA "Come and take it" cap AND an NRA "thin blue line" t-shirt.
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UPDATE: This one illustrates a conflict of interest. That's a point I expect to be addressing soon in an update to my "intervenor" piece.NBC News Supplies YouTube a List of Videos to Delete & Channels to Demonetize [More]
They're leaving no stone unturned in their fanatical obsession to destroy voices that don't amplify theirs.
Nodding and laughing, the "Authorized Journalist" comes across as understanding and accomodating, doesn't he? The reason I typically decline to speak with agents of the DSM is that my default assumption is they're out to destroy sources they disagree with, not protect them.
[ViaDDS]
UPDATE - And no sooner do I get done posting the above than this comes in:The New York Times Is Protected by Freedom of the Press. So Is James O'Keefe. The newspaper wrongly implies that press freedom is limited to "real" journalists. [More]
The question is worth asking because if Senate Democrats get their way, they’ll weaponize S230 reform to target online gun marketplaces. Conservatives urging repeal of Section 230 are playing right into their hands. [More]
Yow.
Now what?
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Tangentially-Related UPDATE:But applied to entities such as Facebook that handle millions of items of third-party content a day, the laissez-faire approach threatens free speech by concentrating unchecked censorial power in the hands of a few companies. [More]
Supreme Court agrees to hear Trump’s plan to remove non-citizens from census [More]
Don't worry. Joe will make it moot.
Good thing this has nothing to do with that "single issue"!
[Via TM]
UPDATE:The sweeping language chosen by the Framers requires that the “whole immigrant population should be numbered with the people and counted as part of them,” as John Bingham argued during the debates over the Fourteenth Amendment.
Kroger Bans Open Carry, Asks Congress to Pass More Gun Control [More]I'd say "respectfully asking" is a bit different than "bans" if it doesn't come attached with a call to the "Only Ones." It's the "urging Congress to pass more gun control" part that bothers me.
"Ex-..."?
Maybe he's going to be a roadie for Ted...?
"Real reporters"... is it any wonder I love them so?
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The right has recognized that the system is in collapse, and it has a plan: violence and solidarity with treasonous far-right factions [More]
Spoken like a tru[deau] Canadian.
I wish someone would explain to me how all this is organized because herding cats is getting tiresome.
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Where the Gun-Control Movement Goes Silent - In decades of advocacy for restrictions on access to firearms, there’s never been an organized effort to rewrite the Second Amendment. Don’t expect one to start now. [More]Consider the source and its agenda.
Why are so many people in the business of being likable actually so unlikable? [More]
My money's on "Because they're narcissists and psychopaths."
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From a purely political standpoint, Democrats are thus trapped in a gun-control paradox. The policies that are popular — like registration and background checks — are also utterly ineffective; the laws that might work — like confiscating guns or banning new sales — are wildly unpopular. [More]Not to mention wildly provocative to the point of they don't want to go there.
Klobuchar’s claim of a loophole is accurate to the extent that the law does not apply to a boyfriend who is or was simply dating the victim, but not sharing a residence or children. [More]Why does Joke #4 come to mind?
The giant social network said it would let 'legitimate' gun shops and online vendors exchange instructions for gun printing [More]So are they curators yet?
Florida Democrats push for another special session on guns ... Florida man arrested for botched castration [More]So why do they get to get away with it?
The Council of Licenced Firearm Owners (COLFO) says it has evidence confirming unauthorised access to a police database containing the personal details of gun owners. [More]And that surprises who?
Biden Gun Control Plan Would ‘Criminalize’ up to 105 Million People: Gun-rights Group [More]
I'd like to see the plan for rounding us up fleshed out.
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[W]e are given a tight shot on how easily abusive personalities can radicalize the disillusioned . . . which is entirely relevant at the moment. [More]
Yes, but while Salon clearly intends a Trump/flyover whites comparison, the analogy works better with the left ginning up racial resentments.
That said, "Designate people as a joke for long enough and eventually they'll make it their mission to turn their oppressors into a punchline" does seem applicable.
Flaws aside, I consider The Expanse the best SciFi show out there, and one of the best shows. The thing I find most unbelievable about it is the UN presiding over a planetary society capable of such technical advances, as innovation is ever a byproduct of personal incentive-based freedom, with repressive regimes more generally relying on stolen technology and imitation. But then again, Star Trek had its United Federation of Planets...
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A lot of my friends are trying to reclaim the GOP and make it a conservative party once again ... I’m content, as my hero Isaiah Berlin put it, to plant myself instead on the rightward edge of the leftward tendency—in the more promising soil of the moderate wing of the Democratic Party. [More]
The Atlantic. Figures. Although I suppose we should thank them for the unintended tip.
And how does that "moderate wing" vote on guns, on judges, and on censuring the growing power base of outright communist radicals ...?
Ever notice how people who presume to be smarter than you are often just cognitively dissonant snobs who presume to live above what is imposed on their lessers?
The media loves such "conservatives," because by presenting self-important fools like this as such, they can portray the rest of us as extremists, haters, white supremacists, fascists... you know, all the terms shared by Antifa and the FBI. Meanwhile, the useful idiots will feel respected and important until his new "friends" decide he's become a useless eater, and that more promising soil becomes covered with lime.
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