Month: April 2021
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Democrats Still Can’t Make Gun Laws More Popular
The anti-gun lobby is loud, well-funded, and a darling of the mainstream media. If someone were to awaken from a long coma and begin paying attention to the gun conversation in the American MSM, he or she would undoubtedly believe that most Americans are overwhelmingly in favor of much stricter gun laws or even abolishing the Second Amendment altogether.
That’s not really what is going on in the real world, which is a place that the MSM doesn’t travel to very often.
The anti-gun lobby is just one of the many puppet masters pulling the strings of the empty vessel occupying the Oval Office. They made their intentions known quite early and leaned on Biden to do something quickly. He obeyed his masters via executive action earlier this month. He had to do it that way because federal gun control legislation rarely gets passed (more on that in a moment).
Despite the overwhelming rhetoric machine that the anti-2A people have, a new poll shows that the American public’s taste for new and stricter laws has dropped a bit.
Support for stricter gun laws fell seven points in the new Pew Research poll. Agreement with the idea that gun laws are about right or too strict rose by the same amount. Overall, Americans are split nearly down the middle with 53 percent supporting stricter gun laws and 46 percent opposing them.
Support for stricter gun laws is down from 2019 and 2018, settling near the levels it was at in 2017. The five specific gun-control proposals included in the poll all saw a drop in support.
The deep division in American’s opinions on guns combined with the relative stability of that divide poses a problem for efforts by Senate Democrats and President Joe Biden to pass new gun-control legislation. Despite the return of mass shootings after a pandemic-induced pause and repeated calls from Democrats and gun-control advocates, Americans are less likely to support tightening gun laws than they were before the pandemic began. With Democrats’ gun-control proposals already facing an uphill battle on Capitol Hill, falling support for further restricting gun ownership is likely to add to the difficulty.
The reason that federal gun control legislation isn’t popular is because a lot of Democrats in flyover country are gun owners. That’s a dirty little secret to the MSM but fairly well known to us rubes in the hinterlands. Here in Arizona’s Wild West, most of my liberal friends and relatives not only own several firearms but they shoot them well too.
Another reason is that Americans want more personal protection as they watch the fabric of society unravel under President Puppet. The Democrats think that civil unrest will make people more amenable to gun control rhetoric when it actually has the opposite effect.
Michael Bloomberg may be able to buy some more executive actions from Joe Biden but that won’t change the fact that his lies don’t resonate with as much of the public as he and the rest of the Big Gun-Grab lobby would like to believe.
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UPDATE: Assembly Bill 286 passed along party lines at the Nevada Legislature on Tuesday night, 26-16.
Friday, April 9th 2021, 3:42 PM PDT
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UPDATE: Assembly Bill 286 passed along party lines at the Nevada Legislature on Tuesday night, 26-16.
It will now head to the Senate.
A judiciary committee passed a bill prohibiting ‘ghost guns,’ — preventing people from possessing, selling, purchasing or transporting firearms not imprinted with a serial number.
The bill, AB286, passed with an amendment in the Nevada Legislature on Friday afternoon.
The bill also prevents a person from having a firearm on a ‘covered premises’ without the written consent of the owner of the premises. The bill also outlines how owners can post signs warning gun owners about restrictions on their property, and exceptions to violations.
A ‘covered premises’ was defined as:
– A club venue
– A golf course
– A licensed gaming establishment
– A motion picture theater
– A place of religious worship
– A public accommodation facility
– A shopping mall
– A stadium, arena, concert hall, theater, showroom or any facility used for live entertainment or sporting event
To read the entire bill, see the document below.
Most of us are trying to seek reason or rationale, some sort of sense of why behind the horrific mass shootings that are sadly becoming an almost daily event. I am a security consultant, it is my job to identify threats and to do something about making them go away. For an abstract threat like modern terrorism or this latest human threat vector, the first step is to understand the phenomenon, and putting things into perspective is one approach. Please read on:
In 2018, the most recent year for which data are available as of 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) National Center for Health Statistics reports 38,390 deaths by firearm, of which 24,432 were by suicide and 13,958 were homicides, a percentage of which were law enforcement and self-defense related killings. These 13,938 homicides can largely be attributed – directly or indirectly – to the drug war that has been going on in our country for at least the past fifty years.
According to the FBI, there were 27 “active shooter” incidents in the U.S. in 2018, resulting in 213 casualties including 85 deaths.
Also according to the CDC, in 2018 there were 619,591 abortions. Around 1 to 2% of these (about 6000 per year) are late term abortion, where the baby is killed as it comes out the birth canal.
619,591 deaths due to abortion versus 13,958 gun homicides is about a 44:1 ratio. In other words, for every person killed in a gun homicide (including law enforcement and self-defense related killings), forty four innocent lives are taken deliberately and legally. 6000+/- late term abortion deaths versus 85 active shooter deaths is an even more lopsided ratio, about 70:1. In other words, for every one person who perishes in the horror of an active shooter event, seventy innocents are killed in an even more horrific fashion, right at the moment of their entry into this world.
An active shooter is an individual who has lost his humanity, has reduced himself to a soulless killing machine – as insane a concept as this is, I almost get this. As for the methodical killing of the unborn – the most perfect and innocent of us all – I don’t know how the doctors do it … I don’t know how they maintain their sanity, their humanity …