Category: Big Gun Control
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Dear Pawns
To: Parkland High School Students / Sudden Media Stars From: Mitch Berg, peasant Re: Your sudden stardom Students, First things first – I’m sorry for the trauma that happened to you and your school. You might want to have a word with not just the FBI, but your school board, who was apparently aware of…
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The Gray Wasteland
Kevin Williamson sums up a vast expanse of “suck” in re the NYTimes’ coverage of gun issues: he New York Times is uniquely bad on the subject of firearms. There are two ways to understand that sentence, and both apply: Among major news publications, the Timesregularly exhibits an unparalleled level of illiteracy on the subject of firearms, and it exhibits…
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Life Cycle Of Uselessness
It was over a year ago that we carried the story of the Pillsbury Foundation’s buyback fiasco. Which doesn’t narrow it down much; while the buybacks last year in Minneapolis were very poorly organized, their effect on crime was the same as any other buyback program. Nil. But this buyback was different in one way; unlike…
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Facts In The Dark: If You Get Your News About Gun Crime/Laws/Owners From NPR, You Are Starting The Race With One Leg Tied Behind Your Back
Over the weekend, NPR came out with a “Fact Check” piece about whether Chicago is “proof” that gun laws don’t affect crime. Is the “fact check”, well, factual? It’s NPR and they’re talking about guns. What do you think? NPR starts with Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ post-Vegas press conference statement: “I think one of the things we don’t…
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The New Phrenology
“Protect” Minnesota is having a “conference”, and they’re soliciting speakers: Well – certain speakers: The Northstar Conference Planning Committee is seeking proposals for presentations of 20, 30 or 60 minutes by individuals with appropriate academic credentials and/or recognized professional expertise related to the study or field of gun violence prevention that: 1. Present data-driven and evidence-based research…
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Lie First, Lie Always: They Think You’re Stupid
Further evidence of the statement “”Protect” Minnesota has never – not once – made a statement that was simultaneously substantial, original and true” came to us yesterday in the form of a press release from their “Research Director”, the onimatopaiec Richard Gigler. Gigler is reading the same numbers I related to you a couple weeks…
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Please Please Please Please Do This
I beg of you (where “you” = Big Left): According to a Facebook event created by the Women’s March, the protest against the NRA will take place on Friday, July 14 and Saturday, July 15 in Fairfax, Virginia. The rally will begin on July 14 at 10:00 AM in front of the NRA headquarters in Fairfax. At noon,…
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Lie First, Lie Always: The Media Are The Gun Grabbers’ Stenographers
Q: How can you tell a gun grabber is lying? A: They are attempting to communicate via any way, shape or form. Verbally or non-verbally. In any language. John Lott on how the media – knowingly or not – inflates the gun grabbers’ numbers. And as national carry permit reciprocity gains speed in Congress, it’s…
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“Gun Violence Prevention” And Its Inevitable Consequences
Hugo Chavez and his successor, Nicolas Maduro, banned and confiscated all civilian firearms. And now, as the Maduro regime’s support frays under the complete collapse of the Venezuelan economy, he’s re-arming… …well, the right Venezuelans: “A gun for every militiaman!” Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro said to uniformed militia members outside the presidential palace, Fox News reported on…
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Open Letter To The Entire Twin Cities Media
To: The Entire Twin Cities News Media From: Mitch Berg, ornery peasant Re: The Reverend Nancy Nord Bence Back during my brief and unlamented reporting career, I had not a few editors and producers warn me off using certain sources – the ones that had a habit of feeding them bum information. I’m going to…
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Liberal Messaging
On issue after issue after issue, the left’s messaging strategery seems to have changed to “pummel the public with inflammatory, scaremongering lies; the votes of the gullible, the incurious, the demented and the un-bright count the same as the votes of smart people, and are easier to secure”. Focusing on the 2nd Amendment “debate” –…
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Lie First, Lie Always: Numbers
Last week at the hearings on the “Constitutional Carry” and “Self-Defense Reform” bill, the clown antics of Ross Derp (or whatever his name was) got the headlines. (Update: It was Ross Koon. I regret the error). But something even more indicative of the anti-gun, criminal safety movement was buried in the background But first, a…
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Lie First, Lie Always: The Anti-Gun Amateur Hour
Earlier this morning at the House Public Safety Committee hearings on the “Stand your Ground” billl, a “pro-bill” testifier erupted in a caracature of a pro-Trump, white supremacist tirade; at one point, he reportedly said it was time for gun owners to return to “lynching” people. Then he got up and walked out. He’s utterly unknown…
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Bad Information
Rep. Erin Maye-Quade sent this bit out to her constituents earlier this week: Looks familiar, doesn’t it? It’s the same, precise set of fallacious claims made by The Reverend Nancy Nord Bence a few weeks ago. Neither of the bills would “eliminate” the permit to carry. That’s not the point, of course, so we’ll let…
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Heather Martens, Whitesplainer
Behold the spokeswoman for Minnesota’s minority community. It’s Heather Martens, longtime “executive director” and, for most of the decade, pretty much sole “member” of “Protect” Minnesota, a criminal-safety group famous for its comic ineptitude. She left “Protect” Minnesota a while ago; word has it that MIchael Bloomberg realized that he’d be throwing even more money…
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Get The Sad Trombone
Gun-control melodrama Miss Sloane has bombed at the box office. Well, no. That understates it. Howard the Duck and Ishtar bombed. Miss Sloane was dropped from a single B-29, and like that iconic single bomb, has a decent shot at helping to bring a war to an end. After lavish television advertising – Miss Sloane had a bigger TV budget than the…
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The Gun-Grabbing Ghouls
Shannon Watts, the national head of Moms Want Action – the group of criminal-protection “activists” that serve as the shrill, hectoring front for Michael Bloomberg’s billions – had something to say about yesterday’s episode at Ohio State: It was, of course, a car and knife attack.
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Buying A Wave
Seen at Saint Catherine’s: They can’t get 20 volunteers out for a typical event, and most of them are 60 plus Highland Parkers with ELCA hair and terminal crabbiness. But they’re marinading in all the Bloomberg money. Please, canvassers. Stop by my house. I beg of you.
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When Out And About Tomorrow
There’s a “League of Women Voters” event in Bloomington tomorrow: “Guns, the Issues”. It’s going to be a panel discussion featuring, on the pro-criminal side, the Reverend Nancy Nord Bence of Protect Criminals Minnesota and Maplewood Police chief (and DFL mouthpiece) Paul Schnell, versus Bryan Strawser and Sarah Cade of the Minnesota Gun Owners Political…
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Bad Influence?
Whenever stories about law-abiding citizens carrying firearms within the bounds of their state laws comes up, you can count on some leftist bobblehead, clearly unfamiliar with the feeling of testosterone in “his” veins, vowing to take any gun “he” sees away from the rightful owner and bring down the wrath of almighty Goddess upon the…
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But Wait!
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Minnesota Continuing Legal Education is presenting a seminar on Gun Law. Brochure is here: $295 is a chunk of dough for a person who doesn’t practice law in this area, and can’t write off the cost as a business expense. But the “Can’t Attend” box says the written materials…
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Question
Reading over the story about Saturda’s “gun buyback”, I have a question. By Joe’s count, there were a total of six cops at the South Mpls location, most of them on overtime. Let’s assume the same number at the North Side “buyback”. If I recall correctly, cops get about $40 an hour for overtime (someone correct me…
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Buyback Diary
The Betsy “The Besty!” Hodges regime in Minneapolis held a gun buyback (via the Pillsbury Foundation, a non-profit that is part of the DFL family in Minneapolis) over the weekend. Kind of. I originally intended to attend – but other events caught up with me on Saturday morning. Fortunately, Joe Doakes from Como Park attended.…
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Dilemma
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I have a dilemma. On one hand, I hate to support gun buy-back programs because they’re a waste of money on feel-good foolishness that will have absolutely no effect on crime. This one is especially idiotic because the sponsor – Pillsbury – plans to turn the guns into “art”…
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Not That There Was Much Doubt
The Big Left constantly tries to undercut the gun debate by saying “nobody’s coming for your guns”. Some of us say “bullsh*t”. We’re right: Never compromise. Not even one inch.