Category: Big Gun Control
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Common Sense Alt Media
Many of you reading this blog are amateur journalists; we met back when everyone was a exercising their First Amendment rights with blogs and the like. Now, writing online – blogs, tumblr, Facebook, whatever – is fine. And audio podcasts are OK. But nobody really needs video. It’s just too much. I’ve worked as a real…
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Rick Nolan, Banana Republican
To: Everyone in Northern Minnesota From: Mitch Berg, Uppity Peasant Re: Your Congressional Representative All, Here’s Rick Nolan, your representative from CD8. It was taken this past Wednesday, as he participated in a “sit-in” on the floor of the House, in favor of a bill that would have gutted due process by allowing the government…
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Apparently, In The Opinions Of Senators Franken And Klobuchar…
…the problem isn’t terrorists, the violently insane, and criminals. No – it’s you and me.
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Quote Of The Day
Glenn Reynolds, in a piece about Big Left’s lies about “gun culture”: Remember, none of this is about saving lives. It’s about the cultural domination of the people in flyover country, by their coastal “betters” who get a near-erotic thrill out of such domination, and who are reduced to blind rage whenever their efforts at…
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An ISIS Victory On American Soil
David French at National Review notes that ISIS has won both a tactical and strategic victory in Orlando – and done it on the cheap: On Sunday, June 12, ISIS won a dramatic victory. Without risking any of its terror assets and without having to spend one dime of its financial assets, an ISIS volunteer…
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Lie First, Lie Always: The Strib Marinades In The Bloomberg Kool-Aid
The Star/Tribune’s editorial board is a group of people, apparently in their sixties and seventies, who seem to spend their days pining away for a time when the media could say anything they want without fear of being caught out in public by people who know better. Those days are long gone. Only the editorial…
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Another Open Letter To Kim Norton, Rep. Martens, And Their Peeps
To: Rep. Kim Norton, Rep. Heather Martens, et al From: Mitch Berg, Uppity Peasant Re: Your Sources All, Don’t say I never did anything for you. This is as good as any case you’ve ever made: Feel free to just cut the crap and quote this at will. That is all.
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Ninny Up!
“Protect Minnesota” is taking it to the streets! Heather Martens – who, let the record show, has never, not once, said or written a single true, substantive and original thing about guns or gun law – is undertaking one of her last actions as “executive director” With the Minnesota legislature convening on March 8, now…
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Today’s News, A Month Ago
January: the Real Americans of the Second Amendment movement watched President Obama’s tearful, angry, and utterly theatrical broadside about guns, gun owners and gun manufacturers, noted that nearly everything he was “proposing” was existing law already, and said that the President’s big “effort” was nothing but a shallow bit of political grandstanding calculated to make…
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Details
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Once a week, the Minnesota Court of Appeals releases decisions in criminal cases that have been appealed. This week, four of them involve pistols possessed by people who aren’t eligible to have them. One was handed his pistol by a friend just before the murder. One had a pistol…
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Fiction And Fact
Fiction: Liberal “comedians”, trying to show how easy it is to “legally” buy a gun without a background check, show that the law and system works (not that they’re apparently smart enough to see it that way, judging by their responses in the comment section) – and flirt with committing a felony in the process: Note for those…
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Shots Fired
Rep. Kim Norton is going to come for your guns this session. It may not work, but it’s the next measure in what Big Left hopes to make into a steady drumbeat that eventually wears the great, underinformed middle down on the issue. But the facts are out there. Location, Location, Location: If you…
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America’s Oldest Civil Rights Organization
In recent years, I’ve had two fascinating interviews on my show, on a subjects that gets short-to-nonexistent shrift in the mainstream media and academia; the role of our Second Amendment in the Civil Rights movement. Charles Cobb’s This Non-Violent Stuff’ll Get You Killed chronicles the role of armed blacks in protecting the nascent civil rights movement of…
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It’s The Rights, Stupid!
One of the mixed blessings of being involved with an issue – the human right to self-defense – as long as I have is that every couple of years, I’m treated to the spectacle of a whole new generation of gun-grabbers excitedly making arguments that they just know are going to send the Real Americans scurrying for…
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Our Nation’s Intractable Anti-Gun Culture
Listen to, or read, the left talking about gun control for a while. (It’s OK if you don’t want to; I do it so you don’t have to). You eventually run into three basic tracks of thought: The Stupid Track: Best summed up by lefty commenter and triteness merchant John Fugelsang’s line “I don’t have…
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Moron Labe
I was tempted to fisk the NYTimes’ deeply stupid editorial – their first front-page editorial since 1920 – calling for confiscation of “assault weapons”. But Brian Doherty at Reason already did it, and did it better.
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New Job Opening!
We apparently don’t have Heather Martens to kick around anymore!
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Unexpected!
As carry permit applications, pre-purchase background checks, and gun and ammo sales roar to new all-time records, the NRA is being crushed with new and renewing members. Scarcely a peep in the media (especially about the membership). But one Democrat politician and “NRA member” “quits” – and the media is lined up out the door.…
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Lie First, Lie Always: “We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Numbers”
That figure that the media and the anti-gun chanting-point-bots are jabbering about – where there’ve ostensibly been 355 “mass shootings” so far this year? Yeah, it’s BS.
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Heather Martens: “Lie First. Lie Always”
The good guys have apparently gotten into Heather Martens’ head. GOCRA and MNGOPAC figured prominently in Martens’ “Give to the Max” day fundraising plea: By giving today, you make it possible for the voice of reason to be heard at the Capitol despite the intimidation. Intimidation? The stories we could tell. And will, someday. But…
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Heather Martens: “Round Up The Usual Suspects!”
Heather Martens – “Director” and likely sole member of “Protect Minnesota”, and sometimes ad-hoc legislative representative from House District 66A – has sent out a fund-raising email. Because trying to squat on peoples’ civil rights isn’t cheap, even if you do it badly. And in this email, Martens – who has never, not once, uttered…
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Why We Never Call Gun Grabbers “Gun Safety Advocates”
Because they don’t give the faintest whiff of a rat’s patoot about gun safety. When I was a kid, someone came into the school and gave us a quick demo and (IIRC) a film strip on actual gun safety. It included a couple of simple rules that any kid can remember – and that I…
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The Top Ten Next KARE11 Debate Matchups
In the wake of the “debate” between Heather Martens – liar for hire and leader of a gun grabber “group,” sort of – and… Andy Parrish? The former Michele Bachmann staffer and campaign manager of the abortive Marriage Amendment, who is famous for many things, not including having an extensive portfolio as a Second Amendment activist? Nothing against Andy, with…
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“Conversation” Update
After my go-around earlier this week with Heather Martens – where she seemed to challenge the Twin Cities media to hold the Gun Rights movement’s factual feet in the fire – and my attempt to send a letter to the Strib accepting that challenge, I figured it’d be fair to try to actually have that…
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Heads? Disaster. Tails? Catastrophe
As we noted earlier in the week, the left is just dying to get the NRA out of its way. And they have been since I started following this issue – in probably 1980. It seems that lately, the left has taken to a three-tiered strategy for fighting the Second Amendment Human Rights movement: Lie About Everything.…