Category: Big Gun Control
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Science!
SCENE: Interior shot at local hardware store. Mitch BERG is grabbing a bag of sidewalk salt. Suddenly, Avery LIBRELLE, holding a bag of various parts, steps around the corner. LIBRELLE: Hah, Merg! Your statistical analysis is shit! BERG: Say that again like you’re having a civil conversation in polite company. LIBRELLE: Your statistical analysis is…
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Kimperious
Over on the Facebook, Rep. Kim Norton – about whom we talked the other day – has asked for a “conversation about guns”. And, per usual DFLer practice in “conversations”, she seems to be deleting every comment that represents the other side of the “conversation”. I left a comment: Let’s see how long that lasts.…
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Doakes Sunday: Goals
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: In a comment to “A Bad Idea Whose Time Will Never Come,” Troy linked to a State of Minnesota website about job safety. Their goal is to reduce the number of worker’s comp accidents from 4.3 down to 2.5. Does that mean state government WANTS 2.5 employees injured…
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Betting Long On Ignorance
Like most of the Real Americans that support the Second Amendment, I am agog at the gullibility and willful illiteracy of most American gun control advocates, up to and including many of their leadership. For years, I’ve thought “this just has to be part of a strategy to rope in the gullible, the badly-informed, the fear-driven, and…
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A Pajama Boy Night Out
SCENE: Mitch BERG is at National Night Out, in Saint Paul, this past Tuesday. While walking through the crowd at one of the neighborhood block parties, he notices Avery LIBRELLE, wandering from person to person, accosting them. BERG listens in. LIBRELLE ( reading off a sheet of paper, to a woman pushing a stroller):…
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Every Ghoul Demands Action For Gun Safety
Looking at the financial statements from major gun control organizations shows us a couple of things; Michael Bloomberg owns the industry, and they sure raised a lot of money – some of it from people other than Bloomberg, sort of – after Sandy Hook. The essential PAGunblog rounds up the usual suspects: First, let’s look at…
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Bloomie Hits The Bricks
As I was digging around through the Campaign Finance Board’s lobbying reports yesterday, I happened upon this little bon mot among “Everytown for ‘Gun Safety’” “Minnesota’s” various disclosures: First – to the surprise of absolutely nobody who hasn’t been marinading their head in “progressive” kool-aid – “Everytown for Gun ‘Safety’” “Minnesota” is (see the upper red rectangle) based in…
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The Smell Of Defeat?
For well over a decade, “Protect MN” – it’s changed its name several times since it started way back when – has been the dotty, not-too-bright face of the gun control movement in Minnesota. While the wave of Michael Bloomberg money in 2013 moved the center of gravity over to “Everytown for Gun Safety” and…
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The Racism Of The Gun Grabbers: Part MMMXLVIII
I’ve had the occasional liberal complain to me that I’m being overly broad when I say that all gun control efforts are rooted in racism. Why yes, of course, gun control’s history is rooted in the ongoing effort to disarm black slaves, freedmen, and citizens from colonial times through the Jim Crow era. And yes,…
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It Gets So Very, Very Old
It gets old, always, always, always repeating “if a conservative said this, the media would collectively crap a cinder block”. But it’s always true. But former NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg said something that would put him squarely in David Duke territory; emphasis added for the dense and dazed: “It’s controversial, but first thing is all…
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Shrieking For Relevence
It’s been a rough year or so for Heather Martens. It seems like just yesterday that she was not only serving as the chairperson (and almost solitary member) of “ProtectMN”, an astroturf checkbook advocacy antigun group, but de facto Minnesota State Representative for House District 66A, doing both her own job and that of Representative Alice Hausman…
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Discredited
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Star Tribune finally deigns to report that Department of Public Safety altered the Application to Carry a Pistol form, to include more than a dozen illegal questions. Heather Martens is fine with that. Heather Martens . . . said some of the questions on the form reveal information that…
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They Really Never Do Waste A Crisis…
According to Big Gun Control, the reason that the two policemen in New York City – a city that is historically among the most hostile to the law-abiding gun owner, a place that is doing its passive-aggressive best to scupper the spirit of Heller and McDonald, while more or less living up to their letter, a place that…
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Insert Narrative Here
To the more deranged parts of the American left, everything is evidence for their narrative. For example – whether temperatures rise or fall, it’s all evidence of man-made global warming. And a couple of New York police get killed by an apparently deranged man angered, according to his social media postings, by the Brown and Garner killings?…
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When Lies Are All You Have
If you’ve been reading this blog’s coverage of Second Amendment issues for any length of time, you’ll note that one of my most air-tight theses is that Minnesota’s gun control movement – not just its leaders, the hapless Heather Martens, the hopeless Joan Peterson and the comical Jane Kay, and its camp followers in the…
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How Can You Tell “Moms Want Action” Is Lying?
Oh, please. Like I even need to finish the punch line. But some of you have been under rocks for a while (vide Governor Messinger’s Flint Smith’s Dayton’s re-election). So for your benefit: “Their lips are moving, and/or their fingers are typing something”. To wit: Moms Want Action sent out a post-election thank-you to their supporters…
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Lying, Criminal Or Both?
There’s an old saying; “success has a thousand fathers; failure is an orphan”. In the wake of the Democrat party’s nationwide electoral humiliation, the left is looking for things to hang their hopes on. It’s human nature; the good guys were doing it two years ago, too. So here’s what the Democrats are hanging their…
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The Peasants $trike Back
In 2003, and again in 2005, when Minnesota passed its “shall issue” firearm permit law, a slew of businesses “posted” themselves; they put signs on their front doors indicating they didn’t want firearms on their premises. Two things happened – or, rather, didn’t happen: There were no crimes in public related to legal post-2003-permitted firearm…
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When Seconds Count
When Michael Bloomberg (and all of that money of his) entered the anti-gun market, some of us worried that all of those Jacksons would bring a new air of professionalism to the anti-human-rights movement. And in some ways it has. But in others? Just saying – this video by “Everytown for Grabbing Guns” pretty much…
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My Apologies To Heather Martens
To: Heather Martens From: Mitch Berg, Your Longtime Nemesis Re: Apology Ms. Martens, For most of the past decade and change, I’ve been running down your accuracy, your knowledge of Second Amendment issues, and the extent to which you confused “purchased lobbying power” with “fact”. Whenever you’ve opened your mouth about anything gun-related, I’ve snickered,…
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On The One Hand…
…if I did have a gun and a carry permit, I’d never carry openly. Part of it is that is that it’s the sort of thing you want to keep under wraps if you ever need it. Part of it is that the anti-gun movement has trained the weak-minded to be such incredible ninnies. And part of…
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Irony Is…
…a “Moms Demand Action” rally… …with paid, armed security guards. Because their lives are worth protecting, you know. Not yours, silly peasant.
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Mayors Against Blowguns
For this, Michael Bloomberg paid $50 Million. A fool and his money… To be serious for a moment; I suppose a gun that worked like this would solve the whole “failure to extract” and “stovepipe” problem. OK. That wasn’t so serious.
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The Puppet Caucus
Say what you will about Minnesota’s gun-control movement – and I certainly have over the past 12 years on this blog – it’s always been local. Even “Grass Roots”, even if only in the sense that “there just isn’t that much grass out there”. And the movement’s leadership was at least local; while Rep. Heather Martens…
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Surprise!
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I previously wrote that the Evil Koch Brothers were not the Number 1 largest political contributor. Turns out, they’re not even in the top 50. If anybody is influencing politics and buying elections, it’s not them. Pikers. Joe Doakes And guess who the biggest infusor of cash into US politics…