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Category Archives: Guns
Your Right To Bear Arms vs Law Enforcement’s Right To Protect Itself
Shipwreckedcrew writes: 1. You have a 2A right to carry a firearm. 2. If you exercise your 2A right and commit a felony that involves violence, the risk to your safety has been increased by your exercise of your right. … Continue reading
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NYT: Shootings Pose a Hard Question for the Right: Who’s a Conservative, Really?
The New York Times publishes a lot of dumb articles but this one is especially dumb: “Republicans wrestle with Trump administration positions that seem to contradict their beliefs on gun rights, states’ rights and limited use of federal power.” ChatGPT … Continue reading
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Republicans Want Republicans To Have Guns & Deny Them To Democrats Who Are Young Black, Latino Males While Democrats Want To Restrict Republicans From Having Guns
NYT says: Crime Crackdown in D.C. Shows Trump Administration’s Uneasy Relationship With Guns If President Trump’s actions were intended to drive a law-and-order wedge between Democratic big-city leaders and their constituents, it has also exposed a division in his own … Continue reading
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NYT Finds A Way To Blame Whites For The Dallas Police Massacre
Comments at Steve Sailer: * They all deserve to wear the Cone of Shame. This is par for the course from them. They have to get their digs into white law abiding gun owners whom they hate. They’d feel so … Continue reading
Uber asks riders to ‘reflect on gun violence’ as it pauses app for one minute
News: Last night, after this week’s deadly shootings made national news, Uber changed its app to have riders “reflect on gun violence” while using the service. BuzzFeed first noted the changes as social media users began circulating messages from Uber … Continue reading
Terror Attack In Tel Aviv
Israeli resident Brad Salzman posts on FB: A terror attack in Tel Aviv last night wounded 20 Jews and killed 4. Not looking forward to all the sadface hashtags and FB posts whining about how Israel is a victim and … Continue reading
Hillary’s Plan to Lose the Deer Hunter States
Steve Sailer writes: …the Washington Post ran a trial balloon claiming that Hillary intended to run in the fall on immigration expansion and gun control. Looking at the 2012 electoral college map, that looks even more suicidal than it originally … Continue reading
Ted Nugent Tackles Jewish Support For Gun Control
Ted Nugent posts on FB: Know these punks. They hate freedom, they hate good over evil, they would deny us the basic human right to self defense & to KEEP & BEAR ARMS while many of them have tax paid … Continue reading
Steve Sailer: New “New Yorker” Cover Reveals the Real Shooters in San Berdoo
Comments to Steve Sailer: * In a bizarre inversion of the Jew caricatures of previous decades, we now get blood libel aimed at white protestants. What foul people must create this sort of thing. * Concomitant to that, the NYT … Continue reading
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Jews’ anger at Ben Carson’s comments needs explaining
Dennis Prager writes: Why all the Jewish anger over Dr. Ben Carson’s comments on guns, Jews and the Holocaust? Apparently, some, perhaps many, American Jews believe it would have been worthless, or, as Tom Tugend argued in the Jewish Journal, … Continue reading
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