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Repealing The Second Amendment

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Good luck with that.

Thoughts from Glenn Reynolds.

[Update a few minutes later]

Yes. There is no chance that two thirds of both houses of Congress would pass such an amendment, and even less that three quarters of the states would ratify it.

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Related: The ignorant Parkland kids don’t speak for their dead classmates. David Hogg is the new Cindy Sheehan, and her fate will be his when the media tires of him.

[Thursday-morning update]

You can attempt to repeal the Second Amendment, but you can’t repeal history.

As Stephen Green notes, people like Stevens are relying on the ignorance of the American people, deliberately fomented by our public-school system and universities for the past several decades.

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This seems related somehow: Trump and the great unmasking of the Left:

I think that long before he even dreamed of entering politics, Donald Trump realized that by outraging his opponents, he could provoke them into saying and doing things that would prove harmful to their goals by exposing their motives, assumptions, and real intentions.

Yes, even though they pretend they haven’t been doing it:

In the age of social media, reaching irrelevant conclusions is a competitive sport. Nevertheless, tossing red herrings about like chaff from an aircraft under fire does little to dispute the fact that conservatives have been subjected to an absurd gas-lighting campaign over the last few weeks.

It’s enough to drive you crazy. That is, it would be if you were to take any of this performance art seriously.

I haven’t taken the Left’s performance art seriously for decades.

[Friday-morning update]

Bad link fixed, sorry.

[Sunday-afternoon update]

Yes, they are coming for your guns.

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[Monday-morning update]

New Democrat senator: “A gun ban is not feasible right now. Or ever, in America.

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Gun control leaves the most vulnerable defenseless. The Australia buy-back myth is particularly pernicious.

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Why the Stevens gun manifesto is so irresponsible.

Law, Media Criticism, Political Commentary

The New Special Counsel

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Why Sessions didn’t appoint one.

It makes sense to me to put a seasoned prosecutor on the case within the department. With the I.G. report, they probably already have plenty of evidence to pursue. And McCabe is clearly worried. Good.

And yes, the FBI needs a thorough overhaul.

[Late-morning update]

McCabe lied four times to investigators.

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What did Comey know about the Pulse nightclub terrorist, and when did he know it?

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Now here’s a former FBI agent worth providing funding for:

“I went through hell for a year and a half,” she said. “Andy made sure I couldn’t get out of the division.”

Gritz said that McCabe additionally made “nasty, false” comments about her in a meeting — “lying,” she said. “which is why he just got fired.”

“Andy” sounds like a real peach.

Law, Media Criticism, Political Commentary

Comey And Mueller

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McCabe just made life tougher for them. As though it wasn’t tough enough. And note: Turley is a life-long Democrat.

At this point, I’d be happy to see McCabe, Comey, and many others do time in Club Fed. It’s probably too much to ask, though.

[Monday-afternoon update]

A higher loyalty to their inflated sense of virtue.

I think a lot of leftist heads are going to explode when Horowitz’s report comes out, and they’re not even anticipating it, continuing to focus on the Trump/Russia chimera.

Law, Media Criticism, Political Commentary

Talk About Friday News Dump

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McCabe was fired by the FBI, and will lose his pension. It’s pretty clear now that his “retirement” was an attempt to outrun his perfidy.

Fox News had been predicting this. In my opinion, he (and others in this now greatest political scandal in American history, if the Democrat operatives in the media would actually report it properly) should be worried bout a lot more than losing pensions…

[Saturday-morning update]

The reckoning of the FBI has begun.

It’s long overdue. The rot goes back to the first Clinton administration, if not all the way back to Hoover himself.