A Quick Bleg
Can someone point me to links in the past few days with the idiotic nonsense that the Founders didn’t anticipate semi-auto weapons?
[Update a while later]
Folks, I’m not asking for arguments against it. I have a devastating piece to do that. I’m looking for links to historical and illogical ignorami who argue for it.
Eugene Volokh’s Gun Thoughts
He has two posts up now, one on why it’s hard to prevent mass shootings, and one on why bans on “assault weapons” (a phrase that means nothing to the gun community, and that no one can define with any coherence) will do nothing to do so.
More On The Mannsuit
This isn’t a new article — it was published at the time the suit was filed in October — but it provides some useful background on one of Friday’s filings.
The Top Five Gun Massacres
Only one of them is in America, and it’s second from the bottom.
The myths and lies these people promulgate in the furtherance of their anti-liberty agenda is disgusting.
Climate Skeptics’ Funding
Evidence that they’re not well-funded or well-organized.
I’m still waiting for my check from Big Destroy The Planet.
CEI SLAPPS Back At Professor Mann
Here is the official CEI press release on the motions filed on Friday.
An Historic First
The average Canadian is now wealthier than the average American. Just as the Democrats have been working so hard to ensure.
Reducing Violence By The Mentally Ill
Note that most of this is not new federal intrusions, but fixing currently broken federal policy.
Mass Shootings
Now here’s something that neither the gun grabbers or the media have time for: the facts.
[Update a few minutes later]
Glenn Reynolds wants to have a real national conversation on guns.
Don’t hold your breath. And of course, the president demonstrates the magical thinking of the gun-control crowd:
Finally, a president who has the guts to come out against the murder of children. Not only that, but he is prepared to confront those who, for murky but clearly frivolous reasons, tolerate violence, oppose tragedy prevention, and shrink from saving innocent lives. Because “politics” cannot be allowed to obstruct the solutions that every decent, right-thinking person favors.
Such as? Well, the president did not say. Neither did New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Friday, when he scolded Obama for not taking a firmer stand against the wanton slaughter of elementary school students. “We’re going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this,” the president had said, “regardless of the politics.” Bloomberg was unimpressed:
Calling for “meaningful action” is not enough. We need immediate action. We have heard all the rhetoric before. What we have not seen is leadership—not from the White House and not from Congress. That must end today.
In Bloomberg’s view, then, we need action that is not only meaningful but also immediate. Through leadership. By the White House as well as Congress.
What disgusting, pathetic hacks.