The Age of Miracles has not passed! The Huffington Post’s gun rights kapo has penned an article that points out that Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America (MDA) is like those Hollywood Western towns: an empty facade meant to stir emotion and . . . that’s it. In fact, one wonders why the HuffPo published “Mike the Gun Guy’s” post The Confrontational Gun Control Strategy That Just Might Work. It does more to ding MDA than a hundred TTAG exposés. Well d’uh. The proggy website is read by “progressives” who’d no more consider a TTAG analysis than buy Busch beer. I think I know HuffPo’s reasoning . . .
The rest of the piece is obviously, certifiably bonkers. Which tells readers that the previous MDA diss was something along the lines of an Onion article. Check it:
If Moms wants to have a real impact on the argument over guns, why don’t they talk to gun owners and stop wasting their energy on convincing people who don’t need to be convinced? And you don’t talk to gun people by throwing up a website or a Facebook page and ‘invite’ them to post a comment or engage in a chat. Maybe that strategy works when you’re selling a product, but it’s rank arrogance to confuse marketing a product with marketing an idea.
Every weekend there are dozens of gun shows all over the United States. Each of these shows, on average, counts 10,000 admissions. So do the math: if you went to one gun show every weekend, set up a booth, gave out a flyer and shot your mouth off, by the end of the year you would have talked to 500,000 gun guys (and gals). And don’t think for one second that nobody would talk to you. Gun folks love to talk — that’s why they go to those shows.
I’d love to walk into a gun show or some other gun-friendly place and see the Moms promoting their point of view. Would they get an argument from gun folks? Sure. Would the argument sometimes get nasty or offensive? It might. But if Moms believes they will make a difference by not going out and talking to the other side, they’re barking up the wrong tree.
And if Mike the Gun Guy thinks Moms Demand Action is in any way interested in the the truth about guns, genuine debate or limiting violent crime, he’s barking mad. The fact that MDA bans dissent (and dissenters) from their website, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter accounts ought to have been his first clue.
So I guess Mikey’s just as deluded as MDA. Which explains his fantasy dream that they’ll engage gun guys in something resembling a fair fight. And the fact that he writes for the Huffington Post.
My reading of decision is that the good judge ruled that requiring someone to load less than the full number of rounds in a magazine was not reasonable. That is way different than ruling a 7 round mag violates constitution. He fully supported the underlying 10 round mag law. If cuomo simply has THAT law amended to 7 rounds then all is ok with the good judge. Am I wrong is this reading?
The 7 round limit wasn’t removed because it was arbitrary. The official ruling says that the law is constitutional under intermediate scrutiny as it furthers a government interest (whatever that is…). The 7 round limit however, does not do that as criminals could just fully load their otherwise legal 10 round mags. The court probably would have upheld any mag size limit, as long as you were permitted to fully load those mag, and those mags were available, which is why the original law was changed that flat out banned greater than 7 round mags.
Its still a stupid limit though…
Go to gun shows? MDA is afraid when people with guns are across the street! Assuming they could quell their inner terror long enough, I can see those moms now, lined up passing out pamphlets, wearing their ear protection…
In the back stall of the Ladies Room. With the lights out.
Ok what drugs was this guy using?? I mean that really..
Like a whore in church…
I don’t think many of you realize what a PR nightmare that would be for the gun rights movement. The people and products that frequent gun shows around me might not stand up well under the media microscope. I cringe at the thought of video documenting that interaction. Come to an NRA Highpower or F-class competition and the result would be different. The doctors, lawyers, teachers, and well spoken special forces guys that take part in our competition is what the movement needs, not most of the lowlifes that come to gun shows looking to buy cheap chinese crap.
Umm, what gun shows are you going to? None that I’ve ever been to match your description
Taking three rounds out of the magazine is arbitrary and violates the Second Amendment but keeping pistol grips off of the rifle is so much more reasonable? I would dearly love to hear him explain that one in detail.
I put a scout scope on mine for an upcoming hog hunt (better dawn/dusk vision) and it is very accurate. With my custom 290 gr accurate molds flat point, fed mag primers and 22gr of imr4227 I got 2 1/4″ at 100 yards with a 2.75x scope. That was even with mismatched multi fired brass! the chrono was on the fritz but it is probaonly around 1100-1200fps.
I agree with your assessment, and I’m good with your reporting on these lunatics.
I do worry about the extra clicks they get when their articles are linked. But know thy enemy are wise words. Add the fact that on this site one can actually comment, I think coverage should continue.
Please continue to expose them whenever possible for the liberal mucous secretion they are.
I don’t like reading MDA’s posts but I do like to know what is up with the competition. “Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer.”
Why doesn’t HE go to the gun shows and hand out flyers?
TTAG is how I get informed about MDA’s silliness. I don’t have cable nor do I actively search or follow what they are up to online.
If anything, I always enjoy reading the sensible counter-points, statistics, or general “common sense” data that ends up shaming MDA’s illogical PR agenda every time. But that said, it would be nice to also end the rebuttals with a nice solid conclusion or counter-tagline that the pro-2A supporters can utilize if it ever comes up in conversation. And I think it’s that information that is important to share with all gun owners. So they can be informed of the facts and can repeat them to all the anti-gun and fence-sitters they come across.
After all, the battle is more about education and dispelling the lies that are being spread out there.
Cool. Maybe I’ll be able to get one by 2050.
I don’t think I’d be comfortable using a gun in a populated area, but crossbows or bows would be effective and safe if a little common sense is employed.
Really, it doesn’t surprise me that deer have adapted to populated areas. They’re smarter than non-hunters and city-dwellers give them credit for. I’ve seen them climb up on top of a picnic table and stand on their hind legs to get a few feet higher into an apple tree.
Maybe the strategy of letting the animals run wild, and letting the anti-gun elitist crowd stew in their own cooking, is the best one.
Last season, I saw a young buck attempt to hump a dead doe that I had just shot right in front of him. I had to run towards him and make a bunch of noise to get him to leave…
They seem pretty stupid to me
“We think every living being should have a chance to live,” Professor Crain said. “This is the worst thing we’ve ever seen. It’s barbaric.”
I suppose he thinks farms and slaughterhouses tickle the cows, chickens, and pigs to death.
Wait a while. Ruger will debug it, and sell it cheaper.
I can see it now, an MDA “Mom” passes by a booth with semi-automatic AK’s or something more “exotic” like a Tavor or Steyr AUG or maybe even on of those .22lr HK look-a-likes and freaks out thinking it’s fully automatic.
“Excuse me, but is that an automatic? The black one. With the big butt. That’s illegal.”
Their members will most likely tweet about witnessing illegal sale of firearms, no background checks, and people making lewd, intolerant comments too them.
There is an alternative that is very affordable – the folks at Brandon COPsync have a product that is a very effective way to add safety and security to our schools – the cost per campus is less than $3.30 a day which is less than a cup of coffee at Starbucks. The solution includes a program that runs on the laptops of all the teachers and on the administration office computer network. Once a threat is identified you open the application that is always running and press the 911 icon – if it was a mistake the alert can be canceled within 15-seconds – however, if it needs to be sent right away you hit the icon twice. What occurs simultaneously is the following:
1) immediately notifies all faculty members tat there is an alert and to begin your lockdown procedures
2) Opens up an immediate two-way communication with Police Dispatch
3) Alerts the 5 closest Police vehicles that there is an alert from your school.
4) Sends a map to first responders with most direct route to the school
5) opens a diagram of the school campus
6) shows floor plan of the building under threat
7) identifies the person and room where the alert was activated
8) allows for direct communications with first responders
9) allows for other faculty to give real time updates
10) sends alert message to others outside of the school via PDA or cell phone text defined by the school on a need to know basis
All this occurs within 3-seconds. Cost per school – Installation $1,200 and annual fee of $1,200 – so for less than $3.30 a day (less than a cup of Starbucks coffee) you could have technology installed to help your school if there is a viable threat.
FYI – in a study by the CDC they report that 8% of Middle School and High School kids carry or have carried a gun or knife onto their school campus.
At first I thought the 911 dispatcher did a stellar job … and then she went and dispatched officers to investigate an armed citizen who was not doing anything threatening according to the caller!!!!!
It’s like you just ran the football 99 yards, stop before the end zone, and then hand the ball to the other team before actually scoring a touchdown. Dumb.
Peter Mattiessen’s preference is for the deer to manage themselves…
“I don’t like a bunch of armed strangers coming in, and I like the deer.”
Wild animals cannot simply ‘manage themselves’ they need predators and prey- a whole linked ecosystem which naturally balances the equation and keeps it in check.
If he dislikes hunters or hunting, he is free to do so, First Amendment and all that. He is also free to complain when a sick, starving deer bounces off his car bonnet straight through the windshield and thrashes about in agony. Since he likes the deer so much he would rather not shoot it of course…
As soon as I read “Lyme disease”, it reminded me of a good friends bird dog, Radar.
Dang, that dog was the epitome of what a bird dog should be.
We got home from a chukar hunt and he had to be put down 2 months later. Lyme disease.
Heck, if I lived in that area, I’d be out with my bow. I’ve got two freezers, and didn’t get an elk this year.
I would love for y’all to not blanket post their press releases with out any additional comments or statistics disproving what they claim.
Not only has nobody been held accountable, but they got their little “2 gun purchases in a month = reporting you to the ATF” rule upheld. I can only wonder what laws they had planned if this operation didn’t go public.