“We are a country blanketed by cities, towns and schools best known for killing sprees. Orlando, Fla.; Charleston, S.C.; Virginia Tech; Columbine, Colo. — the list grows, as John Wayne said, ‘as sure as the turning of the earth.’ Is this as good as it gets here? Assassinations by gunfire separate us from the rest of the world — from Lincoln to Garfield to McKinley to attempts on Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt and Truman, the killing of John Kennedy, the near-killing Ronald Reagan, the killing of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy and all these mass shootings. They scream but refuse to be heard: ‘Only in America.’” – Chris Matthews in What Robert Kennedy Knew About Gun Control [via nytimes.com]
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Seems a little disingenuous to lump CIA ops into his tally.
Bullshit. Assassinations only happen in America? Only a dumbass prog would say that.
Mass killings? Balkans. Rwanda. Syria. France. England. The list goes on.
Because we all know that political assassinations and mass murders never happen in other parts of the world. Good lord.
The biggest difference is that in the rest of the world, mass murders are committed by governments and well-organized terrorist groups, rather than individuals.
Go ahead and cherry pick anecdotes all day, Chris. Whatever fits your narrative. Ignore history if you want.
It’s alarming how a person can put blinders on to what has happened and is happening in the rest of the world. Even more alarming is the audience he reaches; a group of people who have the same blinders on and yearn to be lied to.
Wanna know the most disturbing thing I saw during the Presidential election?
(No, not my browser history!)
It was when Hillary lost; not the videos of supporters crying (“eye candy”), but the pictures of little kids crying.
Some were having full on panic attacks.
Why?
Because mommy and daddy had programmed them that the “4th Reich” would arise if Trump won. They would
be put into camps with tattooed numbers on their arms, because they had “2 mommies” or “2 daddies”, etc.
Holy Fuck!!
They’re kids, people!! Let them be kids!! I didn’t pay attention to elections until I was 16 or so!
The kid is trying to choose a costume that is “cool” for their age/peer group! They are not in training for some
violent outburst!!
Stop putting your preconceived notions, agendas, and bigotry into your kids head, and let them be a kid!!
What Robert Kennedy Knew About Gun Control [via nytimes.com]
On June 5, 1968, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was fatally shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles by Sirhan Sirhan, a 24-year-old Palestinian/Jordanian immigrant.
I think the jews, the french, the russians, the iraqis, the kurds, the syrians, the mexicans, the venezuelans, the chinese and most of africa would like to have a word with you chris.
They would like to let you know how many things are wrong with that statement.
You push your narrative that this only happens in America. But the history that you and the rest of the progtards are trying to destroy proves otherwise.
Just build an AR-10, .308 rifle. Very light weight with carbon fiber hand guard and barrel. I have a Magpul gen 3 PRS on it currently which almost makes it the heaviest part of the rifle. It has a large rubber pad but I was still a bit concerned about the recoil. Also, with the scope I have the eye relief is shot and I barley get a good cheek weld within the eye relief length. This looks like a perfect solution. I’m going to compare both and see what the difference will be.
Because a few famous people were killed in the 1960s, we “needed” the Gun Control Act.
With a relative dearth of political assassinations in the last 50 years, we now “need” more gun control, because Kennedy, Kennedy, King, Oswald, and Mr X were killed before the Gun Control Act passed.
Not even Chris “tingly legs” Matthews is that stupid. But he thinks his viewers are.
And you have to add near-killings to double your presidential assassination figures? Man the libs love to rework the numbers.
Near-drowning = swimming
Near-miss = not hit
Near-killing = living
Near-thinking = Chris Mathews
PS: I predict more near-killings to appear in the anti’s stats and numbers from now on.
Perhaps the views Chris Matthews expresses are the result of pathetic ignorance rather than rank stupidity! The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand led to the deaths of more than ten million people. The Beslin School attack resulted in the deaths of 385 mostly children. I suppose it is just possible Mr. Matthews is so ignorant of geography that he doesn’t understand that Beslan and Sarajevo aren’t somewhere in flyover country.
If and when I upgrade my 9c 1.0, this’ll do nicely.
Chris Matthews can’t talk about that “tingle in his leg” Obama used to give him any longer. Now he has to gin up something to say by raking together a collection of events from old and recent history and spuriously spit-gluing them together to fear monger for the quarter wits who watch his show. God forbid he would ever decry the ordinary people killed by the hundreds each year in Chicago and other Democrat-ruled hellholes because they are not able to acquire and carry firearms to defend themselves and because the Democrat-controlled Governments and Courts use revolving-door Justice systems that do not keep killers incarcerated. God forbid he would decry the tens of thousands of defenseless babies murdered in Planned Parenthood Abortion Clinics each year. God forbid he would condemn Big Pharma for addicting and killing hundreds each year with opioids so as to make obscene amounts of money. God forbid he would ever lament the plight of our Veterans coming home wounded, maimed and PTSD-afflicted and not getting the help they need and honorably earned by their Service.
No, Chris Matthews can only fabricate propaganda because he wouldn’t know a real and important News story if it bit him in his “Obama tingling leg”.
The tactic being used against the NRA is straight out of Rules for Radicals, by Saul Akinsky. Without pro gun groups to focus on the left’s attack would have far less of a pint of aim, if you will. Before anyone starts typing I DID NOT SUGGEST GETTING RID OF PRO GUN ORGS. But you must admit they, thankfully, draw most of the fire. Have a nice day.
Hey Jeremy S. I’m looking to get a new muzzle device. I’m looking for the best recoil reduction out of a hybrid device, but I want to keep concussion to a minimum. Do you have a suggestion?
It must now be very clear that the tingle Matthews feels running down his leg is actually a leak in his Depends.
My immediate issue with the FIST:
I’m left-eye dominant but shoot right. This was overcome through a lot of work. My left eye does a lot of work spotting targets before I bring sights into play.
The FIST is going to get smack in the way of my left eye.
You are absolutely correct. Cross dominant and shoot with your right hand, this is not the product for you.
That’s cool, it looks silly. I doubt it sells well.
Know what’s good for shattered elbows? Hanging more over-priced crap on the end of your over-priced rifle.
Reversible or handed?
right handed
And don’t forget pressure cooker bombs.
https://www.google.com/amp/wsvn.com/news/local/details-emerge-in-case-of-man-accused-of-dolphin-mall-bombing-plot/amp/
Talkin’ waaaay too fast to be rednecks.
Chris Matthews: Douche bag or colostomy bag. Which is more appropriate ?
There is probably more information in the comments from this post than has ever gone through his head regarding shootings world wide.
He simply chooses not to know what he does not want to believe.
“Chris Matthews: Douche bag or colostomy bag. Which is more appropriate?”
I vote for the very unsanitary colostomy douche.
Possibly help people with certain types of elbow damage.
Good review!
What a maroon the trace writer is. He is supposedly writing about credibility in reporting on firearms and then uses the phrase “gun violence epidemic in America”
How does one define epidemic? What fraction of a population does something have to impact for it to be an epidemic? Is it 10%?, 5%, less? The flu epidemic of 1918 infected about 20% of the worlds population and killed on the order of 5%.
In the US, about 10-11,000 people die of a non self-inflicted gunshot wound, about 20-22,000 commit suicide with a firearm and about 70-74,000 are non-fatally injured by a bullet each year. Hmm, those numbers total up to around 107,000.
That is a tick over 3/100ths of one percent of the population of the U.S. 0.032%. How is that an epidemic?
So much for ‘credibility’.
If the “gun violence epidemic” was just half as deadly as the 1918 flu epidemic, we would expect to see on the order of 8,000,000 deaths from gunshots annually.
Apparently, the antis don’t do ‘order of magnitude’.
Seriously, dude at the Trace, gunshot wounds, including suicide, only account for 1.3% of the deaths each year in the U.S. Gun violence isn’t even much of an epidemic among those that die. Put another way: If you die in the coming year, there is a 98.7% probability that it will NOT be due to a gunshot wound.
you might want something else, but this is ideal for close quarters defense.
“This [lighter] has 82 different functions – 83 if you want to light a cigar.”
— Our Man Flint (1966)
I’d be more into these Shockewaves if somebody would but a pistol grip and a Sig Brace on them. No, I still wouldn’t shoulder the Sig brace, but I would shoot it from the hip and butt the end of the brace up against my bicep and the recoil would go back into my hand and bicep. I just don’t trust that grip on them now.
Also, there’s no point to the 20 gauge since Aguila makes 12 gauge Minishells that increase capacity and that company in Texas makes the tool that feeds and ejects them reliably.
Extrapolating from 2016 statistics, some 230 million Americans have been lied to by the MSM and their Democrat handlers in those same three weeks.
Rage porn
This confuses me- The constitution is a list of hard and fast rules. Anarchy implies no rules. While the US constitution seems loosey goosey to statists, it’s a relatively good libertarian government. It is not, however, NO government. Thus, not remotely anarchy. This author’s statements are based on, what could easily be considered, pure BS.
What happens when an over indulgent mother drives a father out of the house and thwarts him at every turn?
“Mr. Acitelli holds a Master of Business Administration from Thunderbird Global School of Management and a bachelor’s degree in Finance from the University of South Florida.”
A finance guy running a gun company.
That sound you hear is the toilet flushing right down the crapper any scintilla of ‘quality’ Remington may have had left…
I actually own two of these. They’re not the most comfortable holsters (although not as bad as I thought they may be) but they’re easy on and off.
I actually bought one because I didn’t want to wait for Stealthgear USA to send me the Shield 45 holster I ordered so I made do with this cheapy one in the meantime.
Low and behold after a while I went back to the Concealment Express one. Again, it’s not the most comfy, in fact, it’s a far cry from SGUSA’s offerings. But what it did do was have easy on and off with the single, wide belt clip. SGUSA just made my dream holster (the “Scorpion”) but unfortunately it’s stupid expensive… and they don’t make it for the Shield 45 yet anyway.
So any comments about how to get rid of the ads gets dropped like a lead balloon??
Got it.
“Jennifer Mascia (not shown) and Alex Yablon write at thetrace.org.”
Yeah, I had a bad case of the Yablons once…