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Moms Demand Action and American Progress Defend Women. Or Not.

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Chelsea Parsons of American Progress and Shannon Watts of Moms Demand Action (courtesy blogs.reuters.com)

The Chicago Tribune can’t handle the truth. If they could face the truth about guns they would have published ‘Time to block gun violence against women‘ with proper attribution—letting readers know that Chelsea Parsons [not shown] is the Associate Director of Crime and Firearms Policy at American Progress an Shannon Watts [also not shown] founded Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. Make no mistake. The Trib’s failure to positively ID Parsons and Watts [above] is carefully calculated anti-gun agitprop: passing off a polemic as a semi-hard news piece. Now about the article itself . . .

As for the piece itself, here’s a taste: “The statistics show: Guns plus a history of domestic violence or stalking equals increased risk of death to women.” Unless, of course, the gun is in the hand of a woman defending herself and her children from an abuser or stalker.

But that’s not how the Ms. Parson or Ms. Watts see it, obviously. For them, “fixing” gun laws (like you “fix” a dog) is the answer to firearms-related attacks on women. The not-so-dynamic duo’s polemic highlights four “weaknesses” in current gun laws. Here’s their agenda stripped of the usual bloody shirt waving:

First, background checks are not required for all gun sales. The current background check system makes it easy for felons and domestic abusers to buy guns with no questions asked from unlicensed sellers at gun shows, online and just about anywhere else . . .

Second, the current gun possession ban on domestic abusers fails to cover dating partners . . .

Third, convicted stalkers can buy guns . . .

Fourth, law enforcement isn’t doing enough to take guns away from domestic abusers.

The bottom line is that it is just too easy for men who seek to harm women to buy and possess guns. As fatal gun violence against women continues, Congress must take action to close these loopholes that put all women in danger.

More laws! That’ll solve the problem. But the call for more laws to “tackle” domestic abuse and stalking will certainly solve the problem of what the hell gun control groups do now to gain attention now that universal background checks are dead in the water. Women in peril! Disarm! Disgusting.

If Ms. Parson really cared about abused women, they’d do everything in their power to arm them against their attackers. But they don’t, do they? Or do they? Who knows? Who cares? The end result is the same: the “gun safety” circus rolls on, shamelessly pimped by the left-leaning mainstream media, leaving defenseless Americans in its wake.

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Robert Farago is the former publisher of The Truth About Guns (TTAG). He started the site to explore the ethics, morality, business, politics, culture, technology, practice, strategy, dangers and fun of guns.

0 thoughts on “Moms Demand Action and American Progress Defend Women. Or Not.”

  1. If your a member of the Oh So Social(ist) Elite your allowed to let your smugness rule your mouth and mind. There is a permanent stamp of distain on Watts face a mark of a sociopathic mindset

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  2. Once again, where the hell is a women of the nra or moms for self defense group to counter the anti-gun group using the gender and parent status as a shield while trying to force everyone to live the way Shannon Watts would approve. I know the media won’t give them 1/100000000000000 the time, but we can’t let them go unanswered as the only moms/women that have a say.

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  3. I understand the urge to be critical about his actions or choice of weapon but in his situation I would have wasted no time and grabbed what I had as well. The longer you wait the further they could be and calling the police department isn’t exactly a lightning fast affair. I’m always wearing my pistol so I probably would have lit out of that house like my a$$ was on fire looking for my car. I can call the cops WHILE I’m looking.

    Remember, When seconds count the police can be there LONG after your car is in pieces and the bad guys are gone. How high on the dispatch priority list is a car theft in a wonderful violence free mecca like Detroit?

    P.S. And I, the lowly citizen, would have probably HIT ONE OF THEM(and gone to jail).

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  4. Has anyone given thought to going to Shannon Watt’s home (6100 Stonegate Run
    Zionsville, IN 46077)(don’t worry – it is public info and the address she also uses as the registered address for MDA). . . . and pulling a Project Veritas by asking her or her wimpy former health care industry executive turned art gallery owner (sorry – but he is not old enough to be retired unless we was “retired”) if they would like to place a “there are no guns in this home” sign on their lawn? The video would be priceless!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt1Zy_ASNyA

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  5. I wonder how many of these women who were murdered by their intimate partners were intimately partnered with men who were violent criminals? How many of them were in gangs? The notion that otherwise law-abiding men would murder their wives or girlfriends seems absurd. So if these men already had a history of violence, how many of them could legally own guns? Saying that 46 women in the United States are murdered with a gun by an intimate partner each month isn’t an argument for gun control. The relevant statistic would be the number of women murdered with a legal gun by an intimate partner. That’s of course putting aside that criminals ignore the law, or those intent on murder could easily use another weapon. Yet even if you accept their argument that the mere presence of a gun makes these murders more likely. If these guns are already illegal, it doesn’t make any sense to make them more illegal.

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  6. Not only is this woman, and the piece she appears in, anti-freedom it is also sexist. Domestic violence is not confined to romantic relationships and it is not confined to the “male-is-perp-woman-is-victim” dialectic that these bigots try to foster. Gay people participate in domestic violence as do siblings, parents, children, and yes women against men.

    Taking action vs. demanding it leaves us all safer and more free.

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    • and in our society today, sexist is ~totally fine~ as long as it is a WOMAN putting down or otherwise vilifying men or what a man does.

      turn it around and you are a misogynist! you can look forward to retracting your statements, making written apologies and being fired from your job.

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  7. Great review. More of that good, legacy gun porn, please! Anyone else feel like channeling Will Smith from “Independence Day”… “I gotta get me one of these!”

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  8. By the Governor
    A PROCLAMATION

    “I have thought fit to issue this Proclamation to require all Persons who have yet Fire-Arms in their Possession, immediately to surrender them at the Court-House, to such Persons as shall be authorized to receive them; and hereby to declare that all Persons in whose Possession any Fire-Arms may hereafter be found, will be deemed Enemies to his Majesty’s Government.
    Given at Boston, the Nineteenth Day of June, 1775, in the Fifteenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord, GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of GOD, of Great-Britain, France, and Ireland, KING, Defender of the Faith &c.
    Tho’s Gage,
    By his Excellency’s Command,
    Tho’s Flucker, Secr’y.
    GOD Save the KING.
    12 June 1775

    H/T to Mr. Clayton Cramer
    Clayton Cramer.com
    http://www.claytoncramer.com/primary/GageFirearms.jpg

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  9. Just popped over to the Moms Demand Action for Blah-Blah-Blah. Crazy how these people act just like the stereotype of the anti-constitutional gun grabbers in sheeple’s clothing. Directly from the site:
    “Moms Demand Action supports the 2nd Amendment, but…”

    Always, that word “but” that they have to put in there. If the next word that follows “Second Amendment” is ever “but” then that person is a gun grabber and most certainly does not support the 2A.

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  10. “However, unlike the Thompson SMG it wasn’t used in significant quantities by mobsters and so never truly gained the same notoriety that its smaller cousin achieved.”

    Except that it was. The M1918 was a favorite Bonnie and Clyde. John Dillinger and company stole a few from the National Guard. The FBI used them in a couple of shootouts with the Gangsters and they were also issued to the Treasury. They were not nearly as popular with prohibition gangsters as they were for the 1930’s Bank robbers.

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  11. Pick any 5 of Browning’s designs, he pre-dated the vast majority of modern successful firearm designs, lever, pump, superposed, long piston, short piston, locked recoil system, blow-back system, barrel as piston system

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  12. Iconic Firearms –
    1 – Revolver – Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald or Dirty Harry Callahan and the S&W Model 29
    2 – Rifle – Lee Harvey Oswald holding his Carcano rifle in his backyard
    3 – Assault Rifle – Malcolm X holding a M1 carbine while looking out his livingroom window
    4- Shotgun – Patty Herst holding a shotgun robbing a bank.
    5 – Pistol – James Bond (Sean Connery) holding a Walter PPK

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  13. I’m really glad they nixed the 10 round mag ban due to lack of commercially available alternatives. The ‘features’ restrictions are egregious however. Based on that, the price of traditional stock semi autos like the Mini 14 have skyrocketed here. I briefly considered one as I have been contemplating getting into 3 gun, but I refuse to pay the inflated prices.

    What concerns me the most is the renewal process for concealed permits. They do not even have a framework in place yet, however this field guide makes it seem painless. It took me 10 months and a personal interview with a judge to get my initial permit. so I can only hope the recert process is less oppressive.

    There was one case where a guy was pulled over with a blown tail light bulb but had his legally owned pistol on the passenger seat. This predates the new field guide in which it states that probable cause must exist to inspect the weapon rather than just secure it during the stop. The local DA refused to charge the man anyway citing staffing issues. Link: http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/DA-is-1st-in-state-to-refuse-Safe-case-4546270.php

    Ralph, to your point I will be anxiously awaiting the unleashing of the criminal defense sector on future cases.

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  14. American
    1911
    M1 Garand
    M16
    Winchester lever action
    Colt SAA

    Foreign
    AK-47, AKM, assorted ‘x39 clones
    Mauser ’98
    Mp5
    Mg42
    Glock

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  15. Picked for both history and recognition at some level (“that’s a cowboy gun, that’s a .45”) by non gunnies

    Winchester 1873
    Colt 1911
    M-16
    Smith & Wesson Model 29
    Thompson SMG (with barrel mag)

    Notable mentions:
    Colt SAA
    Double Barrel Coach
    Mossburg 500
    Berreta 92
    AK-47
    Gattling Gun
    Glock Brand Glocks
    Luger
    Walther PPK

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  16. How about a Colt Python? It gets displayed regularly on the very popular Walking Dead TV show.

    My other 4 would be:

    Colt SAA
    1911
    Luger p08
    Walther PPK

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  17. Gotta include the Star Trek “Phasor” in one of its variations. (Little Phasor, Phasor Pistol, Phasor Rifle, Ship-based Phasors)

    Right?

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  18. An attempted car theft in a quiet neighborhood Tuesday morning turned into a Wild West shootout

    They only say that because it sounds stupid to say “Detroit turned into Detroit.”

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  19. An M240 B, some Tavors, some M-16s and M-4s, and I’m not even going to attempt to guess what variety if sniper rifle that may be. Excellent pics!

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  20. Ooohhhh! I want one: it’s machined from billet plastic! Can’t get more tacticool than that. Maybe they could have molded it from [Harvey] Milk jugs.

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  21. I love How the DA refers to an SKS as an “automatic weapon”… I also like how the news story infers that there would be 80% less suicides if guns couldn’t be privately owned. Additionally the looping of suicides in with gun related crimes makes “gun violence” statistics more than double to suit their political agenda.

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    • I also like how the news story infers that there would be 80% less suicides if guns couldn’t be privately owned.

      (*cough*) Japan (*cough*)

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  22. There is no flash of a gun shot. At least not in the video above. At that range if there was a shot there would be at the very least a bullet hole somewhere in the side window. So seeing as I believe nothing I hear on the news and only half of what I read on the internet I am going out on a limb and saying no shot took place.

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