On Friday, Dara Lind (Vox job description: “Jetpack Comandante“) wrote on Donald Trump’s recent interview with MSNBC’s Morning Joe in which he said this about the attack on Umpqua Community College last Thursday: “…oftentimes this happens…you know, we sort of saw that about him, it really looked like he could be a problem but it’s […]
On the last day of their just-concluded session, the Missouri legislature passed SB646, which reforms the state’s gun laws. The bill was passed with a veto-proof majority in the house, 111- 28 and a potentially veto-proof majority in the Senate, 21-7. Potentially, as four senators did not vote. Two more votes are needed to […]
“At least 65 million people in the United States, or more than one in four adults, have a criminal record, which can mean anything from an arrest to a prison sentence,” the New York Times editorial In Search of Second Chances opines. “This can trigger severe penalties that continue long after punishment is complete, according to a new […]
What is it with civilian disarmament advocates and false claims of victory? Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America (a wholly owned subsidiary of Mayors Against Illegal Guns) proclaimed success when Starbucks issued a letter asking customers to leave their gats at home – a request entirely without force of law. More recently, Shannon […]
Last year, Second Amendment supporters struggled to push an omnibus gun reform bill through the Georgia legislature. There were conflicts between groups that claimed similar aims, the bill stalled and ran out of time in the senate. This year, a similar bill, HB 875, has sailed through the house committee and passed by a more than […]
“’I love my police officers, I really do’ said Carmen Quinones, a member of the project’s volunteer resident watch and a public housing resident for 40 years. ‘But they’re not protecting our buildings. We’re still being robbed. We’re still being mugged.’” And there you have it: proof positive that the police can’t prevent crime. Well, […]
TTAG reader Matt in FL is “that guy.” The guy who reads everything we write, researches it on the web and kicks our ass when we get it wrong. And yes, CO Private Apartment Complex Bans Guns got it wrong. I reported that a California real estate company owned the Oakwood complex that told Marine […]
“The New Jersey Assembly’s majority Democrats, citing the elementary-school massacre in Newtown, Conn., passed 22 gun-control bills Thursday that backers said would help curb gun violence,” philly.com reported at 3am this morning. The new bills limit ammunition magazines to 10 rounds (A1329), outlaw .50 caliber rifles (A3659), create weapon-free school zones (A1387), require background checks […]
The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence has released another of their “reports.” How Guns Have Affected the Athletic Community & What It Tells Us About America’s Gun Violence Crisis is filled with falsehoods and misleading misinformation. To properly parse the Bradys’ agit-prop polemic, I’ve broken my response into several parts. Click here to read Part One: a close […]
Those that do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it. – George Santayana (1863–1952) We can learn a lot from history. If only we pay attention, that is. But the Obama Administration seems […]
So here you go: another example of African American entertainment lionizing [presumably] illegal firearms. Anyone with even a passing familiarity with street culture will know that it’s suffused with firearms references within a criminal framework. Which is entirely understandable. Forget the whole “rebellion against oppression and poverty” angle. Guns are cool. There. I said it. […]
Earlier this week, California Governor Gavin Newsom shared some deep thoughts on the state’s exploding homelessness problem. The Golden State, which already has something of a spending problem, is laying out about a billion dollars to do something about its burgeoning homeless population of almost 160,000 people. Newsom’s solution: enable doctors to prescribe housing. Doctors […]
