The Hill is reporting that the U.S. Senate voted on and passed an amendment to the budget bill that would keep the U.S. from signing onto the UN arms trade treaty. Many have been concerned that the treaty, which does not differentiate between military and civilian firearms, would be used as a back door to enact sweeping gun control regulations in the United States. With the passage of this amendment (by a vote of 53 – 46) it signifies that ratifying such a treaty would be impossible with the current Senate. A Democrat also offered an amendment that clarifies that the U.S. constitution trumps all treaties, which was passed as well.
Obviously someone is overly sensitive. Why care what others think just b/c it disagrees with what you believe? And is he talking about the articles here or our comments? When someone goes off on a tangent, I don’t waste any of my time reading nonsense. Believe what you want, it’s your life.
It’s narrow minded to throw the baby out with the bath water. I’m not a conservative nor a republican, I don’t identify with them. I don’t assume every gun owner is either as he is assuming. The typical gun owner I meet in metro Atlanta isn’t an in your face conservative like who you see on t.v. or the radio.
Sorry buddy, you’re not as original as you think you are. You’re just closed minded.
Well…..bye.
Stupid question…was your video recorded with the GoPro or the Contour?
Really fun to watch and I’m sure it is fun to do!
I watched the two comparison videos and frankly I had a hard time noticing much difference while watching the video on my Mac laptop. The resolution at 720 on YouTube seemed about the same. Sound? GoPro was maybe a bit better.
But…it seemed to me that you were more accurate while shooting with GoPro.
🙂
Heh, I bet they did this to try and give their budget a better chance of passage in the House. This won’t go anywhere. The Senate budget is DOA in the House because its larded up with 1.5 trillion in tax increases and a 65% increase on spending.
What set him off? This has always seemed like a pretty open-minded blog to me.
If there’s a disproportionate share of criticism aimed at “the liberals” it might have something to do with the fact that there aren’t any prominent liberal democrats who are pro-gun.
Even so, whenever someone seems to equate “liberal” with “anti-gun” there are always people who object. As we’ll often point out, in many ways the NRA has more in common with the ACLU than anything that’s going on in Rush Limbaugh’s head.
Ridiculous screed, this site is not even remotely right wing. If he is bothered by commenters then I guess he wants you to censor right wing blowhards that comment here? Let their bigotry speak for itself, if they are so bigoted, Mr.Centrist…
The main Centrist figure I am aware of is John Avlon and he is 100% anti-gun. I read one of his books a few years ago, it had Ayn Rand and Harry Truman on the cover along with I think MLK Jr and others. It was one of the most horrible things I’ve ever tried to read and today he makes his living writing blatant left wing propaganda for CNN, I know I have seen at least one horrid anti-2A screed from him and he is Mr.Centrism.
Centrism is a schizophrenic way of thinking, they try to answer the problem with America’s false left/right political dichotomy with one thing: compromise. They will compromise on anything and everything in the name of ‘getting things done.’ I think Hegel called this synthesis in his work on dialectics and Marx believed it ultimately led to Communism.
Anyway, ‘Centrism’ is incoherent drivel that serves as bait for donkey-curious Republican morons. The Democrat and republican parties are both corrupt and the answer is not to get them together and be more corrupt in unison. All we can do passively is support 2A rights vehemently by exclusively supporting candidates who endorse those rights, because it is 2A rights that will ultimately bring the corrupt to their knees. The corrupt are in fact obsessed with destroying 2A rights so they make it easy for us to examine the liberal candidates who are tasked with destroying these rights and follow the money and networking as best we can. Centrism is at the forefront of destroying 2A rights and promoting globalist nonsense.
I’m really starting not to like that man.
I would not tell anyone shit if they asked me what guns I owned, that would be a good way to get some little goody two-shoes busybody poking around in someones business. No thank you!
I’d rather there be “something” done about the alarming amount of ignorance and hypocrisy elected politicians are displaying on this issue…
I grew up in the rural southeast, and it was not uncommon to lose a calf (in addition to plenty of barn cats and the odd goat) to coyotes. They were shoot-on-sight animals not because we wanted the thrill of killing a living creature, but because they’re immensely destructive to farmers.
By far the worst coyote problem I’ve seen, though, is in the semi-rural areas of San Diego County. Virtually every cat that escaped from a house was a lost cause, and it was a common thing to hear about coyotes grabbing a labradoodle from the backyard of a mcmansion or snatching up a chihuahua while it was on its leash in the middle of a residential neighborhood. I even had one neighbor who swore that coyotes killed his pit bull. And, since it’s SoCal and everyone is hippie-dippie enlightened and disarmed, the coyotes will trot through your garden in broad daylight with you sitting fifteen feet away.
Wily critters that they are, they’ve long since learned that people are nothing to worry about and might even bring them a meal on four feet every now and then.
“Protect gun rights with [gun control measure]” is like saying “Protect gay rights with DOMA.”
And background checks already exist to prevent the mentally ill and felons. Adam Lanza wasn’t able to buy a gun, which is why he killed his mother and stole HERS.
Is he really sitting there with his finger on the trigger the whole time?
I hate crap like this. I go to a baseball game to watch a freakin’ baseball game and eat a $10 hot dog. Why oh why must pro sports leagues turn everything into a memorial service, moment of silence or politically correct parade?
I don’t need Bud Selig to remind me to be sad about the death of 20 school children, I can do that on my own, thank you.
Sports are just sports, nothing else. Nobody wants to hear social commentary from owners, commissioners, players or Bob Costas. They need to step down from their little pedestals and just play the damn game. I can hardly watch the NFL anymore because it’s become such a bloated farce where the games mean less than the half time shows.
The argument about magazine or firearms for my personal use is dictated by the local Law Enforcement group, and their risk assessments for the local area and what their officers need. LEO has the right to have whatever they choose for capacities- That’s one of my major points when I write, email and call politicians- The firearms and amount of ammunition that the LEO’s have is deemed sufficient for them to protect themselves in the event of a situation justifying the use of firearms (this is typically admin code or statute that each state has dictating circumstances for deadly force). If a LEO or department takes a policy that their officers can carry sidearm with __ amount of rounds, and tactical rifle with __ of rounds per magazine, that tells me that I should have the same rights to deal with threats local to the area. The risk assessment by LEO’s is proper for them and recognized by courts and legislation, then it is proper for me to recognize that same risk factor.
Keep up the pressure to look at alternatives- we have been pushing gun safety items, with tax credits/deductions; i.e. getting tax rebate/credit for various items like we had for energy efficiency credits. Amazingly, 6 state reps (5 dems, 1 Repub.) have started looking at the writing of a proposal. The dems like it because they are shown to be pushing safety on 2nd A issues, but without getting into the frying pan or risking re-election issues. Find your fence sitters (you should know by now…) and present this in a nice formatted letter, with LOTS of supporting signatures.
Statistics (a lie veiled in numbers) can be made to say anything you want by adjusting the sample.
That said, if private gun sales are indeed private, then how would anyone know how to estimate the number of sales, much less even get close to the actual number of private sales?