The fight for relevance gets tougher as the years go by, as the former object of post-Columbine cultural indignation will attest . . . Marilyn Manson Aims Fake Rifle At San Bernardino Crowd, Calls It ‘Act Of Theater’ . . .
Shock rocker Marilyn Manson is defending his decision to point what appeared to be a fake rifle at a concert crowd in San Bernardino as part of his act.
Manson – confined to a wheelchair after an on-tour accident in September that left him with a broken leg – aimed what turned out to be a prop microphone at the crowd at the Glen Helen Amphitheater while being rolled around on stage as he sang “We Know Where You F—– Live”.
Photos and video of the stunt were posted to social media just hours after a gunman opened fire on a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, killing at least 26 people.
Pay no attention to the armed self-defender behind that curtain! . . . Mass shootings, irrationality, and why you shouldn’t bring a gun to church . . .
I am a conservative and a defender of the 2nd Amendment right to own weapons, and there are no doubt cases in which citizens who live and work in dangerous areas can make themselves safer through responsible gun ownership.
Packing in church, however, is not one of those cases. Despite wall-to-wall media coverage, mass shooting incidents are extremely rare: You are highly unlikely to die in one. Besides, civilians who think they’re going to be saviors at the next church shooting are more likely to get in the way of trained law enforcement personnel than they are to be of any help as a backup posse.
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How does the ACLU count to ten? One, three, four . . . The ACLU Wants to Be the NRA, Without All the Guns . . .
The report suggested the ACLU adopt the NRA’s letter-grade system for political candidates, perhaps backed by a political action committee to support those who scored well. There was also great potential in civil liberties swag, everything from hats and t-shirts to encryption software endorsed by the group’s privacy experts and ACLU-branded Passover Haggadahs.
The main thing Romero envied about the NRA was how it leveraged a sense of identity to advance its political agenda. “The NRA is all about the gun lifestyle, everything from gun clubs and shooting ranges to fathers teaching their daughters how to hunt. We began to think, ‘How can we go from focusing on the head to focusing on the heart?’” he said.
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Two Americas . . . Michigan Senate committee approves bills that would allow concealed guns in schools, churches
The bills come after 26 people were killed this past weekend when a gunman opened fire at a church in Texas. It also follows the Las Vegas shooting, in which more than 50 people were killed at a country music festival in October.The state’s Senate majority leader said the recent shootings demonstrate the importance of this legislation, USA Today reported.
“Some have said it’s insensitive to bring up these issues now, but I feel quite the opposite,” state Senate Majority Leader Arlan Meekhof (R) said.
“The recent events will allow us to look at how we can deter those who want to do harm. And responsible, well-trained, licensed concealed-pistol holders can be one of those deterrents,” he said.
CNN waves the bloody shirt for gun control . . . Sister of Texas church shooting victim: ‘No more guns’ . . .
Evangelina Santos, whose brother Richard Rodriguez died in the attack in the small town of Sutherland Springs, choked back tears as she told CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota, “Anybody can carry a gun now, even crazy people. Tell the President that. No more guns.”
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It’s that time of year…
I like using an enfield. But, I don’t live in Texas where there’s waves of them. If I did I’d probably choose something belt fed.
Sperm!
Hurst’s district is dominated by Virginia Tech and Radford University. It is not “rural” as far as where the majority of the population lives or where it works. They are mostly state employees and if you include Radford Arsenal, employees of fed.gov. I would just about guarantee that the entire faculties outside of the engineering and military sciences departments at VT voted for Hurst. Also another object lesson of why college students should not be allowed to vote in the dorm district. Nonetheless this “victor” is a bought and paid for Bloomberg shill. There should be an investigation of who paid his keep after he left the TV station, and who will be paying it now. He can’t be living on $18K/year. He will be dangerous in the future because he is a professional actor and will re-use his girlfriend’s killing year after year just to get himself a sympathy vote in an attempt to move higher in politics.
More likely to get in the way of trained law enforcement officers,,,,,oh that’s funny. These anti-aircraft gun shit fucks just haven’t got a clue
“anti-aircraft gun”?
ADA Big sky/little bullet theory. Put enough shells in the air and you might hit something, occasionally, maybe. (corollary – AirFarce says “oooh bullets in the air might hit us. We’ll be at the O Club if something else comes up”?)
What guns does this man own and/or have access to? hmmmmm?
That seems like a tad more than “licensing.”
What can we do to get a “truth in labeling” requirement for proposed laws? Law is a product, right? Since guns are a “public health” issue — I keep getting told this — maybe the FDA could start regulating claims made for gun laws.
Fracking TWATS has only one place in life that she MAY know something about! That is the bedroom! Barring that, it’s the kitchen and cleaning the house! Exactly where she belongs! She should keep her damn legs shut to avoid her lips from spouting such BS ignorance as she continues to do!
Mom = A woman who allowed a man to knock her up.
The word “Mom”, by itself, in no way guarantees intelligence, knowledge, decency, usefulness, purity, wisdom, good sense or any other character trait.
Right? I’m sick of moms being held as the paragon of all that is just and noble in the world.
What exactly about shitting out a kid (or 5) and raising it to be an entitled, self absorbed little brat magically makes a woman wise and intelligent?
The USA is now bankrupt warmongering police state. The elites control the government, media, and the corporations.
Americans either are ignoring the decay of the US or think that nothing can be done to stop the collapse.
We sit at our keyboards and scream at our computers, but feel powerless to do anything about the decline. The struggle is immense and too much damage has been done to save the US.
Even if we spent a year to fight to repeal mandatory helmet laws, new nanny state laws banning vaping, smoking, and hoverboards would be enacted.
What can you do?
We could protest and be arrested or killed.
We could use our guns and be killed.
We have the goddamn NSA wiretapping our phones, listening to our words, reading our emails, and recording our web history. The NSA has our pictures, knows our address, Social Security numbers, phone numbers, purchases, current location, plans, doctors, lawyers, and what we had for dinner yesterday.
There really is no hope.
The best we can do now is to just prepare, dropout, don’t comply, don’t consent, don’t participate, don’t vote, don’t buy licenses, don’t pay taxes, don’t call the police, don’t deal with the government, stop supporting this rigged system, and spread the word.
I do not take s gun to church because I might shoot the piccolo player
So, the claim is that I should not conceal carry at church because it will complicate the job of law enforcement. That is complete BS. Look, most real police officers (not politicians in police uniforms) will tell you to get training and take responsibility for your own safety until they arrive. Police that aren’t political nutjobs almost always agree that you should not let the bad guy kill you just to make their investigation easier. Heck, if staying alive means a police officer gets a few extra dollars in overtime, I can live with that. Besides, I cannot be a good witness if I am dead, right.
On the other point, I will not set foot in a church where I cannot carry. If that Church does not understand the threat from the Progressive-atheist establishment and the crazies who will believe and act on their propaganda, how can I believe anything they teach.
(Note to the usual leftist trolls who comment on this site: Do not bother replying, for I don’t read your factless banter.)
Marilyn Manson is no Alice Cooper. Cooper knows how to entertain without screwing it up with politics.
God bless this man for speaking out and saving lives.
It’s only “insane” for citizens to have effective self-defense weapons, if you don’t want them to defend themselves.
You really do a good write-up, enjoyable to read and good vids too. Thanx
I would let USA Today accessorize my AR15.
Mabel, Hold all my calls and reschedule today’s remaining appointments; something just came up requiring my immediate attention.
Dems/Libs are consistent in their attempts to disarm America. Let’s have a short look at another Clinton gun-grabbing reflection:
Gun control was a major political issue in the first half of Bill Clinton’s first term and during that time he lobbied for, and signed, two major pieces of gun control legislation, the Brady Bill and the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban.
A case in point is the Clinton/Gore administration’s continued insistence that the Second Amendment poses no legal obstacle to the federal government confiscating every privately owned firearm in the United States.
Arguing before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in 2000, in the case of United States v. Emerson, the assistant United States attorney said exactly that, to an incredulous three-judge court.
Here’s the exchange:
Chief Judge Garwood: “You are saying that the Second Amendment is consistent with a position that you can take guns away from the public? You can restrict ownership of rifles, pistols and shotguns from all people? Is that the position of the United States?”
AUSA (attorney for the DOJ): “Yes”
Garwood: “Is it the position of the United States that persons who are not in the National Guard are afforded no protections under the Second Amendment?”
AUSA: “Exactly.”