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Vanity Fair: NRA School Shield Program Sucks. Whatever It Is.

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“Like many tenuous protectively-named political initiatives (cf., the “Defense of Marriage Act”) the National School Shield Program would, if implemented, probably engender the diametric opposite of what its name suggests,” Vanity Fair‘s Julie Weiner pronounces in National Rifle Association’s “School Shield Program” Is Amazing April Fools’ Joke. Wait. “Probably”? Yup. ‘Cause the NRA is revealing details of its post-Newtown program to improve school safety tomorrow. It appears Ms. Weiner and/or her headline writer couldn’t be bothered to read the bill before passing judgement on it. To wit . . .

But how exactly is the N.R.A. ensuring schools are less safe? If you assumed “shield” was a euphemism for “gun,” then [fires three celebratory shots in the air, accidentally injures neighbor] congratulations! CNN reports that within the organization’s legislative proposal, “[l]aw enforcement officials will find training recommendations to prepare the armed guards who the organization believes should be available to schools. State and local officials will find guidelines on how to alter their ordinances to permit the armed guards.” No one will find anything that is remotely productive or persuasive or plausible.

No one that Ms. Weiner and her fellow champagne socialists clink glass with, she means. In fact, why would they even bother looking at it?

As one of TTAG’s Armed Intelligentsia pointed out recently, it’s the disarmament industry’s intellectual dishonesty that really rankles. Well, that and everything else, obviously.

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  1. Find your comments extremely negative about the 40c. I was surprised how well mine shot and functioned. The trigger was great maybe you should of took the time to take it apart and clean it before you shot it for the first time(common sense). Maybe yours would of shot as good as mine. This pistol is meant for concealed carry not bulls eye shooting. I would recommend this to any one looking for a good shooting concealable pistol that is very comfortable to shoot.

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  2. All I need to see is the term “progressive” in their self-description to know that their organization will be pushing ideas that erode individual rights and are profoundly anti-freedom and anti-choice. Unless, of course, your choice is to agree with them.

    Progressive equality is the social equivalent of clear-cutting an entire forest to give more light to all the trees.

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  3. Good God, please tell me we aren’t taking Ms. Weiner seriously? She needs to go back to writing about whatever pop culture, fashion BS she is used to writing and let the adults do the talking when it comes to serious stuff.

    Seriously? Vanity Fair?

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  4. The sun was searing my backside, as my quivering & sweaty hands tried to row back the 12lb trigger of my 5906. Boom boom,decock & holster, go down range.

    Yup. Hit the 7 ring again. Jesus, sweat in your eye really stings.

    But no mind-I didn’t leave until the 250 round box was empty. While I’m no comp shooter, I can confidently defend myself with any firearm no matter how heavy its trigger. A skill worth some degree of sunburn and sticker shock.

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  5. > The National Rifle Association—the dangerous, deep-pocketed lobby
    > committed to the pandemically destructive objective of maintaining
    > Wayne LaPierre’s relevancy

    Given the utter incompetence and gross negligence of the N.R.A. over the past four months, I actually agree with part of that description.

    If LaPierre had any guts (pauses for laughter to die down), he would bring a 30-round AR-15 magazine with him for every talk show appearance in Washington, D.C. The District’s attorney general has already gone on the record that

    prosecution would not promote public safety…nor serve the best interests of the people

    for violation of D.C.’s magazine ban.

    “Prosecution would not promote public safety…nor serve the best interests of the people” should have been the focus of a coherent P.R. message, instead of . . . whatever the N.R.A.’s message has been.

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  6. So the idea of actually trying to defend children at school is…let me see…”not remotely productive or persuasive or plausible.” Thanks for the enlightenment, Julie.

    When some deranged fame-seeker tries to outdo Adam Lanza’s death toll, I’m sure your words will be a great comfort to the families of all the dead children.

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  7. This seems somewhat relevant:

    July 23, 2012
    How the Norwegians Reacted to Terrorism

    An antidote to the American cycle of threat, fear, and overspending in response to terrorism is this, about Norway on the first anniversary of its terrorist massacre:

    And at the political level, the Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg pledged to do everything to ensure the country’s core values were not undermined.

    “The Norwegian response to violence is more democracy, more openness and greater political participation,” he said.

    A year later it seems the prime minister has kept his word.

    There have been no changes to the law to increase the powers of the police and security services, terrorism legislation remains the same and there have been no special provisions made for the trial of suspected terrorists.

    On the streets of Oslo, CCTV cameras are still a comparatively rare sight and the police can only carry weapons after getting special permission.

    Even the gate leading to the parliament building in the heart of Oslo remains open and unguarded.

    ( from Bruce Schneier ‘s web site)

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  8. Maybe Wayne LaPierre should take to writing some articles on fashion and pop-culture….I’m pretty sure we all know how that would turn out. Too bad it doesn’t work the other way around.

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    • I can do that review for all of us a la Joan Rivers:

      “Weiner?” Too easy, insert your own line here. Between her haircut and the pattern on her shirt, I’m reminded of the late shit-for-brains leader, Yasser Arafat. In typical spoiled brat liberal fashion, she wears the ever eroded charm of a Hipster coming down off Ecstasy. Her eyes are big and remind me of one of those stupid paint-by-numbers kids from the 70’s that you had to work on at summer camp when it rained. She’s not going to age well. Her boyfriends better take advantage of her now while youth is her most attractive feature. Although, she probably swings both ways. Her over inflated ego, limited knowledge of the real world, and her intellectualism must surely be held together by Xanax and Adderall in a delicate balance between her PMS and her daddy issues.

      I could have just called her a D bag, but then I’d be on her level. LMFAO

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  9. They are trying to get rid of our guns, so they can do like Greece did. all the banks shut down so the people could not remove their money, and the government removed 40% of it for taxes! Imagine working all your life with 401k and investments for retirement, and the government just takes 40% of it because they can. leaving you without enough money to retire at all? well, it’s coming to America. they plan on taking our saving, our checking, and anything else they can get their hands on to pay for Obamacare. they need to get our guns, because they know we will shoot their asses if they dont give it back to us! Take my word for it, a Revolution is coming, and the government is doing something about guns, because we will need them to survive what’s next!! Even a parent of one of the children at Sandy hook said, we need GOD back in our school/lives, and we need to keep our guns to defend ourselves against the criminals!

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  10. Guys, guys, guys. I think you’re being hard on the Weiner. She’s nothing more or less than what she was trained to be, and everything we’ve come to expect from the dumbed-down American education system.

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  11. TO: All
    RE: History Says…..

    A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince. — Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

    What he’s talking about here is how the Roman Republic fell to the Caesars and declined into rank despotism and suffering of the citizens.

    Regards,

    Chuck(le)
    [History repeats itself. That’s one of the problems with History.]

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  12. Someone explain to me why, true or not, do pro 2a folk need to give a rat’s @ss what Vanity Fair has to say. They themselves state openly that their view is shaded:
    @ google

    Vanity Fair
    http://www.vanityfair.com/ShareHollywood, politics, royals, Wall Street, international news, fashion, society, scandal, and real estate—filtered through the exclusive prism of Vanity Fair.

    ‘Nuff Said……………..

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  13. Apparently the “destruction of terror networks” also includes American citizens who speak out against and stand up to tyrannical government. One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.

    Just like police, the military as a whole can’t be trusted to do what’s right, including veterans. As a whole, I said; yes I know there are quite a few who are great, blah blah. In the end, soldiers can and do forget that they took an oath to uphold the Constitution (not the government) and fight against enemies foreign and domestic (hint: that means corrupt would-be tyrants, not honest Americans trying to hold on to their freedoms).

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  14. As soon as I read that these were “vets” who were devoted to fighting the scawy tewwowists around the world rather than protecting the constitution and American citizens, I knew they would be slimy enough to attack the amendment that would rule them all unemployed.

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  15. And something this laughable is given consideration on this site because..?

    Seriously, to even take the time to post this is to legitimize an “argument” that doesn’t deserve it. If the article was titled “Mind-Numbingly Stupid Product of Me-Generation Proves Why America Has No Future” then this would be legitimate.

    I’m not a parent yet, and seeing creatures like this “woman” makes me terrified to be one. What if my offspring should turn out like this?

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  16. And all the cartel types in F&F – Oh wait, not our country, not our problem.

    “Anyone see a problem with THAT concept…?” – Mr. Obvious

    This government administration’s hypocrisy is only exceeded by it’s stupidity.

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  17. Hitler was not stopped by angry letters. Will you honor your oath and help lead others to stop this newest tyrant, Captain Hestilow?

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  18. Good news I just got a 9mm Shield!
    Bad news I just got a 9mm Shield!
    After being on Cabelas waiting list since last summer they called today and said they had a S&W Shield for me. I wasn’t exactly thrilled due to the ammo shortage but it gave me a chance to trade in my Taurus Slim and now I have a gun I want to shoot.

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  19. It is another nail in the coffin of “Common Sense” done in the name of “Common Sense”. I am in “shock & awe” at the dearth of common sense by state and federal legislators. The profligation of laws and regulations in this country is reaching the point that only the newborn will only have a short window in time before they become lawbreakers.

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  20. I got into this discussion with a highish ranking member of the ACLU’s RI chapter a couple months ago. She asked my why anyone would NEED an AR15 with a 30 round mag. Skipping right over point one (no “need” required), I decided to engage her question and pointed out that there are many places overrun with wild populations of things like hogs and coyotes that pose a real danger to people, pets and livestock. She barely let me finish the sentence before she attempted to dismiss it by saying that was a very specific example and hardly applied to everyone (meaning her and the people she knew). I told he that she was the one who asked for a single example of that combo’s utility and that I had provided one, she wasn’t allowed to just dismiss it out of hand as though I had waffled on the answer. I also pointed out to her that while she may not be able to see my property or understand my lifestyle from her Providence condo, I was, none the less, there.

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  21. If “good guys” with guns aren’t the answer, we need to disarm police and federal law enforcement. If it’s not the answer, then it’s not the answer. DHS needs to sell all those guns and bullets.

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  22. Only one problem with what she said. The 2nd Amendment does NOT “grant” the right to bear arms. In GUARANTEES that the right will not be infringed. We already had the natural right to bear arms.

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