NRA to NYT: ‘You Can’t Handle The Truth’
Posted: March 2, 2017 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, Self Defense | Tags: A Few Good Men, Ethics, journalism, Journalist, news, Newspapers, NRA, propaganda, The New York Times, The Times, The Washington Post, Twitter, video 1 Comment
Two videos: 1, the New York Time’s “Truth” ad, which itself stands as mockery against the Times, then 2, the NRA’s rebuttal to the NYT ad.

“You WANT me on that wall, you NEED me on that wall”
‘The Same NYT that Just Ran a Self-Congratulatory Ad About How Devoted to ‘Truth’ They Are Stealth-Deletes an Inconvenient Lie from an Article, Then Refuses to Explain Themselves’
[VIDEO] Politicians, Media Guilty Of Most Despicable Form Of Racism
Posted: July 13, 2016 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, Politics, Self Defense | Tags: Civil Rights, Gun control, Gun Crime, Gun rights, Inner City, media, news, NRA, USA, video, Violent crime 1 CommentWe don’t need more gun control; we need real solutions.
Remove the jobs, break the schools, pull back the police, let the streets flood with drugs. Let violent gangs recruit child soldiers and terrorize neighborhoods. Don’t prosecute gun crimes.
And when the media looks you in the eye after another bloody weekend in a major American city, call for more gun control.
If our politicians are truly using the carnage they refuse to stop to attack the rights of honest, hard-working Americans caught in living hell, then they are guilty of the most despicable form of racism imaginable.
What has been allowed to happen in our inner cities is an absolute disgrace. If the same epidemic of poverty, gang violence and broken schools poisoned the neighborhoods of the nation’s political class, you’d better believe they’d be talking about real solutions—not gun control.
Glenn Harlan Reynolds: Is the Gun Lobby Still Invincible? Yeah, Pretty Much
Posted: October 5, 2015 Filed under: Law & Justice, Politics, Self Defense | Tags: 2nd amendment, corruption, Glenn Reynolds, government, Gun control, Gun Lobby, Gun politics, Gun rights, National Rifle Association, New York Times, Newtown Public Schools, NRA, Terry McAuliffe, Virginia Tech massacre 1 CommentA Power Derived From Mistrust of Police and Government
Glenn Harlan Reynolds writes: Is the gun lobby still invincible? Yeah, pretty much. The reason is trust. And if you want more trust, police and politicians must be more trustworthy.
In 2012, Room for Debate asked ”Is the Gun Lobby Invincible?” Since then, the answer has turned out to be “yeah, pretty much.” And the reason is trust.
According to a recent Pew poll, more Americans support gun rights than gun control. That represents a significant shift over the situation a few decades ago. And I believe the reason is that people don’t trust the government to protect them anymore, and, in fact, that they don’t trust the government in general….(read more)
Source: NYTimes.com
Glenn Harlan Reynolds is the Beauchamp Brogan distinguished professor of law at the University of Tennessee College of Law in Knoxville.
[VIDEO] The Grammar of The Second Amendment
Posted: November 9, 2014 Filed under: Law & Justice, Mediasphere, Self Defense | Tags: Bill of Rights, Bill Whittle, Civil Rights, Firewall, Keep and bear arms, NRA, Progressives, Republican Party (United States), Second Amendment, U.S. Constitution, YouTube 1 CommentTired of listening to Progressives tell you that the Second Amendment only allows people in militias to keep and bear arms? Or that the Founders would have never intended the Second Amendment to apply to modern weapons? In his latest FIREWALL, Bill recounts a remarkable conversation about the precise wording of the Second Amendment, and sums up why the document says what it means and means what it says.
YouTube – h/t rdbrewer Ace of Spades
Weinstein: “I don’t think we need guns in this country. And I hate it. I think the NRA is a disaster area…”
Posted: January 16, 2014 Filed under: Entertainment, Politics, Self Defense | Tags: Harvey Weinstein, Howard Stern, Jackie Brown, Meryl Streep, National Rifle Association, NRA, pulp fiction, Rendition 3 CommentsWeinstein Update: Over at HotAir, Ed Morrissey has comments:
Congratulations, genius. You’re setting out to make a movie that will annoy more than 60 million Americans who responsibly own firearms. What a great marketing strategy that will be! Why, this new project will take … the same oh-so-courageous-and-tediously-didactic path as the anti-war films Lions for Lambs and Rendition, two films which bombed at the box office in 2007, both of which also starred … Meryl Streep.
“I’m making a movie that the NRA will hate…”
— Weinstein
Let’s muse on the irony, though, of Harvey Weinstein making this declaration. How much gunfire went into Pulp Fiction, which he exec-produced? The 2008 Rambo sequel? Jackie Brown?
The New Gun Control Agenda
Posted: November 27, 2013 Filed under: Law & Justice, Self Defense | Tags: Background check, Bible, Colion Noir, Daily Caller, Gun control, Gun safety, National Rifle Association, NRA, safety 3 CommentsColion Noir writes: Somewhere between screaming for gun control and then being called out for actually wanting gun confiscation, the anti-gunners decided to change the phrase “gun control” to “gun safety.” I wonder why they would do that. I mean, whether you call it 2G, 4G, or 9G, you’re still screwing me with the same slow ass Internet speeds, the same way anti-gunners are trying to force feed us the “gun safety” placebo.
All trained gun users learn that there are four rules of gun safety that will prevent any and all unintentional death, injury, or damage caused by improper possession, storage, or handling of firearms. They are:
One: Treat all guns as if they are always loaded.
Two: Never let point the muzzle at anything you are not willing to destroy.
Three: Keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on target.
And finally, four: Know your target, and know what’s beyond it.
So, now that we’ve gone through the four Founding Fathers of gun safety, someone please tell me how a universal background check, assault weapons ban, or high capacity magazine ban has anything to do with the rules of gun safety?
Why doesn’t the Left trust the law-abiding poor to own guns?
Posted: October 23, 2013 Filed under: History, Law & Justice, Self Defense | Tags: Deacons for Defense and Justice, Gun control, Louisiana, National Rifle Association, North Carolina, NRA, Philadelphia School District, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, United States, United States Secret Service, Washington Post 2 CommentsWhy doesn’t the Left trust the law-abiding poor to own guns? That question leapt to mind after reading a recent piece in Nonprofit Quarterly by my friend Rick Cohen, who hails from the Left and, on other issues, has long demanded respect for the denizens of poor neighborhoods.
His article rightly scoffed at officials at a public school in North Carolina who had the brilliant idea of providing their sixth-graders with an “enrichment exercise” that consisted of sending a man in a ski mask into classrooms with a toy gun and pretending to rob the kids.
Rick repeated a crack by the website Progressive Populist that it’s a good thing no teacher pulled out a concealed weapon to shoot the fake bad guy. That could have happened “if the National Rifle Association has its way,” because those crazies at the NRA published a report this year “calling for arming and training teachers and other school personnel.”
Rick’s sneer brought another question to mind. Why does the Left, usually so skeptical about cops and the military, trust them to have all the guns?
Does Rick not realize that, historically, American gun control laws largely targeted“ blacks in the south and the foreign-born in the north,” including Rick’s own Jewish forebears? The state of North Carolina, which draws Rick’s attention today,declared in 1840 that no
free negro, mulatto, or free person of color, shall wear or carry about his or her person, or keep in his or her house, any shot gun, musket, rifle, pistol, sword, dagger or bowie-knife, unless he or she shall have obtained a license therefor from the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of his or her county
That explains why some black men on the left, like Washington Post columnist Courtland Milloy, revere the self-help legacy of
Deacons for Defense and Justice — an organization of black men in Louisiana who used shotguns and rifles to repel attacks by white vigilantes during the 1960s.
NRA Training Material Sales Reach Record High
Posted: October 17, 2013 Filed under: Self Defense | Tags: Daily Caller, Firearm, Gun, Gun control, National Rifle Association, NRA, Recreation, United States 1 CommentThrough the first three quarters of 2013, the National Rifle Association’s Program Materials Center has processed a record 46,000 transactions, selling 850,000 units of training materials. The Program Materials Center is the NRA’s source for firearm training handbooks and videos, shooting aides, medals, program apparel and more. More than 90% of the center’s transactions are for NRA’s firearm education and training courses taught by certified instructors throughout the United States.
The most sought-after materials are for NRA’s pistol-based courses, predominantly NRA Basic Pistol, FIRST Steps Pistol Orientation, and Basic Personal Protection in the Home.
Gun-Control People, This is Your Cue to Wet Your Pants: NRA Fundraising Breaks Records
Posted: September 26, 2013 Filed under: Guns and Gadgets, Self Defense | Tags: Friends of NRA, Joe Manchin, John da Silva, Kay Hagan, National Rifle Association, NRA, Shooting sport, Terry McAuliffe 1 CommentThe NRA’s “Friends of NRA” campaign has raised a record breaking amount of money so far this year. “Friends of NRA” is one of the group’s grassroots efforts, sponsoring volunteer events and fundraising banquets around the country.
According to Richmond’s WTVR.com, the program has already raised $51 million, with “more than 200 fundraising events left in 2013.” The amount raised in the first eight and a half months of 2013 is already $1 million more than the entire amount raised in 2012.
What does this say to gubernatorial candidates like Terry McAuliffe, who openly pledge to put Colorado-like gun controls in place if elected?
And what does this portend for pro-gun control Senators who have been fortunate enough to be elected in anti-gun control states? Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kay Hagan (D-NC) come to mind. Read the rest of this entry »
‘There Weren’t Enough Good Guys with Guns’
Posted: September 22, 2013 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Self Defense, U.S. News | Tags: David Gregory, LaPierre, Meet the Press, National Rifle Association, Northern Virginia, NRA, Vice president, Wayne LaPierre 1 CommentNRA executive vice president and CEO Wayne LaPierre told Meet the Press this morning that the Navy Yard shooting this week was so deadly because of lack of security at the installation. Asked by David Gregory whether he thought, as the NRA has claimed in the past, that simply more security was needed at the site of the mass shooting, LaPierre said the answer was obvious: “The whole country, David, knows the problem was there weren’t enough good guys with guns. When the good guys got there, it stopped.”
“How can anybody look at what happened this week and say there was enough security there?” LaPierre said. “I mean, there was one guy, [from] a private-security firm . . . there were six guys guarding the gates. The Capital Hill SWAT team was told to stand down.”
WaPost op-ed blames whites for mass shootings; fact remains minorities are over-represented for ALL murder types, including mass murder
Posted: March 31, 2013 Filed under: Mediasphere, War Room | Tags: African American, Fort Hood, Lee Boyd Malvo, National Rifle Association, Newtown, NRA, Seung-Hui Cho, United States Leave a commentA pair of sister-researchers that make their living off the government teat have decided to blame white men for mass shootings:
Imagine if African American men and boys were committing mass shootings month after month, year after year. Articles and interviews would flood the media, and we’d have political debates demanding that African Americans be “held accountable.” Then, if an atrocity such as the Newtown, Conn., shootings took place and African American male leaders held a news conference to offer solutions, their credibility would be questionable. The public would tell these leaders that they need to focus on problems in their own culture and communities.
But when the criminals and leaders are white men, race and gender become the elephant in the room.
Nearly all of the mass shootings in this country in recent years — not just Newtown, Aurora, Fort Hood, Tucson and Columbine — have been committed by white men and boys. Yet when the National Rifle Association (NRA), led by white men, held a news conference after the Newtown massacre to advise Americans on how to reduce gun violence, its leaders’ opinions were widely discussed.
Unlike other groups, white men are not used to being singled out. So we expect that many of them will protest it is unfair if we talk about them. But our nation must correctly define their contribution to our problem of gun violence if it is to be solved.
The thing is, the sisters are lying.
Whites are under-represented by race in mass shootings, as are Hispanics, when you look at percentage of total population. Don’t take my word for it, either; look at the stats kept by über-left-wing Mother Jones.
Over-represented are Asians, like Virginia Tech shooter Seung-Hui Cho, One L. Goh, Jeong Soo Paek, Jiverly Wong, Byran Koji Uyesugi and Gang Lu who are all East Asian, and West Asian/Arabs, such as Nidal Hassan, and Abdelkrim Belachheb, whom the sisters dishonestly label “white.”
Also over-represented are black mass murders like Omar S. Thornton, Maurice Clemmons, Charles Lee Thornton, William D. Baker, Arthur Wise, Clifton McCree, Nathan Dunlap, Colin Ferguson, and we’re not even including the DC Snipers, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, because they are arguably serial killers instead.
While white mass murderers are given considerable airtime, black mass murderers are ignored by the mass media as quickly as they possibly can… including the racist Washington Post.
We also know that run of the mill, every day violence is also primarily caused by minorities.
Are these overtly liberal sisters really sure they want to start playing race games? As it invariably leads back to the failure of progressive social engineering, I don’t think they do.
via Bob Owens