Aww, how cute
A piece entitled How to smash the gun lobby offers no real way to actually accomplish that. It’s full of silliness but mostly displays that the author doesn’t understand guns, gun culture or the “gun lobby”. You see, anti-gun people produce nothing. They sell no worthwhile product. There’s not anti-gun range. No anti-gun show. This person really fails to grasp any of it.
September 22nd, 2016 at 8:41 pm
Good luck with that Ms. (or is it Mx. or Xe or ???) Hauser. I am the gun lobby. My wife is the gun lobby. Many of my friends and family, even those who reliably vote Democrat, are the gun lobby. All the people at my local rod and gun club are the gun lobby. None of us work for the gun industry either.
September 22nd, 2016 at 8:50 pm
So her plan is to call us, uh, extra-racist? Double-secret racist?
That ship has sailed, long long ago.
September 22nd, 2016 at 9:48 pm
“How to smash the gun lobby”. Gee, why such violent imagery? I thought WE were supposed to be the violent ones.
September 23rd, 2016 at 10:26 am
She cites two methods of fighting against criminal misuse of firearms: public shaming of law-abiding gun ownership, including demonization of gun company owners and the NRA, and divestment from (apparently profitable) investments in firearms stocks.
I don’t see how either of these actions will stop the gangbangers on the southside of Chicago from murdering their rivals in the drug trade there, and she doesn’t tell me.
September 23rd, 2016 at 12:42 pm
@mikee, “including demonization of gun company owners” who make the weapons for government’s hired guns? Does she want to apply “the equal protection of the laws” (14th Amendment) and apply the same gun laws to government officials in addition to the “shaming” and “demonization”?
September 23rd, 2016 at 12:53 pm
Fail: No mention whatsoever in her plan, about executing that small percentage of people who turn into murderers.
September 23rd, 2016 at 4:25 pm
On the “disinvestment” part … does she forget that to sell a share of stock someone else has to buy it?
I’ll be happy to buy her shares of Ruger at a nice discount…
September 23rd, 2016 at 4:52 pm
“How to smash the gun lobby”
Translation; “How to smash U.S. the constitution and the human rights it was designed to protect.”
“This person really fails to grasp any of it.”
The halmark of Progressivism is a failure to grasp much of anything besides power, and other people’s money and property.
Progressives and other authroitarians are criminals, enemies waging war against the United States from within.
September 26th, 2016 at 7:43 am
@Lyle: Very well said!!
September 26th, 2016 at 12:25 pm
“You see, anti-gun people produce nothing. They sell no worthwhile product. There’s not anti-gun range. No anti-gun show. This person really fails to grasp any of it.”
Yes, it’s like the difference between light and darkness. Darkness is nothing, it’s only the absence of Light.