“You come in here telling us that shooting stats are down, yet 60,000 more people have carry permits than they did in the two and a half years preceding Bruen.”
Lots of things had gone into the pressure cooker that eventually exploded into the American Revolution, but the ultimate intolerable act, the spark that made the patriots decide it was time to start shooting was the British attempt to disarm them.
The problem is far more nuanced than Mascia is willing to acknowledge. Her article makes only a passing mention of the racial disparities in the data. She doesn’t provide those numbers, so I will.
If Giffords wants to defend the ATF, it should explain why the agency deserves to exist after a half-century of failure, abuse, and constitutional violations.
To the Biden administration, the Second Amendment presented a dangerous loophole, an obstacle to be overcome in building the kind of society — one with increased “civic engagement” and “social cohesion” — they wanted to see America become.
Heinrich pushing his semi-auto gun ban again in this Congress demonstrates he’s only interested in placating the gun control activists at Brady, Giffords and Everytown and isn’t serious about actually keeping communities safe.
No less a gun control advocate than Joe Biden labeled his political opposition here as enemies of democracy and his administration even claimed that “domestic extremism” was among the greatest threats to national security.
“Polis might think he’s scoring points with the anti-gun crowd, but as far as we’re concerned, he has just handed us a rallying cry. … This fight is far from over, and we’re playing for keeps.”
For decades anti-gun legislators have enacted ever more gun control laws thinking the next one will be the panacea that will solve the problem of criminals misusing guns. Except history shows – and Americans know – that it never has and it never will.
The modern gun control industry relies on the free or reduced cost legal labor, called pro bono work, that firms provide to advocacy groups and individual plaintiffs. Trump’s actions against Big Law are threatening that pipeline.
