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DAILY ALERT FOR
Friday, June 1, 2018
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Everytown spends a
lot of time b*tching and moaning on Twitter but their actual efforts to curb
gun violence are pretty much limited to just that. And of course, demanding
Congress pass a bunch of gun laws that are already on the books or calling
for an assault weapon ban that failed when it was tried during the Clinton
years. You know, the Clinton who could actually win?
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Social justice
busybodies obsessed with how other people live their lives often portray the
success of their causes as a matter of destiny. “The young people will
win,” insists one youthful gun control advocate, falsely portraying
his personal crusade as a generational mandate. Yet recent events have
demonstrated that bedrock American values – including support for the Second
Amendment – tend to outlast moments of high emotion that are increasingly
relied upon by political opportunists to advance their agenda. Given the
chance to collect their thoughts, most Americans instinctively revert to
freedom.
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Last week, Seattle
Mayor Jenny Durkan and Councilmember M. Lorena González proposed legislation
to the City Council to restrict the self-defense rights of Seattle
residents. The proposed ordinance, if passed, would impose a
one-size-fits-all method of storing firearms as well as punish victims of
theft by requiring them to report a lost or stolen firearm within 24 hours or
face increased fines.
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Democratic
gubernatorial candidate Chris King wants to use taxes on weapons and bullets
to pay for gun violence intervention and prevention programs, school safety
measures and studies of gun violence. The funds also would pay for medical
costs for victims of mass shootings “I’m proposing the ‘Every Kid Fund’ for
Gun Violence Prevention because every child deserves to grow up in a state
free from the scourge of gun violence, whether it’s everyday gun violence or
mass shootings,” King said in a statement.
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On Thursday, May 31,
both chambers of the Rhode Island Legislature passed gun bills despite the
objections of Ocean State gun owners.
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On May 31st ,
the Oregon Attorney General certified the ballot title for Initiative
Petition 44. This comes after more than 400 comments were submitted on
the proposed title. As previously reported, NRA submitted comments objecting
to the misleading and inadequate ballot title on behalf of our Oregon
members. IP 44 proponents will begin signature gathering on June 15th
or following the completion of legal challenges brought to the Oregon Supreme
Court.
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Don’t ever underestimate
the British capacity for combining the oppressive with the doltish. This
week, the United Kingdom’s decades-long campaign against all things martial
sunk to a fresh low when one of the Queen’s more domineering subjects floated
a ban on the sale, and possibly the possession, of traditional kitchen
utensils. Not to be outdone, other British busybodies demanded satisfaction
from a professional athlete whose firearm body art they found objectionable.
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States controlled by
the Democratic party have chosen to ignore an individual right protected by
an amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Rights of millions of law-abiding
Americans in those states have been routinely violated by Byzantine rules and
prohibitions, and courts have turned a blind eye to those abuses. The U.S.
Supreme Court could intervene, but instead it has chosen to leave
unconstitutional laws on the books. Some prominent Democrats have called for
repealing the amendment, and magazine articles have offered elaborate
justifications.
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The percentage of
Texans who support stricter gun laws has dropped, the latest Quinnipiac
University poll shows.
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Six percent of
Americans aged 15 to 34 consider gun control the top issue facing the
country, according to a new Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs
Research and MTV poll reported on Wednesday. That number is down from a
high of 21 percent who considered it the top issue in March, according to the
poll.
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During the event,
Harris outlined some of her policy wishes, including banning “weapons of war”
and introducing mandatory background checks.
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In the wake of the
two recent high-profile school shootings, the institutional gun control
movement and many in the mainstream media have taken their always alarmist
rhetoric to new heights. Michael Bloomberg anti-gun front group Everytown for
Gun Safety has released misleading and routinely debunked
figures on the prevalence of school shootings in the U.S. A
New York Times columnist, wrote an item following the Houston shooting
titled, “This Is School in America Now,” calling such tragedies an “everyday
nightmare.” A reporter for the Washington Post authored an article with the
salacious and misleading headline “2018 has been deadlier for schoolchildren
than service members.” It wasn’t until the fifth paragraph that the Post
bothered to mention that there are 50 million public school students as
compared to 1.3 members of the military; meaning service in our armed forces
is in fact, contrary to the headline, 17 times deadlier. Barack Obama’s
Education Secretary Arne Duncan called for a school boycott, while contending
that “the threat of gun violence infects everyday life.”
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