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NRA-ILA GRASSROOTS
VOLUME 25, NUMBER 22
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This week the press
gleefully reported the anti-gun pronouncements of a trio of diverse special
interest groups. The Washington Post announced, “Frustrated [American Medical
Association] adopts sweeping policies to cut gun violence.” In a separate
piece, addressing statements by the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF),
the Post blared “Police chiefs plot new strategies against gun violence and
mass shootings.” Politico reported, “Conference of Mayors passes resolutions
favoring gun control.” In other breaking news, water is wet and the sun rises
in the East.
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Gun control
advocates can now boast of a new group of allies joining their dubious
coalition: witches. It kind of makes sense. We all know that gun control
is based mainly on magical thinking. Its advocates, after all, ask us to
believe we’re just a few more “commonsense safety measures” away from a world
in which evil people who are otherwise determined to kill others refrain from
doing so for fear they might violate a gun control law somewhere along the
way.
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It is by no means a
closely held secret that Rolling Stone magazine has aggressively promoted an
anti-gun agenda for many decades. It started in 1980, with the
death of John Lennon at the hands of Mark David Chapman, when the magazine’s
founder, Jann Wenner, decided he wanted to “make something good come out of
(the murder).” Wenner started the Foundation on Violence in
America, which was apparently designed to promote a public-relations campaign
aimed at convincing Americans to accept restrictions on handguns.
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The United Kingdom’s
legions of miserable scolds are at it again. A mere two weeks after
admonishing an English national team soccer player for a firearm
tattoo, the anti-gun whiners have found a new target. This time the killjoys
have deemed it their station to lecture the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on
proper parenting. The sad controversy erupted on June 10, as Kate Middleton,
Prince George, and his sister Princess Charlotte watched Prince William
participate in the Maserati Royal Charity Polo Trophy in Gloucestershire.
During the match, four-year-old George was pictured playing in the
grass with an orange-tipped toy revolver and a toy knife. According to an
account from Gloucestershire Live, the revolver was a squirt gun the
future king won as a carnival prize.
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The Supreme Court
struck down a Minnesota law that forbade voters from wearing “political
insignias” at polling places after the law was challenged by a voter who was
told he must remove or cover his Tea Party shirt. It is beyond a doubt
that the state's application of the law unfairly discriminated against the
free speech of NRA members. The lawyer for the state himself told the court
that, under the law, a shirt with the slogan “Parkland Strong” would be
permissible, while an NRA shirt would not. Ironically, while a shirt
displaying the text of the First Amendment would be allowed, a Second
Amendment shirt, which “could be viewed as political” would not.
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