PA Bill Number: HB335
Title: In inchoate crimes, further providing for prohibited offensive weapons.
Description: In inchoate crimes, further providing for prohibited offensive weapons. ...
Last Action: Removed from table
Last Action Date: May 1, 2024
Gun Control Advocates Pissing in the Wind? :: 07/06/2015
Never take your gun rights for granted. Always repel politicians’ aspirations to degrade and destroy your right to keep and bear arms. Remember that millions of Americans live in states that restrict the type of guns they can buy, force them to register their guns and ban them from carrying guns.
At the same time, take satisfaction in the fact that the enemies of firearms freedom are claiming victory in the face of tremendous losses, putting their delusionary aspirations in high relief. Enabled, of course, by the anti-gun mainstream media. Here’s a perfect example from usnews.com under the unintentionally ironic headline A Tipping Point on Guns . . .
Just after the horrific slaughter of nine African-American churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, President Barack Obama openly doubted the latest shooting spree would change things in a nation awash in guns – and with lawmakers so controlled by National Rifle Association that the massacre of 20 suburban first-graders in a Connecticut elementary school more than two years ago couldn’t get them to act.
Meaningful reform of gun laws, he told reporters just after the Charleston shooting, “is not going to happen in this Congress.”
While likely true, Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, thinks the reform the president seeks is closer than any time since Adam Lanza burst into the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and opened fire that tragic December day. If you take the long view, he says, real change is unmistakably on the horizon – even if the bloodshed in Charleston makes it harder for Obama and others to see.
Right. Anti-gun politicians can’t see that their defeat is actually a sign of impending success. Because guns. Seriously, that’s about the extent of the arguments for gun control rising forwarded by the usual suspects (Dan Gross of the Brady Campaign and Lad Everitt of the Campaign to Stop Gun Violence). Without any contrary opinions from gun rights supporters, of course.
In fact, the U.S. News and World Report piece will warm the cockles of the hearts of gun rights advocates everywhere, as it chronicles the pro-gun political landscape from the anti-gun point-of-view. Like this:
“I wouldn’t argue we have totally loosened the [NRA’s] grip,” he says, “but we have made progress. The NRA is not going to fold their tent and go away. The NRA is an enormously powerful and influential organization. This is going to be a slog. We’re not going to win the battle overnight.”
It’s equally as clear that the NRA isn’t feeling the threat: with the exception of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, all of the announced Republican presidential candidates have NRA legislative ratings of A-plus, the organization’s highest rating, or A-minus – its second-highest rating. LaPierre delivered a fire-and-brimstone speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February, and 11 of the GOP candidates showed up at the NRA’s national convention in April.
At the same time, a December 2014 Pew Research Center poll had bad news for the gun-control movement: for the first time, a majority of respondents favored gun rights over gun control, 52 percent to 49 percent.
The rest of the article follows the same format: gun rights are ascendent, gun control is in decline, but that’s alright. Because the anti-gunners say so (in their own special way). Again, eternal vigilance is the price of freedom. And there’s a lot of work yet to be done in so-called “slave states.” But the dark clouds of Sandy Hook have swept across the horizon, leaving many Americans better able to exercise their natural, civil and Constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms. At least until the next time . . .
http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2015/07/robert-farago/gun-control-advocates-pissing-in-the-wind/
