Browsing All posts tagged under »Gun Control«

NYT: For GOP, ‘Individual Rights Trump…Societal Response, Regardless Of The Cost’

May 29, 2022 by

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By Clay Waters ~ After an 18-year-old killer massacred 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday, the New York Times geared up for another attempt at federal gun control, under the name of “gun safety,” even while admitting deep into its coverage that long-desired Democratic proposals would probably not […]

OH COME ON: CNBC Buries Elon Musk Quote Voicing Support For Gun Rights

May 28, 2022 by

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By Joseph Vazquez ~ CNBC twisted exclusive comments it received from Tesla CEO Elon Musk to make it seem like he’s a gun control activist but buried his overall support for the Second Amendment. Musk reportedly emailed a number of comments about guns to CNBC following the mass murder of children and teachers at an elementary school […]

New York Times Bemoans Right To Self-Defense Prevailed In Rittenhouse Trial

November 22, 2021 by

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By Clay Waters ~ The headline alongside Saturday’s front-page New York Times “news analysis,” “How the Acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse Shows the Burden for the Prosecution in Self-Defense Cases,”  demonstrated the Times joining the rest of the press in lamenting the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse of homicide charges during anti-police riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin in […]

Patriots’ Day: A Gun Rights Case Study

April 19, 2021 by

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MARK ALEXANDER   ~ The last time the government attempted to confiscate weapons from grassroots Americans Patriots… “The ultimate authority … resides in the people alone. … The advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation … forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than […]

New Zealand Police Move from the Carrot to the Stick

November 2, 2019 by

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SB is the Editor of The BFD a New Zealand based, Brash, Focused and Dedicated site for news, views and social commentary on issues locally and around the world, that matter to you. Excuse me one minute while I adjust my tinfoil hat but I don’t like one little bit where the whole “Gun-Buyback” is taking us. Which […]

CNN’s Chris Cillizza Concerned That Beto O’Rourke Did Republicans A Favor On Guns

September 16, 2019 by

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By P.J. Gladnick ~ Stop being so transparent about your desire to confiscate guns, Beto. All you do is help the Republicans. That was the concern of CNN’s Chris Cillizza on Friday in “Beto O’Rourke just did Republicans a massive favor on guns.” According to Cillizza, O’Rourke by announcing that he wants gun confiscation, is validating […]

March for Our Lives Cofounder Becomes Enlightened

September 23, 2018 by

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Cameron Kasky regrets leading an uninformed charge for gun control after Parkland. By Jordan Candler  ~  Gun controllers are tenacious. It’s exhausting at times reasoning with people who fall into the emotional pitfall of issues like gun control because, unfortunately, feelings recurrently transcend rationality. Impressionable youth areperpetually targeted with Democrat-forged exploits and manipulation in the tragic aftermath […]

Hollywood Hypocrisy On Guns

July 29, 2018 by

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By Brent Bozell and Tim Graham ~ In the long hot summer of television, gun control hasn’t been a big issue in the news media, which is not acceptable to its rabid cousins in the world of entertainment. For them, guns are the root of all evil, so let the story be told! Take for […]

Hollywood Calls For Gun Control?

May 23, 2018 by

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A Dry Bones Cartoon ~ Gun Control? What America needs is media self control! Read more by Yaakov Kirschen at Dry Bones . http://drybonesblog.blogspot.com/

Esquire Editor Wants To Ban All Guns

May 21, 2018 by

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By P.J. Gladnick ~ Liberals always seem to be declaring they only want bans or restrictions on certain types of guns. Added to that is their declaration of support for the Second Amendment. However, once in a while, one of those liberals lets their mask drop and makes their true intention known. Such a person […]

‘Your Prayers Don’t Work’; Hollywood Uses Shooting To Push Gun Control

May 19, 2018 by

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By Corinne Weaver ~ Sympathy and charity are the natural reactions to a tragedy. Using the deaths of innocent people as an immediate platform for political gain is inhuman. So, naturally, that’s the route Hollywood elitists chose to take just hours after the school shooting in Santa Fe that left 10 dead and several injured. […]

4 Takeaways From Trump’s NRA Speech

May 5, 2018 by

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By Fred Lucas ~ President Donald Trump spoke Friday to the nation’s largest gun rights advocacy group, but touched on numerous other issues apart from the Second Amendment and school safety. Trump addressed the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting in Dallas. The president’s nearly hour long remarks came less than three months after the Feb. […]

Americans Grapple With Evil Amid Decline In Religious Faith

April 2, 2018 by

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By Jennifer Marshall ~ Blaise Pascal once described a “God-shaped vacuum in the heart of each man.” But in modern-day America, few statements can raise eyebrows more swiftly than expressing faith in the transcendent. From Joy Behar mocking Vice President Mike Pence as mentally ill for believing that God guides him, to former President Barack […]

Silly Remake: Boston Globe’s Ty Burr Sees New ‘Mr. Smith’ In Anti-Gun ‘Ms. [Emma] Gonzalez’

April 1, 2018 by

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By Clay Waters ~ Boston Globe columnist and movie critic Ty Burr summoned the ghost of Frank Capra once more to project his liberal cinematic fantasies onto the American populace, and to save us all from the dark reality of President Trump. Burr thinks a gun-grabbing star was born in the form of a teenage […]

School Personnel In These Gun-Control States Are Trained In Firearms Use

March 26, 2018 by

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By Fred Lucas ~ Mark Zilnskas, a high school math teacher in Pennsylvania, took firearms and emergency-response training even though his state prohibits guns in school. Allowing teachers to have access to firearms at school became a national issue after President Donald Trump advocated it in response to the Feb. 14 massacre of 17 at […]

Train Teachers To Shoot Intruders

March 17, 2018 by

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By Tom McLaughlin ~ Five years ago I wrote a column titled: “Time to Arm Teachers.” That wasn’t a popular notion in 2013 but perhaps its time has come after the Florida shootings last week. The idea was pitched to me by men uniquely qualified to train those teachers willing to carry concealed weapons and […]

NY Times Sheds Journalistic Inquiry, Goes All In On Anti-Gun Children’s Crusade

March 15, 2018 by

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By Clay Waters ~ The New York Times has fully and unapologetically embraced the children’s crusade of gun control, in the aftermath of the Parkland school killings, and is now cheering on the promised nationwide school walkout today. The lead National section story for Wednesday, reported by Stephanie Saul and Anemona Hartocollis, was headlined “Too […]

White House Releases New Details On School Safety Agenda

March 13, 2018 by

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By Fred Lucas ~ President Donald Trump will push states to make it easier to seize weapons from people a court finds dangerous, hold federal agencies more accountable for background checks, and promote arming teachers. The White House’s formal release of a school safety agenda is an early step, as the president is also naming […]

Millennials Aren’t More Liberal On Gun Control Than Prior Generations, Polls Find

March 12, 2018 by

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By Kyle Perisic ~ Millennials aren’t more liberal on gun control than their parents or grandparents, according to recent polls. To the contrary, there’s some evidence that gun control is supported less by people 30 and younger now than previous generations. Gallup has been surveying adults under 30 for the past three years, and on […]

Industry Leaders Defend Violent Video Games In Meeting With Trump

March 9, 2018 by

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By Fred Lucas ~ President Donald Trump met Thursday with representatives of the video game industry to discuss the impact of violent games as he advocates ways to make schools safer. Among the president’s guests were Strauss Zelnick, chief executive officer of Rockstar Games; Pat Vance, president of Entertainment Software Rating Board; Mike Gallagher, president […]

Politico Writer Angry At Broward Sheriff For Hurting Liberal Anti-NRA Narrative

March 4, 2018 by

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By P.J. Gladnick ~ Michael Grunwald expressed his anger in Politico magazine at Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel. He is upset because Sheriff Israel’s inept leadership and boastful manner has diverted attention away from the anti-NRA narrative being promoted by the left and the mainstream media. Yes, instead of being primarily concerned about how the […]

Repealing Gun-Free School Zones Act Would Make Schools Safer, Kentucky Lawmaker Says

March 3, 2018 by

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By Rachel del Guidice ~ Schools would be better protected from mass shootings if federal legislation enacted in 1990 that bans guns from school zones is repealed, a Kentucky congressman says. “I have used the statistic on ‘Meet the Press’ Sunday that 98 percent of mass public shootings happen in gun-free zones, and I believe […]

The Culture War Of Gun Control

October 12, 2017 by

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By Daniel Greenfield ~ After Vegas, the gun control memes and myths come out. It doesn’t matter how wrong they are, they will echo in the mediasphere and then the talking points will leak into everyday conversations. “Guns are uniquely lethal.” Last year, a Muslim terrorist with a truck killed 86 people and wounded another […]

Half True?? WashPost ‘Fact Checker’ Goes Soft On Hillary, Tim Kaine On ‘Silencers’

October 5, 2017 by

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By Tim Graham ~ Glenn Kessler, the Washington Post “Fact Checker,”demonstrated again on Wednesday how elastic their “factual” standards are, depending on whose facts are being checked. Sen. Tim Kaine, Hillary’s 2016 running mate – and indirectly, Hillary herself – was evaluated for suggesting silencers inhibit police work against gun-toting criminals. Kaine said this to […]