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The Antiwar Comic: Cops or Soldiers

Has the militarization of the police gone too far?

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‘You’d think if a Congresswoman got shot in the head,’ that would change Congress’ views on guns

Appearing on Meet the Press this morning, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg expressed bewilderment at the many lawmakers in Washington who continue sabotage existing gun laws:

BLOOMBERG: “You’d think that if a congresswoman got shot in the head, that would have changed Congress’ views. I can tell you how to change it, just get Congress to come with me to the hospital when I’ve got tell tell somebody that their son or daughter, their spouse, their parent is not going to come home again. This past, this week, even though the murder rate in New York is so much lower than almost every big city, we still had a cop shot last week with a gun that somebody had even though the federal laws prohibited that person from having a gun.

“You know, the federal laws say you can’t get a gun if you have a drug problem, psychiatric problems, criminal record or [if you are] a minor. And yet Congress doesn’t give moneys to make sure we can have a background check. They have too many loopholes. The background databases aren’t up to date. Private sector sales of guns are something like 40 percent and they don’t do background checks, I don’t know who has to get killed for people to start saying ‘wait a second, this is enough.”

If anything, the picture in Congress is even bleaker than Bloomberg suggests. In 2006, the NRA successfully lobbied Congress to make the head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) a Senate-confirmed position. Since then, the Senate has been unable to confirm anyone to serve as the chief enforcer of firearms laws due to the combination of gun lobbying and the nearly-unbreakable filibuster. President Obama’s nominee was blocked because he opposes allowing civilians to purchase a weapon capable of punching a baseball-sized hole in 2.5 inches of bulletproof glass.

Not content simply to erect barriers to enforcing federal firearms laws, much of Congress also wants to strip states of their power to enforce reasonable gun regulations. The House recently passed the “National Right To Carry Reciprocity Act,” which forces nearly every state to honor concealed carry licenses issued by the states with the laxest licensing rules.

Half of North Carolina concealed carry permit holders with felony convictions have been allowed to keep their permits, and Florida issued 1,700 concealed carry permits to people with “criminal histories, arrest warrants, domestic violence injunctions and misdemeanor convictions for gun-related crimes.” Under this NRA-sponsored bill, all of these permit holders who be allowed to carry concealed firearms in 49 of the 50 states.

Nor are federal lawmakers the only ones looking for new and more creative ways to arm the nation. Several states are pushing efforts to force colleges to allow concealed firearms on campus — because clearly what America needs are rooms full of fraternity members packing heat right after they each consumed a case of Milwaukee’s Best. Not to be outdone, Colorado lawmakers are pushing a bill to allow firearms in elementary schools.

As conservative Justice Antonin Scalia explained in D.C. v. Heller, respecting the Second Amendment does not mean filling every building with firearms, or eliminating concealed carry rules, or placing guns in the hands of convicted felons or the mentally ill. Sadly, far too many lawmakers have let the NRA convince them that the myth of the Second Amendment far exceeds the reality.

By Ian Millhiser on Feb 5, 2012 at 12:35 pmAppearing on Meet the Press this morning, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg expressed... more

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Monterey Park Police Shooting

Police do not disarm suspect, but shoot him 10 times after tazering him

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Teen mom shot and killed knife-wielding burgular on New Year's Eve

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Who Does War Help?

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What Kind of Knucklehead DOES Something Like This?

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Paramilitary Forces Now Rule United States

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Documents: ATF used "Fast and Furious" to make the case for gun regulations

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Black Friday 2011 Set Gun Sales Record

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Blame: Samual L. Jackson on gun violence

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Hunter mistakes woman for moose

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NRA donates guns to grade-schoolers | The Skunk

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Shotgun Survival Story - Ross Capicchioni - The Berrics (VIDEO)

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Guns Don't Kill People, Liberals Kill People?

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Ultimate Bug Out Emergency Bag (VIDEO)

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Watergate Times Three

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Comic Book Mafia: The Boss Must Decide

Do creators have rights in the criminal world of comics? Tony D and CB find out.

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7 Facts About Gadaffi’s Beautiful Virgin Killing Machines ( Article)

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Why the gun industry secretly loves Obama: Sales of firearms have surged since he took office

The bottom line: Since Obama took office, Ruger’s stock has climbed more than 400 percent, outperforming gold.

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I own between two and three dozen firearms. Fully a quarter of them are Rugers. I consider them to be some of the most overengineered, best buys in modern firearms, and they are made in the US, by American workers.
I haven't bought anything new since the President took office, and not much in the way of ammo either, because prices have been so artificially inflated. I do lust after Ruger's new SR-556 (I want one in 6.8 to be my "ranch rifle"), but I have a kid in preschool, and just had to help my old lady buy the VW wagon she had to have, so I'm still making do with the 181-xx Mini-14 that Ruger built when it was Bill Ruger's company, back in 1980, and that I bought as a "pre-ban" rifle when I was 20, in 1998, during the '93 AWB. After the POTUS was elected, I could hardly go into a gun store without getting into an argument with some jackass who was telling everyone to buy every "black rifle" in the place, because "Obama was gonna ban them." I can't tell you how many times I tried to explain that the POTUS doesn't write the laws, and that the COTUS was never in a million years gonna pass anything like an AWB, because it was suicide. Generally, this was recieved with a look of vauge distrust, and confusion that I didn't just automatically nod, and join in the Obama-bashing. WTF was wrong with me? Anyway, there is a saying about the length of the relationship between a fool and his money, isn't there?

Ammo prices have been atrocious too. Part if this is to be attributed to the fact that there are two wars going on, and so there is no "military surplus" ammo. I was told that in 2009 Lake City was turning out 4 million rounds of 5.56mm a day and not keeping up with what was being shot up in Iraq and Afghanistan. As metal prices have risen, the materials used to manufacture ammo have become more expensive, particularly the copper that was for so long that most common jacketing material. Now we're seeing nylon and other materials being substituted, and in many cases, performing better, since their cost is justified because copper is just as costly.

There was also a really great article in the Atlantic last month about the history of the NRA and the private gun-ownership movement in the US, and its origins, which might surprise a lot of folks. Catch that if you can, too.

I know that current is a left-leaning site, and I am definitely a left leaning thinker, but I see no reason to pick daisies while people who obviously have ill will for folk like myself arm themselves to the teeth. I was born in Huntsville, Alabama, and grew up in the rural county between Huntsville, and Tennesse. I owed $1 on a Glock 26 on my twenty-first birthday, and had a CCW two weeks later. When I was in my early twenties, my dentist's office was next door to a women's clinic, and so I had to walk past picketing nutcases every six months at least, just to get my teeth cleaned. By the time he moved to a different office building, my dentist didn't even mention it when he came in and my holstered gun was lying on the floor beside the chair on top of whatever book I had been reading in the waiting room (You don't want to be strapped up while you're in the dentist's chair, and he's using your torso for a tray table).

Anyhow, sorry for the wandering monlouge, talk amongst yourselves.The bottom line: Since Obama took office, Ruger’s stock has climbed more than... more

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~WOMEN with WEAPONS~ ( will make you happy )

Women With Weapons ; a MOST important LIST. - - - -BANG !- - - - LINK - - -... more

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