Category: Guns

by Dave Mindeman

This is how ridiculous the debate on gun laws has become....

Even al-Qaida gloats about what's possible under U.S. gun laws. In June 2011, a senior al-Qaida operative, Adam Gadahn, released a video message rallying people to take advantage of opportunities those laws provide. "America is absolutely awash with easily obtainable firearms," Gadahn says, explaining that "you can go down to a gun show at the local convention center" and buy a gun without a background check.

That message ends with a "what are you waiting for?"

In New Jersey, Gov. Christie is actually debating whether or not he should sign a legislative bill that blocks a person on the "no fly" list from purchasing a gun. He's just not sure....

In Nevada, a universal background check bill passed the legislature and Governor Brian Sandoval quietly vetoed it.

The bill, which narrowly passed in the state Senate in May and was approved by the Assembly in June, would have also required Nevada courts to send information about legal defendants who are found to be mentally ill to a national clearinghouse for all new gun purchases within five business days after the finding.

Gov. Sandoval decided that this "was an erosion of Nevadans Constitutional right to bear arms".

Al-Qaida laughs at us. It is almost too stupid for words.

If preventing gun sales to people on no-fly lists is too much of a restriction on gun rights, then we have lost all sense of reason.

We MUST start to seriously evaluate gun sales in this country. I have no problem with legal sales. No problem with owning and keeping a gun. And I agree that we do not need a national gun registry.

But if we cannot even look at any legislation with the word gun in it, unable to evaluate it on its merits, then we have a full impasse to gun safety in this country....and the numbers of people who pay an ultimate price for that will only grow.

Al-Qaida just laughs.

Category: Guns

by Dave Mindeman

Question. In regards to having this sign posted in front of your house... would you be more or less likely to be burglarized?



Answer is here .

According to a search warrant request filed recently in Hennepin County District Court by investigators with the FBI Safe Streets Violent Gang Task Force, members of the Loud Pack gang, ?target homes with American flags in the front yard because they believe these are homes or [sic] veterans and will have firearms inside them. Other items they take from these burglaries are sold on the street to various people to support the activates [sic] of the gang.?

These gangs don't "fear" the gunowners as the NRA would have you believe. Rather they become targets for easily obtaining guns for their own use.

More and more of the NRA arguments just don't hold water.

To paraphrase LaPierre -- Good guys with guns make easy targets for bad guys who want guns.

Category: Guns

by Dave Mindeman

OK, this is something that really ticks me off. I am sick and tired of this "victory" celebration at the NRA convention. I want to know in what reality universe you have to live in to count 46 out of 100 as a majority winning vote?

The gun safety votes that occurred in the Senate were not "defeated", they were prevented from moving forward by a trick. An anomaly of the Senate rules. A genuine piece of archaic nonsense. And what is worse, this was accomplished by essentially "buying" votes with money and coercion. This is democracy?

That is what the NRA is "celebrating".

A majority of the American people want universal background checks. A majority of sportsman want background checks. And a majority of the Senate wants background checks.

Still we are watching Wayne LaPierre ranting about successfully standing their ground - minority ground at that - but thwarting the will of the majority.

That is not a position to arrogantly boast about. It is a tenuous position. A position that can be overturned with a minimum of change.

I do not care for arrogance. I do not care for distortion of the facts. I do not care for gun worship. I do not care for money laundered political will.

The NRA can celebrate this political farce of a victory, but they have awakened a sleeping majority giant.

And the days of lies and distortion are numbered.