John Paul Stevens argues for repealing the 2nd Amendment. I’ve been saying for years that if the gun people refuse to compromise, eventually there will be nothing left to do but repeal the 2nd Amendment. Well, folks, now I’m starting to see people talk about it. I don’t see it happening soon, but continued obstinance on the part of gun rights people will lead to the 2nd being amended or repealed eventually. And that will be on them.
The NRA admits if accepts foreign money. It does not admit to funneling that money into anyone’s election campaign.
“The impulse to live luxuriously on taxpayer dollars has become a pattern for this administration. ” See “A Cabinet of Conspicuous Corruption.”
Repealing amendments, like passing them, is a long haul, but Stevens is absolutely correct that Heller was an abomination of a decision and should be relitigated. A random idiot with a gun is NOT “a well-regulated militiaâ€, nor, typically, bearing those arms to fend off British invaders and defend the country.
Come to think of it, I might feel comfortable with public carry if I knew they'd all been vetted by a legitimate and competent authority, to be that well-regulated militia, like in Israel, where the gun harm rate is a fraction that of the US.
Unfortunately gun nuts tell me that I should feel comfortable knowing that each one of them 'feels' more legitimate and competent than any authority, just because… freedom ya know.
They aren’t getting ready for a British invasion, but going after those runaway slaves is another matter. Looks like local police are leading the way…local idiots I mean.
Putin, I hold responsible for downing of Dutch airliner with 298 aboard over eastern Ukraine
How much money and when? Then look for a corresponding media buy right after that date in that amount.
What a deal that "National" association has. Not only can it milk the gun fetish types for donations, the gun makers for ad money, but also market the congress people it owns and puppets to foreign governments or just international political groups. The Kirkland article is most alarming and distressing.
I recently heard a representative who has close NRA connections field a reporters query about the money she received from the NRA. Her response was that she was prohibited by law from coordinating her campaign with any money or ads of that type. The grey area of allowing NRA ads using possibly laundered foreign money, was not skirting other laws and was acceptable behavior in her judgement I assume.
Tom_b's comment is so true it bears repetition… "A random idiot with a gun is NOT “a well-regulated militia”…"
re: A Cabinet of Conspicuous Corruption, Frank Rich expresses it well in The Hidden Logic of Trump’s Staff Exodus
“Trump’s top appointees, exemplified by the Cabinet, are in their jobs for only three reasons: to demolish the federal government; to spend taxpayers’ money on luxury travel and office refurbishing; and to toady to the president in public and obey his policy whims in private.
…Respectable new recruits are hard to find now that it’s no longer a matter of debate that to work for Trump is to destroy one’s reputation…
…We now know definitively that Trump doesn’t want adults in the room; he wants malleable dolts (Ben Carson, Steve Mnuchin, Betsy DeVos) who are happy to join him in his Oval Office playpen, where he can make all the rules and hoard the toys…
Here's this from Charles Pierce….
"If Robert Mueller puts any more pressure on Paul Manafort, he’s liable to turn Manafort into a tiny diamond."
Yes, and he's starting with a lump of coal!
Re Putin go to far.
So far we have absolutely no evidence the Russians were involved. All we have is Theresa May hysterically yelling, "The Russians did it, the Russians did it", and a bunch of gullible fools accepting it at face value.
May is the weakest PM in many years and anything to distract from parlamenary scandels and the Brexit fiasco is handy.
The Russians may have done it, but when I hear these accusations a little voice whispers in my ear "aluminum tubes, yellow cake".
Or a quick translation–put up or shut up.
jrkrideau No, son, the nerve agent used was of Russian origin, and there’s long history of Russia pulling the same trick with other ex-spies. And I don’t allow Russian trolls on this blog. Bye.