WashPost Op-Ed: NRA's Demise Assured As U.S. Becomes Less White
Adam Winkler, a liberal law professor writing in The Washington Post, argued that changing demographics in America will doom the National Rifle Association as the white majority shrinks and minorities grow in population. Oddly enough, however, he left out how polling data shows more and more African-Americans are becoming generally pro-gun rights and skeptical of gun control.
Lefty Pundit: We Need the Gun-Control Equivalent of Obamacare
Liberals, hinted Waldman in a Monday American Prospect column, need to remember that the legislative journey of a thousand miles begins with a few steps. Waldman acknowledged that even if “modest gun control” measures such as expanded background checks were to pass, the U.S. would “still have more gun deaths than any other industrialized country,” but that’d be better than the status quo.…
When Liberals Tell the Truth about their Gun Agenda
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It’s always refreshing to hear liberals tell the truth – and never more so than when the subject is gun control. The standard liberal rhetoric includes “common sense” gun laws and safety measures, tinker around with magazine capacity and stuff. They’re really quite reasonable, you see. Nobody wants to take guns away. That’s just crazy talk from right-wingers clinging to their guns and Bibles. Or…
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CBS Tees Up Andy Parker to Slam NRA ‘Cowards’ ‘Blocking’ Gun Control
Promising to air “all sides” in their ongoing series “Voices Against Violence,” Monday’s CBS Evening News featured its second installment with gun control activist Andy Parker, who used the occasion to blast the “cowards” at the National Rifle Association (NRA) for “blocking...sensible gun legislation.”
Liberal Actress Laments Abortion Being 'Demonized' in the U.S.
Outspoken abortion rights activist and Hollywood actress Amy Brenneman was interviewed by the Huffington Post’s HuffPost Live last Thursday, where she complained that abortion is being “demonized” in the United States. In an interview that discussed her role in the HBO series, The Leftovers, Brenneman discussed her motivation for joining Ms. magazine’s 2006 petition for supporting the pro-choice…
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Press Mostly Ignores Hillary's Praise of Australia's Gun Confiscation
The establishment press is mostly ignoring what Hillary Clinton said about gun control at a New Hampshire town hall meeting on Friday morning. Searches on "Clinton Australia" (not in quotes), attempting to find her statement that a massive, coercive gun "buyback" such as that seen in the Land Down Under almost 20 years ago "would be worth considering doing it on the national level," indicate that…
Libtalker Thom Hartmann on Guns: If Confronted By Armed Intruder, Run!
Through the vitriol of another tiresome debate on gun control -- or "common sense gun safety legislation" as liberals have taken to robotically mouthing instead -- it is refreshing when a left winger blurts out his or her actual, underlying view on the issue. Such was the case earlier this week with Thom Hartmann, who hosts one of the top-rated programs on that lifeless moonscape known as…
Salon Writer: To Get a Gun, You Should Have to Take a Bullet
D. Watkins has written at Salon.com for about 1-1/2 years.
In his previous columns, he has shown that he fits right in with the "white privilege and oppression of blacks explains everything" crowd. Friday (HT Twitchy), he went into uncharted territory, seriously suggesting that no American should be able to own a gun until they "know the pain of getting hit" (bolds are mine):
CNN's Sciutto Frets Israelis Are Shooting 'Unarmed Protesters'
On Friday's Wolf show on CNN, during an interview with Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer, substitute host Jim Sciutto cited a quote from State Department Spokesman John Kirby accusing Israeli security forces of using "excessive force" against Palestinians as he charged that Israelis have been using "live fire" to shoot at "unarmed protesters."
Salon: Ted Cruz Encourages Domestic Extremism and Terrorism
On Friday, Salon featured two articles taking fire to presidential candidate Ted Cruz. Authored by Heather Digby Parton, one piece was titled, “Paranoid Rise of the Militant Right: Inside the Growing Threat of Domestic Extremism” and examined the Department of Justice’s new focus on domestic extremists, and the author zeroed in on right-wing extremism. The second was written by Simon Maloy, who…
Actress Julianne Moore Launches 'Gun Safety' Campaign
Actress Julianne Moore has launched a campaign she insists is aimed at raising gun-safety awareness and enacting enhanced background checks for those seeking to purchase firearms.
On October 13, People magazine reported that Moore started her group Everytown Creative Council -- which consists of members of the "creative community" and is affiliated with gun-rights opponent Michael Bloomberg’s…
CNN's Blitzer Frets Israelis Carrying Guns to Defend from Terrorism
As he interviewed Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld on Wednesday's The Situation Room, CNN host Wolf Blitzer repeatedly showed concerns that Israelis may be doing too much to defend themselves amid a spate of stabbings against Israeli Jews by Palestinians in Jerusalem.
All five questions posed to the police spokesman had the premise that Israelis are going too far in fending off the…
Mike Barnicle: ‘Nut-Boy’ Ben Carson ‘Gives New Meaning to Crazy’
For nearly three decades, Ben Carson was the head of pediatric neurosurgery at one of the world’s best hospitals. To MSNBC panelist Barnicle, however, Carson is a “political nut-boy” who reminds him of a patient at a certain type of hospital.
In a Monday Daily Beast column, Barnicle opined that Carson is “out there on the fringe talking nonsense in a soft, nonthreatening manner that is quite…
NYT's Stolberg Shamelessly Shills for Gun Control on Sunday Front Page
Pushing every available emotional button, the New York Times and reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg used the anger and grief of two fathers to advocate for gun control with front-page placement in Sunday's edition: "Guns Took His Daughter; Anger Fuels His Crusade." Stolberg never even mentioned the Second Amendment while lamenting Virginia's "hostile" attitude toward gun control, and portrayed gun-…
