The officials told TPM that Mayors Against Illegal Guns is eying five other states where they think they could make their mark if they invest resources. Nothing is set in stone, but they hope there might be room to move despite this week’s loss.

via Bloomberg Eyes Five More Fronts In The Gun Control Battle | TPMDC.

Oregon, Minnesota, New Mexico, Nevada and Washington are now in the crosshairs. It should not surprise you that Michael “Hynkel” Bloomberg took it very personal and now wants not to double-down but to quintuple-down on his anti-gun carpetbagging crusade.

If anything, he’ll more dangerous now. His term as Mayor of NYC ends on Dec 31st and he’ll have all the time in the world to come after us… yes, us: We The People who had the audacity of slapping him on the face in Colorado, that make fun of his Yankee Vulture Bus, that have managed to stop Congress in passing legislation against the Second Amendment and blocked many state legislatures in doing the same crap he pulled in Colorado. How dare we did that to the Conqueror and Savior of the State of New York?

Bloomberg is ego-driven which is not bad on itself, but it can be downright dangerous if he goes monomaniac which would not surprise me after New Year’s. I would not put past him to break the law to achieve new laws…as he has done with flunkies across gun shows and gun shops around the country.

And I wouldn’t be surprised if eventually he ends up prosecuted under RICO or becomes the gun-grabber’s version of Bernie Madoff, but not before he may hurt us enough to make us bleed.

I’d say we have a couple of months vacation and then stuff will get real once again. Expect the build up and new attempts on the anniversary of the Sandy Hook Massacre.

What? You expected a quiet Christmas? Fat chance.

A Texas man’s pregnant wife made it clear she was against having a firearm in their house. However, the husband insisted she learn how to use a gun to protect herself just in case. In fact, it was just a few months ago that he took her out to teach her the basics.
On Saturday, she was extremely thankful to have the protection of a gun on her side.

via Texas Man’s Pregnant Wife Never Wanted to Have a Gun in the House – But Now She’s Sure Glad He Insisted | TheBlaze.com.

But Shannon Watts and her Brood are certain that this future Mom would have been safer if she offered lemonade instead of bullets.

Unless you can pitch a lemon at 1,100 fps, you better rely on proven technology to keep your loved ones alive.

When elected representatives so willfully choose to ignore the voice of the people, no matter what the policy is or where they fall on the ideological spectrum, the people will unite and demand to be heard.

via What really drove Colorado recall vote — hint: it wasn’t ‘voter suppression’ | Fox News.

Got this via the Michael Blane blog. A darn good analysis and a warning to both parties.

And I just saw this video courtesy of Tom Gresham:

“My Towhall, that I have, that I am in control of..”

This cannot stand… we must help this poor fella look like a human being again.

That is Jay Grazio from MArooned on day 13 of Kilted to Kick Cancer, a month-long fundraiser where men that should know better wear kilts in order to help the fight against Prostate Cancer.

Please drop by Jay’s Donation Page and contribute whatever you can. Besides sexy prizes, Jay has promised to ditch the Kilt and wear Yoga Pants instead.

Lets bring decency back to the Interwebs! 🙂 🙂 😀

Another indirect Hat Tip to the Cult Coalition to Stop Gun Rights Violence:

An article by David Sirota published in Salon shows how destructive The Narrative can be. The Narrative precludes from logical thinking, from analytical observation and the proper decision-making process. Mr. Sirota not only failed to understand what happened in Colorado, but he demands that the strategies that failed before must be repeated and strategies that were discarded decades ago be brought back.

That article, and many others like it, came after the gun lobby mounted successful recall campaigns against two state legislators who, in the wake of mass shootings, voted for universal background checks, limits on the capacity of bullet magazines and restrictions on domestic abusers owning firearms.

The “gun lobby” that mounted the recall were a trio of regular people who were fed up and incensed when the elected people refused even to hear, much less discuss, their complaints about the laws that they shoved through the legislature. In his mind, Sirota cannot accept that some Regular Joes took on the establishment with such force and shook what was supposed to be an impregnable stance. He cannot process that a measly $540,000 beat $3 million and the best Dem strategists out there.

He claims that The Joes (Gun Lobby) won through demagoguery (which insinuates that the voters themselves were too stupid to notice) but failed to even notice how it was demagoguery and political hubris that brought the recall on the heads of Giron and Morse. They failed to understand that they were not elected to be royalty and govern people but to listen and serve them.

One thing Sirota got right, but again he fails to understand because of The Narrative

Inevitably, the gun lobby will now claim the Colorado elections prove that politicians should back off even minimal gun regulations. But the elections say the opposite — they say that if the gun lobby is going to continue turning a policy debate into a cultural one, then an equally powerful cultural argument needs to be made in response.

Culture, or in our case Gun Culture. The Narrative establishes that Gun Culture is nothing more than Confederate Flag-waving, Trailer Park-dwelling, beer-chugging white ignorant folks rendering some sort of idolatry status to dangerous pieces of metal. There is nothing funnier than watching some smug jackass trying to pass himself as a superior being at a social gathering just because he finds gun people. They usually start with some stupid comment like the old compensating for the size of your genitalia” and pretty much have to shut up after that when the gunnies take over and launch themselves into arcane discussions ranging from the Federalist papers to metallurgy, engineering, laws, ballistics and the exact number of patents that JMB had under his name and what they covered. Bonus points for the history of ancient semi auto pistols including all the Colt 03 variants & copies (I think Tam has the trophy on this one.)

The Narrative is an intellectual anchor that will keep them foundered and repeating the same mistakes. I do not mind sharing information and dispelling propaganda, but I do so to people who will either come to us or will move to the neutral zone and not become a danger coming voting times.

As for the truly committed (or in great need of being committed) the best thing to do is keep challenging them, make them furious till they open their mouth and empty their hate & lies on us. That stuff is ammunition for our cause and I’ll take all I can have.

So Dear God: Please keep them stupid.Amen.

A Senate panel on Thursday approved a measure defining a journalist, which had been an obstacle to broader media shield legislation designed to protect reporters and the news media from having to reveal their sources.

via Senate Panel OKs Measure Defining a Journalist.

Why do I have the feeling this one is gonna be a really scary/dangerous thing for the First Amendment?

If anyone still has the fantasy that you’ll always be treated as a hero after a clean shoot, this case teaches us the reality. It’s often an ordeal of lies, misunderstandings, and false accusations…and, as seen here, your family will go through that ordeal with you.

via Massad Ayoob » Blog Archive » ZIMMERMAN VERDICT PART 19: LESSONS.

I have been meaning to get all the links of Massad’s posts about the Zimmerman trial in one big post of mine, but he keeps writing and I must wait. But I thought that paragraph right there should be something constantly in your mind.

Avoidance, Deterrence & De-Escalation…. for as long as it is humanly and safely possible.