Anti-Gun Narrative is Not Convincing The Public

It is an important part of the anti-gun narrative is the meme that guns in the home do not make you safer.  The Brady Campaign constantly emphasizes this in their "gun safety" campaign.  But there is evidence indicating that Americans are not buying the notion that guns are not the answer to home security.

A recent poll,commissioned by the Washington Post, posed the question

"Do you think having a gun in the house makes it a safer place to be or a more dangerous place to be?"

The results to that question show that 51% of respondents think guns make the home a safer place, 29% of respondents think guns make the home more dangerous place, and 16% think that "it depends".  More surprising is that the trend is for an increasing number of people think that guns make the home safer. The anti-gun advocates are not making their case.

This, and other evidence, such as the increasing numbers of gun sales and increasing numbers of concealed carry permits, and the increasing numbers of women gun owners are indicative of a cultural change in this country, a shift that is in favor of gun rights, including the right to bear  arms in public.

When you read about and watch gun control advocates tearing their hair and gnashing their teeth bout how the NRA derailed gun control in the Senate, reflect on where the power that the NRA comes from: their 4 million plus members, and more indirectly, the many millions of non-member gun owners.

Ammunition Tax Bill in Suspense

The Los Angeles Times has the good news: the bill in the California state legislature has been placed in the "suspense file".  This means that it will not be brought to the floor for a vote.  But this does not mean that the bill is dead.  It is not unknown for bills in suspense to be pulled out and voted upon.

Good news, but we are not out of the woods yet.

Dianne Feinstein - Full of Crap as Usual

Dianne Feinstein, gun-grabber-in-chief, made the following wild claim in this article:

“The time has come, America, to step up and ban these weapons. The other very important part of this bill is to ban large capacity ammunition feeding devices, those that hold more than 10 rounds. We have federal regulations and state laws that prohibit hunting ducks with more than three rounds. And yet it’s legal to hunt humans with 15-round, 30-round, even 150-round magazines. Limiting magazine capacity is critical because it is when a criminal, a drug dealer, a deranged individual has to pause to change magazines and reload that the police or brave bystanders have the opportunity to take that individual down.”

No, Senator Feinstein, it is not legal to hunt human beings with any size magazine, not even a single  shot weapon.  Hunting humans is called homicide, and it is illegal in every state.  Is this statement a mistake, or is it attempted FUD to sway the low information voter?

Hillary Clinton is a Liar

I read this article today by Deb Saunders, and I have this reaction:

Does anyone not remember that it was Hillary who said that the Clintons were the victims of a "vast right-wing conspiracy" when it was really the case that Bill Clintons cock was regularly in Monica Lewinskys mouth?

SHE. IS. A. LIAR.

Boy Did I Blow The Election!

I have not posted in almost two months, so disappointed was I that President Obama was re-elected to office. But I anticipate a heavier schedule with the new Congress, and all of the shenanigans that they will be getting up to in the near future, so I have to comment on my previous post.

I blew it.  Totally.

And the cruel part of it is that I was truly surprised at the outcome.  I can offer no explanation other than I must have been too deeply embedded in the conservative echo chamber.  I will endevour to keep a more realistic view going forward, but before I do, I would like to make one comment on a remarkable paragraph from this article by the Boston Globe:

"Exit polls told a stunning story. The majority of voters preferred Romney’s visions, values, and leadership. But he had clearly failed to address the problem that Romney’s own family worried about from the start. Obama beat Romney by an astonishing 81 to 18 percent margin on the question of which candidate “cares about people like me.”"

This election was unlike any other that I can remember because the majority of voters voted for a man who they believed was inferior on vision, values, and leadership.  The majority of voters selected Obama because they think that he "cares about people like me".

Incredible.

I'll put it on record right here: President Obama does not really care about anyone, unless they are useful in maintaining his position and power.  Get ready my fellow citizens, because President Obama has a second term, which means that we will see Obamacare fully implemented, increased spending, increased regulations on business, increased spending at the Federal and state levels to support all of the programs that Obama, a dyed-in-the-wool big government guy, supports.  These will result in continued high unemployment and a sputtering economy.

Elections have consequences, and the American people, who voted against their economic best interests in favor of the guy that "cares" will have cause to regret it for the next four years.

Vote Today - CA Polls Open Til 8 PM

I have already voted. Here are some highlights:

Romney/Ryan - YES

Emkin (U.S. Senate) - YES

Prop 30 - NO

Prop 32 - YES: I read the text of the bill, and saw no exemptions for "big oil" or Wall Street. That sounded like FUD, and if I was a union member and disagreed with the political stance of the union management, I would hate paycheck deductions for political purposes.

Prop 34 - NO - It will probably pass anyway, but many of these guys really deserve to die.

Prop 36 - YES

Prop 37 - NO. I will not vote for anymore "boutique" regulations in California. Costs are ALWAYS passed down to the consumer.

Prop 38 - NO

Prop 40 - NO. The Democrats sandbagged the redistricting commissions, and this is the last chance to get some fairness in the district boundaries.  Probably a futile effort.

Presidential Race Prediction:

Romney/Ryan will win by 300+ EC and 5%+ popular vote.  Many polls have been over sampling Democrats, but I don't believe that the energy is there to push Obama over the top.  

Time Magazine - How The Gun Won

I just found this article at Time Magazine.

I posted this comment in response:

I find it interesting that the article fails to mention the increased number of states that have liberalized concealed carry laws.  There are now about 7.7 million people licensed to carry concealed weapons in the U.S., according to this GAO report:

http://www.gao.gov/assets/600/592552.pdf

I am willing to bet that many of them are NOT NRA members, but the media is obsessed with the "fanatical" NRA as the primary reason that Congress has failed to enact "common sense" gun control laws.

I think that this number, 7.7 million, is reflective of a new set of values becoming more common in America, the core of which is the willingness of the citizen to take responsibility for their personal protection, and insisting on having the best means to that end.  I think that these millions of quiet concealed weapon licensees are enforcing these new values at the ballot box in ways that the Main Stream Media have yet to acknowledge or comprehend.

The gun won because increasing numbers of Americans are rejecting the old "common sense" that guns are always bad, the cause of violence instead of the means used to inflict violence, and that guns on the hands of citizens have no social value.

The anti-gun groups know this, which is why these groups have dwindling membership, financial resources, and influence.  But it will perhaps take the demise of the Brady Campaign to make the MSM realize it.

It can't happen soon enough

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2120498,00.html#ixzz2B5FFUeoI

 It never ceases to amaze me that the MSM only sees the NRA as the prime mover of pro-gun legislation, but fails to see how much more popular gun ownership and shooting sports have become over the last ten years.  Perhaps they are being willfully ignorant?  If the population at large is more accepting of guns in society, it kind of blows the liberal anti-gun narrative into tiny bits.