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The NRA-ILA weighed in on last Wednesday's Judiciary Committee "work" on this bill:

Farcical “Assault Weapons” Ban Mark-up Showed Contempt for Facts, Law, and Dignity
https://www.nraila.org/articles/2022072 ... nd-dignity

The NRA-ILA wrote: Anyone wanting a case study of why a stunning 93% of Americans lack confidence in Congress need only have witnessed last Wednesday’s Judiciary Committee mark-up of H.R. 1808, the Assault Weapons Ban of 2021, which was voted out of the committee along partisan lines.

The House Judiciary Committee is charged with, among other things, “protecting Constitutional freedoms and civil liberties.” Wednesday’s proceedings, however, were a grotesque and ironic perversion of that mandate, as one anti-gun congressperson after another argued in favor of the largest gun ban in U.S. history, which would include the AR-15, the most popular rifle being sold in America today. In doing so, they ignored facts, history, and constitutional law. They also beclowned themselves with behavior that was beneath the dignity of their office, even given how far it has fallen in public esteem.

That's right there is my word-of-the-day: beclowned.

The NRA-ILA wrote: The ill-informed nature of the bill’s proponents was probably best captured when Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI), the bill’s author, attempted to explain how pistol stabilizing braces can be used to turn a firearm into an “automatic weapon.” The absurdness of this claim cannot be overstated, but it fully captures the vigorous ignorance many anti-gun lawmakers have about the very subject matter they claim to be qualified to regulate.

And vigorous ignorance ain't a bad runner-up for phrase-of-the-day.

Approach the video below with caution. Not only will you want to throw something at your screen after about 90 seconds of Jerry Nadler, but the thing runs almost 12 hours. Thank goodness, YouTube = we can jump ahead with a click.

K.Mooneyham wrote: ↑Mon Jul 25, 2022 11:23 am

jb2012 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 25, 2022 9:45 am Jerry Nadler nuked this one in a recent committee debate by saying that they are “banning weapons in common use”. The three most recent supreme court cases involving the second amendment explicitly state that weapons in common use may not be restricted. It won’t pass the Senate, and even if it were, would be struck down by a higher court if not the supreme court, further solidifying the 2nd amendment. They are only shooting themselves in the foot with this one.

I think they know that things aren't going to turn out so well for them this fall, and they are trying to shore up their base of voters with stunts like these. This way, they can go their fundraisers and say "We tried to push through some 'common sense gun safety laws' but the evil Republicans stopped us. We need you to help us stay in office and fight for this stuff". That kind of political garbage is stock-in-trade for the Democrat Party.

And, hopefully, that will start to backfire on them. See Paladin's post today noting that new firearm purchases are up a massive 44% for Blacks and African Americans, and up 40% for Hispanics. What the demwits have automatically assumed as being cornerstones of their "base" is shifting...because people aren't stupid. You start throwing rampant crime and lack of prosecution in their faces, and it gets personal real fast.

The dems are even trying to imply that the disproportionate, by percentage of population, number of firearm homicides among Blacks is somehow due to burgeoning numbers of invisible white supremacists committing hate crimes. But guess when the number of law-abiding Blacks buying guns started to spike dramatically?

The Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), a nonprofit organization that tracks conflict across the globe, documented 12,045 incidents of U.S. civil unrest from May 26, 2020, to September 5, 2020; 633 of those are coded as riots, included 47 fatalities, and occurred in 47 states causing well over $1.2 billion damage in pre-Biden-inflation dollars (probably equivalent to $1.32 billion now, less than just two years later). For those incidents where there is data about the participants' affiliation, BLM activists were involved in 95% of the riots.

It's about crime and lawlessness. It isn't about CRT or woke, radical left-wing politics. If someone hurts a family member or loots and burns down your business, you don't care if they're green or purple.

Remember Bill Clinton campaigning with the slogan, "It's the economy, stupid." Well, the far left have presented conservatives a plethora of campaign points that I hope they use well. "It's the terrible economy with inflation at a 40-year high; it's rampant crime with felons being released on low or no PR bond; it's open borders with tracked encounters (not counting unknowns and got-aways) for the past 9 months (1,746,119) exceeding the previous 12 months combined (the 12-month fiscal year 2020 totaled 458,088 by comparison); it's faulty management of international relations from Afghanistan to Ukraine to Saudi Arabia to Iran to China to North Korea; it's a literal war on U.S. energy that is steering us toward a 1970s-like energy crisis; and it's a feckless White House having the lowest approval ratings imaginable with almost 60% of all Americans specifically disapproving of the president; almost a third of his own party's registered voters think he sucks."

I think we should having something to work with there in the midterms.