Tag: Gun lobby

• The Emperor Is Naked And So’s His Gun

  California experienced at least two mass shootings yesterday. One in Monterey Park (near LA), the other in Half Moon Bay, not far from San Francisco. Both, it appears, were angry men using firearms (instead of therapy) to resolve their emotional issues. That’s a pretty regular part of many (if not most) mass shooting incidents – […]

  A L Katz

  January 24, 2023

  Culture, Gun Control, Rule of Law, SCOTUS, Second Amendment

  Antonin Scalia, Constitution, Contract English, Emperor is naked, Gun lobby, Half Moon Bay, Heller Decision, James Madison, Keep or bear arms, Monterey Park, Second Amendment, Therapy

• Wait- We Mandate Auto Insurance Because Cars Can Kill People But We DON’T Mandate Insurance For Guns – Which Are DESIGNED To Kill?

  Fact: if every gun owner had to insure every gun in their possession (and the penalties for NOT insuring were crushingly astronomical), America would not have a gun problem today. The gun lobby has so bamboozled America that we’ve forgotten what guns are and what they aren’t. Forget what nonsense anyone uses to explain their […]

  A L Katz

  January 26, 2022

  Corruption, Culture, Gun Control, Magical Thinking, Rule of Law, Second Amendment

  Adam Lanza, Auto insurance, Death Machine, Gun insurance, Gun lobby, Gun manufacturers, Michigan Gun Law, Nancy Lanza, NRA, Sandy Hook, Second Amendment, Well Regulated Militia

• “Responsible Gun Ownership” Is A Myth

  It seems the Robert Alan Long — the Atlanta shooter who claims his sex addiction, not his racism, motivated his killing spree — purchased the weapon he used to murder eight people, six of them Asian women, MERE HOURS BEFORE using it to commit murder. I’m not arguing the second amendment here. It exists. What […]

  A L Katz

  February 15, 2021

  Election 2020, Gun Control, Racism, Republicanism, Second Amendment, Slavery, The Nature of Evil

  All Men Are Created Equal, Gun Control, Gun lobby, Gun Safety, Manifest destiny, Nancy Lanza, NRA, Responsible Gun Ownership, Sandy Hook, Second Amendment, The First Ghetto

• “Responsible Gun Ownership” Is A Myth

  Let me burp up a cliche first: “the road to hell is paved with good intentions”. I believe you, 99.99% of gun owners (I’m trying to be super generous here): you want to own and handle your firearm responsibly. The last thing on earth you want is an accident or a tragedy happening because of […]

  A L Katz

  February 19, 2020

  Back It Up Or It’s Bullshit, Gun Control, Live Bullshit Free, Magical Thinking, Magical Thinking, Political Commentary, Second Amendment

  Adam Lanza, Gun Control, Gun lobby, Gun ownership, Nancy Lanza, NRA, Responsible Gun Ownership, Sandy Hook, Second Amendment, Well Regulated Militia

• A Thought Experiment: What If We “COULD” Sue Gun Manufacturers & The NRA?

  Buy literally any other product in America and it causes harm — you can sue the product’s manufacturer because of the harm that product caused. The one exception is GUNS. For real. You cannot sue a gun manufacturer because their gun hurt someone. Or even something (and we know how much gun-loving conservatives value property […]

  A L Katz

  November 14, 2019

  American Exceptionalism, Election 2016, Gun Control, Live Bullshit Free, Political Commentary, Republicanism, Suicide Prevention

  Gun Control, Gun lobby, NRA, Responsible Gun Ownership, Santa Clarita Shooting, Second Amendment, Well Regulated Militia

• The Gun Lobby Is Holding The Second Amendment Hostage

  How big a pile of bodies does there need to be? I always wonder when another of these terrible tragedies — and we just had two (count em – TWO!) mass shootings within 12 hours (El Paso and Dayton, OH with 29 people dead so far) — how would one of the people resisting gun […]

  A L Katz

  August 4, 2019

  Back It Up Or It’s Bullshit, Gun Control, Political Commentary, Second Amendment

  Columbine, Dayton, El Paso Shooting, Gun Control, Gun lobby, NRA, Parkland, Sandy Hook, Second Amendment, US Constitution