Tag: Keep and bear arms
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Republicans Are What Happens When Tribalism Goes Nuclear
Americans are going to the polls – at a mid-term – in record numbers. That includes a lot more of the youth vote than has ever voted before. It also includes a lot more women. They registered to vote – many for the first time – because the Supreme Court took away their rights! And, […]
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It’s Time To Demand All Guns Be Insured
Dear Gun Rights Crazies: While, like Charlton Heston, you may clutch your firearms in your hands, insisting your hands will have to be cold and dead before those firearms will be taken from them, the simple fact is no one is coming for your guns. It’s your wallets we’re drawing a bead on. Inside your […]
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The Second Amendment Emperor Is Naked: He Doesn’t “OWN” Anything!
It’s not a hard ask. All I want is for someone to point to the word “own” anywhere in the Second Amendment. I’ve been putting this idea out there now for a couple of weeks and the only argument that comes back – other than I’m an idiot (for pointing out a true thing) – […]
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Antonin Scalia Ended Our Gun Debate: There Is No Right To Individual Gun Ownership
Antonin Scalia doesn’t often get credit for being the “Daddy Of Gun Control”, but, in spite of himself, he is. In writing for the 5-4 majority in Heller, Scalia argued that one didn’t have to be part of any militia in order to keep and bear arms. Individuals could “keep and bear arms” in accordance […]
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Who Are Gun Rights People Soooo Afraid Of? Answer: The Rest Of Us
What must run through the mind of a grown man who feels compelled to strap a rifle to his body before he feels safe enough to exit his house. And, if he has to run into Walmart to pick up some milk and lard? Or his Viagra prescription? That’s going to require wearing the biggest, […]
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“You Can’t Get There From Here” Is Such A “White” Way To Think…
Every summer, from the time I was six until I was twelve, I went to a sleepaway camp in Naples, Maine called “Camp Skylemar“. I don’t think there’s a Skylemar memory that isn’t happy. I was independent from the womb onward, so, the distance from camp to home (I grew up in Baltimore) didn’t concern […]
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America’s Gun Laws Have Been Written BY White People FOR White People And To PROTECT White People
I repeat: America’s gun laws have always been written BY white people FOR white people, the whole point being to protect WHITE people (from everyone else). In fact, the history of America’s gun laws – after the Second Amendment was written (and the gaming of the Second Amendment began) – is the history of white […]
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Texas + Zero Gun Laws = Death, Death & More Death
Perversely, one of the advantages of America’s students having to study from home during the pandemic was that it radically reduced the number of school shootings. There was plenty of gun violence outside those empty schools to make up for it though — a whole other problem — but, thankfully, school shootings were zero for […]
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America’s Gun Laws Have Always Been Racist — By Design
America and Americans love guns like no other place on earth. That’s not a coincidence. On the surface, we argue that gun rights are personal freedoms but that’s not really what gun rights are about. The Constitution’s framers framed gun rights not as an absolute (“Hey, have all the guns ya want, ya crazy Americans!– […]