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Guns 1: Can we challenge the NRA?
Yes. How? Like this: Michael Waldman gave us the essence of How To, when he quoted Abraham Lincoln as Lincoln debated slavery: Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed. Consequently he who … Continue reading
Posted in The Facts of Life
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Affordable Care Act, citizen action, Daily News, equal rights, gun control, gun rights, gun violence, Kirsten Gillibrand, Michael Waldman, Neil Gorsuch, New York Times, the NRA
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Guns: “How the NRA Rewrote the Second Amendment”
Source: How the NRA Rewrote the Second Amendment – POLITICO Magazine A fascinating, beautifully written 2014 piece by Michael Waldman, the President of the Brennan Center, reproduced today given what happened in Vegas. When I say, “beautifully written,” I mean … Continue reading
Posted in Koch Bros Final Solution to Democracy, Law, suits and order, The Facts of Life
Tagged " George Mason University, "liberatarianism" and gun rights, Antonin Scalia, Brennan Center, DC v Heller, Democracy in Chains, gun control, gun nuts are racist, Jack Rakove, Michael Waldman, Nancy MacLean, NRA, Patrick Henry and gun rights, Politico, Second Amendment, the War Between the States, Thomas Jefferson and gun rights, Volokh Conspiracy
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“Ban the Open Carry of Firearms”
Back in 2012, when I wrote the One Gun One Child Act (never passed because it never made it into Congress and ergo never past the NRA which probably never read it because HYSTERIA/VIOLENCE, blah blah blah), I did not … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, The Facts of Life
Tagged Charlottesville, Everytown for Gun Safety, First Amendment, gun control, John Feinblatt, neo-Nazis, one gun one child act, open carry laws, Second Amendment, well regulated militia
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