gun lobby

For months I've listened to (some) 60s feminists tell me I should vote with my vagina. I have heard the most absurd arguments that I am betraying the feminist movement by not voting for the first viable female nominee for President.

It's some of these feminists, however, who are doing the betraying.

In Pennsylvania over the weekend, courting the blue collar workers she claims Obama put down, she now says guns are a second amendment right. Talk about selling out her beliefs!

Some old translations:

lobby = pro gun

activists = anti-gun

anti-gun grassroots = astroturf

pro-gun grassroots = gun lobby

Now, Rustmeister has a new one.

Headline of the day:

N.Y. Times To Gun Owners: Be Reasonable You Crazy Freaks

Another fisking comes from Jacob who notes the NYT is blaming the gun lobby!

You’ll recall that gun control lackey Peter Hamm of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership, taking time out from threatening to shoot people and telling kids to drop out of school, said that Students For Concealed Carry On Campus was funded by the gun lobby.

Our old pal Jayne Lyn Stahl (remember her?) is back! She doesn’t seem to have learned her lesson and is once again blaming the gun lobby.

The Paper of making up the Record:

The political power of the gun lobby was formidably displayed this month when a majority of the nation’s lawmakers — 55 Senators and 250 House members — signed on to a legal brief urging the Supreme Court to strike down the District of Columbia’s ban on handguns.

Frank emails me a link to this piece on the psychopath who decided to kill his family. Obviously, a discussion of gun laws ensues:

Greg Shipley, a state police spokesman, said Maryland law requires handguns to be secured and stored out of the reach of a child under the age of 16. Failure to keep firearms away from children is a

Six years ago, Michigan relaxed its standards for obtaining a concealed carry permit. To the observant, the results are anything but shocking

Six years after new rules made it much easier to get a license to carry concealed weapons, the number of Michiganders legally packing heat has increased more than six-fold.