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That thing the anti-gunners always accuse us gun activists of getting paid for?

So, when anti-gunners have a rally and a dozen or so people show up. It makes the news.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation:

Hunting, Shooting Gear Tops Golf in Sales

A few days ago, I noted that on a local radio show:

Throughout the whole bit (that I listened to, anyway), not one person called in in support of more gun control.

The gun banners say guns kill 30,000 per year. We know that over half those are suicides so we pro-gunners point that out. Those numbers, IIRC, come from the CDC. However, the Justice Department has different numbers that puts gun homicdes at about 12,000.

The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership is having a tough time:

Two investigations against pro-gun rights groups that were initiated by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence turned up no evidence of wrongdoing.

The FEC said that in both cases, one against the National Rifle Association and the other against the Gun Owners of America, it could find no evidence that either

Much like inventing assault weapons, the anti-gunners continue to invent new issues. The latest seems to be guns that are not black, which is funny since the ban on weapons that look like assault weapons mostly affected the black guns. And the media parrot the line. CNN discovers guns and paint; PSH ensues.

Over at Science Daily, comes the PSH:

In “Guys and Guns Amok: Domestic Terrorism and School Shootings from the Oklahoma City Bombing to the Virginia Tech Massacre” (Paradigm, 2008), UCLA professor of education and cultural critic Douglas Kellner argues that school shootings and other acts of mass violence embody a crisis of out-of-control gun culture and male rage, heightened by a glorif

A recurring theme here at the old blog is a simple question Why are anti-gunners so violent? I know the answer. Both Egregious Charles and Ride Fast know the answer too.

It’s quite simple, really. People who are either violent or think they can’t trust themselves assume you can’t either. So,

Seems Ben Fordney (a board member for an anti-gun group though neither he nor the paper he wrote mentioned that) is peddling some half-truths about how pro-gun folks disrupted some sort of hippie, tree-hugging anti-gun protest. He’s leads one to believe that armed men were having their way with these peace full hippies who were just trying to lie down and sing.