[clintonh8r]

Anybody who agitates or votes against his absolute right to defend himself is a fool.

[umgud]

Not enough court challenges against state laws. We’re challenging a lot of them here in CA and making some progress, but the whole nation needs more. NY’s latest and the earliest (Sulivan) sure don’t seem constitutional to me.

[Billthedrill]

I don't know whether it's a good or bad thing, but the persistent focus on the Gun Lobby as a boogieman blurs the magnitude of popular support for the right to own firearms. In the case of the prohibitionists it's easy to see why this focus - it isn't quite a straw man, but it's close - is advantageous: the implication is that outside the malign influence of the Gun Lobby Americans would naturally throw the nasty things into the ocean and break out into a chorus of We Are The World. That simply isn't the case. And frankly, the NRA is far more powerful in reputation than in fact.

Two of the author's "predictions" are simply observations of fact: first, that the fight is, and has been for some time, focused back at state level and the gun prohibitionists are losing badly; second, that firearms ownership demographics were never quite as lily-white as The Narrative claimed and are diversifying further not simply as a function of advertisement but as a function of the broadening conviction that the state cannot or will not protect the citizens in question. The right of self-protection gains a great deal of credence in the face of the necessity of self-protection.

For state-obsessed progressives and other totalitarians this isn't a good development. For the rest of us, it is, and if that "rest" includes anarchists, black separatists, revolutionaries, and other common allies of the Left, then all one can say is that politics makes strange bedfellows, and that maybe the gun prohibitionists will recognize a losing battle when it's staring them in the face. Or not. People who believe their own propaganda tend to be very hard to reach.

[Ken H]

Anyone taking bets on gun sales in the bedroom communities around Baltimore?

[jimbobfoster]

With the advent of the inexpensive automated milling machine (Ghost Gunner), gun control may be a meaningless exercise. Combined with 3D printing, producing a quality firearm is within reach of the masses.

[Smokin' Joe]

With the gun debate focused on state-level politics, high-profile shootings will exacerbate the division between these two Americas: in restrictive states, a demand for more laws; in permissive states, a demand for more guns.

So, are more high profile shootings planned?

If the perps are Muslims, will the event be characterized as terrorism or will that aspect be shoved under the carpet (again)?

[SuperLuminal]

Just another wtf article.

[trebb]

"Sociologist" Jennifer Carlson needs to go back to school. Funny how she can take her wish to take guns away and turn it into a fantasy world where human nature will make it happen.

Another sociologist made the statement:

“There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation”

Jenny would have never made it in his classes.

[Starstruck]

On July 1st there will be a lot more “Please and thank you” in the State of Kansas as we become a more polite Constitutional conceal carry state.