David French at National Review writes that defending the Second Amendment takes courage. The following is excerpted from his article.
After every mass shooting, angry voices on the Left take the extraordinarily complex social, cultural, and political phenomenon of mass shootings and boil them down to “everyone who opposes our gun control plans are craven weakling in thrall to the NRA.”
Yesterday was no exception.
The presumption that Republican politicians care less about school shootings than they care about NRA campaign dollars or NRA votes plays very well on Twitter, but it’s detached from reality.
The fact is that courage is a cornerstone of the gun culture. Countless permit holders don’t just take the time to get carry licenses, they spend hours at the range. They take classes. They aspire to be brave.
The fact is that conservative politicians consistently advocate government action that they sincerely believe will make a positive difference.
Conservatives are keenly aware of the failings of existing gun laws and rightfully wonder why the Left has such confidence that more of the same will be more effective.
We don’t have good solutions to the problem of mass shootings. These crimes are sometimes planned months or years in advance, so the shooters have plenty of time to circumvent gun laws.
- Increased vigilance and governmental competence can stop some shooters.
- Armed civilians can stop others.
- Public education about warning signs can prevent a few more.
Each of these things has worked in the past. Each will work again.
But calling ideological opponents “cowards” has not worked and never will.
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The president cited 2 Kings 20:5 to comfort those in grief: “‘I have heard your prayer and seen your tears, I will heal you,’” he read.
Those characteristics, while they proved valuable against the comatose and drab Hillary, could be a disaster in an interview with Mueller. Mueller’s team is very experienced in these perjury and obstruction traps. They will not ask any questions they don’t already know the answer to, and the questions they ask will not be posed to obtain information. They have all the information. They will be probing not for information, but for mistakes.
Mayor Catherine Pugh announced a new office, to be called the Office of African American Male Engagement, which she says will begin operations on February 12. It is modeled after a similar venture in Philadelphia, where it is called the Office of Black Male Engagement.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau interrupted a woman asking him a question, at an event he held last week, telling her not to use the term ‘mankind’ but that she should use the ‘more inclusive’ term ‘peoplekind.
New Jersey Democrats are celebrating that a new governor from their own party has agreed to sign off on a bill to allow taxpayer dollars to be used for family planning grants to Planned Parenthood.
Some Stanford University students felt “unsafe and hurt” and were apparently brought to tears over satirical flyers defending ICE agents hung in the Kimball Hall dorm.
I DOUBT THE PRESIDENT CARES
Jimmy Kimmel made an appearance over the weekend with former Barack Obama speech writer, Jon Favreau, on a panel discussion for Favreau’s podcast “Pod Save America.” As reported by IJR, Favreau’s wife tweeted out that Jimmy Kimmel said, “It just so happens that almost every talk show host is a liberal and that’s because it requires a level of intelligence.”
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has “quietly” put an end to most work at the Office for Access to Justice (ATJ), one of the lesser initiatives of the Eric Holder era, according to a Thursday New York Times report
THEY’RE THIEVES…EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM
The Department of Veteran Affairs shot down a request to make its motto gender-neutral, according to a Friday report.
Barbieri dressed as a Roy Moore superfan and stood up and started screaming during a PRAYER SERVICE!
The U.S. Senate campaign of Judge Roy Moore is firing back at Jimmy Kimmel and his paid trickster Rich Barbieri—also known as “Jake Byrd”—for disrupting a worship service at which Moore spoke here on Wednesday night.
The move is aimed at taking Jose Inez Garcia Zarate away from California officials, after a jury in that state acquitted him Thursday of murder and manslaughter charges stemming from the Steinle killing.
“You are going to need a lot of this,” the officer, who was not named, said to Kevin Rojas, 21, while holding up a container of the lubricant during Rojas’ sentencing, the Florida Times-Union reported.
PAGING CAPTAIN BUZZKILL
A jury has found Jose Ines Garcia Zarate not guilty in the murder of Kate Steinle, the woman whose shooting death on a San Francisco pier in 2015 provoked an immigration debate.
Garcia Zarate showed little emotion when the verdict was read but hugged his attorneys. Public Defender Jeff Adachi, whose office represented Garcia Zarate, said his client was “extremely relieved.”
A coalition of Bay Area immigrant advocacy organizations — among them the California Immigrant Policy Center, the Asian Law Caucus and La Raza Centro Legal — extended their condolences to the Steinle family. During these difficult moments, the coalition said in a statement, the American people and their elected representatives face a choice:
Following the shocking verdict, Ann Coulter took to Twitter to share her disgust with the decision, saying Steinle’s death would have never occurred if a border wall had been constructed decades ago in order to stop illegal immigration in the country.
THEY DON’T UNDERSTAND WHY THESE IGNORANT REDNECKS DON’T JUST DO WHAT THEY’RE TOLD, LIKE THE LIBERAL LEMMINGS DO.
Alabama’s Christian conservatives see Roy Moore as their champion. He has battled federal judges and castigated liberals, big government, gun control, homosexuality, Muslims and anything else that doesn’t fit the evangelical mold.
Agent Rogelio Martinez and his partner were responding to “activity” while on patrol near Interstate 10 when both reported they had been injured and were in need of assistance, according to a statement from Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
I ONLY INCLUDED THIS SO I COULD STATE MY PERSONAL OPINION THAT THIS WORTHLESS PUNK WOULD BE MIXING PAINT AT HOME DEPOT IF IT WERE NOT FOR HIS LAST NAME. LIKEWISE RONAN FARROW, MIKA BREZWHATEVER, AND ANDERSON COOPER VANDERBILT.
NOTHING WILL COME OF THIS. LAWMAKERS EXEMPT THEMSELVES FROM THE LAWS THEY PASS FOR REGULAR PEOPLE FOR A REASON.
TO FEEL REMORSE ONE MUST HAVE A CONSCIENCE. DEMOCRATS DON’T CLAIM TO BE MORAL ANYWAY, SO THEY CAN’T BE HYPOCRITES.
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