Archive for the 'Gun Control' Category

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The themes of grief sometimes bubble over into righteous rage. In 2018, after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in Parkland, Fla., Leckey began working on the song “Can’t Pray to Me.” In the bluesy, boisterous track, Leckey sings from the perspective of Mother Mary. “I am the mother of all children / I am the lady keeping watch,” she sings, imagining how Mary might react to gun violence in the U.S. today. “You can’t pray to me and keep your guns.”

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Instead, Hell Gate is “not about being queer in the church — it just is queerness in the church,” she said. “There are so many ways to be Catholic. And being a queer person is inherently creative. God delights in our creativity.”

That last paragraph is a lie. Mary isn’t the person she described, and I’m not Roman Catholic anyway and I only pray to the Father through Jesus by the power of the Holy Spirit.

So in a short missive, she missed on all cylinders. I’ll keep my guns, thank you.

Sheesh. How does society produce imbeciles like this?

Nice try, Grace. Come back after you’ve studied a bit and we’ll talk.

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Citigroup on Tuesday ended a seven-year-old policy restricting how it provides banking services to firearm manufacturers, sellers and resellers.

The bank launched the policy in March 2018 after a teenage gunman killed 17 people and injured more than a dozen in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on Feb. 14 that year.

Citi said at the time that it would require clients to “adhere to these best practices: (1) they don’t sell firearms to someone who hasn’t passed a background check, (2) they restrict the sale of firearms for individuals under 21 years of age, and (3) they don’t sell bump stocks or high-capacity magazines.”

The bank’s policy applied only to its business clients, ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500-sized companies. It did not restrict how Citi’s personal banking customers used their cards. Citi says it provides banking services to more than 19,000 companies globally.

“As a society, we all know that something needs to change. And as a company, we feel we must do our part,” Citigroup Executive Vice President of Enterprise Services and Public Affairs Ed Skyler said in 2018.

But Skyler says things have changed. “The policy was intended to promote the adoption of best sales practices as prudent risk management and didn’t address the manufacturing of firearms,” he wrote Tuesday in a blog post announcing that Citi “will no longer have a specific policy as it relates to firearms.”

Operation choke point, it was called. And it’s illegal because it interferes with interstate commerce.

When the government creates a banking system and essentially forces everyone to use it for business, and then encourages that system to exclude certain actors, it’s also immoral.

In today’s orders list.

A right trampled and ignored – even laughed at.

@dcodrea @Stambo2A @2Aupdates @GunOwners @gunpolicy @2ARenaissance

SCOTUS orders list today. Snope v. Brown denied certiorari.

Cowards and traitors to the constitution, except for Thomas.

— CaptainsJournal (@BrutusMaximus50) June 2, 2025

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I’m the only gun owning liberal in my general friend/acquaintance group and the proposal to drop the $200 stamp for cans has some of them seriously worked up about how Republicans are making mass shootings easier this way, making quietly killing someone more affordable, etc. The usual.

It doesn’t seem to get through that they’re pretty much never used in crimes and that if that was your goal, you’d be far better off just 3D printing/garage building a cheap illegal one. Seriously. There are well over a million cans in this country and they’re involved in like 40+ crimes a year. And I’m not even sure that’s limited to legal ones.

There’s so much bad shit in this bill, but removing a tax on things that are seen as nothing more than safety devices in other countries is not one of them and the fixation on it is really frustrating.

I guess it just reminds me how effectively a huge number of left leaning voters have been lied to about guns and how they work (as well as gun owners, for that matter) and it’s hard to know how to start undoing that damage. How do I effectively explain that I just wanna giggle when my gun goes whump instead of boom sometimes when that thing is clearly built to spec for kid killing?

Here’s the first thing you do. You explain to them that suppressors are safety equipment, as important as any other safety equipment such as hard hats or safety glasses. And if you need to, you cite the relevant parts of the federal code where OSHA is concerned about hearing loss. You explain to them that this has to do with the proper function of the human body.

Next, you don’t use words like giggle. You insist that “shall not be infringed means shall not be infringed.” Period.

Finally, you get yourself a new set of friends. Your friends are controllers and you shouldn’t be around them.

Silencer Central has spent an enormous about of money lobby on behalf of keeping suppressors as NFA items. The members of the house ways and means committee is trying as hard as they can to keep from allowing you to purchase suppressors without telling the FedGod and filling out paperwork.

They all hate you and a burning hatred.

@RepJasonSmith @RepDavidKustoff @Silencercentral

I predict that unless the full hearing protection act is passed, Rep Smith and Rep Kustoff will hear about it soon enough at election time. I also predict that Silencer Central goes bankrupt for lobbying against the act.

— CaptainsJournal (@BrutusMaximus50) May 16, 2025

They want us to grovel for crumbs that fall from the master's table like slaves. Silencer Cental has spent an enormous amount of money lobbying them to keep suppressors in the NFA. It's an unrighteous governing and business model. Presumably, Silencer Central sent the…

— CaptainsJournal (@BrutusMaximus50) May 16, 2025

Presumably Silencer Central sent them on junkets and sent their families out for nice dinners. All in order to infringe on the 2A.

— CaptainsJournal (@BrutusMaximus50) May 15, 2025

Presumably Silencer Central sent them on junkets and sent their families out for nice dinners. All in order to infringe on the 2A.

— CaptainsJournal (@BrutusMaximus50) May 15, 2025

To all the democrat congresscritters who oppose the hearing protection act, I say, "Blow it out of your ass." And I'm ashamed of the republicans who won't say that to you as well.

Democrats Become Unhinged Over Hearing Protection Act https://t.co/Gzy5GSlQYh via @YouTube

— CaptainsJournal (@BrutusMaximus50) May 14, 2025

David Kustoff is a gun controller and statist. He wants to throw some crumbs your way and hope you’re satisfied.

Suppressors are hearing protection. They're as important as safety glasses or hard hats. But you want us to tell the FedGov about our firearms by registering suppressors. I cannot find words to express how repulsed I am at you.

— CaptainsJournal (@BrutusMaximus50) May 13, 2025

When you don’t have enough declared enemies, your “allies” suddenly find it convenient to oppose you.  Any time liberty is about to be affirmed and expanded, you can count on the republicans to panic.

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The gun industry could face civil damages for the misuse of firearms in limited  circumstances in Connecticut under product liability legislation passed by the House and sent to the Senate on Wednesday.

Passage of House Bill 7042 came on a largely party-line vote of 100 to 46 in the House, where Democrats have a 102-49 majority. Five Democrats were opposed and five Republicans in favor.

Republican opponents decried the bill as unfairly holding gun makers and sellers responsible for the actions of purchasers, while the Democratic sponsor described it as a reasonable effort to make an industry be more attentive to public safety.

The state legislation follows a narrow path left open by a federal law that generally protects the gun industry from damages resulting from the criminal or unlawful misuse of firearms or ammunition.

Exceptions to the federal Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act include cases where harms occurred after a manufacturer or seller knowingly violated a law applicable to the sale or marketing of guns.

Nine states have passed similar laws, said Rep. Steve Stafstrom, D-Bridgeport, the lead sponsor of the bill.

He said the same exception was used by families of nine Sandy Hook Elementary School families to sue Remington over its marketing of the AR-15 style rifle used to kill 20 students and six educators in 2012. They agreed to a $73 million settlement in 2022.

The U.S. Supreme Court had refused to hear an appeal of a Connecticut’s court decision that allowed the families to pursue the case.

Yep, they invoked Sandy Hook as I figured they would. They got what they wanted. They bankrupted Remington and sent chills through the gun manufacturing industry (although Remington didn’t exactly help their case by producing crap). That there is such a thing as the protection of lawful commerce in firearms act doesn’t matter to legislators in Connecticut. Nor does it matter to the SCOTUS, apparently, who doesn’t care enough about the U.S. Congress to honor laws that have been made.

By the way, if you’re a gun manufacturer who still calls Connecticut home, I have one question. Why?

“Many of them will be lies.” Not all of them. How many? How many are true? What did you do, David? What crimes did you commit, or what malfeasance are you guilty of? What are you trying to cover up by changing the subject and throwing money around to primary incumbents?

— CaptainsJournal (@BrutusMaximus50) April 16, 2025

Ha! David and I had the same thoughts. Great minds think alike I suppose!