Posted on 08/06/2009 11:47:32 PM PDT by JohnRLott
The Senate confirmed Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court yesterday. Gun-control groups are crowing that the 68-31 vote was a major defeat for the National Rifle Association, which actively opposed the nomination. The gun controllers are reading too much into this vote.
The NRA scored Judge Sotomayor's confirmation and ran ads to defeat her, but the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence counted eight NRA-endorsed senators who spurned the powerful gun-rights group to support her nomination. Some Democratic senators, such as Virginia's Mark R. Warner, even took to lecturing the NRA about being hijacked by extremists.
The Sotomayor vote and the successful filibuster of state reciprocity for right-to-carry laws are being hailed as gun-control victories. The two votes supposedly show that politicians "can vote against the NRA and still win, and win in gun-friendly areas," as Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign, phrased it.
But a new Zogby poll suggests that things are a little more complicated. . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Lots of ‘Rats and RINOs in the Congress are going to be history after next fall.
Why wait. Rise up patriots
I control my guns, period, end of story.
Win what? The last time I checked, there haven't been any elections of representatives since the nomination vote or the filibuster.
Mark
“Win what? The last time I checked, there haven’t been any elections of representatives since the nomination vote or the filibuster.”
Politicians assume we’ll forget, as always.
The NRA won’t forget. They’re watching the “Blue Dogs” too.
They’re hoping we’ll all fall asleep and forget, but that’s not going to happen with that blaring Fauxbama alarm clock going off in our ears.
The 74 million gun owners who are too lazy and cheap to join a gun group gave their blessings to this.
Exactly, more whistling past the graveyard I think. Alexander, my senator who voted for The Wise Latino, needs to find a new career.
I think these days it’s over 100,000,000 gun owners.
The USA TODAY story has some impressive numbers.
Unfortunately, I don’t believe so. There are even those right here on FR who hate the NRA.
So what did the NRA do? Drop everyone that voted for this woman down a letter and a half grade? Anything?
They’ll never “come for” our guns the way most people envision it. Most likely, they’ll stop by your workplace, question you and taze you...or just taze you...and arrest you. Then when your family comes to bail you out, they execute a search warrant on the vacant home. Kill the dog, take the guns, and get home by suppertime. Like taking candy from babies, it doesn’t require a swat team.
Illegal, you say? Unconstitutional? Why sure. So is taking away your right to keep and bear arms.
Molon labe is Greek for “I’ll resist...tomorrow.”
That will work for a day or two before the willing thugs are whittled down in numbers. After all, they have homes to go back to as well.
Perhaps the eagerness of those so anxious to trample on the rest of us should give pause and consider what they too have to lose.
We are not an ethnic group which has been isolated and disarmed before being rounded up and sent away. We are a nation of mixed peoples who will not go quietly. Take heed.
They never learn their history, do they?
Even up in Canada there has been massive noncompliance with the gun registry and a booming black market. Even up here they’re nervous about putting the hammer all the way down. The situation is uglier than it looks. The Indians certainly aren’t giving up theirs.
burial tubes
“They’re hoping we’ll all fall asleep and forget, but that’s not going to happen with that blaring Fauxbama alarm clock going off in our ears.”
Now.... how to get all the free-loading gun owners to join? ;)
If every legal gun owner joined that voting block, gun control would be impossible to pass. Too many gun owners many firearms as “sporting” implements, not liberty in wood and steel.
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