Posted on 04/21/2025 5:45:05 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Professional sports are all about mom, apple pie and the flag, right? Baseball is our “national pastime,” football is our national religion, basketball is…well…marketing for athletic shoes? And hockey is an advertisement for restorative dentistry? Anyway, these leagues are supposed to be red, white and blue. Apart, that is, from some knee taking and refusing to stand for the National Anthem, buying into the whole “America is systemically racist” thing, supporting trans this and that, and OK, the Budweiser debacle, which is at least sort of associated with them.
Sigh. Sports used to be so simple. Players were expected to be clean-cut role models, to keep their mouths shut about politics and concentrate on playing the game and demonstrating the character building virtues of sportsmanship and teamwork. Seems like so long ago…
Graphic: X Screenshot
The National Hockey League (NHL), National Basketball Association (NBA), Major League Baseball (MLB), and numerous other professional sports leagues are asking Congress for more gun control via reauthorization of the Undetectable Firearms Act.
On February 10, 2024, Gun Owners of America (GOA) used an X post to call out NFL, NHL, MLB, MLS, NBA, and NASCAR, for sending the letter to Congress. They noted that collegiate giant NCAA signed the letter, too...
What the heck is the “Undetectable Firearms Act?” It was first introduced in 1988 as Glocks began to conquer the market. While their frames are made of polymer, some 80%+ of their weight is steel. There is no such thing as a “undetectable” gun made of plastic or some other material that can’t be detected by X-ray. Plastic is visible to X-rays as this image proves:
Graphic: armoryblog.com
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I agree.
Serfs
I do not watch sports when they go political!!
KABOOM!! Excellent point!
MMA is not on the list... hmmm.
Well, I WAS toying with the idea of going to a few major league baseball games starting this year, after nearly 30 years of boycotting the ball parks because of the ridiculous strike in 1995. I know professional sports are a very big business, both for the owners and the players, but they at least used to hide that fact behind a curtain of good behavior by the ball players and silence from the owners on every issue except those which directly affected their particular sport. Well, the players are (in too many cases, though certainly not all) a bunch of spoiled criminals, not showing any kind of good character for kids, and the owners are now pushing into politically sensitive areas. Guess what, they can’t do these things without pissing off a large part of their base of fans, or we will cut off the revenue streams. At this point, unless MLB withdraws its endorsement of this anti-American gun control crap, I will not be attending any games, nor buying any of their merchandise. MLB and these other sports have made it plain that they have contempt for those people who provide them with a very fine living, and now they should expect some pushback.
And their fans ...
A smurf serf?
Like most professional sports the CCP owns them. Bet you can name a dozen jocks who are obviously on their payroll.
I notice that none of these sports organizations have denounced the genocide of Chinese communism or of the forced slave labor making the basketball shoes that are so popular.
LOL!
They’re willing for the shilling.
Although “dirty and weak movement despite being accompanied with significant noise and froth” is a pretty good description.
In 2023 a tranny bar in Roanoke TX held a “kid friendly” drag show. Some ANQUEEFAs acted as security openly brandishing AR15s. Yet no concerns from the Karens at Moms Demand Action or soy boi David Hogg or any other gun grabbers. This one of countless examples of such hypocrisy automatically invalidates any gun control argument. How many gun grabbers are in love with Luigi Mangione? And how many are PO’ed that Pres Trump survived 2 assassination attempts?
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