“We live in the South where hunting and fishing is more prevalent,” Amanda Hanig tells kticradion.com. “It’s our [Second] Amendment right to bear arms and to have a weapon. I don’t think anyone is arguing that . . . but if you’re going as a soldier as a 7-year-old, you don’t necessarily need to have an AK47 strapped to your back.” And so the couple wants parents to ban their kids from wearing “violent and bloody” costumes on Halloween.
“We’re not trying to tell people not to own guns,” Hanig said. “We’re just trying to say consider not sending your kids out with violence. I realize that it’s all in fun, but if we teach kids that guns are fun, what are we teaching them?”
We’re teaching them…that guns are fun? Which, let’s face it folks, they are, when used safely and responsibly.
As of this writing, one person is interested in Goodies Not Guns Facebook invite with zero going. This despite the inevitable media coverage, complete with support from the usual suspects (who are kicking themselves that their high-priced PR consultants didn’t come up with the idea first) . . .
Goodies Not Guns has already received support from Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, a school district in North Carolina with 12,000 students.
“Thank you to the parents in our community who created @goodiesnotguns to promote safe costumes without weapons,” the district tweeted Thursday . . .
The Brady Campaign to End Gun Violence, a national non-profit organization that advocates gun control, also tweeted its support. “Shout out to local gun violence prevention advocates for working to promote safety in their communities,” they wrote Friday.
Gun violence prevention advocates or politically correct killjoys fighting another losing battle in the culture war against guns? We report, you deride.
The NRA was never relevant to the American populace.
The American people don’t even like the NRA.
The American People-people who subsidize your meaningless, forgettable, shit life, and get routinely shot for it.
The NRA is and will always be a fascistic terror group. They don’t care about your or this country at all. Money is their god. And you gun-nuts are nothing but it’s mindless puppets that eat every bit of crap that comes out of their ass.
I still don;t even see the rest of the world turning into something out of a bad dystopia novel.
Europe, Canada, Japan and Australia still are doing fine without groups like the NRA terrorizing them.
If the NRA or any other gun reich group ever cared about the American people. They would disband permanently and allow America to progress to it’s full potential of being a free, prosperous national.
Actually, the rest of the world IS turning into a dystopian novel. London now has a higher violent crime rate than New York City. Western Europe, already beginning to fall into ruin due to lax immigration policy and weak defense spending, will be facing Iraq level sectarian conflict in less than a few years. Mexico and half of Latin America are becoming failed states. Many Eastern European countries will soon be absorbed by Russia. Australia will face a Muslim insurgency, and china, already is, in its western provinces.
I have a magic tool that I use to take down my S&W by depressing the sear release — it’s called my pinkie! It’s a miracle!! My pinkie can press the sear release lever!!!
When my pinkie isn’t handy, I use a different magic tool. It’s called a pencil! A pencil!!!
Don’t pull the trigger.
An anti-gun law is like herpes zoster. You never really get rid of it.
Dudley and his “organization” make me want to scream.
In other news, I do desperately hope for legislative change and vote accordingly. Denver is the worst part of the state. At least Boulder *looks* nice….
The best costume I ever saw on a “trick or treat” kid was a full blown cowboy outfit, complete with two six shooters and double holsters. They were obviously cap guns (this was long ago), and I seem to remember a bunch of the other children with various forms of fake swords, spears, bows/arrows and long guns. Nobody was traumatized and nobody got hurt.
But Halloween is no longer as much fun either, and I’m not sure it is safe any longer – even if they go out with armed adults. A lot of places now forbid children to go door to door, offering school and community parties instead. And when those are held at a school, you can bet your boots that no fake “weapons” will be tolerated. Hmmm, I wonder if “cat woman” will have to surrender her fake claws at the door…
All kids should dress as Satan.
Aw come on. If they all dress like her, they’ll be subjected to far too many Bill jokes.
I remember one Halloween in my upper-middle class, mostly white suburb. Every boy in the Halloween parade was dressed as GI Joe and had a toy M16. They were very respectful of NJ gun laws. No one had a mag of over 15 rounds,
none had a flash hider and no one had a “shoulder thing that goes up”.
I was actually discussing this with a guy at Dreamhack Denver this past weekend (shockingly high 2A support there btw).
All those laws did was cost the state a ton of money. For example: The mag bans are unenforceable but that “readily convertible” language in reference to shotguns temporarily screwed parts of the hunting industry (which may have bounced back, I haven’t looked). That rippled through large parts of the travel industy and cost the state a lot of tax money. For what? A law no cop even tries to enforce!
I like to win one
I wonder what they’d make of the batch of middle school kids here (when I was in high school) who decked themselves out as French Revolutionaries, a peasant, and a nobleman and went around the neighborhood dragging a nicely faked guillotine with them and staging ‘executions’.
” Some 80 percent of Americans support a bump fire stock ban.”
Said the poll of the 4 people in the CNN break room. 3 of the 4 supported the ban, the other had a mouthful of kale.
So the NRA threw the blame back in the laps of the Obama administration’s ATF, then suggested the ATF outlaw something they were not able to and can not outlaw.
It’s almost like the NRA was smart enough to realize that deflecting the blame and asking for a review knowing what the outcome would be was enough to avoid future trouble. Instead, it was the finger mashing “SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED” internet crowd that seems to have missed the mark.
I have come across many provocative videos leading me to question the official story of the “lone gunman.” One is this interesting discussion on Youtube with many infantry veterans saying they know the sound of a belt-fed M-240 bravo when they hear one, and that bumpfire is erratic and doesn’t go 150 continuous rounds, as we heard in Vegas. Here in the comments to http://tinyurl.com/y8wxvw44
My question is this. Taking it from a different angle, I would like to know what you guys think about what I consider to be the “smoking gun” that there is more than one shooter: the sound of distant machine-gun fire in the taxi video, right after a short burst which is practically right over him. Some are trying to say it’s an “echo,” but LOL an echo which happens a full 40 seconds later. Also the distant burst is much longer. The firing positions sound nowhere near each other. But the some are also trying to say it was just him running from window to window. I say BS. I say those firing positions are hundreds of yards apart if they’re an inch. What say yall? Does anyone really believe that’s an echo? The distant burst happens at about 44 seconds into the unedited taxi video below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEf7HObspB0
The NRA needs to help us all move closer to center ground. We are never going to get everything we want, and things like bump-stocks, (which the ATF says are not firearms), are not protected by the Second Amendment, and can be banned by local governments as easily as banning squirt-guns. (Yes, Philly at one time banned super-soakers).
The NRA can get a broader following, and better funding, if it supports a bump-fire ban. We should also consider what we would trade for National Reciprocity, as that seems to be the highest priority. Many states are mandating universal background checks for all transactions, as well as waiting times. Would we concede on these at a national level, (the States are doing it anyway), if it meant we could get Reciprocity AND Silencer Deregulation?
The “don’t give an inch” approach is damaging. It becomes extremism, and extremists are never popular. We all want to avoid Nancy Pelosi’s disarmament agenda and her “slippery slope”, but sometimes the best way to do that is to “cement” our highest priorities into mainstream law as fast as possible, before the Supreme Court becomes more liberal.
“promote safe costumes without weapons”
So dressing up as Harvey Weinstein will be okay? The costume can be a bathrobe and bottle of massage oil—for additional effect wear a shower cap. Nothing dangerous or threatening about that.
Cronkite and Brinkley were trustworthy. Don Lemon and Rachel Maddow are not. The times have changed to the extent that no one trusts any side of the media anymore. Does anyone really think that in a “money, money, money” environment like Las Vegas the entire truth will be laid bare for all to see? There are hundreds of thousands of jobs at stake. MGM is a huge global corporation. These people want business as usual. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a fool.
Let the conspiracy theories come forth. The more the better. The truth is not out there. It’s in someones 7 figure paycheck.
It is always irritating to see guys like this review guns because so many people will consider him an expert. the video and statements about cylinder wobble clearly indicates he does not understand this design, unlike a Smith or Colt the crane is not what holds the cylinder securely in a CA, the FRAME does. When closed the cylinder is securely engaged to the frame front and back.
The social media tags at the end mention Jus Reign. Full name Jasmeet Singh, Canadian born comedian of Sikh descent. Quite the YouTube celeb apparently.
Obviously someone in an excellent position to provide a nuanced presentation on the 2nd Amendment.
What I want to know is what kind of Canadian ammo was that? Or are Great White North trees particularly ricochet prone?
Dunno’ about the DNC but in Illinois certain gun companies DID donate to the enemy. Green is green Springfield…😫
Perhaps the DNC should explain why 7 of 10 spree killers are registered Democrats. A bit more than a statistical anomaly.
Chris Matthews knows he can get away with things like this with his audience.
The left wing adults know and agree with what he is doing.
Most all young people were not taught history in school so they don’t know any difference. They will believe his BS and it reaffirms that America is a horrible place.