Joan Has a Post up called “Bad day for the corporate gun lobby”
The post starts on a victory lap on the Confirmation of Dr. Vivek Murthy. First one must note that having a young inexperienced Surgeon General that was nominated out of pure cronyism is all well and good so long as they are anti-gun. And of course there’s this bit:
At a Senate hearing in February, Murthy said he wouldn’t use the position of surgeon general to push gun control. He said his priorities include helping communities promote healthier living.
So a promise from and Obama hack is as worthless as tits on a turtle, still even if he’s lying and once the press dies down he pushes hard in direct concert with the anti-gun lobbies for full-repeal of the 2nd Amendment and door-to-door confiscation of all guns, the fact that he lied about his feelings on gun control and his position admits that it is wildly unpopular and inappropriate for his new position. Yeah, things are REALLY looking up for you, Joan!
Then she gives several examples Sandy Hook candlelight vigils, many with TENS of supporters. A good protest is always something, but let’s face it even after the MASSIVE and wide-spread protests against the Vietnam War the soldiers kept fighting for YEARS later. Protests are fun, but they accomplish NOTHING, be they anti-gun or pro-gun, anti-war, or pro-war. On a side note, Darfur is still isn’t free, and the protesters just gave up.
Then there are these bombshells!
Speaking of Virginia, Governor Terry McAuliffe introduced his proposals for new gun legislation. Virginia received a “D” grade from the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence in their new state report card released on the anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting. They have work to do in Virginia.
All reports say that these proposals are going NOWHERE! Further one of his proposals is re-instate Virginia’s one-gun-a-month law that was recently repealed with a lot of popularity.
The Senate finally confirmed Dr. Vivek Murthy as our country’s next Surgeon General over the objections of the NRA. Some members of Congress defied the gun lobby’s threats to “score” the vote and voted for common sense anyway. The petty hold-up over this confirmation was nonsensical and more of the ridiculous antics of the NRA in their attempt to hold our country hostage to their flawed “logic”.
As said above, he doesn’t want to dance with you antis! He just wants a nice paycheck for a no-show job!
10 families of Sandy Hook shooting victims filed a lawsuit against the Bushmaster gun manufacturer. This is important for many reasons but one important reason is that victims have not been able to sue gun manufacturers because of what is known as the Immunity law, passed in 2005 in a cynical move to stop law suits against the gun industry.
Nobody thinks this is going to be a win either. Don’t take my word for it, ask Dave Hardy!
Things are not as they once were for the NRA and the corporate gun lobby. The persistence of people who believe that changes must happen in our country is leading to small successes. And those small successes will build on bigger and more important ones. Common sense wins in the end over political wrong headedness.
“Wins”? Where are the victories? Really this is pure psychological projection! Joan works for the Joyce Foundation and the Brady Campaign. Both of those groups are shells of their former selves. They used to be huge groups with massive support and operating budgets, but now they are stuck pointing to 10 people standing on a sidewalk with signs, or a political hack saying he won’t hold their hand in public as “Victories”.
Gone are the carte blanche interviews on national TV, gone are the in-house bills that become national laws. Gone is the days when people just assumed that people own guns for shooting at ducks, deer, and pieces of paper.
But keep telling us how hard you’re winning, Joan! I’m listening!
if Murthy isn’t ‘anti-gun’ why is One Note Joan even mentioning him?
She seldom discusses anything else on her blog, she has made it clear where her priorities lie.
Common sense wins in the end over political wrong headedness.
She has a point there — which is why we now have 6 states that are Constitutional Carry and all 50 States have some form of Concealed/Open Carry. 44 States allow Open Carry. The Assault Weapon Ban was allowed to lapse 10 years ago and hasn’t came close to being passed again.
Texas will either get Open Carry or Campus Carry (if not both) this legislative session. And a long shot in there is we might just skip ahead to Constitutional Carry. Governor Elect Abbott has said he will sign any one of the 6 pro-rights bills that have already been introduced to allow open carry. — Yep. Common sense is winning out.
Poor japete, the lies, hyperbole, and ravings are getting tired.
Dr Murthy, is not stupid. Anyone with a functional brain know the third rail
will kill and an arcing sparking wire on the ground it something to stand well
clear of. Hes there about medicine, that is enough to keep him busy.
Eck!
I hope you’re right, but as Dr. Murthy’s experience actually practicing medicine is somewhat … lacking.
It’s my opinion that this appointment is a repayment for past political favors or a down payment on future political favors (or a combination of the two); either way, it’s cronyism at its finest, regardless of whether or not Murthy uses his new position to push for more restrictions on guns or gun owners.
That first sentence fragment should read: “I hope you’re right, but as Dr. Murthy’s experience actually practicing medicine is somewhat … lacking … I’m assuming nothing.”
You bring something to mind. I’ve been talking a LOT of smack about Dr. Murthy, and he deserves it. He is most certainly a hack, and most certainly unqualified, but he’s not stupid. Being a Doctor is a HARD job, from the ER Resident to the guy with the nice specialized private practice. Being the Surgeon General is NOT a hard job, and it pays decently. Now I’m the guy who when he was laid off from the Federal Observer Program I was in part HAPPY because the money I was making was a total waste of federal tax money…still I was laid off, I didn’t quit, and I wasn’t looking for alternate employment at the time I was released. Still I don’t think most people think about their pay the same way. My latest jobs have been MUCH less rigorous than that work, and I’m HAPPY to be paid to do less work.
Taking this job was a SMART move, and it was a calculated one, and yes he would be STUPID to piss off the new guard to the legislature, and fuck up what is a job that will come with minimal oversight and responsibility, especially compared to jobs he IS qualified to do!
Japete: “This is important for many reasons but one important reason is that victims have not been able to sue gun manufacturers because of what is known as the Immunity law, passed in 2005 in a cynical move to stop law suits against the gun industry.”
No. It doesn’t prevent people from suing gun manufacturers for making guns. It only prevents them from winning.
But what does she think is going on? Does she think that law got repealed? This sounds like another case of this strange belief she holds. She’ll rail against pro-gun laws while being blantently wrong about what the law does. When we point this out by with a case that proves her wrong, she goes into this funky rationalization mode. Take the Zimmerman case for example. She says Stand Your Ground laws prevented him being charged (because he said he “felt threatened”). The he gets charged. So she says it’s because the people voiced their objection. But the law is still there. So she thinks the government doesn’t have to follow thier own rules so long as people protest, I guess. Looks like another case of that here- except without the protests. In fact she used that exact excuse when I pointed out how the Kahr Arms $600K settlement shows how this “immunity” law doesn’t do what she says it does, and she comes back by basically saying judges don’t have to follow the law if they don’t want to (driving by anti-gun complaints).
Great comment but you said “But what does she think is going on?”
Joan doesn’t THINK! No rational person (private or prominent like Joan) would beclown themselves like she CONSTANTLY does intentionally. She is a non intellectual person. She talks to and reads the words of non-intellectual people and gets all heady with her arrogance then reforms them in her own smug, arrogant, stupidity, and then dislocates her shoulder patting herself on the back.
I can never understand this because I just don’t share an ounce of mental mechanics with these types of people. I was anti-gun, and yet I felt no desire to avoid people who share a different view point than me. If I believe something I don’t consider it legitimate until I can defend it against somebody who believes the exact opposite.
Hence why I’m pro-gun now. No point is wasting my energy making losing arguments all the time, or taking great effort (as Joan Does) to make sure her wrong views are forever isolated from the truth.
And now that I’m pro gun, and libertarian, it’s not like I avoid “Progressives” and Authoritarian Conservatives. I actually ENJOY talking to people who don’t agree with me more than people who do.