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Most assailants use handguns, not rifles, in "mass shootings": A new study from the Crime Prevention Research Center that looks at the data from public mass shootings over the last 25 years has confirmed what many Second Amendment advocates have long known — the most common firearms used in so-called "mass shootings" are handguns, not rifles. The study also noted that most shootings took place in supposed "gun-free zones" and would not have been prevented by a law requiring universal background checks. The study's author and founder of the center, John Lott Jr., pointed out that one of the biggest problems is with the term "mass shooting," observing: "The big thing that irritates me is you have somebody like [President] Biden go and say, 'We have Uvalde, and we've had 600 more attacks like this.' That's simply false because they're just putting apples and oranges together." The anti-Second Amendment lobby loves to target the AR-15, erroneously dubbing it an "assault rifle," as if that type of firearm is the problem and responsible for most mass shootings. But the facts don't come close to backing up the narrative. Irrespective of the firearm used in these crimes, every one of these attacks is committed by individuals with criminal intent to break the law.

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Thanks. I'll post when I have them.

1940's

GREEN ENERGY??

DIVORCE vs. MURDER A nice, calm and respectable lady went into the pharmacy, walked up to the pharmacist, looked straight into his eyes, and said : I'd like to buy some cyanide. The pharmacist asked : Why in the world do you need cyanide ? The lady replied : I need it to poison my husband. The pharmacist's eyes got big and he explained : Lord have mercy ! I can't give you cyanide to kill your husband, that's against the law. I'll lose my license ! They'll throw both of us in jail ! You CANNOT have any cyanide. Just get a DIVORCE ! The lady reached into her purse and pulled out a picture of her husband with the pharmacist's wife. The pharmacist looked at the picture and said, "You didn't tell me, you had a PRESCRIPTION..."

Gonna be a sunny 40+ degree day today. Think I'll wash the truck.

A great country artist, he passed away on 2/5/24 at 62 years old.

Adirondack fox hunter and his quarry circa 1900.

New York: Senate Democrats Are Destroying Gun Safety By Removing NRA Trainer Certification More proof positive that New York Senate Democrats have never cared about “gun safety.” On Monday, February 5, the Senate Codes Committee is set to move on S.138A, which strips NRA certified instructors from state statute. Certifications expire Dec. 31, 2026, and the Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) will then be responsible for creating curricula and promulgating rules and standards for trainer certification. Of course, there is zero evidence that they are willing or even capable of taking on the task. This bill passed the Senate last year, but it did not clear the Assembly before they ended their 2023 session. They are now bringing this legislation back early in the 2024 session, and everyone should be concerned. Please contact members of the Codes Committee immediately and respectfully request a “no” vote on S.138A by clicking the Take Action button below. For decades, the NRA has certified hundreds of thousands of trainers and has been the gold standard for firearms safety programs. There is no rationale for this move to eliminate these trainers, but the motivation is obviously purely political. This ill-conceived bill will impact almost everyone who carries concealed in New York as it will almost certainly throw the entire system into chaos, if not completely shut it down. Arguably every New Yorker is going to be impacted because they are eliminating firearms safety training as we know it. The agenda of Albany’s anti-gun Democrat Majority has become all too apparent – release criminals and disarm honest, law-abiding citizens. This has proven to be a recipe for disaster. For all their disingenuous talk about “gun safety,” eliminating the best training in the world seems to be more folly.

Fred Bear in 1959 on the Little Delta River in Alaska

International lawsuits threaten Americans' 2A rights: America's Second Amendment is deemed as a threat to the rest of the world. At least that's the narrative being used by the anti-gun group Global Action on Gun Violence (GAGV). The new organization recently raised a lawsuit representing Mexico against American firearms manufacturers and gun dealers over the claim that they are fueling cartel violence in Mexico. GAGV sees this as a potential new angle to exert international pressure on the U.S. to further limit Americans' Second Amendment rights. In its lawsuit, GAGV asserts that U.S. firearms policy violates its human rights obligations. This is an underhanded tactic to target American firearm manufacturers and blame them for the criminal actions of others. It seeks to further the entirely false claim that guns and not the individuals wielding them are responsible for crimes.

Private gun sale ban? In an effort to further infringe on Americans' Second Amendment rights, the Biden administration plans to soon roll out new ATF regulations that would effectively ban private gun sales. As Tristan Leavitt, president of the whistleblower organization Empower Oversight Whistleblowers & Research, argues, "Such an expansive rule that treats all private citizens the same as federal firearms licensees would circumvent the separation of powers in the Constitution, which grants 'all legislative powers' to Congress while requiring that the president 'take care that the laws be faithfully executed.'" The new regulations wouldn't merely require a background check for private gun sales; they also would create a new threshold for anyone selling a firearm, effectively requiring them to register as a federally licensed firearms dealer to legally sell a firearm. Of course, the question of what constitutes a firearms dealer is key, as it has previously been defined as the selling of firearms for "the principal objective of livelihood and profit." That definition of "dealer" would exclude the vast majority of individuals who have sold a firearm. Leavitt noted that the White House directed the ATF to create this regulation and that "whistleblowers say the rule is being drafted by Senior Policy Counsel Eric Epstein, who worked as the Phoenix Field Office's Division Counsel during Operation Wide Receiver (a precursor of Operation Fast and Furious)." Leavitt says that these ATF regulations would so blatantly infringe upon the Second Amendment that he believes the courts would quickly overturn them. Therefore, Biden's likely motive is political, making it a disingenuous gun control issue on which to campaign.

The leftists who feel sorry for these "brown people" have "white guilt" and want to alleviate it with other people's tax dollars. Leftists give far less to charities and always demand bigger government to solve everything. They also refuse to accept responsibility for anything that goes wrong with their agenda, since that will prove they are not "morally superior", just stupid.

I don't care what anyone's opinion is. Opinions are not facts and can be challenged. If you express an opinion, you should be willing to accept challenges to your opinion. If you have carefully formed your opinion, you should be able to defend it and do it civilly. If you get upset when others challenge your opinion and refute it with facts, you prove you have not thought it through and are just wishing it was a fact. If that is you, admit you are not open minded and will never change your mind, no matter how many facts refute what you believe. It's best you don't try to debate your opinion at all. The shouting matches we see on this board are the result of people not being able to open their minds and be civil.

We are not going to make it.