News of the Week for Aug. 19th<\/sup>, 2019<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n California’s Background Check Law Had No Impact on Gun Deaths, Johns Hopkins Study Finds<\/a> Liz Warren Vows to Tax Gun Owners Back to the Stone Age with Radical Anti-Second Amendment Agenda<\/a> 14-Year-Old Uses Handgun To Defend Sisters From Intruders <\/a> I used to think gun control was the answer. My research told me otherwise.<\/a> Gun sales are up in El Paso and concealed carry classes are packed<\/a> Nearly 200 House Dems Now Support Bill Outlawing All New Semi-Automatic Weapons<\/a> “Mandatory Buy-Back” Means “Confiscation”<\/a> Could Democrats Pass the Assault Weapons Ban in 2021?<\/a> Government and the need to feel safe<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Three Years Later, the French Solar Road Is a Total Flop<\/a> Fighting the Blacklist (With Comment by Steve)<\/a>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" "\\"News")
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<\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n
\nThe findings\u2014which run counter to the conventional wisdom that gun control saves lives\u2014have received almost no media attention.<\/p>\n
\n“The power to tax is the power to destroy.” -John Marshall, 4th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court<\/p>\n
\nRight now, so-called “safe storage” laws are all the rage in anti-gun states. I also kind of see why. When you no little about guns or using one in self-defense, you simply assume that it can be easily accessed should the need arise, but locking up a gun keeps it out of the “wrong” hands, be that burglar or child.<\/p>\n
\nBefore I started researching gun deaths, gun-control policy used to frustrate me. I wished the National Rifle Association would stop blocking common-sense gun-control reforms such as banning assault weapons, restricting silencers, shrinking magazine sizes and all the other measures that could make guns less deadly.<\/p>\n
\nWhile Democrats and the media responded to the mass shooting in El Paso with renewed demands for gun control, many El Paso residents are responding in a different way. Yesterday Reuters reported that Hispanic residents of the city are buying guns and flocking to concealed carry classes<\/p>\n
\nProving once again they’re absolutely clueless on firearms, nearly 200 House Democrats have indicated their support for legislation banning all semi-automatic firearms nationwide.<\/p>\n
\nOne more time, with feeling: “Mandatory buy-back” is a cowardly and cynical euphemism, and members of the press should not be using it outside of quotation marks. What O\u2019Rourke is proposing here is gun confiscation, coupled with limited compensation. Every time somebody in the media uses the term “buy-back,” they are laundering O’Rourke’s extremism.<\/p>\n
\nWhile Republicans in Washington are talking about the possibility of passing a “red-flag” law and expanding background checks for gun sales, 2020 Democrats continue to put the Assault Weapons Ban front and center.<\/p>\n
\nLife is supposed to be a dangerous adventure fraught with gigantic melancholy and mirth. The interplay between individuals and each other or the environment brings about, in theory, the chance to gain knowledge or goods through the exchange of ideas, currency, or other items despite the obvious peril of going out and interacting with others. The advent of the Internet and e-commerce still produces the chance of financial peril because one is putting their product or wealth at risk for some scammer to take without proper reimbursement. Free will brings about its own risk and the chance malevolent forces will attempt to cause harm to others.<\/p>\n<\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n
Environment &
\n“Green Energy”<\/h2>\n
\nIt’s too noisy, falling apart, and doesn’t even collect enough solar energy.<\/p>\n
\nSteve wrote on Thursday about Nature magazine publishing a blacklist of prominent global warming realists. Steve and I were both happy to be on the list. Others have responded in various ways. Australia’s Joanne Nova created this hilarious parody of the cover of Nature, “The International Journal of Fashions In Science.”<\/p>\n