OMG! X (Twitter) Brings Back the Gun Emoji! OMG!
Years after Twitter replaced the pistol emoji with a green-and-orange water gun, X has decided to change it back to a regular handgun. An X employee announced the change in a post last week. The company hasn’t explained the change, but it feels on-brand for Elon Musk’s social network. Twitter originally switched its emoji to display a […]
FBI Director Thinks Trump Assassin’s Collapsible Stock Allowed Him to Conceal the Rifle
First the roof on which the shooter positioned himself was too treacherous to post Secret Service agents. Now this . . . Q: The shooter took the gun up with him when he climbed up to the top of the roof or was it already placed there somewhere? A: I can tell you, which may […]
Default Settings: Harris Campaigns on Enacting Strict Gun Control Laws
We’ll finally pass red flag laws, universal background checks, and an assault weapons ban. — Kamala Harris
Reality Check: Kamala Harris is Even More Anti-Gun Than Joe Biden
Kamala Harris has a simple message: We’re not waiting any longer. If Congress fails to send comprehensive gun safety legislation to Harris’ desk within her first 100 days as president – including universal background checks, an assault weapons ban, and the repeal of the NRA’s corporate gun manufacturer and dealer immunity bill – she will […]
Trump Supporters Confound Media By Not Blaming Guns After Assassination Attempt
Their presidential candidate had just narrowly escaped an assassination attempt, a bullet grazing his ear on Saturday from an AR-15-style semiautomatic weapon – a rifle frequently used by mass shooters in the United States. Yet in interviews with 12 Donald Trump delegates at his Republican Party nominating convention in Milwaukee, none advocated for limits or […]
DOJ: Cannabis Users Are Too Irresponsible to Own Guns
When the Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the federal law that disarms people who are subject to domestic violence restraining orders last month, its ruling was narrow. “Our tradition of firearm regulation allows the Government to disarm individuals who present a credible threat to the physical safety of others,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the […]
Texas Congressman’s Advice Right Now: Arm Yourself and Stay Frosty
“My message to you all is to be vigilant here,” [Rep. Wesley] Hunt said, noting assault-style rifles are responsible for a small fraction of U.S. homicides. “They cannot go after our AR-15s. The second we allow them to infringe on that, we are letting the fox in the henhouse.” The attempt on Trump’s life was […]
Aulson: Whatever The Result of the Secret Service Investigation ‘You can’t do gun control’
“There has to be hearings. We’ve got to get to the bottom of it. I mean, it’s a 150-yard shot. How do you get somebody with a long gun within 150 yards of the former president of the United States?” said Rep. Barry Moore (R-Ala.), who sits on the House Judiciary Committee. “With all the […]
WaPo Uses Failed Reagan Assassin’s Song to Point the Finger of Blame at Guns
“Well I don’t know what is wrong with this world, I wanna see some love. Everybody’s fightin’, here and there, I wanna see some love. Can’t we get along? All day long, Think it’s time we do.” This is the message of unity we’re hearing across the nation now, after a shocking weekend of violence […]
Shoot or No Shoot – Real Life is Always Messy
You’re a Secret Service counter sniper. You’ve spent thousands of hours looking through your scope, and nothing ever happens. Your protectee is in the middle of a speech, just like all the other speeches. Today you’ll add 60 minutes to that tally of thousands of hours. Suddenly somebody’s head crests a roof 150 yards away. […]