Finally, knowing my father very well, I can assure you he had a profound grasp of how paradoxical human nature is, which accounts for while he made anti-war films, he had a great passion for guns (self-defense not hunting) and he had quite a few!
The Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a lower court ruling from Pennsylvania that allowed residents under 21 to carry firearms in public, though the justices declined for now to hear arguments in the case themselves.
The Texas senator has spearheaded — along with other far-right Congress members like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene — an amicus brief, or friend-of-the-court filing, that reads more a friend-of-the-gun-industry beef.
Another video showed that the governor did have his shotgun on site, but he struggled to load the Beretta and said he bought the A400 model to reduce kick so that the gun doesn’t hurt his shoulder.
Among those who feel that their freedom to buy or own guns has become more restricted, Republicans are significantly more likely to only vote for a candidate who shares their views on gun laws (48%).
Guns, from what I can tell, seem to mostly protect the speech of the people while holding the gun. It’s a tool of intimidation and one that I think is actually being irresponsibly and recklessly invoked.
The justices spent much of the oral argument grappling — in sometimes colorful and humorous terms — with when a
“It won’t get the right-wing male Trump voter,” who makes voting decisions based on NRA endorsements, said the Democratic pollster Celinda Lake. “But I think the freedom narrative is going to bring over a lot of people like the Michigan hunter — and his wife may hunt too — who doesn’t believe you need an AR-15 to hunt a deer.”
As a congressman, Walz voted for legislation that made it easier for veterans deemed “mentally incompetent” to own guns and restricted gun control measures in Washington, D.C.
“Absent this court’s intervention,” the gun makers’ petition continued, “Mexico’s multibillion-dollar suit will hang over the American firearms industry for years, inflicting costly and intrusive discovery at the hands of a foreign sovereign.”
