Mediaboss Marketing

It seems that our constitutional rights are conditional depending on your demographic, as Amazon appears to have removed t-shirts that say Trans Rights or Else with the trans pride flag being made up of four guns.

Twitter user @aphexindividual posted a tweet highlighting the removal of this shirt on Tuesday. They wrote, If you wanted merchandise that showed support for trans rights and our second amendment, great news: amazon is now removing all of their listings for anything with trans colors / mentions of trans rights paired with guns along with screenshots of the original selling page and the broken link page you get now.

If you do a quick Google search of the phrase trans rights or else shirt, youll be redirected to broken Amazon link pages. The shirt itself is still seemingly being sold by other unofficial vendors, but any page that had a link to the original Amazon store does not work anymore. Though we couldnt confirm that Amazon is the one directly taking down these pages, it does seem highly unlikely that the vendors selling this merchandise would take it down themselves.

The move to take down a shirt like this is presumably linked to the recent shooting in Nashville where a trans man murdered three children and three adults at a private elementary school. The incident itself is undoubtedly horrifying and it wouldnt be a surprise if we found out this shirt was taken down because Amazon, or any of the vendors, thought selling it was tacitly condoning violence.

However, there is a clear double standard when it comes to marginalized people and their second amendment rights. Conservatives will be the first ones to scream about Biden trying to take away their guns and how owning a firearm is one of our natural born rights that theyll fight for even domestic abusers to have, but when a Black, brown, gay, or trans person shows off their newly acquired firearm, those same people who defended the second amendment will be the first ones trying to restrict it.

Its a tale as old as time, honestly. In the 1960s, the militant black nationalist group known as the Black Panthers used their knowledge of California gun laws to arm themselves to the teeth with weapons that they would carry to protests and organization meetings. However, in a completely baffling move, the NRA or National Rifle Association, who are known as the leading champions for gun profits rights, fought alongside the government to help tighten gun laws so they could keep guns out of the hands of Black people. The NRA was so scared of Black people exercising one of their basic constitutional rights that they abandoned their core beliefs and worked hard to strip that right away from them.

Im not saying the move to take down the shirt was wrong if it was done out of respect for the victims, but when a white nationalist goes on mass shooting spree, Amazon doesnt take down shirts depicting the American flag made up of machine guns. No one seems to care about sensitivity towards gun culture until those guns are being brought by those in a marginalized group.

Keep the same energy for everyone, Im just saying.

(featured image: Ethan Miller, Getty Images)

Have a tip we should know? [emailprotected]

Visit link:
Amazon Appears To Be Removing Merch Advocating for Trans ... - The Mary Sue

March 28, 2023

FRANKFORT, Ky. (WTVQ) A bill to make Kentucky a Second Amendment sanctuary is now law after Gov. Andy Beshear neither signed nor vetoed the legislation passed by the General Assembly.

House Bill 153, which cleared both the House and Senate, prohibits state and local law enforcement agencies from enforcing a federal gun ban in the state.

The bill passed the House by a 78-19 vote and the Senate by a 27-9 vote. It applies to any federal laws or regulations enacted on guns, ammunition and accessories since Jan. 1, 2021.

Beshear neither signed nor vetoed the legislation, which sent the bill straight to Secretary of State Michael Adams desk. It became law Tuesday.

To read the bill in its entirety, head here: https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/23rs/hb153.html

Bill to make Ky. a Second Amendment sanctuary heads to governors desk

Bill would make Ky. a Second Amendment sanctuary

Facebook

Pinterest

Twitter

Linkedin

See the article here:
Bill to make Ky. a 'Second Amendment sanctuary' becomes law - WTVQ

Note from the news editors: UM News Briefs are a new segment from The Miami Hurricane. News briefs provide a weekly snapshot of life at the University of Miami, in Miami and sometimes around the state, country or world. Stay up to date with UM News Briefs.

THIS WEEK AT THE U

Join ALAS for Canesfiesta: The Worlds Hottest Party

On April 6 at 6:30 p.m. UMs Alliance of Latin American Students (ALAS) will host their annual Canesfiesta, a celebration of Latin American culture on campus.

Its going to be a fun final sendoff celebration before summer, Rebecca Menendez, president of ALAS, said. It puts together all of our favorite things.

There will be food, giveaways, games, and live performances for all attendees to enjoy. ALAS will also be celebrating Dia de los Americas, an international holiday that celebrates Central, South and North American cultures.

A Conversation: Disability and the Health Care System

UMs Phi Delta Epsilon and Disability Ambassadors are hosting a panel on Monday, April 3, at 7:30 p.m. to discuss disabilities and the healthcare system.

Dr. Ashley Falcon and Dr. Andrew Porter are both professors in the public health program at UM and will be two panelists among others speaking to those interested in entering the medical field.

U KNOW MIAMI

Tenants forced to evacuate after Miami building fails fire inspection

Tengants who live and work in the historic Huntington Building in downtown Miami were forced to evacuate on March 23 after the structure was deemed unsafe.

Dozens of code enforcement officers and crews with the City of Miami Fire Rescue swarmed in and forced out more than 70 businesses housed at 168 Southeast 1st Street in downtown Miami.

A few days later, a police officer posted an unsafe structures notice on the front door as tenants took out some of their belongings and furniture.

According to the City of Miami, a fire inspection found illegal remodeling near a fire exit that resulted in a safety hazard.

Some tenants began to believe that ulterior motives were at play and their quick eviction was the result of an investors development plans.

There are currently no public plans with a developer for this building, but tenants are now left without a space to work.

IN CASE U MISSED IT

Manatee Bay County becomes a second amendment sanctuary

The Manatee county Commission voted on Tuesday to become Floridas latest Second Amendment Sanctuary, a jurisdiction that has taken a stance against restrictions on gun ownership by state or federal laws. More than 40 of Floridas 67 counties have established similar policies.

According to County Attorney Bill Clague, the resolution declares the countys support of the Second Amendment right to bear arms.

County officials discussed adopting the policy in February and the board, made up of seven conservative Republicans, expected no problems approving the resolution.

According to the resolution, Manatee County will take no action whatsoever to jeopardize, diminish or impair our residents Second Amendment rights and will legally defend against laws seeking in any way to jeopardize, diminish or impair such rights.

The board voted 6-1 to approve the resolution, with Commissioner George Kruse voting against the measure.

Kentucky legislators vote to override the governors veto on an anti-trans law

The Kentucky legislature voted on Wednesday to override the governors veto of a bill that will create a package of restrictions and regulations on transgender youth.

The bill was vetoed on Friday, March 24 by Governor Andy Beshear, a Democrat, but was overridden in both the State House and Senate, where Republicans hold supermajorities.

The law bans surgeries, puberty blockers and hormone therapy for children under 18. It also compels doctors to stop treating patients who are undergoing gender-transition care, adding that if physicians deem that ceasing treatment is likely to harm the minor, they can set a time frame to phase out treatment.

The law is part of a wave of legislation filed by Republican state legislatures in recent years to regulate the lives of transgender youth. At least 10 states have passed bans on transition care, including Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Tennessee and Utah.

Link:
UM News Briefs: second amendment sanctuary, transition care and ... - The Miami Hurricane

RICHMOND A congressman from Texas said Sunday that the solution to the periodic slaughter of children in school is to place armed guards at every school in the nation.

He brushed off the journalist interviewing him when she said the school in Uvalde, Texas, had armed guards. He blamed Columbine (1999), its notoriety and the power of suggestion, for school shootings that have occurred since then. He said he could not see any other connection among the shootings, which appeared to him to be otherwise random.

The interviewer said guns were the connector. He repeated his proposal for armed guards as a solution. CNN anchor Dana Bash said more guns as a solution? He said, Not guns, armed guards. She thanked him for coming.

Earlier last week, the comments of national security analyst Juliette Kayyem were quite different. Adviser to President Obama and to Gov. Mike Dukakis on domestic security, she currently lectures at Harvards Kennedy School of Government on homeland security and related topics, has won awards for editorials in the Boston Globe and writes for The Atlantic.

Also appearing on CNN, Kayyem said, A society can either make gun ownership permissive or less permissive. We have essentially made it like chewing gum. The data is clear. Gun control measures work. The nihilism [that gun control doesnt work] you hear defies decades of data. ... It is a lie.

The nation had a ban on assault weapons from 1994 to 2004. It expired when Congress failed to renew it. Part of the data being defied is that deaths in mass shootings fell during the 10-year ban.

The Texas congressmans view illustrates the tunnel vision of those who want to bypass the issue of too many guns. Instead, those against new gun safety regulations prefer to blame mental illness, give guns to teachers, add guards to schools, permit people to carry concealed weapons and, in many states, allow people to buy assault weapons designed for military use.

Nine years old, those children now buried in Nashville, Tenn, where the Legislature is considering a bill that will loosen the states already nonrestrictive gun laws. Even younger at Sandy Hook in Connecticut. A little older at Marjorie Stoneman High School in Florida. In Sutherland Springs, Texas, churchgoers who survived 450 bullets (traveling at 3,200 feet per second from a Ruger AR 556) are suffering lifelong pain and crippling because of lead toxicity.

Despite the accusations of the most vocal of the gun lobbyists, most Americans arent looking for a gunless world. The nation has always had a gun culture. Its not a matter of tossing the Second Amendment.

Its a matter of common sense no one, absolutely no one, in civilian life, needs a weapon designed for military use. Gun manufacturers, however, have marketed it well, and a seven-month investigation by the Washington Post found that the proliferation of the AR-15 in the past 20 years is linked to a change in strategy by the gun industry. It began marketing the AR-15 to civilians, despite the fact that it was a product that traditionally was anathema to their culture and traditions, according to the Post.

Marketing works. Its why we ask our doctors if a TV advertised drug will cure us, its why kids want the latest toy, its why insurance companies parade geckos and emus. We respond. Now an estimated 1 in 20 America adults own at least one AR-15, a weapon that blows children to bits. The study showed AR-15 owners were more likely than adults overall to be male, between 45 and 65, Republican and live in a state won by the former president in 2020.

The industry has responded by shifting some of its manufacturing to more welcoming states. Ruger, for instance, with headquarters in Southport, Conn., has built a new plant in Mayodan, N.C., and the Post interviewed one happy employee who quit her $7.25 job (the cruel federal minimum used in some states) for the $14 an hour, plus overtime, she could make with Ruger. Still not a living wage and lower than the minimum in Massachusetts and Connecticut, another reason for the company to expand elsewhere.

The gun culture will live here. The Second Amendment will live. But just as we license drivers, have age limits on driving, drinking, voting, enlisting, we need better rules for gun ownership.

As a veteran of homeland security analysis, Juliette Kayyem says we absolutely need the ban on assault weapons. We need to make it harder, less permissive.

And when it comes to armed guards at schools, what about all those people who died in church, at the movies, at a concert venue, at a mall, at a grocery store? Vocational schools will need to add a course in armed guardianship.

See the original post here:
Ruth Bass: Opponents of more gun rules are dodging the bullet - Berkshire Eagle

Over the last few years, a new Geraldo Rivera has emerged: one not afraid to break the Fox News party line and spout beliefs that make him sound like part of the resistance. He wasnt afraid to call out Trumps voter fraud BS. And he hasnt been afraid to express concern over gun control following mass shootings. After the tragedy in Nashville, which has inspired the usual inaction from the GOP, he was no different.

As per Mediaite, Rivera was a guest on Tuesdays installment of The Story, where he had it out with Brian Kilmeade, who was horrified that people are once more talking about restricting access to assault-style weapons after a bunch of people were senselessly murdered by them.

Here we are again, Kilmeade cried. And within minutes, were hearing about, The guns are the problem, assault weapons. Go to your corner and lets play politics before we even knew the facts.

He went on: For you to have seven guns and be that obviously unhinged and unbalanced and have these murderous capabilities and youre gonna allow these people out and about, I really dont think we should be debating gun laws.

Rivera butted in to say he disagreed. What about Tennessee, with the constitutional carry [law]. This person could legally assemble that arsenal of seven weapons, including two AR-15s and a sawed-off shotgun, he said. If the Second Amendment shines on this person accumulating that arsenal, then shame on the Second Amendment!

Kilmeade then expressed concern over all the responsible gun owners who might have to forfeit assault-style weapons that can mow down many people in seconds. Rivera simply reminded him, Theres been 130 mass shootings this year, Brian.

Kilmeade then tried to blame the parents of the Nashville shooter, claiming it shouldnt be the fault of legal gun owners, even though the latest shooter was a legal gun owner. But Rivera had another idea of who to blame.

How about the gun store salesperson, Rivera saud. If youre going to the shop and youre buying an AR-15 and then the next day another AR-15, then the sawn-off shotgun, then the pistols. At some point, there is a responsibility. These are not cartons of milk youre selling. These are weapons of destruction.

Rivera added, We need to wake up as a nation.

So kudos, once again, to Geraldo Rivera for being brave enough to praise gun control on Fox News. Of course every now and then he still spouts nonsense, as if to make sure he keeps getting invited back.

You can watch the exchange over at Mediaite.

Read more here:
Geraldo Rivera Slammed The Second Amendment On Fox News - UPROXX