Mediaboss Marketing

The corporate media is abuzz with news that senators have reached a bipartisan gun deal that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell endorsed on Tuesday but sacrificing Americans constitutional rights to hoaxing Democrats who have and will use their power to target their political enemies is nothing for Republicans to be proud of. Its the type of ideological surrender that they should lose their jobs and leadership positions over.

The bill text is still not available but from what Democrat Sen. Chris Murphys Twitter feed and the official framework indicate, the legislation could include sweeping measures such as problematic red flag laws that overstep too many constitutional bounds for Republicans to comfortably sacrifice.

Despite concerns that the legislation could compromise Americans Second, Fifth, and FourteenthAmendment rights, McConnell and 10 of his squishiest GOP colleagues including Sens. John Cornyn of Texas, Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Roy Blunt of Missouri, Rob Portman of Ohio, Richard Burr of North Carolina, Mitt Romney of Utah, Bill Cassidy of Lousiana, Susan Collins of Maine, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania plan to join the Democrats anti-gun escapades. Together, they caved to the emotional blackmail wielded by Murphy and amplified by the corporate media.

Republicans have no good reason to trust Democrats to skilfully create legislation that is mindful of Americans rights. Nor do GOPers have reasons to support legislation that yields little evidence of actually deterring criminals from committing crimes that are already illegal.

After all, the leftist legislators supporting the gun deal are the same politicians whosupported spying on a president, falsely accused a Supreme Court nominee-turned-justice of rape, defended the Biden administration when it sicced the feds on parents who wanted a say in what happens in their childs classrooms, and so much more.

In the past, when Democrats have been given inch-sized opportunities to restrict gun rights, theyve sought to take miles and ban certain guns and gun parts altogether.

As my colleague Federalist Senior Editor David Harsanyi recently noted, historically, Democrats have not only tried to expand the definition of partner in domestic violence-motivated gun grabs but have also tried to broaden the reasons for losing your gun rights toincludemany types of non-violent misdemeanors.

Yet, some of the most powerful GOPers in Congress, even those who have sworn to protect the Second Amendment, are salivating to sign dangerously broad and likely deliberately unspecific legislation crafted by these same Democrats.

Congressional Democrats like Murphy and their allies in corporate media have already admitted that the gun deal includes considerably more than [Democrats] hoped for initially.

Thats because the Republicans involved in negotiations pressured for nothing, so they got nothing.

McConnells gun restriction lead negotiator Cornyn likes to brag about his A+ rating from the National Rifle Association but the Republicans former promises not to restrict Americans rights to guns have been repeatedly broken and will be violated if this new bill passes. Even Cornyns meaningless boasting about everything excluded from the Democrats bill signals theres nothing that was included that he found worthy of praising.

So not only have Republicans signed onto more gun restrictions but theyve also ceded constitutional ground to Democrats who have a history of abusing their self-assigned power to gatekeep who can access a firearm.

Yielding power to Democrats like Murphy who exploited the Texas tragedy to orchestrate a gun grab is nothing for McConnell or any Republicans to be proud of. As a matter of fact, thats something worth forcing them out of office over.

The people most at risk of losing in this bipartisan deal are Republicans who will never get the benefit of a winning compromise with Democrats and law-abiding citizens who under the Consitution have every right to own and use guns. Most congressional Republicans have sworn to protect these rights but right now, 10 of the ones closest to McConnell are not.

These Republicans were chosen carefully because most of them are not at risk of getting voted out of office soon, but the dozens of other Senate GOPers who see the problems with handing over control of Americans rights should do everything they can to bar them from leadership. If Republicans were willing to cave on the Second Amendment, how much emotional manipulation will it take for them to surrender on other key conservative issues?

Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and co-producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire and Fox News. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on Twitter @jordanboydtx.

More:
McConnell, GOPers Attacking The 2nd Amendment Can't Be In Leadership - The Federalist

Mississippi leaders of the New Black Panther Party spoke out against black-on-black violence and the crime crisis gripping their community Tuesday.

"Black people shouldn't be killing black people, under no circumstances," member Steven Harris said during a press conference in Jackson, Mississippi. "You have to love your people."

Crime and death in the community have reached a crisis point, according to Sherrell Potts, a commander in the New Black Panther Party.

CALIFORNIA ANIMAL SHELTER BANS PET ADOPTIONS FOR GUN RIGHTS SUPPORTERS

"We just had a 5-year-old baby get killed at a convenience store," Potts said.

Leaders of the group also used Tuesday's press conference to announce a slew of events, including a National Black Unity Convention, according to a report.

Events will include a national self-defense training and a national self-defense Second Amendment assembly, the report noted.

Tuesday's remarks come less than a month after the New Black Panther Party called for an end to gang violence in minority communities.

Lets not be our own worst enemy. Lets be creative. Lets build," New Black Panther Party's General Taylormade said, according to a report.

"Let's provide a better future for the youth. Instead of allowing them to deteriorate, we have to set the tone. We cant sit back and say, 'Its not our problem.' It can become your problem. It can come sit at your doorstep."

Gangs need to put down their guns and community members need to combat the hardships faced in underrepresented areas, the group said.

CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER

"Put the guns down. Stop killing your people. Learn how to unite in your community," Harris said.

Here is the original post:
Pro-Second Amendment New Black Panther Party speaks out against rising crime - Washington Examiner

Dear Editor:

1) Well regulated phrase in Second Amendment: Why is this always overlooked? The majority of Americans simply want compliance with the Constitution. And while it is not specified what well regulated means, those who push against ALL regulations cannot be in compliance.

2) Assault Rifles are clearly for assaulting. Nothing more to be said.

3) As a therapist for 40 years, I can vouch for the fact that kids today are far more anxious than ever before. It cant help to know there are daily mass shootings. No matter how far from them, it sinks in as a threat.

4) Also as a therapist, I can tell you that reporting people with mental health instability sounds easier than it is. I once was on receiving end of frightening phone call (reciting my address) just for issuing a psychiatric pickup order. Imagine a homicidal client who finds out youve turned in his name for confiscation of his guns

Start by doing the obvious common sense: No sale of guns to teenagers, No sale of ASSAULT rifles. No brainer.

Donna Boundy

West Hurley, N.Y.

See the rest here:
Letter: Note the phrase well-regulated in the Second Amendment - The Daily Freeman

As the bloodstain of gun violence spreads across America, pushing the number of dead and wounded to staggering heights, I find myself among the millions of people struggling to understand how we got here and what we can do to stop the anguish.

The public response to each new firearms outrage has hardened into a petrified litany. One side cries out for gun control, while the other denies that gun restrictions make people safer, and recites the Second Amendment as proof that the founders of our nation, the men who wrote the Constitution, wanted all of us to be armed.

The only contact I had with guns growing up was sneaking into my parents bedroom to stare at the old hunting rifle Dad kept in his closet (which he never taught me to shoot), and my uncles .22-caliber rifle, with which he and I killed a rabbit in his southwestern Pennsylvania yard when I was 11. The rabbits pitiful, dying shriek made me feel bad for a while, but I got over it. I share this brief history to highlight the fact that no one preached the Second Amendment to me or taught me that I had a sacred right to own a gun.

With the death toll from gunfire rising hourly, I decided to take a look at how the Second Amendment came to be.

My main source was Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment, by historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.

What I found is that the government (the British in Colonial times, then the Americans during and after the Revolutionary War) expected men to own a gun, and not only own one, but know how to use it. Not all men, of course, only white men. Why the requirement and why the restriction?

Its pretty simple, really. As early European (mostly British) settlers pushed west across the Colonies, they forced the Indigenous peoples off land they had occupied for thousands of years. As we all know, the Native Americans pushed back. Fearful of the well-trained Native warriors, the settlers organized citizen militias to protect themselves and their families.

As land speculators (including George Washington) and settlers pushed relentlessly westward, the militias, with the blessing of British and then American authorities, engaged in genocidal so-called savage wars to wrest the land from the Native peoples. The Great Compromiser, Henry Clay, confidently predicted around 1825 that Native Americans would be exterminated within 50 years, adding that their disappearance from the human family (would) be no great loss to the world.

A similar scenario played out in the Southern Colonies (and then states), where white men were also expected to own a gun and serve in militias to ward off and eliminate Native Americans angered by the theft of their land. But the Southern economy, built on the backs of enslaved Africans, added another duty serving on slave patrols. African people had resisted enslavement from the moment Portuguese traders armed with guns and the blessing of Pope Nicholas V arrived on the West African coast.

White fear of slave rebellions was so great and the uprisings so numerous that Thomas Jefferson cited domestic insurrections in his list of grievances against England in the Declaration of Independence. He also blamed the English king not settlers or land speculators for bringing on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

Slave patrols scoured plantation slave quarters regularly and were obligated to punish any enslaved person found in possession of a weapon or suspected of plotting an insurrection.

I think this brief review tells us several important things.

First, there can be no doubt that the Founding Fathers assumed every man in America (especially land owners) not only had a right, but a duty, to be armed to assist in the common defense against Native Americans, enslaved Africans and, of course, any threats from other nations.

Second, armed citizens were expected to serve in their local militias.

And third, Native Americans and enslaved Africans (and even free African Americans), as the feared enemies of white people, could never be trusted with firearms.

Learning this history helped me understand why the founders included these words in the Bill of Rights: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

But does knowing all of this help staunch the blood flowing from the widening wound of gun violence?

One thing it does for me is rule out any thought of taking guns away from the citizenry. This nation was born in gunfire, and it doesnt really matter if some of us are troubled by the fact that the birthing process involved fearful, racist white men aiming those guns at Native Americans and African Americans. We have gunpowder in our DNA, and, as the bumper sticker goes: You can take my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.

So, as solutions go, Id say thats a nonstarter.

What about other gun control measures, the ones perennially rejected by many gun owners, conservative politicians and the gun lobby?

In my research, I was surprised to come across an article on the pro-business website Business Insider analyzing 10 strategies proposed to stop gun violence. (Note: I expected the website, founded by former Wall Street analyst Henry Blodget, to lean toward the firearms industry.)

According to this analysis, an assault weapons ban would likely to be effective as a means of keeping the highly lethal weapons beyond reach for good and bad actors alike.

Also likely to be effective: a high-capacity magazine ban, which would decrease the number of fatalities a shooter could inflict in a single attack.

Funding Centers for Disease Control and Prevention research into gun violence could be effective, Business Insider said.

The analysis also said that universal background checks would be likely effective, and cited research from the nonpartisan Rand Corp. that showed that states that require background checks on all gun sales had 35% fewer gun deaths per capita between 2009 and 2012.

Also likely to be effective: red flag laws, which would enable authorities to remove firearms from people deemed to be a danger to themselves or others.

But not likely to be effective, according to this analysis: arming teachers, active-shooter drills and banning violent video games.

A more promising option: having students, faculty and staff report potential threats.

I see some glimmers of hope in this list and in the latest conversations in Congress about measures that might reduce gun violence in American society. But it seems to me that we need to address something else first: the incomplete understanding among many Americans of how the Second Amendment came to be, and their refusal to consider actions that might at least reduce the flow of blood and loss of life.

As long as they continue to value what they believe is their absolute right to own a gun over the lives of Americans being killed by gunfire, I dont see how we can turn this thing around.

I pray that someone in America will find the words, the key that unlocks the fearful hearts of those opposed to gun regulation, and bring us together not only to save lives but also to redefine who we are as a people, a people defined not by the lethality of guns but by love and peace and safety and justice for all.

Call me naive if you want to, but thats my hope.

Mark Kelley is a retired journalist and journalism professor now living in Lancaster. He holds a Ph.D. in journalism and mass communications from Syracuse University and served as the main anchor for WNDU-TV in South Bend, Indiana.

Success! An email has been sent with a link to confirm list signup.

Error! There was an error processing your request.

Excerpt from:
On the Second Amendment and the men who wrote it [column] - LNP | LancasterOnline

"); var pScript = document.createElement("script"); pScript.type = 'text/javascript'; pScript.src = '//embed.sendtonews.com/player3/embedcode.js?fk=' + fkId + '&cid=5945&offsetx=0&offsety=0&floatwidth=400&floatposition=bottom-right'; pScript.async = true; pScript.setAttribute('data-type', 's2nScript'); //pScript['data-type'] = 's2nScript'; elem.append(pHtml); elem.append(pScript); }, insertVideoFuel: function(channelId) { //var u = 'https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/list/1jVoUBFY2Xpt9g_eSOhoUipSA_OOh7hMbPDYAqYWx3nI/1/public/values?alt=json'; var u = '/wp-json/rj/v2/api?name=spreadsheetsv4&end_point=/1jVoUBFY2Xpt9g_eSOhoUipSA_OOh7hMbPDYAqYWx3nI/values/sheet1¶m=alt%3Djson'; $.ajax({ type: 'GET', url: u, cache: true, dataType: 'json', success: function (response) { if ( response.response && response.response.values ) { var img_url = 'https://res.cloudinary.com/review-journal/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto,c_scale,w_1200/v1611081380/webdev/New7at7onGray.jpg'; //response.feed.entry[0]['gsx$imageurl']['$t']; var description = response.response.values[1][3];//response.feed.entry[0]['gsx$description']['$t']; var elem = $('#stn-in-article-player'); //'https://fuel-streaming-prod01.fuelmedia.io/player/1.0/player.min.js'; //https://fuel-streaming-prod01.fuelmedia.io/player/v3/fuel.js var pScript = document.createElement("script"); pScript.type = 'text/javascript'; pScript.src = 'https://fuel-streaming-prod01.fuelmedia.io/player/v3/fuel.js'; //pScript.async = true; pScript.setAttribute('id', 'fuel-player-script'); elem.append(pScript); elem.addClass('rj-fuel-77'); var pHtml = $('',{'data-channel':channelId,'data-poster-image':img_url,'data-autoplay':'true','data-muted':'true','data-floating':'true','data-floating-corner':'BR', 'data-floating-width':'288', 'data-floating-height':'162'}); var click_url = '/7at7/?utm_campaign=7at7&utm_medium=insert_widget&utm_source=article_page'; var f_title = $('',{'class':'f-title'}).append( $('',{'href':click_url, 'alt':'7at7'}).append( $('',{'html':'Watch '}) ).append( $('',{'alt':'logo-7at7','src':'https://res.cloudinary.com/review-journal/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto,c_scale,w_50/v1611100661/webdev/seven2.png'}) ).append( $('',{'html':' now streaming'}) ) ); var f_desc = $('',{'class':'f-desc','html':description}) elem.append(pHtml); elem.append(f_title); elem.append(f_desc); /* var is_android = /(android)/i.test(navigator.userAgent); if (is_android) { var tmr = setInterval(function() { document.getElementsByTagName('fuel-video')[0].player.play(); clearInterval(tmr); },1000); } */ } }, error: function (xhr, ajaxOptions, thrownError) { console.log('rj_xhr.status:' + xhr.status + '_error:' + thrownError); } }); }, videoIDs: { 'category-local': {'id': '7395798e-4c30-417b-8b1a-b3d7bad8ff98', 'provider':'fuel'}, 'tag-coronavirus': {'id': 'u37v495p'}, 'category-politics-and-government': {'id': 'kqRvD0a8'}, 'tag-mc-opinion': {'id': 'kqRvD0a8'}, 'tag-mc-crime': {'id': 'kqRvD0a8'}, 'tag-2020-election': {'id': 'kqRvD0a8'}, 'rj-main-category--science-and-technology': {'id': 'j88hQyle'}, 'tag-mc-news': {'id': 'pCyFtg5f'}, 'tag-mc-business': {'id': '31shkzyP'}, 'rj-main-category--raiders': {'id': 'bpswZwKM'}, 'tag-mc-sports': {'id': 'dbx2WkwF'}, 'rj-main-category--food': {'id': '3DQjoZb7'}, 'tag-mc-entertainment': {'id': 'YBuF2XdP'}, 'tag-mc-life': {'id': 'aaWqdJ5u'}, 'tag-mc-autos': {'id': 'kag2nBSV'}, 'tag-mc-homes': {'id': 'R0zQNouh'} // 'tag-mc-homes': {'id': 'HPa6ehMQ'} }, getVideoId: function() { //var fkId = false, var vdo_k = false; for (var checkClass in stnInArticleVideo.videoIDs) { if (stnInArticleVideo.wrapper.hasClass(checkClass)) { //fkId = videoIDs[checkClass].id; vdo_k = checkClass; break; } } return vdo_k; //fkId; }, run: function() { stnInArticleVideo.wrapper = $('article.rj-story.rj-story-full'); if (stnInArticleVideo.wrapper && stnInArticleVideo.canInsertVideo()) { var vdo_k = stnInArticleVideo.getVideoId(); if (vdo_k) { if (stnInArticleVideo.videoIDs[vdo_k].hasOwnProperty('provider') && stnInArticleVideo.videoIDs[vdo_k].provider == 'fuel') { stnInArticleVideo.insertVideoFuel(stnInArticleVideo.videoIDs[vdo_k].id); } else { stnInArticleVideo.insertVideo(stnInArticleVideo.videoIDs[vdo_k].id); } } } } }; stnInArticleVideo.run(); });})(jQuery);

Go here to read the rest:
LETTER: Change the Second Amendment - Las Vegas Review-Journal