It's odd to start from the assumption that people do, indeed, need protection from their governments, reject the idea that an armed populous offers any protection, and offer no alternative.
This is a lot like when Congressman Swallwel, who was running for President at the time, said resisting government tyranny was pointless because the president could just nuke his own country. A very odd thing to say as a candidate for office.
"Resistance is futile! Vote for me."
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This isn't correct, @nytimes. Automatic weapons are already heavily regulated and new sales to civilians are banned. Chipman wants to ban and regulate tens of millions of semi-automatic weapons in the same way. nytimes.com/2021/05/26/us/…
Understanding the difference between "automatic" and "semi-automatic" is not difficult but this is one of the most common mistakes I still see in media. Even at the highest levels as evidenced in this Times piece.
It's a particularly embarrassing mistake, frankly. The kind that makes anyone who spots it immediately skeptical of everything else you're saying on the topic.
Chipman is addressing his time a Waco as an ATF agent. He says the picture circulating online which some claim is him standing in the ashes of the Waco compound is not a picture of him.
Chipman says he should not have said helicopters were shot down at Waco since that wasn't true. He claims he meant to say they were "forced down" by gun fire.
The first question from Senator Grassley (R., IA) to ATF nominee Chipman is about Hunter Biden's 2018 gun purchase. He is complaining the ATF hasn't turned over records to him.
David Chipman, President Biden's ATF nominee and current gun-control activist, is set to testify in today's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. One Republican staffer tells me “people are going to go after him.”
The hearing begins at 10am eastern. Chipman is expected to start testifying around 10:45.
The construction of this tweet makes it seem like you want people who buy AR-15s (the most popular rifle in the country) to be in jail. Is that your intention, Governor?
The formulation of his tweet is that we should release weed users from jail and replace them with AR owners (or at least ones who buy through private sales) instead. It's a bizarre tweet.
Of course, Wolf supports more than just universal background checks. He has publicly said Pennsylvania should "restrict or eliminate semi-automatic weapons" which represent the vast majority of most commonly available firearms. audacy.com/kdkaradio/arti…