by Lee Williams

Tim Walz is citing weapons he never carried in wars he never fought to justify his radical anti-gun policies.

Walz wants universal background checks, government sponsored anti-gun research, Red Flag laws, an end to concealed-carry reciprocity and the confiscation of ARs, which he calls “weapons of war.”

“I spent 25 years in the Army, and I hunt … I’ve been voting for common sense legislation that protects the Second Amendment, but we can do background checks. We can do CDC research. We can make sure we don’t have reciprocal carry among states, and we can make sure that those weapons of war, that I carried in war, is the only place where those weapons are at,” said during a 2018 speech that was posted this week on social media by the Harris-Walz campaign.

Kamala Harris has no gun-control policies – or policies of any kind – currently listed on her campaign website, but she plays an integral role in Joe Biden’s war on guns and gun rights. In the past, she has called for mandatory buybacks of “assault weapons.” This is nothing more than political-speak for forced confiscation of private property by armed agents of the government, which violates the Second, Fourth, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments.

The Harris-Walz campaign’s radical anti-gun views have drawn praise and support from other likeminded radicals, especially David Hogg.

Hogg’s anti-gun apparatus is already sending text messages to millions of young people fundraising for Harris and Walz:

Hi, I’m David Hogg, co-founder of March for Our Lives and Leaders We Deserve.

The work to mobilize young people across the country to support Vice President Harris and Governor Tim Walz is happening right now — not in September or October.

Young voters’ excitement across the internet and in battleground states is palpable, but we must turn this enthusiasm into votes. That means supporting folks on the ground doing the work to highlight the contrast between their hopeful vision for the future, and Trump’s agenda that would take us backward.

I’m determined to do everything I can to ensure Kamala and Tim are elected in November — and I’m asking you to join me.

They’re going to need every single one of us to rise to the challenge. Will you rush a $20 donation to Kamala and Tim’s campaign right now and be part of this historic moment?

Together, we can make a difference.

Stop2Quit

Sent from my iPhone

The hyperlink whisks potential donors straight to ActBlue, which claims it has raised more than $14 billion since 2004 for “Democratic candidates & progressive causes across the country.”

Deserving leaders PAC

Hogg described his Leaders We Deserve PAC as “a grassroots organization dedicated to electing young progressives to Congress and State Legislatures across the country to help defeat the far-right agenda and advance a progressive vision for the future.”

“Young Progressive candidates face systemic barriers. At every level of government, the average politician is older than the average American. Our political system is stacked against young people – in favor of those who are older, wealthier and white,” his website states.

Hogg claimed his PAC will “identify and endorse young, dynamic, diverse, exceptional progressive candidates who are 30 years old and under for State Legislature, and 35 years old and under for Congress. 

Hogg does not say how Kamala Harris, 59, or Tim Walz, 60, could be described as youthful, audacious or charismatic.

Leaders We Deserve has posted only two times on its Twitter/X account since it joined the site in July 2023. Its Facebook page has 6,500 followers, but it too has only two posts.

Its 60-person advisory board is made up of committed anti-gun Democrats, including Senator Chris Murphy, Representatives Jamie Raskin, Ayanna Pressley, Rosa DeLauro, Jamaal Bowman and Eric Swalwell. Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teacher, former Washington D.C. police officer Michael Fanone, actress Alyssa Milano, Gail Schwartz, chair of Ban Assault Weapons Now, Ashley Lantz, executive director of Brady PAC, and Kate Moore, political director of Giffords also serve on the board.

Like his texts, the Leaders We Deserve donation page routes donors to ActBlue. It has no presence on Guidestar or other nonprofit navigators.

Hogg’s better-known nonprofit, March for Our Lives, was incorporated in 2018 and has more than $1.3 million in assets, according to Guidestar.

“Born out of a tragic school shooting, March for Our Lives is a courageous youth-led movement dedicated to promoting civic engagement, education, and direct action by youth to eliminate the epidemic of gun violence,” the site claims.

According to its 2022 IRS form 990, Hogg received an annual salary of $56,974 for a 10-hour workweek. The nonprofits executive director, Lamia El-Sadek, received $62,074 for a 40-hour workweek.

Clearly, Hogg’s claims that he will help elect “young, dynamic, diverse” candidates are bunk. He supports gun-grabbers regardless of their age. Harris and Walz are using him to target young people. They want their money.

Joe Biden may have been the most anti-gun president in the history of the country but based upon their radical policies and access to funds, Harris and Walz would be far worse.

by Lee Williams

Anti-gun groups should know better than to hop in bed with each other. They’re too fickle and their relationships almost always end in tears.

The Trace and the Gun Violence Archive may be the latest two anti-gun groups to part ways.

The Trace is the propaganda arm of former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun empire. It masquerades as a newsroom solely to provide cover for members of the corporate media who republish their stories as if they’re actual news. Trace staffers call themselves journalists, some even have journalism backgrounds, but in reality, they’re nothing more than ardent anti-gun activists paid in Bloomberg bucks.

The Gun Violence Archive has been debunked dozens of times for its fake mass-shooting data. Anytime four or more people are killed or even slightly wounded with a firearm the GVA calls it a mass shooting – even if the incident is gang and/or drug related. Last year, the GVA claims there were 656 mass shooting, which equates to 1.79 mass shootings per day. Initially, politicians, gun control activists and the mainstream media treated the GVA’s reports as if were gospel, but many now see the ridiculousness of the GVA’s claims.

The Trace and the GVA had a long history of collaboration, which produced dozens of biased stories. The two groups are even working together on the Gun Violence Data Hub, which they claim will go live sometime in the fall. Their two staffs will “collect, clean and publish datasets,” which they will then push out to the corporate media. The Hub has become a major fundraising hook for both organizations. Never mind that their work product will be created by paid anti-gun activists.

A story published Tuesday indicates that the Trace may have found a new data source – the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC. Titled “Gun Deaths Fell in 2023 — Except Among Kids,” the story claims that “while overall gun deaths continued to decline from their post-pandemic peak, child gun deaths rose, and gun suicides hit a record high.”

The authors admit they used provisional data from the CDC. The actual numbers, they acknowledge, “are likely to change slightly before final figures are released in December. While the data is not yet final, it provides the most comprehensive and accurate accounting of gun deaths in America.”

Despite the temporary nature of the CDC data, the story makes some bold claims: Murders involving firearms are down, gun-related suicides are at an all-time high, and the South had the highest gun-related death rates. But nowhere in the story does the Trace make its calculations available so their work can be reviewed. Every single hyperlink, and there are more than a few, takes readers to the CDC website and its raw numbers.

Suspicious timing

“Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable,” Mark Twain said that.

Are crime rates going up? Is crime down? Nowadays, you can find statistics to support both theories, especially just 90 days before a major presidential election. However, the best tool to determine whether you’re safe or likely to become a crime victim is not a news story, a spreadsheet or a dataset, it’s an old-fashioned Mark I: Mod. 0 eyeball. Believe what you see, not what the government or its lapdogs in the corporate media tell you is true.

Quite frankly, many Americans don’t feel safe, and they pushed their lawmakers to act. As a result, a clear majority of states no longer requires law-abiding Americans to bend a knee and beg permission from the government to sell them back their constitutional rights in the form of a permit or license to carry a defensive firearm. Gun sales have skyrocketed. July was the 60^th consecutive month that had more than one million NICS background checks, a major indicator of firearm sales, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation.

If crime rates are decreasing, these are the reasons why. It’s got nothing to do with more restrictive firearm laws, which are patently unconstitutional and raging in non-free states.

As to the Trace’s new reportage and its bold claims, consider who’s paying their bills. The Trace is funded by Michael Bloomberg, who actually believes you will be safer once you give up your guns.