Every family has “that one uncle.” You know the one: they guy who stupidly thinks the Constitution means what it says, and if it needs reinterpretation/changing, there’s an amendment process for that. The guy who stubbornly insists on arguing on the basis of objective fact.

Yeah, in my family everyone knows that’s me. Even though I think I show incredible restraint at Thanksgiving. For example, the time they say me next to the guy claiming to “work with” the ATF — -eyeroll- — who had to “correct” me on facts about the Boston Bombing… by contradicting evidence the feds presented at trial.

You won’t have to deal with me, but I’m sure you have your own uncle. Not to fear, though; the White House graciously provided some talking points you can use to keep us in line.

One last item for your Thanksgiving dinner: some talking points when “that Uncle” comes “at you” about @POTUS.

TZP is primarily focused on 2A rights, so I’ll mostly skip over the majority of those talking points…

…other than mentioning that the gas and insulin prices are just down somewhat from the high peaks that they first caused, or that infrastructure rebuilding includes shutting down reliable fossil-fueled power generation and replacing it with intermittent “renewable” wind and solar power. Let’s look at Gropin’ Joe’s “first meaningful gun safety legislation in nearly thirty years.”

Removing firearms from dangerous individuals

I’ve discussed this before. They’d do it by violating people’s constitutional due process rights.

Since the very point of “red flag” laws is to eliminate the pre-seizure hearing for the accused, and go straight confiscation — ending the rights-recognizing process already in place in every single state — I’m going to assume that “pre-deprivation due process” is going to becomes the police serving the accused with a hearing notice before collecting the guns. The notice — of a hearing that actually occurs after the seizure — would be the due process.

Not that they had the balls to actually pass a federal red flag law. They’re just offering bribes to the states to do it for them… conveniently putting the cost of defending unconstitutional laws in court on the states.

Expanding mental health services in schools

Nope.

The other Titles in this bill are largely pork masquerading as grants and studies of how to “improve” healthcare access and school “security,”

Pork for studies on how to address mental health in schools. Perhaps I should apply for one to show best how to repair. the mental health damage schools public indoctrination centers are doing with CRT, wokeness, “gender affirmation” and more.

Supporting school safety and narrows the “boyfriend loophole” to keep guns out of the hands of convicted dating partners

They do that by redefining boyfriend so vaguely encompassing that anyone who ever dated someone once, sometime, is subject to losing their rights forever.

They did exactly what I expected. They are adding “dating partner” to the list of qualifying relationships for domestic violence convictions. They include some qualifiers such as “have or have recently had,” serious, length, type, and frequency of the relationship; but they do not define any of them.

What is recent? Serious? You won’t know until you discover that you’ve been added to the NICS human/civil rights deprivation list.

While I do try to keep my cool at family gatherings, little talking point lists like this tend to make me hope some suicidal loon brings them up.

I have this one niece, who at last update, may or may not attend tomorrow’s dinner. I’d have nothing to lose, familially speaking, since she already wants me dead.

Happy Thanksgiving/Communism Failed Day. May yours go smoother than mine might.

 

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