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The Morning Briefing: Team Biden Continues Two-Pronged Assault on 2nd Amendment and Small Businesses
Happy Friday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Ertenzo felt most purposeful when adding a secret fourth bean to his three-bean salad for the annual Cornhole Club picnic.
The commie puppet masters who run Joe Biden's brain have made no secret of their contempt for the Second Amendment and law-abiding American gun owners. They've had their senile mouthpiece babbling about "assault weapons" almost from the moment he was installed in the Oval Office.
Democrats don't have a lot of luck with sweeping gun control legislation for a couple of reasons. First, they keep passing laws that make gun owners who have adhered to the law criminals overnight. These laws eventually find their way to a judge or a court that says, "Yeah... no."
The other reason - and this is the big one - is that there are a lot of Democrats who own guns and are fond of their Second Amendment rights. Most of them are in flyover country, which is why a lot of the D.C. Dems are out of touch with reality.
Team Biden is nothing if not relentless in its pursuit of an anti-American agenda, however. Instead of the legislative process, the bureaucracy is being used to choke the life out of the Second Amendment, which Catherine wrote about yesterday:
The Biden administration, failing to get enough congressional cooperation to trample on the Second Amendment, continues its war against gun dealers.
Bingo.
As we examine the story further, it's important to remember that Democrats have contempt for small business owners. People who can't be forced into unionizing and stuffing the coffers of the Democratic Big Labor slush fund are useless to them.
Here's more from Catherine's post:
I previously wrote a VIP post about how hundreds of gun dealers suddenly lost their licenses to Biden's ATF, in what the gun industry says is a back-handed way of undermining gun rights (if you're not already a VIP subscriber, join today!). Some dealers informed the media that the federal government is hurting a major ally in identifying "suspicious gun buyers" by targeting legitimate gun dealers. But the Biden administration is successfully hurting gun dealers" business. "We were making $1 million a year, now it's less than $100,000," gun dealer Anthony Navarro told the Wall Street Journal. "This policy is designed to be a backdoor violation of the Second Amendment." Now there's the new ATF rule, also aimed at gun dealers.
I'm an Arizona resident. Rules regarding private gun sales are practically nonexistent. Both parties have to be Arizona residents and after that, YOLO. The Grand Canyon State has functioned with minimal gun laws for a very long time. My grandfather owned a gun store when I was a kid, so I know whence I speak (write). What the feds want to do now is get their fascist little fingers all over the transactions between individuals, which Ryan Petty explains at our sister site Bearing Arms:
The White House outlined that under the suggested guidelines, individuals would be expected to obtain a federal license and conduct background checks if they meet one or more of several conditions. These include frequently selling firearms shortly after purchasing them, offering guns in near-new condition, selling multiple units of the same gun model, or selling business inventory as a previously federally-licensed dealer without transferring it to a personal collection for at least one year, effectively targeting the so-called fire sale loophole. The proposed rules would establish criteria around the frequency and type of gun sales by unlicensed sellers, along with the condition of the firearms.
The Second Amendment infuriates leftists because the federal government hasn't been able to wrest control of it from the states. It's a perfect example of how the country is supposed to work. My good friend, colleague, and "Unwoke" podcast co-host Kevin Downey Jr. once asked me if all of my guns were legal. I replied, "In this state they are." Were I to move back to California, the story would be different.
The anti-2A crowd is fond of saying, "We don't want to take away your guns."
They do, of course, but until they can, they'd like to make the legal acquisition of firearms so onerous that people just give up.
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White Liberals More Likely To Have A Mental Health Condition
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/apr/22/white-liberals-more-likely- have-mental-health-cond/
Apr 22, 2021 - Sixty-two percent of Whites who classify themselves as "very liberal" or "liberal" have been told by a doctor they have a mental health condition, as compared to 26% of conservatives and...
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White Liberals More Likely to Have Mental Health Problems... - Newsmax
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/white-liberals-mental-health- study/2021/04/20/id/1018293/
The Pew Study, Which The Washington Free Beacon notes was published last year but only gained attention in a recent article, showed that white liberals of all ages were more likely to be diagnosed with a mental health condition than moderates or conservatives, with the disparity particularly pronounced among those aged 18-29, according to evie...
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Study: Young White Liberals More Likely to Have Mental Health Problems
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/04/22/study-young-white-liberals- more-likely-to-have-mental-health-problems/
Apr 22, 2021 - When sex and age were factors, 56.3 percent of white women between the ages of 18 and 29 and who labeled themselves as "liberal," said they had been given a mental health diagnosis, compared to 27.3 percent of conservatives in the same categories and 28.4 percent of moderates:
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62% of "liberal" or very "liberal" whites have a mental health condition
https://www.independentsentinel.com/62-of-liberal-or-very-liberal-whites-have- a-mental-health-condition/
According to a Pew Research Center survey, 62% percent of Whites who classify themselves as "very liberal" or "liberal" has been told by a doctor they have a mental health condition. Only 26% of conservatives and 20% of moderates have been told they have such a condition, the study found.
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Pew Study: White Liberals Disproportionately Suffer From Mental Illness...
https://wibc.com/108211/pew-study-white-liberals-disproportionately-suffer- from-mental-illness/
White women, ages 18-29, who identified as liberal were given a mental health diagnosis from medical professionals at a rate of 56.3%, as compared to 28.4% in moderates and 27.3% in conservatives. Zach Goldberg, a Ph.D. candidate in political science, consolidated the study's info in a set of visuals and posted them to a thread on Twitter.
SCIENCE: White Libs More Likely To Have Mental Health Problems
https://freebeacon.com/politics/white-libs-mental-health/
Within this demographic, 34 percent of liberals reported having mental health problems, compared with 22 percent of moderates and 16 percent of conservatives. Zach Goldberg, the doctoral...
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White Liberals Twice as Likely to be Diagnosed with Psychological Problems
https://www.hennessysview.com/p/psychologic-disorders-white-liberals
Nearly 1 in 2 (45.9%) of white liberals have been diagnosed with mental health disorders. White liberals of all ages are more than twice as likely as conservatives of any age to suffer from mental health disorders. White liberals are almost twice as likely as non-white liberals to be diagnosed with mental health problems.
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6 Reasons Why Liberalism IS A Mental Disorder (LOL) - The Political Insider
https://thepoliticalinsider.com/6-reasons-why-liberalism-can-be-considered-a- mental-disorder/
In 2005, Michael Savage famously wrote a book titled, Liberalism is a Mental Disorder, the subject of which is self-explanatory. Additionally, Dr. Lyle Rossiter, a board-certified clinical psychologist, wrote a book in which he diagnosed the ideology of the left as a tangible mental illness.
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Personality Traits, Mental Illness, and Ideology
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/unique-everybody- else/202103/personality-traits-mental-illness-and-ideology
specifically, surveys on the " big five " traits of extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to experience have found that people identifying as politically...
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Study claims over 50% of liberal women under 30 have mental health...
https://theliberal.ie/study-claims-over-50-of-liberal-women-under-30-have- mental-health-issues-men-and-women-with-liberal-views-more-likely-to-be- mentally-unwell/
Study claims over 50% of liberal women under 30 have mental health issues, men and women with liberal views more likely to be mentally unwell April 24, 2021 - 12:01 Gerard Clarke Irish News
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