Several men with assault rifles and hand guns crashed a Mayors Against Illegal Guns National Day to Demand Action event in Indianapolis, Indiana on Thursday and stood silently as the state chapter of Moms Demand Action held a rally in favor of limiting the availability of military style weapons and universal background checks.
At least two or three men showed up at the rally site before the event began and engaged in a discussion about gun regulations with the group, two participants in the action told ThinkProgress. The armed men — who were later joined by another man carrying a hand gun and a woman who runs Indiana Moms Against Gun Control — insisted that they had a right to carry the loaded weapons. ...Think Progress
Check into Think Progress for photos and video. Me? I maintain that assault rifles aren't shits but too many of the people who want them and have them seem to be major shits.
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More shit(s), if I may be permitted to phrase it that way. This lot is rounded up in a report from Daily Intel posted within the hour:
Despite an emotional (if not entirely rational) appeal from President Obama yesterday, the prospects of a Senate bill pushing stricter gun-control laws continues to appear bleak. With the assault-weapons ban all but dead, even the push for better background checks, approved by 90 percent of Americans, "have so far drawn the support of only one Republican, Mark Kirk of Illinois," the New York Times notes today. Many more are promising to filibuster anything that resembles the dismantling of our freedom to own the deadliest of weapons.
The list of senators promising to block any and all restrictions now includes James Inhofe of Oklahoma and Marco Rubio of Florida, who said yesterday he will bravely stand in front of any restrictions on "responsible, law-abiding gun owners." Whereas that view may have always been calcified on the right, it's now been long enough since Newtown that lawmakers are becoming comfortable saying out loud that they are not even considering gun control.
