Gayle Trotter of the "Independent Women's Forum" -- an organization with no members -- testified at the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on gun violence that AR-15s (the battlefield weapon used in the Newtown, CT massacre) empower women, because women have no other means to defend themselves. Lawrence O'Donnell points out several lapses of logic and veracity in her testimony.



Look, Ms. Trotter, if you want to make a living shilling for the firearms industry, that's your choice. But using "women's empowerment" to do it is particularly obscene. More women are killed by guns in this country than have ever successfully defended themselves with them, by overwhelming numbers. All you're doing is increasing the body count.

The Utah Sheriff's Association has threatened to mount an insurrection against the "tyrannical subjugation" of federal authorities if President Obama's gun control legislation is enacted.

"Make no mistake, as the duly-elected sheriffs our our respective counties, we will enforce the rights guaranteed to our citizens by the Constitution. No federal official will be permitted to descend upon our constituents and take from them what the Bill of Rights--in particular Amendment II--has given them."

Will someone PLEASE tell these morons that no one is trying to take away their detachable penises? JFC on a pogo stick.