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03/16/2008 14:00:00
Unlike some political fields of discussion, there are no new arguments when it comes to the issue of gun rights. However, the importance of the issue is reason enough to revisit the fundamentals of the case for private ownership and use of firearms. 03/13/2008 14:00:00
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Preparing to hear oral arguments Tuesday on the extent of gun rights guaranteed by the Constitution's Second Amendment, the U.S. Supreme Court has before it a brief signed by Vice President Cheney opposing the Bush administration's stance. 02/16/2008 14:00:00
WASHINGTON -- When the Council of the District of Columbia enacted the toughest gun control law in the nation in 1976, the city fathers -- according to what they said at the time -- believed they were making our nation's capital a safer place. The measure failed miserably. 09/24/2007 14:00:00
Hundreds of thousands of veterans -- from Vietnam through Operation Iraqi Freedom -- are at risk of being banned from buying firearms if legislation that is pending in Congress gets enacted. How? The Veterans Disarmament Act -- which has already passed the House -- would 08/10/2007 14:00:00
Once again the Associated Press give us more of its prosaic brand of "unfair and unbalanced" news with a Jesse Jackson anti-gun story that doesn't offer a single word to counter his propaganda, their report doesn't present even a hint that there is any "side" but the anti-gun position. 08/08/2007 14:00:00
The anti-gun argument is always built solely upon emotional excess. Its all about feelings and fears and almost never built on any facts or reality. In another example of the kind of hand-wringing, excessive, faux compassion that ignores the real statistics we are so used to... 06/18/2007 13:48:42
Here once the embattled farmers stood;
And fired the shot heard round the world. 06/17/2007 12:36:42
This article is current-events related, courtesy of a gun ban congressman who wants to use tragedy to 'save the children and lead the way to disarmament. Unfortunately for him, there is lots of data to throw his proposal into question. 06/06/2007 14:00:00
Barbara Miner of the Milwaukee Journal, Sentinel has written one of the funniest anti-gun screeds I've seen in a long, long time. Oh, she didn't MEAN to be funny, of course. 06/05/2007 13:58:12
On May 29th a Catholic Priest from Chicago's St. Sabina Church joined a rally in front of a gun shop and called for the owner of the shop and all pro-gun legislators to be "snuffed out", yet, the media is strangely silent on the "Father's" extreme comments -- words one would think would be explosive 05/06/2007 13:46:48
The media was all a-frenzy on the debate about gun control right after the VT killings cynically attempting to push their Constitutionally illegal gun banning ideas on a grieving public. But one Illinois County has bravely decided to make moves to protect their 2nd Amendment rights with action by the County Board. 04/29/2007 14:26:41
Since the VT shootings in Blacksburg, Virginia, we have seen all manner of wild-eyed, anti-gunners come out of the woodwork to cynically use this crime as a chance to beat their gun grabbing drums. But, proposing that we send government Stormtroopers to smash down the doors of every home with a gun 04/19/2007 13:00:00
All those who obeyed the law at Virginia Tech were rendered defenseless by it. 04/17/2007 13:58:10
With 33 dead in a senseless tragedy, we should expect a renewed debate over firearms in this country. However, some degree of restraint and decorum is in order before the politics of the Virginia Tech shootings should be fair game for discussion. 04/16/2007 16:41:57
"When will we learn that being defenseless is a bad defense?" asked Larry Pratt, Executive Director of Gun Owners of America. "All the school shootings that have ended abruptly in the last ten years were stopped because a law-abiding citizen 03/21/2007 14:00:00
"The Second Amendment," Charlton Heston used to say, "is America's first freedom." The Second secures the rest.It's a message narcissistic journalists need to hear again. A decade ago, Heston chastised the media in a National Press Club speech for its collective 03/18/2007 18:03:50
Judge Laurence H. Silberman has written a landmark legal decision using the Second Amendment to overturn the DC gun ban. No court has ever used the Second Amendment to overthrow a gun law. The case is known as Parker v. District of Columbia. With the overturn of the 03/10/2007 14:00:00
On Friday, Judge Laurence Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the city of Washington D.C. could not ban its citizens from owning firearms ...In light of this ruling I was curious to see how the wires were handling the news. Turns out, they aren't... 03/09/2007 13:00:00
As ludicrous as it is to suggest that a drug dealer might try to use a 30-pound rifle in his daily trade, it's even more so to suggest that anyone, including an expert marksman, could take down a moving Airbus or Boeing jet from distance with a few rounds. 03/08/2007 14:00:00
In a just society, wealth is transferred in exchange for money, for service or by gift. Unjust forms of transferring wealth occur by means of the thug on the street or the bureaucrat who takes one’s property. Examples of the latter would even include zoning regulations 03/08/2007 13:00:00
If the gun-banning crowd could somehow convince the media that antique muzzle-loaders were the new favorite among street thugs, it wouldnt be long before we saw the proposal of the "Kentucky Rifle Bill." 02/21/2007 13:00:00
The proposed Castle Doctrine law being considered in the Texas legislature is getting the typical Brady Campaign treatment. An examination of their tactics is a good study for any state considering the law. 02/17/2007 13:00:00
This past Monday night, a gunman walked into a popular Salt Lake City mall and opened fire with a shotgun. The trench coat-clad gunman was heavily armed and intended to kill as many people as he could. He killed five people before being challenged by an armed off-duty police officer. 01/31/2007 13:00:00
The New York Times thinks you are a criminal if you own a gun. The editorial writers at the Times simply don't believe that you could possibly be a law abiding citizen if you are interested in self defense, their most recent anti-gun piece reveals. 01/21/2007 13:15:45
Brady Campaign's new president Paul Helmke wants to put himself forwards as one who supports law enforcement and crime reduction, but his record as mayor shows otherwise. 01/10/2007 13:00:00
Many laws must coming up must be opposed in order to keep the liberal congress from chiseling further away at our freedoms but there are good laws to support as well even now. 01/01/2007 13:52:30
Gun control is neither logical nor effective. The case studies of D.C. where some of the strictest laws have left helpless unarmed citizens to the mercy of thugs. And Kennesaw Georgia who unique take on gun control had liberal wagging their tongues more than ten years ago about the town's fate. 12/22/2006 13:00:00
Congress changes hands soon. How will this affect gun rights? 12/15/2006 23:00:00
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence is not happy with America. In fact, we get a D+. Is this because violent crime increased last year?
12/06/2006 13:00:00
The United Nations envisions a world where only governments own firearms, and that this will promote liberty for the people. But do UN member governments promote liberty and economic freedom within their own borders?
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