The traditional "watchdog media" is long dead, and if the murderous abomination of "Project Gunwalker" is ever to become the impossible-to-ignore, Watergate-dwarfing scandal it should be--that decency, and justice for its hundreds of victims demand it become--the spotlight is going to have to come from another direction. Perhaps that direction will be "Blood on their hands," a proposed documentary by award winning documentarist Mike McNulty's COPS (Citizens Organization for Public Safety) Productions, about the "Gunwalker" scandal. [More]

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Castle Doctrine, Stand Your Ground and domestic violence

Never let it be forgotten that the only reason to make self-defense more difficult is to make attacking the would-be self-defender easier. That hardly sounds like "violence prevention," does it? [More]

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Clinton tells Obama to not 'waste a minute' to use Trayvon Martin for gun laws

Clinton, obviously, is well versed in that "trick." And perhaps Obama does not particularly need that advice, anyway. He did not, after all, wait long after the manufactured crisis of "Project Gunwalker," to exploit it for more gun regulation (without bothering with the cumbersome legislative process). It can work well, for those to whom their unconstitutional, freedom eroding agenda is more important than lives. [More]

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'Respect Remington' rebuts NBC's anti-Remington crusade

Going back over a decade, NBC digs up two cases, among the tens of millions of firearms Remington has sold, without presenting convincing evidence that even those guns fired spontaneously, and implies that Remington and other gun manufacturers need to be "supervised" by the government, or perhaps by the mass media.

That's a good way to end up with guns that cannot fire at all--which is, perhaps, exactly the idea. [More]

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Why does Missouri demand defenselessness for mass transit passengers?

A regular passenger of mass transit apparently only trusts people with guns if they are paid to carry them:

Nancy Kinney of St. Louis, a regular MetroLink and bus rider, said she would be less inclined to ride if she knew other riders could be carrying handguns. "I mean it's different if they're a security guard or a police officer," she said. "But John Doe? No."

A "John Doe" is, apparently, the opposite of an "Only One," and thus not to be trusted with the means to defend his or her life while on public transportation.

Those who mandate and enforce defenselessness on others are accessories to the rape/murder/severe injury of anyone who pays the price for obeying such laws. [More]

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Also in today's column is a long overdue review of Philip Mulivor's excellent resource for gun rights advocates, "Proclaiming Liberty: What Patriots and Heroes Really Said About the Right to Keep and Bear Arms."

Excerpt from my review:

Don't get caught in an embarrassing (and argument weakening) false quotation. The other side of the coin, of course, is that the reader will likely find some genuine quotes with which he or she had been unfamiliar previously.

Author Philip Mulivor masterfully sifts through the history to establish the legitimacy (or illegitmacy) of historical quotes cited in gun rights debates.

Violence Policy Center reprises its 'no guns for negroes' advocacy

What Sugarmann did not point out then, and is certainly not pointing out now, is that the vast majority of the murderers of African-Americans are also black (91.1% then, 89.4% now). In other words, Sugarmann makes an issue of the fact that almost 57% of black homicides are committed with handguns, while pretending to ignore the vastly stronger correlation of race. If the focus for reducing black homicide, then, "must" be on "reducing access to firearms," then whose access must be reduced?

"No guns for negroes," all over again, right in line with the shameful history of American "gun control." [More]

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John Rosenthal claims right to keep and bear arms is 'racist'

Rosenthal's explanation for his claim that anything short of brutally oppressive regulation of guns is "racist" is that blacks are shot in numbers far out of proportion to their share of the population. He of course does not bother mentioning that nearly nine out of ten black murder victims are killed by black murderers. Never mind that, according to Rosenthal--"racial justice" demands that gun ownership be made vastly more difficult for everyone, including the hundreds of millions of us who have no desire to shoot anyone.

Rosenthal is certainly not going to address the fact that the history of American "gun control" is rooted in white supremacy, and the desire to render ethnic minorities unable to effectively resist oppression. [More]

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Race war would benefit 'gun control' advocates

The bloodshed of a race war would be only part of the tragedy. The evil and injustice of new forcible citizen disarmament laws that would likely result would be even worse. And perhaps now we know why longtime supporters of "gun control," like Al Sharptoton, Jesse Jackson, and Eric Holder, seem to be making the racial tensions worse, rather than better. 2 se [More]

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NAACP wants to shoot the messenger at NRA convention

But why is that wrong? What do "acres of guns," to be seen by scores of thousands of America's scores of millions of peaceable gun owners, have to do with the one gun that a teenager tragically chose to threaten police with?

The answer, perhaps, is that Reverend Rice is very much on board with a 17-year-old campaign by Attorney General (then U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia) Eric Holder to "brainwash" the people--particularly young people, and especially particularly young, black males--against guns. Holder at that time suggested his own message--that guns are "something that's not cool, that it's not acceptable, it's not hip to carry a gun." The idea of vast numbers of people coming from all over the country to see "acres of guns" clearly challenges that brainwashing. [More]

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On guns, Obama's newfound deference to Congress is conspicuously absent

When President Obama fired a shot across the Supreme Court's bow Monday, warning that if "an unelected group of people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law," it would be an "extraordinary, unprecedented [oh?] step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress," he did more than apparently seek to undermine the concept of judicial review. He also affected far more respect for the power of Congress than he has shown himself, at least with respect to guns. [More]

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Challenge to Cook County 'assault weapon' ban to proceed

So now, the courts will be asked to rule on whether or not the very firearms most capable for use in times of conflict, rather than merely for "sporting purposes," are protected by the section of the Bill of Rights that states that an effective citizen's militia is necessary to the security of a free state. [More]

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School shootings: We know what does NOT work--and we keep doing it

Wait a second--"millions of dollars to continue to ban guns"? Yep--one provision of SB 1474 permits universities to hold onto their precious gun bans within school buildings, if they provide secure storage for firearms at every entrance. In other words, the objection was that the bill would be too expensive, because continuing the mandated defenselessness would cost too much. All they would have to do to avoid that expense is not require that peaceable armed students and staff disarm.

The price that matters is the one paid--not in dollars, but in blood--at every "gun free zone" where a mass shooting has occurred. [More]

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'Project Gunwalker' and human sacrifice

The idea of sacrificing human life for one's own gain of course requires fully investing oneself in the notion that the people being sacrificed are of so little value, compared to what one hopes to gain, as to make their deaths an acceptable cost. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) supervisor David Voth put it this way, when agents under him objected to the inevitable loss of life in Mexico stemming from "Project Gunwalker":

If you are going to make an omelet, you need to scramble some eggs.

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NY legislator calls on law abiding to 'give up some of their liberty'

We "have to give up some sense"? That's something of an understatement. For gun owners to agree to this senseless insanity, they would have to abandon sense entirely. Schimel's entire premise must be rejected out of hand. Public safety is not served by good, responsible people "giv[ing] up some of their liberty." Public safety requires people taking responsibility for their own actions, and contrary to the claims of Mike Beard (president of the Coaltion to Stop Gun Violence), responsibility and liberty are not opposed values, and are indeed mutually dependent . . . [More]

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