Father of Columbine victim: Stifle individual rights to benefit 'the collective'

Mauser seems either unable or unwilling to realize that in a culture where every individual looks out for his or her rights, everyone's rights (the rights, therefore, of the entire "collective") are looked out for. Mauser goes on to lament that if the U.S. were as "mature" as the nations of Europe, "the federal government would have a much easier time curtailing the average citizen’s access to weapons."

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Suppressing the rights of individuals, in favor of "the collective," is anathema to a culture of liberty. It does, however, fit very nicely with the "progressive" agenda of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. [More]

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Writer sees nothing but race in post-election gun buying spree

In contrast, he mentions fear of a "black liberal president" six times in his one-page column, and simply "Black President" one time each in the title and photo caption.

One thing Hagler shows no interest in discussing is "gun control's" long, sordid and well documented history of being rooted in the motivation to keep blacks disarmed, and therefore easily oppressed--a shameful history that is far from over even today. [More]

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Believe 2nd Amendment is last bastion against tyranny? CSGV wants you dead

Yep--CSGV just admitted their sick belief that if you agree with Tench Coxe and other Founding Fathers, you are guilty of treason, and subject to execution.

How, exactly, does CSGV differ from a "hate group," and who, exactly, are the "traitors"? [More]

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Massive new gun ban for Illinois could be voted on as early as today

Today and tomorrow, and also next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, the Illinois legislature is in veto session, and could vote on Quinn's veto any time (with the Senate expected to do so first). State Senator Dave Luechtefeld (R), the sponsor of the bill, hopes to override the veto. That is not out of the realm of possibility, because it was passed with well over the three fifths majority needed for the override. On the other hand, some of those who voted for the original bill are, as mentioned, anti-gun Democrats, who will likely lack the moral courage to defy the will of the governor (the will of the people--the legislators' bosses--is, of course, of far less concern to them).

Still, Illinois residents should call their state senators as soon as possible, and urge a vote to override this blatant attack on the constitutions of both the state and the nation, and on the liberty of the citizens. [More]

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Assault and battery victim drives off assailant; CSGV wants him arrested

This, remember, is the group whose executive director, Josh Horwitz, urged forcible citizen disarmament advocates to "embrace self-defenders," and thus isolate them from CSGV's main enemy: "Insurrectionists" (a term Horwitz always capitalizes). Horwitz advocates this "embrace," despite directing an organization that only changed its name from "National Coalition to Ban Handguns" (handguns being, remember, the "quintessential self-defense weapon," according to the Supreme Court), because by then they also wanted to ban so-called "assault weapons" (also very valuable for self-defense, especially when attackers are numerous, wearing body armor, etc.).

CSGV, then, is once again siding with a violent criminal, against a bona fide "self-defender," one of the people CSGV wants the forcible citizen disarmament lobby to "embrace." And they call us "traitors." [More]

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No excuse for Black Friday NICS failures

Realistically, of course, the political will to dismantle the background check system will not exist any time in the foreseeable future. That takes us back to the other option--"fixing" NICS to make it robust enough to handle any conceivable volume of sales. That will no doubt require money--not a pleasing prospect in these times of soaring national debt and out of control government spending.

Still, what price can be put on freedom? No cost is too high to protect Americans from any further hardship in arming themselves to protect their homes, lives, families and liberty. A free people cannot afford not to keep access to the tools of life and liberty preservation (and genocide prevention) as easy as possible. [More]

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Obama administration rumored to be considering semiautomatic ban by decree

Still, though, Obama's hostility to an armed American citizenry is well documented, as is his willingness to bypass Congress when that darned Constitution and its inconvenient separation of powers get in the way.

What he needs to realize is that this move, if he makes it, would start a war. It is not a war he would win. [More]

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Writer says gun rights are safe, and gun rights advocates are bigoted white men

Milligan was of course not done yet. No condemnation of "gun nuts" could possibly be complete without describing them as white men ("Ward Cleaver"-types, in Milligan's piece), prejudiced against non-whites, women, homosexuals, etc. (What? Nothing about the inadequacy of gun rights advocates' reproductive anatomy? The space allotted for Milligan's piece must have been running low).

There may be "nuts" and bigots in the gun rights/"gun control" debate--but Milligan and her ideological allies who wish to find them would be best advised to look for them in a mirror. [More]

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Bomb-making, 'assault weapon' hording 'insurrectionist'--and 'Occupier'--jailed

According to CSGV, advising readers to download and file any information they can find on the construction of improvised explosive weapons, in case such information is needed someday to thwart a government bent on tyranny, is "treason," (a capital crime, meaning, basically, that CSGV is calling for the author's execution). Actually acquiring bomb-making materials, to oppose "the capitalist free market paradigm," and to "fight against gross inequality in distribution of income and assets," as part of "the second American independence revolution," does not even merit discussion.

The "Coalition to Stop Gun Violence" seems rather unconcerned about any potential violence to be committed by the Army of "Occupation." And we are the "traitors"? [More]

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Gun-hater calls for forcible disarmament based on ideology

This correspondent would certainly not meet Kamm's ideological requirements for gun ownership--a point of considerable pride. The question is, what does Kamm intend to do about it? Whose sons and daughters is he willing to send into harm's way in order to enforce his dream of ideology-based disarmament? [More]

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Illinois gun owners wishing to secede from U.S. may have it backward

The Illinois state constitution does include its own protection for the right to keep and bear arms, but (at the urging of Cook County politicians) Section 22 of the state constitution was amended in 1970 to qualify the right to keep and bear arms with "Subject only to the police power." In other words, gun rights in Illinois "shall not be infringed"--except to the extent that the state chooses to infringe on them.

It seems as if Illinois gun owners might be better off petitioning to join the United States, since they seem at the moment to be denied one of the rights guaranteed--at least in theory--to residents of the other 49 states. On November 6, in fact, the voters in 10 Illinois counties (100% of the counties that had put the measure up for a vote) approved non-binding resolutions in support of concealed carry. [More]

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Psychiatrist displays his anti-gun insanity

A reduction in violence is not necessary to justify more draconian gun laws--if the laws help express his distaste for guns, that is all the justification he needs.

Doctor, heal thyself--or better yet, find a better, saner healer for that job. [More]

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Anti-gun immigrant chides Americans for 'literal following of the Constitution'

We "need to get off [our] literal following of the Constitution"? We are, in other words, to believe that the supreme law of the land is to be taken figuratively? What point could there be to a Constitution in which every guarantee of the people's rights can be dismissed as not really meaning what it says? What would be to stop the government from claiming, for example, that the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech is a figure of, well . . . speech?

As Americans, we will not be limited to only the rights that meet the approval of someone who believes that the Constitution is no more than a suggestion to the government about the limits on its power. [More]

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Colorado, Washington pot reforms make 'progressive' case for Firearm Freedom Act

The next step should be to protect commerce in both guns and marijuana with legislation patterned off Wyoming's Firearms Freedom Act, which imposes criminal penalties on agents of the federal government who enforce federal gun laws in defiance of Wyoming law (a proposed, but not passed, New Hampshire law would have gone even further, and made the penalty a felony).

Given the power of the federal government, the state police and county sheriffs would likely need some assistance in enforcing these laws against violation by federal agencies like the DEA and BATFE. A strong, well equipped militia would be just the ticket, although the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence would inevitably shriek "insurrection!" [More]

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Post-election guns and ammo panic buying spree has begun: There is a better way

If you do not yet have the weapons, ammunition and ancillary gear you need to defend your family, your freedom and your life, it would certainly make sense to acquire them as soon as possible--while it is possible. For the future, though, think about how preferable it would be to defeat the evil of forcible citizen disarmament, rather than scrambling in preparation for enduring it. [More]

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No election will bring about 'government monopoly on force'

No one wants liberty to hang on "voting from the rooftops" (or perhaps, given the recent dust-up with the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, "voting from the explosives workshop"), but that will happen before we allow ourselves to be disarmed. Depend on it. [More]

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CSGV equates knowledge with 'insurrection,' wants it suppressed

Acquiring theoretical knowledge about how to build such weapons is preparation--and rather early stage preparation, at that. The government's preparations for war with the people could be said to be rather further along, and remember that this administration claims the "clear authority" to kill U.S. citizens without trial. If preparation for war is the same as waging it, as CSGV seems to contend, then the war has already started, with the government as the aggressor.

As Mike Vanderboegh (the real target of Horwitz's latest) has often said (worded various ways), "If the rule of law no longer protects us from government tyranny, it no longer protects that tyranny and its acolytes from us." The government would be very well advised to remember that, and also that the resistance will be equipped with more than firearms. [More]

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Coalition to Stop Gun Violence lowers bar on what constitutes 'liberty'

In a very real sense, CSGV is claiming that there can be no tyranny, no serfdom, no oppression, as long as the government generously restrains itself from actually killing the people (although CSGV advocates a government "right" to do that, too).

Imagine if, for the birth of our nation, we were not blessed with the greatness of Patrick Henry, but instead cursed with the abject, boot-licking cowardice of CSGV. "Give me liberty or give me death" would have been replaced with "Give me liberty, or . . . not, but at least let me keep my pathetic, cowardly life!" If, instead of Benjamin Franklin, we had CSGV: "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve a big pat on the back for being so clever." There would, in short, have been no birth of the United States of America as a free nation. [More]

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Oath Keepers alter 'the guys with the guns make the rules' calculus in our favor

The Oath Keepers are one more obstacle in the path of CSGV's "government monopoly on force," and still more unforgivably, act as that obstacle despite being what groups like CSGV hope would be a primary instrument of that monopoly. Bad news for the government's war at home--and its CSGV cheerleaders. [More]

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