'Harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon'? Maybe if you ignore economics

Besides, is anyone seriously trying to argue that the right to effective fighting arms is less fundamental than the right to vote? What would you rather say to the government hired gun coming to haul you off to the gulag--"Stop, or I won't vote for your boss," or "Stop, or I'll shoot your testicles off'?" Is Clinton also unaware that, "When democracy turns to tyranny, the armed citizen still gets to vote"? That's a dangerous lapse. [More]

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Sen. Leahy says state marijuana laws 'should be respected'; what about gun laws?

Gun rights advocates and marijuana reform activists are not commonly regarded as natural allies, but in this case, they are fighting the same battle--the battle against a federal government that has usurped power to regulate things over which it has no legitimate authority. Hang together . . . [More]

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Australia condemns 'corruptive' US gun culture; France considers importing it

The U.S. gun culture "is corrupting the world?" Perhaps in the viewpoint of one who speaks for the predators, including those who are "wolves in gangbangers' clothing." [More]

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The face of 'gun control': Murderer of own parents wants more guns banned

In the final analysis, though, how much more reprehensible can murderers and rapists be, than those who seek to provide them with a pool of helpless victims? [More]

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Bill would hugely expand tax burden on gun owners, to finance their oppressors

This is just the latest example of this administration's evident intent to use the U.S. military against its political enemies among the U.S. citizenry, but perhaps the first time it has acknowledged seeing the Framers of the Constitution as the ideological forebears of today's "extremists" whom they intend to be prepared to kill. The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence must be thrilled.

Has the case for the vital importance of the Oath Keepers ever been stronger? [More]

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Jesse Jackson says racially motivated black-on-white murder is 'frowned upon'

Jackson and Sharpton are, of course, in addition to being professional race hustlers, also long-time, vocal advocates for every forcible citizen disarmament law ever proposed. As such, they often meet with the gun rights advocates' reply of "Molon labe." Perhaps Jackson will benefit from a bit of clarification, to better match his intellectual capacity: "Molon labe :-(." [More]

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Illinois Governor Quinn signs new gun law to punish crime victims

So, in summary, a bill that would have required that sex offender registration fees be used for programs intended to combat sex crimes, has instead morphed into a law that A) makes potential criminals of theft victims; B) sort of "requires" someone selling a gun to check with the state police on the validity of the prospective buyer's FOID card, but imposes no penalties for not doing so--making the "law" more akin to a suggestion; and C) makes it easier for cops with a mental illness history to have their gun rights restored than is the case for the rest of us.

The Chicago Tribune tells us that according to Illinois State Police Director Hiram Grau, this "makes perfect sense." Alrighty, then. [More]

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'Nuisance property' laws illustrate folly of the 'police will protect you' myth

In the final analysis, as bad as eviction--and possible homelessness--would be, it's far from the worst possible consequence of relying on 911 for one's personal security. [More]

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Gov. Christie is anti-gun extremist, .50 caliber ban veto notwithstanding

If, in other words, New Jersey's anti-gun legislators had been content to "merely" ban future sales of the rifles, and impose draconian regulation and registration of "grandfathered" .50 calibers, Christie would have cheerfully signed it.

Christie is hardly any less an anti-gun extremist than those who are excoriating him over the veto. He simply finds it politically expedient to hide it marginally better, and their condemnation of him helps him in that effort. One cannot help but wonder if that is the idea. [More]

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Newly discovered 'gun control playbook' codifies old strategy of 'blood dancing'

This is one of the greatest differences between those of us who defend the Constitutionally guaranteed, fundamental human right of the individual to keep and bear arms, and those who would rob us of it if they could. We see the slaughter of innocents as unmitigated evil, without a single redeeming quality.

They, on the other hand, see it as opportunity--they need the dead children, the puddles of blood, in order to win support for forcible citizen disarmament. That disarmament, of course, renders still more people defenseless. From among them will come the next "opportunity."

Mass killers and the "gun control" lobby--BFFs. [More]

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Bloomberg apologist makes no pretense of reasonable suspicion for stop-and-frisk

He concludes with the claim that the ruling denies New Yorkers the "freedom from fear." He remains oddly silent about the fear of armed government goons empowered to grope you, on the basis of your skin color, send you to prison if they catch you with the means to defend your life, and to kill you if you "lift a finger" against their thuggery.

A decent person cannot help but cling to the fervent hope that there will one day be a reckoning for all the evils in the world. Let us further hope that this reckoning will extend to the cheerleaders for those evils. Ready for the reckoning, Podhoretz? [More]

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Bloomberg's 'stop-and-frisk' defeat is victory for civil rights

Perhaps most egregiously, one defense of the policy is that the objective is not really to catch criminals in the act (of carrying contraband--specifically guns). The idea behind stopping hundreds of thousands of blacks and Hispanics per year--the vast majority of them innocent--is to instill fear in every member of these ethnic groups--fear that they will be stopped-and-frisked, so they had better obey New York's mandated defenselessness edicts.

Some might call that terrorism. It's probably too much to ask that Bloomberg and Kelly be charged for it, and even more excessively optimistic to hope that they resist arrest, and face the same consequences for such resistance as the NYPD likes to impose. [More]

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New Jersey now disarms political 'undesirables'

Perhaps the most alarming aspect of this is that the anti-gun bills Christie has not signed (yet) are being described as the "controversial" ones--meaning, presumably, that the 10 he has signed, including the "suspected terrorist" gun ban, are apparently perceived to be unquestionably appropriate infringements upon that which shall not be infringed.

Then again, the Persians probably didn't expect the capture of Thermopylae to be as "controversial" as it turned out to be, either. Molon labe. [More]

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Is NJ Governor Christie re-thinking his position on .50 caliber rifle bans?

If Christie does veto A 3659, he will still be a forcible citizen disarmament zealot; an anti-gun jihadist. It would illustrate, though, that he is at least politically savvy enough to make some effort to hide his extremist hatred of an armed citizenry. Let us hope that voters have learned about the folly of empowering candidates who try to disguise their ideology until after the election.

The next step is for him to learn that electoral defeat is far from the worst thing that can happen to an oath-breaking public official. [More]

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Police department rejects 'safety' device anti-gun groups claim is necessary

The Colorado Springs Police Department seems to have concluded that the ability to shoot accurately in a crisis (and any gun fight is certainly a crisis) is more conducive to safety than a "feature" designed to enable consequence-free careless gun handling (and, incidentally, render the gun useless during a magazine change, or when the magazine is released during a struggle for the gun).

Will "gun safety" groups forgive them? [More]

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St. Louis firm threatens to sue over 'Second Amendment Preservation Act'

Newman's Huffington Post biography states that he challenged Missouri's concealed carry law (with a notable lack of success, obviously, but was still "named one of the top 10 lawyers in the state that year for that effort"), and that "[f]or the past 15 years he has lectured throughout Missouri about the Second Amendment." Between that and his law school position, that's a whole lot of lying in service to the forcible citizen disarmament agenda. [More]

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Rabidly anti-gun California congressman hopes to ban . . . everything

Then again, since Waxman apparently wants to ban any chunk of metal (or plastic) from which a firearm receiver could be fashioned, an expansion of what constitutes a banned "assault weapon" is arguably small potatoes. [More]

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'Gun insurance' requirement would be punitive tax

This is a punitive tax on gun ownership--a transparent attempt to thin the ranks of legal gun owners by rendering legal gun ownership too expensive for many. As such, it is directly analogous to the odious poll taxes of the Reconstruction Era, in that it puts legal exercise of this fundamental human right out of reach of the poor--who are not only disproportionately comprised of ethnic minorities, but also disproportionately likely to live in neighborhoods where armed self-defense is likely to be necessary.

Harvey's proposal does have one thing going for it. During the reign of an administration that has shown both its rabid hostility to an armed citizenry, and an enthusiastic willingness to use the power of taxation as a weapon against political enemies, such legislation is likely to have powerful patrons within the government. [More]

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IL state senator gives violence victim a slap in the face

Ms. Shepard, through her incredible strength and courage, has won the state's recognition of her fundamental human right of self-defense, in church and out. Kotowski is trying to take that away from her. He stands with the future Willis Bates and Terry Sedlaceks of Illinois, and against their intended victims.

Some might say Kotowski has earned himself a particularly toasty spot in Hell for that. Any Twitter users care to tell him? [More]

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VPC continues to demonize free enterprise along with concealed carry

"[T]he greatest beneficiary of national concealed carry stands to be the gun industry"? The people who, because they can defend themselves, will not be raped and/or murdered, might beg to differ. Then again, perhaps gun rights advocates are finally reaching the point where we're through begging.

It is also worth noting that, as always, opposition to an armed, independent citizenry, and opposition to a free market economy are naturally allied ideologies. [More]

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IL medical cannabis users would have to choose between self-defense and medicine

This column has no interest in wading into the debate over the efficacy of cannabis as medicine. The intent here is to note that in Illinois, one can choose legal armed self-defense, or (probably, eventually) legal cannabis. If you decide you need both, though, at least one of the two had better be "off the books." [More]

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