by Mike Sweeney. Going back over the last two to three years we have often encountered groups of medical doctors who are organizing, crafting a message, and implementing protocols which will enable them to strip a law abiding citizen of their Second Amendment rights. We first encountered the doctors at public forums, which were ... MORE
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Medical Doctors, Organizing To Restrict Your Freedom
by Mike Sweeney. Going back over the last two to three years we have often encountered groups of medical doctors who are organizing, crafting a message, and implementing protocols which will enable them to strip a law abiding citizen of their Second Amendment rights. We first encountered the doctors at public forums, which were ... MORENew Court Decision Could Restore Right To Carry In CA
California acknowledges the 2nd Amendment! A procedural decision in a landmark Second Amendment case could spell the end for California laws restricting the issuance of permits to carry concealed handguns. The decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals would bar other law enforcement officials, including state Attorney ... MOREAmericans Now Understand Guns Make Homes Safer
by Jason Keisling & J.D. Tuccille. "An armed society is a polite society" - Robert A. Heinlein. After Washington state voters passed an initiative imposing
background checks on people willing to subject even their private
and largely untraceable transaction to goverment scrutiny,
opponents of self-defense rights proclaimed that they've
found a ... MORERules of Engagement For Resisting The Police State
by John W. Whitehead. The language of freedom is no longer the common tongue spoken by the citizenry and their government. The perils of resisting the police state grow more costly with each passing day, especially if you hope to escape with your life and property intact. The thing you must remember is that we’ve entered an age of ... MORERight of Self Defense in Texas Completely Depends on Race
By all means if you're white. In the first stage of what is known as general adaptation syndrome, a recognized natural response among all vertebrates and many other organisms is hyperarousal or acute stress response. In its more recognizable name, the “fight or flight” response is a natural physiological reaction to a perceived harmful event, ... MOREDeath Penalty For Man Who Defends Self In No-Knock Raid?
State wants to kill him for protecting his home. Prosecutors will seek the death penalty against a man charged in the shooting death of a veteran Killeen police officer. Marvin Louis Guy, 49, has been indicted for capital murder in the shooting death of police Detective Charles “Chuck” Dinwiddie, 47, and is named in indictments charging ... MOREBarry Farber: Little Boy, Big Flash
In praise of the life-saving bomb. A recent study revealed that over 98 percent of 3-year-olds believe the reason there’s glass on television sets is to keep the people from falling out! Is there a comparably grotesque absurdity among grown-ups? The answer is Yes, and it comes to mind every August when the anniversary of the ... MORESteve Chapman: The Courts Advance Concealed Guns
Concealed carry is the overwhelming norm. Gun-control advocates are learning the downside of getting their way. Recently, a federal judge struck down the District of Columbia's ban on the carrying of concealed handguns. Anti-gun forces have been losing in legislatures for a long time. Now they are finding that even where they win, ... MOREWalter E Williams: Western Anti-Semitism
Israel should be supported. Navi Pillay, U.N. high commissioner for human rights, has accused both Israel and Hamas militants of committing war crimes in the Gaza conflict. Her harshest criticism, as well as that of most nations, has been reserved for the Israeli government, charging that it has committed war crimes in direct violation ... MOREFrank Pariato: Jury Nullification Set Wild Bill Hickok Free
Although he killed a man illegally. On July 20 1865, James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok was playing in a poker game at the Lyon House Hotel in Springfield MO., when a friend of his, Davis Tutt showed up claiming Hickok owed him $45 from an earlier game. Hickok said he only owed $25 since he had paid Tutt $20 some days before. Tutt snatched ... MORE
Katie Kieffer: A Bullet A Day Keeps The Doctor Alive
You and I avoid visiting the doctor by eating well. Doctors like Lee Silverman carry concealed in order to care for us when we do need them. Doctors and medical professionals should be allowed to carry concealed. Last week, a psychiatrist named Dr. Lee Silverman technically broke the letter of the law by carrying concealed at work. ... MORECan We Fight Police Brutality With “Massive Open Carry”?
by Trevor Lyman. Those of us that are aware of the problem of police brutality are desperately looking for a way to stop it via peaceful means. I believe that if the majority of the public were to open carry (which I would call “massive open carry”), police brutality would diminish greatly for two main reasons: hb1.) More often than not the ... MOREWalter E Williams: Our Unwillingness To Defend Ourselves
Welcoming the barbarians. The U.S. Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that 2012 losses because of personal identity theft totaled $24.7 billion. The money losses from identity theft pale in comparison with the costs of paperwork, time and inconvenience imposed on the larger society in an effort to protect ourselves. ... MOREKatie Kieffer: Let Students Carry On Campus
Why force students into being sitting ducks? Pepper spray, police and cardboard signs failed to prevent the June 5 Seattle Pacific University shooting. Let’s stop mass violence on college campuses by defending college students’ right to carry firearms on campus. Tragically, this is the third column this year that I must write defending ... MOREPolls Show Most Americans See Through Gun Control Spin
by Steve Sanetti. Gun control advocates are often quoted in media accounts as saying that the vast majority of Americans are in favor of stricter gun control laws before they spin off onto the particular “commonsense” new law they are espousing that day from that organization. Leaving aside the often dubious sources they cite, ... MORE
Symbol of Freedom or An Invitation to Violence?
by John Whitehead. The 2nd Amendment: “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” You can largely determine where a person will fall in the debate over gun control and the Second Amendment based on their view of government and ... MOREGun Control: A War Not A Conversation
by William A. Levinson. President Obama said previously that the nation needed to have a "conversation" about gun control, and he reiterated this agenda in his State of the Union speech. New York's Governor, Andrew Cuomo, has subsequently boasted that his SAFE Act has criminalized law-abiding gun owners for "offenses" such as having ... MOREDavid Kopel: Concealed Carry Is Winning
See the growth chart of right to carry. The chart below shows how Shall Issue laws for the licensed carrying of firearms for self-defense have become the American norm. As of 1986, slightly less than 10% of the U.S. population lived in states where there were objective and fair procedures for the issuance of concealed handgun carry ... MORE
Paul Elias: California's Concealed Weapons Rules Tossed
Local government nannies don't trump 2nd Amendment. A divided federal appeals court on Thursday struck down California concealed-weapons rules, saying they violate the Second Amendment right to bear arms. The 2-1 ruling of a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said California counties were wrong to ... MORE
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