II. 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.
November 16, 2009
COMMENTARY Obama administration criminalizes gun ownership 11-16-09
If you think the title is hyberole or exaggeration, think again. Once you see what the Obama administration has already done, and consider what the Obama administration is actively working on, you'll agree with the author, too.- BLOG ENTRY Those Who Would Dominate Us Will First Deny Us Our Arms 11-15-09
Well, yes. And just because they're being a little mor subtle about it than some of us feared they'd be doesn't negate the ultimate goal, does it? - Obama revives talk of U.N. gun control 11-14-09
Forget the writing on the agreement. The writing is on the wall, folks...
November 13, 2009
COMMENTARY Time to Put An End to Army Bases as Gun-Free Zones 11-13-09
Once again, John Lott is exactly right. And I have to agree with the idea that if more of the media spent more time being exactly right about this sort of thing, the firearms debate would change, and it would change dramatically. Meanwhile, more people who are prohibited by law from defending their own lives, will probably die...- Hasan Had Multiple E-mail Accounts, Officials Said 11-12-09
How on earth, seeing all of this in combination with the other information concerning Hasan's Muslim extremism, can some people still blame the gun? The Brady Bunch et al obviously have an agenda that has nothing to do with the facts!
November 12, 2009
- The Brady Campaign against their own words 11-12-09
Despite the nauseating hypocricy from the Brady Bunch involved, this is actually a pretty amusing little story. And here's an irony for you: If the Brady Bunch had pretended it was a slip of the lip, just an error made in the excitement of the moment, I still wouldn't have believed it but I would have let it go. The fight it's putting up, though, leads me to believe every moment of the omissions was calculated and deliberate. I suppose that's all you can do when there's not a single fact on your side. - Violence Policy Center worries that Supreme Court will heed the Constitution 11-11-09
Oops. Don't you hate when you actually say what you're thinking and it's only after the words come out of your mouth that you remember what you're thinking isn't going to make you look very good? But hey, thanks for ignoring the Fifth Amendment along with the Second, and feel free to incriminate yourself some more at will! (For the record, would I consider gun grabbers to be domestic enemies? I hadn't thought about it in precisely those terms, but now that I do, well, yeah.) - Obama to attack guns as public-health threat? 11-11-09
Not only do I believe this is possible, I consider it likely. Such a technique circumvents Congress, alleviates Obama of any gun rights questions, and could be implemented quite literally over night. Yup, that sounds just about right for this administration. Our best bet? Stop David Michaels from getting any authority. Any. - Barack & Load 11-10-09
You know what? I'm perfectly okay with the fact that Alan Gottlieb makes money as a pro-freedom activist. This article points to that fact like it's a bad thing, but then again, much of the article seems slanted. Still, it's interesting and might even be considered another feather in Gottlieb's cap. Here's hoping he continues making money doing what he does. I think he's worth it.
November 11, 2009
- Free Speech Rights Prevented Probe Into Hasan E-Mails, Investigator Says 11-11-09
Interestingly, the gun grabbers are out in full force exercising their own rights to free speech, even if that speech is both error-filled (okay, they're lying) and is encouraging the forcible removal of unalienable rights from law-abiding American citizens. - LETTER TO THE EDITOR Time to re-examine rights of Second Amendment 11-11-09
Once again, we see that in the mind of the typical gun grabber, the fundamentalist jihadist terrorist isn't to blame. No, it's America and the fact that her citizens actually have the right to secure the ability to defend themselves against criminals like the fundamentalist jihadist terrorist. Whether it's stupidity, ignorance, fear, or willful blindness on the part of these anti-freedom activisits is immaterial to the desired end result that would see virtually all of us living—and dying—at the mercy of criminals.
November 10, 2009
- COMMENTARY Fort Hood: Austin American-Statesman promotes gun control 11-09-09
There's no question that most (if not all) of the "facts" in error in the story are attributable to organized gun-grabbing organizations. But it's reporters (and news organizations) who apparently fall on the same side, and who use those misrepresentations in articles called "news" to further the goal, who are the worst of the group as far as I'm concerned.
November 9, 2009
- OH AG candidate Dave Yost answers gun rights questionnaire 11-09-09
The answers aren't bad at all (though I'm not fond of the notion that "limited" mitigation of rights is ever okay). That sounds like a simple enough decision to me! (NOTE: His opponent in the primary is actually at least as bad as any the Democrats might select to run against him in the general election. As a Senator, Mike DeWine repeatedly proved his RINO costume was more than skin deep, and he'd do no favors for freedom in Ohio as Attorney General there, either.) - COMMENTARY The Brady Campaign against veterans 11-09-09
I was right there with this columnist in my surety that the Brady Bunch would use this tragedy in some way to demonize guns. Sure enough, they found a way to do just that when the reality of this particular situation has nothing to do with guns and everything to do with Muslim extremists. Oh, but we mustn't criticize these misunderstood terrorists! Far better to go after the one tool we have to put us on an even footing with them... - COMMENTARY Reasonable Gun Control? A Law Enforcement View on Gun Control 11-09-09
With the exception of concealed carry permits (I don't believe in asking the state for permission to exercise an unalienable right), I agree with a whole lot of what's being said here. The act that it was written by a police officer only adds to both the credibility of the article as well as my sense of hope that more cops than not really are the good guys.
November 6, 2009
State gun storage law is argued before SJC 11-06-09
I'm afraid I have to agree with the expert on Constitutional law seeing as how he's entirely right and all. No definitive decision has been made as concerns state law vs. the Second Amendment. I think it's past time, and apparently so do plenty of other people since efforts are being made to bring an appropriate suit before the High Court. Now if only we can rely on the majority of the Justices to adhere to the Constitution we might actually see some illegal restraints on our unalienable rights rolled back. (As a more general aside, I was under the impression that state Constitutions cannot, by law, contradict the federal Constitution. Sounds to me like some states have gone well beyond that!)
November 5, 2009
- COMMENTARY Another State Introduces Firearms Freedom Act 11-06-09
Anything that honors the Constitution and freedom at the same time as it works to dishonor the opposite earns my personal approval. In my mind, there's little that's more indicative of freedom than the ability to adequately defend yourself, your family, and your property. Good for Ohio. - Supreme Judicial Court hears challenge to Mass. law that requires guns to be locked in homes
11-05-09
The "it's for the children" excuse is getting old. The bottom line is that these laws merely try to exercise what the government views as responsibility in the fear that parents won't exercise any. The truth is that the vast majority of gun owners don't lock their guns up (what would be the point of having one in the house if they did?), and the vast majority of gun owners' guns never shoot anybody, either by design or by accident. - The war on gun owners' privacy 11-05-09
The gun grabbers know they can't take our guns from us constitutionally. But they'll find ways to coerce, shame, or frighten them out of us if they can! And this is one way they can manage to do just that. I oppose such efforts by the government in the strongest possible terms. - Smoke medical pot, lose your Second Amendment gun rights? 11-04-09
I'm guessing here, but I suspect the same rules don't apply to people who enjoy the occasional cocktail. This isn't about the Second Amendment as much as it is about an anti-marijuana sentiment. But attempting to undermine someone's rights in the name of making an asinine (not to mention erroneous) point is both mean-spirited and unconstitutional.
November 4, 2009
- Gun Owners Win Big Election Victory 11-04-09
While this is good news, I'd like to point out the fact that it's news. Wouldn't it be nice to live in a country where pro-freedom candidates always won elections? Where pro-freedom positions didn't make the news? - Tennessee and Montana Challenge Federal Gun Laws 11-04-09
Challenging the feds over laws that are clearly unconstitutional isn't a "technique." I'm guessing the reporter is solidly on the side of the gun grabbers... - Maryland Judges Uphold State Anti-Handgun Law 11-03-09
Oh, I guess this decision was based on the part of the Second Amendment written in invisible ink, the part where exceptions are made to the overall "shall not be infringed" caveat.
November 3, 2009
- Bullets are speeding faster out of gun shops in U.S. 11-03-09
Let's not pretend that the reasons for this fact aren't very real and more than a little persistent. The answer to both is pretty much obvious. - Top gun advocate has message of survival 11-02-09
While this story is certainly an extreme example of heroism and the defense of life via a gun, it's by no means the only story of survival owed to a firearm. If liberals are so concerned with preserving every life, why is it they're so uninterested in counting all of these?
October 30, 2009
- United States joins General Assembly in vote on small arms trade 10-30-09
One proponent of this measure suggests it's "disingenuous" to suggest there are any Second Amendment implications here. If "disingenuous" means the beginnings of losing US sovereignty, then yes, it's disingenuous to suggest this is a Second Amendment or Constitutional issue. If "disingenous" means the beginnings of various and sundry gun control measures "just to keep track" in this country, then yes, it's disingenous to suggest this is a Second Amendment issue. And the way the Obama administration is busy redefining everything from "free speech" to "no taxes on the middle class," who knows what "disingenous" will mean by the time of the vote? - COMMENTARY CDC and guns — here it goes again! 10-30-09
I remember when the CDC tried this during the Clinton administration, and I'm frankly no more impressed with them or their argument now. The CDC is supposed to have a duty, not an agenda. Shame on them for wasting time on something that's none of their mandate or frankly any of their business. This situation definitely warrants a closer look and some nice—preferably very loud—complaints
About the Second Amendment
The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is one of the most mistakenly maligned and intentionally misunderstood of our freedoms. The use of the word "militia" often causes anti-gun groups and individuals to claim the amendment applies only to the National Guard, conveniently forgetting that the National Guard didn't exist when the Constitution was written and that, at the time of the writing, "militia" was clearly defined as "all able-bodied men."
The use of the words "the people," of course, are further indicators of the intent for the Second Amendment to apply to individuals (a point agreed upon by the vast majority of Constitutional scholars). Numerous further writings of the framers state in no uncertain terms, lest anyone misunderstand, that the Founders fully intended for individuals to be armed, both for self-defense against crime and as a hedge against government tyranny (a note for the "it can't happen here" crowd: Germany was a democracy, and Adolf Hitler was freely elected). Sadly, once fear and lawyers really get their teeth into something, case law becomes far less clear than the simple language in which the amendment was written.
I support in the strongest possible terms the unalienable right of the people to self-defense against those who would harm them. Should said people also employ their firearms for hunting or target shooting (as I've been known to do myself), I agree they are well within their rights to do that as well.
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