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'Enough is Enough': While Washington Vacations, a War Rages Here at Home

12:10am Thursday, August 16, 2007

By Newt Gingrich HumanEvents.com I was just about to speak to the Republican gathering in Ames, Iowa, Saturday when I learned something so distressing that it caused me to change the topic of my speech. By now you have heard about the three young college students who were murdered execution-style in Newark, N.J., last week. Another student was shot in the head but survived. What you might not...

Op-ed: Thugs find it more difficult if populace is armed

12:05am Thursday, August 16, 2007

By Charl Van Wyck A gunman opened fire in the sanctuary of a southwest Missouri, USA, church Sunday Aug. 12, 2007, killing a pastor and two worshippers and wounding several others. My condolences go out to the local congregation, friends and family of the worshippers who were holding the service at the First Congregational Church. This abominable act is not the first time that churchgoers have...

Pro-Gun Punditry: Wednesday's Buckeye State Roundabout

8:59am Wednesday, August 15, 2007

By Chris Chumita There are more stories pertaining to our gun rights in Ohio then we can possibly draw attention to with individual daily commentary. But they are all worthy of mention. What follows is our review of headlines from around the state though a pro-gun rights lens. From another shooting in a church to a cocaine shortage in Cleveland, these articles should be a part of your required...

The Unabridged Second Amendment

12:05am Wednesday, August 15, 2007

The following was originally published in 1991 by the Second Amendment Foundation's The New Gun Week magazine. by J. Neil Schulman If you wanted to know all about the Big Bang, you'd ring up Carl Sagan, right? And if you wanted to know about desert warfare, the man to call would be Norman Schwartzkopf, no question about it. But who would you call if you wanted the top expert on American usage, to...

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Newsweek Photo Gallery: "One Nation, Under Gun"

12:10am Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Inspired by a dinner conversation with an ex-staffer for a 2004 Presidential candidate whose job it was to "wrangle" the gun vote, photographer Kyle Cassidy wanted to find out who gun owners are, what they look like and how they live. So he traveled 15,000 miles over the course of two years taking pictures of people with their weapons and asking them one question: 'Why do you own a gun?' His new...

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HR1897, Carry in National Parks: A bill whose time is past due

12:05am Monday, August 13, 2007

By Tim Inwood United States Representative Ron Paul has introduced a bill that I hope gets some traction. HR1897 would restore our ability to carry firearms in the National Parks for our defense. How important is this? Every year we hear some terrible story of someone getting mauled or killed by wild animals on Federally owned land - land that we are encouraged to visit and pay for, but where we...

Better Trained: Cop killers or the police officers they kill?

12:10am Friday, August 10, 2007

By Ken Hanson In the first part of this series we examined how those who dismiss criminals as being stupid are in fact themselves acting stupid. In another example of how dangerous it can be to underestimate the two-legged predators who walk among us, the FBI has recently finished a five year study of cop killers and the shootouts that took the officer’s life. While I have only seen a summary and...

Who is to blame when children have accidents with guns?

12:10am Thursday, August 09, 2007

By Chad D. Baus It's all too familiar a story : A 12-year-old boy was critically injured Tuesday night after he was shot in the chest by a gun that was found in the street. Police said the boy and a 10-year-old friend found the loaded weapon in an alley behind the 300 block of South Napoleon Avenue on the city's east side. "One child, the 10-year-old, was shot in the hand," said Columbus police...