Op-Ed: The AR-15 - The Gun Liberals Love to Hate

by David Keene Politician after politician have joined the television talking heads in calling for a new "assault weapons ban" patterned after the ten-year Clinton ban that was allowed to lapse in 2004 after Justice Department and private studies concluded it had no impact whatsoever on murder and violent crime rates and had become a symbol of wrong-headed governmental attempts to restrict...

"Universal Background Checks" – Absolutely Not

by Marion P. Hammer Imagine a grandfather who wants to give a family shotgun to his 12-year-old grandson having to do a background check on his grandson before giving him the shotgun. Or a friend having to do a background check on his lifetime best buddy before lending him a hunting rifle. Or, if your mother had a prowler at her home, having to do a background check on your own Mom before you...

Survey finds NRA members united

91% of NRA Members Support Laws to Stop Mentally Ill from Acquiring Firearms FAIRFAX, Va. – The National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action conducted a national scientific poll of its members and found near unanimity among NRA members on a wide range of issues involving mental health reform and firearm rights. Gun control advocates including New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg,...

Gun owners: The time to stand up is now!

Editor's Note: This op-ed was originally published at WorldNetDaily.com . by Gerard Valentino There have been times the pro-gun lobby looked irrelevant in America and when it looked like the private ownership of firearms was going to be relegated to the historical scrap heap. This is not that time. There was a time when owning a gun in American was seen as a sign of being socially backward, and...

Why am I being punished?

by Tim Inwood What crime have I committed? Under what legal concept am I guilty? Seriously, what did I have to do with the tragedy in Newtown? I did not know the shooter or his family, never have been to the town. In fact, I have no connection to any of the school shootings in this nation's history. However, as an American who chooses to own semi-automatic firearms, I and millions like me are...

Feinstein calls for banning more than 150 types of firearms; Government officials would be exempt

by Chad D. Baus The Daily Caller is reporting that California Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D) staged a press conference Thursday on Capitol Hill with 10 weapons at her side and unveiled legislation instituting a government ban on more than 150 types of firearms, including rifles, pistols and shotguns. From the article : Flanked by other anti-gun liberal lawmakers, including New York Sen. Chuck Schumer...

Op-ed: Gun control is about control, not guns

2nd Amendment is a check on government power by Thomas Lucente There is one truism that should not be forgotten in the national conversation on guns: Even if you repeal the Second Amendment it will have no affect on my God-given natural right to keep and bear arms. That is because rights are not political grants from government. Rights are inalienable gifts from Providence. We possess them by...

The True Source Of Random & Mass Shootings And Violence?

Why are politicians focusing on the tools mass murderers use instead of on how society may be creating its own monsters with the prevalent use of psychiatric and psychotropic drugs in children? Whether the mass murderers were on their medication at the time of their acts, or had stopped taking them, the following medical and psychiatric professionals believe the drugs are to blame, not the tools...

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