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Senate Bill would allow "mentally Incapacitated" vets to buy guns

Major Nidal Hasan, accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood Army base, has been... more

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Penn & Teller: Gun Control

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Innocents Betrayed - Full

170,000,000. That's the number of civilians that have been murdered by their own... more

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Badass of The Day; Dojo of the Four Winds

"In the absence of the warrior-protector, the only way that a government can protect a... more

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The Terror of Gun Control at Fort Hood

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Minor crash in New Orleans on Clearview Parkway turns into road-rage shooting

By Leslie Williams, The Times-Picayune October 21, 2009, 6:47PM A "minor" traffic... more

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The Right to Bare Arms Strikes Again

A literal gun carrying soccer mom that actually brought her loaded side arm to her... more

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Montana to feds: we don't want your gun control

HELENA - A lawsuit challenging federal gun control in Montana was filed in U.S.... more

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Boy 8, fatally shoots little sister 2.

A tragic story that should remind everyone how important gun safety is. An 8 year... more

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APlaystation Cost More Than A Choppa{AK47}....GUN CONTROL

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Christ on a Cracker: Jon Voight accuses Obama of provoking civil war

Voight asks, "Is President Obama creating a civil war?" Actor Jon Voight is on his... more

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Peaceful Gun Carrying is Possible? Who Knew?!

In Israel, where weapons permits are issued to those that need them, and are limited... more

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APlaystation Cost More Than A Choppa{AK47}....GUN CONTROL

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White House backs right to bear arms outside Obama events, if state laws allow

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Assault Weapon Brought To Obama Protest

About a dozen people carrying guns, including one with a military-style rifle, milled among protesters outside the convention center where President Barack Obama was giving a speech Monday — the latest incident in which protesters have openly displayed firearms near the president.
Gun-rights advocates say they're exercising their constitutional right to bear arms and protest, while those who argue for more gun control say it could be a disaster waiting to happen.
Phoenix police said the gun-toters at Monday's event, including the man carrying an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle slung over his shoulder, didn't need permits. No crimes were committed, and no one was arrested.
The man with the rifle declined to be identified but told The Arizona Republic that he was carrying the assault weapon because he could. "In Arizona, I still have some freedoms," he said.
Phoenix police Detective J. Oliver, who monitored the man at the downtown protest, said police also wanted to make sure no one decided to harm him.
"Just by his presence and people seeing the rifle and people knowing the president was in town, it sparked a lot of emotions," Oliver said. "We were keeping peace on both ends."
Last week, during Obama's health care town hall in Portsmouth, N.H., a man carrying a sign reading "It is time to water the tree of liberty" stood outside with a pistol strapped to his leg.
"It's a political statement," he told The Boston Globe. "If you don't use your rights, then you lose your rights."
Police asked the man to move away from school property, but he was not arrested.
Fred Solop, a Northern Arizona University political scientist, said the incidents in New Hampshire and Arizona could signal the beginning of a disturbing trend.
"When you start to bring guns to political rallies, it does layer on another level of concern and significance," Solop said. "It actually becomes quite scary for many people. It creates a chilling effect in the ability of our society to carry on honest communication."
He said he's never heard of someone bringing an assault weapon near a presidential event. "The larger the gun, the more menacing the situation," he said.
Phoenix was Obama's last stop on a four-day tour of western states, including Montana and Colorado.
Authorities in Montana said they received no reports of anyone carrying firearms during Obama's health care town hall near Bozeman on Friday. About 1,000 people both for and against Obama converged at a protest area near the Gallatin Field Airport hangar where the event took place. One person accused of disorderly conduct was detained and released, according to the Gallatin Airport Authority.
Heather Benjamin of Denver's Mesa County sheriff's department, the lead agency during Obama's visit there, said no one was arrested.
Arizona is an "open-carry" state, which means anyone legally allowed to have a firearm can carry it in public as long as it's visible. Only someone carrying a concealed weapon is required to have a permit.
Paul Helmke, president of the Washington, D.C.-based Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, said people should not be allowed to bring guns to events where Obama is.
"To me, this is craziness," he said. "When you bring a loaded gun, particularly a loaded assault rifle, to any political event, but particularly to one where the president is appearing, you're just making the situation dangerous for everyone."
He said people who bring guns to presidential events are distracting the Secret Service and law enforcement from protecting the president. "The more guns we see at more events like this, there's more potential for something tragic happening," he said.

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Guns are anti-Freedom and Blasphemy is Fun!

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OSHA nominee David Michaels and gun control

MICHAELS QUOTE "because once you start viewing private gun ownership as a public... more

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Lawsuit Seeks Right to Carry Concealed Weapons in the D.C.

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Never ending torrent of lies fuel Gun Control

If you don't have the truth on your side, just make things up as you go. That seems to be the motto of the gun control movement. Misleading facts, skewed statistics, and outright lies are the meat and potatoes of their efforts to nudge public opinion in their favor.
Take, for example, the issue of controlling the flow of illegal guns into Mexico, a lie that has been exposed in this column, as well as by several other Gun Rights Examiners. It is simply not true that 90% of the guns used by the Mexican drug cartels come from the United States, but saying so makes it easier to follow up with applying international pressure to reinstate the failed "assault weapons ban." Now, they're trying the same lie to get pressure from Canada as well.
As expected, the gun grabbers are using this week's fitness gym shooting to rally more support for restricting concealed carry after at least one source is claiming the shooter had a ccw permit. Even if that turns out to be true, arguing that abuse of the system by a small majority means that the vast majority cannot be trusted is absurd. Most drunk drivers have a driver's license. Do we take those away from everyone in order to cut down on alcohol related traffic accidents? It's an established fact that nearly every subset of society has a few bad apples, but that doesn't spoil the bunch.
Sensationalism by the media plays into this as well. They do it not only to push an agenda (it seems many urban newspapers are run by anti-gun editors) but also to sell papers and bring eyeballs to the screen. For example, the Lorain Morning Journal is reporting that a city councilman found a "9mm Intratec machine gun" outside a vacant house. This undoubtedly* refers to the TEC-9, a pistol recently demonized by the mainstream media for being a scary black gun. However, it is not a machine gun and is little different from many other semi-automatic handguns. But, you can't let little facts like that get in the way of a good story. While it is possible that it was illegally modified to fire fully automatic, that is an unlikely scenario.
Groups like the Brady Campaign are using Judge Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court as an example of the waning power of the NRA and the gun rights movement, trying to make it seem like gun control is inevitable and people should just give up on trying to protect those rights. Yet recent polling indicates that gun rights are more popular now than they've been in many years. Gun control pundits can only hope that the lies drown out the truth in order to sway public opinion back to their side.If you don't have the truth on your side, just make things up as you go. That seems to... more

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POLL RESULTS Gun Control Results

Senate Bill would allow "mentally Incapacitated" vets to buy guns

Penn & Teller: Gun Control

Innocents Betrayed - Full

Badass of The Day; Dojo of the Four Winds

The Terror of Gun Control at Fort Hood

Minor crash in New Orleans on Clearview Parkway turns into road-rage shooting

The Right to Bare Arms Strikes Again

Montana to feds: we don't want your gun control

Boy 8, fatally shoots little sister 2.

APlaystation Cost More Than A Choppa{AK47}....GUN CONTROL

Christ on a Cracker: Jon Voight accuses Obama of provoking civil war

Peaceful Gun Carrying is Possible? Who Knew?!

APlaystation Cost More Than A Choppa{AK47}....GUN CONTROL

White House backs right to bear arms outside Obama events, if state laws allow

Assault Weapon Brought To Obama Protest

Guns are anti-Freedom and Blasphemy is Fun!

OSHA nominee David Michaels and gun control

Lawsuit Seeks Right to Carry Concealed Weapons in the D.C.

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