Category: gun politics
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Dear Mike Vanderboegh,
Thank you so much for making gun owners look like a bunch of kooks. We have had enough trouble getting things like concealed carry passed here, and threatening to kill people would is sure to not make it any easier. And before you complain about “licensing a right,” I agree, we shouldn’t need a license to…
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Quote of the Day – Hunting Snob Edition
The NRA regularly parrots Craig’s misleading message about our public land roadless areas, interchanging the terms Wilderness, Roadless Areas and Road Closures, in an effort to confuse the public and convince hunters their hunting access will be lost in those areas, a blatant falsehood. In fact, land covered by any of those three designations is…
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Soldier jailed for carrying a pistol through Canada
HAMILTON — A local man is concerned for his son, a soldier he said is in jail in Canada for possessing a firearm. Army Cpl. Kevin Shope, a 25-year-old Hamilton High School graduate, was cutting through Canada on his way from Michigan to report to Fort Drum in New York, according to his father, David…
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Quote of the Day – Second Class Edition
For decades the Second Amendment might as well have been called the Second-Class Amendment. The U.S. Supreme Court spent the late 20th century expansively interpreting the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Eighth amendments, not to mention unenumerated rights ranging from travel to sexual privacy. But not until last month did the court hold that the…
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Good News from Morton Grove
Snowflakes in Hell reports that the Village of Morton Grove has officially repealed their handgun ban, in the face of legal challenges and the Heller decision. I am always for solving bad laws through the legislative process instead of the courts, considering the it to be cheaper (lawyers are expensive,) faster (a court case can…
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Carry Permit Holders
Some anti gun organizations think they are a time bomb waiting to go off. Uncle does not. He thinks Carry permit holders are less likely to be criminals, and that Carry permit holders are more likely to stop a bad situation than to make it worse, as some would have you believe. I would tend to agree with Uncle, and…
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Ok, an accidental discharge is not funny
Especially when people get hurt, so let’s just say the irony is rich.
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Maybe this explains it
Listening to Cam and Ginny talk about the U.N. small arms summit, I was thinking about some of the U.N.’s stranger human rights incidents, like placing China, Russia, Vietnam, and others The Commission on Human Rights, and disarming civilians where they are most in need of a means of self defense. Suddenly it struck me. The…
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Quote of the Day – Let’s Address the Real Cause Edition
Banning guns is no more likely to reduce suicides than banning ice cream is to curb obesity. – Steve Chapman The sad truth is that some people are determined to end their lives, and removing one of the available methods will not cause a significant reduction in suicides. Even assuming that there are a few…