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Ted Cruz's Artfully Exaggerated Gun-Rights Record :: 02/18/2016
Two days after the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, with Washington in the grip of a debate over his replacement, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas told a South Carolina crowd that he intended to ramp up a centerpiece of his presidential campaign: his work as a lawyer protecting the Second Amendment. Hammering home the fragility of “Justice Scalia’s most significant opinion,” the 5-4 ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz painted the threat in dire terms. “We are one justice away from the Supreme Court effectively writing the Second Amendment out of the Bill of Rights,” he told his audience.
The Ethics of Armed Self Defense :: 02/18/2016
Discussions about the role of guns in society often founder under the weight of dueling statistics thrown out by both sides. I’d like to avoid the statistical food fight and base this article solely on the ethics of armed self-defense.
The People vs. the Police State :: 02/18/2016
The untimely death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has predictably created a political firestorm. Republicans and Democrats, eager to take advantage of an opening on the Supreme Court, have been quick to advance their ideas about Scalia’s replacement.
The Undetectable Gun Myth & If Self Defense Was Common News Would Report It To You Myth :: 02/18/2016
It’s important to recognize that progressives’ arguments against guns aren’t lies—deliberate fabrications and untruths—they’re myths—complete inventions and fantasies based on fears and psychological terror.
University of Texas reluctantly allows concealed guns in classrooms :: 02/18/2016
AUSTIN, Texas -- Concealed handguns will be allowed in University of Texas classrooms but generally banned from dorms under rules begrudgingly approved Wednesday by the school's president, whose hand was forced by a new state law.
Washington Post Reporter Compares Bush, U.S. Military, SWAT Cops To Nazis :: 02/18/2016
The political bias the Washington Post is obvious to anyone with more than a room temperature IQ, and their descent into becoming a propaganda outlet on par with Think Progress or Media Matters for America has long been documented.
What Did Scalia's Second Amendment Cover? :: 02/18/2016
In my column yesterday, I said Antonin Scalia's majority opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller, the 2008 decision in which the Supreme Court concluded that a handgun ban was inconsistent with the Second Amendment right to armed self-defense, "strongly implied that nearly every other existing gun control law would pass constitutional muster." National Review's Charles C.W. Cooke thinks that gloss goes too far, at least with respect to Scalia's own views on the Second Amendment.
What it means for gun rights if Scalia's replacement is a liberal :: 02/18/2016
This week, Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz warned that Antonin Scalia’s death leaves us “one justice away from the Second Amendment being written out of the Constitution altogether.”
WVCDL-ALERT Update: Constitutional Carry Moves :: 02/18/2016
Charleston, WV -(AmmoLand.com)- HB4145 passed the Senate Judiciary Committee today without any anti-gun amendments.
Heller Is Reason Enough for the Republican Senate to Take Its Time Replacing Scalia :: 02/17/2016
Those who are wondering why exactly they should be alarmed by the prospect of President Obama’s replacing Antonin Scalia with yet another advocate of the “living Constitution” should look no further than the possibility that a post-Scalia Court will overturn D.C. vs. Heller.
How Economists and Criminologists view gun ownership :: 02/17/2016
A number of recent news items regarding proposed gun control legislation offer an opportunity to look at the way that the media covers the scientific side of such questions and the sources they rely on in their reporting.
Pa. Attorney General Kane says she won't seek re-election :: 02/17/2016
SCRANTON — Attorney General Kathleen Kane, clinging to office without a valid law license, a criminal trial pending, and an impeachment investigation under way, said Tuesday she won't run for re-election.
The Living Constitution And Second Amendment Alarmism :: 02/17/2016
With the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the American philosophical divide has been thrown wide open, particularly on the issue of gun control. One side that believes the Constitution means what it says and can be readily understood by the common man, warns that if the ideological balance on the Court could shift from a bare majority that usually interprets the Constitution based on its text and the clear intentions of the founders, to the current minority that would regularly make law based on progressive desires alone.
Why Gun Rights Advocates Should Care About Apple's Fight with the Feds Over the San Bernardino Terrorist's iPhone :: 02/17/2016
“Tech giant Apple and the FBI appeared headed for a deepening confrontation Wednesday after the company’s chief pledged to fight federal demands to help mine data from an iPhone used by one of the shooters in December’s terrorist attacks in San Bernardino,” washingtonpost.com reports.
After Paris Massacre, Eagles of Death Metal Singer Calls For Widespread Gun Ownership :: 02/16/2016
The Eagles of Death Metal were performing in the Bataclan theater in Paris when Muslim terrorists launched a widspread attack at multiple locations in Paris last November. Two of the terrorists attacked the concert, killing 89 people.
Donald Trump: I'm 'Strongest' Candidate on 2nd Amendment :: 02/16/2016
Trump has pushed concealed-carry as part of the solution to threats of terror in the U.S. and around the world.
GOP pushes to allow guns in school zones - HB 4550 :: 02/16/2016
Texas Republican Rep. Randy Weber and 19 other Republicans are proposing a new federal law that would allow qualified people to carry firearms in school zones, a change the lawmakers say is meant to help deter and prevent mass shootings.
Oregon debacle refutes 'armed citizen' fantasy :: 02/16/2016
What will surely be forever known as the Oregon Standoff is over, and it should be no surprise to anyone that it failed utterly to accomplish anything for the misguided fools who took over a remote government outpost. Well, it did get someone killed, a senseless and futile death to be sure, and that probably will give the constitutionally misinformed a martyrdom of sorts.
Scalia's death makes 2016 about gun control :: 02/16/2016
Following the unexpected passing of staunchly conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia over the weekend, 2nd Amendment groups are fretting that they’ve lost a major ally in fighting unconstitutional anti-firearm policies.
State confiscates 83 guns in prohibited possessor sweep :: 02/16/2016
A two-day operation by California law enforcement officials ended with the arrest of 10 individuals and the seizure of a number of registered firearms.
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