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Sanders: Families Who Use Guns for Leisure 'Should Not Be Condemned' :: 06/26/2015
Gun rights has found an unlikely champion: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). Sanders, one of politics’ most recognizable liberals, offered a surprisingly conservative defense of Americans’ right to bear arms in a conversation with NPR Wednesday.
SCOTUS Ruling On Same-Sex Marriage Mandates Nationwide Concealed Carry Reciprocity :: 06/26/2015
If you’re following any of the various media outlets this morning, you’re probably aware that the U.S. Supreme Court has just extended gay marriage to all 50 states.
Senators Manchin and Toomey Consider Reviving Failed Gun Control Legislation :: 06/26/2015
In a not totally unexpected move, Senators Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) are exploring ways to reintroduce and pass legislation similar to their bill that was rejected by the Senate by 54 to 46 (60 votes were needed for passage) back in 2013. That rejected bill— which was described as a “compromise” measure — would have expanded background checks to include sales made at guns shows and online in addition to the already-required checks for buyers purchasing firearms made from licensed commercial gun dealers.
'Strongest firearms preemption statute in the country' overturned by court :: 06/26/2015
A controversial Pennsylvania bill signed by Gov. Tom Corbett (R) last year which allows third parties to sue municipalities over local gun codes stronger than the state’s was overturned Thursday.
When Police Wouldn't, Deacons for Defense Protected Civil Rights Workers :: 06/26/2015
Fifty years ago, on June 25, 1965, a Bogalusa civil rights leader filed a lawsuit against city law enforcement.
5 Problems with the New Study 'Proving' that More Background Checks Lowered Connecticut's Gun Murder Rate by 40 Percent :: 06/25/2015
A new study in the American Journal of Public Health purports to show that a 1995 tightening in Connecticut's gun permit laws led to a 40 percent reduction in gun homicides over the next decade—nearly 300 fewer gun homicides than their counterfactual construction of a Connecticut without those laws would have had. Despite its immediate adoption by gun control advocates, the study may not actually deliver what's advertised.
America's center on gun control might shock New York :: 06/25/2015
Could New York City, where for all intents and purposes the Second Amendment doesn’t exist, play a role in the next national debate over guns?
Anti-gunner's Logic Bending, Lies And Disregard For Human Life - Deputy Matt-Deputy Sheriff :: 06/25/2015
In their continued push to pass more restrictions on American’s civil rights, a recent article on the notoriously left leaning, quite ironically named “Think Progress” (since they seem to lack both thought or progress) touted that “The Number Of People Who Use A Gun In Self-Defense Is Pretty Much Negligible.” In fact, they felt that so strongly, that is what they titled the article.
Bloomberg School of Public Health Tries to Pass Off CT Background Check Study as Fact :: 06/25/2015
5 Problems with the New Study ‘Proving’ that More Background Checks Lowered Connecticut’s Gun Murder Rate by 40 Percent. Article Excerpt from Reason.com
Conspiracy-Theory Spouting Pope Attacks Those Who Defend Him, Humanity :: 06/25/2015
Recently, Pope Francis made eye-raising comments about firearms and the Holocaust during a disjointed address that made many question whether or not the 78-year-old head of the Catholic Church is suffering from either ignorance or senility.
Gun Rights Benefited Black Americans During the Civil Rights Movement and Still Do :: 06/25/2015
Dylann Roof’s racially motivated murders of nine black churchgoers have brought predictable calls for new restrictions on the right to keep and bear arms. How ironic this is we shall soon see.
Most "assault weapon" owners are ignoring NY gun law :: 06/25/2015
Ever since the hilariously inaccurately named SAFE Act was passed in New York, gun owners and Second Amendment advocates have been stonewalled by the state government whenever attempts were made to find out more about how it was being implemented. But one group, the Shooters Committee on Political Education, (SCOPE) managed to break through the wall of silence this month and found out residents have been largely turning their backs on at least one aspect of the law.
Scottish journalist says Second Amendment should be repealed :: 06/25/2015
Writing yesterday in The Scotsman, journalist Allan Massie – a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature – contended that not only has the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment been misread, it should also be repealed.
The Mistaken Argument: Fewer Guns = Fewer Murders :: 06/25/2015
Taken at its face if we had no guns there would be no firearm murders. That is a fact same as saying that before we had cars there were no motor vehicle fatalities. Still there are those, especially following some horrific crime, who insist on trying to make it harder for Americans to own guns. They claim that the fewer guns the fewer gun fatalities. They are correct in an extremely simplistic way. However, taking guns away from people does not make them less violent, crazy or racist; just less capable of acting on those impulses.
Why Disarming the 'Mentally Ill' Is Not a Sensible Response to Mass Shootings :: 06/25/2015
After the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, Wayne LaPierre, the National Rifle Association's executive vice president, sought to counter calls for gun control by recommending people control instead. Specifically (or not so specifically), LaPierre recommended "an active national database of the mentally ill" to identify and thwart the next mass shooter.
Confederate Ideology and the Second Amendment :: 06/24/2015
It is all to the good that the Confederate flag is now being seen as odious and hateful by most Americans. It truly has been a symbol of hate and injustice going all the way back. In the Civil War it was used to rally slave-holders and their sympathizers to battle. And in the segregationist South of the 1950s and 1960s, it was revived as a means of expressing resistance to the cause of civil rights and equality.
Dem Hopeful O'Malley Doubles Down on Gun Control :: 06/24/2015
Martin O’Malley used to be the governor of Maryland, one of the states which enacted some of the most ridiculous and restrictive gun control laws in the United States. And despite all of those laws putting roadblocks up to make civilian gun ownership more difficult, shootings in Maryland have increased.
EMPIRE STATE REBELLION: New Yorkers REFUSED To Register More than 95-Percent Of "Assault Weapons" :: 06/24/2015
In a stunning repudiation of Governor Andrew Cuomo, his anti-gun Democrat allies, and the hastily-passed and clearly unconstitutional NY SAFE Act, New Yorkers refused to register an estimated one million firearms that the 2013 law arbitrarily determined were “assault weapons.”
Gay Open Carry Group Kicked Out of Gay Pride Rally Due to "Psychological Harm" :: 06/24/2015
As you may have noticed, we here at TTAG are big believers in individual rights. All of them. As we have said many times (in one way or another), we want to live to see that day that homosexual married couples defend their legal marijuana plantations with machine guns.
Gun Rights Advocates Don't Just Want Guns in Order to Kill Criminals (Believe it Or Not!) :: 06/24/2015
A much-hyped new Violence Policy Center study grossly misses the point about guns' value in self-defense.
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