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Why most Americans oppose more gun control :: 12/31/2014

A new Pew Research Center survey finds that, for the first time in their surveys, the majority of Americans oppose more gun control. Gallup and CNN polls tell a similar story. Opposition to gun control has been increasing over at least the last couple of decades.

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Yale gun prohibitionist shows 'highly developed' aversion to inconvenient truths :: 12/31/2014

“Stop blaming mental health for gun violence,” former Everytown director Mark Glaze parroted in a Sunday tweet. “The problem is guns.”

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Your Child's Pediatrician Has No Business Lecturing You On Gun Ownership :: 12/31/2014

No development in U.S. healthcare over the last three decades has imperiled us more than the idea that we benefit from physician oversight of life events and circumstances that are not inherently medical. At its most intrusive, this process, called medicalization, creates a clinical conundrum out of the mere act of living and posits medical solutions for things (such as how to live a healthier lifestyle) that frequently benefit more from individual concentration and perseverance than professional intervention. We are thus bearing witness to tortuous reformation of what it means to be a physician in America: a formerly independent and autonomous profession is now our societal hall monitor.

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Gun owner groups threaten Harrisburg with Preemption lawsuit :: 12/30/2014

Gun owners’ groups are threatening to file a lawsuit against the City of Harrisburg in January, if the city does not take steps to rescind its gun ordinances.

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Gun owners fear Maryland police target them for traffic stops :: 12/30/2014

A year ago this New Year’s Eve, John Filippidis of Florida was driving south with his family on Interstate 95 when the Maryland Transportation Authority Police pulled over his black Ford Expedition and proceeded to raid it while his twins, wife and daughter looked on — separated in the back seats of different police cruisers.

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LA Times: American Gun Owners Are the Enemy Within :: 12/30/2014

America needs to study the enemy within, the headline hovering above the LA Times op-ed advises. Which raises the simple question: who would that be? Although Pulitzer Prize-winning UCLA geography professor Jared Diamond’s article doesn’t come right out and say it, it’s you and me, baby. Diamond warms up with a cautionary tale of Chile’s disastrous de-evolution into a military dictatorship. And then draws the parallel with modern day America . . .

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More misguided gun control :: 12/30/2014

While riding as a passenger en route to a gun show, I asked the driver what kind of magazines he had stuffed into the three cardboard boxes in the back seat.

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Stolen Guns Data Reveals Background Checks = Security Theater :: 12/30/2014

If you own a gun and it gets stolen, chances are you won’t get it back. That’s the not entirely surprising conclusion from a stolen gun study in The Land of Lincoln. Make the jump for the official stats, via sj-r.com. Meanwhile, “According to the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Crime Victimization Survey, an average of 232,400 guns were stolen each year from 2005 to 2010. Guns were recovered in only 17 percent of reported burglaries and in 15 percent of other property crimes.” Assuming that rate has continued to today, ignoring the possibility that there are at least as many guns stolen that were not reported . . .

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Are Legally Armed Black Men being Targeted in Detroit? :: 12/29/2014

Are black people who legally carry guns discriminated against?  There is anecdotal evidence to indicate that it happens, particularly in crime-ridden urban centers.  Students and retired police friends and acquaintances have told me that when guns were found in the possession of black men, in most urban centers, three or more decades ago, the guns were confiscated, legal or not.

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Monroeville Mall closes early after massive fight breaks out in Pennsylvania :: 12/29/2014

A Pennsylvania shopping mall was forced to close its doors Friday after hundreds of teenagers showed up and several fights broke out.

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Australian Lawmaker says Tyrannical Gun Laws made a "Nation of Victims" & it's "Unforgivable" :: 12/20/2014

In the wake of the jihadist taking hostages in a Sydney café earlier this week and murdering two of them, and Australian lawmaker blasted the tyrannical gun laws, similar to those in England, that led to the citizens he serves being turned into a "nation of victims."

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Murdered trucker stirs push for federal concealed carry permit :: 12/20/2014

The brutal killing earlier this year of a 30-year-old commercial truck driver has an industry group pushing for a nationwide federal firearms business carry permit.

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This Week Australia's National Gun Free Zone Gets Innocent People Killed :: 12/20/2014

Illinois --(Ammoland.com)- Australia is the darling of the gun control crowd because, except for a few sport shooting activities, guns are banned.

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Aussie PM's reaction to Sydney underscores gun control fallacies :: 12/19/2014

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s reaction to the Sydney terrorist standoff, quoted in a story in this morning’s Seattle Times, provides one of those “Well, DUH” opportunities for Second Amendment activists to illustrate the fallacy behind strict gun control laws, including Washington State’s recently-passed Initiative 594.

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We have a Second Amendment, let's use it :: 12/19/2014

On Oct. 27, 2007, Amanda Collins was raped by James Biela on the UNR campus in a parking garage near the campus police office. She said she could hear officers driving off even as Biela put a gun to her head and violated her.

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Anti-gun politician convicted over teen staffer vowing revenge :: 12/18/2014

Democratic Virginia State Delegate Joe Morrissey “is on a leash,” Henrico County Sheriff Michael Wade told CBS 6 in a Tuesday report on the jailed politician’s work release arrangement. Morrissey, 57, was convicted last week of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and sentenced to 12 months in jail with six months suspended for “an inappropriate relationship” with a 17-year-old administrative staffer in his legal office who is now reportedly pregnant.

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DC Council Approves Permanent Version Of Concealed Carry Bill :: 12/18/2014

The D.C. Council today approved a permanent version of a concealed carry bill that designates where handguns can be carried in public by licensed owners.

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Pro-gun senator says Australia must consider "self-defense" measures :: 12/18/2014

Calm and measured discussion about the right to "practical self-defense" was necessary in the wake of the deadly Sydney siege, a pro-gun Australian senator said on Thursday.

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BRIEF HISTORY OF VIOLENCE: How to Protect Ourselves :: 12/17/2014

Violence isn’t new. Violence has always shocked us. If anything, violence shocks us more now that we have a hundred channels of 24-7-365 media coverage bleeding in wide screen high-definition.

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Donald Trump answers viewers' questions on guns, 'The Apprentice,' race, economy :: 12/17/2014

Before my exclusive interview with Donald Trump on Monday night, I asked viewers what they wanted me to ask the real estate mogul. Trump was happy to take the social media questions.

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