Second Amendment Keeps Winning– With a propaganda machine that only a billionaire can buy, Everytown for Gun Safety and its affiliated organizations continue to spread the falsehood that the anti-gun movement is gaining ground in the state legislatures. As part of this “story of success,” they also attempt to argue that the tide of public opinion is shifting in favor of so-called “common-sense gun reform,” and that a majority of Americans support further restricting a fundamental right.
Hillary Clinton Labels Americans “Deplorable” and “Irredeemable.”If there’s one quality any aspiring president should have, it should be a love for America. And not just the America that supports that person’s candidacy, but the whole melting pot of people, backgrounds, cultures, and viewpoints that make up this great nation.
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| The escalating murder rate in Chicago has given rise to a new claim – that Chicago gun laws are lax, weak, and ineffective. |
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| Proponents of Maine’s Question 3, regulating every firearm sale and “transfer” (a change in possession, without a sale or change in ownership) have released a television ad urging voters to support this misguided ballot measure. |
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| Michael Bloomberg probably realizes he has only so many years left to spread around his enormous fortune to inflate his ego and manipulate every sphere of human activity. |
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| While anti-gun politicians like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama tout Australia’s gun control laws as a model for the United States, recent reporting on crime in Melbourne from newspaper The Age revealed the limitations of Australia’s stringent laws. According to the paper, “Despite Australia’s strict gun control regime, criminals are now better armed than at any time since then-Prime Minister John Howard introduced a nationwide firearm buyback scheme in response to the 1996 Port Arthur massacre.” The paper’s reporting illustrates what gun rights advocates have long contended; that gun controls merely disarm the law-abiding and are ineffective in confronting criminal conduct. |
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| The City Council will meet on September 21 at 6:00 P.M to hear an ordinance that would require the reporting of lost or stolen firearms, the locked-storage of firearms in the home, and the locked-storage of all handguns and ammunition when kept within a vehicle. We encourage all of our members, who are able, to attend. |
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| This morning’s 10-to-6 decision by the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, in Tyler v. Hillsdale County Sheriff’s Department, concludes that people who were committed because of mental illness many years ago might regain their Second Amendment rights. Like last week’s 3rd Circuit decision related to the Second Amendment rights of people who had felony convictions decades ago, this is a narrow decision, but an important one. |
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| The university announced the gift Thursday. Officials say the money will create the Bloomberg American Health Initiative.The initiative will study ways to fight air pollution, gun violence and obesity. |
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| Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Gianforte on Tuesday touted his endorsements from gun rights groups for his support of the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms, saying his opponent Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock was “no friend of gun owners.” |
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| Everybody involved with the awful comedy “Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?…” owes Aristophanes an apology. It’s one thing to borrow a guy’s premise; it’s quite another to transform it into something this unwatchable. |
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| Maine isn’t the only state facing a gun control referendum like Question 3 this fall. In Nevada, voters are confronted with an almost identical ballot initiative called Question 1. The Law Vegas Review Journal ran a story on an analysis of this gun control initiative by the Guinn Center. This independent think tank’s study found: |
