Second Amendment
News pertaining to the second amendment
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92 Percent of Mass Shootings Since 2009 Occurred in Gun-Free Zones
On October 9 2014, the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) released a revised report showing that 92% of mass public shootings between January 2009 and July 2014 took place in gun-free zones. The CPRC report was released in response to an Everytown for Gun Safety study claiming only 14% of mass public shootings took place…
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Moms Demand Founder Shrieks: Either Give Up Our Guns or Give Up Our Children
Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America founder Shannon Watts says her group is not anti-gun, yet suggests that Americans must give up one of two things–their guns or their children. Speaking to CNN’s Money, Watts said: The gun lobby is very vocal about their fear of getting their guns taken away. Moms are…
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[VIDEO] This Sheriff will NOT disarm his county, will yours?
The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence wants Wicomico County Sheriff Mike Lewis’ teaching certification to be revoked. The group started a campaign after Lewis and his comments on gun rights were brought into the national spotlight. A quote from Lewis highlighted on the Web page from his interview with News21 reads: “As long as I’m…
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11 Things Every Girl Should Know about Guns
11 Things Every Girl Should Know about Guns 1. You’re better at this than you think you are. Stick with it. Try not to get discouraged. 2. Focus on the fun. Gun safety is serious, but shooting guns is just plain, dumb fun. Don’t get overwhelmed by all that tactical operator, extreme carbine, pistol manipulation,…
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Mainstream Newspapers Dupe The Public On Gun Debate
It is a curious fact that mainstream newspapers consistently fail to provide their readers with logically sound arguments to support their case against civilian ownership of guns. Rather, these newspapers prefer to recite banal normative prescriptions, empty slogans, and vague statements devoid of any meaningful content. They take as a given that civilian gun ownership is untenable. And upon that faulty foundation they spout pious sentiments and posit specious…
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Obama’s Master Plan With Eric Holder ~ SCOTUS
Last week, I discussed how I believe Rush Limbaugh was right in saying that Attorney General Eric Holder’s resignation is not in any way a simple bon voyage. Rather, it is a deliberate ploy to maneuver him into an even greater place of influence, possibly even the Supreme Court. The most obvious replacement on the…
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Son Shoots, Kills Home Invader while Mom Cooks Breakfast
On October 3 2014, at about 4:30 a.m., a man opened fire on armed home invaders who forced their way into the family’s house while the mother was cooking breakfast. KHOU.com reports that the son was in his bedroom when he heard a commotion. He grabbed his gun and was walking toward the noise when he…
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CNN’s Jake Tapper: ‘No Gun Laws Offered Since Sandy Hook Would Have Prevented Shooting’
During a September 30 2014 Segment of CNN’s The Lead, host Jake Tapper pointed out that none of the gun control laws offered in the wakes of the attacks on Gabby Giffords, the Aurora theater, or Sandy Hook elementary would have stopped the attacks. Tapper surmised that the gun control movement lost its fight because,…
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Stop Rape Culture…With A Gun, Not A Whistle
Some so called feminists on Twitter claimed that women’s self defense enables rape culture. Rather than teaching women to defend themselves, they said we should simply teach men not to rape. We only need to tell predators “Don’t hurt others” rather than teaching women to be aware, avoid trouble when they can, and to defend…
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Moms Demand Action Steals Picture; Followers Issue Threats
Dean Weingarten had the picture (below) taken, and wrote the story about it a month ago. It seems to have hit a nerve, because Moms Demand Action stole the picture and tried to use it for their propaganda. It is one of the reasons that Dean Weingarten copyrights these articles and allow for use *if the attribution…
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Ten Reasons Why States Should Reject “Assault Weapon” and “Large” Magazine Bans
Introduction: In the late 1980s, gun control groups realized that they had failed in their original goal—getting handguns banned1—and began campaigning against semi-automatic firearms they called “assault weapons,” most of which are rifles. As an anti-gun activist group put it: [A]ssault weapons [will] strengthen the handgun restriction lobby for the following reasons: It will be a…
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Study: “Assault Weapon” and CCW Restrictions Associated With Higher Murder Rates
In a new study, Mark Gius, of Quinnipiac University’s Department of Economics, has found that between 1980 and 2009, “states with more restrictive CCW laws had gun-related murder rates that were 10% higher” than those of other states. Gius also concluded that state “murder rates were 19.3% higher when the Federal [‘assault weapon’ and ‘large’…
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Most Hated Obama Cabinet Officials are also Bad on Gun Rights
This is no shocker to gun rights supporters, but the top three hated cabinet officials in the Obama Administration have had terrible records on the Second Amendment. According to a recent YouGov poll, the soon-to-retire Attorney General Eric Holder is the third most hated official in Obama’s cabinet. Holder was only topped by former HHS Secretary…
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CDC, FBI: Bicycle and Falling Deaths Far Exceed Deaths from ‘Mass Shootings’
Death statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) coupled with crime statistics from the FBI show that bicycle and falling deaths far exceed deaths from “mass shootings.” For example, on September 24 the FBI released a study showing there were 64 incidents of “mass killings” (mass shootings) for the years 2000 through…
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Do-It-Yourself ‘Ghost Gunner’ Gun-Making Machine Sells Out In 36hrs
A milling machine that allows customers to make the body of an AR-15 rifle has sold out in 36 hours. Despite costing $1,200, there was no shortage of buyers as clients wanted to build part of their own gun – with no serial number – in their own homes. Defense Distributed, owned by gun rights…
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Data divulges racial disparity in Chicago’s issuance of gun permits
In Chicago’s South Side in early September, a 16-year-old boy was shot dead, the seventh person killed this year in the West Garfield Park neighborhood. The boy was able to give his name and reportedly pleaded with the responding police officers, “Please don’t let me die.” If you live in 60624, the ZIP code where…