2nd Amendment
White House Readies 19 Executive Actions On Guns
The White House has identified 19 executive actions for President Barack Obama to move unilaterally on gun control, Vice President Joe Biden told a group of House Democrats on Monday, the administration’s first definitive statements about its response to last month’s mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Read the rest of the article: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/biden-guns-executive-actions-86187.html
Read MoreNY Has Tentative Deal on Gun Control
People familiar with the internal negotiations say Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders have a tentative deal to enact the nation’s first gun control measure following the Newtown, Conn., school shooting. The tentative agreement would further restrict New York’s ban on assault weapons and limit the size of magazines to seven bullets, rather than the…
Read MoreLt. Gov. Calls for Teacher Firearms Training
Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst called Friday for state-funded, specialized firearms training for teachers and administrators to guard against school shootings. Dewhurst, a Republican, said school districts would nominate who they wanted to carry weapons on campus. The training would be more extensive than what is currently required for a Texas concealed handgun license and…
Read MoreWho Really Needs An AR15?
This question has been bandied about by people who don’t know guns, as some sort of rhetorical trump. The answer is somewhat complicated for people not versed in the subject, but I’m going to have a whack at it. The ever so eloquent Michael Z. Williamson sounds off on the topic. http://www.michaelzwilliamson.com/blog/item/who-really-needs-an-ar15
Read MoreWhere Are Mine?
Americans have been very poorly served by our educational system. This is evidenced by the fact that allegedly educated men and women in various levels of government seem convinced that the Second Amendment was designed to indulge their occasional pheasant hunt, or outfit their burly armed guards with firearms to keep away the riffraff. This…
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