Second Amendment News Roundup for 8/23/07

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Focusing on guns and politics, here is today's Second Amendment News Roundup:

Nicki at The Liberty Zone nails it with her comments on the abject, asinine absurdity of the district that expelled a student from middle school for merely sketching a gun!:
http://libertyzone.blogspot.com/2007/08/absurdity-brings-me-out-of-my-blogging.html

A Keyboard and a .45 reports that some pro-gun Democrats are joining in the National Exercise Your Rights Day on Aug. 28:
http://akeyboardanda45.blogspot.com/2007/08/national-exercise-your-rights-day_23.html

Alphecca says what we have been wanting to say about NBC's Matt Lauer for quite some time. The man is a complete jerk:
http://www.alphecca.com/?p=362

For those of you who may be interested in the spiritual side of current events, Blogonomicon has an excellent post on why Romans 13 in the Bible is not to be misconstrued to mean that Christians should always submit to civil authority. In fact, the Bible places specific limitations on civil authority:
http://blogonomicon.eponym.com/blog/_archives/2007/8/19/3169188.html

For those of us who lean libertarian in our thinking, Cameron Bailey makes an excellent point about decriminalizing prostitution:
http://www.cameron-bailey.com/2007/08/sex-money.html

Say Uncle has a MUST-read on Race and Violent Crime:
http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2007/08/23/violent_crime_race/

Snow Flakes in Hell posts a very important piece on untraceable gun data:
http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/?p=1366

The Bitch Girls blog on budding grassroots activism, especially with regard to the food police that seem to be on the prowl everywhere these days:
http://www.thebitchgirls.us/?p=7315

The War on Guns reports some more good news for Red's Trading Post. On the heels of announcements that the GOA and the JPFO were supporting Red's, the NRA announced that it too is throwing its support behind Ryan Horsley and his fight against the BATFE:
http://waronguns.blogspot.com/2007/08/nra-on-board-with-reds.html

For an eye-opening read, click here to go to 'Trouble Ain't Over.' This post is very true and provides much food for thought:
http://pribek.net/2007/08/23/tell-the-truth/

The Volokh Conspiracy has something very different that should get your juices flowing. It's entitled, 'The Right to Romance--Do College Faculty Have the Right to Sleep with Their
Students?':
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2007_08_19-2007_08_25.shtml#1187885189

The Anarchangel makes an excellent point on the reasons why Fred Thompson has delayed announcing his candidacy until September--it's all about timing:
http://anarchangel.blogspot.com/2007/08/thompsons-timing.html