Second Amendment News Roundup for 10/29/07

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

Mike McCarville has the results of an interesting poll that show the influence of the 'new media':
http://wwwtmrcom.blogspot.com/2007/10/poll-shows-influence-of-new-media.html

A Keyboard and a .45 gives us a timely reminder that the ominous H.R. 1022 is still alive and well:
http://akeyboardanda45.blogspot.com/2007/10/hr-1022-is-still-alive-and-well.html

Alphecca says that Stanley Crouch of the New York Daily News is the idiot of the day:
http://www.alphecca.com/?p=493

Armed and Safe has a very good post on 'back door gun registry':
http://armedandsafe.blogspot.com/2007/10/back-door-gun-registry.html

Several of us wrote about this, but Blogonomicon has the picture of your newly-designated 'home-grown terrorist':
http://blogonomicon.blogspot.com/2007/10/meet-your-friendly-neighborhood.html

Blogstitution has the story of a middle aged man who decided to take up the habit of smoking, and for good reason:
http://www.blogstitution.com/2007/10/28/for-all-you-smokers-out-there/

With Canadians and Britons coming here in droves to get our medical care as opposed to their supposedly 'superior' socialized care, Cameron Bailey has the following excellent read:
http://www.cameron-bailey.com/2007/10/socialized-medicine.html

Cap'n Bob and the Damsel blog on the .44 Magnum and the .357 Magnum, along with a pertinent quote from 'Dirty Harry':
http://capnbob.us/blog/2007/10/28/quoting-harry-callahan/

Dustin's Gun Blog reports that a high school student in Arizona was suspended for having shotgun shells in her car:
http://dustinsgunblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/yet-another-wacky-school-district-in.html

Red's Trading Post has an interesting read today on the firearms industry:
http://redstradingpost.blogspot.com/2007/10/idaho-seeking-firearms-industry.html

Say Uncle has a late-breaking update on ATF abuses and Congressional hearings:
http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2007/10/29/atf_abuses_update/

Sharp as a Marble posts information on the gunblogger challenge:
http://blog.robballen.com/archive/2007/10/29/Gunblogger-challenge.aspx

Snow Flakes in Hell says that New Jersey has gone to a politically correct Halloween:
http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/?p=1808

Breda reports that she found a gun bearing her name:
http://thebredafallacy.blogspot.com/2007/10/whats-in-name.html

Nicki at The Liberty Zone has the complete scoop on Fred Thompson's plan for comprehensive immigration reform:
http://libertyzone.blogspot.com/2007/10/comprehensive-immigration-reform-right.html

The Ninth State reports that the jackbooted thugs of the TSA broke a guy's laptop and then ordered him to move on or else he would be arrested:
http://ninthstage.com/index.php/2007/10/29/clumsy-jackbooted-oafs/

David Codrea of The War on Guns tells us about his latest article for the December issue of Guns Magazine:
http://waronguns.blogspot.com/2007/10/shameless-plug-not-obliged.html

Tam at A View from the Porch has this interesting post on the S & W Model 36-1 at her blog entitled 'The Arms Room':
http://cosmolineandrust.blogspot.com/2007/10/sunday-smith-20-model-36-1-1980.html

Gun Owners of America issues the following alert:
http://www.gunowners.org/a102607.htm

Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership has this piece entitled, 'Another Glimmer of Hope':
http://www.jpfo.org/alert20071029.htm

From the NRA: A pillar of the First Amendment discriminates against the Second:
http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=3273

The Volokh Conspiracy has an excellent read today on Constitutional originalism:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2007_10_28-2007_11_03.shtml#1193593601

Second Amendment News Roundup for 10/19/07

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

Snow Flakes in Hell points to a post on how attitudes on guns have changed through the years:
http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/?p=1739

Xavier Thoughts has more on the news reporter who harrassed a man who shot some thugs:
http://xavierthoughts.blogspot.com/2007/10/more-misperceptions.html

JR at A Keyboard and a .45 has the perspective of a local on the story cited above:
http://akeyboardanda45.blogspot.com/2007/10/better-late-than-never.html

Traction Control states that when it comes to having his facts straight, Fred Thompson ran circles around Rudy at the last Republican debate:
http://tractioncontrol.well-regulatedmilitia.org/?p=715

The War on Guns asks the question, do gun-free zones encourage school shootings?:
http://waronguns.blogspot.com/2007/10/do-gun-free-zones-encourage-school.html

The Ninth Stage maintains that it looks like we have gone back to the 'dark ages' with guns being considered 'evil' and all:
http://ninthstage.com/index.php/2007/10/19/time-crime/

Nicki at the Liberty Zone reports that British police have been stealing private property for no good reason:
http://libertyzone.blogspot.com/2007/10/british-police-steal-private-property.html

Breda has found another pink gun:
http://thebredafallacy.blogspot.com/2007/10/so-pink.html

Robb Allen's Mom needs our prayers. They have found more cancer:
http://blog.robballen.com/archive/2007/10/19/Day-64--No-news-would-be-good-news.aspx

Say Uncle says that the drought in Atlanta is a perfect example of just how dangerous the government is. Click here for the reason (and it's an infuriating eye-opener, too!):
http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2007/10/19/what_is_more_dangerous_to_the_human_race_than_global_warming/


Dave Kopel at the Buckeye Firearms Association has reason to believe that Ron Paul could surprise us all:
http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/article4005.html

From the NRA: NRA President tells Philadelphia that gun control laws are not the answer:
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20071017_NRA_president_to_Philadelphia__Gun_control_laws_are_not_the_solution.html


John Lott reports that a burglar in Montgomery, Alabama was forced at gun-point to clean up the mess he made in a home he burglarized:
http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2007/10/caught-burglar-complains-about-home.html

Michelle Malkin has the scoop on the latest Hillary scandal. It seems scores of impoverished Chinatown residents somehow managed to give her campaign megabucks:
http://michellemalkin.com/2007/10/19/wont-you-take-me-to-chinatown/

Blogstitution comments further on Hillary's latest dirty money scandal here:
http://www.blogstitution.com/2007/10/19/more-chinese-money-going-to-hillary/

Mike McCarville reports that Latinos in Oklahoma have sought emergency relief in federal court in light of the new strict laws on illegal immigration passed in the state:
http://wwwtmrcom.blogspot.com/2007/10/latinos-seek-emergency-federal-court.html

Armed and Safe has the story of a kid in Florida who wore body armor to school:
http://armedandsafe.blogspot.com/2007/10/possession-of-dangerous-knowledge.html

Just wait till you see THIS tidbit of info out of Burma, as reported by Cameron Bailey:
http://www.cameron-bailey.com/2007/10/burma.html

Cap'n Bob and the Damsel reports that Senator Harry Reid's smear letter of Rush Limbaugh has resulted in over 2 million bucks sold at auction on ebay:
http://capnbob.us/blog/2007/10/19/the-rush-is-over/

Dustin's Gun Blog says that the NSSF has blasted the California RINO:
http://dustinsgunblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/nssf-speaks-out-against-schwarzenegger.html

Random Ramblings of a Republitarian comments on an article written by one of the ignorant ones:
http://republitarians.blogspot.com/2007/10/higher-ground.html

Red's Trading Post updates us on 'the Red's Challenge':
http://redstradingpost.blogspot.com/2007/10/you-can-make-difference.html

Second Amendment News Roundup for 10/9/07

Images courtesy of A Human Right.

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

The Volokh Conspiracy discusses a study on the political ideology of college professors:

http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2007_10_07-2007_10_13.shtml#1191937589

Volokh also has an important review of Naomi Klein's latest anti-capitalist rant in the form of a book entitled, 'The Shock Doctrine':

http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2007_10_07-2007_10_13.shtml#1191893013

The Buckeye Firearms Association gives good coverage to a grassroots college student movement to make Oct. 20 - 27 the 'National Collegiate Student Empty Holster Protest' to highlight the fact that students across this nation are sitting ducks to lawless sickos who shoot innocent people, simply because their universities have barred them from self-defense:

http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/article3989.html

Michelle Malkin asks a very good question today: why should teachers be exempt from the 2nd amendment?:

http://michellemalkin.com/2007/10/08/why-should-teachers-be-exempt-from-the-second-amendment/

Our favorite intellectual, Dr. Walter Williams, hits the nail on the head with his latest syndicated column entitled, 'The Betrayal of the Civil Rights Struggle':

http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/wew/articles/07/betrayalcivilrights.htm

Say Uncle points out that it's all in the name when it comes to how CNN reports on guns:

http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2007/10/09/whats_in_a_name-2/

Snow Flakes in Hell blogs today on 'prohibited persons':

http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/?p=1684

It seems one of the antis who writes comments on the War on Guns has her undies in a bunch:

http://waronguns.blogspot.com/2007/10/yeah-well-dont-let-door-hit-you-in.html

I have never tried to hide my utter contempt for Henry Waxman. Well, now it seems the blowhard is going on a witch hunt to try to find something in the radio archives of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Mark Levine which will supposedly help him make the case for the Fairness Doctrine. Traction Control has Levine's response:

http://tractioncontrol.well-regulatedmilitia.org/?p=664

Tam at A View from the Porch points out that commies aren't cool in today's segment on 'this day in history'

http://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2007/10/today-in-history-commies-arent-cool.html

The Jet Pilot has an excellent read today entitled, 'An Unexercised Right is a Right Lost':

http://ajetpilot.blogspot.com/2007/10/right-unexercised-is-right-lost.html

A Keyboard and a .45 points to an example of some common sense gun legislation:

http://akeyboardanda45.blogspot.com/2007/10/armed-for-first-day-of-school.html

Alphecca shares a couple of noteworthy op-eds, and they are worth the time for a look!:

http://www.alphecca.com/?p=460

Armed and Safe has some important developments on the pro-second amendment counties in Illinois and the attempts of the police state in Chicago to stop them:

http://armedandsafe.blogspot.com/2007/10/only-one-blocks-progress-of-pro-second.html

Cameron Bailey correctly points out that Barack Obama's latest statements on religion show that he wants a theocracy in America:

http://www.cameron-bailey.com/2007/10/obamas-theocracy.html

Oscar Poppa gets right to the point in 'Socialists and Criminals':

http://oscarpoppa.us/?p=707

Ryan Horsley at Red's Trading Post says it's time to stand up and fight back against Bloomberg and others like him:

http://redstradingpost.blogspot.com/2007/10/stand-up-and-fight-back-bloomberg-will.html

The Bitch Girls report that a film version will be made of Ayn Rand's 'Atlas Shrugged,' the famous book that upholds the principles of American capitalism:

http://www.thebitchgirls.us/?p=7471

The most beautiful blond on earth, Blonde Sagacity, has Hillary's latest endorsement:

http://mobyrebuttal.blogspot.com/2007/10/hillarys-latest-endorsement.html

From the NRA: Can Guns Stop Crime?:

http://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=10110

The Brewing Thompson-Giuliani Battle Over Rights

Political operatives within the Giuliani campaign have decided to go on the offensive concerning the Mayor's record while Chief Executive for NYC. Giuliani has taken a beating of late from his Republican competitors concerning the style and substance of the Giuliani administration.

Several items of interest have come to the surface concerning Giuliani's years as Mayor, including charges that he was a 'little dictator' and tended to be rather callous toward some individual rights.

Giuliani, of course, successfully trampled upon the citizens' right to bear arms in his crusade to reign in the city's horrible crime problem. Apparently the fact that Giuliani's anti-crime crusade was successful in drastically reducing the amount of violent crime within the city has led some to believe that the ends justify the means, i.e., that if robbing law-abiding citizens of their rights results in a drastic reduction in crime, then fine and dandy.

This would seem to be the tactic employed by the Giuliani campaign to attempt to short-circuit the widespread criticism of the Mayor's record on Constitutional rights--show how successfully he was able to reduce violent crime and make the city safer.

Interestingly, one of the main targets of the new Giuliani offensive is none other than unannounced GOP candidate Fred Thompson.

Obviously Thompson's consistent and strong support for Second Amendment rights, and his harsh criticism of NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg's aggressive pursuit of out-of-state gun dealers that operate entirely within the laws of their own particular states, are simply too much for the Giuliani campaign to ignore.

Giuliani's political operatives used Thompson's criticism of Bloomberg to go on the offensive concerning former Mayor Giuliani's record...and to launch an attack on Thompson for suggesting that Mayors Bloomberg and Giuliani have been wrong to mount an assault on a Constitutional right in order to fight crime.

As a long-time attorney who knows the ins and outs of Constitutional law, Thompson has been highly critical of Bloomberg's use of the Courts in the state of New York to sue out of state gun dealers over the fact that some of their products wound up on the streets of the Big Apple and were used in committing crimes.

Taking Bloomberg's logic at face value, one wonders why, for example, the Mayor has not also initiated lawsuits against, say, whiskey manufacturers in Tennessee and Kentucky due to the deaths of citizens at the hands of drunk drivers who consumed out of state whiskey.

Apparently the Giuliani campaign felt that Thompson's criticism of Bloomberg was a foreshadowing of things to come, when Thompson would launch into a major attack against Giuliani for his assault on Second Amendment rights in the city when he was Mayor.

Thus, the Giuliani campaign went on the offensive, attempting to make the case that under the circumstances, i.e., high crime in New York City, the Mayor was justified in attacking Constitutional rights. Obviously Giuliani also believes that the present Bloomberg power-grab, trampling all over the boundaries of jurisdictions and separation of powers, is a proper response to gun violence at the hands of lawless thugs.

The glaring question that arises is that, given Giuliani's rationale for either weakening or suspending Constitutional rights in special situations, how, then, would he respond to a critical national emergency, such as a category 5 hurricane directly hitting the northeastern corridor from NYC to Boston, which is a mega-population center?

More critically, how would Giuliani respond to a terrorist attack, such as a dirty bomb erupting in a major metropolitan area?

Would he, as President, declare Martial Law? And if so, would that include confiscation of firearms?

After all, this is precisely what the government did in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Innocent, defenseless citizens were forced to turn over their guns, even as looting and mayhem erupted, and even as the government failed to come to the aid of its citizens, at the local, state, and national levels.

If Giuliani could so easily discard Second Amendment rights in a 'special situation' such as NYC's crime problem, then how much more easily would he discard that Amendment, and other Amendments, such as freedom of speech and peaceful assembly, in the event of a major national emergency?

These questions are of no insignificant import, for the answers go directly to the heart of the nature of the United States of America as envisioned by the Framers in the Constitution.

The Framers insisted on the Second Amendment precisely because they considered the possibility of such major national emergencies. They wanted the individual citizens to be able to defend themselves against tyranny of any kind, such as the suspension of rights during a national emergency.

To the Framers this was the ultimate national emergency. Governments that sought to rob the citizens of the rights protected in the Constitution were considered to be tyrannical, and that included our own government.

In other words, if the rights delineated in the Constitution are no good in a national emergency, then the entire rationale for including the protection of those rights in the Constitution is rendered null and void. Why protect rights at all if they can simply be suspended at the very moment they are needed the most?

The fact of the matter is that all of the rights guaranteed in the Constitution were specified precisely due to the possibility of major national emergencies. The Framers fought for these rights squarely in the middle of a major national emergency when the very future of the young, fledgling Republic was at stake, the point being that if rights are no longer valid at the precise point when they are needed the most, then what good are they?

And it is for this reason that Rudy Giuliani is highly vulnerable on the subject of Constitutional rights and Fred Thompson appears to be the man who can take him on and rip to shreds the Giuliani/Bloomberg notion that rights are expendable in 'special situations.'

Second Amendment News Roundup for 8/6/07

Here is today's Second Amendment News Roundup:

The McCarville Report has a prediction of a major Republican pollster concerning the 2008 Presidential election:
http://wwwtmrcom.blogspot.com/2007/08/mcferron-sees-prsident-hillary-clinton.html

A Keyboard and a .45 has a range report from the weekend. He met a fellow blogger (Traction Control) for some shooting:
http://akeyboardanda45.blogspot.com/2007/08/range-report.html

Alphecca has a report on a great concert by rocker and gun-rights activist Ted Nugent:
http://www.alphecca.com/?p=324

Trouble Ain't Over blogs on Sean Penn's latest anti-American antics with his good buddy Hugo Chavez of Venezuela:
http://pribek.net/2007/08/03/sean-penn-and-friend/

Red's Trading Post reports that the ATF has shut down the 2nd oldest gun shop in the state of Idaho:
http://redstradingpost.blogspot.com/2007/08/another-atf-casualty.html

Blogonomicon makes a very important point about guns and registration:
http://blogonomicon.eponym.com/blog/_archives/2007/8/5/3140483.html

The War on Guns reports three new developments at Red's Trading Post:
http://waronguns.blogspot.com/2007/08/three-developments-from-reds.html

Of Arms and the Law points to a news story about a man in Florida who used his gun to defend himself against carjackers:
http://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2007/08/selfdefense_in.php

Snow Flakes in Hell has an interesting news item on Canada's continuing debate on the issue of handguns:
http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/?p=1216

The Bitch Girls have a post entitled, 'Never Enough Guns':
http://www.thebitchgirls.us/?p=7236

Nicki at The Liberty Zone has an interesting post on Rudy Giuliani's stance on guns--a stance which, in fact, is entirely inconsistent:
http://libertyzone.blogspot.com/2007/08/giuliani-for-president.html

Xavier Thoughts has the story on the police officer from Noble, OK, who shot a little boy while firing at a snake. If you or I had done this, we would be in jail. What about 'we're the only ones'?:
http://xavierthoughts.blogspot.com/2007/08/noble-oklahoma-first-shot-was-so-loud.html

Gun Law News is reporting that H.R. 2640 has made it out of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Contact your Senators NOW about this bill. This is the McCarthy bill that was proposed in the aftermath of the Virginia Tech shootings, which the NRA supports but the GOA opposes:
http://www.gunlawnews.org/Federal-Politics/hr2650080307-3.html

The Volokh Conspiracy alerts us to a great organization, the St Gabriel Possenti Society, which is a gun-rights advocacy group named after a heroic Catholic seminarian who rescued the town of Isola, Italy from bandits in 1860. The Society promotes St. Gabriel as the Patron Saint of Handgunners:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2007_07_29-2007_08_04.shtml#1186228784

John Lott gives some much-deserved recognition to a man who stopped a robbery of a bank in Bessemer, Alabama, but who died on his job this weekend:
http://johnrlott.tripod.com/2007/08/some-recognition-for-permit-holder-who.html

Second Amendment News Roundup for 7/24/07

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Here is today's Second Amendment News Roundup:

Snow Flakes in Hell blogs on Senator Joe Biden's major faux pas during last night's Democratic debate in claiming that a questioner on YouTube who was holding his gun 'obviously needs help':

http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/?p=1120

The Bitch Girls comment on a letter to the editor that expresses strong anti-gun sentiment:

http://www.thebitchgirls.us/?p=7170

Red's Trading Post has important information on the new INTERNET intimidation tactics used by the ATF in harassing gun owners and sellers, as well as those who publicly decry their gestapo-like operations:

http://redstradingpost.blogspot.com/2007/07/new-atf-tactic-intimidation.html

Blonde Sagacity notes the widespread sense of entitlement that seems to have infected most Americans today:

http://mobyrebuttal.blogspot.com/2007/07/entitlement-sentiment-of-times.html

The McCarville Report says that Newt Gingrich thinks that Fred Thompson could keep him from running for the Republican nomination:

http://wwwtmrcom.blogspot.com/2007/07/gingrich-says-thompson-could-keep-him.html

John Lott writes about interesting comments by Virginia politician Charles Robb, his wife, and his mother in law. Apparently even Democrats respond to tax incentives:

http://johnrlott.tripod.com/2007/07/even-democrats-respond-to-tax.html

Alphecca reports that liberals have given us a nation of mental cripples. Read this infuriating story of the arrest of two 13-year-olds:

http://www.alphecca.com/?p=297

Alphecca also points to a story about the unsafe handling of a gun, resulting in the shooting of a 9-year-old:

http://www.alphecca.com/?p=296

ATF Abuse is a website dedicated to exposing the danger of the rogue government agency. This is a MUST-read:

http://www.atfabuse.com/purpose.html

The Buckeye Firearms Association reports that yet another editorial board member of a newspaper in Ohio is publicly calling for the repeal of the Second Amendment:

http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/article3863.html

Of Arms and the Law posts information on a recent court ruling concerning social security numbers on applications for CCW permits:

http://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2007/07/ruling_on_socia.php

Say Uncle says that the Second Amendment Foundation isn't backing down a bit in going after Steve Bailey and the Boston Globe over the recent 'straw man' gun purchase flap:

http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2007/07/23/im_sticking_with_the_bullying_and_the_lying/

The Ninth Stage posts a link to vital information on how to survive a gun fight:

http://ninthstage.com/index.php/2007/07/23/survive-a-gunfight/

Xavier Thoughts has a video and commentary on an armed robbery in St. Louis:

http://xavierthoughts.blogspot.com/2007/07/armed-robbery-in-stlouis.html

Second Amendment News Roundup for 7/10/07

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Washington, DC (TLS). Here is today's Second Amendment News Roundup:

Say Uncle points out some pertinent facts concerning the so-called 'evil gun-show loopholes':
http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2007/07/09/loopholes/

Say Uncle also has an interesting story about a gun-grabbing, anti-gun bigot who was charged with firearms violations!:
http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2007/07/09/anti-gun_advocates_plead_guilty_to_gun_crime/

Front Sight, Press lists a complete panorama of news stories about guns:
http://www.snubnose.info/wordpress/news/news-from-the-sight-m1911-volume-260/

The Volokh Conspiracy has commentary on the notion of 'judicial activism,' as liberals set about to re-invigorate the plan to use the courts to enact 'profound social change':
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2007_07_08-2007_07_14.shtml#1183945545

The McCarville Report provides us with an up-close and personal perspective of the devastating floods in the nation's heartland, particularly with regard to the damage in Oklahoma:
http://wwwtmrcom.blogspot.com/2007/07/federal-flood-assistance-available-to.html

Xavier Thoughts reports on an odd incident involving an elderly couple and a burglar:
http://xavierthoughts.blogspot.com/2007/07/divine-intervention-takes-out-scum-bag.html

The Buckeye Firearms Association provides an update and background information on the incident involving Matt Westerhold and the Sandusky Register's publication of licensed concealed gunowners:
http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/article3836.html

A Keyboard and a .45 blogs about the next gun he plans to purchase:
http://akeyboardanda45.blogspot.com/2007/07/my-next-firearm.html

Traction Control points out that the recent terrorist attack at the Glasgow Airport occurred in a 'gun-free zone' (even security didn't have guns!):
http://tractioncontrol.well-regulatedmilitia.org/?p=502

Snow Flakes in Hell says that 'the Reverend' Jessie Jackson is relocating in order to continue his attack on the rights of citizens in....San Francisco of all places:
http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/?p=998

The Bitch Girls point to some sloppy journalism when it comes to the Brady Campaign and its affiliates:
http://www.thebitchgirls.us/?p=7096

Gun Law News states that it is vitally important that we all contact OSHA concerning their proposed new rules that will effectively drive the gun and ammo industry out of business. He has crucial information about contacting the organization with your comments:
http://www.gunlawnews.org/Other-News/osha070907-2.html

John Lott shows us one more piece of evidence that the New York Times long ago ceased to be a serious newspaper. Look at what they had the utter gall to say about Fred Thompson and his beautiful (and smart as a whip) young wife!:
http://johnrlott.tripod.com/2007/07/is-america-ready-for-president-with.html

Mr. Completely blogs about his hanging plate match last week:
http://mrcompletely.blogspot.com/2007/07/cwsa-hanging-plate-match-070807.html

Second Amendment News Roundup for 7/9/07

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The Bitch Girls have an excerpt from Dave Hardy's 'In Search of the Second Amendment':

http://www.thebitchgirls.us/?p=7085

Blogonomicon has a bit of satire aimed at gun-control freaks that he entitles, 'Shot Down by the Facts':

http://blogonomicon.eponym.com/blog/_archives/2007/7/6/3075552.html

Sebastian at Snow Flakes in Hell shows us why the foreign press needs a good lesson in U.S. gun laws:

http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/?p=974

Traction Control introduces us to the inventor of the AK-47, who says he isn't losing any sleep at night:

http://tractioncontrol.well-regulatedmilitia.org/?p=498

Nicki at The Liberty Zone has shocking information about Gordon Brown's attempt to keep the British people in the dark concerning the loss of British sovereignty to the European Union:

http://libertyzone.blogspot.com/2007/07/britain-will-lose-sovereignty-but-dont.html

Nicki at The Liberty Zone also reports that Prime Minister Gordon Brown has forbidden the use of the terms 'Muslim' and 'Islamic' when referring to 'extremist' terrorism in Great Britain. That's odd, given the fact that such terrorists are Muslim/Islamic:

http://libertyzone.blogspot.com/2007/07/political-correctness-cowardice-tyranny.html

The Volokh Conspiracy has more bad news from Great Britain. It seems the British University and College Union has boycotted Israel. Once again, this is rather odd given the recent terrorist activity in the U.K. by Islamic extremists. Volokh says there is now a movement to boycott the British University and College Union to protest their treatment of Israel:

http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2007_07_01-2007_07_07.shtml#1183836974

Xavier Thoughts presents a detailed description and analysis of the new rules proposed by OSHA--rules that could bury the gun and ammunition industry:

http://xavierthoughts.blogspot.com/2007/07/osha-threat.html

The Jet Pilot also weighs in on OSHA's ominous plan:

http://ajetpilot.blogspot.com/2007/07/osha-to-make-ammunition-super-expensive.html

Mr. Completely blogs on the upcoming Gun Bloggers' Rendezvous and says that a new online shop is offering items of interest to attendees and others who blog about gun-rights:

http://mrcompletely.blogspot.com/2007/07/gbr-at-ride-fast-shop.html

Armed and Safe offers his opinion about Rudy Giuliani's recent claim that he is now a 'strong supporter' of Second Amendment rights:

http://armedandsafe.blogspot.com/2007/07/giuliani-now-strong-supporter-of-second.html

A Keyboard and a .45 has a complete and informative wrap-up of firearms legislation in Texas for 2007:

http://akeyboardanda45.blogspot.com/2007/07/wrap-up-of-2007-texas-firearms.html

John Lott has the scoop (and the video) on a concealed handgun permit holder who stops a robbery in Texas:

http://johnrlott.tripod.com/2007/07/concealed-handgun-permit-holder-stops.html

John Lott provides a follow-up to the previous story here:

http://johnrlott.tripod.com/2007/07/man-with-concealed-handgun-permit-comes.html

Rudy's Problem With Gun Rights

Washington, DC (TLS). Rudy Giuliani shot himself in the foot yesterday with a comment he made about gun control. He may well have lost the tentative support of gun rights groups in the process.

Giuliani, in attempting to explain his support for gun control while Mayor of New York City, stated that it was new gun control laws that reduced the crime rate in the city. The former Mayor and his handlers had previously made overtures to conservative groups by stating that New York City was a special circumstance when Giuliani became Mayor and that strict gun control legislation was needed to bring violence under control.

Within this spin is the slight hint that Giuliani was saying that in principle he does not support restricting the right of the people to bear arms, as guaranteed in the 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Gun rights advocates had one brief moment of hope that the candidate was getting ready to state that his support for 2nd Amendment rights is one of his core values and that the New York City situation was an emergency scenario that required emergency measures to correct.

Most of us lost that hope when Giuliani made his remarks about gun control yesterday.

The key issue is not the fact that Giuliani has backed away from his initial hint that they may be making a move to the right on gun rights. This is bad enough in and of itself. Rather, the key issue is that Giuliani has obviously bought into the gun control lobby propaganda that strict gun control measures reduce crime and violence in our cities. This notion is simply not true. The statistical data from both the CDC and the National Institute of Science shows NO correlation between strict gun control laws and a reduction in gun violence.

The fact that Giuliani would cite an erroneous theory based upon Leftist propaganda is highly problematic for one who would be President. The lapse points to a penchant for failing to think rationally and to base one's opinions on solid, observable data rather than conjecture or theory that arises out of one's political bias. We already have this very same problem with candidates such as Hillary Clinton, Barack Hussein Obama, and John McCain. We certainly don't need yet another candidate who exhibits a failure to consider cold, hard scientific facts rather than push an unproven hypothesis.

In short, Rudy gained no friends among conservative groups with his remarks on gun control in New York City. It was a big mistake to even bring it up. Most Americans in the heartland, the South, and the Mountain States of the West already have suspicions about Rudy Giuliani. His comments on gun control yesterday took those suspicions to an ominous level--a level of distaste--which is a terribly bad sign for a candidate right out of the starting gate.