Second Amendment News Roundup for 12/31/07

Notice! The Roundup will take a break for New Year's Day tomorrow. We will resume on Wednesday.

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

We start with some good news today. Armed citizens are having an impact on crime. Here is a news report about a home invasion gone bad, the result of which was two criminals dead:
http://carolinacountryside.blogspot.com/2007/12/home-invasion-ends-with-two-criminals.html

Mike McCarville has the latest scoop on Iowa as we head down to the last 3 days before the Caucuses:
http://wwwtmrcom.blogspot.com/2007/12/iowa-down-to-wire-in-both-parties.html

A Keyboard and a .45 blogs on a great gun show at the Will Rogers Center in Fort Worth:
http://akeyboardanda45.blogspot.com/2007/12/day-at-gun-show.html

Armed and Safe posts the BBC's take on the American gun rights debate:
http://armedandsafe.blogspot.com/2007/12/defense-through-defenselessness-now-ive.html

Blogonomicon reports that gun owners are safer than ever before:
http://blogonomicon.blogspot.com/2007/12/firearms-owners-are-safer-than-ever.html

Born Again Redneck has the responses of Thompson supporters to the latest smear by the mainstream media:
http://bornagainredneck.blogspot.com/2007/12/thompsons-supporters-respond.html

Cap'n Bob and the Damsel write about their last target practice for 2007:
http://capnbob.us/blog/2007/12/30/last-2007-target-practice/

Syd presents Part 2 of his interesting discussion on 'The Second Gun':
http://www.snubnose.info/wordpress/tactics/the-second-gun-part-two/

Sebastian has a brief wrap-up of the shooters' shindig at Uncle's place in Knoxville:
http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/?p=2278

Tam has more about it here:
http://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2007/12/well-that-was-fun.html

Squeaky has some notes on her life of late. She has moved, and as we all know, that is quite a chore...in fact, I had just as soon eat road-kill as to move:
http://www.squeakywheelseeksgrease.com/blog/2007/12/30/notes-on-life/

Breda reminds us that 'the Breda fallacy' is still true:
http://thebredafallacy.blogspot.com/2007/12/pretty-good-year.html

David Codrea at War on Guns has been hit with an anonymous troll who apparently is using the name of a college professor. Read this post and the others connected to this mystery:
http://waronguns.blogspot.com/2007/12/bring-it-on.html

Traction Control has the link to the video Fred Thompson just released that lays out a vital message to Iowans and the rest of the nation on the brink of the Iowa Caucuses:
http://tractioncontrol.well-regulatedmilitia.org/?p=882

We could very well call this 'the swine Congress,' due to the excessive pork (earmarks) the Dems promised they would stop in 2006. John Lott has the story:
http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2007/12/somebody-please-provide-economic.html

Gun Law News alerts us to a bill in the Georgia Legislature that would restore 2nd Amendment rights infringed upon by state laws:
http://www.gunlawnews.org/State-Politics/ga123107-2.html

From the NRA: Cook County, Illinois is stepping up its assault on gun rights:
http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=3329

Duke University seems to be in hot water again in the aftermath of its botched handling of the Duke lacrosse rape hoax. Liestoppers has the story:
http://liestoppers.blogspot.com/2007/12/blog-hooligans-find-duke-boo-boo.html