All Blog Posts Tagged 'SecondAmendment' (22)

Overreach: The gun control bill lets doctors put your name  in the national criminal background check system without telling you. Can the  government say you're crazy and take your guns? It's already happening.

The road to deeper gun control seems like another road paved with good …

Global Gun Control: Despite a prior Senate rebuff, President Obama  will likely sign and push a treaty embraced by the world's oppressors and thugs  who fear armed citizens.

The treaty's prior rejection by the Senate 53-46 in a nonbinding test vote as  part of the budget debate in a body…

Justice: A murdered Chicago teen's mother attends the  president's speech on gun control, not knowing federal gun-crime prosecutions  have in fact dropped on his watch — with the Windy City bringing up the  rear.

Cleopatra Cowley-Pendleton, the mother of murdered 15-year-old Chicago…

Bullet Buys: Fifteen members of Congress have written a  letter to the Department of Homeland Security demanding to know why the federal  agency is buying so many rounds of ammunition. We'd like to know too.

Fifteen members of Congress have sent a letter to the Department of Homeland …

U.S. Rights: As the world body meets this week to hammer out an  agreement to restrict international arms trade, our Secretary of State commits  us to pushing a treaty that may also restrict our Second Amendment rights.

Last Friday, the day of the week when unpopular or controversial …

Guns: Veterans who bore arms to defend their country are receiving  letters that they may be declared mentally incompetent and have their Second  Amendment right to keep and bear arms stripped from them. Welcome home.

The contempt by the Obama administration for our Constitution and our rights …

Gun Control: As the Colorado legislature considers a ban on campus  concealed carry, a woman testifying how she was raped in a "safe zone" 50 feet  from a police station is told that armed defense is useless.

It didn't receive quite as much media coverage as Georgetown law student  Sandra…

Security: In addition to stockpiling over a billion bullets and  thousands of semiautomatic weapons the feds would deny U.S. citizens, the  vehicle of choice for fighting the counterinsurgency war in Iraq is appearing on  U.S. streets.

The sequestration question du jour is why the Department of…

Guns: An Illinois court has ruled that the Second Amendment means what  it says and has ordered the state legislature to adopt a law by June that lets  citizens bear arms in self-defense, not just keep them.

On Feb. 22, a 5-4 majority of the 10-member U.S. Seventh Court of Appeals  upheld…

Gun Control: On his way to a play date with the world's most famous  golfer, President Obama stops in America's most violent city to push universal  background checks that Chicago's violent street gangs will totally ignore.

Janay McFarlane, 18, was killed late Friday just hours after her…

Gun Control: Our future president in 2008 called for "a civilian  national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as  well-funded" as the military. Should the "bitter-clingers" be worried?

As Andrew Malcolm has noted on these pages, the Department of Homeland  Security has…

Guns: While DHS seeks 7,000 semiautomatic guns with 30-round clips for  self-defense, it makes a video saying you should use scissors to overpower armed  predators. Luckily, a school guard in Atlanta thought differently.

Vice President Joe Biden criticized, on Jan. 23 during a Google+ Hangout, the …

Guns: A 15-year-old girl who performed at the president's inauguration  is gunned down by gangs less than a mile from Barack Obama's home. What does  Chicago's mayor do? He blames banks who lend gun makers money.

Hadiya Pendleton, who just days before had performed with her high school  band at…

Gun Control: The president seeks a review of groups barred from gun  ownership, while his attorney general asks the courts to keep hidden documents  on running guns to drug lords sealed by executive privilege.

Presumably the list of prohibited individuals include Mexican drug lords and …

Second Amendment: The United Nations is putting the finishing touches on an Arms Trade Treaty that transcends borders and may even trample our Constitutional right to bear arms. Every indication is that the president will sign it.

Like the New Start and Law of the Sea treaties before it, as…

Politics: Instead of providing them the same armed security his  children get, the president exploits children as stage props to repeal a Second  Amendment they haven't been, and likely never will be, taught about.

The children who stood with President Obama Wednesday had the benefit of  armed…

Gun Control: As the administration considers repealing the Second  Amendment via executive order, a reminder of its true purpose comes from a  country that has suffered greatly from murderous and criminal tyrants.

'The president is going to act," said Vice President Joe Biden, who is …

1st Vs. 2nd Amendment: What public service is performed when  newspapers and websites tell criminals where prison guards and retired cops  live, and endanger the lives of people who've never had so much as a parking  ticket?

When the editors of the Journal News, a local upstate New York…

Guns: The mayor of what is at once America's most gun-controlled city  and its murder capital wants an assault weapons ban like the one he pushed in  1994. Except it didn't work then, and it won't work now.…

School Safety: Critics of the National Rifle Association's call for  armed security guards at our schools respond that one famous school did have a  sheriff's deputy on scene. But without him, the toll would have been much  worse.

After remaining silent on the mass shooting at Sandy Hook, the…