Another commenter, on gun rights and Obama:

Yes, Obama is gonna take away your arsenal! The President can’t confiscate anything, even a B-B gun.

Mayor Roy Nagin of New Orleans cannot confiscate guns, either. But because local regulations required the registering of firearms, Nagin (right after Katrina hit and with massive flooding still crippling ( Read more... )

It seems that US Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan might become a Second Amendment supporter. In a recent interview in People Magazine, she describes a surprising relationship with conservative Antonin Scalia:

Kagan, an Ivy League-educated N.Y.C. native who is considered a reliably liberal vote on the court, also revealed how she and conservative ( Read more... )

I am not particularly familiar with The Christian  Science Monitor. It does not appear to be connected to “mainstream” Christianity - and is instead evidently another Obama administration support organ, like MSNBC, but with a religious slant.

In a recent article, they speak favorably of the Muslim Brotherhood, a “people-powered political movement” ( Read more... )

Two aspects of this article about former NY mayor Bloomberg struck me: First, he asserts (and the news media blithely accepts) that you build a “grassroots movement” by spending tens of millions of dollars to finance it. Second, his relationship with God is discussed. (There’s a nice write-up of the article at The Truth About Guns.)

The article ( Read more... )

They caught the guy. He was carrying concealed on school grounds, and based upon the penalties enacted in New York State about carrying a gun in such gun-free zones, he was arrested. The story was noted by The Truth About Guns.

Implausible:

A man with a concealed carry permit, notified by police that the school was in lockdown mode, gathered up ( Read more... )

In the excellent book Wizard by John Varley, an alien whose race is physically rather larger than humans tells a human friend why the aliens want to ban guns:

“… Yet we have a love-hate relationship with your species. We admire and sometimes envy the fire of your emotions. Each of you has a streak of violence, and we accept that. It’s easier since ( Read more... )

For some time, an email has circulated about the UN Small Arms Treaty, that it would provide a mechanism for the United Nations to force the Obama administration to take the guns of US citizens. Snopes.com declares the idea that the UN treaty would provide “a legal way around the Second Amendment” completely false. Why? Well, because:

“…the U.S. ‘ ( Read more... )

The woman who tried to breach the barricades around the White House (and perhaps the Capitol building) allegedly had a history of mental illness. You can tell that there was insanity going on: She fired seventeen shots at an unarmed person.

Well, actually, that was the police. But in any event, Miriam Carey was not in her right mind, and is no ( Read more... )

Several background stories on guns and law enforcement have contributed to flavor one new item on a target practice company, giving the story more buzz than it might otherwise have gotten. The background stories are:
1.  The recent holding of practice “realistic urban drills” in by US military forces in American cities.

This was defended as “only ( Read more... )

“The church bell chimed ’till it rang twenty-nine times, for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald.”  I’ve always liked this Gordon Lightfoot song, and it made me feel a little guilty to create  The Wreck of Al Gore’s Copenhagen.

Sunday, President Obama somberly read a list of victims of Adam Lanza, while mixing politics into what should have been a ( Read more... )