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Second Amendment: Chicago is deciding whether to prosecute a great-grandfather and Korean War veteran under its handgun ban. He refused to be a victim, and now there’s one less armed thug roaming the streets. What’s the problem? If the 80-year-old vet living on the city’s West Side didn’t have the gun the city said he [...] The Chicago gun debate finally shows signs of changing. With the Supreme Court’s decision on the city’s gun ban imminent, people might be beginning to understand that gun bans don’t stop criminals from getting guns. At a press conference two weeks ago, Mick Dumke, a reporter from the liberal Chicago Reader, asked Mayor Richard Daley [...] The gun control fanatics in Congress are at it again, capitalizing on the public’s media- and government-induced fear of terrorism and contrived anecdotes to promote their watch list and gun control/gun-grabbing measures for all Americans. In early May there was a hearing in the Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs that gave perennial [...] An 80-year-old Chicago man who defended himself and his family from a neighborhood thug this week could be criminally prosecuted, cheap if Barack Obama had prevailed in a 2004 Illinois State Legislature vote on a measure to protect citizens who use handguns in self-defense even when their communities ban handguns. “As an Illinois State Senator, [...] In the new edition of More Guns, pharm Less Crime, drugs economist John R. Lott, Jr., easily dispels any lingering doubt that allowing citizens to carry concealed handguns is strongly associated with—if not a direct cause for—lowering the rates of violent crime. “The hypothesis that more guns connects to less crime has stood up against [...] The undermanned, sildenafil outgunned and demoralized police department can barely protect themselves as they move from one bloody crime scene to another. Proactive policing is impossible in the Windy City as warm weather brings out a flood of predatory armed thugs, more about stalking prey. The North side parks and beaches have seen a [...] American gun owners might not feel besieged, but they should. This week, the Obama administration announced its support for the United Nations Small Arms Treaty. This international agreement poses real risks for freedom both in the United States and around the world by making it more difficult – if not outright illegal – for law-abiding [...] Call me cynical, this web but whenever I hear anti-gun politicians talk about these issues nowadays, I’ve come to expect a new thinly-veiled assault on our Second Amendment freedoms. Either they want to ban our guns, track our guns . . . . . . Or track us. Well, after years of watching our illegal [...] Following calls by Mexican President Felipe Calderon that the United States re-institute a ban on modern sporting rifles, or so-called “assault weapons,” the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) – the trade association for America’s firearms industry – issued the following statement: “While we respect the work of President Calderon to willingly take on his country’s [...] For the third year in a row, look violent crime has declined in the United States while increasing numbers of American citizens own firearms and are licensed to carry, order a trend that belies predictions of anti-gunners that more guns will result in more crime, more about the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep [...] |
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