Brian Ross and ABC News are lying -- again. Bob Owens calls them on it. The focus of the story, according to ABC News, is that U.S. dealers of civilian firearms are to blame for Mexico's drug cartels and their violence problems... so why do they highlight an M60 general purpose machine gun, a weapons […]
Via Blackfive comes this disturbing story of the court martial of retired Green Beret Smokey Taylor, 80. Retired Army Green Beret Smokey Taylor got his court martial this weekend and came away feeling good about it. Taylor, at age 80 the oldest member of Chapter XXXIII of the Special Forces Association, was on trial by […]
Jan Crawford Greenburg, the author of Supreme Conflict, has an excellent summary of how the justices just might come down on the D.C. gun ban that it coming before the Supreme Court this term. Greenburg makes an interesting case that the decision may not be 5-4 in the classic conservative/liberal split. Here's hoping.
Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen isn't the sharpest tool in the shed. Cohen wrote a column yesterday arguing against people having guns -- especially young adults -- except for him. According to [Fred] Thompson, the horrible massacre at Virginia Tech ( 32 dead) proved not that the shooter should have been in some sort of […]
Police have identified the gunman who murdered 32 of his fellow students as 23-year-old Cho Seung Hui, a legal alien immigrant from South Korea. Police also report that Cho apparently legally purchased one of the firearms used in the shooting last month. That is a loophole that needs to be closed. There's going to be […]
Thirty-two people and one evil, deranged psychopath lost their lives today at Virginia Tech. Dozens more were wounded. The death toll could still climb further. The families of the dead, wounded and others affected by this horror are in our prayers tonight. Some late reports say that the shooter was from China; here on a […]
You've heard by now that a top aide to Sen. James Webb of Virginia was arrested Monday after he was caught taking a loaded handgun along with two additional clips of ammunition into a Senate office building. The aide, Phillip Thompson, has said the handgun belongs to Webb and that he had been "safekeeping" the […]
Today's New York Times editorial proclaims the government has "The Right to Ban Arms." The editorial is in response to a D.C. Circuit Appeals Court ruling that the District's blanket ban on handguns is a violation of the Second Amendment's right to bear arms. The editorial is the predictable guns are evil liberal tripe, but […]
Here's another one of those stories you don't hear too often about armed citizens saving lives. The attacker, chasing one victim into the store's parking lot, was subdued by Chris Cope, manager of a financial services office in the same small shopping center, Higgins said. Cope said he grabbed a 9mm semiautomatic pistol from his […]
San Francisco's ban on the sale of handguns has been overturned by the courts. What's hilarious is the spokesman for the city attorney's response to the ruling. “We're disappointed that the court has denied the right of voters to enact a reasonable, narrowly tailored restriction on handgun possession,” Dorsey said. “San Francisco voters spoke loud […]