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Private Gun Sales Are The Lynchpin of Liberty

There has been much talk from gun controllers about “common sense” gun control measures such as closing the so called gun show loophole and outlawing private sales of firearms between two people. Or the meltdown gun controllers are having over the private sale of firearms via instagram. You can read that story at Girls Just Wanna Have Guns. There are some usually level headed people who are buying into the controllers bunk and ask me what my problem is with the government checking in on the transactions of private citizens. My answer is quite easy to digest.  The government cannot be allowed to know, track and record every firearm transaction made.  The sake of our liberty demands that the government have a blind spot. The alternative is that they know the quantity, quality and model of every firearm that every law abiding citizen possesses.  The government doesn’t need to...

The most comprehensive summation of the 5 years of Obama’s reign

Mychal Massie is a reporter and talk show host from Los Angeles.  He wrote a biting and pretty comprehensive summation on why he dislikes the Obama’s.  Massie also happens to be black.  Why do I bring that up?  For the “tolerant” left who assume that everyone who disagrees with Obama must be a racist.  No doubt they view Massie, and other black conservatives who hate what Obama is doing to this country, with disdain but at least it will undercut the bogus racism card they like to pull out everytime someone makes a valid point of criticism. With that, I give you, in its entirety Mychal Massie’s response to “Why he doesn’t like the Obama’s”: The other evening on my twitter, a person asked me why I didn’t like the Obama’s? Specifically I was asked: “I have to ask, why do you hate the Obama’s? It seems personal, not...

Life on Mars – A lesson on Liberty from a desolate wasteland

NASA’s research into our nearest neighbor has revealed that many millions of years ago Mars was a lush, wet planet with a thick atmosphere.  Yet today, all that remains is the barren and desolate wasteland with only a toehold of moisture to be found in ice at the poles and in small pockets of ice elsewhere. Why is a pro liberty, gun rights website talking about Mars? Because Mars is a parable, an allegory, a metaphor for what can happen to American liberty. You see, if there was life on Mars millions of years ago, chances are they saw their lush planet with flowing water and forested hills as inviolate from its desolate future.  Yet, if the leading theory is to be believed, a powerful solar wind knocked out the magnetic field of Mars.  That magnetic field was the barrier and protector of the Martian atmosphere and as such...

The Great Parenting Scam That Is Halloween Candy Checking

It has been quite a few years, decades now, since I have gone trick or treating around my hometown.  But even as a young child, my age in single digits, I always had a sinking feeling that my fathers “candy check” at the end of the night had less to do with poison and more to do with the “parental cut” that parents seem to take from their child’s haul. Now, don’t get me wrong, my father would toss out any suspicious looking candies that may have had their wrapper resealed or opened.  He tossed out all the fruit as a precaution because fruit is a really easy way to transmit something harmful if a person had ill intent.  And really, FRUIT, it’s Halloween people, be healthy the other 364. But even with the cursory expelling of suspicious items he still would thumb his way through my upturned pillow...

The Sunshine State moves to fortify the 2nd Amendment against Federal infringements

There was some worry that Florida, after the railroading and demonization of  Peruvian-American Jorge Zimmerman when he defended himself against alleged homophobe and gay basher Trayvon Martin, would crack down on the right to keep and bear arms. Fortunately, there were enough clear eyed people in the sunshine state who saw through the media’s fog of bias and racial pandering.  Not only did they leave “Stand Your Ground” alone, despite the media’s continued assault that SYG had anything to do with Zimmerman being found not guilty, the legislators and people of Florida are pushing for more freedom from tyranny in the form of the “Florida Second Amendment Preservation Act.” For the most part, this Act follows in the footsteps of other Firearm Protection Acts in that it reasserts State Sovereignty in the protection of rights granted to the people by their Creator and Natural Law. To wit:   THE...

The cautionary tale of American Indians – What happens when only 1 side has the guns

Seeing as it is Columbus day, I am reminded of the cautionary tale that can be learned from the treatment of the American Indian for some 400 years.  It is a tale of what happens when one side has the guns and the desire to take and control what the other side has. In this case the European explorers and those who followed them.  For gold, resources and land the conquering Europeans carved out a foothold in this land and spent the next few centuries pushing west to conquer it all.  Sure, they spoke of living in harmony and we have the whole Thanksgiving story but in the end an entire race of people lost 2 continents. Before we go any further, let me just say that I am not against manifest destiny, Christopher Columbus or the Washington Redskins; the world is made up of winners and losers.  My...