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Gettysburg revisited

Seven score and ten years ago, Abraham Lincoln went to the site of a battlefield in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.  After a two hour oratory Edward Everett, Lincoln took the stage and gave a two minute speech that has gone down as one of the greatest in American History.  Brief and to the point, Lincoln hearkened back to what this country was founded on.  I believe that 150 years later it is a lesson that we must rehear.  Nearly everyone knows how the Gettysburg Address starts but it is what follows that should be remembered. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are...

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...

Gonzaga moves to expel students who stopped felon from murdering them – despite living off campus

    From Patriot News Update: Two Gonzaga students are facing possible expulsion from the University after they pulled a weapon in self defense as a six time felon attempted to get into their on campus apartment. According to the student handbook, students may not possess handguns on campus or university owned property. On Friday a university discipline board decided to move forward with sanctions, including possible expulsion, for using the weapons. Read more at http://patriotoutdoornews.com/8065/gonzaga-students-face-possible-expulsion-pulling-gun-home-intruder#jkI6kdZg2vXVKkZ3.99 Let me first say that the two students, Erik Fagan and Dan McIntosh, in my mind did everything right. The University on the other hand is really crapping the bed on this matter. And you may be surprised to know that the reason I believe so isn’t for the reason you may think. An anti gun, private University has the right to ban guns from their campus and their property.  It’s an idiotic and dangerous...

Arm The TSA? I thought we were trying to get guns OUT of the hands of criminals?

With the recent targeting and shooting of TSA personnel in Los Angeles there has been some discussion that the TSA should be an armed government agency. Seriously. Let’s start of with logic…also known as: gun controllers kryptonite. Why would the TSA need to be armed?  For all intents and purposes,  airports are gun free zones.  People travelling with their firearm must have it unloaded and locked in a case.  And no firearm can be present in the secured part of the airport which officially begins IN THE LINE of the security checkpoint. So, if the gun free zone that gun controllers champion really work, then TSA agents don’t need to be armed to defend themselves and that whole LAX thing must have been in our collective imaginations. But let’s look at the people who are being hired as TSA agents, or rather the requirements.  I’ve no doubt there are...

Surprise Suprise, gun free zone fails again

What happens when you take a so called “gun free zone”, place it in a state with some of the strictest gun control measures in the country and all but ensure you have disarmed the law abiding? You get a shopping mall in Paramus NJ and only by the shooters intent was the only one killed himself. Richard Shoop, 20, of Washington Township NJ entered the mall, armed with a sporting rifle that he stole from his brother, apparently with the intent to commit suicide either by killing himself or via suicide by cop.  He had ample time and opportunity to shoot innocent bystanders but did not. While the people of the mall are extremely lucky that Shoop’s main agenda was to harm himself alone, a note was recovered at his house, one cannot disregard yet another stunning failure of gun control and so called “gun free” zones in...

Oregonian Man Wins Lawsuit After Being Unlawfully Detained While On His Front Lawn Getting His Mail

Kevin Hall of Corvallis, OR brought a suit against the city for the unlawful detention he experienced last October. While walking to his mailbox to retrieve his mail, while also open carrying a firearm, Hall was approached by Corvallis Police Officer James Dodge.  When Dodge approached, Hall asked him if he was being detained, Dodge replied no but would like to talk to Hall.  Since he wasn’t being detained and wasn’t doing anything wrong Hall started to return to his house when he was stopped by Dodge and told him NOW he was being detained. I guess, according to Officer Dodge, you are free to leave until you actually try to leave, then you are detained.  This is akin to the stories of the good ole boy Sheriffs’ who bash out taillights and then give you a ticket for it. The Officers defense becomes the theatre of the absurd...