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Old enough to vote, old enough to fight…but forget about protecting yourself

That is the verdict that was rendered by the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals last week.  The verdict states that the Federal Government can continue to ban the sale of handguns to 18-20 year olds.  A loophole does exist stating that a parent can gift such a weapon to their children.  And in open carry states that do not require a permit or constitutional carry states, that 18-20 year old can carry said weapon. Let’s put aside that little loophole and I say loophole in the best possible way since I feel this ruling is completely unconstitutional. Things you can do before you are 21: You can legally drive a 2 ton vehicle that can go over 100 miles per hour that statistically kills more people than firearms by a rate of 2 to 1. You can legally vote.  A vote which may elect politicians who send this country off to war, into...

This is what happens when politicians only hear from gun fearing snivelers

Since the state of Kansas does not have preemption with regards to firearm laws, any town or city can pass their own infringements on the Second Amendment leaving the state a nightmare to try and traverse. Recently though, the Attorney General of Kansas,  wrote an opinion stating: ““A city may not completely prohibit the open carry of a loaded firearm on one’s person.” That served as a wake up call to places like Wichita and Overland Park to hop on the trolley and retract their unconstitutional ban on open carrying.  Overland Park just recently enacted the legalization of open carrying a few weeks ago. Even though the streets did not run red with blood and there WERE NOT daily shoot outs like the fictionalized old west, don’t tell that to gun haters.  They have been out in full force to decry the attack on their sensibilities in seeing a law...

Georgia treads on the 1st Amendment while attacking the 2nd

Gun grabbing zealots often let their disregard for the Second Amendment bleed into other enumerated rights.  Such an example can be found in Georgia where law abiding citizens are prohibited from carrying their firearms into places of worship. Now, this isn’t a church, synagogue or mosque saying they don’t want guns there…it is the government telling these places of worship they CAN’T ALLOW them. A child praying over a meal in school, cheerleaders writing a bible quote on a banner, or a cross on a high school football helmet and the civil rights activists come storming in decrying separation of church and state blah blah blah. But when the government forcibly dictates how a church must operate, those same people fall silent.  The First Amendment is written specifically to stop the government from dictating how a house of worship is to be operated. Seeing how the separation of church and state crowd only view it as...

Bear hugger says “Don’t shoot” Plus Derry NH redux

According to Alaska Department of Fish & Game bear safety specialist John Hechtel, bear spray and firearms can be “equally effective in trained hands, depending on the situation. I certainly don’t think we should try to pit one tool against the other .” Seems reasonable.  I mean, utilize the tools at hand to protect yourself the best you can.  Of course, not everyone agrees.  A pair of biologists call the claim that the argument to use a firearm to protect yourself instead of using bear spray is ridiculous and try pitting one form over the other.  In this case pushing for spray alone. Chris Servheen wrote a “fact sheet” for the US Fish and Wildlife Service stating: “since 1992, persons encountering grizzlies and defending themselves with firearms suffer injury about 50% of the time. During the same period, persons defending themselves with pepper spray escaped injury most of the time, and those...

Wal-Mart caves to gun control whims

The story is a pretty straight forward one.  In South Bend Indiana, Wal-Mart has come under fire by Citizen’s United for Better Government (not to be confused with Citizen’s United) for selling tactical shotguns and rifles that they say would not be used for hunting. The City Council agreed and came to Wal-Mart demanding that they pull these weapons from their store.  Wal-Mart capitulated.  The South Bend Wal-Mart has pulled all long guns with the term tactical attached and will block any future shipment of them to the store and limit the hours in which it sells ammunition. Now, not only do I fault Wal-Mart for folding under the auspices of “community safety” I also fault them for signing an agreement in 2011 with the City Council stating that no tactical shotguns would be sold with to begin with. Due to this agreement, perhaps Wal-Mart had no choice to respond as...

Happy Columbus Day and what we can learn from the American Indians left in his wake

Columbus: Lucky explorer or harbinger of genocide? I have heard it both ways.  He is lucky because there was a big chunk of land in between where he was going from and where he was headed to that probably saved his life since he would have run out of supplies long before he got to India.  He is a harbinger of genocide because through disease and conquest the inhabitants of the new world were decimated and lost their land. I’ll go with the first.  The second I’m not going to pin on Chris simply because it is human nature to press your advantage and take what you want.  Even later, when the Pilgrims came with the best of intentions, it didn’t take long before those who followed wanted more and more.  The American Indians, not realizing the slippery slope they were on didn’t see much of a problem at first.  Of...