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Does Gun Control Work?
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There have been a lot of claims thrown around after the murders at the Umpqua Community College in Oregon. President Obama and the anti-rights groups have been quick to call for more firearms prohibitions. That got me asking if “gun control” works.
I looked at the data, and I’d say “gun control” fails. Here is what I discovered. |
Trump defends 2nd Amendment Following Oregon Shootings
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Saturday channeled 1970s action star Charles Bronson in defending Second Amendment rights in the aftermath of the shooting at an Oregon community college that left nine dead.
Trump said in a rally in suburban Nashville that he has a handgun carry permit in New York. He added that any attacker will be "shocked" if he tries to assault him, and that he would emulate Bronson in the vigilante film "Death Wish." |
Life is A Greater Right Than Gun Ownership
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The shootings on Thursday in Oregon are the latest demonstration of the effects of the dysfunction of our federal government. The rebellious colonists who founded this country wrote an ambiguous constitutional amendment giving themselves the right to “keep and bear arms.” In the circumstances, it was a reasonable thing to do. |
How To Handle Active Shooters at Church
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Moveon.org reports 142 school shootings since the Sandy Hook massacre.
The Church Law Institute reports 135 deadly force incidents occurred in the worst year 2012 at religious organizations.
Presidential Candidate Donald Trump said, "It sounds like another Mental Health problem" |
US Mass Shootings Prompt Surge in Weapons Sales
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Business has been brisk for Larry Hyatt, owner of Hyatt Guns in North Carolina, since the Oregon community college shooting last week that left 10 people dead, including the 26-year-old suspect.
Mr Hyatt saw an even bigger surge in customers after the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut that left 26 people dead, including 20 children, before the gunman killed himself.
After that incident, President Barack Obama made his first major push for stricter gun laws. In the wake of the Oregon shooting, Mr Obama on Friday again urged Americans to challenge the powerful gun lobby, saying he could not do it alone.
However, the calls for tighter gun laws lead to an increase in weapons sales.
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WV: Local Shooting Club has Guns Ablazin’
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Ok, so maybe they aren’t quite that dramatic, but they definitely have a lot of fun! The Coalfield Shooters Association (CSA) is a shooting club focused not only on practical shooting, but all types of shooting and firearms safety. |
Rudy Giuliani Completely Flip-Flops on Gun Control But That’s Not Even The Real Problem
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In the wake of the mass shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon last week, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani predictably joined other Republicans in slamming President Obama for his impassioned remarks on the need to take political action on gun control. In an appearance on Fox and Friends Friday morning, Giuliani lamented poor, ignorant Barack Obama’s take on how to prevent gun violence.
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Constitutional Rights Matter
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Jake Trapper, CNN, asked Gabby Gifford's husband Mark Kelly, what new gun law would have prevented the murder of the students in Oregon?
Kelly responded, “You know with individual events there isn't a single law that would prevent a tragedy like this.”
Of course Kelly is right. We have enough gun control laws. We don't need more and more won't help. Kelly went on to call for identifying people with mental illness and adjudicating them to prevent them from committing violent crimes.
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Michael S. Rosenwald: Wisdom from a gun-owning moderate
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The point of view of “Arms,” A.J. Somerset’s history of gun culture, might be more important than any of the stories he tells.
Somerset traces firearms history back to frontier times, through old westerns and battlefields and onward to the National Rifle Association, mass shootings, fantasies of a zombie apocalypse and the white picket fences of suburbia, where housewives squeeze off rounds at the range with pink guns.
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Brilliant: Charles C.W. Cooke nukes every liberal gun control argument on MSNBC
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The liberal playbook in the aftermath of any mass shooting works like this: The left, usually taking it cue from President Obama, declares that we once again have all the proof we need that we need to ban guns (except that they phrase it as "common-sense gun safety laws"), and that any argument to the contrary is self-evidently a refusal to solve the problem of gun violence, which is obviously the result of politicians' fear of the NRA or some sort of cultish devotion to the Second Amendment.
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Our opinion: Ebola-type reaction to shootings needed
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It was on Oct. 1, 2014, that a patient at a Dallas hospital tested positive for Ebola, the first case of the disease to be diagnosed in the United States.
On Oct. 1 of this year, a different kind of event shocked the nation: A shooter on Oregon's Umpqua Community College campus killed nine and wounded seven. This event was far from a first. |
Pope Francis and the Umpqua Community College Shooting
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I started writing an article on Pope Francis then the tragedy occurred at the Umpqua Community College in Oregon after a mentally deranged man killed nine people and wounded many others.
I heard the news reports speculating on the motives of the man, who I will not name in this article. He needs to be quickly forgotten, cremated and his ashes dumped in the local garbage heap. |
Do Guns Belong in Michigan schools? Readers Sound Off
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Last Sunday, the Free Press published a story about the debate on whether staff and parents should be allowed to carry guns in schools. Court cases about Michigan law allows anyone with a concealed pistol license to openly carry a gun in a school. Schools districts that set their own gun-free zone policies have been sued. And the Legislature is considering one bill that would ban all weapons and schools and another that would ban open carry but allow those with a license to cary a concealed weapon.
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MI: Courser, opponents debate gun control at forum
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One day after a gunman killed nine people in a shooting rampage at an Oregon community college, the issue of gun control was a hot debate topic at a Lapeer County candidates forum to fill an open seat in the Michigan House.
Former Rep. Todd Courser, the Lapeer Republican who resigned last month to avoid expulsion, got the first crack at answering a question about gun...
Courser said the lack of students carrying concealed weapons left them defenseless to a handgun-wielding 26-year-old shooter, Chris Harper Mercer, who died in a shootout with police.
“People kill people. Guns don’t kill people,” said Allan Landosky, a Republican candidate from Lapeer. “A spray bottle of gasoline could do almost the same amount of damage. |
IL: Gun Show in Antioch Draws Expert Hunters, Collectors and Curiosity-Seekers
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The gun show at the Antioch VFW Sunday may have been smaller than the shows that used to be held at the Lake County Fairgrounds before Grayslake largely banned them in 2001, but some attendees browsing said they were happy to see the return of a local show.
"It's small," said Steve Jacobs, of Round Lake Beach, who came in search of a stun gun and baton and had planned to check out a gun show in Kankakee next weekend before hearing about the Lake County Gun & Sportsman Show. "But I'm glad to see it."
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California Weighs Banning Concealed On Campuses
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California is once again considering a move to tighten its restrictions on guns with a ban on the concealed carry of handguns at colleges and schools.
Gov. Jerry Brown is considering the legislation as the nation mourns the school shooting in Roseburg, Oregon, that left 10 people dead, including the gunman, the Sacramento Bee reports Saturday.
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| [The American Colonies were] all democratic governments, where the power is in the hands of the people and where there is not the least difficulty or jealousy about putting arms into the hands of every man in the country. [European countries should not] be ignorant of the strength and the force of such a form of government and how strenuously and almost wonderfully people living under one have sometimes exerted themselves in defence of their rights and liberties and how fatally it has ended with many a man and many a state who have entered into quarrels, wars and contests with them. — George Mason, "Remarks on Annual Elections for the Fairfax Independent Company" in The Papers of George Mason, 1725-1792, ed Robert A. Rutland (Chapel Hill, 1970). |
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