Archive for the ‘Articles’ Category
2A per a Vermont Lawyer
Below is the response of a Vermont lawyer to a post on a Vermont bulletin board, in which another writer had related reservations about the Second Amendment being directed more towards a collective right and not an individual right. His response is lawyerly, but very strongly in support of citizen rights. Evan ___________________________________________________________________ The introductory [...]
Was there ever any doubt?
If there is any doubt what the gun control advocates are planning, this > should clear it up. > > —- > > “We’re going to have to take one step at a time, and the first step is > necessarily — given the political realities — going to be very modest. . > . [...]
http://chicagotribune.com/news/printedition/article/0,2669,SAV-0006090204,FF .html GUN BUYBACKS FAIL TO CUT CRIME, KILLINGS PROGRAMS ATTRACT WRONG WEAPONS, STUDY SAYS By Mike Dorning Washington Bureau June 9, 2000 WASHINGTON — Piles of weapons handed over to the police for a few dollars make compelling photographs, but repeated studies of politically popular gun buyback programs across the country have found no [...]
Rights, Not Privileges
Rights, Not Privileges “No State shall convert a liberty into a privilege, license it, and charge a fee therefor.” –Murdock v. Pennsylvania, 319 US 105, US Supreme Court, 1943. The U.S. Supreme Court broadly and unequivocally held that requiring licensing or registration of any constitutional right is itself unconstitutional. –Follett vs. Town of McCormick, S.C., [...]
According to pro-control Violence Policy Center last month (05/00), “Licensing systems are very expensive to administer. Canada’s experience with its full licensing and registration system, begun in December 1998, is not encouraging.” VPC note how the Canadian system cost many times more than expected, and “was running up an annual bill nearly 10 times higher [...]
European-Americans are easier to attack when they can’t shoot back. That lesson was not lost upon the gangs in Central Park last Sunday and has always motivated the Congressional Black Caucus. (Why do you think non African-American and Latino-American legislators widely support any attempt at domestic disarmament?) CNN has broadcast video shot during Sunday’s assaults [...]
“The Court really beat up on the government” ………..
5:30 p.m. June 13 Neal Knox Report — “The Court really beat up on the government” Linda Thomas of Houston ecstatically told me a few minutes ago. She was on a cell phone, standing on the steps of Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. A three-judge panel had just heard oral argument in [...]
Open letter to Pro-gun advocates by Officer Bill Rhetts
Here’s mine…. Open letter to Pro-gun advocates by Officer Bill Rhetts [email protected] As a Police Officer who is very pro gun, you may find my brief quote very beneficial towards your great and very much needed cause, the “2nd Amendment.” Please feel free to use it and pass it on like popcorn. I am not [...]
Another Feather in Schumbagers cap
Woman assaulted in Central Park, cops don’t help. http://www.nypostonline.com/news/5939.htm Thanks to Sen. Schumer and others like him, she didn’t have a gun. Notice that, despite the anti’s efforts, and a total gun ban in NYC, she was still afraid that the thugs might have guns. Sounds like she knew something the anti’s didn’t. Coming soon [...]
CA AB273 alert from the CA SAS
This is the latest message sent to the California Second Amendment Sisters mailing list. If you would like to join us, send an email to Jennifer and Joe at [email protected] , or check out the national website at http://www.sas-aim.org/ . – Adele Greetings all! The issue of gun-owner registration and owner licensing is alive and [...]
