Vietnam was all right. No problem. So was the covert war in Nicaragua and El Salvador. Ditto for Iraq I and II and Afghanistan. All necessary and proper and good. Lives destroyed? Who cares? The US government’s possession of weapons and their use? Well, of course they needed all those weapons. How else could the wars be fought? Guns in hands of government are a completely different issue than guns in the ha ...

Wikipedia is sometimes quite useful, especially if you need a good, generic definition of a common term, such as extortion: Extortion (also called blackmail*, shakedown, outwresting, and exaction) is a criminal offence of unlawfully obtaining money, property, or services from a person, entity, or institution, through coercion. Refraining from doing harm is sometimes euphemistically called protection. Extort ...

Vice President Joe Biden recently declared at a recent PBS event that Congress needs to outlaw "assault weapons" because the police are overwhelmed by heavily-armed criminals. Declared the Veep: 
 One of the reasons the assault weapons ban makes sense, even though it accounts for a small percentage of gun deaths, is because police organizations overwhelmingly support it because they are outgunned on the str ...

When things are amiss and the official explanation makes little sense it is reasonable to develop alternative conclusions that better fit the facts. The Second Amendment is clear: “The right to a well regulated militia, being necessary to a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”  Thomas Jefferson clarified the Framers’ intentions when he wrote; “The strongest rea ...

Pro-gun rallies have been held across the US demanding the White House curb its sweeping new gun-control proposals and to defend the second amendment of the constitution. 
 Thousands of protestors took to the streets across the US, after a massive social-media grass roots initiative called “Guns Across America,” called on Americans to defend the right to bear arms guaranteed by the second amendment of the c ...

Newspeak was a term coined by George Orwell, which he said was created to “provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits” of the ruling elite and further “to make all other modes of thought impossible.“ Subcategories of newspeak included carefully crafted words created entirely and specifically for the purpose of a political agenda. According to Orwell, category ‘B’ words “consisted of ...

Governor Christie On NRA Ad: It's Reprehensible 
 
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The National Rifle Association cast its opposition to Obama’s plans as “the fight of the century” in a letter circulated at the 35th annual Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade Show and Conference, known in the trade as “the SHOT show,” in Las Vegas. “I warned you this day was coming and now it’s here,” Wayne LaPierre, the NRA’s fiery executive vice president, wrote in a fund-raising letter to the group’s 4 mil ...

The Constitution's Second Amendment was created to bolster slavery and capture land from Native Americans, award winning actor Danny Glover told a group of students at a Texas A&M sponsored event on Thursday. Actor Danny Glover told students at Texas A&M University the intent of the Second Amendment was to protect slavery. “I don’t know if you know the genesis of the right to bear arms,” he said. “T ...

Hundreds rally for gun rights 
 
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