Just three days after the D.C. Naval Yard shooting, in a scene that plays out all too often in certain U.S. cities, 13 people were shot in a drive-by shooting at a gang-infested park in Chicago.
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The Vanishing Right to Self-defense
All government fears liberty. By its nature, government is the negation of liberty. God has given us freedom, and the government has taken it away. – Judge Andrew Napolitano
Gun Culture and Gun Control Culture
When liberals talk about “gun culture”, they mean the same thing that Barack Obama did when he told his San Francisco fundraiser friends about the people out there who still cling to their bibles and their guns. It isn’t about the guns really, though gun control culture is worried about having that much personal autonomy in the hands of people who don’t share their values and like their independence, it’s about rural America.
What Everyone Forgets When Debating Gun Control
Living is about more than just life, and whether the matter is sports that can kill, drink that can kill, or guns that can kill, you can’t really live if you’re suffocated with a Big-Brother bubble-wrap mentality. – American Thinker
Gun crime continues to decrease, despite increase in gun sales
At the same time that firearms murders were dropping, gun sales were surging. In 2009, FBI background checks for guns increased by 30 percent over the previous year, while firearms sales in large retail outlets increased by almost 40 percent. – Daily Caller
FBI DATA PROVES ANTI-GUNNERS WRONG ON CRIME
Preliminary crime data from the FBI for 2010 adds more evidence that gun prohibitionists have been consistently wrong, and that more guns do not equal more crime.
Violent Crime Down While Gun Sales Climbed in 2009
Violent crime continued to fall in 2009, even as gun sales reached an all-time high, according to statistics from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).