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An 80-year-old Chicago man who defended himself and his family from a neighborhood thug this week could be criminally prosecuted, if Barack Obama had prevailed in a 2004 Illinois State Legislature vote on a measure to protect citizens who use handguns in self-defense even when their communities ban handguns. “As an Illinois State Senator, Barack Obama [...] In the new edition of More Guns, Less Crime, economist John R. Lott, Jr., easily dispels any lingering doubt that allowing citizens to carry concealed handguns is strongly associated with—if not a direct cause for—lowering the rates of violent crime. “The hypothesis that more guns connects to less crime has stood up against massive efforts to [...] The undermanned, outgunned and demoralized police department can barely protect themselves as they move from one bloody crime scene to another. Proactive policing is impossible in the Windy City as warm weather brings out a flood of predatory armed thugs, stalking prey. The North side parks and beaches have seen a dramatic rise in racially motivated [...] American gun owners might not feel besieged, but they should. This week, the Obama administration announced its support for the United Nations Small Arms Treaty. This international agreement poses real risks for freedom both in the United States and around the world by making it more difficult – if not outright illegal – for law-abiding [...] Call me cynical, but whenever I hear anti-gun politicians talk about these issues nowadays, I’ve come to expect a new thinly-veiled assault on our Second Amendment freedoms. Either they want to ban our guns, track our guns . . . . . . Or track us. Well, after years of watching our illegal immigration problem grow steadily worse [...] In 2001, the shooting victims and Ileto’s wife filed a lawsuit against the manufacturers, marketers, importers, distributors, and sellers of the firearms related to Furrow’s shooting spree. They alleged that those defendants intentionally produced, marketed, distributed, and sold more firearms than the legitimate market demanded, in order to take advantage of re-sales to distributors that [...] Following calls by Mexican President Felipe Calderon that the United States re-institute a ban on modern sporting rifles, or so-called “assault weapons,” the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) – the trade association for America’s firearms industry – issued the following statement: “While we respect the work of President Calderon to willingly take on his country’s powerful [...] For the third year in a row, violent crime has declined in the United States while increasing numbers of American citizens own firearms and are licensed to carry, a trend that belies predictions of anti-gunners that more guns will result in more crime, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today. Preliminary [...] “The Coyote Special.” It’s not a new Animal Planet documentary. It’s also not tonight’s chef’s choice at Hudson’s on the Bend. Rather, it’s a handgun. But not just any handgun. It’s Sturm, Ruger & Co. Inc.’s newest .380 — the same model of the semi-automatic pistol that Gov. Rick Perry said he used to kill a [...] Starting next school year, a new law allows local school boards to offer gun safety education in elementary schools, based on a program from the National Rifle Association. The law requires that the program use guidelines based on “the rules of the National Rifle Association’s Eddie Eagle Gunsafe Program.” That program tells children to “STOP! Don’t Touch. [...] |
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