A new Rasmussen survey released this week included the startling revelation that 53 percent of Democrats favor legislation “that would abolish the current Supreme Court of the United States and establish a new, democratically elected Supreme Court with justices chosen by the American people directly.” Overall, however, 53 percent of all likely voters would oppose […]
San Jose Council Passes Gun Control Mandate Amid Lawsuit Threats
Despite threats from gun rights groups of legal action, the San Jose City Council has approved a mandate that gun owners in the city obtain liability insurance and also pay an annual fee to the city, ostensibly to offset the costs of so-called “gun violence.” Perhaps unintentionally, KGO News in San Francisco gave critics an […]
San Jose Council Vote: Tax Gun Owners for Crimes Others Commit!
The San Jose City Council has unanimously voted to charge an annual “gun owner fee to help cover the cost of gunshot-related police and ambulance response and medical treatment,” according to KNTV News, the local NBC affiliate. The “yet-to-be-determined” fee for gun owners amounts to a tax on the exercise of a constitutional right, and […]
Pew: Modest Rise in Support for Stricter Gun Control Laws
Pew Research is reporting a “modest rise in support for stricter gun laws in the United States since 2017,” including a majority (71%) who “favor banning high capacity ammunition magazines.” In a story bylined by Pew research assistant Katherine Schaeffer, the polling organization also revealed an increase in the number of Americans who support […]
Fox News’ Napolitano: ‘Red Flag’ Violates Due Process
Judge Andrew Napolitano, Fox News senior legal analyst, thinks “red flag” laws are a bad idea. (Screen snip, YouTube, Fox News.) In an essay published Wednesday in the Washington Times and on Thursday by Fox News, that cable network’s senior legal analyst, Judge Andrew Napolitano, wrote strongly against the concept of so-called “red flag” laws, […]
New Hampshire’s Chris Sununu Sets Constitutional Benchmark on Guns
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu just did something that infuriated the gun prohibition lobby, while providing Second Amendment activists some hope that at least one politician isn’t buckling to the anti-gun-rights agenda in the wake of three high-profile shootings for which American gun owners are not responsible. Last week, Gov. Sununu vetoed a trio of […]