As the year winds down, deceptive anti-gun rhetoric appears to be warming up, perhaps in an effort to sway Congress and state legislatures from passing pro-rights legislation, including a proposed national concealed carry reciprocity/recognition bill. Leading the charge Wednesday is the New York Times. In an editorial lauding a move toward stricter gun control laws […]
L.A. Times Editorial Board: ‘SCOTUS Wrong on Second Amendment’
The Los Angeles Times Editorial Board, exercising its First Amendment right of free speech and the press, has attacked the notion that the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms applies across state borders, and calls the idea of state concealed carry reciprocity “absurd and dangerous.” In a 716-word slap at concealed carry, the […]
Survey: Majority of Voters Think Media Biased, Not Honest
A post-election survey by the Media Research Center (MRC) released Tuesday revealed that more than two-thirds of voters “do not believe the news media are honest and truthful,” and an even larger majority thinks news coverage of the presidential campaign was biased. That survey, reported by Newsbusters, also said 59 percent of the respondents believe […]
The Fallacy of ‘Nobody Wants to Take Your Guns’
When the Seattle Times cheered passage 0f another gun control initiative this week, and immediately called for even more legislation banning so-called “assault weapons” and large capacity magazines, it may have surrendered any chance to argue that “nobody wants to take your guns.” Banning an entire class of firearms amounts to taking, critics argue. It’s not […]
It’s All Over but for the Shouting: Did You Vote?
Tuesday will be a long day for some people, and not long enough for others, but it is the end of the line for political campaigns, and some on the losing side will declare it is the end of the line for life as we know it. One important question: Will America’s “mainstream” news media […]
Gun Control on Ballot in Four States; White House Race Tight
With gun control issues on the ballot in four states, and concerns about who wins the White House, Second Amendment activists need to turn out in massive numbers and vote as a bloc in order to protect the Supreme Court and stop what they feel is an erosion of the right to keep and bear […]