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Federal Judge: “Show Me Examples of ALL the Firearms You Just Banned, Illinois”

Saul Alinsky’s Rules For Radicals #4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules. (This is a serious rule. The besieged entity’s …

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On Mass Shootings

Mass shootings are tragic, as is almost any criminal shooting occurrence. Loss of innocent life is not reversible. Families, loved ones, and friends all suffer when they happen. Something does need to be done, and it should involve common sense.

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The Bureau of Arbitrariness, Tyranny, and Fear

In one of his eponymous lectures, Richard Feynman told a story about a lady who was pulled over for speeding.  Told that she was going 60 miles per hour, she replied that she’d only been driving for seven minutes.

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Is the FBI Now Keeping a Database of Firearms Purchases?

Firearms owners know that in order to legally purchase a firearm you have to complete an ATF Form 4473 and submit to and pass a criminal history background check prior to taking possession of a firearm. Note that criminals do not have to do this.

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Virtue Compelling Devices

President* Biden has declared that he is ‘going to try to get rid of assault weapons.’ Of course, there isn’t really any such thing as an ‘assault weapon.’  There are assault rifles and semi-automatic weapons, but the term assault weapon doesn’t really mean anything other than a weapon that certain people find frightening for reasons they …

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Is It Time to Take Off the Ron DeSantis Rose Colored Glasses?

Early in his career as governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie was a superstar. He took on the ed unions, school boards, and left-nuisance nonsense in general. He was a YouTube star, and they called these confrontations Chris Christie Porn. Not long after, he was exposed as a stooge of the Left riding the Republican …

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