Why the Second Amendment matters
I don’t usually share emails, but this one is so good about the types of Americans who legally own guns, and why we need those guns, that I couldn’t resist.
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Category: Second Amendment
Review: Smith & Wesson M & P Shield EZ
My gun-buying days are over because I can’t imagine ever finding a nicer gun than the Smith & Wesson M&P Shield EZ.
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The Second Amendment Writing on the Wall
After the Supreme Court decision in New York State Rifle and Pistol Assoc., Inc. v. Bruen, the remaining frontiers for the 2nd Amendment are overturning state laws restricting citizens from owning types of weapons in common use or “high-capacity” magazines. It appears (h/t Redstate), based on the most recent orders
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The Bruen Case Part II: Red Flag Laws and Judicial Activism
This is a final look at the Court’s decision in New York State Rifle and Pistol Assoc., Inc. v. Bruen. Part I, analyzing the majority opinion, is here. This Part II will first examine the Bruen opinion’s likely impact on state Red Flag Laws, a key component of Congress’s recent
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A First Look At Today’s Second Amendment Decision (Updated)
The constitutional right to bear arms in public for self-defense is not “a second-class right, subject to an entirely different body of rules than the other Bill of Rights guarantees.” McDonald, 561 U. S., at 780 (plurality opinion). We know of no other constitutional right that an individual may exercise
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Bookworm Beat 6/15/22: the guns and January 6 illustrated edition
I’ve got so many cartoons reflecting people’s unhappiness with proposed gun control and the January 6 kangaroo court that I thought I’d share them right away.
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Progressives are evil gun-grabbing idiots
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined…. The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun.” – Patrick Henry,
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The Second Amendment special illustrated edition
With Democrats going after the Second Amendment again, I got so many memes they needed their own post.
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Granny Clampett was a strong woman
Maybe you have to be raised with a shotgun in your hand to feel comfortable using it…. On the Beverly Hillbillies, Granny was always ready with her shotgun: No, I haven’t gone ’round the bend. I fully understand that Irene Ryan was not Granny Clampett, that she was handling a
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Concealed Carry Laws
The writing seems to be on the wall that states which apply subjective or overly restrictive standards for issuing concealed carry licenses are violating the Constitution. Thirteen years after the Supreme Court held in District of Colombia v. Heller that the Second Amendment creates a private right to keep and
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A letter from South Africa and our Second Amendment
A letter from South Africa describing citizen self-defense provides all the proof you need to defend the Second Amendment. A South African friend sent me a letter that is making the rounds amongst fellow South Africans. If you ever wanted to have facts to rebut leftists who claim there is
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Bookworm Beat 3/26/21 — the mammoth Second Amendment illustrated edition
With Dems again attacking the Second Amendment, I’ve assembled a slideshow with almost 500 Second Amendment memes from the last 8 years. If you hover your mouse anywhere over the slide show screen, you’ll see the controls — forward, pause/play, backward.
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Biden Raises the Gun Control Spectre
If you needed more motivation to get out and vote against progressives, Dementia Joe just provided it. He’s put “gun control” at issue just as the nation explodes in progressive violence. In March, economist and former university Professor John Lott Jr. took note of the Democrat presidential contenders, in particular
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Do Away With Prosecutorial Immunity For DA’s Who Ignore The Constitution
Two recent high profile cases have involved DAs who have charged citizens for exercising their 2nd Amendment rights. The DA’s are wrongly immune from punishment because of prosecutorial immunity. Our Second Amendment codifies the pre-existing right of U.S. citizens, in the words of Justice Scalia, to “possess and carry weapons
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Leftists want war, but they’re the Stone Age fighters
Leftists want a make-or-break revolution in America, forgetting that, when it comes to weapons, they’re the Stone Age tribes and conservatives are Europe. I had an epiphany, albeit one that ends with blood. John Kerry has threatened all of America by announcing that if Trump is elected president, there will
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