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This was from a few days ago.

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For the first time in 70 years the Supreme Court will hear a case involving the 2nd Amendment.  It’s over a case involving the Washington DC hand gun ban.

All I have to say is thank you GWB for Alito and Roberts.

History has shown that when you ban guns, violent crime soars:

After the ban went into effect in early 1977, D.C.’s murder rate rose dramatically. Only in one year since the ban has the murder rate gotten as low as it was in 1976. But it is not just that D.C.’s murder rates rose, they rose dramatically relative to other cities. In the 29 years that we have data after the ban, among the 50 largest cities, D.C.’s murder rate was either first or second for 15 years and fourth for another four years. By contrast, in 1976 D.C.’s murder rate ranked 15th. Over all, violent crime also soared.

But these problems don’t just represent something unique about D.C. Chicago experienced an increase after its ban in 1982. Even island nations from Ireland to Jamaica, whose borders are relatively easy to control, have experienced large increases in murder and violent crime after gun bans. For example, after handguns were banned in 1997, the number of deaths and injuries from gun crime in England and Wales increased by an amazing 340 percent in the seven years from 1998 to 2005.

More info here 

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hattip: allahspetporker 

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A moment of clarity for the MSM.

Reuters
The American affinity for guns may puzzle foreigners who link high ownership rates and liberal gun ownership laws to the 84 gun deaths and 34 gun homicides that occur in the United States each day and wonder why gun control is not an issue in the U.S. presidential election.

The owners are not just urban criminals and drug dealers. There are hunters and home security advocates, and then there are the gun collectors.

“People are ‘Oh, you collect guns, you must be bad.’ That’s nonsense. Gun collectors aren’t criminals, they are nobody to be frightened of,” says Black, one of several hobby collectors in this small Arizona town.

“I love machinery, and I love history, and history was written with firearms,” he said. “They were probably the most spectacular things ever built.”

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People in Colorado are waking up to the fact that the only way to truly protect yourself and your family is to arm yourself.  Trusting the government to defend you from some freak who wants pre-suicide fame is just not cutting it.

Denver Post
COLORADO SPRINGS — Applications for concealed-weapon permits have skyrocketed in Colorado, with the increase fueled by everything from heavily publicized mass shootings to routine renewals, according to the state’s sheriffs.

In 2007, 9,880 people statewide sought permits, compared with 6,649 people in 2006 and 6,670 people in 2005, according to the County Sheriffs of Colorado. And the surge has continued into 2008 in several counties.

Law-enforcement experts have different ideas on why more people want to carry concealed weapons. Some believe it is due to a rash of violent outbreaks at Virginia Tech, Northern Illinois University and a mall in Utah.

Some sheriff’s offices believe churches concerned about protecting their flocks are seeking concealed-carry permits. Another official believes many of the initial batch of five-year permits in the state are expiring soon and that people are simply renewing applications. Those seeking permits are not required to explain why they want to carry a weapon. Whatever the reason, the trend is real.

“People want to defend themselves,” said Doug Davis, president of the Pikes Peak Firearms Coalition. “That’s why they get permits.”

After Matthew Murray opened fire at New Life Church in Colorado Springs on Dec. 9, killing two sisters, applications for permits soared in El Paso County. The number rose by 123 in December, 171 in January, and 294 in February, according to the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office. That represents increases of 31 percent in December, 155 percent in January and 262 percent in February.

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So they at least have some chance of survival. Good video.

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Ah, I miss the gun laws of my home state.  If only California lawmakers were this smart.

NY Times

PHOENIX — Horrified by recent campus shootings, a state lawmaker here has come up with a proposal in keeping with the Taurus .22-caliber pistol tucked in her purse: Get more guns on campus.

The lawmaker, State Senator Karen S. Johnson, has sponsored a bill, which the Senate Judiciary Committee approved last week, that would allow people with a concealed weapons permit — limited to those 21 and older here — to carry their firearms at public colleges and universities. Concealed weapons are generally not permitted at most public establishments, including colleges.

Ms. Johnson, a Republican from Mesa, said she believed that the recent carnage at Northern Illinois University could have been prevented or limited if an armed student or professor had intercepted the gunman. The police, she said, respond too slowly to such incidents and, besides, who better than the people staring down the barrel to take action?

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Oh wow, this is freaking awesome. I want one!

hattip: Hotair

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Good citizens taking matters into their own hands. Good for them, if I was in school, I’d do the same… “I will not be a victim”

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (CNN) — The senior at the University of Utah gets dressed and then decides which gun is easiest to conceal under his clothes.

If he’s wearing a T-shirt, he’ll take a smaller, low-profile gun to class. If he’s wearing a coat, he may carry a different weapon, he said.

He started carrying a gun to class after the massacre at Virginia Tech, but the student says he’s not part of the problem of campus shootings and could instead be part of a solution.

Nick, who asked not to be fully identified so his fellow students wouldn’t know he carried a gun, says he has had a concealed weapons permit for more than three years. But it was Seung-Hui Cho’s murderous campus rampage that made him take a gun to class.

“Last year, after Virginia Tech, I thought ‘I’m not going to be a victim,’ ” Nick said.

“My first thought was ‘how tragic.’ But then I couldn’t help but think it could’ve been different if they’d allowed the students the right to protect themselves.”

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How many Gun free zones have to be shot up before they start letting law abiding citizens protect their own?

 BELLEVUE, WA – The tragic shooting at Northern Illinois University late Thursday is another failure of the “gun free zone” mentality that has created a false sense of security on college campuses and other public venues across the country, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.

“Gun-free zones have given us nothing but body counts,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan M. Gottlieb. “This giant loophole in public safety is becoming a national disgrace and it is time to dramatically change our perspective on self-defense in this country.

“This incident is particularly distressing because it happened in Illinois, one of two remaining states in which anti-gun state lawmakers and equally-anti-gun governors have repeatedly thwarted common sense efforts to put law-abiding citizens on a level playing field with criminals and crazies by adopting right-to-carry laws,” Gottlieb stated. “Illinois and Wisconsin lawmakers have chosen to leave their citizens at the mercy of killers who have no mercy.

At least three people were killed and more than a dozen others wounded in the campus shooting. It occurred two weeks after a gunman murdered five women at a suburban Chicago shopping mall.

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