Hultgren Endorsed by the NRA/Comment on Unemployment Figures

October 24, 2010 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, Guns, House of Representatives, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Liberals, Randy Hultgren, Republicans, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

From the Hultgren for Congress campaign (14th District)…

ST. CHARLES – The Randy Hultgren for Congress campaign issued the following statement today regarding Hultgren’s endorsement by the National Rifle Association, a national organization with more than 21,000 members in the 14th Congressional District.

“The National Rife Association is among the nation’s most respected and influential sportsmen’s organizations, and has always been an outspoken defender of our Second Amendment rights; I am proud and honored to have received their endorsement,” said Randy Hultgren. “I’ve fought to defend the Second Amendment rights of Illinoisans in Springfield, and I look forward to fighting for the Second Amendment rights of all Illinoisans in Washington, DC.”
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North Carolina Governor’s Gun Ban

September 10, 2010 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Government, Corruption, Liberals, North Carolina, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

It appears that North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue went to the Rahm Emanuel school of governing because hurricane Earl was a “crisis” that was “too good to waste.” Perdue used hurricane Earl as an excuse to claim that the North Carolina was in a “state of emergency” and this proclamation opens the door for an “emergency” gun ban.

On Sept. 1 as Earl was bearing down on the coast, Perdue signed Executive Order 62 in which she claimed that the state was officially in a state of emergency and that EO sets in motion statute 14-288.7 — titled “Transporting dangerous weapon or substance during emergency; possessing off premises; exceptions.” (N.C. definition of “state of emergency” can be seen in 14-288.1 definitions)
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New York Times : Afraid of Gun Crazed, ‘Motley Carnivals of the Tea Party Movement’

August 10, 2010 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Guns, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, New York, Tea Party, The New York Times, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

The New York Times sent Mattathias Schwartz to find out what was going on at Jack Dailey’s firearms training camps across the country and what he found apparently made the writer fear that America was going to the lily white, revolutionary, tea party dogs.

Schwartz went to learn about Jack Dailey’s Appleseed Project firearms marksmanship training camps and what he found were folks of “uniformly white skin” whose ideas were influenced by those “motley carnivals of the Tea Party movement.” And apparently Schwartz fears that they all want to institute a violent revolution in America. Yes, it’s all about those scary “militias” despite that the Appleseed Project has no connection to any.

“Determining whether this revolutionary talk constitutes a threat comes down to finding the fine line between expressing anger and inciting the angry to action,” Schwartz writes, “a distinction that is clear as a matter of law but less so in cultural practice.” Then right away Schwartz invokes the Timothy McVeigh incident as if every American that wants to observe his Second Amendment rights is an Oklahoma bomber in waiting.
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ICarry Takes Chicago and Mayor Daley Back to Court!!

July 28, 2010 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Constitution, Cook County, Democrats/Leftists, Freedom, Government, Government, Corruption, Guns, Illinois, Judges, Law, Liberals, Mayor Richard Daley, Supreme Court, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

From ICarry.org…

Executive Director Shaun Kranish writes:

Although the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in McDonald that Chicago has violated an individual and fundamental right to keep and bear arms by having an outright ban on pistols (and for decades this ban did not apply to Chicago aldermen and other criminals), Daley and his cohorts have immediately responded with more outrageous restrictions.
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Fisking the Chgo Sun-Times Anti-2nd Amendment Article

July 13, 2010 | Filed Under 1st Amendment, 2nd Amendment, Anti-Americanism, Britain, Constitution, Cook County, Democrats/Leftists, Education, Government, Government, Corruption, Guns, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Liberals, Mayor Richard Daley, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

The Sun-Times is Chicago’s left-wing, left-wing paper while the Chicago Tribune is but the city’s left-wing paper and pursuant to its agenda, the Sun-Times recently made to shore up support for Mayor “King” Daley’s attempt to eliminate the Second Amendment for his Chicago subjects with its headlined “More guns in city not a good thing.” Naturally most of what is contained in the piece is incorrect and deserves a good fisking.

So, here goes…

This won’t make the NRA happy. Twelve guns a year? How dare Chicago restrict a citizen’s right to buy 12 million guns a year.

My response here won’t make the Sun-Times happy: Newspapers? They have a constitutional right to be free of government interference, too. We call it the First Amendment. But here’s an idea for you, Sun-Times… how about we limit the public to one newspaper a month? After all, ideas are very, very dangerous, aren’t they? If, Sun-Times, you have no problem with our Second Amendment rights being restricted by the federal, the state or local governments, why should you be all upset that your First Amendment rights are restricted? Where is the intellectual honesty in agreeing to restrict the Second Amendment but not the First?
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New Federally Mandated Literacy Tests to Buy Newspapers, Religion Classes to Attend Churches, Others

July 9, 2010 | Filed Under 1st Amendment, 2nd Amendment, Anti-Americanism, Communism, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Ethics, Government, Government, Corruption, Liberals, President, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

Democrats might be right. It’s obvious that Americans have become a stupid people. Our schools have disgorged students who have fallen to the bottom of the barrel in literacy, math and science scores, late-night comedians have no lack for citizens on the street that have no cue about law or history, and as voters…. well, as voters we’ve been stupid enough to elect people like James Traficant, John Edwards, Robert “KKK” Byrd, “Benedict” Arlen Specter, Pete Stark, or for that matter Jimmy Carter and Barack Hussein Obama. We need help and what better entity than government to rescue us? So, we need some new rules so that Americans can be better controlled.

I’ve gotten this great idea from Richard “King” Daley, Mayor of Chicago, who has decided with his newest stab at gun control that we need to institute mandated firearm training classes for every Chicago gun owner as well as costly yearly licensing fees. This is a brilliant idea. So much so that I think we can expand on this idea in order to have a better, more orderly society.

Plainly Daley and his Democrat cohorts need to implement these “training” mandates on a wider basis. Not only will we have a better trained citizenry, but we’ll have billions of dollars flowing into the treasury from the high fees that such classes must invariably entail. And jobs? Why, think of how many jobs will be created by these new policies. We’ll need millions of low-level, perfunctory clerks, classroom instructors, and paper pushers to get this all off the ground. And what could be better than more education and more money in the form of hidden taxes going to fill the pockets of government officials?
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Illegals Steal His Trailer, Yet HE Faces Jail?

July 9, 2010 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Anti-Americanism, Civil Rights, Colorado, Constitution, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Freedom, Government, Government, Corruption, Law, Liberals, The Law, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

So, you are an 82-year-old man whose flat bed trailer is being hooked up to a thief’s car right in front of you. Like a dutiful citizen, you call 911 and report the crime happening before your eyes. Like an outraged property owner you yell and scream at the thieves. Like crooks, they pay no heed. So, like a true American, you try to protect your property by firing a few shots at the scum.

This is all as it should be. This is America where we have rights to defend ourselves and our property.

The police later discover the thieves, two illegals from south of the border, and they readily admit that they stole the trailer. The police found them so easily because the property owner actually hit one of the thieves with his hastily delivered pistol shot.

One would think that the case would be closed at this point. After all, this IS America.

Or is it?
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Daley’s Newest Stab at a Gun Ban

July 2, 2010 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Chicago, Constitution, Cook County, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Government, Corruption, Guns, Illinois, Liberals, Mayor Richard Daley, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Daley’s temper tantrum against guns continues, but at a much subdued pace. With its recent McDonald v the City of Chicago ruling the Supreme Court of the United States essentially made Daley’s outright gun ban unconstitutional so the mayor has had to retrench and come up with new onerous rules to try and limit guns in his kingdom.

As always, the Chicago City Council rubber stamped Richard “King” Daley’s whims — why do we have a city council anyway?

The new rules do show the mayor’s defeated position, however, as they are much less stringent than his previous mandates. Daley also shied from insisting that there be a one-gun limit and also dropped the idea of expensive and onerous insurance requirements for gun owners, the latter an idea popular with many gun banners.
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Ohio Dems Seek Gun Records To Harass Gun Owners

June 29, 2010 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Government, Corruption, Guns, Law, Liberals, Ohio, Police, Regulation, Rights, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

In the wake of the new Supreme Court decision on the 2nd Amendment, we have this illuminating story from Ohio and if this isn’t the perfect example of why American gun owners fear detailed firearm owners registration records in the hands of government officials there isn’t one to be had. Ohio’s State Democrat Party recently sent a letter to every county sheriff’s office demanding that sheriffs send them the names and addresses of all concealed carry permit holders in their county.

There is, of course, only one possible reason that these Democrats wanted this information. Democrats wanted to harass these legal concealed permit holders. They wanted to target Ohioans that were exercising their Constitutional right and to set them up for political attacks, they wanted to somehow use the personal information of law abiding citizens as a weapon against them.

Fortunately, it is illegal in Ohio for such records to be made available to the public and that includes political parties, advocacy organizations, or journalists. The county sheriffs all refused to acquiesce to the Democrat’s demands and the state party quickly issued a second letter withdrawing their request.
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(2nd District) Hayes Says Supreme Court Decision Will Protect Families and Property

June 29, 2010 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Constitution, Cook County, Democrats/Leftists, GOP, Government, House of Representatives, Illinois, Republicans, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

From the Hayes for Congress campaign (2nd District)…

CHICAGO: Republican nominee for Illinois 2nd Congressional District Isaac Hayes released the following statement following today’s Supreme Court decision overturning the Chicago handgun ban:

“Today’s Supreme Court decision will allow residents being held hostage by urban terrorists the opportunity to defend themselves, their families and property. With 26 people being shot in Chicago this past weekend and 50 the week before, it is quite apparent the Chicago gun ban is not working.

“Gangs don’t honor gun bans so infringing on the 2nd Amendment right of law abiding citizens only leaves them defenseless against violent offenders. In communities across Chicago urban terrorists must now think twice before entering private property.”

This statement appears on the Citizens for Isaac Hayes website at:
www.isaac4honesty.com

2nd Amendment Rights Finally Considered a Right for Black Chicagoans Too!

June 28, 2010 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Civil War, Constitution, Cook County, Democrats/Leftists, Freedom, Government, Government, Corruption, Guns, Illinois, Liberals, Mayor Richard Daley, Rights, Slavery, State Government, Warner Todd Huston | 3 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

At long last the 2nd Amendment has been considered a personal right per the Supreme Court of the United States. In McDonald v the City of Chicago the Supreme Court has ruled in a 5 to 4 decision that Chicago’s gun banning laws are not in keeping with the right to self-defense as enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. After 200 some years we are finally accorded our rights officially. Further, the Court found that the 2nd Amendment was meant to protect the very people that Mayor Richard Daley and his comrades are trying to forcibly disarm: black Americans. (See PDF of Decision)

The decision threw out the Seventh Circuit ruling upholding Chicago’s gun ban and ordered the Seventh to revisit its decision. This new ruling does not specifically strike down Chicago’s gun ban but the opinion leaves little room for the Seventh to up hold Mayor Richard Daley’s gun banning efforts.

One of the main questions before the Court was whether or not the 14th Amendment served to shore up the rights in the 2nd. The Court found that it did, indeed. In fact, it is interesting to note that the ancestors of the very people that the 14th Amendment was meant to specifically protect — newly freed slaves, called freemen — are today those that Mayor Richard Daley and others like him want to disarm. Daley and his ilk want to disempower blacks and other minorities and tie them plantation-like to their government authority.
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Supreme Court protects Chicagoans 2d Amendment Rights by Overturning Unconstitutional Handgun Ban

June 28, 2010 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Chicago, Civil Rights, Congress, Conservatives, Constitution, Cook County, David Ratowitz, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Government, Corruption, Guns, Illinois, Judges, Liberals, Supreme Court, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

From the Ratowitz for Congress campaign (5th District)…

U.S. Congressional Candidate, David Ratowitz (IL-5) praises SCOTUS for upholding the 2d Amendment Rights of Chicagoans and urges Chicago’s City Council to respect the rights of law abiding citizens.

Chicago, IL, June 24, 2010– Long time transparency and pro-liberty advocate Candidate for U.S. Congress from Illinois’ 5th Congressional District, David Ratowitz supports the Supreme Court’s decision in McDonald v. City of Chicago.
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Chicago Police Chief Struggles to Justify Daley Gun Ban

June 19, 2010 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Chicago, Children, Constitution, Cook County, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Government, Corruption, Guns, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Liberals, Mayor Richard Daley, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Mick Dumke of the Chicago Reader had an interesting report on a recent press conference held by Chicago’s Police Chief, Jody Weis. Dumke said that during the presser Weis struggled to “explain how the gun ban is working” for Chicago. In other words, Weis was at a loss to prove that Daley’s unconstitutional actions are working to make the city safer.

According to Dumke the conference went from discussions of how Weis has taken “3,513 weapons” off the streets, that they are using “analytics” to determine where the crime hotspots are in the city, moving on to the claim that the city has a lower over all crime rating, yet to the ultimate fact that even with all this the death toll is still higher than other cities. “Homicides continue to challenge us,” Weis said.

How one goes from claiming that the Mayor’s gun ban is effective yet the murder rate is still so high is anybody’s guess. And that is just the thing, isn’t it? Assaults are up 2.4 percent over last year. Obviously the supposed gun ban is not effective at all if it were this murder rate would be nonexistent.
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Mayor Daley’s Newest Disingenuous Gun Argument

June 18, 2010 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Business, Capitalism, Chicago, Constitution, Cook County, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Government, Corruption, Guns, Illinois, Liberals, Mayor Richard Daley, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Mayor Richard “King” Daley is at it again, talking through his royal rear-end and simply making things up to push a false theme in order to support his anti-Constitutional gun-grabbing in Chicago.

The Chicago Tribune conducted an interview with his heinous and he uncorked another one of his primo spins on his latest desire to take away his subject’s Constitutional right to self-protection: it’s the “gun lobby” argument again.

In an interview with the Tribune, Mayor Richard Daley acknowledged an uphill battle against the gun industry, which he described as the most powerful lobby in the United States. Even so, he vowed that in the event residents are allowed to have handguns at home, the city would take steps to ensure that officials can account for the weapons.

Uphill battle against the gun industry? What spin, what glorious spin. There isn’t one person, one Supreme Court justice, one gun advocate arguing that Daley’s gun-grabbing is wrong because it hurts “the gun industry.” The “gun industry” has precisely nothing to do with the reasons that the anti-Daley forces are trying to defeat him.
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Terrorist Supporting Islamist Group Coming Back to Chicago

June 18, 2010 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Anti-Americanism, Chicago, Constitution, Cook County, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Islam, Islamofascism, Liberals, Mayor Richard Daley, Sharia, Terrorism, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

While Mayor Richard “King” Daley goes about his important work of destroying Chicagoan’s 2nd Amendment Rights, a terror supporting Islamist organization is again coming to the Windy City to spread its message of jihad and raise money for the cause.

Hizb ut-Tahrir America, a group committed to a world-wide caliphate by which to oppress the world and destroy freedom and liberty, is bringing its newest outrage to Chicago for the second year in a row. The terror supporting group’s second conference, titled “Emerging World Order: How the Khilafah Will Shape the World,” is scheduled to be held on July 11 at the Chicago Marriott Oak Brook.

While Daley might be happy that terror supporters are setting up shop in the city he is attempting to disarm, not everyone thinks this jihadi conference is a good idea.
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McConnell for Colorado: He Loves Guns and The U.S.A…. not so big on the U.N.

June 12, 2010 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Army, Colorado, Constitution, Elections, GOP, Government, Guns, House of Representatives, Military, Republicans, UN, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

I have to say, I find it somewhat amazing to see the sort of campaign videos we’ve been seeing of late. They are hard-nosed, straight-forward, REAL American styled campaign spots. I can’t imagine any time in our past when such hard-core American sentiment would have been evident in campaign commercials like this.

Here is one for Bob McConnell who is running for Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District.

Army RANGERS, hoo ah!

So, all you true Americans living in Colorado’s Third, go out and vote for a real American. Vote Bob McConnell.

http://www.mcconnellforcongress.com/

(H/T HotAir)

Mayor Daley Must Want an 80-Year-Old to be Shot to Death?

May 28, 2010 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Anti-Americanism, Chicago, Constitution, Cook County, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Government, Corruption, Government, Ill. County, Guns, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Mayor Richard Daley, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

It’s no coincidence when Mayor Richard “King” Daley is all over the news sternly scolding 2nd Amendment supporters over their interest in upholding the U.S. Constitution after one of the gang thugs that lives in his city kills a kid or two (or 50 or more). He revels in these deaths like some grim reaper lawmaker. But when the story turns into an 80-year-old man saving his own life with a firearm, “King” Daley’s morbid anti-gun rants suddenly go quiet.

After Mr. Grant, an 80-year-old Korean War vet, heard the sounds of a break-in, he went to investigate the noise and was fired upon by the criminal when he did so. Fortunately, Mr. Grant was not hit by the assailant’s bullet. The, however, crook was not so lucky as Mr. Grant’s return fire hit home killing the intruder on the spot.
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Chicago TV Reporter Clueless On Gun Buyback Program

May 8, 2010 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Budget, Chicago, Children, Constitution, Cook County, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Government, Corruption, Guns, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Lobbyists, Mayor Richard Daley, Media, Media Bias, Police, State Government, TV News, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Some of my colleagues on the web are saying that Fox News Chicago reporter Tera Williams “revealed her bias” about the relative efficacy of Chicago’s absurd gun buyback program.

In yet another TV report on this meaningless program, reporter Williams was interviewing a Chicago resident on his thoughts about the whole thing. The resident told her, “it’s a good way to start,” to which Williams said “Something’s better than nothing, right?”

Well, no it’s not, Ms Williams. This program has been a complete failure for making a dent in the violence and shootings in the City of Chicago. While other great cities of the nation have seen falling murder rates over the last decade, Chicago has seen its rate rise. Even as this waste of money and time of a program was started in 2006, the murder rate has not been positively affected by the program. In fact, this year the city has already experienced over 100 shooting deaths and we aren’t even at the half way point in the year yet.

But, I am not going to say that Williams’ empty-headed statement is proof of her bias in favor of the program. I’d say it is more like her utter cluelessness of how ineffective it has been.
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The Left’s Lies About ‘Peaceful’ Immigration Protesters

April 28, 2010 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Chicago, Constitution, Cook County, Democrats/Leftists, Foreign Countries, Government, Government, Corruption, Guns, Illinois, Illinois State Government, International Criminal Court, Liberals, Mayor Richard Daley, State Government, Warner Todd Huston, World Criminal Court | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

HotAir.com posted an excellent side-by-side video from Fox News that shows the lengths that the left goes to in order to excuse the common every day violence, hate and criminal actions of folks from their own side.

Take a look at this excellent report…

This ignoramus, hypocrite that Fox News dredged up to represent the left is typical of the back bending gymnastics indulged by the Old Media and the left — one in the same, I know. This is typical in the way they denigrate the perfectly peaceful Tea Party protests while excusing the lawless, criminal actions of the left’s protesters — in this case the recent pro-illegal immigrant criminal protesters in Arizona.
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Mayor Daley Wants Foreign Kangaroo Court to Rule in Chicago

April 27, 2010 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Anti-Americanism, Chicago, Constitution, Cook County, Democrats/Leftists, Foreign Countries, Government, Government, Corruption, Guns, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Law, Mayor Richard Daley, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Mayor Richard “King” Daley has just earned his monarchical (or is that maniacal) nickname by announcing his desire to have a European “court” invade the U.S. and begin prosecuting American citizens for doing a legal, Constitutionally protected business in America.

The despicable, mob-infested mayor of Chicago’s newest harebrained scheme in his fight against the U.S. Constitution is to have the so-called World Criminal Court at the Hague to begin prosecuting gun manufacturers and gun dealers here in America.

It’s bad enough that this Eurocrat wannabe thinks that this kangaroo court in Europe has legal jurisdiction in the USA, but he’s teaming up with a foreign plutocrat in Mexico to try and pursue this idiot’s scheme.

Mayor Daley again proves his essential hate for his own country. First by wallowing in his mob connected lifestyle, next by his surrounding himself with criminal Democrats that rob the city blind, then by siding with foreigners against his own country.

Maybe we would be better off with Rahm Emanuel in the big chair at City Hall? At least Rahm is just an average crook!
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Ill. Lawmakers: Bring in the Army to Kill Chicagoans

April 26, 2010 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Constitution, Cook County, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Government, Corruption, Guns, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Mayor Richard Daley, Rights, Security/Safety, State Government, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

The second I hear the facile ideas of our elected officials to bring in the Army to start cracking down on “crime” I get visions of jack-booted legions of the Wehrmacht goosestepping through the city, machine guns at hand, knocking over old people and making little kids cry.

But, I guess Representative John “Twitchy” Fritchey is wholly unaware about the rules and philosophies of the American system. You see comrade Fritchey, there is a reason why the Commissars aren’t allowed to bring the Army down upon a city. It’s because our U.S. armed forces are supposed to protect us against foreign enemies. Our laws and police agencies are supposed to protect us from internal crooks, criminals and thugs. And if our police are failing, “Twitchey” Fritchey, it is your fault (yours and your fellow “lawmakers”) Not the police’s.

Further it is not the job of the Army to harass citizens into cowering inside their homes for fear of being cut down in the streets by or own soldiers.
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2nd Amendment Rally at Northwestern University

March 1, 2010 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Corruption, Guns, Illinois, Liberals, State Government, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

Right to Carry Meeting in Chicago

UTATU Collective Presents:

A TOWN HALL MEETING on GUNS, VIOLENCE, AND THE RIGHT TO SELF-DEFENSE!
Wednesday, Mar. 3, 2010
7:00 to 9:30 p.m.

Northeastern Illinois University
Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies
700 East Oakwood Blvd., Chicago, IL

Right to carry is coming to CHICAGO this week. This should be interesting. It looks like even Richard Daley is having trouble keeping right to carry out in 2010. It’s only just begun, Dick!!!
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Obama The Pro-Gun President?

February 15, 2010 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Budget, Business, Congress, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Foreign Policy, Government, Government, Corruption, Guns, Liberals, Media, Newspapers, Rights, Security/Safety, Socialism, Society/Culture, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Is President Obama a surprising gun rights supporter? He might be if the Chicago Tribune’s Steve Chapman is correct. And Chapman isn’t the only one. It seems to be shaping up to be the lefty complaint du jour this week. Reality, however, might say something different.

Chapman makes a classic mistake that many people make when discussing matters political. He mistakes Washington’s inaction on an issue as some sort of statement on the ideology on that issue. While there are times when this is true, inaction is not necessarily a statement of support or opposition to an issue, but often just a matter of merely not having gotten to it yet or even not being able to.

In this case Chapman is talking about guns. Is Obama for them, against them, indifferent to them? Chapman has a sneaking suspicion that President Obama is for our rights and only supports modest gun control measures. This is because the president hasn’t launched into all sorts of left-wing attempts to curtail our Second Amendment rights in his one year in office. But I think Chapman is reading too much into Obama’s inaction.
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Publius Podcast: Anti-Gun Government Tyranny in Canada

February 9, 2010 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Canada, Constitution, Foreign Countries, Freedom, Government, Corruption, Guns, Podcasting, Publius' Forum, Socialism, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

A Canadian columnist has his door practically beaten down by Toronto’s stormtrooping police because he had a 30-year-old bird rifle that he forgot to re-register. America THIS is coming to YOUR door if the left gets its way in banning guns.

Anti-Gun Government Tyranny in Canada

February 4, 2010 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Anti-Americanism, Canada, Congress, Conservatives, Constitution, Government, Corruption, Guns, Journalism, Liberals, Newspapers, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

Unlike the U.S., Canada does not have the right of self-protection enshrined in its laws. Where we Americans have the coverage of the Second Amendment to protect our God-given right to self-protection, the Canadians have to rely on the occasional good nature of their overlords in government to determine how their right to own a firearm is treated. Sadly, their ownership of firearms is usually mistreated rather than upheld.

A writer for the Toronto Star wrote an article recently that showed the capriciousness of government thugs where it concerns privately owned firearms in Canada. Joe Fiorito had a retinue of Toronto’s finest stormtroopers come beating on his door one day this month to confiscate his old rifle because the columnist had the temerity of forgetting to re-up his registration of a disassembled, 30-year-old, small caliber bird gun.

Involved were multiple police cars, half a dozen officers, judge’s warrants. All sorts of iron, jack-booted automatons of the state came down on Mr. Fioritto. It was as if he were public enemy no. 1. All of this over a beat up old rifle that was disassembled, locked in a basement, and stored in a house in which no ammunition existed.
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Luntz Misleads With New Gun Poll

January 25, 2010 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Constitution, Freedom, Government, Government, Corruption, Guns, Journalism, Media Bias, Rights, The Law, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Pollster Frank Luntz is trying to hawk his new poll on gun laws commissioned by the left-wing group Mayors Against Illegal Guns. He’s trying to sell the concept that NRA members are just as interested in “common-sense gun policies” as anti-gun nuts and that legislators should take this into account when crafting future anti-gun legislation. The problem is that this poll is misleading in some important ways. The problem here is that the devil being in the details is glossed over by the poll. (Download .pdf of poll here)

In an op ed penned by Luntz and Tom Barrett, gun owners are compared favorably with non-gun owners over their feelings on gun banning laws. “The culture war over the right to bear arms isn’t much of a war after all,” the pair tells us. “As it turns out, there is a lot everyone agrees on.”

And this main point serves as the biggest problem with Luntz’ poll. Of course everyone will claim they are for “common-sense” laws. But the first thing that anyone will find out when discussing concrete policies that might come to make up these so-called common-sense ideas is that disagreement quickly reigns when people start getting specific. An assumption that everyone agrees on just what common sense means disappears pretty quickly when the details are laid out.
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This Aussie LOVES Guns, And I Like This Aussie

January 24, 2010 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Australia, Freedom, Guns, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Australian Steve Lee says he likes guns. He like ‘em so much he made this music video. He likes guns and I LOVE this video. It is hilarious.

Everything from .22 cal pistols all the way to an RPG and every machine gun and rifle in between! HA, I LOVE it!

Naturally the weak-kneed, liberal, scumbags Down Under are all upset by Lee’s paean to the shiny poppers that he so loves. The pasty faced president of Gun Control Australia was all upset over Lee’s great little video. But who cares what this half-wit, sniveling, snot-nosed liberal says,eh?

Steve Lee likes guns, dangit!

New Hampshire Makes to Outlaw Federal Agents?

January 8, 2010 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Congress, Conservatives, Constitution, Crime, Democracy, Democrats/Leftists, Federalism, Founders, Government, Corruption, Guns, Liberals, New Hampshire, Patriotism, Republicans, Society/Culture, State Government, States Rights, Supreme Court, The Law, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Imagine a state law that says that any federal agent that comes into said state and runs afoul of a new state law should be considered a felon! Well, that is what New Hampshire is about to do if HB1285 passes during the coming 2010 legislative session.

HB1285 is another one of those laws that exempts all firearms and firearms accessories that are made in a state from certain federal restrictions if they remain in that state. Several states have made attempts to implement these 10th Amendment laws and New Hampshire intends to be one of the next to do so.

Thus far Montana and Tennessee have passed their own firearms freedom acts and thirteen or so other states have introduced or are introducing laws that exempts local firearms industries and accessories as well as in-state firearms owners from overweening federal gun banning laws.
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5th District — Quigley-backed Chicago handgun ban: Negligible results, still unconstitutional

December 22, 2009 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Chicago, Congress, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, GOP, Government, Corruption, Guns, Illinois, Liberals, Republicans, State Government, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

5th District Congressional candidate David Ratowitz responds to Rep. Mike Quigley and Mayor Richard M. Daley’s December 19, 2009, Sun-Times op-ed, “Threat to city’s handgun ban jeopardizes safety of all.”

Rep. Mike Quigley’s December 19 Chicago Sun-Times op-ed piece in defense of Chicago’s unconstitutional ban on gun ownership for law-abiding citizens displays arrogance, disregard for the facts and extremist zeal.
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My Last Straw With Bob Schillerstrom for Governor

December 21, 2009 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Abortion, Anti-Americanism, Chicago, Constitution, Cook County, Elections, Free Trade, GOP, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Religion, Rights, State Government, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

For the most part I want my writing, opining and reporting of the GOP field of candidates in Illinois to be relatively even handed. I have avoided too much high strung rhetoric and have not made any obvious endorsements because I want all of our Republican candidates to have this forum and to get their message to Illinois Republican voters. But I will not from this point forward be loaning my forum to Bob Schillerstrom in his quest for the GOP nomination for Governor.

There are some things with which I agree with Mr. Schilelrstrom. He is generally a fiscal conservative which is good. However, he is also a pro-abortion candidate and an anti-Constitutional rights candidate. These two things are enough for me to jettison any further reporting on his campaign.

The final straw comes for me with Schillerstrom’s announcement of getting endorsed by a radical abortion advocacy group, the Personal PAC. This group claims to be “bi-partisan” but is far from it.
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