THEHILL.COM 5 Hours Ago Sen. Murkowski concerned about Obama executive action on guns - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room by Daniel Strauss By Daniel Strauss - 01/11/13 03:09 PM ET Tweet Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) says she's "troubled" by the possibility of President Obama taking executive action to reduce gun violence. Murkowski's comments on Friday came in response to Vice President Biden, who is leading a task force that will pass along recommendations to reduce gun violence to President Obama next week, saying that Obama is likely to use executive orders. Obama has called for swift action on reducing gun violence in response to a shooting massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in December that resulted in 27 dead. "I will tell you that I am very very troubled with the vice president's comments that he thinks that gun control can effectively be done through executive decree — executive order," Murkowski said Friday in an interview with KSRM R...

NEWS BUSTERS 34 Minutes Ago Latest Ed Schultz Whopper: 'We've Never Had a Civilian Stop a Shooting' by Jack Coleman The hits keep coming from libtalker Ed Schultz, who's kicking off the new year on a roll. First week into 2013, Schultz insisted that Bill Clinton was never tried in the Senate after he was impeached by the House. Schultz followed with the laughable claim that gun laws in Chicago, a city with some of the nation's toughest restrictions on firearms, "don't even exist." (audio clip after page break) Schultz is tripling down on his ignorance, making an egregiously false claim on his radio show yesterday while talking about whether schools should allow teachers to arm themselves (h/t for embedded audio clip, Brian Maloney at mrctv.org) -- Would it be a deterrent if, you know, say perpetrators know that there's guns in the schools? How do we know they wouldn't view that as a challenge? I mean, we got a goofy world out there. ...

LEGALINSURRECTION.COM 1 Hour Ago David Gregory and wife knew D.C. Attorney General by William A. Jacobson District of Columbia Attorney General Irvin Nathan issued a lengthy letter today explaining the decision not to prosecute David Gregory despite “despite the clarity of the violation of this important law,” despite rejecting NBC’s claims of a subjective misunderstanding of the law, and despite vowing vigorous enforcement of gun laws. Emily Miller of The Washington Times, who has written extensively about the overly aggressive enforcement of D.C. gun laws, including as to high capacity magazines, reacted as follows: It is shameful that the politicians running the nation’s capital have sent the clear message that there are two systems of justice in the city: one for the rich and powerful and one for everyone else. It further undermines public confidence in such decisions to find out that Nathan knew Gregory and his wife, high-powered attorney Beth Wilkinson. Anne dug up t...

WEASELZIPPERS.US 1 Hour Ago DOJ Report: Youths 6 Times More Likely To Be Victimized By A Knife Than A Gun Only one way to stop this, ban ALL sharp objects! (CNSNews.com) – A new Justice Department study looking at violent crimes committed against “youth”—defined as Americans from 12 to 17 years of age—discovered that the rate of “serious violent crime” committed against youth by a perpetrator using a firearm dropped 95 percent from 1994 to 2010. The study—“Violent Crime Against Youth, 1994-2010”–also discovered that American youth who were victims of a serious violent crime in 2010 were six times more likely to have been attacked by a perpetrator wielding a knife than one wielding a gun. Serious violent crimes against youth perpetrated at schools dropped 62 percent from 1994 to 2010, said the study, and students were less likely to become victims of a serious violent crime at school than they were away from school. In 2010, 6.6 out of every 1,000 youth became victims of a se...

TPMDC 3 Hours Ago Conservative Georgia Congressman Expresses Support For Some Gun Control Measures by Evan McMorris-Santoro In remarks Thursday to a Chamber of Commerce meeting in Georgia, Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-GA) expressed a willingness to discuss new gun control measures already rejected by the National Rifle Association in the wake of the Newtown shooting. Among them: a ban on high-capacity magazines and the creation of a universal background check process on firearms purchases. Gingrey’s remarks — which came in speech to the Cobb Chamber of Commerce in Smyrna, Ga., and were reported by the Marietta Daily Journal — were unexpected. Gingrey is a very conservative member of House majority, and his comments put him at odds with some fellow Republicans. “There are some problems, and maybe these huge magazines even for someone who says, ‘Look, I just use an AR-15 for target practice,’ but do you really need to be standing there shooting at a silhouette a shot a second or even quic...

NEWS.BLOGS.CNN.COM 8 Hours Ago Grassley suggests openness to gun control idea by Gregory Wallace Sen. Chuck Grassley, a conservative Republican from Iowa, suggested Friday he may be open to a limited form of gun control – restricting the size of gun magazines – if that legislation does not violate the Constitutional protection of gun rights. "I think that's a whole different issue and it can maybe be dealt with without violating the Second Amendment, but I want to see the legislation," Grassley told Iowa Public Television in an interview Friday. But he reaffirmed his opposition to reinstating the assault weapons ban that Congress passed in 1994.

Gov. John Kitzhaber says he won't lead the charge on gun control legislation but will support laws he thinks will keep Oregonians safer. Randy Rasmussen/The Oregonian SALEM -- Gov. John Kitzhaber says he won't lead the charge on tougher gun control laws in Oregon, but he expects the Legislature to take up the issue and will support what he considers to be reasonable changes. In an interview with The Oregonian about the upcoming session, Kitzhaber confided that he's a "big supporter of the Second Amendment" and owns a bolt-action .22 hunting rifle that belonged to his grandfather. "It's a lovely piece," he said, and it doesn't just hang on a wall. "I go out and shoot it. Shoot at cans. A good can can see me coming a half-mile away, and they make themselves scarce." Nonetheless, he said, he has no objections to laws aimed at restricting the kinds of weapons and ammunition used in the shootings at the Clackamas Town Center mall an...

FIRE ANDREA MITCHELL! 3 Hours Ago Figures – David Gregory of NBC will not be prosecuted for violating DC gun laws on air with magazine waving Why am I not surprised? If what David Gregory did on the air waving around a ‘high capacity magazine was you or me, we’d be in jail now and have to pay whatever the fine was. But if you are a leftist, a part of the Washington DC cocktail circuit like NBC hack David Gregory, you got off scott free. Gregory will NOT be prosecuted for violating DC gun laws, as many of us expected. Having carefully reviewed all of the facts and circumstances of this matter, as it does in every case involving firearms-related offenses or any other potential violation of D.C. law within our criminal jurisdiction, OAG has determined to exercise its prosecutorial discretion to decline to bring criminal charges against Mr. Gregory, who has no criminal record, or any other NBC employee based on the events associated with the December 23,2012 broadcast. OAG has made t...

Well, he should have though about that before he made those statements!! RAW STORY 2 Hours Ago State suspends gun permit for CEO who said he would ‘start killing people’ over gun control by Samantha Kimmey By Samantha KimmeyFriday, January 11, 2013 17:24 EST The CEO of a weapons and tactical training company has had his gun permit suspended by the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security after he published a video on YouTube in which he threatened to “start killing people” if President Obama pushes forward with increased gun control, reported News Channel 5. James Yeager, who heads the Tennessee-based company Tactical Response, issued a video Thursday in which he said, “I was mad when I said it” and “probably allowed my mouth to overrun my logic” but does not retract his statements. He admits he cut his controversial video by eliminating the part where he says he will “start killing people.” He claims he does not “condone anybody doing anything rash” or “committin...

WND.COM 2 Hours Ago Gun critics challenged to be without their guns by Bob Unruh A spokesman for a foundation that successfully has battled in court to uphold the Constitution’s Second Amendment is challenging not only politicians but celebrities who think the American public should be disarmed to go without their own firearms protections. “That would include Joe Biden’s shotguns,” said Alan Gottlieb, executive vice president of the Second Amendment Foundation, “and the armed security now enjoyed by Sens. Chuck Schumer and Dianne Feinstein and Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi.” He said such leading opponents of gun ownership should begin the process and “lead by example” through repudiation of any of their own firearms as well as the “armed security” they now have. “It seems clear from the direction the administration is going that it wants to severely restrict the rights of law-abiding gun owners to purchase the firearms of their choice,” Gottlieb said, “and we think they should...

Joe Biden meets games companies as gun control task-force readies proposals Vice-president meets makers of Call of Duty and Medal of Honor after meeting advocates of gun control and gun rights Matt Williams in New York guardian.co.uk, Friday 11 January 2013 17.59 EST A copy of Medal of Honor Warfighter in the window of a Brooklyn gaming store. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images Vice-president Joe Biden said on Friday that there was no "silver bullet" to solve America's gun problem, but that he hoped to present a broad package of recommendations early next week. On the final day of talks at the White House, Biden met executives from the video games industry, reassuring them that he held "no judgment" and that the sector was not being "singled out". Representatives of the companies behind the popular Call of Duty and Medal of Honor franchises – Activision Blizzard and Electronic Arts – were summoned amid suggestions that violence on screens m...

NEWS BUSTERS 3 Hours Ago CNN Report Tilts 4 to 1 Towards Gun Control Advocates by Matt Hadro CNN keeps giving oxygen to the gun control movement. Correspondent Jason Carroll touted the push by New York City and Philadelphia for stricter gun laws and loaded his report with pro-gun control statements on Friday. Carroll quoted four guests in favor of stricter gun laws and provided only one statement to the contrary, from Pennsylvania's governor explaining why the state court struck down Philadelphia's gun control measures. He began and ended his report with a grieving Philadelphia resident who railed against guns on the city streets. "Anger and rage rise to the surface because there has to be something that we can do as a nation to get these guns off the streets," the resident told him. Carroll also included statements from prominent gun control advocates: Philadelphia's Mayor Michael Nutter (D) and New York's Mayor Michael Bloomberg (I). Nutter critici...

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Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man gainst his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American...[T]he unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people. ---Tenche Coxe, The Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788.

Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States. A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power, and jealousy will instantly inspire the inclination, to resist the execution of a law which appears to them unjust and oppressive. ---Noah Webster, An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution (Philadelphia 1787).

You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one. -- Rush Limbaugh, in a moment of unaccustomed profundity 17 Aug 1993

The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so. -- Hitler, April 11 1942

"To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them." -- George Mason, speech of June 14, 1788

"Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom." -- John F. Kennedy

"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it." -- Abraham Lincoln, 4 April 1861

"I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical." -- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, January 30, 1787

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.

"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed." -- Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers at 184-188

"The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good" -- George Washington

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government" -- Thomas Jefferson, 1 Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334

FREEREPUBLIC.COM 6 Hours Ago Biden's Faulty Lifeguard Logic Skip to comments. Biden's Faulty Lifeguard Logic Townhall.com ^ | January 11, 2013 | Jonah Goldberg Posted on 01/11/2013 1:37:58 AM PST by Kaslin "As the president said, if your actions result in only saving one life, they're worth taking," Vice President Joe Biden declared on Wednesday as he previewed what his commission on gun violence might actually do. "There are executive orders, there's executive action that can be taken. We haven't decided what that is yet. But we're compiling it all with the help of the attorney general and the rest of the Cabinet members as well as legislative action that we believe is required." Biden insisted that it is a moral imperative for the White House to do something: "It's critically important that we act." Most of the attention, understandably, is on Biden's suggestion that the president will consider using executiv...

FREEREPUBLIC.COM 22 Minutes Ago I'm British and Piers Morgan is Damn Wrong Many Americans, since the Sandy Hook massacre, have been disgusted by Piers Morgan's snooty condescension toward their great country, and his blatant disregard for the Second Amendment. This culminated in his recent interview with talk show host Alex Jones, that ultimately backfired when his fiery guest wiped the floor with him. Since the shooting, Morgan has strutted around as the flag waver for gun control, pointing to his native Great Britain as the ultimate example of what these dumb, gun-toting Yanks should try and imitate. Not only did he use Britain constantly in his scathing editorial against American gun laws, but also repeatedly pointed Alex Jones towards the supposed low gun murder rate in the United Kingdom. As a fellow Englishman living in America, there is no reason I should not be on Morgan's side. I have spent most of my life in Britain -- the supposed gun-free paradise. While...

CATO INSTITUTE: COMMENTARY 1 Hour Ago Why I Still Support the Right to Bear Arms by Ilya Shapiro Being an advocate for individual rights and civil liberties can be difficult. When terrorists attack, when the economy fails, and yes, when evil visits elementary schools, the natural instinct is to demand security above all else. On learning of the horror in Newtown, Conn., I could thus easily understand the reaction that soon filled my Facebook feed: “We have to do something. There should be laws restricting guns so they don’t get in the hands of these deranged murderers.” The logical impulse for those of us who defend private gun ownership is to duck such discussions altogether, to let the passions settle. But on the contrary, with the White House task force preparing its recommendations, it’s more important than ever to present our position with clear-eyed resolve. Even against the backdrop of last month’s tragedy, I still support the fundamental right to armed self-defense. ...

MEDIAITE 1 Hour Ago Geraldo Rivera And Eric Bolling Get Into Heated Battle Over Every Aspect Of Gun Control by Noah Rothman Fox News Channel hosts Eric Bolling and Geraldo Rivera went at it on Friday morning on Fox & Friends over what appropriate action the federal government should take to limit future incidence of gun violence. The two battled over the impact gun ownership has on crime, the appropriateness of allowing semi-automatic weapons in private hands, and how logical it was for supporter of the Second Amendment justify gun ownership on the grounds that they are protecting themselves from a future tyrannical government. Rivera said he thought there would be some reform after the Newtown massacre, but he thinks it is unlikely that assault-style weapon would be banned – although, he would support such a ban. Bolling took issue with the term “assault-style,” saying that he had to distinguish between semi and fully automatic. Rivera made the point that semi-automatic wea...