USACARRY.COM 12 Hours Ago America, Do We have Rights or Privileges? by Matt Schlueter Americans have the greatest freedoms on the face of the earth that are guaranteed by our countries founding fathers foresight in writing a bill of rights to protect every citizen’s rights from any man or government. I ask every one of my readers today, “would you give up your right to free speech?” If your answer is no, I challenge you to ask one other person if they would be willing to give up their right to free speech. Why is this question so relevant to the issue of gun control facing our nation at this present time? It is legal to voice your opinion on any issue you may feel you need to. This right allows you to criticize political leaders, employers, teachers, neighbors, friends, total strangers, and yes even our government as a whole. In other countries, both past and present, you could face jail, prison, and even death if you embarked on this path of fee speech. The right to free ...

NRAILA.ORG 16 Hours Ago Cook County Gives Up On Stopping Crime – Considers Passing Law to Punish the Victim Instead of the Criminal! Proposed ordinance would require all victims of stolen firearms to report the theft within arbitrary time period -or face hefty fines! Today, Cook County Commissioners trotted out their latest in a series of affronts to law-abiding gun owners: an ordinance that does not even attempt to go after the criminal, but – literally -- makes the victims of crime pay! The proposed ordinance, sponsored by County Commissioners Toni Preckwinkle, Jesus Garcia, John P. Daley, Edwin Reyes and Larry Suffredin, says that after 48 hours of when the firearm should have been known to be either lost or stolen, the victim of the gun theft is in violation. If a theft of a firearm is not reported to Cook County and local law enforcement entities are not notified within this arbitrary period of time, law-abiding gun owners will have to pay a fine ranging from $1,000 to $2,0...

NRAILA.ORG 1 Day Ago Virginia: House Militia, Police and Public Safety Subcommittee #1 Will Hear Several Firearm Bills Tomorrow On Thursday, January 17 at 5:00 p.m. the House Militia, Police and Public Safety Subcommittee #1 will hold a hearing on several bills of interest to Virginia gun owners, sportsmen and Second Amendment supporters. The following bills will be considered by this subcommittee in the 4th Floor West Conference Room of the General Assembly Building. The NRA supports the following bill: House Bill 1557: Sponsored by Delegate Robert Marshall (R-13), HB 1557 would train designated individuals to carry concealed handguns on school property. The NRA opposes the following bills that, if passed and enacted, will severely infringe on your Second Amendment rights: House Bill 2025: Sponsored by Delegate Patrick Hope (D-47), HB 2025 imposes a background check on all private firearm sales, including between family and friends. House Bill 1693: Sponsored by Delegat...

POLITICO.COM 9 Hours Ago The 23 executive actions 1. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal background check system. 2. Address unnecessary legal barriers, particularly relating to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, that may prevent states from making information available to the background check system. 3. Improve incentives for states to share information with the background check system. 4. Direct the Attorney General to review categories of individuals prohibited from having a gun to make sure dangerous people are not slipping through the cracks. 5. Propose rulemaking to give law enforcement the ability to run a full background check on an individual before returning a seized gun. 6. Publish a letter from ATF to federally licensed gun dealers providing guidance on how to run background checks for private sellers. 7. Launch a national safe and responsible gun ownership campaign....

FOXNEWSINSIDER.COM 8 Hours Ago Krauthammer: President Obama’s Gun Control Proposals Will Fall Apart at the Hands of Democrats 10:16 pm ET January 16, 2013 Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer joined Sean Hannity to discuss President Obama’s executive actions on gun control. Krauthammer predicted that the president’s legislative proposals will collapse at the hands of Democrats. He recalled, “The reason that gun control has not been an issue for 20 years is because it’s the Democrats, who championed it in long ago days, decided after the shellacking they took in the midterm election in Clinton’s first term [...] that they would not touch the issue again because public opinion was so strongly against them.” List: President Obama’s of 23 Executive Actions in Gun Violence Reduction Measures Given the United States’ 200-year history of gun rights, Krauthammer doesn’t believe the proposed assault weapons ban will pass. “The executive orders are useless,” he told Hannity, citing...

POWER LINE 8 Hours Ago Rick Perry Comments On Obama’s Gun Control by John Hinderaker Rick Perry has presided for some years now over America’s most successful state. His track record of success is unmatched, so his voice should be listened to. This is what he had to say about Barack Obama’s gun control pronouncements: The Vice President’s committee was appointed in response to the tragedy at Newtown, but very few of his recommendations have anything to do with what happened there. Guns require a finger to pull the trigger. The sad young man who did that in Newtown was clearly haunted by demons and no gun law could have saved the children in Sandy Hook Elementary from his terror. There is evil prowling in the world – it shows up in our movies, video games and online fascinations, and finds its way into vulnerable hearts and minds. As a free people, let us choose what kind of people we will be. Laws, the only redoubt of secularism, will not suffice. Let us all return to our pla...

DAILYCALLER.COM 3 Hours Ago Anonymous likens Obama gun control policy to Hitler by Josh Peterson Hacktivist group Anonymous has now spoken out against President Barack Obama’s intentions to enact wider gun control in the U.S. In a 15-minute YouTube video, which first appeared on the social network two weeks ago, Anonymous criticized the Obama administration’s leveraging of violent gun crime to achieve its goal to control guns. “Throughout history, authoritarian governments have used gun violence as an excuse to take people’s firearms and control their population,” said Anonymous. “This is exactly what Adolf Hitler did to disarm the German people and look at the atrocities his administration did. Obama has been working hard to try and ban all semi-automatic weapons and shot guns while at the same time increasing the weapons and firepower that police and government agencies have.” The video, which continued on to list various violent crimes and criticize the lack of media at...

HUFFINGTON POST 9 Hours Ago Rand Paul To Challenge Obama's Gun Control Executive Actions by Mollie Reilly Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is proposing legislation to nullify President Obama's executive actions on gun policy, claiming that the president's actions are a breach of constitutional separation of powers between the executive and legislative branches. During a Wednesday appearance on Fox News' "Hannity," the Republican senator outlined his plan to challenge Obama's anti-gun violence package. "Our founding fathers were very concerned about us having separation of powers. They didn't want to let the president become a king." Paul said. "In this bill, we will nullify anything the president does that smacks of legislation." Paul continued: "I'm afraid that President Obama may have this king complex sort of developing ... I think there's a history of this arrogance." Talking Points Memo offered more details...

BLOGS.TELEGRAPH.CO.UK 2 Hours Ago Gun control: Obama's PR can machine crush the NRA by Peter Foster On the day that President Obama announced his determination to defy the will of the US Congress and push for an assault weapons ban, he could hardly have wished for a greater gift than the one handed him by the National Rifle Association. That’s right. Once again the main lobby group for gun owners went right ahead and shot itself in the foot, releasing an advert that turned Mr Obama’s innocent teenage daughters into pawns in the fight over gun control. The White House managed to contain its glee, correctly describing the advert as “repugnant and cowardly” for calling Mr Obama an “elitist hypocrite” for letting his daughters have armed protection (their Secret Service detail) but denying the same protection to ordinary folk. You have to wonder who is advising the NRA at the moment, and how long it will take “responsible gun owners” to rise up and do away with a leadership...

Gun lobbyist insists Australian gun laws are useless to Americans By Daniel Piotrowski and Danielle Cahill news.com.au January 17, 20139:35PM Increase Text Size Decrease Text Size Print Email 131 comments Australian laws won't help Americans solve gun violence crisis John Howard wrote gun control opinion piece for US paper Obama pushing for major gun control package "We won the battle to change gun laws because there was majority support across Australia for banning certain weapons"... John Howard has taken to an American newspaper to explain his gun control efforts.Picture: John Grainger Source: News Limited Related Coverage Howard enters US gun debate Howard tells US how he curbed gun crime Obama unveils sweeping anti-gun proposals Obama to present gun violence proposals Obama's plans to end gun violence AMERICANS don't want to be lectured to on gun control by Australians the president of the Gun Owners of America said in fiery interview...

THEINTELHUB.COM 1 Hour Ago “Gun Control for the Children?” Sorry, No Sale. SHADE the Motion Picture - An Ambellas & Bermas Film — Watch NEW Trailer 3 By Thomas L. Knapp C4SS January 17, 2013 “This is our first task as a society,” said US president Barack Obama at a January 16th press conference: “Keeping our children safe.” The event’s purpose was to leverage last month’s school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut into support for a set of new executive orders and legislative proposals relating to what supporters euphemistically refer to as “gun control.” In an evolutionary and biological sense, Obama has a point. The primary of function of human society IS to protect our young so that they can grow up, reproduce and perpetuate that society. On the other hand Obama, in his role as president, represents the single most powerful and counter-productive human institution relating to that goal: The state. The power grabs he just put on the state’s agenda serve only the interes...

THE WEEKLY STANDARD 11 Hours Ago Obama Tweets 8-Year-Old's Gun Control Plea to Rally Support by Daniel Halper The president of the United States tweeted a picture of an 8-year-old's letter pleading for gun control to rally support for the initiatives he rolled out today at the White House. "Dear President Obama," the letter reads. "I think there should be some changes in the law with guns. It's a free country but I recommend there needs be a limit with guns. Please don't let people own machine guns or other powerful guns like that. I think there should be a good reason to get a gun. I think there should be a limit about how many guns a person can own. We should learn from what happened at Sandy Hook es. I feel really bad about what just happened." The letter is signed, "Grant," who says he's 8 years old. "P.S," the letter concludes, "I know you're doing your best." Obama's White House also relea...

AMERICANTHINKER.COM 4 Hours Ago Articles: They're Coming to Take Our Guns Away, Ha-Haaa! by Chad Stafko You may recall the 1966 cult-classic by Napoleon XIV titled, "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa." The lyrics of that song describe an individual who is out of his mind and who is being taken "to the funny farm" and to "the loony bin" so he can be attended to by "those nice young men in their clean white coats." The subject of the song is simply considered a danger to society, a menace if you will, crazy, and unable to make rational decisions on his own. He's unreasonable and refuses to conform to the society around him. Enter today's debate over guns. Obama, Biden, and the rest of the political left are using similar language and characterizations in their description of gun owners. Theirs is a coordinated effort to paint American gun owners as crazed, government-hating lunatics, whose guns, used for sport, rec...