CONSERVATIVEDAILYNEWS.COM 49 Minutes Ago Emotion vs. Common Sense on Gun Control by Richard Larsen By Richard Larsen on Jan 19, 2013 in Politics To Americans who can still think, this week’s sensationalized gun-control presentation at the White House was all show, with little substance. The intended effect was to have us believe that the president was doing something about gun violence, but nearly all of his 23 recommendations are aimed at law-abiding citizens, rather than criminals. You’d think that President Obama was from California, as masterfully as he stages events, complete with props, isolated talking-points, and emotional image manipulation. Perhaps it’s simply a “Chicago Way” skill acquired from “never letting a crisis go to waste.” The net result was an emotionalized response to a legitimate concern, which should’ve been approached with common sense, rather than emotionalism. This administration is perhaps the most adept ever at using fear and emotion to further its ...

WND.COM 2 Hours Ago Biden making up stories to push gun control? by DJ Dolce (WASHINGTONTIMES) — Vice President Joseph R. Biden’s claim that he heard the gunshots of a 2006 school massacre while playing golf is raising questions about his veracity or his memory. Mr. Biden told a meeting of mayors in Washington Thursday that he was about a quarter-mile away from an Amish schoolhouse on Oct. 2, 2006, when a gunman shot and killed five students and wounded five others. “I happened to be literally — probably, it turned out, to be a quarter of a mile [away] at an outing when I heard gunshots in the woods,” Mr. Biden recounted. “We didn’t know … we thought they were hunters.” But a search of maps of the area in Lancaster County, Pa., shows the nearest golf course to the site of the shooting, Moccasin Run Golf Club, is about five miles away. Rodney King, the golf pro at Moccasin Run, said Friday he was working at the course on the day of the shooting and never saw Mr. Biden, who wa...

YNAIJA.COM 38 Minutes Ago Man straps big gun to the mall in protest against Obama’s gun control plan RIVERDALE, Utah — Hours after President Barack Obama called on Congress to ban assault weapons, one man’s protest raised some eyebrows at a Utah store. An Ogden woman snapped a few photos of a man standing inside a J.C. Penney on Wednesday with a big gun slung over his shoulder. Cindy Yorgason said that even for a firearm-friendly state like Utah, it was out of the ordinary. “I’ve seen someone carrying on their hip or leg, but I have never seen anyone openly carrying an assault rifle,” she said. Yorgason took two photos of the man and posted them on Facebook, where they received hundreds of comments and have since been shared more than a thousand times. She said she’s “incredibly amazed” at the attention the images received. She wasn’t alarmed when she spotted him with the weapon but Yorgason thinks the man took it too far while trying to make a statement. “I just think...

WND.COM 1 Hour Ago Rush plays role reversal on gun control by Kathy Shaidle Rush Limbaugh Limbaugh’s reaction to Obama’s press conference unveiling his anti-gun executive actions generated plenty of talk in the mainstream media. Rush asked listeners to play a role reversal thought experiment: What if it had been a Republican president’s press conference instead, announcing a crack down on abortion? What if that president had brought children up on stage “as human shields,” expressing gratitude for not being aborted? (FREE audio) “In other words,” Rush continued, those would be “the same exact circumstances except you change the subject from firearms to abortion and then ask yourself if the Bob Schieffers [and other media commentators] of the world would go on TV and praise the president as being reasonable” (FREE audio). Michael Savage Other commentators have started referring to Obama’s “imperial presidency,” but Savage took them to task for appropriating a phrase that ...

HUFFINGTON POST 47 Minutes Ago Gun Control Fight Escalates As Hundreds Join Rallies In State Capitals AUSTIN, Texas -- Hundreds of people are gathering in state capitals nationwide to rally against stricter gun control measures. An estimated 600 people turned out so far for Saturday speeches in Austin, Texas. Many are carrying signs with messages such as "An Armed Society is a Polite Society" and "The Second Amendment Comes from God." Meanwhile, police say hundreds more joined rallies in New England while organizers also have plans to gather in capital cites to the west. Activists have promoted the "Guns Across America" rallies primarily via social media. They're being held days after President Barack Obama unveiled a sweeping package of gun-control proposals. First-term Texas state Rep. Steve Toth is among attendees in Austin. He's one of several state officials nationwide who've proposed trying to curb federal gun restrictions in ...

COWBOYBYTE.COM 14 Hours Ago Obama Executive Order Quietly Removes 1995 Ban On Using Federal Funds To Advocate For Gun Control Posted on January 19, 2013 by Cowboy Byte The directives on gun violence President Obama signed Wednesday were meant to seem harmless. A closer look at the president’s first memorandum reveals it to be a sneaky assault on congressional authority in order to fund gun-control propaganda. Getting this done has been on the White House “to do” list for some time. In his 2013 budget submission, Mr. Obama deleted the prohibition that has been in effect since 1995 on the use of federal funds to advocate or promote gun control. Mr. Obama is trying to steamroll the Democratic and Republican majorities that kept the ban intact by labeling the advocacy as research. “While year after year, those who oppose even modest gun-safety measures have threatened to defund scientific or medical research into the causes of gun violence, I will direct the Centers for Disease C...

IWF.ORG 14 Hours Ago Using Children To Pass Gun Laws Is Grotesque And Childish by Carrie L. Lukas January 18 2013 Forbes Carrie L. Lukas Parents are often asked by their children to solve unsolvable problems. When woken by nightmares, my daughter seeks reassurance that bad dreams won’t return when she closes her eyes again. I offer a fresh pillow, inviting her to think that somehow it will foster only happy visions. If I cajoled them to, my kids could scratch out some tear-jerking pleas for the President to put an end to nightmares, lost stuffed animals, and illnesses of all kinds. Yet that really shouldn’t be the impetuous for nation-altering legislation. Grown-ups—including politicians—may have a duty to offer children reassurance after a trauma, but we cannot pretend that we have the power to wipe bad things out of existence. Using children’s pleas to end violence is about the most grotesque rhetorical tool available to politicians. Our natural instincts are to ...

WWW1.REALCLEARPOLITICS.COM 10 Hours Ago Sen. Cruz: Obama "High On His Own Power" Pushing Gun Control by Ian Schwartz Tweet Posted on January 17, 2013 SEN. TED CRUZ (R-Texas): "This is a president, I think, who has drunk the Kool-Aid. He is feeling right now high on his own power and he is pushing on every front, on guns. And I think it's really sad to see the president of the United States exploiting the murder of children and using it to push his own extreme, anti-gun agenda. I think what the president is proposing and the gun control proposals that are coming from Democrats in the Senate are, number one, unconstitutional, and number two, they don't work; they're bad policy." (The Laura Ingraham Show, January 17, 2013) Tweet Posted By Ian Schwartz Send To A Friend Share

THEINTELHUB.COM 5 Hours Ago A (Brief) People’s History of Gun Control SHADE the Motion Picture - An Ambellas & Bermas Film — Watch NEW Trailer 3 By Kevin Carson C4SS January 19, 2013 From its very beginning, gun control — the attempt to regulate the possession of means of self-defense by the ordinary populace — has been closely associated with class rule and the class state. In early modern England, regulation of firearm ownership was closely intertwined with the struggle by the landed classes and capitalist agriculture to restrict the laboring classes’ access to independent subsistence from the land. This included enclosure of common woodland, fen and waste — in which landless and land-poor peasants had previously hunted small game — for sheep pasturage or arable land. It also included exclusion of the common people from forests via the Game Laws and restriction of hunting to the gentry. Under the slaveocracy of the American south, firearm ownership was prohibited by Bl...