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Americans Aren’t Giving Up Their Guns

Posted by jhingarat21 on 30th Oct 2015

Despite several years of Michael Bloomberg and others spending hundreds of millions of dollars attacking the NRA, a new Gallup poll shows that non-gun owners have a favorable opinion of the NRA (by 7 percentage points). Moderates are even 17 percentage points more likely to have a favorable opinion. …

Thank You, U.S. Gun Culture

Posted by jhingarat21 on 29th Sep 2015

A recent study published in the journal Injury Prevention, is ridiculous on several levels.  Right off the bat, the authors state that “Firearms violence in the USA continues to be a major public health concern.” As we’ve noted here before, violence and the criminal misuse of firearms is a …

POLL: Public Sees No Need For New Gun Laws As Gun Culture Grows

Posted by jhingarat21 on 22nd Sep 2015

Despite a mainstream media which slants coverage in order to drum up the illusion of widespread “gun violence,” 59-percent of Americans feel that the nation’s gun laws are either “about right” or “too strict.” Only 41-percent of those polled want more strict gun control laws: For …

Should Vester Lee Flanagan Have Been Allowed to Own a Gun?

Posted by jhingarat21 on 2nd Sep 2015

“I’ve been a human powder keg for a while….just waiting to go BOOM.” Said Vester Lee Flanagan II in a fax to ABC News. Flanagan had sent the fax shortly after he shot two former co-workers on August 26, 2015.It is unclear if Flanagan suffered from any form of mental illness but s …

How Many Civilian Guns Does a Well Regulated Militia Need?

Posted by jhingarat21 on 28th Aug 2015

What is the legal basis for gun ownership?It is the Second Amendment to the US Constitution, adopted in 1791, as part of the first ten amendments contained in the Bill of Rights. It says: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and …