. . . that the proper response to crimes committed by people with guns is to criminalize law abiding gun owners, would the proper response to the Boston Marathon bombings by Muslims be to criminalize being Muslim, even by the law-abiding?
Archive of posts filed under the Second Amendment category.
The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
From THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: Senate Scuttles Gun Limits Expanded Background Checks Fail; Obama Denounces ‘Shameful Day for Washington’ By Kristina Peterson and Janet Hook | Updated April 17, 2013, 8:36 p.m. ET WASHINGTON—The biggest push in nearly two decades to restrict firearms in the U.S., touched off by the emotional response to December’s mass [...]
The United Nations Small Arms Treaty
From The Washington Post: U.N. approves global arms treaty By Colum Lynch, Updated: Tuesday, April 2, 6:15 PM UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to create the first treaty regulating the international arms trade, a landmark decision that imposes new constraints on the sale of conventional arms to governments and armed [...]
From Around the Blogroll: Midweek Edition
This week has seen a lot of great stuff from our friends around the blogroll! Kate of the Victory Girls spotted how conservatives have highjacked the #askFLOTUS hashtag on Twitter. If you are unfamiliar with Twitter, a hashtag is like a subject category for Twitter and other social media messages, which allows the media users [...]
DOJ Memo: Outlaw and Confiscate All Guns…
And we all know what happened here on April 19, 1775 in Lexington, MA (That is if it’s still being taught in schools and the start of the Revolutionary War and American History. Or is this taboo and the only thing mentioned of the period is the murder of a Black Man Crispus Atticks in [...]
Rick Perry says to firearms manufacturers, “C’mon down!”
Long-time readers of THE FIRST STREET JOURNAL may recall that my support for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination initially went to Governor Rick Perry (R-TX). Governor Perry proved to be a poor candidate, but he has remained a great governor, and would certainly have made a better president than the man who holds that position [...]
Another attack on the Second Amendment
From Kit of the Victory Girls: WA State HB 1588 by KIT on FEBRUARY 18, 2013 If you think that a state you don’t live in doesn’t affect you with its laws, think again. To that end, please share and email around this letter to Rep. Mike Hope, a Marine veteran and current Seattle police officer, who is co-sponsoring [...]
From around the blogroll
Karen noted one of President Obama’s jobs programs: Obama Kills Off Another Coal Plant Along With 3900 Jobs. Your Editor had thought that President Obama’s jobs proposals were supposed to help create more jobs, and not kill existing ones, but Karen pointed out that the President was keeping a promise. William Teach noted Senator Dianne [...]
A wife for DNW!
Kate of the Victory Girls sent your Editor a link to an article by Kit, one of her co-bloggers (co-bloggesses?)1 The Absolute Idiocy of Liberal Logic, or Why Josh Marshall is a Pansy by KIT on JANUARY 22, 2013 John Hawkins has a gem of a piece over at Right Wing News today. Apparently Josh Marshall (don’t feel bad, I’ve [...]
From around the blogroll
Here in beautiful Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, there is a stone wall just after you cross the Route 903 bridge into the east side of town, where people hang banners noting someone’s 40th birthday, or a wedding anniversary, or other things. There’s a banner up, right now — of which I meant to get a picture, [...]
