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	<title>FrontPage Magazine &#187; Gun Control</title>
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		<title>Anti-2nd Amendment Surgeon General Vote Shows Why Red State Dems Can&#8217;t Be Trusted</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2014 15:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Point]]></category>
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<p>Call this one the revenge of the losers. Especially <a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/congress/senate-confirms-gun-control-advocate-as-surgeon-general-20141215">the big loser in Louisiana</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Senate narrowly confirmed Vivek Murthy as the new surgeon general whose nomination was delayed for months in a fight over his comments alleging that guns are a public health issue. The confirmation represents a victory for gun-control advocates, even as recent polling has shown Americans moving in the other direction toward gun-rights protections.</p>
<p>Indeed, three pro-gun Democrats opposed the nomination on Monday evening: Sens. Joe Donnelly of Indiana, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, and Joe Manchin of West Virginia. Manchin is up for reelection next year in an increasingly red-leaning state and is already facing Republican attacks—particularly on guns. Manchin, who won his seat in part thanks to his Second Amendment bona fides, lost the favor of the NRA in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary shootings, when he cosponsored legislation with Republican Sen. Pat Toomey to tighten restrictions on gun ownership.</p>
<p>Murthy got supporting votes from the five Democrats who lost their seats in the 2014 midterm elections: Sens. Mark Begich of Alaska, Kay Hagan of North Carolina, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Mark Pryor of Arkansas, and Mark Udall of Colorado all voted for Murthy, despite having faced advertising that questioned their commitment to gun rights throughout their campaigns.</p></blockquote>
<p>Does anyone really think that Manchin, Heitkamp and Donnelly wouldn&#8217;t have voted for Vivek if they were coming off a lost election? The Red State Dems these days tends to be a political prostitute rather than a moderate. Instead of conservative Dems holding office, the party has been hollowed out by the left with Red State Dems increasingly being the sorts of politicians who can turn with the wind.</p>
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		<title>The Politics of Victimhood</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2014 04:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce Thornton]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The dishonest tactics of the Left that stifle debate. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #000000;"><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/943-dsNVL.AuSt_.55.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243788" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/943-dsNVL.AuSt_.55-450x276.jpg" alt="943-dsNVL.AuSt.55" width="360" height="221" /></a>Originally published by<a href="http://www.hoover.org/research/politics-victimhood"> Defining Ideas</a>. </em></p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Gabby Giffords, the former Democratic Congressman from Arizona who was shot in the head at a campaign rally in 2010, has come under fire recently for exploiting her horrific experience for political gain. Using her celebrity as a famous victim of gun violence, Giffords has created a Super PAC, Americans for Responsible Solutions, focused on gun control legislation. Her group has produced political ads for Democratic candidates that feature other victims of gun violence, and that suggest the candidate’s opponent supports policies that contribute to such violence.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Even supporters of Giffords’ own party are uncomfortable with this electoral tactic. At Politico, Alex Isenstadt wrote recently that Giffords “has unleashed some of the nastiest ads of the campaign season, going after GOP candidates in Arizona and New Hampshire with attacks even some longtime supporters say go too far. And Republicans on the receiving end are largely helpless to hit back, knowing a fight with the much-admired survivor is not one they’re likely to win.”</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Exploiting one’s personal experiences is, of course, nothing new in politics. Ancient Roman candidates were expected to show off their scars earned in fighting for Rome. Marc Antony fired up the Roman people after the assassination of Julius Caesar by brandishing his bloodstained and torn toga. During Reconstruction in the United States,  “waving the bloody shirt” became common among radical Republicans who used the casualties and suffering of the Civil War as a weapon against Southern Democrats.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">In those cases, however, it was service and sacrifice in war that were used for political advantage. Today, any sort of suffering from any cause, especially on the part of those considered victims of historical oppression, is used to obscure rational discussion and debate with clouds of pathos and emotion.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">The questionable assumption we often accept about suffering is that enduring terrible experiences automatically make one an expert on the broader issues related to the causes of suffering. That’s why like other public victims of gun violence, Giffords has spoken out as if her experience has made her an authority on gun policy. Thus she has attacked politicians for disagreeing with her on the issue of guns not by making a coherent argument, but by conjuring up her own experiences and sentimentalizing other victims of gun violence. Having created a fog of emotion, she then argues for policies, such as more restrictive background checks for those buying guns, even though there is no evidence that such procedures keep guns out of the hands of those determined to get them. After all, the man who shot Giffords had undergone a thorough background check. Worse yet, such emotionalism sets aside the critical Constitutional issue––the Second Amendment right to “keep and bear arms.”</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Focusing on any one citizen’s unfortunate experience obscures the fact that public policy affects millions of people with differing views on what aims we collectively pursue and put into law. Moreover, policy must adhere to the constitutional limits on government action and conform to existing law. The complex clash of conflicting beliefs and respect for the law requires clear, coherent thinking of the sort difficult to achieve when issues are clouded with emotion and sentiment. It also requires open deliberation and debate, which are short-circuited by indulgence of the <em>ad misericordiam</em> fallacy, the use of pity, compassion, or sympathy to entice, or browbeat, people into accepting a conclusion not earned by argument. Giffords indulged this fallacy last year when the Senate did not pass gun-control legislation she favored. Speaking of Senators who had voted against the bill, she later wrote, some “looked into my eyes as I talked about being shot in the head at point-blank range.” It may sound harsh, but as <em>National Review</em>’s Kevin Williamson writes, “Being shot in the head by a lunatic does not give one any special grace to pronounce upon public-policy questions.” Nor does it give one the expertise, knowledge, and sober arguments necessary for public political debate on contentious issues.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Another example of the deleterious effects of using personal experience to trump sober reasoning was Republican Senator John McCain’s campaign against waterboarding, in which he freely exploited his own harrowing experience of being brutally tortured as a prisoner of war for six years during the Vietnam conflict. The pathos and horror of that experience made it difficult for critics to appeal to the simple fact that waterboarding was not torture under the U.S. law defining torture.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Yet calling on his own experience at the hands of the North Vietnamese, McCain clouded this critical discussion with lurid emotional appeals to most people’s lack of knowledge about what defines torture in U.S. law, and to their understandable sympathy for McCain’s six years of suffering. As a result, McCain’s efforts gave bipartisan cover to President Obama, who on entering office issued Executive Order 13491, which forbade waterboarding and other enhanced interrogation techniques that had successfully yielded actionable intelligence from enemies of the United States. As a result, our interrogation tools have been severely limited, which has lessened the value of capturing terrorists for interrogation. McCain’s remarkable fortitude and courage in surviving such an experience are worthy of our admiration, but they did not make him an expert on the legal complexities of interrogation, and the grim imperative to extract from terrorists information that could save lives.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Both Giffords and McCain personally suffered horribly so it’s understandable that their experiences would shape their responses to relevant political issues. Yet others use suffering by proxy as a political trump card. In particular, those endorsing identity politics depend on the historical suffering of their group in order to gain political leverage and foreclose deliberation and debate.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Proponents of identity politics define individuals by their race, ethnicity, or sex, which in turn are defined by a history of oppression and exclusion. This history casts members of those groups as victims, no matter how far removed they actually are from oppression today. As victims, then, these groups have grievances that they claim the larger society has a moral obligation to address, mainly in the form of various kinds of reparations, such as affirmative action, government transfers, or other government set-asides based on race or sex. In the political arena of deliberation and debate over policy, the emotions aroused by that historical suffering bestow a specious authority on the self-proclaimed victim, who now is beyond criticism or accountability for the coherence or validity of his arguments. Critics are instantly branded as “insensitive” or “uncaring” at best and “racist” or “sexist” at worst.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Attorney General Eric Holder has been a prominent example of this mentality. During his tenure, he aggressively has attacked states that have legislated voter identification requirements. In his retirement speech he said that protecting “voting rights” was his “top priority” as Attorney General, and he pursued this priority even after the Supreme Court upheld voter identification laws in their 2013 decision of <em>Shelby vs. Holder</em>. His efforts on this issue were predicated on the past history of Jim Crow era restrictions on black voters, a backbone of the segregation outlawed by the 1964 Civil Rights Act.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Holder has consistently referred to that history of discrimination last practiced more than half a century ago. In a 2012 speech before the Council of Black Churches, he subtly linked the Jim Crow voting restrictions to the photo identification laws when he said that these “discriminatory” laws threaten “some of the achievements that defined the civil rights movement”—achievements that “now hang in the balance.” Later on he added, “We have to honor the generations that took extraordinary risks” to gain equal access to the polls, and warned, “this fight must go on.”</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">In July of this year, Holder repeated his commitment to this crusade: “I will not allow people to take away that which people gave their lives to give, and that is the ability for the American people to vote.” These references to the Civil Rights movement suggest that asking for a photo ID before voting is similar to the exclusionary legal restrictions such as literacy tests common in segregated states.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Supporters of Holder’s position have taken the same tact. Commenting on Florida’s pending voter ID legislation in 2012, the Advancement Project warned, “We are particularly concerned about the impact of this election year’s voter removal practice on eligible voters of color protected under the Voting Rights Act, given Florida’s documented history of erroneous discriminatory purges in the past.” The suffering of blacks during the Jim Crow period, which included lynching, legal exclusion, and everyday incidents of brutality and humiliation, has become a proxy for what in fact is, under state law, the mild inconvenience of acquiring a photo ID necessary for scores of other public transactions.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Like Giffords and McCain, Holder also appeals to personal experience. His sister-in-law was one of the students who in 1963 desegregated the University of Alabama, as Governor George Wallace famously blocked the “schoolhouse door.” Linking his own political efforts to this family history and iconic moment in the Civil Rights movement enhances Holder’s authority and provides cover for his constitutionally dubious and politically partisan efforts against red-state governments. Similarly, like many affluent and powerful blacks, Holder is fond of referencing personal experiences, such as being pulled over by the police for no reason, to gain some credibility as a victim of ongoing racism.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">By using suffering as a political trump card, people like Holder not only cloud sober debate with sentiment and emotion, but also shut the debate down by accusing critics of being racists attempting to undo the achievements of the Civil Rights movement. In July of this year, Holder leveled this charge against those protesting his arguably radical politicization of the Department of Justice: “There’s a certain level of vehemence, it seems to me, that’s directed at me [and] directed at the president,” Holder told ABC. “You know, people talking about taking their country back. . . . There’s a certain racial component to this for some people. I don’t think this is the thing that is a main driver, but for some there’s a racial animus.”</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Some of Holder’s supporters are less restrained. Michael Eric Dyson, a professor at Georgetown University, recently claimed that Holder has “weathered the storm of an enormous racial backlash against black people in power at the top,” and has had to endure “vicious and acrimonious, if you will, articulations by people in the Senate” disturbed by “American power in a black man.” Such <em>ad hominem</em>smears short-circuit a public discussion of the issues and policies Holder and others pursue.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">The trump card of suffering might be politically useful, but using it is a dishonest tactic that inhibits informed deliberation and debate. Relying on emotion and sentiment, no matter how understandable they are as a response to suffering, have since ancient Athens been the agents of bad policies and dangerous political decisions, and tactics for pursuing political advantage at the expense of the public good. They have no place in our already conflicted and divisive public political discourse.</p>
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		<title>Open Carry Restaurants Cash In on the Gun Control Debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2014 04:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ronn Torossian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lesson for businesses that stand up for conservative values. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/dt.common.streams.StreamServer.cls_.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242620" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/dt.common.streams.StreamServer.cls_-450x299.jpg" alt="dt.common.streams.StreamServer.cls" width="352" height="234" /></a>Given the tenor of the <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/RonnTorossian/Gun-Rights/2014/09/09/id/593489/">gun control debate</a> in the United States, it had to happen sooner or later. As more retailers are doing what has been deemed more acceptable –usually by left-leaning advocates &#8212; and asking customers not to carry guns into their stores, the inevitable opposite reaction has now occurred.  This “man bites dog” scenario will be interesting to watch as it unfolds.  So often, it is the politically correct anti-gun activist who posts policies – yet here someone took advantage of the obvious gap and is using it rather cleverly.</p>
<p>Lauren Boebert, who owns Shooters Grill in Rifle, Colorado (and no, the location is not made up; it is real and open) told CNN she had no plans to become the “poster girl” for open-carry gun laws.  Yet, she has… and, so far, business is booming. Boebert said her choice had nothing to do with <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ronn-Torossian/e/B005DOQIPO">public relations</a> for her eatery or for the gun control debate in the United States, but that it stemmed from a violent crime that occurred in an alley right behind her shop. After a man was killed, Boebert started carrying a pistol to protect herself. Today, she carries her subcompact semi-automatic on her hip as she waits tables and greets customers. No one bats an eyelash. After all, many of the other wait staff and customers also openly carry. Shooters is far from the only place this is happening.  The news of the open-gun policy, however, has put it on the map.</p>
<p>Now, while Boebert said this was all for personal protection, some restaurants are even offering discounts and specials for diners who come in armed. Taking what works for Shooters Grill, the Shiloh Brew and Chew in Tennessee, All Around Pizza in Virginia, Cajun Meats in Louisiana, The Cajun Experience in Virginia and many others all advertise openly as gun-friendly establishments. (Michael Bloomberg was clearly not the mayor of these places.)</p>
<p>If you <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/5WPRSpeakers">noticed a trend</a> in the locations and menu styles of the restaurants in question, you should not be surprised. This move is far more than a clever marketing gimmick; it is geared toward a wanting demographic and business owners are doing what they can to shore up their base, and give those folks a reason to come in and then spread the word.  Energizing word of mouth is a time-tested and primary PR protocol for any business that depends on repeat business. Most businesses do not need 51 percent of the population to patronize in order to make money. Politicians need 51 percent, yet a very successful business may need anywhere from 1 to 25 percent of a given population to make a lot of money.</p>
<p>Not being all things to all people works fine if your audience is big enough and loyal. In the case of the guns, too often <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/author/ronn-torossian/">conservative issues are ignored</a> because business owners may be concerned with a liberal media backlash. There seems to be a sizable portion of people who think and vote conservatively, but are not as comfortable being as outspoken as their liberal colleagues for fear of financial reprisal.</p>
<p>There’s nothing quite like giving them a reason to cheer and onlookers a reason to come inside and try. These gun-happy diners are doing both … at least for the short term. There are indeed businesses not afraid to stand up for conservative issues.</p>
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		<title>Bill Whittle: The Republic of Bill</title>
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<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ll.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239941" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ll-450x242.jpg" alt="ll" width="296" height="159" /></a>We all know what the Weenie Dictatorship looks like. But what if a Conservatarian could design his own, small-government society? What would it look like, and how would it work? Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Republic of Bill Whittle. See the video and transcript below:</p>
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<blockquote><p>THE REPUBLIC OF BILL</p>
<p>Hi everybody. I’m Bill Whittle and this is the Firewall.</p>
<p>Certainly it’s not going to come as breaking news to anyone that there’s a lot of political discord and division in America today. Conservatives and Progressives are so far apart, and simply talk past each other so much, that’s it’s like we’re living in different countries.</p>
<p>And you know what? We’re supposed to be living in different countries. Before the unconstitutional, rampant centralization of Federal power over our lives, we were – and were supposed to be – separate countries, each with is own unique culture and preferences and cuisine and language and all the rest.</p>
<p>We know what the progressive, gun-controlled, safety-helmeted, calorie-restricted, carbon-neutral, politically correct Weenie Dictatorship looks like – they are trying to foist it on us every day. But if you could take a little chunk of America – say, five million steely-eyed missile men and another five million sleek and capable naughty librarians – and make your own little state with your own internal rules… what would it look like?  Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the Republic of Bill.</p>
<p>Politically, the fundamental structure of the Republic of Bill looks pretty familiar. It’s the US Constitution, verbatim. There are a couple of minor changes: a line item veto is one. Another is the 28th Amendment, which reads “No one elected to public office shall, once their term expires, be eligible to hold that same office.”</p>
<p>That’s right, you savages out there beyond our borders: there are no incumbents in the Republic of Bill. No campaign distractions, no lobbyist leverage, no vote buying, no nothing. We have this radical idea that we can find 535 new people, every two years, out of a population of ten million. There’s no one in the Congress of the Republic of Bill who was elected before the invention of electricity.</p>
<p>Citizens are encouraged to be heavily armed here in the Republic of Bill. That’s why our crime rate is so low. The general attitude here can best be summed up as “if that guy didn’t want to get shot then maybe he shouldn’t have come through my bedroom window.” We don’t tolerate crime here. That said, common sense is King herein the Republic of Bill: if some guy fires a shotgun through the door at a Jehovah’s Witness who came knocking, that guy is going to jail for murder. You’d think it might be hard to tell the difference between that and a home invasion. It’s actually very easy.</p>
<p>You can marry a person of the same sex in the Republic of Bill. You can marry your office chair if you’d like; we really don’t care. Some people say this de-sanctifies marriage; we think sanctity is internal and can’t be imposed by force of government. That said, there are some things you can’t do in the Republic of Bill and one of them is impose your will on others. If a church opposes gay marriage that’s their business; in the Republic of Bill you can’t make them do it and you certainly can’t make them accept it.</p>
<p>In a similar vein, we believe very strongly in private property in the Republic of Bill. That means if you own a restaurant and you want to hire only six foot tall albinos, that’s literally your business. It also means if you don’t want to serve peg-legged Arabs, or Lesbians, or conservatives, or gays or just me – that’s also your business. What we find, though, is that bigots are dirtbags. No one forces them to close their businesses. Most people just don’t give them their business, and they end up having close on their own. Works out really well, actually. Of course, that’s for private property only. Public services are utterly colorblind and racism of any kind is simply not tolerated.</p>
<p>Our economy is humming in the Republic of Bill. We have a few reasonable regulations for safety – and that’s about it. And we have a LOT of energy in the Republic of Bill: Oil, natural gas, and just boatloads of clean, safe, powerful thorium reactors. We’re thinking about air conditioning the entire outdoors.</p>
<p>Education and health care are very, very affordable in the Republic of Bill, and there’s a simple reason for that. It’s because we treat education and health care as commodities – because that’s what they are. Our schools compete for your children, and that means they are incentivized to have high test scores and low tuitions. And a two cent aspirin in the Republic of Bill costs two cents. Not twenty dollars. That’s because people pay cash for the small items, and doctors and hospitals show their actual rates and their customer ratings. They buy stop loss insurance for the big ticket items.</p>
<p>How can people afford to buy their own health care and education in the Republic of Bill? Well, they can shop around and get the best value with all the extra money they have, because income taxes in the Republic of Bill are 10%. You do your taxes in three minutes: Ten percent, and everyone pays. We don’t keep taxing to pay for the government; we get as much government as 10% buys.</p>
<p>Now, of course, if you want to pay for Public Radio, the Republic of Bill Endowment for the Arts, the Republic of Bill Superconducting Supercollider, a government-run retirement plan – any of that – you certainly can. You get a pull-down menu when you do your taxes online and you can earmark whatever additional funds you want to pay, and that’s where that money goes. But the ten percent buys what the government is supposed to do: defend the republic and build some roads. You want a bigger government than that? Knock yourself out.</p>
<p>As it turns out, about half of the 10 million residents of the Republic of Bill want a space program, and so they pay ten dollars a month extra in taxes: that’s six hundred million dollars a year. Combined with five million people in neighboring Burtrutanistan – you can see the leaders of the two countries here resplendent in our National uniforms – thats 1.2 billion dollars a year. With a space program run by engineers and test pilots, rather than politicians and bureaucrats, ten dollar bolts cost ten dollars and not 500 dollars. We expect to have a permanent presence on the moon in six years.</p>
<p>Well, we hope you enjoyed your brief tour of the Republic of Bill. You’re welcome to stay; we love hard-working people. The registration forms for legal immigration are on the counter; they’re printed in English because that’s the official language of the Republic of Bill. We’re happy to help translate into Spanish… or French, Mandarin, Russian, Korean or anything else. But we do business in English.</p>
<p>The rules are simple. Don’t be a jerk, and Mind your own business. It’s printed right there on the money, along with a cutout of a profile – not of me or any other politician. That profile could be anybody. That’s the profile of the common person. That’s your profile.</p>
<p>Welcome home.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Chicago Top Cop Blames Constitution for Gang Violence Shootings</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2014 22:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>If only it wasn&#8217;t for that pesky Constitution, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/07/justice/chicago-shootings/">all those gang members wouldn&#8217;t be shooting </a>each other.</p>
<blockquote><p>Chicago&#8217;s police superintendent lashed out at what he called lax state and federal gun laws after a violent Fourth of July weekend that saw more than 60 people shot and nine killed in a city already known for frequent shootings.</p>
<p>McCarthy said the violence unraveled a string of successes by police in suppressing gun violence this year. The city saw 24 shooting incidents on Sunday alone, he said, although three of them may have been self-inflicted.</p>
<p>McCarthy said police will continue a summer program to flood high-violence areas with police, but he said that without stronger gun laws, police will continue to face an uphill battle.</p>
<p>Mr McCarthy says Chicago is still on track to end the year with fewer murders than last year, but the number of overall shooting incidents is up.</p></blockquote>
<p>So murders are down&#8230; but shootings are up. How is that a bad thing?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/24/us/chicago-violence/">Chicago&#8217;s murder rate actually dropped</a> after concealed carry laws. McCarthy is agitating for laws that aren&#8217;t going to fix anything.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just insanity that there&#8217;s such a proliferation of firearms that they&#8217;re so easy to get your hands on,&#8221; McCarthy told WGN Radio on Monday. &#8220;The studies show when there&#8217;s more restrictive gun laws, there&#8217;s less gun violence. It&#8217;s not brain surgery, it&#8217;s really really simple.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s going to take us a while to fix poverty and the break-up of the family units and education and jobs. But we can do something about gun laws today and we&#8217;re just not doing it.&#8221;</p>
<p>That may be an uphill climb: In February, a federal judge struck down Chicago&#8217;s ban on gun sales, saying it went &#8220;too far in outright banning legal buyers and legal dealers from engaging in lawful acquisitions.&#8221; And in 2010, the Supreme Court declared Chicago&#8217;s 28-year-old handgun ban unconstitutional.</p></blockquote>
<p>Gang members are not going to lose their guns. McCarthy claims that the difference between Chicago and New York lies is gun laws.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s nonsense.</p>
<p>Chicago has far more gang members than New York. We&#8217;re talking tens of thousands. Chicago also has a whole bunch of other social problems and it hasn&#8217;t benefited from New York&#8217;s aggressive Giuliani era policing. (That&#8217;s going away under Red Bill de Blasio.)</p>
<p>Gang members will always get their hands on guns. It&#8217;s ordinary people who benefit from concealed carry. Yes gun laws make it easier to prosecute gang members, but it&#8217;s a small scale solution to a big problem.</p>
<p>If you have a thousand gang members, gun laws can make a dent. If you have 75,000 gang members, then you&#8217;re plunking away at a mass invasion. Gun laws will make arrests more convenient, but the problem is so severe that it&#8217;s better to let people defend themselves.</p>
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		<title>Politician Who Smuggled Guns to Druglords Thinks Americans Need to do &#8220;Soul Searching&#8221; Over Guns</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2014 16:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama only orders people who aren't doing what he wants to search their souls.]]></description>
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<p>Americans obviously need to do some soul searching about guns in the hands of dangerous people since they voted twice for a man who smuggled guns to drug cartels.</p>
<p>But Obama, who keeps telling other people to do some soul searching, but never searches his own, told Americans that once again the order has come down from D.C. <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/obama-urges-national-soul-searching-over-gun-violence-221816460.html">for a soul searching mandate</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Barack Obama Tuesday called for national &#8220;soul searching&#8221; over gun violence, warning that mass shootings were &#8220;off the charts&#8221; in a way no other advanced country would tolerate.</p></blockquote>
<p>I wonder why those shootings are &#8220;off the charts&#8221;. Maybe it&#8217;s because his media backers give tons of publicity to each shooter, encouraging the next one.</p>
<p>As I&#8217;ve written, the media doesn&#8217;t cover teenage suicides because it leads to copycat suicides. The exception is when the teenager uses a gun to commit murder-suicide.</p>
<blockquote><p> &#8220;We are the only developed country on earth where this happens, and it happens now once a week,&#8221; Obama said at the White House, hours after a gunman shot and killed a student at an Oregon High School in the latest incident.</p>
<p>&#8220;There is no place else like this!&#8221; he said, adding that America should be ashamed it could not enact even the mildest gun reforms.</p>
<p>&#8220;The country has to do some soul searching about this.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Can Obama do some soul searching about his clemency for career drug dealers or his support for flooding the country with criminal illegal aliens?</p>
<p>Both of those are factors in real day-to-day shootings, not the occasional spree killer hyped by the media.</p>
<p>How about doing some soul searching over the role his buddy Al Sharpton has played in urban violence? How about asking his pals and donors in the music industry to stop promoting gang violence in music?</p>
<p>Oh but Obama doesn&#8217;t do soul searching. He only orders people who aren&#8217;t doing what he wants to search their souls.</p>
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		<title>Billionaire Leftists Attack Your Gun Rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2014 04:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[George Soros's "Democracy Alliance" takes attacks on the Second Amendment to the next level. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Screen-Shot-20120515-at-42616-PM1.png"><img class=" wp-image-226409 alignleft" alt="Screen Shot 20120515 at 42616 PM" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Screen-Shot-20120515-at-42616-PM1.png" width="323" height="239" /></a>Gun control advocates hoping to capitalize on the tragic incident this weekend in Santa Barbara, California have a powerful asset in their corner this year: Second Amendment-hating billionaires led by George Soros are gearing up for a fresh assault on your constitutional right to defend yourself, your family, and your property.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The Democracy Alliance, a donors collaborative of well over 100 far-left venture capitalists, heirs and heiresses, Hollywood moguls, and unethical bankers, is throwing millions of dollars at left-wing gun-control groups in hopes of preventing the increasingly likely Republican takeover of the U.S. Senate this November.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Soros and other progressive plutocrats plan to send upwards of $175 million to leftist organizations this year to push gun control and the rest of the Left&#8217;s agenda, according to documents </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://freebeacon.com/politics/jonathan-soros-left-a-confidential-document-at-his-donor-conference/">left behind</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> at a recent Democracy Alliance meeting in Chicago.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Some of the left-wing groups </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://freebeacon.com/politics/exclusive-democracy-alliance-network-revealed/">slated</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> to receive hefty donations from Democracy Alliance members include: America Votes ($4 million); American Constitution Society ($1.5 million); Brennan Center for Justice ($2.7 million); Catalist ($750,000); Center for American Progress ($5.5 million); Center for Community Change ($3 million); Center for Budget and Policy Priorities ($2.5 million); Media Matters for America ($3 million); New Organizing Institute ($1 million); Organizing for Action ($1 million); Progress Now ($1.9 million); and State Voices ($2 million).</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The mentally unstable head of fake watchdog group Media Matters, former journalist David Brock, himself </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/27/illegal-guns-david-brock-media-matters/?">reportedly</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> has paranoid fantasies that conservatives are trying to kill him. Brock, whose group beats the drum loudly for gun control, also flouts the District of Columbia&#8217;s tough gun restrictions. Brock <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/27/illegal-guns-david-brock-media-matters/">armed his assistant</a> with weapons to protect him from would-be right-wing assassins, a felony in D.C. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Other groups, many of which focus on the Second Amendment, were </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.scribd.com/mobile/doc/224397893">listed</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> in a found document called &#8220;Democracy Alliance Progressive Infrastructure Map.&#8221; The document contains a roster of groups that have previously been approved for funding by the Alliance or that appear to have been deemed eligible for such funding.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Among them are Advancement Project, Alliance for Justice, American Bridge 21st Century, BlueGreen Alliance, Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, Gamaliel Foundation, Human Rights Campaign, J Street, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, National Council of La Raza, National People&#8217;s Action, People for the American Way, Planned Parenthood, Project Vote, Southern Poverty Law Center, USAction, and Young Democrats of America.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Funded groups support so-called mandatory so-called gun buyer background checks, firearms registration, and a litany of regulations aimed at making life difficult for would-be gun purchasers and gun owners.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Clinton administration official Rob Stein founded the Democracy Alliance with the aim of creating a permanent political infrastructure of nonprofits, think tanks, media outlets, leadership schools, and activist groups—a kind of “vast left-wing conspiracy” to battle the conservative movement. The donors group has channeled its members’ funds to fairly well-established pressure groups, watchdogs and think tanks, get-out-the-vote operations, and political action committees (PACs). </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It was created following the 2004 elections, which brought stinging defeats to the Left in battles for the White House, Senate, and House of Representatives. Leftist blogger Markos Moulitsas has called the Alliance “a vast, Vast Left Wing Conspiracy to rival” the conservative movement. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">George Soros, the preeminent funder of the Left in the United States, was a huge player in the formation of the Democracy Alliance. Quite appropriately, &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; has mocked the octogenarian Gordon Gekko as the “owner” of the Democratic Party.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Soros is morally flexible. At one time he was a Nazi collaborator in his native Hungary. Now he openly favors American decline and has said European-style socialism “is exactly what we need now.” The radical philanthropist praises Communist China effusively, saying the totalitarian nation has “a better-functioning government than the United States.” </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">As an NRA brief </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.nraila.org/news-issues/articles/2014/5/the-democracy-alliance-joins-fight-for-gun-control.aspx">notes</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">: </span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Soros, who in 2005 was convicted of insider trading in France, has previously donated millions of dollars to MediaMatters and MoveOn.org, both of which support gun control, the International Action Network on Small Arms, which promotes gun control at the United Nations, and Ready For Hillary, in support of gun control advocate Hillary Clinton&#8217;s possible campaign for the U.S. presidency in 2016.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>The new push to crack down on firearms comes after anti-gun billionaire Michael Bloomberg <a href="http://www.nraila.org/news-issues/articles/2014/5/the-democracy-alliance-joins-fight-for-gun-control.aspx">unveiled plans</a> to spend $50 million to help elect pro-gun control candidates in November&#8217;s congressional elections.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The Democracy Alliance&#8217;s preparations come as the ghouls of the Left try to cash in once again on a mass shooting. On Friday Elliot Rodgers, son of a Hollywood director who worked on </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">The Hunger Games</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, reportedly killed six people by means of firearms, knives, and his automobile. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Spouting the standard feminist drivel, </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Washington Post</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> film critic Ann Hornaday </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/05/27/apatow-rogen-slam-wapost-film-critic-for-blaming-calif-mass-shooting-on-white-male-hollywood-culture/">blames</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> the massacre on white men in Hollywood promoting “escapist fantasies” that “revolve around vigilantism and sexual wish-fulfillment.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">When left-wingers are attacking each other, it is best to stand back and watch.</span></p>
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		<title>The &#8216;You Didn&#8217;t Do That&#8217; Society</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2014 04:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you killed six people, it's only because of the Second Amendment.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/elliot_rodger_t479.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-226393 alignleft" alt="elliot_rodger_t479" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/elliot_rodger_t479-450x329.jpg" width="315" height="230" /></a>First Elliot Rodger murdered his three roommates with a knife, hammer and machete. Then he shot eight people, three of them fatally, and tried to run over several others in his car.</span></p>
<p>After the bodies were taken away, everyone on television agreed that it was the fault of the guns.</p>
<p>Rodger had been in therapy since he was eight and was seeing therapists every day in high school. He had a history of violent threats and psychical assaults and the police had already gotten involved. He was on multiple prescription medications and had therapists whom he alerted to his plans by sending them his manifesto.</p>
<p>A therapist reacted by notifying his mother who drove out personally. By then even more people were dead.</p>
<p>In a country where a little boy with a pop tart chewed in the shape of a gun triggers immediate action, the professionals who cashed in on the killer’s wealthy family were in no hurry to call the police. One even reassured his mother while the shootings were going on that it wasn’t him.</p>
<p>So it was obviously the fault of the guns… which he bought with $5,000 from his family. The BMW he used to commit some of the attacks was given to him by his mother.</p>
<p>Jenni Rodger, his British aunt, blamed America and guns for her nephew&#8217;s massacre. &#8220;What kind of a society allows this? How can this be allowed to happen? I want to appeal to Americans to do something about this horrific problem.&#8221;</p>
<p>Somehow the parenting failure of her brother is now the fault of an entire foreign country.</p>
<p>Rodger&#8217;s father issued a statement through his lawyer in support of gun control and &#8220;staunchly against guns.&#8221; It might have been more useful if instead of opposing a category of manual instruments; Peter Rodger had spent more time dealing with his son&#8217;s problems.</p>
<p>Guns did not kill six people. His son did.</p>
<p>When a teenager stabbed twenty people at a Pittsburgh-area high school there were no easy answers about gun control to take refuge in. If Rodger had stuck to his knife, hammer and machete, relatives who coddled him all these years wouldn&#8217;t be able to shift the blame. They wouldn&#8217;t be able to politicize the crime and snip their own involvement out of the picture.</p>
<p>Elliot Rodger&#8217;s parents, communicating through a lawyer and a talent agent, find it convenient to put up another layer of abstraction between themselves and the actions of their son. And the easiest way to do that is to transform it into a widespread social problem. The more that the smiling people on television talk about gun control, the less likely they are to talk about them.</p>
<p>Expanding an individual act into a social problem manufactures a collective responsibility. The killer&#8217;s family has successfully shifted their responsibility to people who live a thousand miles away. Now the villains are the 5 million members of the NRA who are unwilling to give up their constitutional rights because Elliot Rodger&#8217;s family failed at their single most important job.</p>
<p>Why is a gun owner in North Carolina more responsible for the Isla Vista killings than Peter Rodger? Does Peter Rodger’s staunch opposition to guns free him from responsibility while dumping it on the majority of Americans who believe in the Bill of Rights?</p>
<p>Elliot Rodger was not a social problem. He was not a gun culture. He was not a national anything. He was an individual and individuals bear responsibility for their own actions.</p>
<p>The left is expert at removing responsibility from individuals and assigning it to the culture at large. Every murder is a failure of society. And society fails every murderer, they insist. We are all murderers because we didn&#8217;t vote for the right politicians who would have outlawed guns.</p>
<p>The &#8220;You didn&#8217;t build that&#8221; society is also the &#8220;You didn&#8217;t do that&#8221; society. The flip side of Elizabeth Warren and Barack Obama&#8217;s collectivist rhetoric is that just as no one invents the airplane, creates a company or writes the Great American Novel on their own, no one kills six people on their own. If you killed six people, it&#8217;s because of the Second Amendment. If you wanted to kill sorority girls, it&#8217;s because of Seth Rogen movies. If you&#8217;re a half-Asian who beat and stabbed your Asian roommates to death, it&#8217;s because of white (or half-white) supremacism.</p>
<p>Everyone but the killer is responsible for his shooting spree. The problem is tackled with public awareness hashtags and zero tolerance legislation that hurts millions of random people.</p>
<p>America&#8217;s gun owners, like its machete and hammer owners, did not kill anyone. Every day the vast majority of gun owners somehow manage to get through the day without a killing spree. Their tools don&#8217;t have minds of their own. The gun culture that liberals talk about does not sneak in through their windows at night and urge them to shoot up the neighborhood.</p>
<p>And it was the good guys with guns the left sneers at who stopped Elliot Rodger’s killing spree.</p>
<p>We aren&#8217;t rethinking the First Amendment because of Rodger&#8217;s YouTube videos and manifesto. Why are we supposed to rethink the Second Amendment every time some psycho includes guns in his killing spree? The problem was not with Rodger&#8217;s computer, his smartphone, his hammer, his machete or his handguns. They were only the tools that he used. The problem was with him.</p>
<p>Elliot Rodger&#8217;s family doesn&#8217;t want to deal with their own choices. Elliot Rodger certainly did not want to deal with his. However we won&#8217;t achieve a moral society through collective guilt, but through individual responsibility.</p>
<p>A better country doesn&#8217;t begin with banning guns, but with holding accountable those who kill.</p>
<p>Even while liberals were puffing out their chests over gun control, the Supreme Court&#8217;s liberal justices stepped in to save Freddie Hall who kidnapped, raped and murdered a pregnant woman.</p>
<p>That was in 1978. A decade earlier he had gone to jail for raping another woman and gouging out her eyes so that she wouldn&#8217;t be able to identify him.</p>
<p>Like some of the other monsters on death row, Hall decided to plead retarded. His IQ scores dropped. After a long series of appeals, the Supreme Court finally decided that executing him would be unconstitutional.</p>
<p>&#8220;Florida’s law contravenes our Nation’s commitment to dignity and its duty to teach human decency as the mark of a civilized world,&#8221; Justice Kennedy wrote, speaking for the majority.</p>
<p>America was at its best in decency when it held men accountable for their actions. Liberals like Kennedy instead seek every possible pretext for protecting killers from their choices. We can restore decency by rejecting social problems and instead embracing individual responsibility.</p>
<p>Our choice is between a society of individual responsibility where everyone can be trusted to own a gun and a society of collectivist irresponsibles where no one can be trusted to own a gun.</p>
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		<title>Hillary Clinton: We Have to Rein in Gun Ownership</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2014 13:28:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton is starting her campaign by writing off half the country.]]></description>
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<p>Hillary Clinton is starting <a href="http://weaselzippers.us/185150-hillary-clinton-pushes-gun-cuntrol-we-have-to-reign-in-americans-support-for-second-amendment-rights/">her campaign by writing off half the country</a>. She still hasn&#8217;t learned what Dems learned during her husband&#8217;s time in office&#8230; that gun control is an election loser.</p>
<p>It alienates even many Democrats and Independents. And after last month, maybe Hillary should be pushing shoe control.</p>
<blockquote><p>The former secretary of state, who would be the Democratic frontrunner in 2016 should she run, was delivering the keynote address at a conference held by the National Council for Behavioral Health, an organization that focuses on mental health.</p>
<p>“We have to rein in what has become [an] almost article of faith, that anybody can own a gun anywhere, anytime. And I don’t believe that,” she said.</p>
<p>Clinton, who argued it was possible to hold her position and still support the right to gun ownership, warned that unfettered access to guns could have dangerous consequences.</p></blockquote>
<p>Now it&#8217;s time to start talking about the vast right wing conspiracy.</p>
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		<title>Family of Armed Robber Still Outraged He was Shot by Customer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2014 14:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["I am not going to be a victim."]]></description>
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<p>Dante Williams tried to rob a Waffle House in South Carolina at gunpoint. But he wasn&#8217;t the only one with a gun. A customer stood his ground and sent Dante off to an inferno.</p>
<p>But over the years <a href="http://www.wyff4.com/news/local-news/spartanburg-cherokee-news/Families-Confront-Sheriff-At-NAACP-Meeting/12083100">Dante&#8217;s family has never stopped demanding &#8220;justice&#8221;</a>. Unfortunately for them<a href="http://www.foxcarolina.com/story/25373283/spartanburg-waffle-house-shooting-video-released-sparks-new-debate"> a video of the shooting was just</a> released.</p>
<blockquote><p>Nineteen-year-old Dante Williams&#8217; family said there is no doubt he entered the Waffle House in Chesnee back in January of 2012 intent on robbing it, but they say he didn&#8217;t have to die.</p>
<p>FOX Carolina obtained surveillance video from inside the Waffle House that investigators said shows Williams and his accomplice Jawan Craig come into the restaurant. Deputies said Williams is the one seen pointing a gun and demanding money.</p>
<p>Sitting at the bar area of the restaurant was Justin Harrison, a concealed weapon permit holder, who was armed the night of the robbery.</p>
<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re yelling &#8216;everybody get down, get down&#8217; and I&#8217;m not getting on the floor. I am not going to be a victim,&#8221; Harrison said.</p>
<p>The video shows Williams, gun by his side, walk back toward Harrison, who stands up and fires several shots killing Williams almost instantly.</p>
<p>The video then shows Harrison trying to hold Craig at gunpoint. But Craig tries grabbing Harrison&#8217;s gun and after a struggle Craig escapes.</p></blockquote>
<p>But that still isn&#8217;t good enough for Dante&#8217;s family.</p>
<blockquote><p>Tamika McSwain is Williams&#8217; cousin and said more training is needed before someone is given a CWP. McSwain said the video contradicts statements made by Harrison about what happened the night of the robbery, and said if Harrison had been bettered trained he may not have fired the fatal shots.</p>
<p>McSwain said her family was disappointed that Harrison wasn&#8217;t charged in the shooting and says her family is still considering pursuing other legal action against him.</p>
<p>But McSwain said her cousin&#8217;s death shows that more training is need for CWP holders.</p></blockquote>
<p>More training to do what? The armed robber died and no one else did.</p>
<blockquote><p>Wright was also questioned by Mundy Woodruff, the father of Dante Williams, who was shot and killed in January. Deputies said Williams was shot while he was attempting to rob a Waffle House at gunpoint. Wright told News 4 that the customer tried to hold Williams while waiting for deputies to arrive. Woodruff said he watched surveillance video of the incident and disputed the sheriff&#8217;s version of events.</p>
<p>&#8220;As (the shooter) got out of his seat, as he stepped, he was shooting. He never said, &#8216;Stop.&#8217; He never said, &#8216;Hold up.&#8217; He never called anyone, so I want to know how y&#8217;all can sit here and say that he was trying to hold someone,&#8221; Woodruff said.</p>
<p>&#8220;I want to hear the story correct because that was my child. He didn&#8217;t have the right to take my child from me,&#8221; Woodruff said.</p></blockquote>
<p>You don&#8217;t shout stop at an armed robber. Not unless you&#8217;ve got a whole lot more backup.</p>
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		<title>Fort Hood Survivor on Shooting: &#8220;Concealed Weapons Would Have Stopped It&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2014 00:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ “Nearly a week later, I can still taste his blood in my mouth." ]]></description>
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<blockquote><p>“My name is First Lieutenant Patrick Cook of the 49th Transportation Battalion, Fort Hood, Texas, and this past Wednesday I found myself trapped in an enclosed room with fourteen of my fellow Soldiers, one of whom was barricading the door against a madman with a .45 pistol when he was fatally shot.”</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/04/08/read-the-powerful-letter-a-fort-hood-solider-penned-asking-for-his-god-given-right-to-arm-himself-on-base/">This is the letter that every gun</a> free zone supporter should be sat down and made to read.</p>
<blockquote><p>“Through what I can only describe as a miracle, he somehow found enough strength to continue pushing against that door until the shooter gave up and went elsewhere, at which time he collapsed,” Cook wrote. “Nearly a week later, I can still taste his blood in my mouth from when I and my comrades breathed into his lungs for 20 long minutes while we waited for a response from the authorities. This Soldier’s name was Sergeant First Class Daniel Ferguson, and his sacrifice loaned me the rest of my life to tell this story.”</p>
<p>“But I write to you today not to memorialize this brave Soldier, nor to tell a war story about how we made the best of a losing situation, but to express the part of that story that some in high positions of power clearly do not want told: I knew this was going to happen,” he wrote. “I had been saying for five years that Fort Hood was a tinderbox of another massacre waiting to happen. It had to happen, because our betters failed to learn the obvious lesson of five years ago. Worse yet, I know it will happen again. More will die, more will be wounded, more families will be torn apart, needlessly. It happened again, and will happen again, because Fort Hood is a gun free zone.”</p>
<p>“When the first shots rang out, my hand reached to my belt for something that wasn’t there. Something that could have put a stop to the bloodshed, could have made it merely an ‘ugly incident’ instead of the horrific massacre that I will surely remember as the darkest twenty minutes of my life,” the letter continued. “Stripped of my God-given Right to arm myself, the only defensive posture I had left was to lie prostrate on the ground, and wait to die. As the shooter kicked at the door, I remember telling myself, ‘oh well, this is it.’ It is beneath human dignity to experience the utter helplessness I felt that day. I cannot abide the thought that anyone should ever feel that again.”</p>
<p>“At the point blank range at which this shooting occurred, anyone with an M9 and some basic instruction could have ended the mayhem as quickly as it began,” he wrote. “An MP by trade and a CHL holder, I am convinced that concealed weapons would have stopped it, but openly carried side-arms, like the ones carried in a law enforcement capacity, could have prevented it entirely. Instead, many more died because of the fatally misguided restrictions on the carrying of arms, which obviously the madman did not respect.”</p>
<p>“I shall conclude by restating my warning. This will happen again, and again until we learn the lesson that suppressing the bearing of arms doesn’t prevent horrific crimes, it invites them.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Cartel Gun Smuggler/Attorney General Wants Mandatory Gun Tracking Bracelets</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2014 19:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["We can make sure that people have the ability to enjoy their Second Amendment rights,"]]></description>
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<p>This is a great plan. <a href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/holder-we-want-to-explore-gun-tracking-bracelets/">Surely when a burglar steals a gun</a>, there&#8217;s no chance that he&#8217;ll also make off with the bracelet. And if a homeowner needs to protect himself, he had better know where his gun bracelet is.</p>
<p>If only someone had a gun bracelet for all those Fast and Furious guns that Holder moved down past the Rio Grande to the drug cartels.</p>
<blockquote><p>Attorney General Eric Holder said on Friday that gun tracking bracelets are something the Justice Department (DOJ) wants to “explore” as part of its gun control efforts.</p>
<p>When discussing gun violence prevention programs within the DOJ, Holder told a House appropriations subcommittee that his agency is looking into technological innovations.</p>
<p>“I think that one of the things that we learned when we were trying to get passed those common sense reforms last year, Vice President Biden and I had a meeting with a group of technology people and we talked about how guns can be made more safe,” he said.</p></blockquote>
<p>Memo to Holder. Repeating &#8220;Common sense&#8221; after every stupid and illegal law you want to pass stopped working last year. Get a new talking point.</p>
<p>Any chance those technology people are the same ones selling the gun safety technology.</p>
<blockquote><p>“By making them either through finger print identification, the gun talks to a bracelet or something that you might wear, how guns can be used only by the person who is lawfully in possession of the weapon.”</p>
<p>“It’s those kinds of things that I think we want to try to explore so that we can make sure that people have the ability to enjoy their Second Amendment rights, but at the same time decreasing the misuse of weapons that lead to the kinds of things that we see on a daily basis,” Holder said.</p></blockquote>
<p>Like assault rifles being smuggled to Mexico? I bet Holder sees that on a daily basis even as he signs off on it.</p>
<p>But this gimmick is supposed to address the problem of stolen guns being passed along. Also it would make private sales impossible, which is the real endgame here. Guns would be locked to a single owner. Transfer would require some sort of government intervention. Or someone who can bypass the lock, which is what would happen in the real world.</p>
<p>Gun safes that respond to RFID and/or fingerprint scanners already exist and they&#8217;re a sensible solution. There have also been proposals for GPS tracking of all firearms. Predictably that proposal came out of Chicago.</p>
<p>But Holder likely means something like the Armatix iP1,<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/we-need-the-iphone-of-guns-will-smart-guns-transform-the-gun-industry/2014/02/17/6ebe76da-8f58-11e3-b227-12a45d109e03_story.html"> the supposed &#8216;smart gun&#8217;</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Electronic chips inside the gun and the watch communicate with each other. If the watch is within close reach of the gun, a light on the grip turns green. Fire away. No watch means no green light. The gun becomes a paperweight.</p>
<p>A dream of gun-control advocates for decades, the Armatix iP1 is the country’s first smart gun.</p>
<p>Lawmakers around the country have been intrigued by the possibilities. New Jersey passed a hotly contested law in 2002 requiring that only smart guns be sold in the state within three years of a smart gun being sold anywhere in the country. A similar measure made it through the California Senate last year, and at the federal level, Rep. John F. Tierney (D-Mass.) also has introduced a mandate.</p></blockquote>
<p>The Armatix however costs $1,399. It also hasn&#8217;t seen that much testing.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s a Fast and Furious link to the whole mess because the operation did attempt to use GPS tracking devices, occasionally, with mixed results.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Justice Department has requested $382.1 million in increased spending for its fiscal year 2014 budget for “gun safety.”</p>
<p>Included in the proposal is $2 million for “Gun Safety Technology” grants, which would award prizes for technologies that are “proven to be reliable and effective.”</p>
<p>President Barack Obama’s budget proposal also calls for $1.1 billion to “protect Americans from gun violence—including $182 million to support the president’s ‘Now is the Time’ gun safety initiative.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Or Holder could self-finance by selling more guns to drug dealers.</p>
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		<title>Chicago Murder Rate at Lowest Level in 50 Years after Concealed Carry</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2014 14:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chicago gun violence is gang driven.]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://weaselzippers.us/181810-concealed-carry-enacted-in-illinois-guess-what-happened-to-chicago-murder-rate-in-this-first-quarter/">Even Chicago isn&#8217;t hopeless</a>. Just its politicians.</p>
<blockquote><p>In July of 2013, Illinois became the last state in the union to enact a concealed carry law. In January of this year, the state began accepting applications for permits. This week, Chicago police announced that the city’s first quarter murder rate was the lowest since 1958.</p>
<p>The first three months of the year saw 6 fewer murders than the same time frame in 2013–a 9 percent drop–and 55 fewer murders than 2012, according to a statement from Chicago Police.</p>
<p>There were 90 fewer shootings and 119 fewer shooting victims, drops of 26 and 29 percent respectively, according to police statistics.</p>
<p>Compared to the first quarter of 2012, there have been 222 fewer shootings and 292 fewer shooting victims. Overall crime is down 25 percent from last year, and police said more than 1,300 illegal guns were recovered in the last three months.</p></blockquote>
<p>There&#8217;s no obvious explanation for the decline. Much of Chicago gun violence is gang driven. There&#8217;s no new administration or policy in place. And the economy isn&#8217;t exactly in great shape.</p>
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		<title>Black Shooting Survivor on MSNBC: &#8220;More Guns&#8221; Needed in Fort Hood</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2014 15:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lunsford had been unarmed and was shot once in the head]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ronan Farrow&#8217;s question already makes as much as anything on MSNBC. Is there any possible situation in which you are being shot at by an armed gunman in which having less guns would help?</p>
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<p>Ret Sgt. Alonzo Lunsford is one of the more recognizable Fort Hood survivors and clearly the wrong person to ask. Lunsford respectfully takes apart the Gun Free Zone status of bases pointing out that military personnel are trained and have taken an oath and should be armed, especially since disarming them certainly does not stop shootings.</p>
<p>If MSNBC had done its research, looking beyond skin color, they probably never would have invited him.</p>
<p>Lunsford had been unarmed and was shot once in the head and six times in his body. He played dead and then tried to escape, but was shot again in the back. The bullet is apparently still there.</p>
<p>You can see why he would favor having a gun.</p>
<p>Lunsford <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/fort-hood-massacre-survivor-blasts-atty-general-holder-for-terrorism-denial/">has also spoken out against Holder&#8217;s failure </a>to charge Muslim terrorist Nidal Hasan as a terrorist.</p>
<blockquote><p>“Not only am I disappointed [in Holder], I’m embarrassed. Mr. Holder needs to understand the repercussions of his actions,” Lunsford said, adding that perhaps the attorney general should visit troops overseas in Afghanistan or Iraq to better understand how and why service men and women do what they do.</p>
<p>Lunsford also expressed outrage at the fact that some victims are financially struggling, but because of the categorization of the shooting as a “workplace shooting,” he and those other victims are not entitled to combat-related benefits they would have received had they been injured overseas. To make matters worse, Hasan has continued to receive paychecks over the past four years.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Leland Yee: An Anti-Gun Democrat Jihadists Can Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2014 04:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A California politician's quest to send millions of dollars' worth of arms to Islamic terrorists. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/sf-aa649_leland_g_20101208173843_0.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-222132" alt="sf-aa649_leland_g_20101208173843_0" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/sf-aa649_leland_g_20101208173843_0.jpg" width="307" height="238" /></a>California State Senator Leland Yee is the very model of a modern public servant.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Yee, a Democrat, has amassed a well-deserved reputation as an anti-gun crusader: shortly after Adam Lanza’s murderous rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/california-state-sen-leland-yee-indicted-weapons-charges/story?id=23082339">Yee helped spearhead</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> one of the toughest gun laws in the entire nation, banning the “bullet button” that allows shooters to change magazines on assault weapons quickly and easily. California Governor Jerry Brown vetoed this ban, but Yee remained committed to getting it enshrined in California law. So intent was Yee that Americans should not have various kinds of lethal weapons that he took it upon himself to hook up with international arms traffickers and an Islamic jihad group, in order to sell them millions of dollars&#8217; worth of automatic weapons and missiles and thereby empty the U.S. of this lethal materiel.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Now that’s the kind of selfless willingness to put the public interest first that is so rare in American politicians today. This anti-gun public servant </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/the-indictment-against-leland-yee-puts-the-wires-clay-davis-shame">asked an FBI agent</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> whom he thought was an international arms trafficker to give him a shopping list of weapons he wanted in exchange for $2,000,000 in cash, which was apparently to go to Yee’s campaign for California Secretary of State.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">And why not? How urgently California needs Leland Yee! How many other anti-gun officials would be willing to take it upon themselves to rid their state of guns, by facilitating their shipment out of the country altogether? This wasn’t just a token gesture: Yee recounted that he told the undercover agent that some heavy weaponry was available: “I told him about the rockets and things like that.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Yee was determined to make it happen. According to the agent’s affidavit, Yee’s fundraising chief asked for a donation to Yee’s campaign, in exchange for which he promised that Yee would “facilitate a meeting” between an arms dealer and the supposed arms trafficker, so that the trafficker could “purchase a large number of weapons to be imported through the Port of Newark, New Jersey.” At a meeting during these negotiations, Yee “discussed certain details of the specific types of weapons [the agent] was interested in buying and importing.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Yee boasted that he had “an unidentified Filipino associate who was supplying ‘heavy’ weapons to rebel groups in the Philippines.” The Senator explained that “Mindanao was largely populated by Muslim rebel groups who were fighting the federal government. Yee continued by saying the Muslim rebels had no problem ‘kidnapping individuals, killing individuals, and extorting them for ransom.” When the undercover agent asked him which Muslim organization he meant, Yee answered: “M.I.L.F.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">That’s the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the Islamic group in that wants to establish an Islamic state in the southern Philippines, and to that end last September took over four Christian towns, terrorizing the residents and </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/09/philippines-muslim-group-takes-over-four-villages-takes-38-hostages">murdering six</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, wounding 24, and </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/07/ramadan-observance-in-the-philippines-6-dead-48-wounded-as-muslims-bomb-restaurant">murdered six more</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> people in a restaurant bombing last summer. The MILF has been waging jihad against the Philippine government for years, and Filipino authorities appear to be weary of the whole mess and ready to give the jihadis what they want, up to and including an autonomous region in which they can impose Sharia. However, taking a cue from the “Palestinians,” the MILF keeps ratcheting up its demands, stymieing peace talks and keeping the central government on the defensive.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This is the group that Leland Yee apparently wanted to arm. Automatic weapons are in his view apparently no good on the streets of South Central LA, but just fine in the jungles of Mindanao in the cause of Islam. This doesn’t mean, of course, that Leland Yee is a true believer in jihad, or a Muslim at all. There is no indication whatsoever that he is.</span></p>
<p>He is just another corrupt pol who wanted to make a buck. And in this age when Islamic jihadists and supremacists are awash with cash, the temptation can be too much for corrupt and short-sighted Infidels.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Yee, according to the agent’s affidavit, “stated he was unhappy with his life and said, ‘There is a part of me that wants to be like you [...] Just be a free agent out there.’ Senator Yee told [the agent] that he wanted to hide out in the Philippines.” </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Yet had he realized this dream and gotten to the Philippines, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front would not have spared Yee himself, even if this deal had gone through. If he had then proved useful to their Islamic cause as a hostage or a dead body, that would have been it for him, despite his services to them. Such is the fate of all those who cooperate with Islamic supremacists and jihadists.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">But some Infidels never learn. As the story of the selfless public servant Leland Yee proves yet again, there will always be some who put their narrow self-interest above their nation and their people. And always some Islamic jihadists willing to make the deal, and buy from them the scimitar they will ultimately use to behead them.</span></p>
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		<title>New York Times Blames Piers Morgan&#8217;s Cancellation on his &#8220;Britishness&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2014 01:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Morgan’s approach to gun regulation was more akin to King George III"]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Piers_Morgan_1248409c.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-171484" alt="Piers_Morgan_1248409c" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Piers_Morgan_1248409c.jpg" width="460" height="288" /></a> David Carr of the New York Times confuses arrogance with Britishness. They&#8217;re not the same thing. Carr suggests that American audiences were being parochial, when the fact of the matter is that Piers Morgan was a poor fit for a news personality, egotistical to a fault, making everything about himself. It&#8217;s a trait that didn&#8217;t endear him to people in the UK. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/24/business/media/piers-morgan-and-cnn-plan-end-to-his-prime-time-show.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;_r=0">Americans didn&#8217;t take to him either</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>CNN’s president, Jeffrey Zucker, has other problems, but none bigger than Mr. Morgan and his plum 9 p.m. time slot. Mr. Morgan said last week that he and Mr. Zucker had been talking about the show’s failure to connect and had decided to pull the plug, probably in March. I received a return call from Mr. Morgan and was prepared for an endless argument over my assumptions. Not so. His show, he conceded, was not performing as he had hoped and was nearing its end. “It’s been a painful period and lately we have taken a bath in the ratings,” he said, adding that although there had been times when the show connected in terms of audience, slow news days were problematic. “Look, I am a British guy debating American cultural issues, including guns, which has been very polarizing, and there is no doubt that there are many in the audience who are tired of me banging on about it,” he said. “That’s run its course and Jeff and I have been talking for some time about different ways of using me.”</p></blockquote>
<p>As a floor mop? A toilet brush? A human target? There are so many possibilities. But I predicted that Piers Morgan would be canceled and that he would do his best to spin it. Now the spin is that he&#8217;ll be reserved for &#8220;big interviews&#8221;.</p>
<blockquote><p>“I think I can credibly do news and the ratings reflect that, but it is not really the show that I set out to do,” he told me. “There are all kinds of people who can do news here. I’d like to do work — interviews with big celebrities and powerful people — that is better suited to what I do well and fit with what Jeff is trying to do with the network.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Finally Morgan admits that his proper place is standing at the Red Carpet and trying to outshout Joan Rivers. And he&#8217;s welcome to it.</p>
<blockquote><p>Old hands in the television news business suggest that there are two things a presenter cannot have: an accent or a beard. Mr. Morgan is clean shaven and handsome enough, but there are tells in his speech — the way he says the president’s name for one thing (Ob-AA-ma) — that suggest that he is not from around here.</p></blockquote>
<p>That sort of thing is silly. British accents can work. It&#8217;s Morgan&#8217;s pseudo-celebrities that was and is off-putting. The air of condescension shared by him and by Christiane Amanpour is off-putting. The issue isn&#8217;t the accent, it&#8217;s class.</p>
<blockquote><p>In a sense, Mr. Morgan is a prisoner of two islands: Britain and Manhattan. Mr. Morgan’s approach to gun regulation was more akin to King George III, peering down his nose at the unruly colonies and wondering how to bring the savages to heel. He might have wanted to recall that part of the reason the right to bear arms is codified in the Constitution is that Britain was trying to disarm the citizenry at the time. “I’m in danger of being the guy down at the end of the bar who is always going on about the same thing,” he said. He added that he was sure there were plenty of people in the heartland angry “about this British guy telling them how to lead their lives and what they should do with their guns.”</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s the Manhattan part that matters more. By taking on gun bans, Morgan was sucking up to New York media elites and California celebrities while having little to no clue about the country at large.</p>
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		<title>Piers Morgan&#8217;s Gun Control Obsession Destroyed his Ratings</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2014 21:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The show’s numbers have fallen sharply since it became a subject on the show.]]></description>
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<p>Piers Morgan jumped on gun control because he assumed that dead kids would be his path to stardom, but it&#8217;s not as if he had any other options. Morgan&#8217;s personality is off-putting, it was built for UK tabloid journalism, not for American cable news viewing.</p>
<p>Viewers might be fine with Morgan hosting a reality show or game show, but no one wants to sit and listen to him sneer about assault rifles in Arkansas day after day.</p>
<p>To a Euro elitist whose only real experience of America was hobnobbing with bicoastal elites, gun control made sense and it won him applause in Hollywood and the media,<a href="http://weaselzippers.us/175523-aww-piers-morgans-ratings-circling-the-drain-shooting-self-in-foot-with-gun-control-obsession/"> but no one actually tuned in</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>There’s no way to quantify how much of a factor the discussion of gun control on “Piers Morgan Live” has contributed to its ratings (which were never all that great to begin with), but the show’s numbers have fallen more sharply since it became a frequent subject on the show.</p>
<p>In the end, are guns what killed CNN’s “Piers Morgan Live”?</p>
<p>The show, hosted by anti-gun crusader Morgan, continues to struggle in the Nielsens. And this month, the start of the Michael Dunn loud-music murder trial in Florida has put the issue of gun control back in the forefront. February has also produced six of the show’s smallest 10 audiences since it bowed in January 2011.</p>
<p>Opposite “Piers Morgan” on Tuesday, “The Kelly File” on Fox News Channel drew 2.07 million viewers (including 354,000 adults 25-54) while MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” attracted 906,000 (including 227,000 in the demo).</p>
<p>“Piers Morgan Live” isn’t CNN’s only problem in primetime, of course, as the entire lineup has struggled and CNN topper Jeff Zucker has promised that 2014 would be a year of “shake up.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Zucker is going to push CNN deeper into infotainment than it already is. It&#8217;s probably going to work. HLN is a success and viewers will tune in to CNN&#8217;s Deadliest Sharks and CNN&#8217;s Funniest Courtroom Videos. But Morgan is surplus. The only thing he brings to the table is his supposed celeb contacts and those aren&#8217;t much use if no one watches.</p>
<p>It may not be too long before Piers Morgan announces that he&#8217;s returning to the UK, spinning it as an exciting new opportunity instead of a silent dismissal.</p>
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		<title>Man Who Lobbied to Outlaw Guns in School Arrested With Gun in School</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2014 15:39:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[He was a well-known face in the movement for the SAFE Act]]></description>
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<p>I <a href="http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=224506">believe there&#8217;s a proverb about</a> digging a hole only to fall into it yourself that applies here.</p>
<blockquote><p>Dwayne Ferguson spent more than a decade advocating for nonviolence and peace in the streets of Buffalo.</p>
<p>He was a well-known face in the movement for the SAFE Act, the state law that made carrying a gun on school property a felony. He was also a familiar presence in the hallways of the city’s Harvey Austin Elementary School, where he worked in the after-school program and mentored students.</p>
<p>No one imagined that on Thursday he would show up at the school in possession of a gun, touching off an hours-long lockdown, search and ultimately his arrest on two felony charges.</p>
<p>Ferguson, 52, told WGRZ-TV that he frequently carries the gun, for which he has a permit, and did not realize he had it on him when he went to the school as part of the mentoring program.</p>
<p>Those who have worked with him also said they believe it was an honest mistake.</p></blockquote>
<p>No doubt it was an honest mistake. And that&#8217;s the problem. Plenty of people have been locked up for making honest mistakes under overzealous gun laws which don&#8217;t allow for the possibility of making honest mistakes.</p>
<p>Anti-gun campaigners have ramped up the paranoia and they don&#8217;t seem to care about the innocent people who get hurt in the process.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2014 21:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ “This right here has the ability with a .30-caliber clip to disperse with 30 bullets."]]></description>
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<p>Using the same amount of research that <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/01/21/anti-gun-senator-is-being-mocked-relentlessly-after-he-warned-of-30-caliber-clip-in-embarrassing-video/">Kevin de Leon put into his presentation warning of the terrible menace of 3D printed ghost guns</a>, I have determined that he is a 9th century explorer who has represented his constituents in the Valle de Los Necios in the National Assembly of People&#8217;s Power of Southnortheastern California.</p>
<blockquote><p>Anti-gun California State Sen. Kevin de Leon (D-Los Angeles) is being mocked by gun rights advocates after he made a number of inaccurate statements while promoting a bill that would require individuals who manufacturer homemade firearms to undergo background checks.</p>
<p>“This is a ghost gun,” de Leon begins, holding an unloaded rifle in his hands. “This right here has the ability with a .30-caliber clip to disperse with 30 bullets within half a second. Thirty magazine clip in half a second.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Also it can fry a dozen eggs in under four hours and can hit a fly on the moon in less than four hundred years.</p>
<p>But one important question, will these 3D ghost guns be printed on computers with 100 gigabyte CPUs capable of uploading 400 kilowatts a second?</p>
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<blockquote><p>Firstly, there is no such thing as a “30-caliber clip” in the context of which he is speaking. He clearly is referring to a 30-round magazine. An ammunition magazine is different than a “clip,” but the two are often confused by those not familiar with guns. And though it’s obvious, there is also no such thing as a “30 magazine clip.”</p>
<p>Secondly, caliber refers the measurement of the width of a bullet or internal diameter of a gun barrel, not magazine capacity.</p></blockquote>
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<p>Kevin de Leon, a former English as a Second Language teacher and NEA crony, couldn&#8217;t be expected to know any of this. He&#8217;s only been pushing gun control for the last six years.</p>
<p>How was he supposed to find the time to learn what a caliber is in only six years?</p>
<p>But <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/2014/01/14/6072805/darrell-steinberg-says-kevin-de.html">it&#8217;s not like he&#8217;s considered the bright</a> future of California Senate Democrats&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>California Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg said Tuesday that “it is clear” Sen. Kevin de León will be the next leader of the state Senate.</p>
<p>“I think he will be a great leader. He’s adept at both the policy and the political side,” Steinberg said as he and de León emerged from an afternoon meeting of Senate Democrats, in which the majority party discussed future leadership of the house but did not take a formal vote.</p></blockquote>
<p>California meet your new English as a Second Language and knowledge as a third priority leader.  He may be really dumb, <a href="http://www.dailynews.com/government-and-politics/20131113/state-sen-kevin-de-leon-disputes-fbis-account-of-money-transfer-in-calderon-probe">but at least he&#8217;s honest</a>&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>State Sen. Kevin de Leon defended himself Tuesday against allegations he helped transfer $25,000 to a nonprofit controlled by Sen. Ron Calderon’s brother, Thomas.</p>
<p>De Leon’s name appears in recently released federal documents detailing an FBI investigation of Ron Calderon, who allegedly received bribes from an undercover agent.</p>
<p>While the FBI probe centers on Calderon, the Los Angeles senator is referenced 17 times in the 124-page FBI document. At one point, the documents state de Leon helped transfer $25,000 from a Latino political group in the state Legislature to a nonprofit.</p>
<p>At one point, the affidavit states de Leon helped broker a deal for leadership of the Latino Legislative Caucus, a 25-member group of lawmakers that includes the senator.</p></blockquote>
<p>Okay so Kevin de Leon <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/2014/01/05/6046614/kevin-de-leon-aims-to-move-past.html">is a dishonest idiot </a>who will lead the California State Senate in its war against the calibers of 3D ghost guns.</p>
<p>California now has Mexico&#8217;s political structure, but doesn&#8217;t have as much oil. I suspect that&#8217;s going to be a problem.</p>
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		<title>Hollywood Producer of Violent Movies to Make Movie Attacking NRA</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2014 22:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe he'll just make an ultra-violent action movie to denounce gun violence. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_216628" style="width: 460px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/kq_harvey-weinstein-and-quentin_wide-620x349.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-216628" alt="kq_harvey-weinstein-and-quentin_wide-620x349" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/kq_harvey-weinstein-and-quentin_wide-620x349-450x253.jpg" width="450" height="253" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">We need to do something about all this violence</p></div>
<p>Every winter, Harvey Weinstein pokes his fat head out of a burrow, sees his own shadow and starts trying to buy a bunch of Oscars while promoting his next ridiculous project.</p>
<p>When we last met Harvey Weinstein, he was trying to destroy Israel and create a Palestinian state with Miral. Miral what, you ask. Exactly</p>
<p>Despite getting Miral screened at the United Nations, no one went to see his piece of cheap anti-Israel pro-terrorist propaganda and its widest release was in 29 theaters.</p>
<p>Harvey Weinstein couldn&#8217;t even fit his stomach into 29 theaters.</p>
<p>So now, <a href="http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/weinstein-streep-producing-film-make-nra-wish-they-werent-alive">Harvey is back and this time he is absolutely</a> going to destroy the NRA with a Meryl Streep movie&#8230; because you know how NRA members go to see Meryl Streep movies. It&#8217;s unknown what this project is yet, but in the meantime Harvey Weinstein&#8217;s name is attached to</p>
<p>1. Kill Bill Vol. 3 from Quentin Tarantino.</p>
<p>2. Halloween 3</p>
<p>3. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon II: The Green Destiny</p>
<p>4. Sin City: A Dame to Kill For</p>
<p>5. The Amityville Horror: The Lost Tapes</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re sensing a theme here, aside from sequel desperation, it&#8217;s violence. Violence, violence and more violence. Harvey Weinstein was the guy behind Django Unchained after all. Remind me how many guns that had?</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I shouldn’t say this, but I’ll tell it to you, Howard,&#8221; Harvey said. &#8220;I’m going to make a movie with Meryl Streep, and we’re going to take this head-on. And they’re going to wish they weren’t alive after I’m done with them.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Let me guess, Harvey is going to make some thinly disguised variation on the Adam Lanza &#8220;crazy gay pedo shooter&#8221; story and Meryl Streep will win praise for playing his deranged mother who fills the house with guns while flapping nervously around from room to room. Streep will get an Oscar nomination and the movie will sink like a stone.</p>
<p>But maybe I&#8217;m misjudging t<a href="http://news.moviefone.com/2007/05/14/danny-trejo-says-weinsteins-have-greenlit-machete/">he guy behind</a> Machete&#8217;s racist violence and Django&#8217;s racist violence and <a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2009/09/obama.html">the defender of pedophile rapist</a> Roman Polanski. Maybe he&#8217;ll just make an ultra-violent action movie to denounce gun violence.</p>
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