Common Folk Using Common Sense

The following is a synopsis of an interview conducted by Ginny Simone with Keith Tidswell of Australia‘s Sporting Shooters Association. One year after gun owners were forced to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed, including semi-automatic .22 rifles and shotguns, a program costing the government over $500 million, the results are in. A dramatic [...]

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From Fred08: Fred today unveiled his “Four Pillars of a Revitalized National Defense” at The Citadel, where he called for increasing defense spending, building a “million-member” Army and Marine Corps, modernizing our Armed Forces, and ensuring better treatment for our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, and veterans. Fred Thompson‘s “Four Pillars of a Revitalized National Defense“: [...]

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From the UK Telegraph: Injured soldiers who lost their limbs fighting for their country have been driven from a swimming pool training session by jeering members of the public. The men, injured during tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, were taking part in a rehabilitation session at a leisure centre, when two women demanded they be [...]

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While checking my referrer logs the other day I noticed that someone in Myrtle Beach, SC, using Road Runner Business as their ISP, found this humble blog during a search on Google for “breasts exposed”. Huh? Supporting our troops, talking about Conservative values, guns and the Second Amendment, promoting Fred Thompson maybe … but “breasts [...]

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From the Times Union: The Albany Police Officers Union wants to keep secret the names of any officers who illicitly purchased machine guns through the department years ago. The scandal was first exposed in an Aug. 26 Times Union story which reported that dozens of officers, as well as an assistant chief and at least [...]

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While waiting to see if the Supreme Court will do anything with 07-290 (District of Columbia v. Heller), on whether the Second Amendment protects a person’s right to own a gun, let’s look at this from the Washington Post: Three decades ago, at the dawn of municipal self-government in the District, the city’s first elected [...]

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From Breitbart: A court in the ultra-conservative kingdom of Saudi Arabia is punishing a female victim of gang rape with 200 lashes and six months in jail, a newspaper reported on Thursday. The 19-year-old woman — whose six armed attackers have been sentenced to jail terms — was initially ordered to undergo 90 lashes for [...]

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The Supreme Court announced that it will determine whether the District of Columbia’s strict firearms law violates the Constitution, a decision that will raise the politically and culturally divisive issue of gun control just in time for the 2008 elections. The court’s examination of the meaning of the Second Amendment for the first time in [...]

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From the Orlando Sentinel: Two holders of concealed-weapons permits surprised armed thugs who approached them in west Orlando this week. Both men opened fire rather than surrender their wallets. The robbers beat it. The gunfight erupted at 6:10 p.m. Monday near Clear Lake, according to a police report on the incident. Juan Amezaga, 25, and [...]

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“O God, when I have food, help me to remember the hungry; When I have work, help me to remember the jobless; When I have a home, help me to remember those who have no home at all; When I am without pain, help me to remember those who suffer, And remembering, help me to [...]

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From Mark Morford of the San Francisco Gate: Mark your calendars, set your watch, program a celebratory ringtone well in advance, because the countdown has officially begun. It is now less than one calendar year until the next presidential election. It is less than one year until the country finally takes a deep breath and [...]

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From the New York Post: With his poll numbers collapsing, Gov. Spitzer pulled the plug today on his controversial plan to allow illegal immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses. “New York state can not handle [the immigration issue] on our own,” Spitzer said. “I am withdrawing my proposal.” The embattled governor made the announcement after he [...]

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The right to keep and bear arms is derived from and inseparably linked to the right of self-defense. Thus, by nature it is an individually possessed right, as are all rights protected in our Constitution. The Founding Fathers, the Framers of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and those whom the Supreme Court (U.S. v. [...]

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November 19 is National Ammo Day. It is a nationwide BUYcott of ammunition. You buy ammunition. 100 Rounds a person. A BUYcott is the opposite of a BOYcott. In a BOYcott, people send a message by refusing to purchase a particular good or service. With a BUYcott, people intentionally buy something to make their support [...]

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