Common Folk Using Common Sense

Via MyFOX Atlanta:

A Decatur homeowner will not be charged for shooting an intruder Wednesday morning. DeKalb County police said 40-year-old Dexter Tucker was justified in shooting a 17-year-old who broke into his home.
Tucker said he had run the scenario of an intruder in his mind many times before, but he never thought it would actually [...]

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From Theodore Haas, a Holocaust survivor that was imprisoned at Dachau, in an interview with Aaron Zelman, founder, Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership:

Aaron Zelman: It appears the Liberal left in America is tolerating, and sometimes espousing anti-Semitism. Why do you think so many Jews still support the leftist form of Liberalism?
Theodore Haas: [...]

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From Theodore Haas, a Holocaust survivor that was imprisoned at Dachau, in an interview with Aaron Zelman, founder, Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership:

Aaron Zelman: What message do you have for ultra-Liberal organizations and individuals who want America disarmed?
Theodore Haas: Their ignorance is pitiful — their lives have been too easy. Had [...]

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From Theodore Haas, a Holocaust survivor that was imprisoned at Dachau, in an interview with Aaron Zelman, founder, Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership:

Aaron Zelman: What words of warning would you like to give to young people who will soon be eligible to vote?
Theodore Haas: Vote only for politicians who trust the [...]

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From Ed Stone at the Atlanta Gun Rights Examiner:

HB 615 is a bill that would eliminate once and for all the Jim Crow public gathering law passed in 1870 to ensure that newly freed slaves would be rendered defenseless at public gatherings throughout Georgia. HB 615 would also clarify Georgia’s confusing laws, removing the [...]

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From Ed Stone at the Atlanta Gun Rights Examiner:

Senator Ronald B. Ramsey Sr. (D-43, DeKalb and Rockdale) is the author of SB 12, which seeks to ban all ammunition in Georgia that is not encoded with tiny little numbers etched onto the base of the bullet providing a unique identifier for each round. It [...]

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From Ed Stone at the Atlanta Gun Rights Examiner:

Georgia is the only state in the nation with a “public gathering” law making it illegal to carry a firearm to or while at any public gathering. The term is undefined and leads to confusion among Georgia firearms license holders, police officers, lawyers, and judges alike. [...]

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From Ed Stone at the Atlanta Gun Rights Examiner:

Introduced by Rep. Bobby Franklin (R-43, Marietta), HB 873 would have the effect of repealing Article 4, relating to dangerous instrumentalities and practices, in its entirety. This would mean that there would no longer be Georgia laws against carrying a pistol without a license, carrying a [...]

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From Ed Stone at the Atlanta Gun Rights Examiner:

Senate Majority Whip Mitch Seabaugh (R-28) introduced SB 308, the Common Sense Lawful Carry Act, which would repeal Georgia’s public gathering law and replace it with a clearly defined list of places off limits. In addition, the bill would clarify some other ambiguous laws and tighten [...]

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By John Longenecker:

Gun control allowed crime to escalate, then it further disarmed the people to make crime worse, then it feels self-appointed mandates to impose on all – except criminals, of course. It even vexes justice by everything from short, lousy sentences for child molesters to early release of violent beasts. The payoff is an [...]

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From the Tenth Amendment Center:

Pre-filed for the 2010 legislative session in New Hampshire, House Bill 1285 (HB1285) seeks to “exempt firearms, firearm accessories, and ammunition manufactured in New Hampshire from federal law and regulation.”
While the bill’s title focuses on federal gun regulations, it has far more to do with the 10th Amendment’s limit on the [...]

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Nothing here I haven’t been saying for years.
From the UK Daily Express:

The scientific consensus that mankind has caused climate change was rocked yesterday as a leading academic called it a “load of hot air underpinned by fraud”.
Professor Ian Plimer condemned the climate change lobby as “climate comrades” keeping the “gravy train” going.
In a controversial talk [...]

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Says the Associated Press:

President Obama’s aunt buried her face in her hands and sobbed as she described her anguish that she no longer has contact with him and his family after the revelation she had been living illegally for years in the United States in public housing.
Zeituni Onyango told The Associated Press in an exclusive [...]

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From Andrew Napolitano at Reason.com (emphasis mine):

Congress recognizes no limits on its power. It doesn’t care about the Constitution, it doesn’t care about your inalienable rights. If this health care bill becomes law, America, life as you have known it, freedom as you have exercised it, and privacy as you have enjoyed it will cease [...]

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From CNN:

A 20-year-old woman from Iraq has died in an Arizona hospital, nearly two weeks after her father, police say, ran her over with a car because she had become “too Westernized.”
Noor Faleh Almaleki died Monday of injuries suffered when she was run over October 20 in a parking lot in the Phoenix suburb of [...]

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