Common Folk Using Common Sense

The “Three Percenters“:

During the American Revolution, the active forces in the field against the King’s tyranny never amounted to more than 3% of the colonists. They were in turn actively supported by perhaps 10% of the population. In addition to these revolutionaries were perhaps another 20% who favored their cause but did little or nothing [...]

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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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Doug Van Gorder, in the Boston Globe, says:

… as a progressive, I would sooner lay my child to rest than succumb to the belief that the use of a gun for self-defense is somehow not in itself a gun crime.

So Mr. Gorder, a high school math teacher, would not use a gun to prevent the [...]

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Via azcentral.com:

Loaded guns will be allowed in Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon and other national parks under a new law that takes effect Monday.
The law lets licensed gun owners bring firearms into national parks and wildlife refuges as long as they are allowed by state law.
As of Monday, guns will be allowed in all but about [...]

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I was cleaning my Romanian GP WASR-10/63 last night. AKs do need a slight bit of cleaning and oil every 1000 rounds or so (just kidding).
For those of you that might be new to removing/re-installing the hammer and trigger on an AK-47, it’s mostly very easy as long as you keep the shepherd’s hook [...]

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There is a meme going on on various pro-2A blogs, something like “What do I wear/carry on my person 99.9% of the time as I go about my day?” Some of the others continuing this meme can be found here and here and here. As for me:

It contains:

Smith & Wesson 642 Centennial Airweight [...]

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Says Tam:

This is tied in to another thing I often read on the internet “You carry a gun to the (grocery store/restaurant/nice neighborhood/sewing circle/whatever)?” No, I don’t. As Kathy Jackson phrased it so well, I don’t carry a gun “to” anyplace; I just carry a gun. I put the gun on in the morning with [...]

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“The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people.” – Fisher Ames, US Representative, 1st Congressional District of Massachusetts, 1758-1808

Not only are the pre-existing rights of bearing arms and changing the government inherent in We The People, but they are also our job and our [...]

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Said by GA State Representative Tim Bearden, R-68, Villa Rica, as printed in The Valdosta Daily Times:

There should be no limitation to where a law abiding citizen carries his/her firearm. I would like to see enough support for law-abiding citizens to be able to carry a concealed weapon anywhere that citizen wants to carry the [...]

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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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“If every Jewish and anti-nazi family in Germany had owned a Mauser rifle and twenty rounds of ammunition and the will to use it, Adolf Hitler would be a little-known footnote to the history of the Weimar Republic.”
- Aaron Zelman, co-founder of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership

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