"So now pediatricians are lying to try to get guns banned. Though they seem to be lying carefully. 'Where there are more guns in the United States, there are more people dying,' happens to be a blatant lie, as outlined in the Pew study outlined in Rant #9. Gun crime down 49%. Non-fatal gun violence down 70%. Firearms free violence down 72%. Gun ownership UP across the nation. 37 states now cannot refuse to issue a concealed carry license unless you are a felon. 4 states now do not require ANY license to carry concealed. 3500 children drown each year. 500 die by gun. Ban the swimming pools first, pediatricians. THEY aren't Constitutionally protected." (05/19/13)

"State Representative Joe Salazar recently drew fire for telling the Colorado legislature that college women should arm themselves with rape whistles rather than guns. 'And you don’t know, if you feel like you’re gonna be raped, or if you feel like someone’s been following you around, or if you feel like you’re in trouble when you may actually not be,' Salazar said, 'that you pop out that gun and you pop ... pop a round at somebody.'" (05/21/13)

"Adam Kokesh has come up with a project, an armed march on Washington D.C., and inevitably the Fudds and other assorted crybabies have come out of the woodwork. It's enough to make a strong man puke.In their writing, all sorts of bad scenarios are cooked up. 'They might play this trick or that to steal our liberty!' If machinations by provocateurs were all it took to eliminate arms in the hands of the people, then folks, it would have been done decades ago." (05/19/13)

"I have been frankly horrified at the things I have seen written relating to his 'arrest' at the Smokedown Prohibition V event. Gun owners, especially those who were not in favor of his planned armed march on DC, have been acting like statists. The War on Politically Incorrect Drugs and The War Against Gun Owners are not separate issues." (05/20/13)

"Most newspapers, radio and TV stations still operate on the hard-and-fast journalistic rule, 'if it bleeds, it leads.' You really can't blame the news media for this. Most people like stories about conflict and action. That's why the sports pages are so well read, and we have cable channels dedicated to every competitive activity and sport conceivable -- even golf. But there are hundreds, thousands, perhaps millions of incidents where a firearm was used by a private citizen to prevent a crime or defend against a crime which are never reported to the police and never covered by the news." (05/17/13)

"It seems everyone is talking about Adam Kokesh, and his peaceful armed march on DC. And it seems everyone who is talking about it is casting stones at those who take a position different than their own. I'll try to not do that. So, what would I do? I wouldn't go. But maybe not for the reasons you might think." (05/19/13)

"The US authorities are armed to the teeth, and we're panicking about citizens printing out rubbish guns?" (05/16/13)

"A common trope of many Second Amendment advocates is to urge more vigorous enforcement of existing federal gun control laws, as the alternative to enacting additional laws. Rhetorically, that’s very effective. But as a policy matter, it is not always a good idea. Consider legislation recently considered by the Senate: The Manchin-Toomey amendment was supported by the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA), although the group later dropped its support for reasons unrelated to the issues raised in this post." (05/16/13)

"People who have already succumbed to an irrational fear of guns are easily frightened by anti-gun advocates and their cooperative mainstream media friends into supporting so-called 'reasonable' but unconstitutional gun control laws." (05/15/13)

"We had a world with no gun controls, once. A world in which you could hop a coastwise trader in New Orleans, and get off in any port north of Guyana. With your life preserver hanging on your belt, and without as much as a raised eyebrow from anyone. A world where wide areas of the world had four or five murders a year for every million population. Most as a result of some dude violating, or attempting to violate, the 'unwritten law against adultery.'" (05/13/13)

"Thursday’s revelation that the Washington State court system has been hacked and the records of hundreds of thousands of citizens may have been accessed clearly demonstrates why gun owners are adamantly opposed to background check records keeping, and want the state’s pistol registry destroyed, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said. Reuters reported Thursday afternoon that up to 160,000 Social Security numbers and a million driver’s license numbers 'may have been accessed.'" (05/14/13)

"The Liberator is a wonderful innovation and its inventor Cody Wilson richly deserves an honored place in the pantheon of libertarian heroes, but wider availability of guns will not end the obscenity of government. That will happen when, and only when, there is no longer anyone willing to work for it. Americans are already rather well armed, with something over 80 million guns in private hands, and that has not prevented the monstrous growth of the state; why therefore double that number?" (05/13/13)

"So since 1993, firearms ownership has risen, the population has risen, and the use of force in self defense has risen. However crime, especially crime using firearms and specifcally murder with firearms, has fallen. This in spite of the end of the ugly weapon ban in 2004, the adoption of shall issue concealed licensing laws by most states, several states adopting Constitutional carry, and most states until recently liberaling their gun laws." (05/13/13)

"There’s nothing quite so funny as the sight of the authoritarian functionaries of a dying order trying to suppress a revolution they don’t understand -- and failing miserably." (05/12/13)

"Over the past two months we have all watched two major, high-profile fights in the Delaware General Assembly: the first over gun control and the second over marriage equality. What's interesting for me to reflect upon is that my personal ideological bent opposes the gun control measure, but supports marriage equality. So -- to put it bluntly -- I watched one fight from the the losing side, and the other from the winning side." (05/09/13)

"The problem with the advocates of 'gun-safety' laws is that they don’t think big enough. They favor expanded background checks, greater monitoring of those stigmatized as 'mentally ill,' and a ban on the manufacture of scary-looking semiautomatic rifles and high-capacity magazines. But we know these measures would not have prevented the horrible shootings that have occurred in recent years." (05/08/13)

"Defense Distributed's new weapon is named for, and obviously serves the same function as, the original Liberator. One news report says that the CAD files for printing it at home were downloaded more than 50,000 times on Monday alone, and that all the usual suspects are worried. And worried they should be." (05/07/13)

"President Barack Obama was right when he told a Mexican audience Friday that many of the guns used in crime south of the border came from the United States, and he should know since his administration allowed thousands of those firearms to walk during Operation Fast and Furious, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms observed. 'The Obama administration should accept full responsibility for illegally flooding Mexico with guns that are now being used by drug cartel gunmen,' said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb." (05/07/13)

"It would be bad enough if this particular jackbooted thug planned only to use this ill-gotten tax money for the usual militarized toys -- machineguns or armored personnel carriers -- the cops are so crazy about today, but Bradshaw reportedly wants to create 'prevention intervention units' consisting of 'specially trained deputies, mental health professionals, and caseworkers' which 'will respond to citizen calls to a 24-hour hotline with a knock on the door and a referral to services.' ... Just what we need: shrinks with guns." (05/05/13)

"In 1775, the vast majority of America’s pastors were outspoken proponents of the right of Christians to resist the tyrant’s attempt to take away their guns, whereas, today, the vast majority of America’s pastors are both utterly passive and indifferent to the threat or are actually complicit with and supportive of the threat. As a result of this lack of principled leadership from the pulpit, Christians in general seem to share the passiveness and indifference of their pastors." (05/02/13)

"Gabby Giffords, who was rated good on guns til she was shot by Loughner, has taken the defeat of the gun control (properly speaking, victim disarmament) bills last week is firing back at the Senators who helped to kill it. I'm tossed up over even mentioning this. On the one hand, she took a bullet to the head, with any brain damage that entailed, and you can understand her new-found distaste for guns in general. But personal tragedy does not automatically mean that you should promptly advocate stripping rights from others in reaction. Overall, between her flipping and her husband's idiocy over his AR15 a few weeks ago, I'd call this a fail-fail situation. " (04/29/13)

"When war is coming, it's a good idea to maximize options, and get your equipment set." (04/29/13)

"Opponents of federal gun control won a victory in the Senate recently. But without a doubt, Congress will pass some sort of gun-control legislation down the road. And that act will certainly violate the Constitution. Our founding document does not delegate firearm-regulating power to Congress or the president. Even minus the Second Amendment, the feds possess no authority to ban any type of gun or magazine, create a gun registry or implement a national system of background checks." (04/29/13)

"It’s a hard lesson for us social beings to internalize, but earning the scorn of Authoritah can be one of the surest signs that we’re doing something right." (04/29/13)

"Good people need enough rounds for self-defense. President Obama and his fellow Democrats don’t feel that Americans need gun magazines that hold more than 10 rounds for self-defense. To that, gun owners would say: 'Mr. Obama, we don’t have a Bill of Needs -- we have a Bill of Rights.' Misunderstanding this point endangers all our rights, including the Second Amendment." (04/27/13)

"Because of the horrific nature of the shooting last year at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut -- a shooting in which 26 people were shot dead (most of them children) -- the subject of gun control has been in the news ever since like never before. It was preceded by the deadly shootings at a theater in Aurora, Colorado; at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin; near the Empire State Building in New York City; in a high-school cafeteria in Chardon, Ohio; and at a college in Oakland, California -- all in 2012." (04/26/13)

"Once in a while, someone asks me why I carry a gun ... what is the reason? I have lots of reasons." (04/25/13)

"Well, there has been SOOOOO much to talk about over the last two days. First, all the gun-rights violations planned by this anti-Constitution president got a thorough stomping. A few Republicans (John McCain, cough cough) sucked the Democrat party by voting for the bills, but a few Democrats bravely crossed party lines to vote for the Constitution.... Okay, they probably just face re-election in 2014, and realize a LOT of Americans opposed these amendments." (04/25/13)

"What happened in Newtown was horrible; everyone can agree on that. But an honest look around the United States shows that it’s not states like New Hampshire -- where law-abiding citizens have easy access to firearms — that are home to the worst levels of crime and violence. Instead, the worst crime rates are in those places where even greater restrictions on guns than those being proposed have been the law for decades. " (04/24/13)

"Because high-capacity, military-style firearms are designed for conflict, and when I need to protect myself and my freedom, I want the most reliable, durable, combat-proven, highest-capacity weapon available. Because attempts to infringe my right to own and possess such arms makes me suspicious of the motive." (04/24/13)

"Civil asset forfeiture is an already proven and well accepted piece of case law. Nobody can argue that guns are not or could not be used to commit a crime. Sandini easily applies, so let’s apply it. Cops could sit outside of gun ranges and stores, wait for shooters to leave, pull them over on a pretext stop, then ask. If they feel the driver or occupants are being obstructionist, they simply arrest them for resisting arrest, then search the car incident to arrest. Once the guns are found, they are seized, and the cop can either maintain the arrest or allow them to go at his discretion." (04/23/13)