Merry Christmas!

Two GRE columns:

Merry Christmas!

and

New Year's gun rights resolution: Spend time with your loved ones

That's what I'll be doing today. I hope you will have that blessing, too.

New Year's Gun Rights Resolution: Buy a Gun

Only one? [More]

Here's today's suggested resolution.

Suggested resolutions posted to date:

New Year's gun rights resolution: Attend an Appleseed
New Year's gun rights resolution: Know your representatives
New Year's gun rights resolution: Write letters to the editor
New Year's gun rights resolution: Join a gun rights group
New Year's gun rights resolution: Send a politician the gun rights questionnaire
New Year's gun rights resolution: Build a guns and liberty video collection
New Year's gun rights resolution: Take a new person shooting
New Year's gun rights resolution: Read Second Amendment books
New Year's gun rights resolution: Shoot a machine gun
New Year's gun rights resolution: Support legal efforts to defend 2nd Amendment
New Year's gun rights resolution: Spread the word on Gun Rights Examiner
New Year's gun rights resolution: Go to a gun show
New Year's gun rights resolution: Boycott an anti-gun company

An Answer for John Cornyn

No. [More]

That traitor, Mike Castle, can go to hell. So can anyone who supports him.

Oh, but then we'll lose all our rights!!!

Bring it on.

And I like the way The Hill expects us to buy into a damn statist quisling being "centrist."

UPDATE: More, from Tyranny Unleashed.

[Via Mack H]

Anybody Tell the Wonderful People Who Make Us Take Our Shoes Off?

State police, federal authorities and the Orange County District Attorney’s Office on Thursday announced the arrests of 12 illegal immigrants who allegedly used fake documents to get jobs at a warehouse business at Stewart International Airport that gave them access to airport operations areas. [More]

Security--as only government can provide it. Can't you just wait for them to take that "No Fly List" and use it to keep you and me from (legally) buying guns?

[Via Harvey]

Disproving a Long-Running Theory

Pro-gun groups jumped at the FBI report, saying it disproves a long-running theory posited by gun-control groups and many in the mainstream media that gun ownership spawns crime and violence. “Anti-gunners have lost another one of their baseless arguments,” Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Second Amendment Foundation, told the Examiner's Dave Workman. [More]

Dave gets press for this.

I'm glad to see some in the media noticing. Most will not.

I will take exception to elevating the anti's superstitious nonsense to the level of being a "theory," at least in the sense of the term as implied here.

"Lie" would be a more appropriate word.

More on INTERPOL

We discussed it yesterday.

National Review Online has more from a former prosecutor, who opines:

You just can't make up how brazen this crowd is. One week ago, President Obama quietly signed an executive order that makes an international police force immune from the restraints of American law.

UPDATE: A counterpoint, via Mack H.

[Via Michael G]

Outdoor Life's Top Conservationist

Dave Hardy asks us to take a poll. [More]

Wytheville Post Office Standoff Proves Once Again Gun Bans Don't Stop Criminals

Note the prohibition on guns had absolutely no effect on the bad guy. Just like it had no effect at Columbine, or Virginia Tech or... [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at another inconvenient truth being ignored by the "authorized journalists"...

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This Day in History: December 24

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