Once Skeptical of Executive Power, Obama Has Come to Embrace It -In nearly eight years in office, President Obama has sought to reshape the nation with a sweeping assertion of executive authority and a canon of regulations that have inserted the United States government more deeply into American life.
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| Legislators can pass bills for things like universal background checks and the “no fly, no buy” rule, but those policies target if someone can purchase a gun. Things become a lot more complicated when citizens can make their own guns at home—and that’s becoming a significant issue as technology advances. |
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| In the progressive imagination, American gun shows are uniquely perfidious affairs — nothing more or less than illicit, loophole-ridden rendezvous points at which men with undesirable political opinions enable terrorists and criminals to do damage to the virtuous. In the press and beyond, it is hard to miss the lip-curling sneer that typically accompanies their contemplation. If there is one tradition in the United States that sums up the country’s unique gun culture it is these shows; necessarily, those who dislike that culture will abhor its pageantry. |
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| Here’s news that should shock exactly no one – the vast majority of gun crimes are committed by people who did not lawfully purchase their firearms. That’s the finding of a study of gun crimes in Pittsburgh in 2008: |
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| American shooter Kim Rhode won the bronze medal in women’s skeet shooting on Friday, an honor that put her in an elite record-holding group of just five other athletes who have won a medal in six different Olympic Games. |
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| Due in part to recent mass shootings, Democrats have begun to embrace gun control again. The Hill, a newspaper covering Congress, noted that this amounts to Democrats “betting that a shift in voter sentiment has turned a once-toxic issue into a political winner.”There’s good reason to think Democrats are wrong, particularly if their calculations are driven by the stereotype that guns-rights supporters are mostly rural, working-class whites who seldom vote Democrat anyway. |
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| Tammi Erdman was raised believing no one should go into the southwest Florida Everglades without a firearm.At her father’s house where she grew up, the nearest neighbor, who was once robbed and shot in his home, lived 15 miles away. Her mother cautioned her with stories of corpses being used to smuggle cocaine. As Ms. Erdman tells it, there’s nowhere to go in a bad situation, and, if you do get somewhere, nobody to help. She said the area is “the perfect place to get robbed.” |
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| Northeast Texans appear to be arming themselves at a healthy clip.Their reasons, local gun dealers said last week, run the gamut — personal protection, family tradition, to hunt and to compete on the range.”It’s across the board,” David Kidder, manager of Top Shot Indoor Range and Guns, said about people who are buying firearms: “The demographics would include just about everyone.” |
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| U.S. Senator Roy Blunt kicked off a day-long tour of Missouri alongside top National Rifle Association officials with a campaign stop in Springfield early Thursday. |
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| There is one issue in politics that we can count on year after year. No matter the circumstance, this subject matter is always a point of contention in General Assemblies across America and on the federal level in Washington. So what is the issue that just won’t go away? Ironically, it’s an issue, that I feel, shouldn’t be up for discussion or an issue at all — our Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. |
