It’s been a week and a half since Barack Obama was elected president. He won’t take office for another two months. But he’s already got one big group of Americans on their feet. What is Barack Obama’s position on the rights to bear arms?
Nevada Democrats are continuing to wage an unsavory “hit piece” campaign against Nevada state Senators Bob Beers and Joe Heck. The race is subject of a lede editorial in Friday’s Review-Journal. But here’s “the rest of the story.”
The Nevada Democratic Party hopes to re-take control of the Nevada state Senate for the first time in 18 years. Democrats chose to target two seats — those of state Sens. Bob Beers of Las Vegas and Joe Heck of Henderson.
“A man wearing a T-shirt depicting a cartoon character holding a gun was stopped from boarding a flight by the security at Heathrow’s Terminal 5,” The BBC reported on June 1. Brad Jayakody, from Bayswater, central London, said he was “stumped” at the objection to his Transformers T-shirt.
As this is being written, on the day the Supreme Court handed down its ballyhooed “gun rights” decision in the case D.C. vs. Heller, sundry outraged mayors are fuming because the U.S. Supreme Court has, “for the first time,” discovered in the Constitution an individual right to bear arms, placing in danger all their precious […]
Last year, my own Nevada state senator, Republican Bob Beers, proposed a law which would have “allowed” Nevada government-school teachers to carry concealed weapons on school grounds — if they wished to do so — after passing an arduous training course. Needless to say, there was a public outcry, and not the outcry one would […]
One R. Lane wrote in on March 31: “After reading his March 23 diatribe, it is clear to me that Review-Journal columnist Vin Suprynowicz has not yet learned the obvious: the more handguns a country has in circulation, the more handgun deaths that country is going to get — not less. “The United States has […]
I see where Clark County Superintendent of Schools Walt Rulffes here in Las Vegas has responded to the Feb. 14 drive-by murder of a 15-year-old Palo Verde High School inmate — shot by another one of Mr. Rullfes’ young charges — not by admitting a failure of his own tutelage, but instead by whining it’s […]
On Feb. 23 the Los Angeles Times reported: “In a victory for gun-rights advocates, the federal government is preparing to relax a decades-old ban on bringing loaded firearms into national parks. “Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said Friday that his department would suggest new regulations by the end of April that could bring federal rules into […]
In a “move that surprised some observers,” the Chicago Tribune reported Wednesday, attorney Alan Gura, appearing before the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of the federal guard who sued the District of Columbia in 2003, claiming he feels unsafe because he’s not allowed to keep his guns at home, “appeared to concede large chunks of […]