Self-Defense on Trial with Rittenhouse: The People Won

(from xklsv.com)
(from xklsv.com) [Ed: This was first published November 19 on The Arbalest Quarrel. Reposted by permission & minimally edited for DRGO.] A couple of days prior to the jury’s decision in the Rittenhouse case, the New York Times posted an editorial, titled, “The Truth About Kyle Rittenhouse’s Gun,” by Times Opinion Columnist, Farhad Manjoo. In part, the Manjoo said this, “I’ve spent the past couple of weeks riveted by the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, the whi...
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Children and Firearms Safety

(from justiceforgunowners.ca)
(from justiceforgunowners.ca) [Ed: Dr. Mauser first published this on his site, JusticeforGunOwners.ca, on October 25.] Can firearms be kept safely at homes with young children? Yes, with proper precautions. Millions of North Americans have guns at home and do so safely. Around one-half of homes in the US possess guns as do about one-third of homes in Canada. Thanks to a widespread culture of safety, in Canada and the United States, firearms can be owned safely by anyone willing to take r...
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STRAIGHT TALK – Our 2A Rights & Freedoms

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(from huffingtonpost.com) [Ed: These excerpts from Personal Defense World come to DRGO courtesy of SCOPE-NY's Richard Rossi.] Some facts that will never see daylight in our National News Media or Social Network sites. United States Court of Appeals – Fourth Circuit district.Ruled that 18-to-20-year old’s have the same Second Amendment rights to purchase handguns as older Americans do. Judge Julie Richardson wrote; “when do Constitutional rights vest? Our nation’s most cherished constit...
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The UN, EU & Gun Control versus Czechs, Poles & Freedom

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(from haciendapub.com) [Ed: Dr. Faria first published this August 6 on Hacienda Publishing.] The truth is the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT; formally the UN Small Arms Treaty) has failed to materialize because the negotiators have not been capable of reaching a consensus, but as Gun Owners of America (GOA) stated years ago, “It would be a mistake to believe that it spells the end of the effort to regulate small arms worldwide.” GOA is correct. The Seventh Conference of the ATT will again rec...
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The Coequal 1st & 2nd Amendments

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(from zazzle.com) [Ed: This was first published yesterday on Ammoland.com by our friends at the Arbalest Quarrel.]“I must own, I know not what Treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason, in the eternal and original Nature of Things.” ~ John Trenchard (1662-1723) & Thomas Gordon, English Journalists and political theorists of the late 17th and early 18th Centuries, the two writing together under the nom de guerre, “Cato.” The passage comes from “Refle...
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Violence: Gun & Otherwise

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(from nlc.org) On October 25, an article appeared in ABC news online written by Ivan Pereira, who believes he sees that America has a problem with “gun violence” (“America has a gun violence problem. What do we do about it?”). There is little to recommend this piece, but he does make one good point when he refers to people developing behavior patterns that ". . . make them more prone to violence in all of its forms; violence against partners, violence against the community and violence again...
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The CDC’s Forever War on Gun Owners

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(from nytimes.com) [Ed: This is the full text of the piece Drs. Faria & Wheeler published in the Washington Examiner September 9.] Twenty-five years ago, Congress reprimanded the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for its political advocacy of gun control. Now, President Joe Biden’s CDC Director Rochelle Walensky is planning a new round of activism against gun owners. In an emotive video interview with CNN’s Elizabeth Cohen, Walensky recently signaled her intention to resume ...
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Accidental Gun Deaths are Low

(from gunandsurvival.com)
[Ed: Dr. Mauser, our northern correspondent, originally published this October 5 on Justice for Gun Owners.] https://justiceforgunowners.ca/accidental-gun-deaths-are-low/ Accidental gun deaths are low and have been falling for decades. There is no doubt that firearm ownership imposes serious safety challenges for gun owners so that owners must act responsibly to ensure their own safety as well as the safety of their family, neighbors, and community. Thanks to a str...
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