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[Ed: New to DRGO and recent to motherhood, Ms. Young has lived the threat and knows how to face it.]
No matter what country, state, or city you live in, every neighborhood has pros and cons. Most big cities in the United States tend to have “good” areas and “bad” ones, though it is unclear to me exactly what differentiates one from the other. What I do know is that too many neighborhoods are wracked by the (supposed) “gun violence” and abuse of gun ownership.
I had a ...
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Broad Topics, Narrow Views
(from architecturaldigest.com)
Reaching as high as he can, the prisoner grabs the bars on his dungeon’s window. He pulls himself up, looks out, and sees a broad vista of hills, lakes, forests, fields and villages. But he can only hold this position for a moment, and then slides back into the dim light and dank walls of his confinement.
This describes the authors of "Mental Illness, Mass Shootings, and the Future of Psychiatric Research into American Gun Violence" who at several points tak...
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‘Walk The Talk America’: Reduce Suicide Without Gun Control
(from bearingarms.com)
[Ed: This is such an important subject that we are reposting by permission Bearing Arms' original article from June 24, minimally edited for DRGO.]
On August 10, 2018 Connie Wray’s daughter Katie took her own life by using a firearm. Katie was a former Marine living with her husband, also a Marine, when she decided to end her life. Wray had expressed on more than one occasion her fears to her husband that Katie had firearms in her home. Wray’s husband was not dismi...
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Our Declaration of Independence
[Ed: There’s no better way to mark July 4th than to read our country’s Declaration of Independence. The original orthography is retained, but the specific complaints about King George and Parliament’s abuses are edited out in order to focus on the principles that applied then, do now, and always will. Reposted since 2019.]
In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary fo...
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One Man’s Fantasy
(from Express.co.uk)
This message is directed to whoever is speaking into the earpieces of the 47th Vice President (hereinafter, “47th”), who earlier this week mumbled something about F-15s and nuclear weapons:
We the People aren’t going to compromise on our rights, especially the right to keep and bear arms, because our rights were the basis of the compromise made at the Founding: We agreed to delegate limited powers to the government in return for its solemn promise to protect our...
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Open Carry: A Right or a Fashion Statement?
(from concealedcarrysociety.com)
In Young v Hawaii a 3-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Federal Court of Appeals concluded:
"[E]ven though [the Ninth Circuit] has read these cases to exclude concealed carry from the Second Amendment’s protections, see Peruta II, . . . the same cases command that the Second Amendment must encompass a right to open carry. “[emphases in original]
When reconsidered en banc, the Ninth Circuit decided that there really was no right to carry whatso...
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Review: ‘The Right to Bear Arms’ by Stephen Halbrook
(from ammoland.com)
[Ed: This review, edited for DRGO, comes from The Arbalest Quarrel, another version of which was earlier published June 4 at Ammoland. We think this is an extremely important study this year in history, as the Supreme Court makes plans to consider the Right to Bear Arms during its fall session.]
Many Americans know Stephen Halbrook as a foremost legal expert on the Nation’s Second Amendment. It is a designation richly deserved, and his latest book, The Right to Bear Ar...
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British Columbia’s ‘Firearm Violence Prevention Act’ is a Bait-and-Switch Ploy
(from justiceforgunwoners.ca)
[Ed: Another piece by our Simon Fraser University expert, Professor Gary Mauser, demonstrating that Canadian gun owners are afflicted at least as much by ignorant, destructive legislation as are Americans. He first published this May 13 on his website, Justice for Gun Owners. Minimally edited for DRGO (but not the amusing Brit variant spellings).
British Columbia Bill 4 is Bait-and-Switch. The BC government recently rushed the Firearm Violence Preventio...
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