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In what was surely the most sickening display of presidential demagoguery in the history of the United States, President Obama wept - wept - crocodile tears in a calculated effort to gain the support of the ignorant, the clueless, and the stupid while announcing multiple violations of the Bill of Rights yesterday. Obama's speech alternated between effeminate weeping, pleading, and sanctimonious, holier-than-thou indignation as he presented a litany of falsehoods, straw man arguments, and outright lies as justification for his plan to strip the American public of constitutionally enumerated rights:

Music legend Charlie Daniels wants to know how President Obama can argue that he worries about criminals getting firearms when he pardoned roughly 6,000 convicted drug felons two months ago. The president issued executive orders changing the way gun sales are monitored and carried out on Tuesday, redefining a gun "dealer" to include many people who sell even a single gun annually, WND reported. "Obama if you're so worried about criminals why did you just turn thousands of them back out on the street," Daniels tweeted Tuesday. The "Devil Went Down to Georgia" singer was directly referencing changes to federal...

Republican presidential hopeful Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas.) on Monday slammed the protesters who have taken over a federal building in rural Oregon, urging them to lay down their arms. “Every one of us has a constitutional right to protest, to speak our minds,” Cruz told reporters at campaign event in Iowa, according to NBC News. “But we don't have a constitutional right to use force and violence and to threaten force and violence on others,” he said. “And so it is our hope that the protesters there will stand down peaceably, that there will not be a violent confrontation.” Cruz...

As President Obama prepares to announce new executive actions on gun control Monday, a newly released Gallup Poll shows that "guns/gun control" ranked near the bottom of Americans' most pressing concerns in 2015. In fact, guns/gun control ranked 19th out of 23 top problems facing the country last year.

Bishop Larry Wright had been preaching for about 20 minutes on New Year's Eve when he saw the front door of his North Carolina church swing open. In marched a young disheveled man whom he'd never seen before. In one hand the man had a semi-automatic assault rifle; in the other, a magazine. He wasn't. Wright, 57, is a City Council member. But he was also a career military man a former paratrooper and drill sergeant who retired in 1997 so his training kicked in as he descended the pulpit's three steps: Was there a bullet still in the chamber?...

A hallmark of Obama's presidency since his early days in office has been his habit of pitting American citizens against each other: Democrats vs. Republicans, blacks vs. whites, rich vs. poor, climate change alarmists vs. climate change skeptics, gay vs. straight, etc.It was shocking at first. Seven years in, it is depressingly expected of the Community-Organizer-in-Chief.In his weekly address, released Friday, Obama vowed to spend his final year in office seeking ways to impose gun control policies via executive fiat, and urged American citizens to stand up against groups like the NRA -- which, of course, is made up of...

On January 7 President Obama will hold a live gun control town hall on CNN with Anderson Cooper. The town hall will take place three days after Obama meets with Attorney General Loretta Lynch to finalize executive gun controls which are expected to be announced in the coming days.

It was a new year, but the same lament from MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry. The leftist agenda to curtail gun rights has been frustrated. On Saturday morning, the weekend host and weekday professor treated guns (not people) as the killers as she pleaded for young blacks to have a "separate kind of legal construction to address the violence that they might perpetrate in the world because they're living under this kind of mental constant threat and belief of death. Not even primarily at the hands of police, but at the hands of guns generally." Guns don't have hands. People have hands....

The National Rifle Association, the country's most influential gun-rights supporter, is challenging President Obama's new plan to use his presidential power to tighten firearms laws, calling it a "political stunt" that fails to increase public safety. President Obama said this weekend that he'll meet Monday with Attorney General Loretta Lynch to discuss his "options” toward curbing gun violence, after ordering his White House team several months ago to identify "new actions" that he can take. The president also said that he's taking action because Congress has failed to act. He is expected to use so-called executive orders to tighten federal...

Even though Piers Morgan has been away from the limelight for a while one Oklahoma legislator wants to use his name to introduce a very pro-gun piece of legislation. As many of you know, Morgan had become completely delusion on CNN with his views on guns and even the network couldn't take the bad ratings any more. According to the Washington Times

On Christmas morning, families everywhere rushed downstairs to find hoverboards, Apple Watches and Star Wars toys under the tree. But not many can say Santa left them a custom-made, pink anti-tank rifle, bedazzled in shiny jewels. Guns have been one of the most popular gifts this year - with the sale of weapons soaring in the months leading up to the holidays. So, after the leftovers are stuffed into the tuppaware and extended family members are shoved out the door, thousands of everyday Americans who were given a firearm this Christmas headed out to a firing range to test their...

Let me offer this prediction for 2016: We'll see a banner year in gun sales. How do I know this? The nation's best firearms salesman plans to launch an ad campaign that will produce both demand and defiance, and he’s going to start just as soon as possible, as the Washington Post's Juliet Eilperin reports: President Obama will press ahead with a set of executive actions on guns next week despite growing concerns in the United States over terrorism that have dampened some Americans' enthusiasm for tighter firearms restrictions.

Texas will soon join the other 45 US states that allow open carry and anti-gun groups are not happy about it. At least one anti-gun group is attempting to make life miserable for all gun owners who choose to openly and legally carry their firearms by calling 911 and making false claims. The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV) is using social media to urge people to call 911 any time they see someone openly carrying a firearm.

Gun crime convictions are down more than 33 percent compared to a decade ago, but the Obama administration’s gun control push has risen sharply. In fact, Politico reports that next week, Obama is expected to announce executive gun control to broaden background checks and put new regulations on licensed gun sellers.

Duncan used the deaths of young people to make an emotional case for gun control. "Sixteen thousand. In my first six years as secretary of education, that's the number of young people who were killed across our country," Duncan said, choking up. "That's an average of seven a day. That's a devastating loss." He went on to tell stories of students he met with who didn't think they would live until adulthood.

The entire demand for gun safety research is a smokescreen to provide some sort of pseudo-science support behind the effort to ban gun ownership. Don't be fooled by it for a minute and don't ease up the pressure on Congress to keep the existing ban on such "research" in place. Oh, and just to put some icing on the cake, New York has introduced a new bill to limit the amount of ammunition you can buy to twice the capacity of the firearm every three months. Welcome to Amerika!

According to my sources, Obama will ultimately implement the following gun control regulations, mostly through a series of Executive Orders. 1. Tax ammunition into oblivion and encourage the prosecution of gun manufacturers and bullet producers for shootings using their products. This is a given and will be rolled out very early in the form of an Executive Order. 2. The Federal government will purchase as much ammunition as possible in order to create shortages, thus, driving up the price of ammunition.

State lawmakers are scheduled to consider stricter firearms policies when they return to their respective capitol buildings in January. In Illinois, a bill introduced by a Democratic state lawmaker in late December would revoke a citizen's firearms owner ID card and result in the seizure of the individual's firearms, if the person's name is added to the FBI terror watch list. A Nevada Democratic state senator announced a similar bill on Dec. 14 that would "prohibit those on the Federal No-Fly List from purchasing firearms in Nevada." The bill echoes legislation that recently failed to pass Congress. Former New York...

Beginning on Jan. 1 the new open carry gun laws Texas will go into effect, allowing licensed handgun owners to openly carry guns in public. "As of January, there is no such thing as a concealed license anymore," said Stephens County Sheriff Billy Wade. "Your license is simply going to say license to carry a handgun." According to Wade, under the new law, handgun license owners have two options when carrying a handgun, they can continue to carry it concealed, as they always have, or carry it open which means with the weapon in view. "You have to carry it...

H-E-B grocers in Texas have put signage on their doors barring openly carried handguns, while Kroger says they will simply abide by the new law which will allow openly carried handguns, beginning January 1.