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One of the senators behind this month’s failed gun control legislation says he’s “absolutely” bringing it back. West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin said on “Fox News Sunday” he plans to re-introduce a bill to require gun buyers to undergo criminal and mental health background checks for all online and gun show sales. Manchin said he would urge Senate opponents to “read the bill and tell me what you don’t like.” He acknowledged that there was confusion about what was in the failed bill, and said the new version would have to be stripped down and simplified. Manchin said talk that...

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New Jersey has the second toughest gun laws in the nation—it’s one of seven states with an “assault-weapons ban,” one of three with a one-gun-a-month law and gun shows are not permitted. But on Friday when the nation was fixated on the events in Boston, Gov. Chris Christie was pushing for even more gun control.

CBS lined up gun control supporters on Wednesday's CBS Evening News and Thursday's CBS This Morning. Chip Reid and Major Garrett played 11 soundbites from President Obama and other Democrats, as well as family members of the Newtown massacre victims. The only gun rights supporter that the two correspondents could find was Chuck Grassley. Reid played two clips from the Republican senator during his reports. Reid led his second report by hyping how "forces opposed to gun control proved that they are still in control here in Washington". Garrett sounded like a stenographer for the White House as he reported...

I saw this at iOwnTheWorld (with a much more hilarious post title) and thought it was brilliant, I would love to know how their policies, for these reasons, don't create a prison for the American psyche.I wanted to try to make it more evocative than the original, and I got this.

In an apparent slip of the tongue, Harry Reid this morning referred to the gun-control bill he brought to the Senate floor as “anti-gun legislation.” “On the anti-gun legislation before the Senate, we are making good progress on the effort to schedule a series of votes on amendments to the anti-gun-violence legislation before the Senate.” Some, however, are questioning whether the Senate minority leader accidentally revealed his true feelings. GOP Sentaor Ted Cruz, a leading opponent of the bill, asked whether Reid’s statement was a ”Freudian slip.” He said in a Tweet:

This morning, I drove to work in the rain. It was raining all the way and it is a highway drive of about 35 miles. I didn't use the cruise control, because I was told that was not a good idea on wet pavement. Is that correct?

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To Chicago went the doubtful distinction of having the most homicides—510; New York City, with approximately twice the population of Chicago, had 340. In twenty-eight of the leading cities the rate was 9.9 per 100,000, as against 11.0 in 1925. "Slight as it is, the reduction is encouraging," observes the collector of these statistics, Dr. Frederick L. Hoffman, writing in The Spectator, a New York City insurance journal. "But," he adds, "our murder record of approximately 12,000 persons each year is a most serious indictment of American civilization, and evidence of lawlessness which has no counterpart in any other country...

Jeff Epstein is a personal friend of mine. I have been shooting partners with him, befriended him and his wife and children and trust him implicitly. WEAPONS OF CHOICE Constitution State becomes Nanny State Exclusive: Jeffrey Epstein gives blow-by-blow from Capitol where gun laws were OK'd Published: 18 hours ago By Jeffrey M. Epstein Connecticut’s April fools were out in full force at the State Capitol last Wednesday. While the legislators were preparing to vote, hundreds of Second Amendment advocates arrived to voice their opposition to the anti-gun measures being advanced by Gov. Malloy’s “bipartisan” task force – laws allegedly...

Bat Man: A Chicago store owner beats off two armed thugs with a baseball bat as Missouri illegally shares concealed carry records with feds and New York matches private health records with gun permits to take firearms. President Obama, who campaigns for gun control between concerts at the White House and golf outings with Tiger Woods, once famously used the metaphor that in politics if they bring a knife to a fight, you bring a gun. On Tuesday, in the gun-controlled murder capital of Chicago, the president's hometown, store owner Luis Quizhpe, an Ecuadorean immigrant, had no gun, but he...

AMHERST, NY -- It could be the first foul up involving the state's new gun legislation. Who's to blame? That's still being hashed out. The attorney for a Western New York gun owner who was told to surrender his pistol permit because of the SAFE Act says his client will get his guns back. The Erie County Clerk is now blaming New York State Police for making the mistake that could have cost the 35-year-old librarian his gun collection. "Who messed this up?" asked Channel 2's Kelly Dudzik. "I think that first and foremost, it stems from a flawed law...

Senator Cochran R from MS is not sure how he is going to vote tomorrow for the gun control bill. I suggest you remind him of his oath to the Constitution. 202 224 5054

The Huffington Post recently rated the top 10 most overrated destinations. Chicago made number 7! #7 Chicago Spend a little time in the Windy City and you’ll come to know a people obsessed with the answer to a question nobody else has ever asked: “Is Chicago a world class city?” As a former local, I can help. The answer is no. Chicago is a handsome, reasonably entertaining provincial capital. This used to be enough for Chicagoans, but then it wasn’t, leading to a period of time, beginning around the turn of the new century, during which all manner of foolishness...

“Global Sustainability requires the deliberate quest of poverty, reduced resource consumption and set levels of mortality control.” - Professor Maurice King

The opposition of the NY Safe Act is intensifying. With several successful Albany protests and then with the first “Regional Protest” in Syracuse, NY also being a success, the opposition is getting even more credible, energetic and vigorous. Will the movement continue with successful outcomes? The Team adamantly says yes. In the newest twist in the effort to repeal the Safe Act the grassroots citizens of New York will hold two regional rallies on the same day. On April 13th Citizens for Repeal of the Safe Act will hold protest rallies in Gouverneur, NY and Norwich, NY. (there is also...

Well, I think, after something like, you know, 20 first graders being murdered in their classrooms, you know, it is important to take action. And the American people are demanding action now. You know, the timeline of that, you know, sometimes, especially with a polarized Congress, these things can take a long time.

White House spokesman Jay Carney said that, if you like your gun, you can keep it under President Barack Obama's gun control plan. He made the comments today aboard Air Force One, en route to a speech on gun control in Colorado. "As you know, and as everyone who is an expert on this issue can attest, there is not a single thing that the President has proposed that would take a single firearm away from a single law-abiding citizen in America," Carney told reporters, according to a transcript provided by the White House. "This President supports our Second Amendment...

DENVER (TheBlaze/AP) — Ratcheting up pressure for Congress to limit access to guns, President Barack Obama said Wednesday that recent steps by Colorado to tighten its gun laws show “there doesn’t have to be a conflict” between keeping citizens safe and protecting Second Amendment rights to gun ownership. “I believe there doesn’t have to be a conflict in reconciling these realities,” Obama said in Denver, where he stepped up his call for background checks for all gun purchases and renewed his demand that Congress at least vote on banning assault weapons and limiting access to large-capacity ammunition magazines. The president...

Today at the gun control rally in St. Louis - final speaker urges supporters to call congress and turn rights over to United Nations. Dr. Robert Flood , director of pediatric emergency at SLU.