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Gun control laws haven’t reduced crime, murder rates

By innovate | July 22, 2016July 22, 2016 by innovate

Surely murder is a serious subject, which ought to be examined seriously. Instead, it is almost always examined politically in the context of gun control controversies, with stock arguments on both sides that have remained the same for decades. And most of those arguments are irrelevant to the central question: Do tighter gun control laws reduce the murder rate? That is not an esoteric question, nor one for which no empirical evidence is available.…

FBI Instructs High Schools to Inform On “Anti-government” Students

By innovate | March 10, 2016March 10, 2016 by innovate

Constitutionalists figure prominently on the target list Report here: http://info.publicintelligence.net/FBI-PreventingExtremismSchools.pdf Conflating Sovereign Citizens and Constitutionalists The FBI and federal and local law enforcement groups categorize many libertarian, constitutionalist and other groups and individuals as “sovereign citizens.” According to an FBI counterterrorism analysis, sovereign citizens “may refer to themselves as ‘constitutionalists’ or ‘freemen,’ which is not necessarily a connection to a specific group, but, rather, an indication that they are free from government control.” The FBI…

Obama executive actions on guns coming Tuesday

By innovate | January 5, 2016 by innovate

The White House announced it will unveil President Obama’s promised executive orders Tuesday morning on “common sense” gun control, but Second Amendment advocates and Republicans in Congress say “not so fast.” They’re gearing up for a battle that will extend to the legislative branch and the courts. Obama is expected to announce his unilateral plans to work around Congress to rein in gun sales and “make our communities safer,” according to a White House statement…

Penn & Teller on Gun Control – YouTube

By innovate | December 4, 2015December 4, 2015 by innovate

Penn & Teller on Gun Control – YouTube.

Gun Sales Set Record for Sixth Month in a Row – Washington Free Beacon

By innovate | November 4, 2015 by innovate

The Federal Bureau of Investigation processed a record number of background checks in the month of October, indicating that gun sales were at an all time high for the sixth month in a row. The FBI’s National Instant Background Check System processed 1,976,759 firearms related checks in October. That is a 373,290 increase in checks over last year and a new record for the month. It also makes October the sixth consecutive month to see…

Mr. Obama, you and your party are precisely why the 2nd Amendment exists | Non-Intervention.com

By innovate | October 10, 2015 by innovate

This will never, ever happen. Long before they can achieved their goal, America will be convulsed with its third bloody civil war. And who will be responsible for that war? Obama, the Clintons, and the racists — folks like Eric Holder — they have brought into the national government to destroy the nation’s liberty and history and to build a tyranny. The terms “turning point” or “sea change” are misused so often in these days…

Poll: Americans Don’t Understand Background Checks Are Gun Control’s Trojan Horse – Breitbart

By innovate | October 1, 2015October 1, 2015 by innovate

On September 29, Breitbart News reported on a Quinnipiac University poll showing that the majority of American voters oppose more gun control—and this opposition includes roughly 3 out of 4 Republican voters and 49 percent of Independent voters. Yet amid all this opposition to more gun laws, the poll clearly indicated that Americans have yet to grasp that background checks are gun control’s Trojan Horse. The Quinnipiac poll shows Republicans reject more gun control by a margin of 73…

Palladium of Liberty: The Natural Right of Self Defense – YouTube

By innovate | September 8, 2015September 30, 2015 by innovate

Palladium of Liberty: The Natural Right of Self Defense – YouTube.

Renewed calls for gun control laws spur sales

By innovate | September 5, 2015 by innovate

WASHINGTON — Renewed calls for more restrictive gun laws, following a succession of fatal shootings in the United States, immediately appear to be generating a boost for the gun industry. Newly released August records show that the FBI posted 1.7 million background checks required of gun purchasers at federally licensed dealers, the highest number recorded in any August since gun checks began in 1998. The numbers follow new monthly highs for June (1.5 million) and…

Martin O’Malley: ‘Ban Sale Of Assault Weapons,’ Launch ‘National Gun Registry’

By innovate | August 4, 2015 by innovate

On July 24, the day after John Russell Houser allegedly used a handgun to kill two people in Lafayette, Louisiana, former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley called on Congress to ban “the sale of assault weapons” and “[establish] a national gun registry.” He also said it is time to “[increase] inspections” on gun shops and mandate that gun owners lock up their guns in their homes. Writing in The Boston Globe, O’Malley boasted of the gun controls he…