National Politics

Buckeye Firearms Foundation Files Brief in D.C. Gun Ban Case

12:10am Friday, February 08, 2008
The police can never be everywhere at once, and simple logic dictates that the one best able to resist criminal attack is the one being attacked. The victim will always be present at the time of the crime; the police will almost never be present, serving instead to respond to the crime after it has happened. The most fundamental rights enshrined in our legal tradition were summarized as the right...

Perfect storm for gun owners? McCain, DeWine and Giuliani join forces

12:10am Thursday, February 07, 2008
FLASH UPDATE: ROMNEY SUSPENDS CAMPAIGN - "If I fight on in my campaign, all the way to the convention, I would forestall the launch of a national campaign and make it more likely that Senator Clinton or Obama would win. And in this time of war, I simply cannot let my campaign, be a part of aiding a surrender to terror." ----- Author's note: Clearly the events of the day have rendered a few of the...

Op-Ed: In Election Season, Mum’s the Word about Gun Control

12:05am Monday, February 04, 2008
By Don B. Kates Jr. Are this year’s U.S. presidential candidates avoiding the gun issue? Last week, San Francisco’s First District Court of Appeal struck down that city’s two-year-old law that confiscated all handguns and rendered all other guns useless by banning ammunition sales. And on March 9 of last year, a federal court of appeals invalidated District of Columbia laws that banned handguns...

Attorney General Mukasey, Charles Schumer’s Trojan Horse?

12:05am Monday, January 28, 2008
By Tim Inwood From where the Bush administration’s Justice Department began, I find myself shaking my head in disbelief at where we are now. In 2001, Senator John Ashcroft was appointed Attorney General. Shortly thereafter John Ashcroft put forward a statement concerning the fact the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was in fact an individual right. To most of us this is common sense, but...

Op-Ed: Justice for gun owners

12:10am Friday, January 25, 2008
By Alan Gottlieb and Dave Workman Special to the Fort Worth (TX) Star-Telegram Martin Luther King Jr. put it best: "A right delayed is a right denied." The lesson appears to have been lost on the Department of Justice and Solicitor General Paul D. Clement in the amicus curiae brief submitted recently for the government in the case of District of Columbia v. Heller , which challenges the city's 31...

Balance of power: The Second Amendment and self-defense

11:05pm Thursday, January 24, 2008
By Charles Bloomer Remarks delivered to the Prince William County (VA) Republican Women's Club, January 7, 2008. " A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. " The debate surrounding the Second Amendment generally falls into one of three categories – esoteric and philosophical, emotional, or...

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