National Politics

Guns and Rudy - The Whole Story

12:10am Tuesday, June 05, 2007
...'I only hope that [Bill Clinton] is right, and that Congress is finally ready to recognize that the vast majority of Americans want more gun control. It makes sense. It is time. And we can no longer let special interests dominate this vitally important issue.' - Rudy Giuliani, 1997 By Michael Gaynor Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has dressed up as a woman on several occasions, but he...

NBC's Tim Russert shows ignorance on guns during Bill Richardson interview

12:05am Thursday, May 31, 2007
During a weekend Meet the Press interview with pro-concealed carry Democrat presidential candidate Bill Richardson, NBC anchor Tim Russert exhibited exactly why Buckeye Firearms Association's Larry Moore wrote "The media and guns – things they should know" . More than two years after it sunsetted, Russert's grilling of Bill Richardson over his support for the sunsetting of the Clinton Gun Ban...

Op-Ed: Democrats show some common sense on guns

12:10am Friday, May 25, 2007
By Mike Hudson Niagara Falls Reporter Having been a registered Democrat since the Ford administration, I know better than to say my party is a lead-pipe cinch in next year's presidential election. If there is any way to screw it up, the Democrats will find it. The wretched candidacies of Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis and John Kerry provide ample evidence of that. I am happy, then -- and...

Armed with the Truth

12:10am Thursday, May 17, 2007
By Fred Thompson If you care about Constitutional law, and everybody should, the big news is that it looks as if the Supreme Court is going to hear a Second Amendment case some time next year. The event that sparked this legal fuse was a case brought by six D.C. residents who simply wanted functional firearms in their homes for self-defense. In response, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C...

Pro-gun Democrats should look west to find hope in the Presidential primary

12:10am Monday, April 30, 2007
By Chad D. Baus Jockeying for position for the 2008 Presidential primary race began earlier than ever this election cycle, and for gun owners in both parties, the signs have been bleak . However, pro-gun voters who will vote in the 2008 Republican primary got a lift in their spirits last month when actor and former Senator Fred Thompson announced that he was considering a Presidential run. But...

Op-Ed: Rudy Giuliani's Narrow Reading of the Second Amendment

12:05am Monday, April 30, 2007
By Jacob Sullum Townhall.com Despite his promise to appoint "strict constructionists" to the Supreme Court if he is elected president, Rudy Giuliani recently said he has no interest in overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that discovered a previously unnoticed constitutional right to abortion. Offending social conservatives (and strict constructionists) even further, he told CNN this...

Restoring the Second Amendment in Parker v. Columbia

12:15am Friday, April 27, 2007
By Alan Gura "Fear and disinformation have long been the hallmarks of the movement to end private gun ownership. Not surprisingly, the D.C. Circuit's decision in Parker v. District of Columbia , confirming that people have an individual right to keep and bear arms, has elicited outrageous predictions of doom from gun prohibitionists. The Violence Policy Center’s Josh Sugarmann neatly summed up...

Op-Ed: Signs of Intelligence?

12:10am Saturday, April 21, 2007
By Fred Thompson ABC Radio One of the things that's got to be going through a lot of peoples' minds now is how one man with two handguns, that he had to reload time and time again, could go from classroom to classroom on the Virginia Tech campus without being stopped. Much of the answer can be found in policies put in place by the university itself. Virginia, like 39 other states, allows citizens...

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