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FBI Reports Huge Decrease In Murders As Firearm, Ammunition And Large Magazine Sales Soar

Astounding. How could this be?

NRA-ILA :: FBI Reports Huge Decrease In Murders As Firearm, Ammunition And “Large” Magazine Sales Soar.

Last week, the FBI issued its preliminary 2009 crime report, showing that the number of murders in the first half of 2009 decreased 10 percent compared to the first half of 2008. If the trend holds for the remainder of 2009, it will be the single greatest one-year decrease in the number of murders since at least 1960, the earliest year for which national data are available through the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Also, the per capita murder rate for 2009 will be 51 percent lower than the all-time high recorded in 1991, and it will be the lowest rate since 1963—a 46-year low. Final figures for 2009 will be released by the FBI next year.

PETA MEETS DEMON-RAT ... funny video

Farah: Let the Flyer Beware

Do you feel safe now?.

What is the purpose of the "no-fly list" if not to keep those with "significant terrorism connections" from getting on board?

Islam: Making a True Difference in the World

Islam: Making a True Difference in the World.

Weekly Jihad Report Dec 12 - Dec 18 Jihad Attacks:42 Dead Bodies:182 Critically Injured:362

How to use your new telescope

How to use your new telescope - Sciencedude : The Orange County Register.

Getting a telescope for Christmas can be as frustrating as it is exciting. Some people don’t take enough time to learn the basics of using one, so they’re unable to do things like keep the moon in their field of view for more than a minute or two. The resulting frustration leads many people to simply give up. You don’t have to suffer such frustration. If you master the following 12 tips from OpticsPlanet.com you’ll become comfortable with your new telescope in short order. And if you need additional equipment, OpticsPlanet makes it easy for you to order them.

Tancredo: U.N. poised for a gun grab

U.N. poised for a gun grab (Tancredo, WND).

Arms-control bureaucrats at the United Nations and dozens of allied NGOs (that's non-governmental organizations in non-bureaucratic lingo) have been busy for two decades talking and negotiating among themselves to produce an international treaty regulating the sale of small arms. A U.N. resolution adopted in October calls upon member nations to negotiate the matter and finish writing a treaty by 2012. The United States voted for the resolution, which was adopted almost unanimously.

Passengers help foil attack on Detroit-bound plane

My Way News - Passengers help foil attack on Detroit-bound plane.

Smith said one passenger, sitting opposite the man, climbed over passengers, went across the aisle and tried to restrain the man. The heroic passenger appeared to have been burned.

Carol of the Bells, from Ukraine

Carol of the Bells, from Ukraine: 

 

GOP Stays in Fight Against Harry, Nancy, Demon-rat Nightmare Before Christmas

We Are No Longer a Nation of Laws. Senate Sets Up Requirement for Super-Majority to Ever Repeal Obamacare - Erick’s blog - RedState:

"If ever the people of the United States rise up and fight over passage of Obamacare, Harry Reid must be remembered as the man who sacrificed the dignity of his office for a few pieces of silver. The rules of fair play that have kept the basic integrity of the Republic alive have died with Harry Reid. Reid has slipped in a provision into the health care legislation prohibiting future Congresses from changing any regulations imposed on Americans by the Independent Medicare [note: originally referred to as "medical"] Advisory Boards, which are commonly called the “Death Panels.”"

Making a List, Checking it Twice...

NRA-ILA :: National Organizations With Anti-Gun Policies.

The following organizations have lent monetary, grassroots or some other type of direct support to anti-gun organizations. In many instances, these organizations lent their name in support of specific campaigns to pass anti-gun legislation such as the March 1995 HCI "Campaign to Protect Sane Gun Laws." Many of these organizations were listed as "Campaign Partners," for having pledged to fight any efforts to repeal the Brady Act and the Clinton "assault weapons" ban. All have officially endorsed anti-gun positions. AARP, .......

How to Unload a Semi-Auto Handgun

One of Eddie Eagle's rules for small kids is: If you see a gun, TELL AN ADULT - But what if the adult does not know how to unload a gun? Ayn demonstrates how to unload a semi-auto handgun, for those adults who might be asked by a kid to make a weapon safe. Video offered for general information only and no one should ever handle a gun without training supervised by qualified instructor. Free CCW training at www.7-4-1776.us

(See www.lawnews.tv for instructional videos.)

Obama’s Boss Gets Permanent Death Panels

Obama’s Boss Gets Permanent Death Panels.

As republican senators at last get a chance to read the health crimes bill being rammed through by the politburo, Obama’s boss, unrepentant Nazi collaborator, George Soros is poised to celebrate a major triumph in the advancement of his euthanasia agenda.

California Landlord: "Don't Do That or I'll Call Police"

Ignatius Piazza: Have a Spine or Get a Gun!#video#video.

There is no shame in being scared. There is shame in sitting idle when your actions– and your actions alone– could have made the difference between life or death of an innocent woman and her unborn twins… a real and immediate difference in the endless clash between good and evil.

California Remembers How CHP Participated in Mass Confiscation of Firearms

(photos courtesy www.olegvolk.net)  
 
Fellow Californians--while Congress enslaves our children with socialist environmental and health programs, remember California Highway Patrol's participation in New Orleans mass gun confiscation - body-slamming an elderly lady to take her revolver, as in this video:

Remember the occupation of churches, troops going door to door with M-16's (not at low ready but POINTED IN), troops ruefully contemplating the need to shoot fellow Americans, etc., as in this video:

NRANews.com recounts the injustice in this video:

A test run for the main event, perhaps to suppress opposition to global governance?  Before 2005, only a "right-wing nutjob" could be worried about mass gun confiscation.  Well, it actually happened and elite institutions have done a pretty good job of keeping you from finding out.

Who among us supports socialism in word and/or deed?  In revolutionary times, Americans came up with a humane (no permanent injury) way of punishing British loyalists - TAR AND FEATHERS.  Short of resorting to violence, how can WE (individually, locally) at least shun these socialists and deny them position and power to enslave our children?

Gun Sales Way Up Yet, AMAZINGLY, Murder Drops

Not exactly the global warming-type hockey stick the Brady Bunch would like to see - more like a full-size 1911 held bass ackward by a confounded Brady Buffoon.

SAF Press Release :: MURDER DOWN, GUN SALES UP; PROOF THAT GUNS DON’T CAUSE CRIME: SAF.

The FBI released data Monday that shows murders dropped by 10 percent from the same period in 2008. Meanwhile, according to data released by the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) shows that during the first six months of this year, gun sales were up. January 2009 background checks rose 28.8 percent over the same month in 2008, February’s NICS checks were up 23.3 percent and in March they were up 29.9 percent over March 2008. The trend continued in April, with NICS checks up 30.3 percent, while May showed a slowdown, up only 15.5 percent, and in June they were up 18.1 percent.

Freeze! Cop Draws Pistol at Snowball Fight

Snowball Fight Takes Dark Turn|ABC 7 News.

"There were 200 people exchanging snowballs non-stop across 14th Street. And then, you know, when the gun came out, it changed the tone of the thing a little bit." The gun belonged to a uniformed officer who showed up with his pistol out of the holster -- he did not point it at anyone.

Amnesty in French AIDS-Tainted Blood Scandal Shows How Socialized Medicine Lowers Cost

French court dismisses Aids-tainted blood case - Europe, World - The Independent.

An appeals court threw out a long-standing case yesterday against 30 people who had been expected to go on trial for their alleged roles in an Aids-tainted blood scandal that shook France's public health system more than a decade ago. The decision shocked families of victims, who were infected or died because they were transfused with blood infected with HIV. Many of the victims were haemophiliacs dependent on transfusions to survive. More than 4,000 people were infected before the tainted products were withdrawn. Hundreds have died. "It's an amnesty. There is no justice," said

Jesus Shooting Santa Display Double-Barreled Hit Against Commercialism and Heresy of Pacifism

Wish i'd thought of this. Great artwork strikes down two threats at once: commercialization of Christmas and the heresy of pacifism.

Jesus-Shooting-Santa Display Riles Neighbors - News Story - WSOC Charlotte.

A Christmas display featuring Jesus shooting Santa Claus and a run-over Rudolph is riling some residents of a California neighborhood, KCOY-TV in Santa Maria, Calif., reported.

Typo in Law Establishes Mandate to Lock Gun-Toting Train Passengers in Boxes

:-) Clearest example yet that gun control is really about people control!

FOXNews.com - Typo in Law Establishes Mandate to Lock Gun-Toting Train Passengers in Boxes.

It may sound absurd. But President Obama signed a bill into law Wednesday that requires passengers who carry firearms aboard Amtrak be locked in boxes for their journey. It's a mistake in the law's wording. But for now, the clerical error is the law of the land.

American fascism: by political definition the US is now fascist, not a constitutional republic

American fascism: by political definition the US is now fascist, not a constitutional republic.

Here, if you can’t refute the evidence that the US is now a fascist state, then accept this as your best understanding. As time passes, if evidence is brought forward to further the case for fascism or refute it, your comprehensive understanding improves. Here we go:

NRA Compromise of 1920's Led to California's Racially-Discriminatory May-Issue CCW Regime

The NRA has done great work over the last several decades in support of shall-issue legislation, which corrects its previous error of supporting the prohibition of concealed carry.  This is a stark reminder from the past on the dangers of compromise.  With a little luck, we'll get this right back.

"Shall Issue": The New Wave of Concealed Handgun Permit Laws (Clayton E. Cramer & David B. Kopel).

Laws prohibiting concealed carrying of handguns without a permit are, in most of the United States, relatively recent. While some statutes from before the Civil War did address concealed carrying, they did so by outlawing it entirely, rather than by setting up a system whereby concealed carrying would be lawful only with a permit. These antebellum statutes usually had no exemptions for sheriffs or other peace officers, even when on duty. [1] During the 1920s and 1930s many states adopted "A Uniform Act to Regulate the Sale and Possession of Firearms." This model law, adopted by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and supported by the National Rifle Association, prohibited unlicensed concealed carry.
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In some parts of the United States, concealed handgun permit statutes were passed for frankly racist reasons, as a method of prohibiting Blacks from carrying arms. "The statute was never intended to be applied to the white population and in practice has never been so applied," in the words of a Florida Supreme Court Justice.

While the motivations behind California's concealed handgun statute are not as clearly understood, the effect has been similar. California's legislative research body studied the issue in 1986 and concluded: "The overwhelming majority of permit holders are white males." Because so many victims of violent crime are female or non-white, the discrimination in granting of carry permits is especially hard to justify.

Wheelchair-bound Marion County man shoots home invader to death

Wheelchair-bound Marion County man shoots home invader to death.

Eyewitness News talked to a 62-year-old wheelchair-bound man who shot and killed a man who tried to force his way into his home.

Can Firearms Training Help Women Be Better Negotiators?

With a rapist, sure - but what about business negotiation? I'm sitting through some REQUIRED CLE on gender bias and how it affects negotiations between lawyers...speaker noted she grew up playing jacks while boys fought each other, giving more competitiveness to boys...recovering from shock that panel admitted male/female differences, this reminds me of how empowering women say firearms training can be to them, illustrates perhaps tangible benefit at the negotiation table. My class is free ... www.7-4-1776.us

AB357 California CCW Shall-Issue Bill - New Hearing - Leg Contact Info

Knight's CCW billl (AB357) has been granted a new hearing. The date is set for January 12, 2010 before the Assembly Public Safety Committee.

Info including status and copy of amended bill here.

This bill would make California a shall-issue state, joining about 40 states in a common-sense, and distinctly American, approach that has seen great success in combating crime over the last several decades.

Currently, a Californian can easily get a Utah permit and use it to carry concealed in 30 states (see www.7-4-1776.us for free class).  WHY DO THE LEGISLATURES OF THIRTY STATES TRUST YOU MORE THAN SACRAMENTO TRUSTS YOU to properly defend your family? CONTACT SACRAMENTO AND FIND OUT! Contact info for committee members:

Tom Ammiano -- Chair - Dem-13 -- (916) 319-2013 Assemblymember.Ammiano@assembly.ca.gov
Curt Hagman -- Vice Chair - Rep-60 -- (916) 319-2060 Assemblymember.Hagman@assembly.ca.gov
Juan Arambula -- Ind-31 -- (916) 319-2031 Assemblymember.Arambula@assembly.ca.gov
Warren T. Furutani -- Dem-55 -- (916) 319-2055 Assemblymember.Furutani@assembly.ca.gov
Danny D. Gilmore -- Rep-30 -- (916) 319-2030 Assemblymember.Gilmore@assembly.ca.gov
Jerry Hill -- Dem-19 -- (916) 319-2019 Assemblymember.Hill@assembly.ca.gov
Fiona Ma -- Dem-12 -- (916) 319-2012 Assemblymember.Ma@assembly.ca.gov 

WND: What you need to know about Hanukkah

WND: What you need to know about Hanukkah.

Antiochus banned the Jewish religion, forbade circumcision, Shabbat observance and possession of the Torah, disarmed and slaughtered Jews (and their children) as a warning to others, and converted their ancient temple for pagan worship. But in a bloody revolt at around 160 B.C. led by Judah Maccabee ("The Hammer") and his brothers and father, a few remaining unassimilated Jews successfully – some say miraculously – drove Antiochus' forces from Jerusalem and rescued the temple.

Jefferson Versus Jihad

Jefferson Versus the Muslim Pirates by Christopher Hitchens, City Journal Spring 2007.

one cannot get around what Jefferson heard when he went with John Adams to wait upon Tripoli’s ambassador to London in March 1785. When they inquired by what right the Barbary states preyed upon American shipping, enslaving both crews and passengers, America’s two foremost envoys were informed that “it was written in the Koran, that all Nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon whoever they could find and to make Slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Mussulman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.”

More Evidence of Health Benefits from Second Amendment

Study Reveals the Angriest Americans - Yahoo! News.

While anger is a normal human emotion, it could be detrimental if you hold on to it too long. And those who express their anger might actually live longer than those who keep it bottled in, one study found.

Colorado student board votes in favor of guns on campus

9NEWS.com | Colorado's Online News Leader | CSU student board votes in favor of guns on campus.

Wednesday night, the student governing body voted 21-3 in support of keeping CSU a conceal-and-carry campus. Five student senators were absent or did not vote.