Anti-Gun Bill Going Down

Legislation to expand background checks on gun purchases – a.k.a. the further deterioration of Americans’ Second Amendment liberties – is on the verge of ignominious defeat in the United States Senate.
And that’s a good thing …
“The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution provides American citizens with an unqualified, unambiguous right to keep and bear [...]

Graham Welcomes Debate On Second Amendment

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today made this statement on the Senate now moving to debate gun control.
“I welcome a debate on the Second Amendment in the United States Senate.  I want to proceed to this bill. I want to debate it. I am not afraid.
“Some have asked why I opposed filibustering a procedural [...]

Lindsey Graham Just Sucks

Sixteen “Republicans” broke ranks and voted with Democrats this week to open the door for further erosion of our Second Amendment rights.
And of course one of them was U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (RINO-S.C.) – who has never met a core conservative issue he hasn’t sold out.
“I welcome a debate on the Second Amendment in the [...]

USC Students To Rally For “Campus Carry”

A group of University of South Carolina students is participating in a clever protest aimed at drawing attention to the school’s ongoing denial of their Second Amendment rights.
Members of the group “USC Students for Concealed Carry” will wear empty holsters around campus in an effort to show how licensed and trained gun owners are being [...]

Chip Limehouse’s Disappearing Anti-Handgun Bill

Until this week, S.C. Rep. Chip Limehouse (RINO-Charleston) was the lead sponsor of H.3052, one of several knee-jerk, anti-Second Amendment bills pushed by big government backers in response to last December’s Newtown, Connecticut school shooting.
Now? Not so much …
Limehouse’s name no longer appears alongside Democrats Wendell Gilliard and Mia McLeod as sponsors of the anti-handgun legislation, [...]

SC-1: Teddy Turner On Gun “Buyback” Programs

Teddy Turner doesn’t like the notion of gun buyback programs … in fact the would-be Congressman ripped them a new one on his Facebook page.
“Participating in a gun buy back because you believe that the criminals have too many guns is like having yourself castrated because you believe that the neighbors have too many kids,” [...]

Piers Morgan’s War On Guns Failed … To Boost His Ratings

This website’s founding editor doesn’t watch cable news (yawn) … but in the rare event something of import transpires thereupon, we have columnists who do.
This is how we know CNN host Piers Morgan recently embarked on an effort to boost the abysmal ratings of his primetime television show by launching a jihad against Americans’ right [...]

Jeff Duncan Urges NY Gun-Maker To Come To SC

Washington, DC—South Carolina Congressman Jeff Duncan encouraged George Kollitides, the CEO of the parent company for Remington Arms, to consider relocating the company’s New York production facilities to South Carolina in light of New York’s recent decision to adopt the most restrictive gun policies in the country.
In the letter, Congressman Duncan highlights South Carolina’s stellar [...]

Stopping Violence Isn’t What The “War On Guns” Is About

By Bill Wilson || “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste,” Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel once said. “It’s an opportunity to do things that you could not do before.”
This, in a nutshell, represents government’s response to last month’s school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. Not three days after the tragedy, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein unveiled legislation banning the [...]

Morgan Allison: Right Overreacting On Obama Gun Measures

PRESIDENT OBAMA OFFERED MIX OF SYMBOLIC, PRACTICAL MEASURES
By Morgan Allison || If you were as lucky as I was, you spent your Tuesday evening reading overly concerned comments from Republican politicians promising that whatever President Barack Obama was about to announce about guns was in fact “tyranny,” and listening to vexed conservatives spin the newest [...]

The Wire: 1/18/2013

TIPS, COMMENTS, QUESTIONS, SNIPPETS
Welcome to the wire!
Today’s big South Carolina news will be the release of the latest unemployment numbers from the S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce – the agency’s final report from the 2012 calendar year. This will be the last jobs report for some time, too, as unemployment data from January and [...]

Civil Disobedience On Anti-Gun Laws

THERE IS ONLY ONE “GUN CONTROL” LAW YOU NEED TO FOLLOW
The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution provides American citizens with an unqualified, unambiguous right to keep and bear arms – one that the federal government (or any government, for that matter) is explicitly enjoined from infringing upon.
“The right of the people to keep [...]