There’s more at issue than that—nothing less than the lives and safety of gun owners who are breaking no law—but are nonetheless being physically endangered by those sworn to uphold and protect the law. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column notes the biggest danger presented by open carry comes from "Only Ones" openly carrying in the service of the state.
A long-range, improved Sejil 2 missile is test-fired in the desert at an unknown location in Iran in 2009. Iran does not yet have nuclear weapons, and while they seek the technology, Israel's deputy prime minister and minister of strategic affairs Moshe Ya'alon says they are at least three years away. Fars News/Reuters/File
TUG TEAMS - The aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman returns to Naval Station Norfolk after a seven-month deployment, guided by a team of tugboats, Norfolk, Va., Dec. 20, 2010. Truman deployed in support of maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th and 6th Fleet areas of responsibility. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Brian Brooks
2010 Journalist Deaths At 105 — PEC Report 2010 -- Eurasia Review
Should The CIA Turn Against Pakistan's Spies? -- The New Republic
A U.S. Marine patrols through a poppy field in a village in the Golestan district of Farah province, Afghanistan (Reuters)
Will there be a gun massacre in Ambridge? [Read]
A woman was bitten on the face by another woman while her brother had his jaw smashed and arm broken in the second beating on Kaikoura streets in six weeks, a victim's partner says. [More]Why didn't they just use a fire extinguisher?
Last month El Paso, a sprawling southwest Texas city of 700,000 residents, was named the safest city of its size in the United States for the first time, and it is on track to close out 2010 with just five murders.Damned lax American gun laws...
But just over the shallow concrete trench of the Rio Grande in Ciudad Juarez, more than 3,000 people have been tortured, shot and blasted to death in gang warfare this year, clinching its grim reputation as the world's most dangerous city. [More]
Or maybe you’re just…uh…making it all up...[More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at a queasy, delusional lying hoplophobe.
These characters must not slumber nor sleep at home in such times of pressing danger; they must not content themselves in the enjoyment of places of honor or profit in their own country while the common interests of America are moldering and sinking into irretrievable (if a remedy is not soon applied) ruin, in which theirs also must ultimately be involved. [More]Yep.
Goodbye, my friend. What an honor it was to know you. I am so grateful for the work you did on behalf of freedom, and for the legacy you leave behind.Incredibly sad news I just learned of...
May we be worthy of it. [More]
Progressives, liberals and left of center politicians have teamed up to radically curtail the rights of Republican Senators in the next Congress. They have a plan to “kill the filibuster,” so that they can establish a top down system of control next year in the Senate. [More]Thanks, "true champion of the Second Amendment" Harry Reid!
The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence today filed a brief in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas urging the dismissal of an NRA lawsuit claiming that teens and young persons ages 18-20 have a constitutional right to buy handguns from gun shops. [More]But we're not "anti-gun" and we'll prove it:
...a time honored tradition of hunting...
...As a sportsman...
...Americans rightly deserve the option of transporting a firearm in a responsible way...
...give residents in states like Mississippi with concealed-carry permits the ability to carry their firearms in another state... [More]
The 90% canard has been exposed so many times, and for so long, that a professional “Authorized Journalist” using it again here can only be explained by a truth-be-damned agenda.Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at an "Authorized Journalist" doing what they do best.
As has the astounding corruption of both Mexican military and police forces, from whose ranks the narcoterrorist Los Zetas sprang, first as enforcers, and now as prime players in their own right.
But we’re to believe it’s due to that “wide gulf in gun laws.” [More]
When the British attacked Savannah on December 29, 1778, the defending Continental forces, numbering about 650 men under command of Maj. Gen. Robert Howe, were posted across Sea Island Road (now Wheaton street) approximately 100 yards east of this marker. [More]
Somali Pirates More Dangerous Than Ever -- Globe And Mail
Security has been tightened in major cities including Mumbai, the target of an attack in 2008 [Reuters]
Camp Delta, the fenced-in core of the Guantánamo prison. Angel Franco/The New York Times
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Work on the Bomber Command Memorial will begin in May 
Comrades in arms: Married couple Neil and Michelle Lewis, who met in the Army, will be spending New Year together at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan
Britain Forms Plan For Gulf Evacuation In Event Of War With Iran -- The Telegraph
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As Ireland Flails, Europe Lurches Across the Rubicon -- Wall Street Journal
U.S. Navy flight deck personnel prepare a San Diego Coast Guard HH-60 helicopter for launch at dawn on the flight deck aboard USS Abraham Lincoln, Pacific Ocean, Dec. 15, 2008. The helicopter participated in a rescue in which an injured sailor was evacuated to Lincoln and stabilized before being flown to San Francisco for treatment. The USS Lincoln is under way conducting training and carrier qualifications. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class James R. Evans 