Obama Takes NRA Advice on Guns in School

So, after the Left scoffed at the NRA after the Connecticut shooting, Obama seems to be taking their advice:

"According to CNN, on September 27 the DOJ announced $45 million in funding meant to "create 356 new school resource officer positions.""

"The $45 million will be distributed in the form of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) grants. One of the earliest grants will be to Newtown, Connecticut, to create two new officers for Newtown schools."

http://breitbart.com.feedsportal.com/c/35151/f/651115/s/31da84a2/sc/24/l/0L0Sbreitbart0N0CBig0EGovernment0C20A130C0A90C290CCNN0EObama0ETaking0EPage0EOut0EOf0ENRA0EPlaybook/story01.htm

Insurance as Gun Control

"In response to the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., some legislatures have begun to consider new regulations requiring gun owners to purchase liability insurance. Unlike similar requirements for automobile owners, such laws could easily be written in ways that would render them unconstitutional. This article explores some of the constitutional pitfalls, but concludes that a carefully drafted statute would probably be upheld under current constitutional doctrine. The benefits to public safety would be modest, but such a regulation would be preferable to many politically popular gun control proposals that would be ineffective, unconstitutional, or both. The Second Amendment protects "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms." This right is not unqualified, but its core purpose is to protect the individual's interest in self-defense. Regulatory measures that may decrease the misuse of guns frequently also compromise the ability of individuals to defend their lives. Thus, gun control laws make tradeoffs between the legitimate interests of the individual and the government, and the judiciary's emerging Second Amendment jurisprudence will largely be concerned with policing those tradeoffs."

http://cato.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=98c97f42691d5de57bc944822&id=64534d0df9&e=2033c8b5bc

Supposedly Unbiased Caro Costello Complains About Lack of Gun Control

Sadly, seeing so many defenseless victims year after year because of strong gun control measures means that Costello is actually right, but for reasons other than those she espouses. The reality is that there are evil people in this world that have no concern for the lives of others, or for the laws intended to make us safe. Gun control does not work, never has, never will, but its supporters make these tragedies worse by misdirecting attention and promoting failed agendas. Clinton led the charge and disarmed those on installations like that of the recent Navy yard shooting. Supporters of these measures seem to honestly wonder how this could happen, but the stage was already set for tragedy.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/randy-hall/2013/09/24/cnn-reporters-slam-lapierres-comments-navy-yard-shooting-sad-movie-weve-

Colorado Recall Election

The Colorado gun control debate is boiling over, with a potential recall changing the political landscape. 

http://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2013/09/nra_video_on_co.php

Gun Control vs Common Sense

Best 7 minutes on gun control I have ever seen! - YouTube

The Law of Unintended Consequences and Gun Control

President Obama's policies have been criticized by some as harming the economy. The "stimulus" policies he has put into place are not working, according to critics. Indeed, the economic recovery has been unusually slow.

The president's policies have been very good for one industry, however: firearms. With the president embarking on a campaign to ban so-called assault weapons (this article calls them "modern sporting rifles") and high-capacity magazines, demand has skyrocketed. That article quotes one manufacturer of AR-15′s as saying they have a one-year backlog of orders.

Career politicians rarely have a working understand of economics or sociology, and the reactions to certain restrictions or prohibitions for political gain are sufficient evidence of this ignorance.

The president's strategy to stimulate the firearms industry is not new or untested. When the federal government required new toilets to limit the water they used per flush in the early 1990s, that increased the demand for high-capacity toilets. The president's proposed firearms policies are merely taking a cue from policies that have been proven in the past to increase demand in a particular industry.

Full article: http://blog.independent.org/2013/04/25/the-presidents-policies-economic-stimulus-for-one-industry/

Expanded Background Checks Fail in the Senate

The U.S. Senate stood on the side of liberty today as it killed two measures aimed at restricting the rights of law-abiding private citizens.  In a vote of 54-46, the Senate rejected the expansion of background checks to include sales between private citizens, thus keeping the so called "Gun Show Loophole" alive for now.  Sen. Dianne Feinstein could not even rally a simple majority vote in her attempt to restrict law-abiding citizens from owning weapons she feels are objectionable.  Her bill failed by an embarrassing margin of 40-60.  Both of these represent huge defeats to the Obama Administration.

Feinstein and fellow fearmongers are seeing the lack of public support for her efforts by the lack of legislative support. If legislators gave support to Feinstein, they would find themselves out of office during the following election cycle. The gun control anti-rights advocates are seeing public backlash at bad legislation. 

http://www.texasgopvote.com/issues/stop-big-government/expanded-background-checks-fail-senate-myth-gun-show-loophole-lives-0053611