Welcome to our latest national “conversation” about guns, a conversation demanded by those who have lost all recent conversations about guns.

It features an extremely loathsome group of politicians and other opponents of the Second Amendment who want to exploit the deaths of the young children in Newtown, Connecticut in order to advance a political agenda.  In fact, New York Democrat congressman Jerrold Nadler even used the word exploit, suggesting they can pass new gun restrictions “if the President exploits it”.

After such tragedies the cry is always to do something, anything, in order to make the story go away.  Then there is a rush to pass a law – any law – and rushed laws are almost always bad.  And it’s in such times that enemies of liberty always creep in hoping to use the moment to push their agenda before people calm down and look at things rationally.

But since liberals insist on having this conversation, let’s take a moment to review some things that we know, and that the left will surely overlook.

We know that over forty percent fewer homicides are committed with guns than those without guns.  We know that violent crime is at a thirty-seven year low.  We also know that this drop in violent crime coincided with a boom in gun ownership and states allowing concealed weapons permits.  read more »

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They just need to shut up. The bodies of more than two dozen teachers and young children were still lying in pools of blood on the classroom floors of Sandy Hook Elementary, yet the special interest flacks, pundits and psycho-babblers descended like vultures on carrion. The gun-control zealots. The pro-Second Amendment advocates. The mental health experts. The we’re-going-to-Hell-in-a-hand-basket crowd.

There will be plenty of time to debate; there will be plenty of time to navel-gaze and ask why these horrific mass murders seem to be happening with alarming frequency. Not now. Not while the presents of the dead are still sitting wrapped under their Christmas trees, never to be opened.  read more »