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11 Defensive Gun Uses Show How Lawful Gun Owners ‘Get It Right’
/in Featured, Gun Rights, Liberty, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Amy Swearer Often lost in conversations about gun violence is the reality of who is responsible for the bulk of that violence. Most gun crimes aren’t committed by lawful gun owners but by a small subset of repeat violent offenders who already are prohibited from legally possessing firearms. At the same time, the vast […]
‘There’s a Remedy for Our Nation — and That Remedy Is Not Gun Control’: Congressman
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Gun Rights, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council Waves of grief continue to break over Texas, as the tight-knit Allen community comes to grip with the weekend’s senseless shooting. As the names and pictures of Saturday’s victims were released by police, hearts across the country shattered at the news that two families had lost multiple loved ones. A six-year-old boy, orphaned […]
Amid Rising Antisemitism, Jews Are Embracing The Second Amendment
/in DrRichSwier.com, Gun Rights, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller As antisemitism continues to climb in the U.S., the Jewish community has turned to the Second Amendment to protect themselves, according to several experts that spoke with the Daily Caller News Foundation. Tzvi Waldman, leader of the NYS Jewish Gun Club, told the DCNF that many synagogues can’t afford expensive private […]
Armed Teachers
/in Education, Featured, Gun Rights, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Dr. Thomas Patterson Americans were outraged to learn of the Nashville school shooting, where a transgender female shot and killed three children and three adults at a Christian school. As always, a fierce political debate broke out after the murders. Gun control advocates, mostly Democrats, again made impassioned and often vitriolic pleas for more […]
Four Underused Tools to Stop School Shootings
/in Education, Featured, Gun Rights, Life Advocacy, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy James D. Agresti In the aftermath of school shootings, media outlets often amplify calls for gun control while ignoring or spurning evidence-based ways to protect students. Here are four life-saving tools they are missing or dismissing. Shatter-Resistant Entryways As documented in the academic journal Victims & Offenders, an “immediate and economical” way to protect […]
‘Not A Firearms Expert’: Biden’s ATF Chief Admits He Can’t Define What An ‘Assault Weapon’ Is
/in Featured, Gun Rights, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Trevor Schakohl Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Director Steve Dettelbach was unable to define the term “assault weapon” during his agency’s Tuesday budget request hearing before a House Appropriations subcommittee. Dettelbach told Republican Texas Rep. Jake Ellzey that he had expressed support for passing an assault weapons ban in Ohio during […]
Tennessee
/in Featured, Gun Rights, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Bruce Bialosky Whenever one blinks these days, there is a new story about which people get hysterical. Tennessee has always been best known for Nashville country music and Memphis barbeque. But it has become focused currently on two cultural events that are related, but in their own way completely separate. You certainly are familiar […]
Anti-2A Kamala: ‘Weapons of War Have No Place on the Streets’
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Gun Rights, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Discover The Networks Thursday on FOX’s Jennifer Hudson Show, epically incompetent Vice President Kamala Harris declared that an “assault weapon” ban is reasonable. Kamala said, “When I look at the tragedies all over our country that have affected so many people so personally, and the senseless nature of it all. Here is the thing: first of all, […]
FACT CHECK: Has One In Five U.S. Adults Had A Family Member Killed By A Gun?
/in Featured, Gun Rights, Healthcare, Liberty, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Charlotte Whelan A new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation claims that 19% of American adults say a family member was killed by a gun. They note that this includes death by suicide but fail to add any more context to the gripping headline. So how true or helpful is this claim? The biggest […]
That Kaiser Gun Study The Media Love Is Garbage
/in Featured, Gun Rights, Healthcare, Liberty, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy David Harsanyi It’s become virtually impossible to find reliable data or polling on gun violence these days. A new Kaiser Family Foundation report being shared by virtually every major media outlet this week offers us a good example of why. The headlines report that “1 in 5 adults” in the United States claim that […]
Society-Wide Lack of Restraint a Cause of Mass Shootings: Mohler
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Gun Rights, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council Only two weeks after the Covenant School shooting in Nashville, another mass murderer killed six people and wounded nine at a shooting at Old National Bank in Louisville, Ky. The incident was “absolutely horrifying and frightening,” Dr. Al Mohler, president of Southern Theological Seminary in Louisville, said on “Washington Watch,” but that should make it […]
First They Come for the Sheriffs, Then They Come for your Guns
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Gun Rights, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Kenneth R. Timmerman What I have feared for the past two years is coming true: the federal government has launched a selective and politically-motivated prosecution against a conservative sheriff, to get him out of the way. I have known Frederick County, Maryland Sheriff Chuck Jenkins for over a dozen years. Since he was first elected in […]
Biden Invites Expelled Tennessee Insurrectionist Democrats to the White House
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Featured, Gun Rights, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report If you can’t see that the Democrats are engaged in a civil war, you’re already a slave. Furthermore, it bears nothing how the most senior Democrat leadership up the the Executive branch reveres and exalts violent insurrectionists. The GOP did not stand up for peaceful protesters calling for election integrity. Biden […]
Another Win for Bruen, This Time in Anti-gun Minnesota
/in Featured, Gun Rights, Liberty, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Bob Adelmann The effort by anti-gun Minnesota politicians to keep its citizens between the ages of 18 and 21 from keeping and bearing arms failed last week. But the ruling was closer than it appeared, and the state’s radical Muslim Attorney General Keith Ellison is appealing the decision. At issue is the state’s law […]
Epically Incompetent Kamala Heading to Nashville to Support the ‘Tennessee Three’
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Gun Rights, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Dr. Rich Swier Epically incompetent Vice President Kamala Harris is heading to Nashville to support the “Tennessee Three” lawmakers who voted against a school safety bill yesterday that seeks to place an armed guard in every school, according to Breitbart News. Reps. Gloria Johnson (D), Justin Jones (D), and Justin Pearson (D), voted against the school safety bill on […]
Tennessee House Votes To Boot Two Dem Members Who Joined With Mob In Capitol Protest
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Gun Rights, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Editor’s note: This article has been updated. Tennessee’s Republican-held House voted Thursday to expel two out of three Democratic members for leading what House leadership called an “insurrection” at the state Capitol last week following Nashville’s school shooting. The House voted to expel Nashville Rep. Justin Jones 72 to 25 and Memphis Rep. […]
Chaos Unravels As Anti-Gun Activists Swarm Inside Tennessee Capitol
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Gun Rights, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Hundreds of protesters swarmed the Tennessee State Capitol on Thursday demanding gun control in the wake of Monday’s deadly school shooting. Protesters showed up outside the capitol Thursday morning as lawmakers began their session, according to WKRN. Protesters were calling for stronger gun control following Monday’s shooting in which 28-year-old transgender Audrey Hale killed three nine-year-olds and three […]
WaPo Writer Agrees Transgender Killer Reacted Against Christian Brainwashing
/in Education, Featured, Gun Rights, Life Advocacy, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Catherine Salgado In the wake of the tragic shooting today that left three nine-year-olds and three school employees murdered, a sick Twitter user took to the platform to claim that, while murder is wrong, the shooter was just reacting to cruel indoctrination. You see, the murderer was a 28-year-old “transgender” woman named Audrey Hale […]
How a Truly Catholic President Would Speak
/in DrRichSwier.com, Gun Rights, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Dr. Rich Swier Michael Pakaluk: All Americans must take responsibility for the common good, which is our nation’s culture. You cannot change the world. But you can change your own life. Off the record – before his speech begins – to the press corps: “I would ordinarily be enjoying an ice cream cone right now […]
If the Mentally Ill ‘Mustn’t Own Guns,’ What About ‘Trans’ People?
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Gun Rights, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Selwyn Duke The timing of the tragic Nashville shooting, in which a MUSS (Made-up Sexual Status, aka “transgender”) individual killed six at a Christian school, is a bit odd. National Public Radio had just recently done a piece on how MUSS and other “LGBTQ” people are buying guns because, the story goes, they believe […]
Gun Rights: The Death of a Thousand Cuts
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Gun Rights, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Skirmish – Liberato.US Joe Biden played fast and loose with the truth about guns after the tragedy in Nashville this week. We’ll get to that but, first, a little refresher on why we have the Second Amendment. It’s not for personal protection. It’s so that We The People can resist a rogue tyrannical government. […]
The ATF Expansion of the Gun Registry Turns Law-Abiding Gun Owners into Felons
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Gun Rights, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) Despite decades of warnings from crime prevention and law experts, the Biden administration has taken a page out of FDR’s book to crack down on legal gun owners. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has followed through on their plan to turn millions of lawful gun owners into […]
Florida to Become 26th Permitless-Carry State
/in Featured, Gun Rights, Liberty, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Bob Adelmann Matching “permitless concealed carry” bills are progressing through Florida’s legislature. With Republican supermajorities in both the state House and Senate, passage into law with Governor Ron DeSantis’ signature is a foregone conclusion. This will make Florida the 26th state to remove the infringement of requiring a permit to carry a concealed firearm. […]
Biden Gun Order Fails Background Check
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Gun Rights, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council Like most grandmothers, Carolyn Pettiford thought she was done raising children. A horrible February night in 2022 changed that forever. Her daughter, Ashley, had been parked on a Kansas City street when a man walked up, leaned into the car, and fired a gun twice. When police arrived, they found Ashley […]
Biden Poses For Photo With Member Of Alleged Chinese Intel Front Group At Los Angeles Gun Control Rally
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Gun Rights, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller President Joe Biden posed for a photo with a member of an alleged Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intelligence front group after delivering a speech on gun control this week, a Daily Caller News Foundation analysis of video footage of the event found. Biden announced an executive order aimed at “increasing the number of […]
The Great Reset Is Really Great Resentment
/in Featured, Gun Rights, Liberty, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Alan Korwin This fairly new thing, the so-called “great reset,” is more than the political left acting out their bottled-up fury at successes of the land in which they find themselves. Infuriated at how well freedom is working—the opulence, scientific and technological achievements, personal advancements at every level—even for the “downtrodden” compared to the […]
When it Comes to Destroying Gun Rights, George Soros Plays the Long Game
/in Featured, Gun Rights, Liberty, Life Advocacy, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Lee Williams Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg and Open Society Foundation’s George Soros may appear to have similar goals. They have each spent massive amounts of their personal fortunes in pursuit of their political objectives through networks of shadowy cutouts, foundations and nonprofits. Both champion big government and abhor personal freedoms – […]
Discover Card To Start Tracking Gun Purchases
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Gun Rights, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Dr. Rich Swier In our column The Globalists’ Economic War Against Humanity—Environmental, Social and Governance [ESG] Scores we wrote, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. recently spoke to the nation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. One of the items Biden did not discuss is his active support of the “great reset” which is the globalists’ war against humanity. A […]
Firing a Shotgun Into the Air, Shooting to Wound and Other Dangerous Ideas
/in Featured, Gun Rights, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Lee Williams When Joe Biden announced last week that police should shoot to wound rather than shoot to stop the threat, most people ignored his crazy ideas and considered them merely the rantings of an 80-year-old man likely suffering from dementia, who has lived most of his adult life in a bubble surrounded by […]
Gun News, Good and Bad
/in Featured, Gun Rights, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Todd Woodard Over the past three years, historic numbers of Americans legally purchased a firearm. According to Larry Keane, senior vice president and general counsel of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, “Between 2020-2021, nearly 40 million firearms were purchased by Americans at retail from all corners of the country, from all different backgrounds. Industry […]