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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 […]
House Speaker Paul Renner: ‘No More Government Permission Slips’ with Florida’s Constitutional Carry
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Gun Rights, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy Dr. Rich Swier “Florida was the pioneer in the modern carry movement in America and this historic legislation continues our proud tradition.” — House Speaker Paul Renner (R-Palm Coast). TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Jan. 30, 2023) — Today, House Speaker Paul Renner (R-Palm Coast) unveiled House Bill 543 to ensure that Floridians can exercise their Second Amendment […]
This is How Much the Federal Government Makes from Gun Sales in Arizona
/in Economy, Featured, Gun Rights, Liberty, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Samual Stebbins America’s gun industry is booming. Over 11.3 million firearms were manufactured in the United States in 2020, more than double the 5.6 million produced in 2010, and nearly triple the 3.9 million guns manufactured in 2000, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. Surging demand for firearms has been […]
SHEILA NAZARIAN: It’s Time For Jews To Take Advantage Of The Second Amendment
/in Featured, Gun Rights, Life Advocacy, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Sheila Nazarian If you are Jewish and live in America, now is the time to carry a firearm. Thanks to a recent National Rifle Association victory in NYSRPA v. Bruen, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment protects our right, any law-abiding American’s right, a Jew’s right to carry a handgun for […]
Matt Gaetz Calls To Abolish The ATF After Agency Issues Rule Allegedly Making It Harder For Certain People To Buy Guns
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Gun Rights, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Republican Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz introduced legislation Wednesday that would abolish the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) after they enacted a rule that would make pistol stabilizing braces illegal for anyone without a certain license. The legislation, titled the “Abolish the ATF Act,” would totally eliminate the ATF […]
Blue States Attempted To Crackdown On Guns. Firearm Sales Skyrocketed Instead
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Gun Rights, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Blue states have recently introduced restrictive gun laws that aim to remove firearms from the streets, but numerous states are now seeing massive increases in gun sales as Americans begin to “vote with their wallets,” according to data from the Firearm Industry Trade Association (NSSF). Gun sales in Oregon, Washington and […]
Remembering When Gun Control Was at Least Remotely Rational
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Gun Rights, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy Selwyn Duke A curious mutation in gun control activism occurred during the last few decades, whence began a fixation on something dubbed the “assault rifle.” Never mind that an assault rifle, insofar as the designation was ever at all valid, had always referenced a weapon with a “select fire” feature allowing three types of […]
ATF Abandons Plans to Destroy Gunrunning Program Evidence
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Gun Rights, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Discover The Networks In a letter to the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives) sent in early December, House Judiciary ranking member Jim Jordan (R-OH) urged the Bureau to abandon its plans to destroy gunrunning evidence from Obama-era Attorney General Eric Holder‘s Operation Fast and Furious. The letter said, in part: Although the ATF […]
New Landmark Medical Report Proves More Guns Do Not Cause More Crime
/in Featured, Gun Rights, Liberty, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Lee Williams A recently published study by a team of physicians and medical researchers found no link between increased legal gun sales and increased violent crime rates. Moreover, the study concluded “it is unclear if efforts to limit lawful firearm sales would have any effect on rates of crime, homicide, or injuries from violence committed with […]
Double Standard Explained
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Gun Rights, Immigration, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy Wallace Bruschweiler Double Standard Explained If plastic water bottles are okay, but plastic bags are banned, you might live in a nation (state) that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots If you can get arrested for hunting or fishing without a license, but not for entering and remaining in the country […]