Today’s Lunch menu features an NRA sandwich of McCain and Giuliani, a roast prepared by Chris Dodd, and a look at several candidates who want you to help pay their tabs.
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“What opponents of the second amendment have never understood is that the prime benefit of the right to bear arms is now and always has been reaped without a shot being fired. The main benefit does not lie in the occasional person who shoots an attacker in self-defense. It doesn’t lie in the many attacks […]

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John Lott has the scoop on how fewer and fewer people identify themselves as hunters. I think he nails the reasons (as he has in the past; most of the links below are to his blog):

Fewer people have grown up in rural areas raising the costs of them learning how to hunt, [there are more […]

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Once again the Associated Press give us more of its prosaic brand of “unfair and unbalanced” news with a Jesse Jackson anti-gun story that doesn’t offer a single word to counter his propaganda, their report doesn’t present even a hint that there is any “side” but the anti-gun position. We aren’t shocked at this, of […]

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Debate highlights top the menu today for the Lunch. From rednecks to snowmen, YouTube questioners were throwing heat, and the Democratic candidates stepped up to the plate.  Edwards tried humor, Clinton gets serious, and Biden shows us he dislikes madmen but is fond of a certain redhead.
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It amuses and gratifies a supporter of the 2nd Amendment to see The New York Times, the so-called “paper of record,” so constantly reduced to sputtering, fools over their constant loss of the battle for draconian gun control measures and the July 17th editorial from the Times is yet another example of how they […]

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The Grant Of Executive Clemency that was given to Lewis Libby, surprised some today, predicting a pardon, and others predicting that the administration would steer clear of the issue. The fact that Libby’s prison term was commuted, and the rest of the sentence (fine, supervised release) was left in tact, lends some insight into how […]

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Gun Facts Version 4.2
Gun Facts is a free e-book that debunks common myths about gun control. It is intended as a reference guide for journalists, activists, politicians, and other people interested in restoring honesty to the debate about guns, crime, and the 2nd Amendment.
Gun Facts has 89 pages of information. Divided into chapters […]

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I am aghast that even before the “surge” has had time to occur, the Democrats have decided it didn’t work.
Since our enemies read the MSM, they will get the word: Try harder and we’ll cry uncle.
It’s hard to judge from 12000 miles away, but there were few discussions before the elections last year about the […]

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Barbara Miner of the Milwaukee Journal, Sentinel has written one of the funniest anti-gun screeds I’ve seen in a long, long time. Oh, she didn’t MEAN to be funny, of course. But, her article gave the effect of seeing a 40-year-old white guy trying to chant the lyrics to a popular Rap “music” tune to […]

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On May 29th a Catholic Priest from Chicago’s St. Sabina Church joined a rally in front of a gun shop and called for the owner of the shop and all pro-gun legislators to be “snuffed out”, yet, the media is strangely silent on the “Father’s” extreme comments — words one would think would be explosive […]

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What is it about anti-gunners that they just have to lie in their advocacy against guns? Do they lie because the facts make them look so bad? This time it’s the Washington Times’ turn to publish an anti 2nd Amendment piece based on several lies. This one, penned by an Alex Gerber, worries that gun […]

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The second Republican primary debate took place in Columbia, SC Tuesday night and overall it was a much improved performance over the first debate at the Reagan Presidential Library in California. The theme of this second debate was the lower tier candidates jumping on Giuliani, McCain, and Romney for their lack of conservative credentials.

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Ben Rehder’s Gun Shy is a fun romp for the Ritalin-choking child in all of us, dancing around the topic of guns and gun control. It’s the fifth novel in his Blanco County mystery series; and while I haven’t read the previous books, so far as I could tell there’s little or no thread weaving […]

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The Media was all a frenzy on the debate about gun control right after the VT killings cynically attempting to push their Constitutionally illegal gun banning ideas on a grieving public. But one Illinois County has bravely decided to make moves to protect their 2nd Amendment rights with action by the County Board.
The Pike County […]

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As has been my policy, I’m going to refrain from too much political commentary the day of a disaster, but I just wanted to do my part in getting the facts out:

THREE people have been shot dead including the assailant in a shooting spree at a Kansas City shopping mall - and a fourth death […]

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Since the VT shootings in Blacksburg, Virginia, we have seen all manner of wild-eyed, anti-gunners come out of the woodwork to cynically use this crime as a chance to beat their gun grabbing drums. But, proposing that we send government Stormtroopers to smash down the doors of every home with a gun in it to […]

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The big Empörung (outrage) about last week’s shooting in Virginia, followed by the obligatory lecturing on the antiquated American Wild West back wood’s attitude concerning gun control there hardly had a chance to die down before somebody else gets blown away by a heavily-armed criminal here, in Germany, again.
This happens all the time over here […]

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One would think the writers of The Onion satirical newspaper snuck into the offices of The San Francisco Chronicle after reading a report about a Pizza shop owner who saved the lives of his family by killing a gun wielding robber that was attempting to rob his store, a store with the owner’s whole family […]

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More weapons than you think, that is. How many guns are there in Germany? Nobody knows for sure. Ironic, isn’t it? In a country which prides itself on having such strict gun control. But after the latest massacre in Virginia, it’s time to go through another short rendition of the let-us-tighten-up-our-gun-control-some-more ritual again. Correct me […]

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Yesterday, based on the information available, I made a tentative case that common gun control measures could not have prevented this shooting. I worked on two assumptions I conceded might change with new information: He (A) bought the gun from a licensed dealer and (B) had no documented mental health issues severe enough to disqualify […]

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By Jefferson Flanders
In the aftermath of the horrific shootings at Virginia Tech, there have been renewed calls for a consideration of America’s ragged quilt of federal and state gun laws.
No one disputes that the gunman, Cho Seung-Hui, a troubled student with a history of mental health problems, apparently acquired his weapons—a Walther .22-caliber pistol and […]

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Many details have yet to come out, so I’ll preface this with a warning it might change.
However, many on the left have rushed to point to a variety of policies that could have prevented yesterday’s tragedy. (Virginia Tech student Seung-Hui Cho killed 33 people, including himself.) Sadly, they’re wrong on all counts.
From the accounts I’ve […]

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I suppose it was inevitable that in the aftermath of the deadliest campus shooting in US History, those on the left would scream for tighter gun controls as an answer. The Huffington Post yesterday had an article not only blaming the NRA but the war in Iraq as well! “The bloodbath and carnage daily reported […]

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What happened at Virginia Tech today is not a “tragedy”– a word you will see much used to describe this incident — it is a crime. Murder in cold blood is no “tragic” accident. But, the criminal action at Virginia Tech had barely finished before news sources began their meme against guns, those “permissive […]

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In their never ending quest to attack the Constitutional right of self defense and gun ownership, the AP has once again published an anti-gun story, this time with a twist. It’s a toy in the hands of a schoolgirl there are gravely alerting us to.
Child Carried Toy Gun ‘For Protection’

Third-Grader Suspended in Upper Darby, […]

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On Friday, Judge Laurence Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the city of Washington D.C. could not ban its citizens from owning firearms because such a ban violates the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
In light of this ruling so damaging to gun grabbers everywhere, I […]

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They just don’t get it. Yesterday I noted how DC’s mayor admitted his city has both the strictest gun control laws and close to the highest crime rate in the country. Now, folks in the UK are complaining of their high (and once again increasing) severe gun crimes. Both governments ban handguns completely.
Odd thing: Both […]

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Alphecca has extensive coverage of a new study on gun control. The site critiques the study on several grounds, most interestingly pointing out it was funded by an anti-fun (oops, gun, Freudian slip) organization.
From the Harvard press release:
“Analyses that controlled for several measures of resource deprivation, urbanization, aggravated assault, robbery, unemployment, and alcohol consumption found […]

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January 12th 2007 14:45
Steven Levitt’s Freakonomics got a lot of attention, largely for its discussion of the abortion-cut-crime hypothesis (debunked here and here). Fewer people know, however, about gun scholar John Lott’s lawsuit against Levitt.
In the book Levitt claimed that other researchers disproved Lott’s study — finding that concealed carry reduces crime — by failing […]

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