Nowhere in this country should a citizen be forced to get permission from a government entity to exercise a fundamental right protected by the U.S. Constitution.
The city went 12 calendar days — Nov. 25 to Dec. 7 — without a homicide, according to New York Police Department data.
“These rights do not defend themselves. It requires constant vigilance from private lawyers and now the United States to help protect this important right and I’m really proud of it.”
The shooter “developed plans for a violent, racist attack using detailed information he obtained from social media sources,” according to both complaints.
President Ronald Reagan offered sage advice that still holds true today. He said, “We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker.”
Bureaucracies don’t reform themselves and the DOJ will not suddenly start defending gun owners just because it created a new office with a nice title.
It’s been a tough holiday season so far for Chicago’s rap stars.
Even while acknowledging these efforts as unconstitutional due to the state’s preemption law, the Saint Paul City Council unanimously passed the ordinance and became the first city among a coalition of 17 pledging to do the same.
Prosecutors in the Queens District Attorney’s Office have put a 67-year-old citizen behind bars for defending himself against a recidivist criminal with an unlicensed handgun.
The agency clearly wants to be seen as crusading for gun rights. And Willinger expects the DOJ to ally with gun rights groups in cases in which “it can most successfully characterize state or government actions as motivated by anti-gun animus.”
