What the Arrest of a British Tourist Tells Us About American Civil Rights
America is exceptional not because of its economy, geography, or its history, but because of two paired principles that exist nowhere else in the world with such clarity.
America is exceptional not because of its economy, geography, or its history, but because of two paired principles that exist nowhere else in the world with such clarity.
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 DOE awarded a grant to the U of Wyoming to develop what university officials have promised would be “historically grounded school curriculum on the Second Amendment.”
“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 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.”
Male voters are not going to give up their rights just to make Democrats feel good about themselves.
The so-called nuclear option wouldn’t have just reopened the government, it would have dismantled the firewall that has protected gun owners for generations.
Alduri said the current political climate gives him reason to consider self-defense. “Am I expected to trust the American government or American cops to protect me? No, I don’t, quite frankly,” Alduri said.
Most cities have reacted well to the new law. However, there were a few Democratic strongholds scattered throughout the state that didn’t take the change well at all.
“Growing up in a war, guns were everywhere. One of the first things Mugabe did was require people to turn in their guns. By us, most of the people’s guns ended up in the bottom of a lake. We had strict gun laws.”