Gun rights and ‘hate’ crime laws that breed crime-causing hatred

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  April 27th at 12:08 PM  | 

Gun-owning fathers in homes with good fences, make good neighbors The shooting of an unarmed Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida has one again placed the issues of race, hate crimes and gun rights before the American public. Some Democrats have even dusted off their old gun control playbooks more than a decade after they shelved in the wake of electoral defeats attributed to their | Read More »

How gun rights examinations inform Capital “L” Liberty

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  May 5th at 11:49 AM  | 

A confession of a 2000 conservative convert: I have never owned a gun and, until recently, had never been particularly animated by gun rights debates. Don’t get me wrong, I have always favored the inalienable right to own a firearm for self defense and survival (hunting before and after Kroger) and always believed that the Second Amendment protected an individual right and not just a | Read More »