Jeff Pittman's Second Amendment News from Mississippi & Beyond
A man opened fire during the morning church service at Oasis Tabernacle Church in East Selma, AL last Sunday, shooting and wounding his girlfriend, his 1-month-old son and a pastor who tried to intervene. Apparently unarmed congregants disarmed the man, who then ran away and was later arrested and charged with three counts of attempted murder. I suggest that unarmed […]
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Headline of the week: “State Fair Bans Guns; State Fair Workers Robbed at Gun Point” Update on MS universities We noted last week that Mississippi’s Institutions of Higher Learning’s (which governs colleges and universities) anti-gun policy did not prevent the murder at Delta State University. List member Matt pointed out that although the IHL Board of Trustees has a gun-free
Gun free zones: headline and DSU update Read More »
GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, who has a spotted history on gun rights, has now released a position paper on guns which proposes re-legalization of machine guns, national CCW permit reciprocity, arming military troops on bases and recruiting centers, better (but not expanded) NICS checks, no gun or magazine bans, enforcement of existing gun laws, and adding ill-advised enhanced penalties
Donald Trump, Chris Christie, John Boehner Read More »
A new Gallup poll conducted this month shows that 49% of Americans consider the federal government “an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens.” Meanwhile, a new Rasmussen poll indicates that only 36% of likely voters think the federal government should be involved in gun control, 69% think it would be bad for the country if only
Dept. of The Obvious Read More »
Some Portland (OR) State University students have been protesting this week, calling for campus security to be disarmed. Because, stupid. PETA is suing to make the government assign a copyright for a “selfie” picture to a monkey (a macaca nigra). The US Copyright Act [17 U.S.C. 102(a)] protects “original works of authorship,” and states that the copyright office will not
Examples of Stupidity! Read More »
Jean Fontaine is the “data lead” (I think that means file clerk) for South Carolina Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. She lives in Greenville, SC. Ms Fontaine had an op-ed in the Greenville News regarding a training session she attended in Minneapolis, MN this summer. She started the column by saying: “This summer, I took training in
Jean Fontaine is wrong Read More »
Pope Francis, the elected leader of the Catholic Church, said to the U.S. Congress* this week that “it is our duty to confront the problem and stop the arms trade.” He also praised House Speaker John Boehner’s (also Catholic) green tie as a symbol of hope. Well I have a green gun… This from a man protected by a hundred
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“The intelligence pros said killing certain ISIS leaders might not diminish the group and that airstrikes might not be working. The bosses didn’t like those answers—not at all. Senior intelligence officials at the U.S. military’s Central Command demanded significant alterations to analysts’ reports that questioned whether airstrikes against the so-called Islamic State widely known as ISIS were damaging the group’s
Military Intelligence: The Emperor has no clothes Read More »