While Teddy Kennedy was so money piped into aborticide, the real battle has been over the Second Ammendment which the cartels have been overtly and covertly attacking American rights to firearms.

This site has not even bothered to record the attacks by the BATF on small firearms dealers in shutting them down. Newspaper accounts are full of small shops being harrassed out of existence. The United States has lost tens of thousands of dealers in the past years.

Next in line has been the cartel bogus claim to lead shot which was the first "global warming" bovine scat. The cartel allowed the Soviets to buy the known lead supply in the world during the Carter years....and then switched American shot shells to steel which drove a huge segment of firearms owners off the market.
The final assault has been high firearms prices, shutting down affordable imports the ruination of Winchester and the raising of license fees so poor people who are the rural backbone of firearms ownership stop hunting and teaching their children to hunt.

Certainly 9 11 was a boon to the firearms ownership as soccer mom's went out and bought guns, but the globalists figured out long ago and people like Al Cuppett of the fringe radio scene were talking of gun confiscation.........when the cartel decided a decade ago to ruin firearms access, affordability and use and that is how you disarmed America without firing a shot......and it does not matter what the Supreme Court has done.

A great percentage of this has gone under George W. Bush who is supposed to be a friend of the 2nd Ammendment, but if Bush nor Cheney did not reign in the draconian tactics of BATF.......then just who is in charge of the executive?

My sincerest hope is those 5 gentlemen named Conservative on th Supreme Court toss out gun bans in DC as unconstitutional.
The NRA has done nothing but whine, Congressional GOP and bogus Democrats have done nothing and Bush has done nothing.

I will remind bloggers here that the United States IN OUR FOUNDING used to BUY GUNS FOR POOR CITIZENS who could not afford them.
That is one welfare program I will heartily support.

God help the Supreme Court to uphold the deuce ammendment.......and it is past time people start discussing what is really going on beyond the goofy liberal rants each day.

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I'd like to direct your attention to this document:  http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/secondamendment2.pdf

It's the Dept of Justice's own research and position on the 2nd Amendment, and its detail is breathtaking. I strongly encourage EVERYONE with a passion for our Constitution, the 2nd Amendment, and for our history as a nation to take the time to read all 107 pages.

Understanding what's been written in this document can help us avoid drawing incorrect conclusions based on today's interpretation of the original language - to really understand the original intent, based on thorough and sound research.

I think it should become a standard starting point for any discussion.

As for the media's fearmongering use of graphics and imagery - why am I not surprised? But if THEY were to read this document, I'd bet we'd hear a deafening silence from that corner for awhile.

Ironic isn't it, that a child in today's government-run schools would be sent to the Principal's office, dosed with Ritalin, interviewed by a child shrink, incarcerated then expelled for bringing that very graphic to any school?
Yes, I'm exaggerating a bit, but not too much.

The propogandist nature of that picture is astounding. Right out of Psyops 101.