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Written by Don B. Kates
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Monday, 02 August 2010 13:32 |
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Earlier this year the NRA asked me to do a presentation on armed self-defense -- both the law and the incidence. They ended up using only the law part. Here is the section on the utility of armed defense.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 02 August 2010 13:59 )
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Written by Don B. Kates
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Monday, 02 August 2010 12:22 |
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George Orwell is the pen name of the English socialist Eric Blair (1903-1950). He fought as a foreign volunteer supporting the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War. See Orwell's HOMAGE TO CATALONIA. Having observed at first hand the machinations of the Communists who came to dominate the doomed Republican struggle, Orwell became as vehement an anti-communist as he was an anti-fascist. His novels 1984 and ANIMAL FARM express his fear of, and rage against, Soviet Communism.
In Orwell's lifetime English gun control was in its infancy, but ever-increasing. Orwell viewed this as intrusive, unnecessary over-regulation and possibly a precursor of totalitarianism.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 02 August 2010 13:23 )
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Written by Don B. Kates
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Monday, 02 August 2010 10:33 |
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It is often said that under Islamic (Shariah) law women are second class citizens. That is untrue.
Under Islamic (Shariah) law women are treated as sub-human.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 02 August 2010 10:39 )
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IN McDONALD v. CHICAGO THE SUPREME COURT REAFFIRMED THAT HANDGUN OWNERSHIP IS A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT |
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Written by Don B. Kates
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Tuesday, 06 July 2010 07:52 |
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Chicago’s angry response to McDonald is an ordinance requiring that all handguns be registered and imposing a $115.00 tax and fee scheme on every admitted handgun owner. This raises the question of whether a city can ban handguns by prohibitorally taxing the exercise of the constitutional right (to own a handgun).
That is what a poll tax is.
Apparently it is settled that newspapers can be taxed. But can buying a newspaper be taxed? What about putting on a play or attending a play?
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 06 July 2010 08:03 )
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Written by Don B. Kates
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Wednesday, 19 May 2010 15:20 |
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In another pro-criminal 5-4 decision the Supreme Court today declared it cruel and unusual punishment to lock up a juvenile armed robber for life. The defendant was convicted of armed robbery (gun) at age 14. The judge gave him probation with a warning that he would be locked up for life if he erred again. The defendant promptly proceeded to commit at least two more gun robberies so the judge decided he was too dangerous to be sentenced to anything less than life. Now the Supreme Court declares it cruel and unusual punishment to lock up a juvenile armed robber for life.
In other words let him out again until he finally kills someone. Only then can he be locked up. In other words, it is not cruel and unusual for law abiding people to be subjected to this proven undeterrable gunman.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 19 May 2010 15:35 )
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