What Mayor Bloomberg Doesn't Know About Police and Guns: Take the annual survey by the National Association of Chiefs of Police of more than 20,000 chiefs of police and sheriffs. In 2010 it found that 95% believed "any law-abiding citizen [should] be able to purchase a firearm for sport or self-defense." Seventy-seven percent believed that concealed-handgun permits issued in one state should be honored by other states "in the way that drivers' licenses are recognized through the country"—and that making citizens' permits portable would "facilitate the violent crime-fighting potential of the professional law enforcement community."
National surveys of street officers are rare, but they show officers to be overwhelmingly in favor of law-abiding civilians owning and carrying guns. A 2007 national survey of sworn police officers by Police Magazine found that 88% disagreed that "tighter restrictions on handgun ownership would increase or enhance public safety." In the same survey, 67% opposed tighter gun control because the "law would only be obeyed by law-abiding citizens."
Church, State, and Obama: From the most simplistic and mawkish religious views to the most intellectually subtle ones, the body of ecclesiastical beliefs and practices has been, in many countries (but not always), the most reliable restraint to overweening statism. However much these views may be despised by the academic, bureaucratic, and media elites that are the core of the strength of the Democratic party, most Americans are somewhat religious, and most are cautious, as were the Founders, about the powers of government. Most Americans do not respect the Supreme Court, and the great majority have been contemptuous of successive Congresses and administrations.In trying to subordinate and marginalize America’s religious institutions, the Obama administration is playing with high explosives. It is a bad, dangerous, and devious encroachment on constitutional liberty, and could undermine one of the greatest pillars of American national success. The balance between faith and reason is for the determination of each individual, and of the people as a whole, not of unauthorized government officials uttering impious humbug as they arbitrarily try to define that balance.
"Today, the people who would use guns to violate rights have little trouble getting them, while those who would use them to defend their rights have increasing trouble getting them. ... Gun control is in effect a subsidy for criminals." -- Sheldon Richman
TWEETS & QUOTES
Here comes higher spending - RINOs need to realize they have to take a stand or never get the opportunity again http://bit.ly/NW2RDR
"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers" Thomas Jefferson
When will the pundits realize that there is no monolithic "Tea Party", just more energized #grassroots #patriots?
SHAMEFUL! Another Leak of Sensitive Intelligence Information by the Obama Administration - Who will die?http://bit.ly/M6u2NE #tcot
INCREDIBLE! White Students Not Allowed To Transfer Out Of Failing School http://bit.ly/QjjAmt
The Democratic Party Fascists Take Over - Welcome to Barack Obama's America http://bit.ly/Ope1iZ
What a Tea Party Win Really Means for Washington http://bit.ly/Qv4KZF
Chick-Fil-A and the Heart of America - the cultural Left has been handed an absolutely huge defeat today! http://bit.ly/Nn1rz4
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