Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Obama Administration's Drive for Gun Control, and How The Drive Became Fast and Furious Crimes


LaPierre: Obama Out to Erase Second Amendment - NewsMax

Should President Barack Obama secure a second term as president it will “break the back of the Second Amendment” and excise the right to bear arms from the Constitution, the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre tells Newsmax.TV.

The executive vice president of the NRA, in an exclusive interview at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, said the GOP candidates for president are all solid in their support of the Second Amendment.

Gun ownership 'very difficult' despite Supreme Court rulings - Fox News

In 2008, after hearing a case challenging the restrictive gun laws in Washington, D.C., the Supreme Court ordered local officials to make it possible for law-abiding citizens to own a gun.

It was a landmark Second Amendment win for gun rights advocates, but there is growing disagreement about what's happened in the wake of that ruling from the nation's highest court.

Emily Miller, a senior opinion editor at The Washington Times and also a crime victim, decided to get a gun following the Supreme Court's decision, but says she had no idea how "frustrating" it would be.

2nd Fast and Furious Gun Linked to ICE Agent Jaime Zapata Murder Turns Up - Scotty Starnes, Politically Incorrect Conservative

Two US law enforcement agents, and thousands of Mexican citizens, have been killed by President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder’s botched ‘Fast and Furious’ gun trafficking scheme. As of today, nobody at the DOJ has been held accountable and nobody has been charged.

From CBSNews:

Prosecutors recently sentenced a Texas man, Manuel Barba, for trafficking a weapon connected to the murder of Immigration and Customs (ICE) Agent Jaime Zapata. Nobody was more astonished to learn of the case than Zapata’s parents, who didn’t know that Barba had been arrested or linked to their son’s murder.

Hunters fire back at environmental group’s effort to ban ‘toxic’ lead bullets - Fox News

Hunters are up in arms over an Arizona-based conservation group latest bid to get the federal government to ban lead bullets, which the environmentalists claim contaminates the food chain.

The Center for Biological Diversity, which claims 220,000 members, has sent a petition to the Environmental Protection Agency on behalf of nearly 100 groups in 35 states asking the agency to regulate lead right out of ammunition. It's the second time the group has attempted to get the EPA to take up the cause, and the group is currently suing the federal agency for rejecting the previous bid.

The Center for Biological Diversity has sent a petition to the EPA asking for stricter regulations on the use of lead for hunting ammunition, claiming that the spent casings are a toxic hazard for wildlife.

Hunting groups scoff at the Center's claims that lead left in the carcasses of animals they shoot but don't collect harms the food chain and that spent casings can contaminate groundwater. They say the group has long sought to curb their rights to hunt and own firearms.

Fla. students rally to demand arrest of neighborhood watch leader who shot unarmed black teenStudents want watch leader who shot teen arrested - Newser

College students around Florida rallied Monday to demand the arrest of a white neighborhood watch captain who shot an unarmed black teen last month, though authorities may be hamstrung by a state law that allows people to defend themselves with deadly force.

See, I Told You So: Fast and Furious was About Gun Control - Rush Limbaugh

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