Posted June 21, 2015 5:00 pm by Comments

By Dan Zimmerman

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As our ‘I Am A Gun Owner’ Facebook album illustrates, gun owners come in all shapes, sizes, colors, predilections and points on the political continuum. Which is as it should be. That said, it’s safe to say that the majority of our readers — and gun owners in general — tend toward the right/libertarian segments of the spectrum. Generally speaking, opponents of Americans’ Second Amendment freedoms reliably line up stage left. So again, generally speaking, friends of the RKBA will be found among members of the GOP. But as a couple of recent examples make clear, blindly assuming that Republicans are gun owners’ friends can be hazardous to the health of your civil rights. Take bloviating egotist Bill O’Reilly for example . . .

Federalize all firearms-related offenses? Give the power to prosecute all “gun crimes” to people like Eric Holder? People who are avowed enemies of Second Amendment freedoms? What could possibly go wrong?

With a nod toward the right of individual states to regulate turn as they see fit, blow-hard Bill also prescribes federally mandated “regulation conformity’ among the states as a fix for America’s (ever-declining) gun crime problem. But whatever …read more

Source:: Truth About Guns

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