Long Days of Stupidity

One of my MMA instructors has perfected the response to idiotic pacifists who think they're morally superior because they don't carry weapons, take martial arts classes, or have any other means of defending themselves because they "don't believe in violence". One day he was giving a presentation about the martial arts classes and someone said that and his response was "yeah, well, violence believes in you". Humorous as it may be, it brings up a very important point. Violence happens regardless of what the victim believes, if violence only happened to people who believed the initiation of force against a peaceful person was a good thing, the world would be a much better place, but it doesn't.  I don't believe there's a single person alive or dead that has never been more than 3 degrees removed from some kind of violence. If they didn't get bullied in school, their friend did. If they didn't get mugged one of their coworkers did. If the...

Of all the infringements of our basic right to self-protection, affirmed by the second amendment of the United States Constitution, HR-127, the bill proposed by Sheila Jackson Lee earlier this year, is the most egregious, the most dangerous, and the most blatantly unconstitutional. For starters, it would make millions of people across the nation felons overnight. Countless gun owners over the age of 18 yet under the age of 21 will be forced to turn in their legally obtained and owned firearms or otherwise become felons. Millions of other gun owners will be forced to turn in legally obtained firearms and firearm accessories or else become felons. Those few firearms left will be subject to a burdensome tax and worse will be made a matter of public record, so that no burglar will ever need to worry about which houses to violate. Any national gun registry will make the home addresses of all peaceful, law-abiding gun owners a matter of public record. Those who wish to rob and murder in safe...