Gun Control

21WIRE | Despite evidence to the contrary, the media continue ramping up the 'hate crime' rhetoric.

The chilling video released last week of the police response inside Robb Elementary in Uvalde, TX on May 24 exposes the police. Dressed in tactical gear, officers waited over an hour to confront the gunman who killed 21 people in a senseless act of violence. Rather than being a local problem, this is a national issue: Over and over again, videos—many of them shot by bystanders—show police killing unarmed Black people. At the same time the police are hailed as heroes required to keep the peace and bring criminals to justice.

Today being 7-11, one would have thought it would be a lucky day. But America being America, ever fascinated with guns and gun culture, it’s just another day of violence in which, on average, sees 96 people killed by guns. Oddly, too, it was one week ago on July 4th that a deranged gunman killed seven people at an Independence[Read More...]

Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, 67, Japan’s longest-serving leader, died on Friday hours after he was shot while campaigning for a parliamentary election, shocking a country in which political violence is rare and guns are tightly controlled.

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The US Supreme Court issued a rare decision supporting constitutional gun rights and ruled 6-3 that Americans have the right to carry arms outside of the home and in public. The ruling will affect other states that include California, Delaware, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Rhode Island.

Tucker Carlson said that when leaders stop representing voters, it destabilizes society and it becomes revolutionary, which is the reason why Washington DC is trying to disarm the public.

Gun researcher John Lott said that Red Flag laws appear to have had "no significant effect on murder, suicide, the number of people killed in mass public shootings, robbery, aggravated assault or burglary."

None of us will never able to have an informed opinion if evidence on one side or the other is denied to us. It is our firm belief that truth will ultimately prevail when all evidence is available for examination.

The deal does NOT include Joe Biden’s proposals to ban “assault weapons” or “high-capacity” magazines. However, the agreement would incentivize states to pass their own “red flag” laws to establish gun purchase restrictions on individuals a judge has deemed a threat.