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Dogs Help Wounded Warriors Recover

Since 1999, dogs at Walter Reed Army Medical Center -- and now at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Fort Belvoir and Fort Meade -- have helped hundreds of wounded warriors in countless ways, and they continue to do so. 

Nobody does it better.

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Cuomo to N.Y. Sheriffs: Keep Quiet About Gun Law

A few politicians, in their zeal to peddle the agenda-based myth that all law enforcement officers favor oppressive gun laws, have been stymied by a recent rebellion to their antics—from Sheriff's associations in several states. 

As pointed out earlier, nebulous laws poison the relationship between law enforcement and the law-abiding citizens whom law enforcement serves.

What happens when autocratic politicians meet resistance to their infringment on the 2nd Amendment? Answer: they trample the 1st Amendment of course—as noted recently in an NSSF article by Larry Keane.

"New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo invited representatives of the New York State Sheriff’s Association to meet with him and discuss issues with the recently passed “SAFE Act.”  At least that’s what the sheriffs thought the meeting would be about."

"But instead, according to this article in the Albany Times Union, Cuomo told the sheriffs to cease and desist expressing their wide-ranging comments in opposition to many of the law’s provisions.  “The governor was of the opinion that the sheriffs around the state should not be interjecting their personal opinions in reference to the law,” according to one attendee."

There is a famous quote by Abraham Lincoln about trying to fool the people...

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Trustworthiness

The history and purpose of the 2nd Amendment to the United States Constitution has recently ignited a few profound discussions regarding the trust that citizens have in our government; these videos shed some light on the "trustworthiness" of any government populated by human beings.

Crime With Firearms at 20-Year Low

AMERICANS UNAWARE OF DRAMATIC DROP . . . The U.S. Department of Justice and the Pew Research Center last week issued studies confirming that crime involving firearms, as well as violent crime in general, has dropped dramatically in the last two decades, even as the nation's population and firearms ownership has increased. Yet, the American public believes that crime is rising. Only 12 percent of Americans surveyed correctly replied that crime has been significantly reduced in the last 20 years, as opposed to 56 percent who thought it was higher. On the other hand, Americans in a new Gallup poll do not rank gun control as a top national priority, placing it next to last on a list of 12 issues on which they think the President and Congress should be working.

There are lawyers at the state level that know just as much, and in some cases more, about our Constitution as the lawyers in Washington do. In their attack on the 2nd Amendment, some of the Washington lawyers may have opened a can of worms that will have repercussions beyond what they intended—as the following article from Guns Save Lives points out. -fl

Kansas Secretary of State to Eric Holder – You Don’t Understand the Constitution, Stay Out of Kansas

Well, this is getting interesting.

First, a little background. Back in April Kansas passed the Second Amendment Protection Act (SB 102).

This bill was meant to protect the Second Amendment rights of the Kansas citizens from new federal gun control laws and would actually make it illegal to enforce those laws within the state of Kansas.

Here is the description of that bill from the official legislation:

First, the bill excludes from federal regulation any personal firearm, firearm accessory, or ammunition manufactured commercially or privately and owned in Kansas. The bill provides that for as long as any such personal firearm, firearm accessory, or ammunition remains within the borders of Kansas, it is not subject to any federal law, regulation, or authority.

Second, the bill prevents any federal agent or contracted employee, any state employee, or any local authority from enforcing any federal regulation or law governing any personal firearm, firearm accessory, or ammunition manufactured commercially or privately and owned in Kansas, provided it remains within the borders of Kansas. In the process of a criminal prosecution, the bill precludes any arrest or detention prior to a trial for a violation of the Act.

Finally, the bill allows a county or district attorney or the Attorney General to seek injunctive relief in court to enjoin certain federal officials from enforcing federal law regarding a firearm, a firearm accessory, or ammunition that is manufactured commercially or privately and owned in the state of Kansas and that remains within the borders of Kansas.

Well, as you can imagine, the Obama administration didn’t like that too much.

So, Eric “Fast and Furious” Holder, decided to send a little letter to Kansas.

Here’s that [letter] (click to enlarge):

Here is where things get interesting.

On Thursday, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, fired back at [Holder]. The general gist of the message was, “You’re wrong. You don’t understand the Constitution. Bring it on.” I’m paraphrasing a bit there, so here is the full letter (click to enlarge):

Kobach doesn’t just go after the current administration in his open letter. He actually calls out the entire federal government for decades of abusing its power and overstepping its bounds.

This part highlights his thoughts on that matter:

“For the past 80 years, Congress has used the interstate commerce power as a conduit for asserting regulatory authority over numerous specific subjects that have nothing to do with interstate commerce – including firearms. While some federal regulations of firearms are permissible exercises of the interstate commerce power, others clearly are not. One of the things that the federal government cannot do is regulate firearms that have never travelled in interstate commerce and that have no substantial effect on interstate commerce – firearms covered by SB 102.”

I guess [the] ball is in your court Holder.

UPDATE: Kris Kobach added, in the following interview at Tom Gresham's Guntalk radio program on Sunday May 12th, "some fights are worth having." Amen to that.