Posts Tagged ‘Second Amendment’

We, our nation’s veterans, are good enough to defend Colorado State Senator Mary Hodge’s First Amendment right to speak like an idiot.  We are not however to be trusted with firearms because in her view we suffer from mental illness. During the debate Friday at the Colorado State Capitol over limitations on high capacity gun [...]

As the assault on our Second Amendment rights continues, liberals have been quick to try to assuage the anger of the American people by offering a wide variety of asinine alternatives to protect ourselves.  In recent days we have heard that urinating, claiming you have a disease, whistles, and a host of other measures are [...]

Colorado Democrats have pulled out all the stops to take away our Second Amendment rights.  In one of the most asinine arguments in favor of one measure, Representative Joe Salazar (D-Thornton) suggested women might wrongly shoot someone if they “feel like” they are going to be raped. Leftist lawmakers have waged their war against law-abiding [...]

Politicians are always quick to seize on a tragedy and liberals even more so.  Their ongoing assault against our constitutional right to keep and bear arms is being played out very publically and at each turn they are being slapped down. From local TV to the national media, the leftist outlets are all too willing [...]

Local law enforcement officers around the nation are taking a stand against the Obama administration’s push to take away our 2nd Amendment rights.  Many have publically stated they will not enforce these unconstitutional mandates and a Colorado sheriff has now joined the chorus. Larimer County Sheriff Justin Smith posted a public message on his personal [...]

There has been no shortage of hysteria about gun control put forth by the liberal media and Democrats.  We knew they were going to use tragedy as opportunity and now we have our first look at the assault on the Second Amendment they are planning. Many expected a return of the so-called ‘Assault Weapons Ban’ [...]

Open carrying a firearm is protected by the 2nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and despite efforts to limit that right, it is perfectly legal to do so in most places in Colorado.  A second case of someone being improperly detained and arrested for exercising those rights has come to light. Two weeks ago City [...]

Open carrying a firearm to a movie theatre in the wake of a deadly mass shooting may be stupid but it isn’t illegal.  Such was the determination of Thornton’s city attorney in the case of James Mapes. Mapes made the poor choice of open carrying his firearm to Thornton’s Cinebarre movie theatre on Sunday, July [...]

An attempt by a man to exercise his 2nd Amendment rights in a movie theatre in Thornton Sunday has brought the gun control debate close to home.  James Mapes was arrested when he open carried his firearm into Cinnebarre, a less than wise move in the wake of the Century 16 shooting. According to the [...]

I had configured an automatic posting of a cartoon for Tony’s Rants’ usual ‘Friday funny’.  That has been removed.  Today there is nothing funny and it is certainly not a day for politics. What sort of demons were running through the young man’s head that compelled him to kill and injure so many in Aurora [...]