“We require insurance to own a car, but no such requirement exists for guns,” Maloney said in a statement. “The results are clear: car fatalities have declined by 25 percent in the last decade, but gun fatalities continue to rise.”
Source: House bill would require gun owners to have liability insurance | TheHill
“Banning guns is like banning forks in an attempt to stop making people fat. Taking away guns, taking away drugs, the booze, it won’t rid the world of criminality,” said the star of the second season of “True Detective,” according to excerpts of the cover story published Monday.
Source: Vince Vaughn: We should allow guns in schools – Nick Gass – POLITICO
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Read more @ Ruger – LCP® Product Safety Warning and Recall Notice
The Colt M1911A1 versus the Beretta M9, Glock vs. Sig, 9mm vs .40 vs. .45ACP; gun culture folks love to argue with each other. And, you know what, this is America and people have the freedom to do just that, argue about minutia and trivial pursuits.
For as long as I have been paying attention to the gun culture, better than thirty years now, gun rags have been promoting the “versus” technique to sell magazines. If there had been a Guns&Ammo magazine in 1821, the cover story would have likely read “Flint vs. Percussion Cap; Our Experts Decide” Am I telling you not to argue Weaver vs. Isosceles or Leather vs. Kydex? No, I am not. What I am going to tell you is that the United States of America as founded as a representative republic is in dire peril. It is far beyond time to get our priorities in order.
Read more @ Hey Gun Culture; Your Priorities Suck and Here is Why | Student of the Gun Blog
In the article above, Paul Markel speaks on an issue we’ve noticed here at GOTR as well. Substantive posts by gun blogs are often ignored. Call it mental masturbation if you will. People happily click on memes or posts comparing/hailing/lambasting guns, bullets, and gear. But few seem interested in clicking on anything that requires engaging any part of their brain that isn’t involved in sexual gratification and that’s a shame.
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AUSTIN — Texas is a hair’s breadth away from legalizing the licensed open carry of handguns after the state Senate late Friday approved the legislation following hours spent arguing over a controversial amendment that would limit cops’ ability to detain gun owners.
The Senate approved House Bill 910, which would allow properly licensed gun owners to openly carry their handguns in shoulder or hip holsters. The bill passed by a final vote of 19-12 and now heads back to the House, where that chamber’s members will have to agree with the Senate’s changes.
Debate was prolonged late into the evening after Dallas Republican Don Huffines proposed an amendment that would bar police from stopping someone solely for openly carrying a handgun in public. The emotional, heated and often personal debate was an unusual turn of events in the Senate, in which debate is normally highly scripted. An unusual coalition of Democrats and some Republicans banded together to oppose the amendment, saying it would tie the hands of law enforcement and put the public in danger.
Read more@Texas Senate OKs open-carry legislation – Houston Chronicle
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