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TYSK - Departments - 2nd Amendment
News,
Opinions, Research,
Alerts
concerning the ongoing assault on the
Second Amendment and the
Right to Keep and Bear Arms (RKBA)
 "The
laws that forbid the carrying of arms ... disarm only those who are
neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed
that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of
humanity ... will respect the less important and arbitrary ones ...
Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the
assailants, they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides,
for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an
armed man." — Thomas Jefferson
Second
Amendment
"He that hath
no sword, let him sell his garment and
buy one."
— Jesus Christ in Luke 22:36
The
Right To Keep And Bear Arms by
Mr. Kim Weissman Perhaps the best defense of the
historical context of the RKBA written by a non-historian — includes a
number of quality reference links.
What
State Constitutions Teach about The Second Amendment
by David Kopel
 27jul08The United Nations vs. the Second AmendmentDavid KopelDespite
protestations to the contrary, the U.N. remains quite interested in
constricting lawful gun ownership. Consider, for example, the United
Nations Disarmament Programme's publication, How to Guide: Small Arms and Light Weapons Legislation. 11may04
Fighting
Back: Crime, Self-Defense, and the Right to Carry
a Handgun Jeffrey
R. Snyder To the shock and dismay of gun control
proponents, concealed-carry reform has proven to be wildly popular
among state lawmakers. Since Florida launched its experiment with
concealed-carry in October 1987, 23 states have enacted similar laws,
with positive results.
10nov03 Left-wing Scholars Rewriting
History, Affecting Court Decisions Richard Poe It is
time to purge the "elite bar" of liars and ignoramuses. Too many
Americans died to give us our Constitution. Will we surrender it now to
the whims of leftist judges and law professors?
2mar03 Firearms and the Fourteenth
Amendment Robert
Greenslade In order to understand the effect of
the Fourteenth Amendment on the individual right to keep and bear arms,
it is necessary to review some of the legislative history surrounding
the Amendment. Ratified by the several States on July 9, 1868, section
1 of this Amendment states in part:
19jan03 Foul Language Jennifer Freeman If
gun-ban groups were to take an honest approach and say what they mean,
the firearms debate would be a non-issue because the overwhelming
majority of Americans would find the aims of gun-banners to be contrary
to the U.S. Constitution and our innate right to life and self defense.
8dec02
The Fearsome Second Amendment
People's rights vs. tyrants' ambitions Dorothy
Anne Seese Today's leaders keep speaking about
our great liberties before the television cameras, behind the scenes
those liberties are being pickpocketed coin by coin from the people so
that they cannot use the right they were given to change, by force if
necessary, an oppressive and tyrannical government.
10nov02
Bullets
and Bunkum: The futility of 'Ballistic Fingerprinting'
John R. Lott, Jr.
When the cartridges used with a particular gun came from the
same manufacturer, computer matching failed 38 percent of the time.
When the cartridges came from different manufacturers, the failure rate
rose to 62 percent.
29oct02
Professor
Quits in Probe of Gun Book Arming
America author, professor Michael Bellesiles, who wrote that
firearms were rare in early America, has resigned from Atlanta's Emory
University after an investigation found he "willingly misrepresented
the evidence" in his award-winning book.
24jun02
Constitutional
Confusion Kim
Weissman With the Supreme Court shirking its
responsibility, it remains (as it always ultimately is) the duty of
this nation's final authority — We, the People of the United States —
to decide the meaning of the Constitution.
13feb02
Her
Own Bodyguard: Gun-packing First Lady The
Independence Institute What a perfect example of
how the Second Amendment is really the cornerstone of our Bill of
Rights, the guarantor of all others. It was the
exercise of her Second Amendment rights that empowered Eleanor
Roosevelt to use her First Amendment rights to crusade for the
Fourteenth Amendment rights of blacks.
15jan02
A
Criminal's Best Friend Kim
Weissman In spite of the alleged "new spirit"
abroad in the country since September 11, rational thinking and common
sense are no more common now than they were on September 10.
7nov01
Some
Reflections on the Right to Bear Arms Richard
M. Ebeling "Though it may seem harsh... when I
read the advocates of gun control pointing to incidents of private acts
of violence against children, I think to myself, how many... children
were killed... in the last century by governments?"
1nov01
Reviving
the Second Amendment Robert
A. Levy A review of the recent ruling in US v.
Emerson where "the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit joined
the Bush administration and respected legal scholars across the
political spectrum in affirming the right that each of us enjoy, as
individuals, to own a gun."
2sep01
Fundamentally
Flawed (Pt. 2) — The Real-World Test of Gun Ban Ideology We
in this country argue the finer points of Constitutional interpretation
to decide whether individuals have the right to keep and bear arms, but
in so doing we ignore the larger issue — that when honest people are
disarmed, criminals find it easier to ply their trade. This is
undeniable. 27aug01
Fundamentally
Flawed — Gun Ban Ideology This
is the most dangerous presumption of the whole argument, with
implications for the utter destruction of our freedom that go beyond
the individual right to keep and bear arms.
22jul01
Still
a Nation of Cowards We
are asking the government to protect us from ourselves so that we can
be freed from that responsibility. This might seem like a logical plan,
especially to lazy slackers who aren't willing to assume the basic
duties of a free person. 1june01
Gun-Show
Bill is Not What They Say The
bill has almost nothing to do with what you've probably heard so far.
The so-called "gun-show loophole" headlines are a minor detail and
basically obscure what the bill really does.
16may01
Million
Mom March Dangerous To Women And Kids Liz
Michael Every individual participating in this
march or financing this march is effectively sponsoring a future
criminal assault on me and people I love, and I hold them as
responsible as the criminal himself.
19apr01
Gun Violence and Constitutional
Issues Miguel
A. Faria Jr., M.D. The lessons of history
sagaciously reveal that whenever and wherever science and medicine have
been subordinated to the state and individual will has been crushed by
tyranny, the results have been as perverse as they have been disastrous.
12apr01
Scholars
Take Aim at Gun History and Michael Bellesiles's Arming
America "While
Mr. Bellesiles insists modern public policy isn't his 'business,' in a
debate that depends so much on knowledge of the Founders' intentions,
history is key. His duty as a scholar is to clear up the questions his
work has raised." 12apr01
Guns
in the Medical Literature – A Failure of Peer Review
Edgar A. Suter, MD
Errors of fact, design, and interpretation abound in the
medical literature on guns and violence. The peer review process has
failed to prevent publication of the errors of politicized,
results-oriented research. 
7apr01
Medical
Evidence: Gun Control Won't Solve Crime "Much
of this information is tainted, result-oriented, and based on what can
only be characterized as poor science,” the study concludes.
26mar01
Some
Time To Kill John
R. Lott Jr. Getting the government to release
information on the costs of licensing and registration is like cracking
the black operations budgets in the U.S. Defense Department.
updated
24mar01 To Preserve and Protect Your
rest in the peaceful darkness of the bedroom is shattered by the sound
of breaking glass! At such a moment, would you wish to reach for a copy
of the Brady Bill or a loaded handgun from the nightstand next to you?
 24feb01
Guns
Effective Defense Against Rape A
two-part editorial from the Univ. of Minnesota newspaper The
Minnesota Daily.
20mar01
Trust
The People: The Case Against Gun Control The
calls for more gun restrictions or for bans on some or all guns are
calls for significant change in our social and constitutional systems.
18feb01
Why
Women Should Care about RKBA Personal
defense is an increasingly important consideration in our troubled
society. For women, personal defense is a vitally important issue, as
men generally outweigh and outmuscle women, and commit most violent
crimes. 13feb01
Physician Group Slams Handgun Report A
prominent member of the Assoc. of American Physicians and Surgeons has
refuted key details of a study by the Violence Policy Center, in which
researchers concluded that women were not safer if they used a handgun
for self-defense. 30jan01
Media
Slant Changing On Gun Issues Perhaps
they have finally realized that a mountain of evidence shows the
futility and counterproductive results of gun control laws.
16jan01
Gun
Control Kills Some of
the best research to prove that gun control doesn't work has come from
researchers assigned the task of coming up with figures to promote
gun control by Jimmy Carter.
11jan01
Handgun
Control, Inc. Discredits Itself HCI’s
idea of what the Constitution stands for goes directly against the
first paragraph of the Declaration of Independence and all that it
entails. 9jan01
Were the Colonists Gun-Haters? Geoff
Metcalf interviews historian Dr. Joyce Malcolm. Malcolm,
a professor and historian, wasn't convinced of the assertions made by
Professor Michael Bellesiles in his book, "Arming America:
The Origins of a National Gun Culture." Bellesiles claims
that the American colonists did not, by and large, own or value
firearms. 5jan01
Discussing
the Issues: It's How You Say It
23dec00
NRA
Santa When
all of a sudden there came such a jolt, I grabbed for my Mossberg, and
whipped out my Colt. 3dec00
Gun
Rights: Power to the People Why
don't the politicians want us to own weapons? What are the politicians
afraid of? That we're all going to kill each other? I don't think so.
5nov00
Deconstructing the Second
Amendment Stephen P.
Halbrook
2oct00
The Blank Tape
Robert A.
Waters The aftermath? Who wants to read about a
former beauty contestant whose face is scarred from knife cuts?
25sep00
Deaths In
Merced "If
you survey burglars, American burglars spend at least twice as long
casing a joint before they break in. ... The number one reason they
give for taking so much time is: They're afraid of getting shot."
–Yale Law School Senior Research Scholar Dr. John Lott
6aug00
Gun Banners
Pound On The Table The
louder the anti-gun crowd gets the more they call attention to the
facts about firearm deaths and crime. Now rational people are beginning
to demand accountability from the gun control extremists and credible,
scholarly research is exposing their emotional sham for what it is...
outright lies.
20jul00 Has
Your Bookshelf Been Approved by the BATF?
19jul00
Gun-grabbers:
Masters of the New Plantation Those
who would ban the private ownership of weapons of military usefulness
to individual Americans today are not just liars ... they're also
racists. 9jul00
The
Two Most Threadbare 'Gun Control' Lies I
don't know if they're the two biggest lies told by the victim
disarmament gang, but they're easily the most threadbare, climbing out
of their graves over and over to spread their stench like rotting
vampires that have been killed but never properly staked.
27jun00
The Right
Of Law Abiding Citizens How
many of those "gun victims" eulogized and exploited by Daschle were
only victims because they were rendered defenseless and helpless by the
likes of Tom Daschle, Bill Clinton, Sarah Brady, Rosie O'Donnelll, and
all the other advocates of gun control?
11jun00
Legally
Speaking – Be Careful What You Ask For When Advocating Enforcement
7jun00
When
It Comes to Firearms, Do As I Say, Not as I Do Few
have declared their opposition to guns as strongly as O'Donnell. The
advice that O'Donnell has freely given others no longer seems to match
what she thinks is best for her own family.
6jun00
A
Mother's Choice He
didn't touch me. He didn't rape me. He wasn't allowed to. I had a gun.
He didn't. I kept the power he had come to ruthlessly steal.
14may00
Paranoid
About Gun Ownership? Limousine
liberals will often ask me, "Why are you so paranoid about the Second
Amendment?" The answer is in the facts.
12may00
The
Equalizer It should be
recognized that local governments have sought to ban firearms from what
is frequently considered one of today's untrustworthy and suspect
classes, the urban poor. 7apr00
Anybody
Feeling Afraid? My
fear is fuel for my courage, strength, faith and deep knowing that we
will reclaim this nation at all costs, and I do mean ALL costs.
7apr00
Women
are Champions of Concealed Carry Reform
The right to protect oneself with a firearm
is indeed an issue of choice, and an issue that is clearly a woman’s
issue. 31mar00
Women
and Guns Violence
against women is an extremely serious problem, yet women are constantly
told to forgo the most effective means of self-defense.
14mar00
Thugs
Still Reign In Taxachusetts "Under
Massachusetts law you can keep a loaded firearm in your vehicle if
you're a licensed owner; you can have it taped to the window if you so
desire." 5mar00
Gun
Control: The Seventh Paradox Few
public policy discussions have become so bitter and divisive as the
endless debate over guns. None is so burdened with contradictions and
misinformation. 3mar00
Crime,
Self-Defense, and the Right to Carry a Handgun
Since criminals can strike almost anywhere at any time,
the last thing government ought to be doing is stripping citizens of
the most effective means of defending themselves. Carrying a handgun in
public may not be for everyone, but it is a right that government ought
to respect.
3mar00 So, You Want To See Me Naked?
Linda A. Prussen-Razzano
I will not trust the future of my security to things like "luck". I
will not be a statistic, just so you can feel as if you have "done
something." 27feb00
Vin Suprynowicz has
ongoing dialog with a reader on the subject of the 2nd Amendment,
particularly as it applies to a 'militia'. Part
1 ~~~o~~~ Part 2
24feb00
Gun Ownership Mandatory in
Kennesaw, GA Crime Rate Plummets The
major press has convienently ignored the almost non-existant crime rate
in Kennesaw, Georgia where gun ownership is mandatory.
14feb00
The Uplifters Try It Again
H.L. Mencken, in this article
from 1925, skewers the utopian wish for a society free from handguns.
Seventy-five years later the issue remains and his words are as
appropriate as ever.
13feb00
Gun Control Illogic The
suffering of innocents is irrelevant to left-wing gun ban extremists,
the politically correct media, and pandering politicians.
5feb00
National Safety Council Report
Parents have less to fear from
firearms than other causes in childrens' accidental deaths.
20 times more likely to die from falls, 5 times more
likely to drown.
3feb00
The only question about gun
registration... How
exactly would writing down my name, or your name, help arrest criminals
or make you safer?
22jan00
Results Are In on British Gun Laws
Police sources were quoted as
saying that guns had become "almost a fashion accessory" among young
criminals on the street. "Our investigation established that guns are
available through means open to any criminally minded individual."
20jan00
The Seven Myths of Gun Control
Ignorance about guns and gun
rights has reached pandemic proportions. Most of what Americans think
they know about guns is false. Print
and Save
12jan00 The
Facts about Gun Shows Despite
what some media commentators have claimed, existing gun laws apply just
as much to gun shows as they do to any other place where guns are sold.
26dec99
Cold
Comfort Reason
magazine interviews John Lott
19dec99 The Paramount Agenda The
major long-term obstacle to the Clintonistas' overarching agenda to
incrementally implement their elite "tyranny of the few" worldview is,
as our Founders expressly intended, our Second Amendment rights.
14dec99
Annie's Got Her Gun A
world with violence -- that is to say, with men -- but without weapons
is the worst of all possible worlds for women.
12dec99
Federal Threats It
is supposed to be the Congress that passes laws, not a president acting
as though he has been anointed king.
8dec99 But No Honest Citizen Needs A Gun
... Right? I defy
anyone to dismiss these 14 harrowing, true-life accounts, often told in
the words of the very crime victims who survived their ordeals due to
one common factor: The fact that in America, we have a right to bear
arms.
5dec99
Doctors Deadlier Than Guns Kim
WeissmanDespite all the anti-gun hysteria from
various medical groups, it appears from the Institute for Medicine
study that doctors themselves are deadlier, and pose an even greater
threat to "human welfare and survival", than the guns they so hate and
rail against.
15nov99
Gun
Registration & Confiscation Defied This
essay is relevant to all infringements on our Constitution and his
arguments are themselves an education in its intent and its true
interpretation
10nov99
The Last Line of Defense
The right to bear arms is a
matter of individual safety and, ultimately, freedom. The issue goes
far beyond gun nuts.
28aug99
"the federal government may
not disarm individual citizens without some unusually strong
justification." Scholar's
shift in thinking angers liberals Renowned
scholar, Laurence Tribe, re-thinks the Second Amendment
19aug99
The Parable of the Sheep
Not so long ago and in a pasture
too uncomfortably close to here, a flock of sheep lived and grazed.
1jun99
updated 8aug99
Ignorance No Longer An Excuse
Will an irrevocable decision you
make be based on fact or fantasy?
7aug99 The Big Lie: You Have
No Rights The
idea that the Second Amendment doesn't allow individual people to keep
and bear arms is so logically bankrupt it's hard to imagine why anyone
would use it in an argument.
4aug99
Boundary
Violation: Gun Politics in the Doctor’s Office
29jul99
Embarrassing
Second Amendment
22jul99
Worry
about the freedom to own a gun -- even if you don't
by Charlie Reese
25jun99
The
Tree of Liberty The
right to keep and bear arms "[is] the palladium of the liberties of the
republic," which enables the citizenry to deter tyranny. -- Justice
Joseph Story 6jul99
"More
Gun Controls? They Haven't Worked in the Past" by
John R. Lott Jr. 22jun99
Nazi
Repression of Firearms Owners New
research on the Nazi confiscation of registered guns - and execution of
gun owners - provides a poignant lesson on why Americans have always
opposed the registration of peaceable firearms owners.
5jun99
TESTIMONY
OF DARRELL SCOTT FATHER OF TWO
VICTIMS OF COLUMBINE HIGH SCHOOL SHOOTING LITTLETON, COLORADO
5jun99
Lawmaking
Hysteria "The truth
has always been available for anyone willing to find it, but few were
willing to devote the time."
23may99
Calling
All Killers "Do you
doubt that you have a better chance of being hit by a meteorite or of
winning the Powerball Lottery jackpot than of being murdered by an NRA
member?" 26apr99
"Multiple
Victim Public Shootings, Bombings, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handgun
Laws." A Study by
Profs. John Lott and William Landes
25apr99
SPECIAL REPORT GUN
CONTROL IN BLUE Exhaustive
survey of law enforcement officers
19apr99
Guns
and the Constitution
Prof. Eugene Volokh, UCLA Law School
4mar99
History
Gives Verdict on Self-defense
31jan99
Gun Facts
M. O. Reynolds & H. S. Burnett
31jan99
Why
Guns L. Neil Smith
RESOURCE
LINKS
The
Stentorian A
Web domain devoted to the art and science of political communication
Recommended!
FIREARMS
& LIBERTY One
of the BEST and largest online sources of documents and articles!
 The
RKBA info from
Congress Action
Independence
Institute—::—
David
Kopel'shomepage
2nd Amendment
& RKBA Source Documents
Second
Amendment Foundation JPFO
Women Against
Gun Control
Keep
AndBear ArmsGun
OwnersHomepage
Gun
CiteGreat
Reference Resource NRA
NRA-ILA
Research Gun
Owners of America Overlawyered.com
Doctors for
Responsible Gun Ownership
Women
&Guns
Second Amendment
Sisters (SAS)
Liberty Belles
Articles by
Prof. John Lott
The Emerson case (United
States of America v. Timothy Joe Emerson) and whythe
Second Amendment MEANS an INDIVIDUAL right to keep and bear arms.
"When the
strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his goods are in
peace." -- Luke 11:21 (RSV)
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