Editorial: Just because you're paranoid

doesn't mean they aren't after you

David A. Lombardo

I'm getting a bit tired of liberals ranting that conservatives are paranoid even if we really are a bit paranoid.

You can hardly blame the fly-over country, gun and bible clutching, populous for thinking the government, and this government in particular, is out to get us. Rules for Radicals be damned, the libs can say they're not out to disarm citizens as often and as loud as they wish but it ain't going to make it true.

Hardly a day goes by without clear evidence law abiding, gun owning, conservatives are being targeted. For example, after saying he wouldn't sign the U.N. Small Arms Treaty before the election, the first thing the messiah did after the election was agree to sign it. You may recall that Obama, as an Illinois state senator, voted to criminalize residents for using a firearm against home invaders.

As House Democrats continue to push for gun control legislation despite the Senate's failure to pass a bipartisan agreement to expand background checks, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told reporters, "it's disappointing." Referring to the defeat of the Manchin-Toomey amendment in the Senate, she added, "But again, it's going to energize the efforts so that even more attention is paid on the choices made here in Congress and by those on the side of the safety of our children."

Mike Thompson, a California Democrat, repeatedly told reporters the vote was not going to be the end of gun control legislation in Congress. "We'll recalculate and get our bearings and go forward on this," Thompson said.

At various recent times Pelosi, Feinstein, Biden, Bloomberg and other senior Democratic leaders have publically stated total gun ban and confiscation was the primary goal. And despite protestations to the contrary, conservatives are being singled out by this administration for harassment. The latest revelation comes from none other than the Internal Revenue Service.

This week the IRS apologized for what it acknowledged was "inappropriate" targeting of conservative political groups during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status. IRS agents singled out about 300 groups for additional reviews simply because they included the words "tea party" or "patriot" in their exemption applications, according to Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS division that oversees tax-exempt groups.

"In some cases, groups were asked for lists of donors, which violates IRS policy in most cases," she said. She added that the agency was being led by a Bush administration appointee holdover and no high-level officials were aware. So we're still blaming Bush for all the ills of this corrupt, sycophant administration.

The bottom line is the rights of law abiding gun owners are targeted for extinction by a power mad cabal led by the messiah and his Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Bloomberg, Biden, Feinstein and Schumer.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you so I ask again, when are we going to take back America?

New Government Report Undercuts

Obama Anti-Gun Agenda

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), a component of the U.S. Justice Department, issued a report this week that shows firearm homicides in general, and violence at schools, have decreased substantially during the last two decades; the percentage of homicides committed with firearms has decreased; and only a tiny percentage of state prison inmates imprisoned for gun offenses obtain their guns from gun shows. As the Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin characterizes it, the report is "wonderful news for the country and rotten data for anti-gun advocates." To make matters worse for Obama, the story has been picked up by some heavy hitters in the national news media. In an article for U.S. News and NBCNews.com, veteran reporter Pete Williams points out that the BJS report shows that 40 percent of criminals get their guns from friends and family members, and another 37 percent get theirs from theft or other illegal sources. Lest gun control advocates accuse the BJS or Williams of having a pro-gun political agenda, Williams notes that "The report is strictly factual." In his articlefor the Washington Post, Jerry Markon says that while "gun shows were central" to the recent debate in the U.S. Senate over expanding background checks to cover private firearm transactions, "Less than 1 percent of state prison inmates who possessed a gun when they committed their offense obtained the firearm at a gun show," according to the report. (To be precise, the figure reported by the BJS is 0.8 percent.) 

Seven year olds suspended for

pointing a pencil and going bang

From the "When will we take back America" files, a couple of seven-year-old Suffolk, Va. boys were recently suspended from school for violating their school's weapons policy.  Their violation?  Pretending their pencils were guns. The two received the disciplinary action after they pointed their pencils at each other as if they were guns and made "gun noises" while playing in class. According to Bethanne Bradshaw of the Suffolk Public School system, "A pencil is a weapon when it is pointed at someone in a threatening way and gun noises are made." Wendy Marshall, the mother of one of the boys, says they were pretending to be in the military and that neither felt threatened.  Still, both were suspended. There seems to be no end to these cases of zero-tolerance policies being applied with zero common sense.  We recently reported on a seven-year-old Baltimore student who was suspended for two days for shaping a breakfastpastryinto what his teacher thought looked like a gun.  And then there was the recent case of another first-grader in Maryland who was suspended for holding his fingers in the shape of a gun and saying, "Pow!" while playing at school.  Where does the ridiculousness end? [Source: NRA/ILA]

Dramatic 20-year crime drop;

Americans rank gun control a low priority

Separate analytical studies released this week by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Pew Research Center confirmed that crimes involving firearms, as well as violent crime in general, have dropped dramatically in the last two decades, even as the nation's population has risen and firearms ownership has increased. The DOJ study demonstrated that only 1 percent of criminals obtained their firearms at gun shows and that semiautomatic rifles figured into less than 2 percent of crimes involving firearms. Those advocates are aided by the public misperception as reported in the Pew Center poll, that crimes involving firearms are rising. This was released to accompany it's analysis of crime data. Only 12 percent of Americans surveyed in that poll correctly replied that crime has been, in fact, 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.