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• How Many People Own Guns in America? And Is Gun Ownership Actually Declining?

  March 19, 2013 at 12:09pm

  Since this article does not specifically call out the major impact of more single-parent homes, that’s an increase in the number of household… the denominator in the “percent of households” equation. In the 1970′s, there were about 70M households. If 50% owned guns, then roughly 35M households owned guns. In the 2000′s, there were about 115M households. If 35% owned guns, that means over 40M households owned guns. So gun ownership is more broad, but has not expanded as quickly as the number of households.

• Would Mandatory Gun Ownership Laws Violate Citizens’ Constitutional Rights?

  March 12, 2013 at 8:58am

  Come on, Blaze. Surely this story is incomplete without telling the tale of Kennesaw Georgia, which has had a town ordinance requiring each household to own a gun since 1982. Please update your article!

• Bill O’Reilly Calls for Gun Registration on Letterman: ‘Just Like You Have to Register Your Car’

  February 12, 2013 at 12:43pm

  Let’s be clear. I do not need to register a car that I purchase. I only need to register a car that I purchase IF I want to drive it on public roads.

• Iran’s Alleged New Invention: Finger Amputation Machine (*Graphic Photo Warning*)

  January 28, 2013 at 9:15am

  Sorry, but this is a fake. The machine is clearly a powered shear. The motor drives the large flywheel, seen at the right top of the machine. This flywheel is connected to a shaft that runs left through the top of the solid green assembly to an offset arm, seen pointed down in the first picture. As this arm rotates, it moves up and down the heavy shearing blade, “T” shaped when seen from the end (first pic) with a sharp bevel on the bottom edge. The shearing blade runs up and down right next to a fixed anvil.

  At no point do we see the man’s fingers extending through the cutting zone, between the blade and anvil. Switch to the last picture, where this man’s fingers have allegedly been cut off by the shear. The blade is up relative to the anvil, since you can see through this space around the man’s waist. Notably, there is no evidence of blood or tissue on or around the blade or anvil. There is absolutely no possibility that this man’s fingers have just been cut off on this machine.

  Nice tale, though.

• AP Fact Check: Here Are Obama & Romney’s Biggest Missteps & Mistruths During Last Night’s Debate

  October 4, 2012 at 8:03am

  In that last chunk assessing Romney cutting the deficit, the AP makes the same assumption the liberals always do… that our economy remains of the same size. Why is it so difficult for some people to realize that economies grow when people are more free to succeed? Once can take the relative size of government from 23% to 20% of the economy by keeping government the same and growing the economy by 15%.

• MSNBC Small Business Panelist: ‘Insane’ To Think You Built It ‘All By Yourself’

  September 18, 2012 at 12:45pm

  To the extent that a given business relies on functional roads and bridges so forth, it’s certainly true that the individual business owner did not build these things. But let us be clear. The President said there are lots of smart people out there and lots of hard working people out there. Each of these smart and/or hard working people had available the very same infrastructure that they did not personally build, and yet every one of these smart and/or hard working people does not own a successful business. Many of them have tried, and many more have decided not to try. The difference between those who failed or did not try and those who succeeded is not something provided by government or anyone else. The difference lies with the individual. The difference is indeed something that person DID build.

• Rep. Joe Walsh to Sandra Fluke: You’re 31, ‘Go Get a Job’

  September 9, 2012 at 10:31am

  Great statement by Walsh. However, Blaze… PLEASE get this right:

  “following her testimony before a congressional panel”

  Sandra Fluke DID NOT testify before a congressional committee. She was put for by the Democrats at the last minute, rejected by the Republicans as unvetted and irrelevant, and gave her statement at a Democrat press conference after the committee met. Speaking at a presser is not testimony, and the Democrat members only do not a committee make!

• Rev. Jesse Jackson Wants a Ban on All Guns Aside From ‘Bolt-Action Rifles, Shotguns & Revolvers’ (Poll)

  September 8, 2012 at 11:21am

  Just to sprinkle a little fact in here, since many people probably don’t know the specifics of the AWB, here are the basics of the law Jackson and the Dems think is vital to making us safe.

  The AWB banned rifles that had detachable magazines and two or more of the following characteristics: folding or telescoping stock, pistol grips, bayonet mount, flash suppressor, or threads to attach a suppressor, or a grenade launcher. That’s how it defined an “assault weapon.” Notice that a rifle with a 100-round drum magazine and a grenade launcher could be completely legal under the AWB as long as it did not ALSO have a bayonet lug, flash suppressor, folding stock or pistol grip.

  The 1994 Assault Weapons Ban limited the ability to buy guns that “look” dangerous, without regard to how dangerous they actually might be. Bayonet lug? When is the last time you’ve read about someone going on a bayonetting spree? Flash suppressor? Get real. All the Dems who look to this law as a model are idiots.

  Come and take them.

• Anti-Obama Signs Ignite Controversy: ‘Somewhere in Kenya, a Village Is Missing Its Idiot’

  August 30, 2012 at 5:51pm

  “If (my 6-year-old daughter) saw that, she’d say ‘Why is that little girl doing that? What does that mean?’” Folsom said. “How do I explain that?”

  You know, when I said the same thing about two men getting out of the same bed in the morning on prime time TV, I was called homophobic…

• Author of ‘Hit the Road’ Newsweek Cover Story Skewers His Critics

  August 22, 2012 at 9:17am

  Ferguson’s response hit it perfectly… particularly in pointing out that his critics pick nits from the elephant’s behind while ignoring the observation that there is an elephant in the living room. Great job, a must-read! Exactly the way the right should respond to the left on most things they harp on.