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The state of Kansas agrees.

Lawrence O’Donnell’s gun ignorance was on full display on The McLaughlin Group.
Carolyn McCarthy showed hers last week.
And more on Yale’s anti-gun idiocy from Inside Higher Ed:
It was six hours before opening night. Sarah Holdren, director of a Yale student production, had just entered the theater for a routine pre-performance errand when the man who runs [...]

Straight-shooting Glenn Reynolds lays it out.
Update: The killer’s video messages…sent to NBC at 9:01am Monday.
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Related: Many writers who have weighed in on self-defense and concealed carry restrictions in the wake of the VTech massacre have come under attack. John Derbyshire is taking heat. Talk radio is under attack. And here is an unsurprising reaction to [...]

My column this week:
There’s no polite way or time to say it: American college and universities have become coddle industries. Big Nanny administrators oversee speech codes, segregrated dorms, politically correct academic departments, and designated “safe spaces” to protect students selectively from hurtful (conservative) opinions—while allowing mob rule for approved leftist positions (textbook case: Columbia University’s [...]

The NYTimes has already posted its lead editorial for tomorrow. Not that you need to read it to know what they’ve already concluded:
Yesterday’s mass shooting at Virginia Tech — the worst in American history — is another horrifying reminder that some of the gravest dangers Americans face come from killers at home armed with guns [...]

***updated: 7:45pm Eastern press conference…law enforcement says it has a “preliminary ID on the shooter”…but they are not prepared to disclose the identity yet…”following up on leads”…”two weapons recovered”…not identifying yet…no one in custody…there is one person of interest who is still of interest…separate from the dead gunman…the person of interest knows one of the [...]

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All the latest. (Update: Cell-phone video added, Bush video, more eyewitness reports, and questions about campus management of the crisis)
Virginia bloggers tracking the story here.
Audio of Virginia Tech President Charles Steger’s comments here.
Reader Brian writes:
I am a Virginia Tech alumni and have been following the VT shootings on my blog. Something not [...]

Read this.
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Did you read it yet? This story is so flabbergasting, I’m going to walk you through it here to ensure you don’t miss it. There’s no clearer illustration of just how unreality-based and ignorant the Left is in this country.

Here is the Navy Cross citation for Danny P. Dietz, Gunner’s Mate Second Class, United [...]

San Mateo County Times reporter Christine Morente profiles women with guns. Obviously, Morente herself has never fired a revolver (and one wonders whether she was actually at the striking scene she describes in the opening of her article):
Women with guns a growing phenomenon
By Christine Morente, STAFF WRITER
Article Last Updated: 03/31/2007 12:15:56 PM PDT
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO [...]

The Roanoke Times’ targeting of concealed carry permit holders is the topic of my syndicated column today. Intro:
“The Second Amendment,” Charlton Heston used to say, “is America’s first freedom.” The Second secures the rest.
It’s a message narcissistic journalists need to hear again. A decade ago, Heston chastised the media in a National Press Club [...]

Shame on the Roanoke Times.
Last Sunday, its columnist Christian Trejbal published an online database of registered concealed handgun permit holders in the New River Valley under the sanctimonious guise of “Sunshine Week:”
Today is the start of Sunshine Week, the annual week in which we reflect on the importance of open government and public records. To [...]

Here’s a WaPo profile.
Cheers to them all.
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Previous: Second Amendment victory in D.C.

The Washington Examiner reports that some strange bedfellows are finally waking up:
None other than former Mayor Marion Barry, now representing Ward 8 on the D.C. Council, is waving the white flag of surrender by introducing legislation to provide potential victims a limited window of opportunity to arm themselves in self defense. “We are in the [...]

Call it the hatemail special. Because I got some particularly rude e-mail this morning in response to two “Chicks with Guns” columns I wrote earlier this year– here and here– I was reminded to do another little civilian gun-defense round-up.
The great thing about gun-defense stories is, not only are they just plain great stories, they [...]

…to his delusions.
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Flashback:

Cam Edwards reports on the U.N. confab in NYC this week on renewed international efforts to undermine the Second Amendment:
A remarkable thing happened at the United Nations yesterday. We, the United States, told the world “no”. The messenger was Robert Joseph, the Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security. Speaking before the dozens [...]

Hands off of our 2nd amendment, you blue-helmeted bullies.
Alan Gotlieb reports:
In what can only be a carefully-timed, deliberate insult to the United States and its Constitution, the United Nations is hosting a conference on global gun control aimed directly at our Second Amendment, on dates that include our national holiday, July 4.
The U.N. Conference on [...]

Good (hat tip: Aubrey):
A state trial judge on Monday overturned a voter-approved city ordinance that banned handgun possession and firearm sales in San Francisco, siding with gun owners who said the city did not have the authority to prohibit the weapons.
Measure H was placed on the November ballot by the San Francisco County Board of [...]

The Democrats’ national security plan is out. And it’s looking damned good.
Kurtz is happy that we might finally have a debate on the subject that involves more than one side stammering, “Bush knew.” Quote:
The Dems have been delaying putting forth any sort of Contract with America because, well, why interfere with your opponents when [...]

You can read the National Rifle Association’s lawsuit challenging Proposition H–the San Francisco handgun ban passed on Tuesday–here.
The AP reports:
In 1982, a state appeals court nullified an almost identical gun ban here largely on grounds that the city cannot enact an ordinance that conflicts with state law that allows for the sale and possession of [...]

San Francisco’s handgun ban passed yesterday:
The gun ban prohibits the manufacture and sale of all firearms and ammunition in the city, and makes it illegal for residents to keep handguns in their homes or businesses.
Only two other major U.S. cities — Washington and Chicago — have implemented such sweeping handgun bans.
With all precincts reporting early [...]

Another good reason not to move back to the Katrina disaster area:
A Second Amendment group is expressing “shock and disbelief” that people seeking refuge at a FEMA compound outside Baker, La., may not bring their firearms with them.
According to a report that aired on the Lehrer News Hour on Thursday, displaced New Orleans residents are [...]

Tuesday quick links:
-Dan Rather has a crocodile tear-shedding, lip-quivering meltdown. Dry-eyed comments from Penraker, the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler, Roger L. Simon, and Steve J.
-Robert Spencer on The Hijab That Wasn’t.
-FEC sues the Club for Growth. FEC statement here. Club for Growth response here. RedState, BizzyBlog, and Jack Lewis sound the alarm.
-More ungrateful critics of the [...]

The NRA wants to help:
If you have personally had a gun confiscated in Louisiana since Hurricane Katrina hit, please call (888) 414-6333. Be prepared to leave only your name and immediate contact information so we can get back to you. Once again, we are seeking contact information from actual victims of gun confiscation in Louisiana [...]

Second Amendment activist and blogger Joe Huffman was fired from his job at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Read his story here. Help Joe here.
Joe e-mails:
I really think the security issue is the bigger story even though that doesn’t do much for me personally. The security problem allows enemies of this country to not only [...]

It’s the Sesame Street Memo. Scrappleface has the scoop.

James E. Keenan has the letter of the day in the Washington Post:
Shooting Down Doomsayers
Saturday, May 7, 2005; Page A15
On reading your May 1 editorial “The Shoot-First State,” I am struck with a sense of deja vu. It seems to me that The Post ran the same “Wild West” editorial when Virginia decided to allow [...]

AP reports that Sarah and Jim Brady’s gun-control outfit got saddled with a five-figure fine for breaking campaing finance laws:
A gun-control group and its political action committee have paid a $12,000 fine to settle a campaign finance case from the 2000 election.
At issue were ads and endorsements by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence [...]

From Jacksonville, Fla.:
Four sniper rifles, scopes and ammunition were stolen from an FBI SWAT van parked outside a Baymeadows Road hotel before dawn Sunday.
Four rifles similar to this were stolen from a locked FBI van parked parked outside a Jacksonville hotel before dawn Sunday. The FBI said the guns belonged to a team from Atlanta [...]

Meet Sandy Froman, Berkeley-raised graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Law School, scrapbooking enthusiast, avid marksman, and new head of the National Rifle Association.
(Hat tip: Wes)