Obama’s misfire on gun control
Bill Clinton, burned badly in 1994 on the issue of gun control, warned President Obama earlier this year that he was setting himself up for a fall. But Obama did not listen. “A lot of these people live in a world very different from the world lived in by the people proposing these things,” Clinton counseled Democratic donors in January. “I know because I come from this world.” The current president most definitely does not.

LaPierre: Gun owners make U.S. safer
As gun owners across the South prepare to gather in Houston for the 142nd NRA Annual Meetings and Exhibits next weekend, I want to thank the 5 million members of the NRA for all they do to make America safe and free.If you’re an NRA member, you deserve to be proud.Because today, yet again, it’s NRA members and the millions who agree with us – not the press or some in the political ranks – who are doing the thankless and heroic work of standing up for freedom. And it’s NRA members who are demanding proven solutions – instead of empty soundbites and slogans – that will make Americans safer.

Arizona: Governor Brewer Signs Two Pro-Gun Reforms into Law
On Monday, Governor Jan Brewer (R) signed two NRA-supported reforms into law.  These new laws, effective ninety days after the Arizona Legislature’s adjournment, will protect the privacy of gun owners and prohibit government-sponsored destruction of seized or surrendered firearms.

North Carolina: House to consider Right-to-Carry bill
Some North Carolina lawmakers want to give concealed weapon permit holders more places to carry or store their pistols.

The dishonest gun control debate
The gun control debate is one of the most dishonest arguments we have in American politics. It is dishonest in its particulars, of course, but it is in an important sense dishonest in general: The United States does not suffer from an inflated rate of homicides perpetrated with guns; it suffers from an inflated rate of homicides. The argument about gun control is at its root a way to put conservatives on the defensive about liberal failures, from schools that do not teach to police departments that do not police and criminal justice systems that do not bring criminals to justice. The gun control debate is an exercise in changing the subject.