January 2013

That's something you hear pro-gun nuts constantly say when trying to argue against tougher gun control. While it's true that Chicago has some of the toughest gun laws in the country, it's also true that guns are easy to get by traveling to near by cities without such laws.

But there's another angle to this argument. The pro-gun response to an increase in violence has been for more guns. Basically they want to take us back to the days of Billy the Kid, Jesse James and the wild, wild west. Well we already have an example of that going on. This example lies in the very same city, Chicago.

Chicago is home to a lot of gangs and gangs have guns.For the non-gang types, they opt to protect themselves, sometimes with guns. This means that countless people in Chicago are now gun owners, and they are using them. That's why Chicago has so many gun deaths, because everyone has guns.

So don't let the gun zealots get away with using Chicago as a reason for not having stricter laws. Instead, use Chicago as a reason why we need to reduce the number of guns and access to them in this country.

She won't be missed!

A former top aide to Mitt Romney says that she quit her career as a television pundit and began taking online real estate classes after the former Republican presidential nominee’s “brutal” loss to President Barack Obama.

Bay Buchanan, the sister of former Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan, told the Washington Examiner that Romney’s defeat was a sign that it was time for her to find a new career.

“It was so tough. It was brutal,” she explained. “I think it’s the toughest because we really expected to win it.”

You expected to win it? Wow, talk about living in a fantasy land.

With the historic second inauguration of Barack Obama as President of the United States now in the history book, it's time to take a look at the GOP response yesterday.

While Republican leaders were in Washington urging a "come together" moment, the same wasn't true around the country. On Facebook alone I noticed countless Republican friends still complaining that Obama had won re-election. GOP officials around the country also seem to share the same sentiment. For example, The head of the Mon Valley Republican party in Pennsylvania decided to send out a common distress signal:

When asked about it, Brent Kovac, the head of the local party said he "don't regret it" because "our nation is in a horrible place."

In a horrible place? If it's so horrible, then why did Barack Obama win re-election so easily over his Republican opponent Mitt Romney and Democrats have a phenomenal election in the House and Senate? Apparently blame is to be placed upon the GOP by the people, and rightfully so.

But the people's will isn't what the GOP is concerned about. Instead they are worried only about their own party. Take this little stunt from yesterday as a perfect example of this:

While the eyes of the nation were turned toward President Barack Obama’s second inauguration on Monday, the Virginia State Senate managed to hurriedly pass a bill that would redistrict the state’s senate seats.

Can you see a problem with this?

FRANKFORT, KY. — An Eastern Kentucky sheriff said Saturday that he will not enforce any new gun control laws that he considers unconstitutional.

Asked whether such a stance makes him more a judge than a law-enforcement official, Jackson County Sheriff Denny Peyman said he has "a team of attorneys to step up with me if necessary to be sure the Second Amendment is upheld."

"I consider this a moral obligation," he said.

Peyman, who has been sheriff of Jackson County for two years and is a member of the National Rifle Association, is garnering national attention and support from gun rights advocates for saying Saturday, "My office will not comply with any federal actions which violate the United States Constitution or the Kentucky Constitution which I swore to uphold."

By not enforcing the laws, he is violating the Constitution. The foundation of our nation gives us the courts to decide if laws are constitutional or not. The responsibility does not fall in the hands of law enforcement, hence the "enforcement" part of the title.

But it appears this guy does have problems with courts anyways:

Peyman dismissed problems he has with Jackson County Judge-Executive William O. Smith and the Jackson County Fiscal Court.

They say Peyman's office owes the fiscal court more than $278,000 in payroll assistance from when he took office in January 2011. Peyman says there is no problem, but the court has called for an investigation and has set up a county police department. Peyman said he now has no deputies.

Maybe he thinks the courts are not constitutional either?