Borrowing from the old American Express commercial: Your personal defense gun: Don’t leave home without it. And I would add one more proverb: Your liberty defense gun (the AR-15 and similar semi-automatic rifles): Don’t ever surrender it.

I’ll wager that was all right around the time of the “assault weapons ban” that took place in 1994 and they were looking to go after other guns.

Proving the notion that deranged lunatics hell bent on taking innocent lives will carry out their demented plans with or without guns, Canada’s deadliest mass killing in decades was conducted with a van.

Americans may have all of the watches, but Islamic jihadis have all of the time.

Choke Point 2.0 is an ominous development. But it is also an important reminder. The left is not against big banks. It is against freedom.

If they can ban a bump stock, then there is no reason they can’t ban a semi-automatic rifle since there are some people who can produce the same results as bump stock without the bump stock.  

Progressives who are sincerely concerned about protecting minorities from oppressive government should join libertarians and constitutional conservatives in defending the Second Amendment.

Don’t be surprised if a virulently anti-gun administration makes the argument that your AR-15 is actually a machinegun because it can be readily bump-fired using common items such as rubber bands or belt loops (or nothing but your finger)!

To prevent mentally ill people from owning firearms is a severe form of “ableist” discrimination, and also opens the door for nearly anyone to be classified as mentally ill.

If society is honest and historically accurate, the only question that has any relevance to the gun control debate is: “Do you trust those in government, now and forever in the future, to not take your life, liberty, or property through the force of government?” If the answer to that question is “No,” the gun control debate is over.