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Kim Priestap

I love my family, America, the Constitution, the free market, classic literature, great coffee, handbags, tall boots, and cool gadgets.
I deeply admire Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Milton Friedman, CS Lewis, and Thomas Sowell.

You can expect me to post about these topics as well as anything else I think is interesting.


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"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." ~ CS Lewis

Posts tagged Gun Control:

Call your senators and congressmen and demand that they support the Second Amendment by publicly denouncing Obama’s efforts to subjugate America to UN rules. Obama will insist this UN arms treaty won’t interfere with our Second Amendment rights, but he has proven himself to be a liar. Don’t believe him. Call your representatives.

Canada ends long-gun registry

The United States of America, the nation that taught the rest of the world what it meant to live free, in 2008 elected a president who is bound and determined to force everyone into submission to his will.

Meanwhile, our neighbor to the north, Canada, is going in the right direction for freedom. Not only have they been privatizing more and more of their health care system, but also now they just voted to end their long-gun registry requirement: 

The Conservative government says its MPs will celebrate after a historic vote to end the long-gun registry Wednesday evening, despite vehement opposition to the move in Quebec and much of urban Canada.

Public Safety Minister Vic Toews told reporters Wednesday, hours before the vote, that the government’s actions are long overdue.

It does nothing to help put an end to gun crimes, nor has it saved one Canadian life,” he said. 

It criminalizes hard-working and law-abiding citizens such as farmers and sport shooters, and it has been a billion-dollar boondoggle left to us by the previous Liberal government.”

Quebec MP Maxime Bernier said MPs and gun-rights advocates will celebrate together Parliament Hill after Wednesday evening’s vote.

Good for them. I’m so glad Canada is going in this direction. 

You won’t get gun control by disarming law-abiding citizens. There’s only one way to get real gun control: Disarm the thugs and the criminals, lock them up, and if you don’t actually throw away the key, at least lose it for a long time.

—~ Ronald Reagan, 6/30/1983 

(Source: reaganfoundation.org)