According to the NRA, Indiana has more than 250,000 right-to-carry gun permit holders, many of whom carry firearms during their commutes to and from work. Furthermore, in March 2009, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels signed NRA-backed legislation allowing employees to store legally owned firearms in locked, private motor vehicles while parked in employer parking lots. (Florida has a similar law.) Yet somehow Indiana, with all those gun-toting folks, has not become a killing zone, as the chart below indicates.



From FBI's 2009 State Uniform Crime Reports

President Concedes His Message Has Fallen Short

Obama says he's accomplished much of what he promised, but admits he's done a poor job communicating that to voters. ...

Yup, that's the problem all right. If only the stupid voters could understand what he's been trying to tell them. The "accomplishments" are wonderful, after all. This guy is so much like Jimmy Carter, the other miserably failed Democrat president of the past 50 years, it's incredible. Carter still insists he was a terrific prez.

Barry, believe me, the voters understand all too well what you and your moronic cohorts in Congress have "accomplished," and they'll let you know what they think about it this November, loud and clear.

Barry, please, please ... GET A CLUE!

More words of wisdom

Claude Frederic Bastiat, a prominent 19th-century political economist, wrote: "Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. ... Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Thus the beneficiaries are spared the shame and danger that their acts would otherwise involve. But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives it to the other persons to whom it doesn't belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another. ... then abolish that law without delay. No legal plunder; this is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony and logic."
(quotation courtesy The Patriot Post)

Running hot and cold

This is from 2006, but the point stands. The greatest errors occur when people refuse to acknowledge how much they don't know.