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Here we bring you all things Second Amendment because without the Second Amendment nothing else will matter.

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This Is Why There’s a Violent Crime Problem

Tom Knighton – Bearing Arms

The reality about violent crime isn’t that it’s super common, but that it’s relatively isolated. The perpetrators of most of these crimes are well-known to police already, and they tend to keep their violence within their own small communities within the larger community of their cities. Even in the most crime-ridden American city, you can walk unmolested through most of it.

There are just a handful of places where you don’t dare to go.

And the violence is often sparked not by criminal rivals vying for territory or market share. It’s piddly little nonsense that shouldn’t erupt in violence, but does.

I’m talking about stuff like this.

A 15-year-old in Florida is accused of killing a classmate after bumping into each other in a school hallway.

The 16-year-old victim allegedly bumped into the suspect and didn’t apologize, which officials say led to his killing. Read more here.

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Ohio Bill Wants to Supercede Federal Law, Allow Handgun Sales for Adults Under 21

Tom Knighton / BEARING ARMS

Adults under the age of 21 can already get handguns. They just can’t buy them from licensed dealers. Yes, this is nonsense. I vehemently oppose this, but it’s still the law, and unless the courts rule against it, I don’t see that changing any time soon.

However, in Ohio, a new bill hopes to address this.

It wants to legalize handgun sales for adults under 21, and not just in some face-to-face transfers between law-abiding adults. Oh no, it wants to allow them at neighborhood gun stores.

Now, pro-gun lawmakers in Ohio are pushing forward with a plan to recognize the right to keep and bear arms for adults under 21 years of age. The proposal aims to lower the age requirement for purchasing a handgun from 21 to 18.

According to a report at local12.com, Republican senators are advocating for the bill, which would allow individuals aged 18 to 21 to purchase handguns from federally licensed dealers, provided…Read more here.

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Case of Virginia Teacher Shot by Student Shows Total System Breakdown

Tom Knighton / BEARING ARMS

When looking at public school systems, one thing you often hear is that the safety of students and staff is of the utmost importance. That’s supposedly job number one.

And I’m sure that at many schools, that’s absolutely true.

But for one teacher at a school in Newport News, Virginia, that didn’t seem to be how her school looked at it. This, of course, would be the teacher who was shot by a six-year-old student who brought his mother’s gun to school, and who somehow made it past literally every administrator who had been told he likely had a gun.

Now, a civil trial has come to trial, and honestly, this just gets wild.

The civil trial filed by former teacher Abby Zwerner against former assistant principal Ebony Parker is taking place this week. Zwerner filed the $40 million lawsuit after she was shot by a 6-year-old student and nearly killed. Evidence and testimony so far in the case confirms that Parker was warned four…Read more here.

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Why Trump’s Call to End Filibuster Dangerous to Second Amendment

Tom Knighton – Bearing Arms

The Schumer Shutdown has been going on for way too long. Of course, most people aren’t really feeling it because so much of the government isn’t nearly as essential as some people want to claim, but there are problems forming that will just get worse if the government doesn’t reopen. As of this writing, that doesn’t seem very likely.

But President Donald Trump clearly wants that to happen, and for obvious reasons.

The problem is what he wants Senate Republicans to do about it.

President Donald Trump on Thursday urged congressional Republicans to unilaterally end the government shutdown by eliminating the Senate filibuster — urging them to take an unprecedented step that GOP leaders have firmly opposed until now. Read more here.

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