Government Corruption
America’s Top Colleges Have Done Away With Teaching U.S. History
-By Warner Todd Huston
A new report from Fox News on the trend among liberal arts colleges to drop any requirement that students take U.S. history classes to earn a degree is to me a mixed bag. Sure it is outrageous that our schools are telling students that U.S. history isn’t important, yet, it’s probably good kids aren’t learning the skewed version of U.S. history they’ll likely get from our extremist, left-wing professors who hate this country.
For Fox News, Joshua Rhett Miller notes that U.S. history “doesn’t make the grade” at most of America’s liberal arts colleges. One school even allows students to replace U.S. history with a class called “The Rhetoric of Alien Abduction.”
Of the 29 top-ranked liberal arts colleges, only the United States Air Force Academy, the United States Military Academy, and the United States Naval Academy requires a survey course in American history. One school, Claremont McKenna in California, requires U.S. history or economics but not both. Just two of those institutions require an economics course, and five require a survey course in literature, according to the report.
The report also pointed out that a poll of Americans found that 70 percent feel that colleges should require basic courses in math, science, economics, and U.S. history, yet many don’t.
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America’s Top Colleges Have Done Away With Teaching U.S. History”
Ill. GOP Congressmen React to Obama’s SOTU Speech
-By Warner Todd Huston
Several Illinois Republican Congressmen released statements after President Obama’s State of the Union speech last night. Congressmen Roskam, Hultgren, and Kinzinger reacted to the speech, and so did the President of the Illinois chapter of Americans for Prosperity.
First of all, Obama straight out lied several times in his speech last night. His biggest lie was the claim that he once again trotted out saying women only make 77 cents to a man’s dollar in the job market. This is simply a lie, one the left trots out repeatedly despite it being wholly false.
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Ill. GOP Congressmen React to Obama’s SOTU Speech”
How Did ‘Millions’ of High Capacity Magazines Disappear in Connecticut?
-By Warner Todd Huston
As the State of Connecticut went through the process of gearing up to push more gun bans and bans on high capacity ammunition magazines, it was estimated that The Constitution State had at least “2.4 million” of the offending magazines within its borders. But now, after the new forced registration law set in, only about 38,000 high capacity magazines were registered. So, where did they all go?
It seems that Connecticut’s set up for future gun confiscation is failing despite that officials are trying to claim that it is a great success.
Foolish citizens in Connecticut throwing away their rights as they lineup like cattle for the state’s new registry policy.
Back in 2011 as legislators were mulling over new anti-Second Amendment proposals, the state’s Office of Legislative Research looked into several questions being asked by lawmakers eager to fashion a new gun ban. Lawmakers needed to know how many so-called assault weapons were in the state, how many high capacity magazines were manufactured and how many held in private hands, how many crimes were committed by people using these things, and the like.
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How Did ‘Millions’ of High Capacity Magazines Disappear in Connecticut?”
Missouri’s Kit Bond Shows Why Politics Has No Soul
-By Warner Todd Huston
Missouri’s Kit Bond is a perfect example of why regular Americans hate, hate, hate politicians and politics. It’s because Bond and his ilk prove to many that politicians are nothing but money-grubbing liars.
Duane Lester of The Missouri Torch gives us the perfect example of this cynical example of the worst in politics with the story of Kit Bond’s 180 degree flip flop on expanding Medicaid made only because his new position as a lobbyist brings him boatloads of money.
Kit Bond was a Republican Senator from the State of Missouri and in 2010 he was 100 percent against expanding Medicaid in Missouri. He called the idea “horrific.”
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Missouri’s Kit Bond Shows Why Politics Has No Soul”
TSA Claims It Took 5 Guns A Day From Passengers, But Are We Safer?
-By Warner Todd Huston
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) thinks it has a great selling point with its announcement that it took 5 firearms a day from passengers trying to board planes in 2013. But are our airports and planes safer because of this?
The TSA made the announcement on its January 24 “year in review” blog post where officials bemoan that their work “being on the frontline also comes with a great risk.” This because after patting down over 600 million passengers one TSA Agent was killed in a criminal action at LA International Airport.
Certainly no TSA Agents should be killed in the line of duty and the loss of TSA officer Gerardo Hernandez is unacceptable, but for the TSA to act as if their job is fraught with constant life threatening dangers is a bit much.
But the more interesting note is the number of firearms confiscated by TSA officials.
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TSA Claims It Took 5 Guns A Day From Passengers, But Are We Safer?”
When a CNN Sports Dolt Tries to Explain Chicago’s Gun Problem With Laughable Results
-By Warner Todd Huston
CNN sports writer LZ Granderson tried to write a serious column about Chicago’s gun ban laws and only ended up making himself look foolish for the effort. This is what happens when sports dorks try to think on subjects outside their silly, inconsequential world of sports.
With his columns, “When a City’s Gun Laws Get Shot Down,” it seems that Granderson was trying desperately to make sense of the failure of Chicago’s gun ban to keep the city safe and it appears that he is supportive of taking away American’s Second Amendment rights merely by local government fiat. Yet even as he seemed to support gun bans, nearly every word he wrote proves that gun bans don’t work.
Sadly, after reading his mush of a column, it is almost impossible to figure out what they heck this guy’s point is supposed to be. but it does show that he is not capable of logically thinking through a problem and writing a cogent discussion of that issue.
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When a CNN Sports Dolt Tries to Explain Chicago’s Gun Problem With Laughable Results”
Illinois Democrats Are Planning to Raise Income Taxes on the Middle Class
-By Warner Todd Huston
Illinois Democrats want to put a measure on the next ballot to get Illinoisans to agree to change the state constitution to allow a progressive income tax to be instituted. But Democrats are lying to the faces of every citizen when they say that this would only raise taxes on “the rich.” The fact is a progressive rate would immediately raise taxes on every single citizen not to mention open the door for a constant jiggering and re-jiggering of the rates–a jiggering that would only and always go upward.
Illinois State Senator Michael Connelly is leading the charge to stop the progressive tax scheme in Illinois.
Currently the state constitution has an amendment that stipulates that the state will only have an across the board flat tax for everyone. It won’t be higher for some and lower for others as a graduated tax is. Those who wrote this measure in the constitution put it into law because they felt that a flat tax would help small businesses and give the state’s tax structure some stability. Now, Democrats want to throw that stability to the four winds.
To sell the idea, Democrats are pretending that this progressive income tax would only hit “the rich,” but right at the outset this is a lie. Several proposals show that it would hit everyone right at the beginning.
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Illinois Democrats Are Planning to Raise Income Taxes on the Middle Class”
Illinois Wants Potheads to Give Up Their Second Amendment Rights
-By Warner Todd Huston
Illinois is mulling a new medical marijuana law that would force pot users to sign away their right to bear arms.
Those who focus on the right to bear arms love to say, “what part of ‘shall not be infringed’ don’t you understand,” as a catch phrase to show that the founders did not want government to be able to sweep in and take away our rights to self defense. That phrase can be asked of Illinois legislators who are proposing that to get a medical marijuana permit citizens would have to relinquish their right to bear arms.
The plan would require pot users to be fingerprinted for a background check, they’d have to pay a yearly $150 permit fee, and they would be forced to give up their Second Amendment rights to be allowed to get pot.
Interestingly, the National Rifle Association is not too keen to jump into this one. Apparently coming to the aid of pot users is a role they aren’t comfortable with so for now the NRA is not taking a position on the proposed law other than to say it will be interesting to see how the courts are going to reconcile it.
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Illinois Wants Potheads to Give Up Their Second Amendment Rights”
Illinois Ranks as One of Worst States for Losing Citizens
-By Warner Todd Huston
Illinois keeps racking up those plaudits as the worst of the worst states in the country, this time coming in second of the top states for outward migration. Illinois has seen more of its citizens fleeing its failing edifice than every other state but New Jersey.
This list is maintained by one of the nation’s largest moving companies, United Van Lines and is compiled every year as the company tracks the migrations statistics of the nation.
“As the nation’s largest household goods mover, United’s shipment data illustrates national state-to-state migration trends,” Carl Walter, vice president of United Van Lines said in a statement. “We’ve been tracking the number of inbound and outbound domestic moves for nearly 40 years, and through our study are able to identify the states that are attracting or losing residents.”
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Illinois Ranks as One of Worst States for Losing Citizens”
Allowing Unions to Organize Volkswagen is Like ‘Injecting Cancer’ Into US Auto Industry
-By Warner Todd Huston
It seems like a foolish move by Volkswagen for allowing the United Auto Workers (UAW) to organize its American plants. Not only did the UAW screw Volkswagen in the past, but even now the union admits that it is raising union dues solely to replenish its strike fund so unionistas can walk out. It’s like Volkswagen is buying its own rope for its execution.
Or, as Steve Moore of The Wall Street Journal says, “it’s like inserting a cancer cell into a body.”
That is how Journal editorial board member Moore characterized the act of allowing the UAW to organize Volkswagen’s American auto plants. “That one cancer cell is going to multiply and kill the body. It’s a disruptive influence,” he continued.
Worse, the UAW wants to raise dues for members for the expressed reason of filling strike fund coffers, this according to UAW Boss Bob King.
So, if Volkswagen gives in to the UAW’s demands it will only be helping the union to walk out at the earliest opportunity.
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Allowing Unions to Organize Volkswagen is Like ‘Injecting Cancer’ Into US Auto Industry”
Tolerant Hollywood Fires Actress Who Supported Conservative Candidate
-By Warner Todd Huston
Remember, liberals–especially effusive Hollywood folk–are smarter, more loving, more grown up that you knuckle dragging conservatives, and they care more about people, too. And if you don’t agree… they’ll fire you with prejudice. Because: tolerance. That is what happened to one actress in Hollywood that dared support a conservative candidate.
Longtime denizen of Hollywood, actress Maria Conchita Alonso, was fired from an acting job in California because she dared to appear in an ad for Republican candidate for governor Tim Donnelly.
Donnelly, a current California assemblyman, is now running for governor to replace the extremely left-wing Governor Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown, the octogenarian liberal who is driving some of the final nails into California’s coffin.
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Tolerant Hollywood Fires Actress Who Supported Conservative Candidate”
Free At Last: Federal Court Hands Bloggers Legal First Amendment Protections
-By Warner Todd Huston
At long last we get a proper ruling on the First Amendment status of bloggers, one affording them the same legal status as “real” journalists; this from the Ninth Circuit Court in California, no less.
The Ninth Circuit is often derided as the “Ninth Circus” because its rulings are almost invariably left-wing and anti-American. But this time the court made a sensible ruling, for sure.
Lawyer Eugene Volokh reports that the ruling in Obsidian Finance Group v. Cox (9th Cir. Jan. 17, 2014) holds that, “all who speak to the public, whether or not they are members of the institutional press, are equally protected by the First Amendment.”
The relevant section in the ruling is as follows:
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Free At Last: Federal Court Hands Bloggers Legal First Amendment Protections”
The South Rose Again While The North Napped
-By Warner Todd Huston
Northern elites love to look down their noses and sneer at southerners whom they consider loutish hayseeds who are just plain stupid. But as many in the north have dismissed the south, our states south of Mason and Dixon’s line has risen again right under the north’s very nose. Now, the best quality of life is in the south.
Recently Joel Kotkin noted that much of the economic power in the United States today is located in the old Confederacy where taxes are low, weather is pleasant, and jobs are plentiful. Meanwhile, the north is struggling under mounting debt, job loss, and rising taxes and a dwindling populace to tax.
In his article, “How The South Will Rise To Power Again,” Kotkin points out that current trends show that, “the South will expand its dominance as the nation’s most populous region. In the 1950s, the South, the Northeast and the Midwest each had about the same number of people. Today the region is almost as populous as the Northeast and the Midwest combined.”
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The South Rose Again While The North Napped”
Police Hate This Wave of Americans Who Know Their Rights
-By Warner Todd Huston
All across America, people are asserting their Constitutional rights when confronted by police both on the streets and in those random traffic roadblock stops. It is being called “contempt of cop” and police hate this wave of libertarian-like insistence that they respect our Constitutional rights.
As police and government authorities increasingly step all over our rights, Americans are taking their Constitutional rights seriously these days taking their video cameras in hand and insisting that police respect us and stop treating us as guilty until proven innocent.
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Police Hate This Wave of Americans Who Know Their Rights”
Jimmy Kimmel Reminds Youth They Are Paying for Old Folks’ Expensive Obamacare Insurance
-By Warner Todd Huston
ABC’s late night comedian Jimmy Kimmel did an hilarious job slamming Obamacare and pointing out to young people that under Obamacare they are the ones stuck paying for the expensive healthcare needed by the elderly with a spoof “commercial” about the President’s disastrous healthcare policy (See video above).
You see, the way Obamacare is supposed to work is that millions of young people who are healthy and don’t need to use health insurance are supposed to buy it anyway so that the premium money they are paying into the system can be given to the elderly who need coverage now. It really is little else but a giant pyramid scheme.
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Jimmy Kimmel Reminds Youth They Are Paying for Old Folks’ Expensive Obamacare Insurance”
Senate Investigation Finds that Obama Could Have Prevented Benghazi Attacks
-By Warner Todd Huston
In Benghazi, Libya “Obama lied, people died.” That is the slogan that should dog this President for his actions–or lack thereof–during the attacks in Benghazi, Libya that killed four Americans. Now a Senate investigation shows that Obama could have prevented the attacks and saved those lives.
The Senate Intelligence Committee has finally released its report on the Benghazi attacks and it finds that Obama failed miserably to stop the attacks even though he and his subordinates could have.
The Senate Committee says the murderous attack on U.S. facilities in Libya could have been prevented and faults the State Department for failing to respond to the deteriorating security situation despite numerous warnings.
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Senate Investigation Finds that Obama Could Have Prevented Benghazi Attacks”
Obama’s IRS Is Now Targeting Sarah Palin’s Father, Old Media Ignores
-By Warner Todd Huston
Sarah Palin’s Father Chuck Heath, Dr. (left) and brother Chuck Heath, Jr. (right).
Sarah Palin’s father, Chuck Heath, Sr., is being harassed by the IRS. And yet, the Old Media complex is not saying a word about this story. Imagine that.
On his Facebook page, Sarah’s brother, Chuck Heath, Jr., posted that his father is battling the IRS.
“Coincidence? You decide,” Mr. Heath writes.
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Obama’s IRS Is Now Targeting Sarah Palin’s Father, Old Media Ignores”
Benghazi Transcripts Prove Obama Lied That ‘Youtube Video’ Caused Benghazi Attacks
-By Warner Todd Huston
The phrase “Obama lied, people died” should ring out from every corner of the country now that we know 100% for sure that Obama knew full well that no “anti-Muslim Youtube video” caused the attacks in Benghazi, Libya that killed four Americans. Obama knew as it was happening that it was a terror attack but lied to America anyway.
Fox News recently uncovered a stash of documents that proves beyond doubt that Obama and his advisers knew just after the attacks began that it was terrorism.
Fox News correspondent James Rosen reported on January 14 that 450 pages of sworn testimony by America’s highest ranking military officers makes the case clearly about what the administration knew and when it was known.
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Benghazi Transcripts Prove Obama Lied That ‘Youtube Video’ Caused Benghazi Attacks”
Reporter Confronts Union Chief Supporting a Child Molesting Teacher
-By Warner Todd Huston
Fox News correspondent Jesse Watters recently traveled to Michigan to find out why the teachers union there is fighting so hard to force the taxpayers to give a big cash payment to a teacher convicted of molesting a child.
Watters confronted Steven Cook, the head of the Michigan Education Association–the teachers union there–over why the MEA would fight so hard to force the taxpayers to give this child molester a $10,000 payout even after he was convicted for his crime?
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Reporter Confronts Union Chief Supporting a Child Molesting Teacher”
Obama Fails as Iran Celebrates Nuclear Agreement as an ‘American Surrender’
-By Warner Todd Huston
It looks like Barack Obama was taken for a ride with his administration’s failed negotiations with Iran over that country’s nuclear ambitions. The Iranians are touting the agreement as a victory over both Obama in particular and “the west” in general.
Iran’s purported “moderate” president, Hassan Rouhani, took to his Twitter account to celebrate his victory over Obama saying that Obama “surrendered” to the “Iranian’s nation’s will.”
While Obama is claiming that his capitulation to Iran is actually the first step in convincing Iran to give up its nuclear ambitions, the Iranians are touting the agreement as the first step toward eliminating all sanctions against their nation not to mention the first step toward actually enlarging their nuclear ambitions.
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Obama Fails as Iran Celebrates Nuclear Agreement as an ‘American Surrender’”
Obama Threatens to Issue More Illicit Executive Orders
-By Warner Todd Huston
The destruction of the USA is not coming nearly fast enough to suit Barack Obama. So, once again, he is threatening to use his power to issue a constant stream of Executive Orders to force his will on America because Congress just isn’t moving fast enough for him.
Obama held a Tuesday, January 14 press conference where he renewed his oft repeated threat that if Congress doesn’t bend to his will, then he will go around our elected officials and rule by fiat. Emperor Obama reigns.
It should be noted that the founders purposefully set up our system to move slowly. The founders were afraid that if change could come too quickly, all too often that change would be a knee jerk reaction to crisis and hasty changes are rarely good in the long run. But Obama does not care about our system nor does he want to wait for the people we elected to act. He wants to move on his extremist, left-wing agenda immediately.
So, he wants to use his power to make EO’s to get around our system.
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Obama Threatens to Issue More Illicit Executive Orders”
VIDEO: Michigan Cops Harass Citizen Legally Carrying a Gun
-By Warner Todd Huston
A Michigan man legally carrying a pistol openly in a holster was illegally stopped and harassed by Grand Rapids police in March of 2013 in an incident that sparked a federal lawsuit. Now the full video of the encounter has been released to the public.
Last March, Grand Rapids citizen Johann Deffert was peacefully walking on the sidewalk in his own neighborhood when police illegally detained him, cuffed him, threw him on the ground and then into a squad car, a federal lawsuit alleges.
In Michigan it is fully legal to open carry a pistol with the proper license.
Deffert is suing for $600,000 alleging he was physically assaulted by cops.
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VIDEO: Michigan Cops Harass Citizen Legally Carrying a Gun”
Hillary Clinton Keeps An Enemies List Included Ted Kennedy and John Kerry
-By Warner Todd Huston
Aides of Hillary Clinton’s 2008 Presidential campaign are reported to have kept a detailed list of enemy Democrats they felt betrayed Hillary by backing Barack Obama during that hard-fought primary campaign.
On the list were Senators John Kerry and Ted Kennedy, as well as Representatives Chris Van Hollen and Rob Andrews, all Democrats.
This news emerged from a new book titled, HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton.
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Hillary Clinton Keeps An Enemies List Included Ted Kennedy and John Kerry”
Liberals Outraged: Kansas Allowing Concealed Carry Guns in Public Buildings
-By Warner Todd Huston
One state, at least, is beginning to understand what the “right to bear arms” really means. Kansas is now allowing citizens with legal, concealed carry firearms licenses to carry their arms inside public buildings. And liberals are screaming bloody murder.
Logically thinking Kansans note that the new law will likely make many public buildings safer as crooks and mass murderers may find themselves a tad more reluctant to try shooting up a building if they can’t be sure how many others are armed inside.
The new law did give cities that wanted to further explore their options a way to temporarily opt out of the law allowing concealed carry (CC) in public spaces. Claiming a four-year exemption, some city and county governments are still denying CC license holders to carry in some public buildings.
The law also gives governments the option to completely bar CC guns inside, but they are required to install metal detectors and other security devices to facilitate this permanent exemption.
This is where liberals are losing it. They claim that requiring governments to pay for these security devices is somehow an “unfair burden” on the government.
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Liberals Outraged: Kansas Allowing Concealed Carry Guns in Public Buildings”
Judge Jeanine Slams Obama for Ignoring Benghazi While Going Nuts Over Christie Bridge-Gate
-By Warner Todd Huston
Barack Obama is a total hypocrite. His ignoring Hillary Clinton’s criminal failure in Benghazi is typical, but even worse we see his administration going crazy to attack New Jersey Governor Christ Christie over his bridge incident. Fox News’ Judge Jeanine Pirro really lashes Obama over these criminal failures.
Pirro took after Obama and his criminal administration during her opening statement for her January 11 show on Fox.
“Shame on YOU, Mr. President,” Pirro says.
Here are Pirro’s comments in full:
I hate traffic and I hate traffic jams.
I hate them because they slow me down. Slow is not my speed.
But what I hate even more is the hypocrisy of the Obama administration, especially when it comes to justice.
Slow would be the Obama administration speed.
One year and four months ago, four Americans, including our ambassador, were massacred in Benghazi. Weeks later the FBI shows up to investigate a trampled crime scene.
I don’t know about you, but I still haven’t seen anyone prosecuted or even in custody. But President Obama is going to get to the bottom of it. Right…
Judge Jeanine Slams Obama for Ignoring Benghazi While Going Nuts Over Christie Bridge-Gate”
Russian Celebrity Says U.S. TSA Stripped Searched Her
-By Warner Todd Huston
A Russian TV star visiting the U.S. says that she was violated, stripped naked, and searched by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) when she arrived at the airport in Miami, Florida.
Russian TV celebrity and political activist Ksenia Sobchak says that TSA workers claimed they detected explosives residue on her fingers and demanded the search to make sure she wasn’t a terrorist. (This isn’t the first complaint from a celebrity about the TSA as you can see in the video above.)
Ksenia Sobchak
The woman was returning from a Christmas party in December.
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Russian Celebrity Says U.S. TSA Stripped Searched Her”
VIDEO: A Canadian Warns America NOT To Register Our Guns
-By Warner Todd Huston
A Canadian newscaster has a warning for Americans: Do NOT register your firearms because if you do, the government WILL confiscate your guns and throw you in jail.
Brian Billey, a host on Sun News in Canada, hosted a commentary proving that if we Americans are stupid enough to register our firearms (I’m talking to YOU Connecticut) then we should expect to have our guns confiscated at some point in the future.
Billey isn’t just talking mere opinion, here. He has proof. It happened in his own country. Once certain guns were outlawed and the remaining ones were leveled with a must-register law, it wasn’t long before the government began confiscating guns for no legitimate reason.
The newscaster pointed out that critics of the Canadian gun registry program said that the registry would lead to confiscation, but supporters waved off those criticisms as absurd worries meant only to harm Canada’s “safety and security.”
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VIDEO: A Canadian Warns America NOT To Register Our Guns”