Top ten Cleveland Gun Rights Examiner articles of 2009

Next week we'll return to our regularly scheduled programming, but for now let's take a look at the top ten Cleveland GRE articles as determined by the number of comments they received.

#10 Gun nuts right, armed self-defense works
A look at several instances of an armed citizens prevailing over a criminal attacker.

#9 In Texas, police worried about losing gun permit notification
A change in Texas law removed the duty to notify law enforcement that you are carrying a concealed firearm, and issue relevant to Ohio since we currently have such a requirement.

#8 Personal Rights vs. Property Rights
A look at personal rights and property rights as they pertain to the right to keep and bear arms.

#7 Tears flow from gun control advocates as the end of the National Parks gun ban draws closer
This piece looked at some of the outrageous claims of the gun control advocates as they predict mayhem when the ban on carrying loaded firearms expires in a little over a month from now.

#6 Would you know an assault weapon if you saw one?
Examining the false definition of an "assault weapon" perpetuated by those who want to ban firearms by vilifying one group at a time.

#5 United States gets blamed for Canadian illegal gun trade
In an attempt to capitalize on the "90% of all illegal guns in Mexico come from the U.S." lie, Canadian officials were claiming that two-thirds of "crime guns" seized in Canada came from the U.S.

#4 Why concealed handguns don't result in blood running in the streets
A look at some of the reasons why armed law abiding citizens aren't the ones committing crimes in this country.

#3 Stop treating CHL holders as potential criminals
One of my earliest GRE columns comes in at #3 for the year. This article exposed the lies of the anti-gunners who always claim restoring gun rights will result in blood in the streets, or in this case, National Parks.

#2 Support the Second Amendment and you're not a 'leader'
A story certain to draw the ire of grassroots gun rights activists and any Second Amendment supporter took a look at the claims of some gun control advocates who were insinuating that politicians who support gun rights are not being leaders.

#1 Do we need guns in National Parks?
The issue of guns in National Parks hit the trifecta in the Top Ten with this article from November coming in at #1. In this article, I criticized former journalist and current blogger Todd Wilkinson for an article he wrote in which he argued against dropping the ban. Things got even more interesting when Mr. Wilkinson showed up to defend his opinions.