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John Pierce is a life-long gun rights advocate, an NRA certified instructor and co-founder of the nationwide gun rights group OpenCarry.org. John has an MBA from George Mason University and is a law student at Hamline University.

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You don’t hide apple pie

Friday, November 6th, 2009 · 3 comments

In last week’s article “With friends like this”, I took renowned historian and gun rights activist Clayton Cramer to task for...
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With friends like this

Monday, October 26th, 2009 · 15 comments

Up until now, if you had asked me to suggest pro-liberty authors, my list would certainly have included Clayton Cramer. After all, Cramer has a list...
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Incorporation 101: The Second Amendment is no good here

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The hot breaking news today is that the Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case of McDonald v Chicago. This is an incredibly important event...
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It's a Setup

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I imagine that we all have seen a movie or television show where the bad guy is being led away in handcuffs while loudly proclaiming to anyone who...
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The tyranny of the bigoted

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“An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.” - Mahatma Gandhi As Harvard professor Henry Louis...
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The road to Damascus

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Where gun rights are concerned, a “Road to Damascus” moment occurs when a formerly anti-gun or gun-shy person decides to become a gun...
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The true power of grassroots activism

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In my last column, Brady Campaign joins the VPC in deception, I described how easily the VPC could have verified the details of their fatally flawed...
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Brady Campaign joins the VPC in deception

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"A lie told often enough becomes truth." - Vladimir Lenin In my last article, Lies, damn lies and VPC statistics,...
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Lies, damn lies, and VPC statistics

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"Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything." - Gregg Easterbrook I have always felt that the Violence Policy Center (VPC) was very...
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It takes a gun to stop a gunman

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“Be not afraid of any man, No matter what his size. When danger threatens, call on me. And I will equalize.” – Inscription on a Colt...
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