Nicki Kenyon Archive
Nicki Kenyon has been an avid gun rights advocate since she returned to the United States from an overseas Army tour in Germany. She began writing about Second Amendment issues in 2001 when KeepAndBearArms.com published her first essay, "The Moment.". She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins University and a Master of Arts degree in National Security Studies from American Military University. Her area of expertise in those fields is European and Eurasian affairs. When not writing about gun rights or hanging out with her husband and son, she practices dry-firing her M1911 at the zombies of "The Walking Dead."
"Health Professional" bloviates about guns, paints himself to be a doofus
Meet Art Caplan, MD. Art heads the bioethics program at the University of Pennsylvania, but judging from his snide, sarcastic, arrogant writing, he doesn't know a whole lot about actual ethics, human interaction, guns, or effective, respectful communication.
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A New Strategy?
A New York Times article appears to be taking a sensible view regarding 'assault weapons'. However, despite that seeming moderate move, the emphasis has been moved right along towards "little handguns!"
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Meet Your Opposition
In recent weeks, we've all seen the news about Bill and Melinda Gates donating a million dollars to fight for gun control. We've seen scores of slick graphics and campaigns condemning gun owners for "sins" that range from open carrying in a grocery store to teaching children how to handle automatic weapons
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Common Sense
By now, most have seen the video of the tragic events that took place when a 9-year-old girl killed her instructor with an auto Uzi. The gun-grabbers predictably are making hay and are full of the need for "common sense" measures with regard to "children and guns"
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Why Not Compromise?
There should be no compromise when it comes to our rights. There should be no evil injected into the fundamental good that is our freedom
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Will the Police Protect you?
The police are there to protect you, right? Warren vs. DC showed - "...the duty to provide public services is owed to the public at large, and, absent a special relationship between the police and an individual, no specific legal duty exists"
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Adventures in Twitterland
After taking on social media responsibilities for JPFO, it has become very clear just how many misinformed gun-grabbers are out there. If you aren't familiar with what gun grabbers call "gunsense," it's a shortened version for the Bloombergian Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America group
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The Elitist Gun Controllers
The latest anti-freedom editorial in the Washington Post once again trots out the well-worn "lax gun control laws" mantra in a petulant, whining appeal to the ever-so predictable, typical Washingtonian
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Judy was Right
A few days ago, an NRA lobbyist by the name of Brian Judy got himself in a bit of hot water with the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle when he linked gun control to the Holocaust
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Keep Them Scared
In a recent speech to the Leadership Institute, Gun Owners of America Executive Director Larry Pratt told an audience of young conservatives the truth about the Second Amendment
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The Future of Gun Rights in America
After an interview with a sassy and still very young lady, and her dad, it is very apparent that here is an already strong supporter of the Second Amendment, as well as having very exceptional shooting skills at such a young age
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"Being Honest Messed Up My Life"
Instead of trusting those in authority to act in our best interest, our populace is being retrained to fear them. Instead of honor, honesty and integrity, the values instilled in our society include, apprehension, corruption and duplicity
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Winning!
An MSNBC poll shows 88% favorability for consitutional carry, which is encouraging. However, there are those who would rather find and even kill gun owners
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How About We Regulate Alcohol And Cigarettes?
Stephen King took to his Twitter account to spew forth his political opinion on guns and told his followers that guns should be regulated like alcohol and cigarettes. Every time a monster picks up a gun and vents his impotent rage at innocent people, hoplophobes around the nation begin to clamor for more infringements. "It's time to regulate firearms," he says
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Gun Grabbers Getting Desperate
The gun grabbers' consistent assaults on people who value their rights reek of desperation. They are now comparing open carry advocates to the terrorist group ISIS
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Lying Liars And The Lies They Tell
None of us wants to see violence -- on or off campus -- but to make disingenuous claims - lying to bolster one's disarmament agenda is still lying, no matter what the intent
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Crafting The Narrative
Have you ever seen politicians hold up big, black, scary guns as a symbol of everything that is evil in this country, blaming them for every bout of violence committed by unspeakable monsters?
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Using Tragedy To Further Political Goals
Years after a madman shot Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and murdered several others, her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly is using the tragedy to advocate his political agenda
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Gun-Free Zones Magnets For Armed Thugs
A young man was robbed and shot outside the Jack in the Box restaurant in north Harris County just a few weeks after the restaurant asked its customers not to bring their guns with them when patronizing their establishments
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Gun Grabber Lies
Since the advent of social media, I have noticed that the number of lies and their viral spread have become worse. Much worse. Unfortunately, people don't seem to fact check the Internet
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When Governments Fail
The gun grabbers don't understand the social contract. They don't understand the value of life, as I wrote last week, and they do not respect fundamental rights.
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Respect for Life
We often are told that gun banners' ultimate goal is to save lives. "If it saves the life of one child," they claim, it is worth violating the rights of millions. These efforts are transparently contradictory
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On Winning: What Will it Take?
Gun control advocates seem to be renewing their efforts to relieve Americans of their constitutional right to keep and bear arms. Anytime there's a high profile shooting, it displays the gun grabbers' glaring opportunism in harsh relief
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Children And Guns - An Iowa Fail
Little Natalie Gibson was asked to leave a Polk City, IA shooting range last week, because legally - at 8 years old - she was not old enough to practice with the pistol she had been shooting for the past three years
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"Mental Health" as a Disarmament Tool
In the aftermath of the latest Ft. Hood shooting, the subject of mental health has once again reared its ugly little head as a way to deprive a large chunk of the population of their Second Amendment rights
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Open Carry Civility, Part 2
"See my gun? Look, I got a gun and there's nothing you can do about it," crowed a man at a Forsyth County, Georgia kids' baseball game, as he arrogantly displayed his open carry and holstered firearm
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Civility Works Both Ways
Have you ever noticed how gun grabbers belittle, vilify and berate those of us who vocally support and defend the Second Amendment as "paranoid," "irrational" and "extremist," while hypocritically demanding "civility" when we begin to push back?
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Official "entrusted with the duty to protect and serve the American public" Serves Himself and his Pals
Isn't it ironic that an official in an agency which routinely disarms Americans under the disingenuous guise of "keeping them safe," seems to be involved in a scheme to illegally and unethically arm his buddies
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Small Arms Survey: Biased Reporting, Anti-Freedom Goals
A Swiss research project is supposed to be an objective source of information for governments, but a closer look at its mission reveals a distinct anti-gun agenda that threatens to endanger our rights
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Guns Galore in the Spotlight
Media Misses the Point... Again. No news outlet makes the outright claim that Guns Galore is somehow responsible for the Fort Hood shooting. That would be a brazen lie, but the implication is there ... thinly veiled, sneering and contemptuous
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Pop Tart Gun Ban Could be a Thing of the Past in Florida
The Florida Senate Education Committee and the Florida House are ready to pass a bill to allow children in public schools to simulate firearms while playing without risking arrest
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Baristas Refuse to be Victims
After a string of robberies in less than a month at Jitterz Java in Spokane, WA, the coffee shop owner and her employees decided they were going to take responsibility for their own safety by being armed
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So Long and Thanks for All the Fish
Arrogant Euro-snob Piers Morgan bade a farewell to his American CNN audiences Friday after tanking his show's ratings for several years with preachy rhetoric, boring harangue and abuse of guests with whom he disagreed
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"Journalist" Attacks 9-Year Old - Is This Any Way to Promote a Political Agenda?
Why will this NJ law impact Shyanne? Because when she is competing against shooters from states that do not have these arbitrary limits, she will have to reload her magazine more often, which will impact her speed and her performance
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Guns as a Health Issue - Washington Post Promotes Same Old Propaganda
The Washington Post's editorial board is once again flogging its well-worn, neurotic, hysterical fixation with gun control by disingenuously conflating health care and guns
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The King is Dead! Long Live the King!
Those who thought that the ouster of the corrupt Yanukovych regime in Ukraine would signal a new era of freedom and transparency in the crisis-torn country might want to think again
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