Another irrelevant and out of touch gun control group bites the dust!

[DonP]

Joyce Foundation funded organization closes its doors

"Professor Joseph Olson has confirmed that the Ohio State University’s Second Amendment Research Center has apparently expired. In the words of Monty Python, it is an ex-Center. Its URL <http://www.secondamendmentcenter.org> is out of service and the OSU operator had no information. The Center’s director, historian Saul Cornell, this year moved on to a chair at Fordham University, and his vita shows the dates of the SARC to be 2002–2008.

This “scholarly” center was one of the initiatives funded by the Joyce Foundation to support writings that opposed the academic consensus that had previously arisen that the original meaning of the Second Amendment protected an individual right. Some may remember the infamous Joyce Foundation funded symposium at Chicago Kent Law School from which all dissenting scholars were excluded in the interest of “balancing” all the rest of Second Amendment scholarship. Apparently, its 'scholarly' purpose having been exhausted by the decision in Heller, it has ceased its scholarly mission. It is no more."


Can Brady, Helmke and Hennigan hear the footsteps behind them yet?

[old mark]

1. Good to see a little reality - I hope the Democratic party bosses

finally get the message. They have not yet - part of Corzine's losing NJ Governor's campaign was "he fought against the Gun Lobby".

[zipplewrath]

2. Got it in '94

At the national level anyway. Even Clinton admits it was one of his bigger problems that led to '94. The dems find it to be basically a "loser" issue for them nationally. At the urban level it will always have "legs" so to speak.

[JonQ]

3. Gun control fanatics are becoming less popular

and people seem less and less outraged by gay marriage and abortion every year.

At least some things are headed in the right direction.

[notesdev]

7. People are starting to realize

Ubiquitous gun ownership may be all that stands between us and a full-blown police state.

[gorfle]

4. Awesome!

Great news.

[eqfan592]

5. Woot! Rational thinking FTW! (nt)

[PavePusher]

14. Not to be a wet blanket...

But I really doubt "rational thinking" had anything to do with it. At least on the Anti side.

[taurus145]

6. About damn time!

[proteus_lives]

8. Grave-dancing is ungentlemanly.

But I'm no gentleman! Hit it!

[DonP]

9. Wasn't really dancing - just takin' a leak. ntxt

[HALO141]

10. Very good. n/t

[virginia mountainman]

11. Ahhh, ...Time to post this!! AGAIN......

[Euromutt]

12. I'd never even heard of this group

And yet I have no regrets about its demise. I abhor academics who are willing to prostitute their scientific integrity for the sake of pursuing an agenda.

[cowcommander]

13. Unfortunately no

It sounds like all the gun control groups are now being consolidated into the Brady campaign

[PavePusher]

15. Good.

"Consolidated", in this case, equals "clearer target".

The irony, it is delicious.