Sangamon County Rifle Association
Right Reason on Second Amendment Rights
Springfield, Illinois




Jim Butler


Commentaries by

 Jim Butler, President, SCRA








Index

Global gun banners set sights
on America - 2/05


Pre-requisite for genocide:  GUN CONTROL - 3/05

Is the Daley Dynasty Crumbling? - 4/05

You can lead big-city bigots to water
but you can't
make them drink - 5/05

Second Amendment:  Protecting Freedom - 6/05

Registration useless and dangerous - 7/05

Our constitutional rights are under assault - 8/05

Illinois "Assault Weapons" Battle Looms - 9/05

New York's Sullivan Law:
 Making criminals'
work safer for 100 years - 10/05

Who's closed-minded and intellectually
"challenged" - 11/05


Gun hater predictions:  Wrong every time -11/05a

State Police Director needs to go - 12/05

Professor John Lott Expose Gun Myths - 1/06

Cities with most restrictive gun laws
have the highest crime rates - 2/06

England has forgotten the lessons
of history - 3/06

Federal government agents should be
held accountable - 4/06

Concealed Carry - Illinois residents deserve
the right to choose - 5/06

Daley tries bringing the rest of us
down to his level - 6/06

The U.N. Gun Grab - 7/06

Gun Control in U.K., Australia, Brazil
and USA -7/06a

Futility of Gun control Laws - 7/06b

Bolton magnificent in defense
of Second Amendment - 8/06

The Constitution - It's Worth Saving - 9/06

Free-Speech Blackout - 10/06

Your Rights are irrelevant -
if you're dead - 11/06

The  Lautenberg gun ban
Ex Post Facto Law has no
place in America - 12/06

All is Not Lost - 01/07

Don't Fall for the Daley Diversion - 02/07

"Assault Weapon" Deception - 03/07

The Second Amendment
It means what it says - 04/07

Myths of the .50 Caliber - 05/07

Antis Gun-Free School Zone
Failure - 06/07

The Second Amendment
  Individual or Collective Right 07/07

Special Session Shenanigans 08/07

Reasons to Reject Gun
Registration 09/07

You Don't Have to Wonder 10/07

Phony photo-op 12/07

2nd Goes to the Supremes 1/08

The "Miller" Decision 2/08

Rights "on loan"from government?" 3/08

Gun-free zones are really "Kill Zones" 4/08

The Real Problem:  An Absence of Culture 5/08

BATF Behind the Bush-Clement Brief
on the D.C. v. Heller Case 5/08a

Bloody Chicago 06/08

The Second Amendment
  Individual or Collective Right 08/08 (Repeat)

D.C. Defies Supreme Court 09/08

Firearm Registration Gateway
to Loss of Freedom 10/08

Soros helps fund U.N. Gun Grab 11/08

Chicago poiticians deny citizens self-defense 12/08

Phony "Assalt weapons" Ban Resurfaces
 with Obama's Election 1/09


Do Gun Control Laws Work? 2/09

Rights Lost Through Government
Crisis Management 3/09

Illinois Concealed Carry Long Overdue 4/09

Mexican Weapon Deception Exposed 5/09

Sangamon County and the Second
Amendment Resolution 6/09

Chicago's Handgun Ban Court Case 7/09

Self Defense 8/09

Trashing our Constitution and Republic 9/09

Time to reclaim our country 10/09

McDonald v. Chicago 11/09

The Fallacy of Gun Control 12/09

Yet another mass murder in a
"Gun-free zone" 01/10


The Socialist Onslaught Against
America 02/10


McDonald v. Chicago
The Supreme Court Case 03/10


Illinois Last State for
Concealed Carry? 04/10


Bloomberg's Federal Plan To Bypass
 Congress and Disarm America 05/10


Obama using the United Nations
for gun control 06/10


Chicago's Gun Ban Failure 07/10

Daley's New Criminal
 Protection Ordinance 08/10


Trashing our Constitution and Republic 9/09
Editor's note:  Jim Butler is recovering from eye surgery
and will return next month.  In the meantime, he asked
that we re-run this as one of his "best of" columns.