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