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Someone’s taking the President’s advice and fighting calls for gun control the Chicago way — by punching back twice as hard. This vid, an apparent answer to the Demand a Planners, attributes over a quarter billion murders to governments down through the years. And it urges Americans to “demand an end to citizen disarmament.” Now that’s a plan we can get behind.

Italians move toward protecting self-defenseUnnoticed by the establishment media in the United States, Italy is taking big steps towards greater protection of fundamental human rights, as it looks to significantly change old laws that have infringed the right of self-defense. In Italy, the Minister of Defense, Antonio Martino, recently announced his support for private gun ownership. "Gun control disarms law-abiding citizens, not criminals," he said.Martino, who was a professor before becoming defense minister, observed that gun laws only affect the law-abiding, not criminals: When gun-control laws were passed, I neither saw any member of the Mafia giving up his shotguns,...