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Medlock said his daughter was at her mother's house when Ozark police Officer Dustin Bradshaw shocked her in the back with a Taser and arrested her.

"If you can't pick the kid up and take her to your car, handcuff her, then I don't think you need to be an officer," Medlock said.

"He had no other choice. He had to get the child under control," said Ozark police Chief Jim Noggle.

Ozark police said it is their policy to use a Taser on someone who is a threat to others, no matter their age.

"The threat of 'private nukes' is non-existent, and would be so even in the absence of laws forbidding them. Anyone who pulls out the 'private nukes' argument in favor of 'gun control' -- or the continued existence of the state -- is, by doing so, confessing that they're all out of real arguments and grasping at straws."

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Madame Speaker, I rise to introduce two pieces of legislation restoring the First Amendment rights of consumers to receive truthful information regarding the benefits of foods and dietary supplements. The first bill, the Health Freedom Restoration Act, codifies the First Amendment by ending the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s efforts to censor truthful health claims. The second bill, the Freedom of Health Speech Act, codifies the First and Fifth Amendment by requiring the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) to prove that health claims are false before it takes action to stop manufactures and marketers from making the claims.

Government has been mismanaging medical care for more than 45 years; for every problem it has created it has responded by exponentially expanding the role of government.

On April 15, Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer dipped his pen in gun oil and signed the "Exempt Montana-made firearms and ammunition from commerce clause" bill into law.

The legislation, better known as the Montana Firearms Freedom Act (MFFA), goes into effect on October 1.

What the new law says, once the text has been disinfected of legalspeak, is that all firearms, firearm related accessories and ammo that are produced, sold and retained within the boundaries of Big Sky Country are not subject to the Constitution's interstate commerce clause.

An incident happened in Yazoo County, Mississippi, that makes gun control advocates wet their dark gray suit pants.

A 14-year-old girl got on a school bus and "pulled out a chrome-plated .380-caliber semi-automatic handgun and began shouting and threatening the other students." (Jackson Clarion-Ledger)

But this isn't what loosens the urethral sphincters of firearm phobics. These sorts of episodes happen all the time, everywhere, which is fine because the more it happens the more funds get funneled into the fingers of antigun groups from supporter's dues and donations and taxpayer-subsidized liberal legislative largesse.

What precipitated the precipitation in the pants was what happened next.

Quarterback and defensive end Kaleb Eulls of the Yazoo County High School Panthers, sleeping on the bus, was woken by one of his three sisters. He walked purposefully up the isle of the bus toward the girl while confidently repeating, "drop the gun" several times, then tackled her, rode her to the floorboards and took the gun away.

I've chosen, in a world where there's never enough time and energy, is to focus on the one political issue which most clearly and unmistakably demonstrates what any politician—or political philosophy—is made of, right down to the creamy liquid center.

Make no mistake: all politicians—even those ostensibly on the side of guns and gun ownership—hate the issue and anyone, like me, who insists on bringing it up. They hate it because it's an X-ray machine. It's a Vulcan mind-meld. It's the ultimate test to which any politician—or political philosophy—can be put.

If a politician isn't perfectly comfortable with the idea of his average constituent, any man, woman, or responsible child, walking into a hardware store and paying cash—for any rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything—without producing ID or signing one scrap of paper, he isn't your friend no matter what he tells you.

When Obama is not busy appeasing militant Islamists and making timid statements against other terrorist nations or organizations, he is busy encroaching on individual rights and the conditions under which American business must operate. Obama is going “soft” on potential enemies abroad, taking a policy of appeasement that is likely to invite attack. He is riding roughshod on individual rights of citizens at home. He has this back-assward.

Why are today’s political plotters so hot for a military draft and mandatory civil servitude?

Why are so many of them so eager to turn their once-sovereign fellow citizens into political string puppets? Do they know something we don’t? Do they know that the public treasury will be raped so long and deep and wide and hard that the only way the country will survive is to create a workforce of slaves? Do they know we’ll be fighting wars of conquest forever and need an endless supply of human drones?

Is he really just a one-trick pony? What does he do but grind out speeches? What meat-grinder is running behind him, fed with lists of great words, lists of lofty leftist platitudes? His fans swoon, hearing only heavenly hope, nothing but the sweetest swill. Let me rethink this: “O” could be a two-trick pony: great-sounding public speaking and destroying the economy. Maybe Obama should just stick to making speeches. Let the citizens of this once great country take back their responsibilities and regain their rights.

"In Washington, D.C., a jury ignored a military veteran's obvious violation of the city's draconian gun laws, setting him free with only a slap on the wrist. In LaSalle County, Illinois, a medical marijuana user found with 25 pounds of the plant didn't even get the slap; jurors chatted with him after finding him not guilty. While we can't know for sure, in both cases jury nullification was likely at work as regular people serving an important role in courtrooms exercised their power to quash laws they found repugnant.

Does President Obama have any respect for individual rights? Almost every word he speaks shouts “bigger government” and “only government can solve this problem” and “we must spare no expense in recovering from our present financial crisis.” Whatever happened to our right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness”? Unfortunately, to focus on those matters would have us fail to take full advantage of the crisis.

He committed to limit campaign spending by public matching funds for the presidential election, which would have limited the amount he could spend, and that he then reneged on his promise in June. He promised to stop smoking cigarettes. With Barack Obama readying himself to take on what will be quite a high-stakes and stressful job, are we sure we actually want him to quit smoking? “The nation is too precariously balanced right now to risk having him burst into tears, or march off in a snit, or take to his bed with the glums,” suggested an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times over the News Years weekend.

With George leaving office, please remember to refrain from affectionately calling the USA "Bush Country". After the inauguration and swearing in, you may start using "Obama Nation". Thanks for your attention in this matter. Will the Change that Obama proposed resemble what the founding fathers envisioned or will it be an abomination?

A little over a year ago I predicted the present melt down. It will get worse. That said, this is still a time of promise. We can change the present course; we can establish for ourselves and our children a future more wonderful that we ever imagined. Go Home to the Real America.