This has been a long Presidential campaign, but often usefully so. The Democratic Party fight is helping us learn that there`s more to Barack Obama than the eloquent, post-partisan, disciplined purveyor of "hope" that he typically projects. There`s also the

The independent label sticks to John McCain because he antagonizes fellow Republicans and likes to work with Democrats. But a different label applies to his actual record: conservative.

House Speaker Jimmy Naifeh`s recent actions on self-defense votes in the Tennessee General Assembly were hypocritical and ignored the will of tens of thousands of law-abiding Tennesseans," writes Chris W. Cox.

It`s dangerous and absurd, and students at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs want it to change. They want university officials to lift a dangerous ban on guns that makes the campus vulnerable to suicidal mass murderers and other brands of

Federal officials are reviewing gun laws in national parks and planning to announce new rules allowing visitors to carry loaded guns — if allowed by state law — by the end of the month.

Anti-gun Mayor Bloomberg is gearing up for the third annual Washington summit of his anti-gun coalition, in his on going effort to curtail the rights of law-abiding citizens.

There is no more fundamental right than the right to self-defense. Period. Florida lawmakers took another step toward recognizing that fundamental right this week by passing the bill allowing people to carry firearms to work in their vehicles.