FBI: Crime Down. Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms: See?
For the third year in a row, violent crime has declined in these here United States. Preliminary data from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report shows that the violent crime rate fell 5.5 percent in...
U.S. Supreme Court: You Want A 30-Year Sentence for Machine Gun Charge? Prove It...
Massachusetts prosecutors are hard core when it comes to gun crime. As well they should be. But there are limits. Specifically, you gotta prove someone did something before you can sentence them for doing...
TTAG Tactical Analysis: Why Didn’t This Cashier Pull The Trigger?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbGobqCjt2I
The guy at my local convenience store isn't armed. He doesn't have a baseball bat either. Nothing. This despite the fact that armed robbers attacked the bank next door. He says he doesn't want...
Chicago Cops Take 20 Minutes to Respond to Armed Robbery 5 Minutes Away
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb3rAglRsqU
As you may know (even if you haven't seen the video above), the government is under no obligation to protect you. None. Of course, that doesn't stop private citizens from suing the government when...
U.S. Taxpayers Buy 13 Bulletproof Suburbans and 4 Bullet Tracers for Mexican Police
The AP has been doing a little digging re: the $1 billion in U.S. taxes supposedly funneled to Mexico to help our neighbor to the south combat drug-related crime. So how's that going, then?
Calderon...
Friends, Siblings, Acquaintances Account for 98% of 15-and-Under Accidental Gun Deaths. This is News?
Sorry, but David Hemenway of the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston and his colleagues Catherine Barber and Matthew Miller need to find something else to do with their time/our tax money. Their pre-publication findings...
Mexican President Felipe Calderon Renews Call for Renewed U.S. Assault Weapons Ban
Well, he has to call for something doesn't he? Something that pins at least part of the blame on Los Estados Unidos for the drug war that's claiming tens of thousands of lives south...
14-Year-Old’s Gun Drawing Triggers Felony Charges for Terroristic Threats
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5JW1B1fu2w
Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis Separates “Indoors and Outdoors” Homicides
I once knew a couple who divided their children's toys into "inside toys" and "outside toys." Their intent was simple enough: keep the Big Wheel off their carpets. The system worked about as well...
NYC: Safe at Last?
I find David Brooks one of the least convincing op-ed writers around, but I have to admit that he is a lot more sly than most conservatives. In this column, Brooks earnestly sells the...
AR Burger King Worker Turns the Tables on Armed Robber, Shoots Him
PINE BLUFF, Ark. (AP) — Police in Pine Bluff say a woman working in a fast food restaurant struggled with a robber and then shot him after he put aside his gun so he...
Gun Safety Saves Septuagenarian [Not Shown]
In my series How to Defend Your Home With A Shotgun (Chapter Four by the end of this week), I counsel home defenders never to underestimate their enemy. I stand by that assertion. Even...