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In Byram Mississippi, on 1 June, at about 3 p.m. a minor was at home alone. He called his father to report a possible home invasion. A neighbor gave this account. From wapt.com: "Daddy armed...

While it's not yet complete, it appears that Katie Couric's career -- or whatever was left of it -- is over, at least as a "respectable" journalist. Couric has been a reliably "progressive" advocate...

Dr. Kelli Ward is a former Arizona state senator who is running in the Republican primary against John McCain. She's a strong Second Amendment supporter, and a political outsider to Washington, D.C. Her campaign...

Surprising precisely no one, Gun Control Group Backs Hillary Clinton and Pledges Help With Primary - “'Gun Sense Voters have a champion in Hillary Clinton,' John Feinblatt, the president of Everytown for Gun Safety, said in the...

It's National Gun Violence Awareness Day! The day that Americans who have a metaphorical hard-on for civilian disarmament will wear orange to show the world that politics trumps fashion. (So to speak.) Given Mr. Obama's lack of enthusiasm for...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfuz7cTDNeI "A 4-year-old boy was hospitalized with serious injuries and a gorilla was shot dead after officials said the boy climbed through a railing and fell into a moat at the Cincinnati Zoo's gorilla enclosure,"...

So a Chilean man named Franco Luis Ferrara decided to commit suicide-by-lion. He stripped naked and somehow managed to enter the lions' zoo enclosure. Not getting the desired response, Ferrara began "taunting" the big cats. Who did what big...

https://youtu.be/xUyUh07SLNA?t=4m37s I nearly fell out of my chair this morning when I learned that Libertarian presidential hopeful Gary Johnson had picked former Massachusetts Governor William Weld to be his Vice President. Weld is a big...

One of the advantages of gun blogging: you develop a sensitive ear for "background chatter." If a trend's developing amongst gun control advocates' media enablers, I get a sense of it early. For example, last week...

"Facebook users now have the option to do what they couldn’t when the company announced it was banning the sale of guns and ammunition through the site earlier this year," forbes.com reports, "report suspected sales....