With runaway violent crime in Chicago continuing to get worse instead of better, lawful citizens in the Windy City are increasingly taking the advice a city 911 dispatcher gave a home intrusion victim a few weeks ago, and that’s not sitting well with the local liberal newspaper. The victim count on any given weekend in … Read more
From the Bloomberg School of Public Health study that concluded “assault weapon” bans don’t actually work to Dr. Garen Wintemute’s finding that California’s extensive gun control laws have done nothing to curb homicides or suicides by firearm, there is a slew of empirical information available demonstrating that gun control doesn’t work. Of course, that’s probably … Read more
Red flag laws have been a hot topic around here as of late and they’ve been served with an occasional side of domestic violence. On December 2nd we ran an op-ed on a mental health care worker’s opinions on red flag laws; on December 11th we posted a news story – Scared Wife Fatally Shoots … Read more
Yesterday I slid my renewed NRA membership card into my wallet. As the red-white-and-blue rectangle of plastic snugged up against my NSSF press card and ragged old Hunter’s Education card, it hit me: 15+ years of membership, and only now am I forced to defend my decision to support the NRA. Over 15 years and … Read more
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