As the country lurches toward Election Day, activists, right-wing militants, racial justice organizations, and everyday voters have been preparing themselves for the possibility of widespread and violent civil unrest. Spurred by a year of historic tumult, they’re constructing their own bulletproof vests, stockpiling food, buying guns for the first time, and planning escape routes to safe … Read more
While TTAG’s home town of Austin, Texas is a smaller city in a very big red state, it’s run by city officials who aspire to make the capital all that other larger people’s paradises such as San Francisco, Seattle and Portland have become. Austin’s city council took a meat axe to the city’s police budget … Read more
The long-term mismanagement of America’s big cities, now exacerbated by Covid and their accommodation — if not outright encouragement of rioting and looting — has done more to create new gun owners than Barack Obama ever dreamed of. It has dawned on millions of Americans in these places that they truly are on their own … Read more
By Roger Katz As a NYPD veteran police officer, and adjunct professor/lecturer of police science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, National Rifle Association certified firearms instructor (pistol, rifle, and shotgun), and training counselor, and active member of the International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors, and lifetime resident of New York City, I … Read more
Many people might believe that the state has a legal “public duty” to protect their lives and persons. This theory is dubious, and in fact, it has failed in court when put to the test. In the 1981 case Warren v. District of Columbia, the Washington government successfully argued that it had no such obligation to … Read more
Two armed cigar store owners just defended their shop against a dozen looters already in the store. INSANEpic.twitter.com/I7CfndqtQj — Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) June 1, 2020 For fans of legal restrictions on self-defense rights, 2020 is a disaster. It provides continuing evidence that to push gun control proposals is to advocate that the likes of Derek … Read more
It was just a matter of time. As protests have been allowed to continue in cities across the country, the rioters have grown more bold. The police, who’ve come under repeated attack, are more frustrated. And business-owners and uninvolved citizens are worried about their safety and that of their families. In Buffalo (AP): 1️⃣3️⃣2️⃣ Buffalo, … Read more
This tweet went up yesterday afternoon. The account has since been suspended and some claim that it’s a fake. Whatever its authenticity, some rioters attempted to move out of urban centers to more suburban, residential areas last night. In one of the greatest tweets of all time, Jack Posobiec juxtaposed a couple of tweets from … Read more
The necessity of the Second Amendment has rarely been more clearly demonstrated in the United States than it has been over the last three days. Widespread riots and looting have sprung up in cities across the country. Police and in some cases the National Guard have been unable, unwilling, or in some cases restrained from … Read more
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