Op-Ed: Murder Motivation - Why Most of America is Immune to Gun Violence

What was your motivation for the murder you committed yesterday? If you can't answer that, then you are in the 99.996% of the population that also assassinated nobody. When it comes to guns, we already know that the largest cluster of gun deaths (61%) are suicides, and that suicide is a mental health problem than no gun or magazine ban prevents. The next largest cluster are gun crimes (35%), with...

ATF Bans More Ammo

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives has declared that Russian 7N6, 5.45x39 rifle ammunition is “armor piercing handgun ammunition,” and therefore illegal for importation into the US. The ammunition has been widely available in the US for decades and was originally designed for the AK74 service rifle, a smaller, lighter adaptation of the AK47. The “handgun ammunition” label...

Headline: The pistol-toting 'Angel of Mercy' that saved a driver from an angry Detroit mob

Recently, WJBK (Fox Detroit) published a moving interview with a woman who got her pistol and chose to intervene in a racially-charged mob attack on a driver whose car had struck a child who ran in front of his car. From the article : Almost one week has passed since the brutal attack of a driver in Detroit who stopped to help a little boy he had accidentally just hit with his car. In a bankrupt...

Justice Stevens’ Dishonest Diatribe Against the Second Amendment

In a recently released book, retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens calls for fundamental changes to the founding document of the United States. As a way of ginning up buzz about the book, the judge’s publicists gave a particularly controversial excerpt to the Washington Post for publication. That section deals with the former Justice’s opinions on “reforming” the Second Amendment...

The BATFE's "rubber band ruler"

After the ATF's raid on a pair of California gun companies, many in the firearms industry -myself included- wondered just what changed the ATF's collective mind what morphed unfinished polymer AR-style rifle lowers into finished-and unregistered "guns". It was a matter of no small amount of speculation. The speculation wasn't unfounded. It wouldn't be the first time the BATFE had suffered a...

Neighbors say Columbus home-owner acted in self-defense during home invasion

WBNS (CBS Columbus) is reporting that a homeowner may have acted in self-defense during a shooting in Southwest Columbus. From the article : Police were called to a home on Londonderry Avenue around 10 pm Friday night on a report of a homeowner shooting a robbery suspect. A neighbor told 10TV's Shelby Croft he heard multiple gun shots. Alex Mitchell said he ran outside to find the man shot in...

Zero-Tolerance Policies Now Exploited by Enterprising Bullies

There is a long history of school administrators behaving like bullies when enforcing the irrational zero-tolerance policies that have ensnared scores of students. A recent case out of Vernon, N.J., however, suggests that the hysterical enforcement of these policies in some schools has reached a level where an actual peer bully can exploit zero-tolerance to torment a victim. This latest incident...

Headline: WWII vet, pistol-packing wife chase away would-be robber

WLWT (NBC Cincinnati) reported recently that a knife-wielding man was outgunned when he tried to rob an elderly Ohio couple. From the article : The 92-year-old World War II veteran and his 89-year-old wife were more than a handful for the alleged attacker. Investigators said Robert Kelly Jr. talked his way into a home in Springfield [Township], Ohio where he had previously done odd jobs. "I was...

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