Guns in the News

Editorial: Allow concealed carry

February 16, 2008 Dover-New Philadelphia Times-Reporter It’s time we allow concealed carry on America’s university campuses. Maybe an armed, well-trained professor might have been able to stop the graduate student who went on a shooting rampage Thursday in a Northern Illinois University lecture hall, killing six and wounded 15 before turning the gun on himself. And maybe someone with a weapon...

Al Gore's Current TV takes on Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot

By Chad D. Baus According to the ever-changing, reader-edited resource that is Wikipedia.com, Current TV is an Emmy award-winning independent media company led by former U.S. Vice President [and anti-gun extremist ] Al Gore, and [ equally anti-gun ] businessman Joel Hyatt. The U.S. cable television network went on the air in August of 2005, and a second network, operated in the United Kingdom and...

Unarmed Homeowner vs. Home invaders: At the mercy of animals

By Tim Inwood In August of 2007 I wrote about the July 23rd home invasion that befell the family of Dr. William Petit. It is a sort of thing that happens too often in the United States: criminals, who have been paroled then repeatedly go back to a violent life of crime, plus another family lulled into a false sense of security thinking the police will be there to protect them in their “good...

Gun grabbers' gun violence grade cards; Media ignores trend of higher grades for more violent states

By Chad D. Baus & Dean Rieck The Brady Campaign has released its annual "State Report Cards," scoring the states according to their gun control laws. What is most curious about this ranking is that, once again, there is an obsessive focus on guns rather than on crime. If anti-gun groups talk about crime at all, it's always focused specifically on "gun crime," as if getting killed by a gun is...

Free Chicago! (Has a massacre happened in YOUR gun free zone today?)

By Gerard Valentino Five more of my hometown brethren were killed this weekend, just outside Chicago at a Lane Bryant clothing store in Tinley Park. Unlike many cities, Chicago’s suburban population never admits they are from Cicero, or Naperville, or Westmont, they always say they are from Chicago. Many old northern cities have evolved to the point where the main city became irrelevant, like...

Militia, you say...? Arms Within Easy Reach

Alright, let's talk Militia. Where the Original Intent of the Founders was for citizens to have a gun within easy reach. By John Longenecker Today, we are having a debate we should never have. We are squabbling about the force which backs our authority under our system. Can you imagine some people actually rooting for the disarmament of the force which backs their very Citizen Authority in this...

Op-Ed: Gunning For Gun Makers

Idaho tries to attract firearm manufacturers By Joshua Palmer Idaho has taken its first step in an aggressive campaign to attract gun manufacturers and other outdoor recreation industries. Known as the Recreational Technology Campaign, Idaho Department of Commerce is partnering with the state's regional economic development groups to market Idaho as the best state for gun manufacturers to do...

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