Guns in the News

Op-Ed: Illegal Mayors

by C. D. Michel Incarcerating Michael Bloomberg may be the next news ironic item. If only! New York Mayor Bloomberg, America's self-appointed gun control financier and front man, established the group Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG). The group's typically innocuous and benign sound bites actually conceal an aggressive and extreme agenda, some rather disastrous shenanigans (such as a Keystone...

Op-Ed: Gun toting teachers' names must remain private

by John Lott Are people safer if criminals know who is carrying concealed handguns? Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel seems to think so. With school starting soon, he claims that if the Clarksville, Arkansas School District lets employees carry concealed handguns at school, their names must be made public. This is his second attempt to derail the school district's proposal. McDaniel's...

AG DeWine declares some school safety plans "useless"

by Chad D. Baus The Columbus Dispatch is reporting that, while all Ohio schools meet the legal requirement of having a school safety plan, many are outdated, incomplete or useless to law enforcement. State law requires schools to file reports on how they would handle an active killer incident or other emergency, the article observes, but there are no penalties for failing to file, and the...

Ohio's children need protection...period.

by Mindy Whited On July 27, the Cleveland Plain Dealer published an op-ed by Renuka Mayadev entitled " Ohio's children need protection from guns ." In the article, Mayadev cites several tragic accidental shootings involving Ohio children as reasons for which Ohio should pass new gun control laws. I am a mom to five children ages 3-20. I agree that as a mom, our first priority should be keeping...

Rumor Control: U.N. "Disarmament" Memo

As attacks on our Second Amendment rights continue, there is typically a corresponding uptick in the number of internet rumors concerning firearms, ammunition, and gun-control measures. The latest rumor involves the United Nations, a group that indeed poses an ongoing potential threat to our Second Amendment rights. However, this rumor was highly suspect right from the start. Pictures of the...

Piers Morgan Tells a Whopper

If you have the misfortune to be familiar with Piers Morgan, the British former tabloid "reporter" and "talent judge" known on this side of the Atlantic as CNN's most overbearing gun control proselytizer, you won't be surprised at what he did on Tuesday. It began during an interview with military history expert A.W.R. Hawkins, as Morgan pushed his theory that more gun ownership leads to more...

Mayor Bloomberg’s Anti-Gun “No More Names” Tour Stops in Ohio

EDITOR'S NOTE: The Columbus Dispatch reported that only about 40 anti-gun rights people attended this rally - less than the number of pro-gun counter protesters counted by the author, who states "I did a visual head-count at three different times throughout the morning, and the pro-Second Amendment side never had less than 23, and had 46 at its peak at 11:00 AM." As the author points out, in...

MAIG outdoes Biden on self-defense

On August 2, Executive Director of Mayors Against Illegal Guns Mark Glaze managed the twin feat of offering self-defense advice that surpassed Vice President Joseph Biden's in its ignorance, while simultaneously making MSNBC's Chris Matthews seem like a voice of reason on the topic. While a guest on Matthews' Hardball, the host discussed with Glaze whether he would consider an attacker wielding...

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