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How To Become Proactive About Safety and Security at Your Kids’ or Grandkids’ School
Our children are priceless. There’s literally nothing most parents won’t do to ensure their health and safety. Mitigating risks to your kids and grandkids should be high on your priority list. This includes the time they spend at school. After all, while schools remain largely safe across America, nobody wants their kids’ school to become the next Uvalde or Marjory Stoneman-Douglas.
At the same time, a lot of folks don’t know what to look for in terms of good safety and security practices at school.
Senator Chris Murphy Whistles Past the Bruen Graveyard, Predicts ‘Victory After Victory’ for Gun Control
Senator Chris Murphy believes that the tide is finally turning in favor of the gun safety movement in America.
Even as Murphy acknowledges that more work is needed to address gun violence, the prominent Connecticut Democrat maintains that a growing backlash to mass shootings has brought the country to the brink of a sea change – 10 years after the devastating Sandy Hook school shooting in his home state.
Armed Citizen Chronicles: Veteran Holds Fleeing Felon Until Cops Arrive at Georgia Food Bank
In most of the country, you can’t turn a corner without running into a good guy, gun-toting American. After all, roughly 16 million Americans carry a gun (or two) everyday. In College Park, Georgia, an armed suspect escaping from police ran through a food bank’s parking lot. Army veteran and food bank manager William Joyner then emerged with his own gun.
The crook, a 20-year-old named Jordan Shelley, had just left the scene after wrecking a stolen car with an accomplice, James Green, who police had already arrested.
The Next State to Enact An Unconstitutional ‘Assault Weapon’ Ban: Illinois
They’re Coming for Your AR’s and Standard Capacity Magazines
By Dan Eldridge
The Chicago Sun Times is reporting that the Democratic caucus of the Illinois General Assembly (ILGA) plans to bring forward an “assault weapons” ban during the lame duck session in January. The text of the proposed bill (focus on the strike-through and underlined text at the link, everything else is current law) was released later and it should horrify any gun owner.
Gun Meme of the Day: Eat The Bugs Edition
You will eat the bugs! This weekend is a great time to start. Think of how proud Bill Gates will be.
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Gun Nation: November, 2022 Saw Americans Buy Another 1.5 Million Firearms
Can you call November a “down” month when Americans bought over 1.5 million guns? When they buy over 700,000 of them in one week? Technically yes, but the the floor has been raised so much that we’re now operating on a level not seen before.
The NSSF’s Mark Oliva had this to say about the November sales numbers . . .
These figures are reflective interest and investment by law-abiding American to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
Judge Roger ‘Saint’ Benitez Rules Against California’s Attempt to Block SAF’s ‘Fee-Shifting’ Law Challenge
From the Second Amendment Foundation . . .
A federal judge in San Diego has rejected an attempt by the State of California to moot a Second Amendment Foundation lawsuit seeking to overturn a Golden State statute designed to penalize any plaintiffs, and their attorneys, in cases challenging California gun control laws. The case is known as Miller v. Bonta.
The eight-page order was signed by District Judge Roger T.
New York Times Columnist David Brooks Wants Americans to Give Up Their Rights for a Promise of More ‘Security’
New York Times columnist David Brooks is doing Americas gun owners the service of reminding them why they shouldn’t put any faith in opinion writers pontificating from their metropolitan ivory towers.
Brooks recently opined that America would be a much safer country if Americans would simply give up their freedoms and become more like Europe. If America wouldn’t hold onto the individual right to keep and bear arms as spelled out in the Second Amendment — and affirmed by the U.S.
Daniel Defense Fires Back at Everytown-Supported Lawsuit Blaming the Gunmaker for the Uvalde Shooting
Last week, the mother of one of the children murdered in the Uvalde school shooting filed a lawsuit against the city, the school district and, Daniel Defense, the maker of the rifle the killer bought and used that day. The response to the shooting by law enforcement was an utter failure on almost every level. That’s hardly unusual. Similar botched failures to follow well-established active shooter response protocols have cost lives in places like Parkland and the Pulse Nightclub shooting.
Banks Creating Systems Track Gun Purchases, Ostensibly to ID Potential Mass Shooters
Banks know that normal Americans aren’t going to stand for banks blocking purchases of guns at stores using debit or credit cards. But if they market it as “identifying mass shooters before they strike,” suddenly it seems a lot less insidious to the low-information crowd. In fact, they might even support such a proposal.
However one problem (one of many) is that “pre-crime” isn’t at tool of law-enforcement in America. At least not yet.
Frustrated Anti-Gun Physician’s Study Tells Only Part of the Story on ‘Gun Violence’
By Lee Williams
More than 1 million Americans were killed by firearms from 1990 to 2021, and firearm deaths increased markedly during the pandemic, according to a study published Tuesday by the Journal of the American Medical Association network titled: “Trends and Disparities in Firearm Fatalities in the United States, 1990-2021.”
Firearm deaths reached their lowest point in 2004, and then increased more than 45% by 2021 – a 28-year high – the study claims.
Lunatic Caught on Video Shooting Philadelphia Parking Enforcement Officer Point Blank
There’s a lot in the war zone that Philadelphia has become that makes people sick, including a whole YouTube channel dedicated to videos of strung-out addicts littering Philly’s streets. But the video that’s going viral of a parking enforcement officer being shot in the head as he did his job on Black Friday looks more like something we see from the Third World crap holes, and not on the streets of America.
It happened in the City of Brotherly Love, not far from where many of those addicts hang out.
Gear Review: Safariland Schema IWB Holster
When the new Safariland Schema holster arrived at TTAG HQ it definitely caught our eye. Skeletonized and minimalist, it was unlike other holsters. Luckily, the sample that had arrived for testing was designed for a SIG SAUER P365XL, which meant I was the easy choice for putting it through its paces.
Though I wasn’t a fan for the longest time, I’ve been almost exclusively carrying in the appendix position (AIWB) since early spring.
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Like Good Neighbors, Armed Citizens Are There: Michigan Home Invasion Stopped By a Pair of Armed Neighbors
Moms Demand Action’s Shannon Watts claims that defensive gun uses don’t happen. They’re just an urban myth. A fantasy perpetrated by crazed gun nuts. Then again, “gaslighting” is the 2022 word of the year.
Bright and early last Friday morning, two separate neighbors with concealed carry guns in Michigan, seeing a “disturbance” turn into a home invasion of a nearby residence with a mom and two children inside, acted quickly to stop the mayhem before police eventually arrived and tok the suspect into custody.
Concealed Carry Tip: Carry a Nice Gun, You’re Worth It
I can’t even count how many times I’ve heard people spout the common “wisdom” of carrying an inexpensive gun that you don’t care about. They’ll argue that if you’re ever involved in a shooting the police are going to confiscate your pistol and, if you ever see it again, it won’t be until years later.
Well…let’s play this out a little.
First, the oft-heard assertion that your firearm will be confiscated isn’t always accurate.
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The Truth About Stopping School Shootings in America
By Lee Williams
My heart sinks every time I see breaking-news graphics announce another school shooting. It’s like a gut-punch…the lost lives, the suffering of the wounded, the horrors the first responders must encounter, and the families that will never again be whole.
The blame and blood-dancing usually start before the bodies are even recovered. The talking heads call to ban or further regulate firearms, magazines or accessories in common usage, as if the contents of my gun safe located thousands of miles from the crime scene somehow played a role in the killings.
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NRA Spends Big Bucks on Hershel Walker in Georgia Senate Run-Off Election
The left’s eternal bogeyman on gun rights, the National Rifle Association, had made a $1.5 million push to help get Hershel Walker over the finish line in the Georgia run-off election for US Senate. The former Heisman Trophy winner and 12-year NFL veteran gives Georgia residents a viable alternative to the so-called reverend, slumlord, and gun control supporter Raphael Warnock.
The election spending, above and beyond for the financially-strapped NRA, may make the difference in the very tight race.
Democrat Rep. James Clyburn: Purchasing Guns Is Like Owning Slaves
Even as Connecticut Democrat Sen. Chris Murphy is lamenting the fact that Joe Biden does not have the votes needed in a lame-duck Congress to outlaw assault weapons, Lefties should take heart. All is not lost. Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) has deployed the most potent weapon in the Left’s arsenal to defeat the shadowy, all-powerful gun lobby. Not to mention, millions of Americans who would just like to be left alone and able to defend themselves and their families against a world that looks ever more like the apocalyptic landscape of the Mad Max franchise.
Gun Meme of the Day: That One Stings Edition
Ouch. That one left a mark.
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