Gun Control "Study" Misses the Mark Badly on Lawful Self-Defense

Likely as a response to the growing number of American’s who have come to realize that having a firearm makes them safer, a blogger at the washingtonpost.com recently reported on a “ study ” by an anti-gun professor that attempts to discredit the utility of carrying a firearm for self-defense by placing participants into simulated self-defense scenarios. The “study” was notably prepared for the...

Headline: Mom hits bullseye with kids’ gun sports

Recently, Fremont's News-Messenger published an excellent article documenting the hard work one mom has put in to make sure that her kids (and many others) can enjoy the shooting sports. From the article : When Mary Ann Miller’s children became interested in 4-H shooting sports several years ago, the closest shooting club was in Ottawa County. Miller, of Fremont, talked with the local extension...

Report:Ted Strickland earned $250,000 at anti-gun think tank

The Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting that a new financial disclosure filing reveals that former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, a Democratic candidate for U.S. senator, earned $250,386 from April 2014 to March 2015 working for the Center for American Progress, a liberal, anti-gun think tank. From the article : Strickland headed the center's Action Fund, its advocacy arm, before resigning and...

Florida Court Again Sides With Patient Privacy, Hands Nosy Doctors Second Defeat

Anti-gun doctors may need to get their own blood pressure checked after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit again upheld Florida’s Firearm Owners’ Privacy Act. As we reported last summer, the law was passed after an escalating series of events in which patients were harassed or denied access to services because they refused to be interrogated by their doctors about their ownership...

Sheriff's course teaches emergency response training to churches

WBNS (CBS Columbus) reported recently that Fairfield Co. Sheriff Doug Phelan held a class addressing church secutiry for around 300 people representing 60 churches. During the class, Sheriff Phelan gave tips on how churches can protect themselves in the event of an active killer. From the article : “There’s always going to be an element of risk in any church, in any mall, any theater,” Fairfield...

Media-touted FBI "Mass Shooting" Report Debunked

A misleading 2014 FBI report that fueled media claims that mass shooting incidents in the U.S. are rising sharply has been thoroughly debunked. In a piece appearing in the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences' March 2015 ACJS Today newsletter, Economist John R. Lott carefully lays out the flaws in the Bureaus' "A Study of Active Shooter Incidents in the United States between 2000 and 2013" report...

Fighting Through Pepper Spray

In case you missed it, a deranged suspect attempted to commit mass murder at a Tennessee movie theater [last week]. The suspect initiated his attack in the theater by using pepper spray against several people. As they became disoriented from the effects of the spray, he began hacking at them with an axe. He also had an airsoft pistol and a fake backpack bomb. He was killed by responding officers...

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