We Defend Your Right to Defend Yourself
by John Boch Presidential candidate and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker made an appearance smack in the heart of Guns Save Life territory Monday afternoon, stopping at Chuck's Harley-Davidson in Bloomington, IL. [caption id="attachment_17611" align="alignnone" width="600"] Darin LaHood does one of many interviews prior to Walker's arrival.[/caption] Walker was stumping for…
We're speechless. Not sure which is worse, the cavalier nature of black thugs trashing a crime scene, including stealing spent shell casings, to obstruct justice or the cops unable or unwilling to do anything about it. Chicagoans walking through a crime scene, kicking shell casings & evidence markers at…
[caption id="attachment_17601" align="alignnone" width="600"] A military recruitment center office in Manchester, Tennessee. Pull up a chair, please.[/caption] The Obama administration trotted out a directive last week ordering military recruiters who encounter armed civilians watching over their officers to report those individuals to the local PD as a security threat.…
Does "feeling" secure translate into "being" secure? Hardly. That doesn't stop some folks from blurring the line between the two to confuse people, including one movie theater owner in Woodridge, IL from selling snake-oil as effective medicine. "We have 40-plus cameras throughout the perimeter of the building... We have alarm…
[caption id="attachment_17594" align="alignnone" width="546"] A screen capture of the News-Gazette online headline about protests at the Champaign County Fair.[/caption] It was a public relations migraine headache for a county fair board in the middle of Middle America. Earlier this year, the Champaign County (IL) Fair Board tossed out the…
[caption id="attachment_17588" align="alignnone" width="658"] Marty Poling, the commander of the local DAV chapter, locked out of the beer garden at the Champaign County Fairgrounds that the DAV members built using volunteer labor and materials. Note the weeds growing and general lack of upkeep since the veterans have been locked out. …
A 58-year-old social misfit went on a killing spree last night, attacking people at random inside a showing of the new movie "The Trainwreck" in Lafayette, LA. The theater has a "NO GUNS" policy, even for card-carrying good guys. It made those law-abiding innocents sitting in that theater sitting ducks…
Illinois mandated reporting system isn't perfect, by a long shot. Here's one example where a mandated reporter perhaps overstepped her bounds in reporting Art Lovi for expressing his bitterness against doctors who misdiagnosed his wife's cancer almost ten years earlier. From a story in the Daily Herald: After the session,…
by John Boch God bless America and the volunteers who have been stepping up to fill the void left by Obama's steadfast refusal to let America's armed forces defend themselves at home. While some guys standing outside a recruiting station are of questionable value to stopping a potential threat (and…
KIRO has a great report of a 70-year-old homeowner who used his 9mm pistola to shoot a man in his fifties Sunday afternoon in King County, Washington. The recipient of the hot lead (three hits of five shots fired) had broken into the home and was pummeling the homeowner's 65-year-old…