Month: January 2016

The Ferguson Effect:  Where rank and file police officers take  hands-off approach to policing because they aren't supported by their employers, and where they face risk of federal government investigations for merely doing their jobs. It's in full effect in Baltimore, where the local Democrat mayor threw the entire police…

President B. Hussein Obama's trickle of executive orders on guns are nothing more than a farce.  It's more symbolism over substance.  We'll get into them in a moment, but in a nutshell, they are simply word games and proposals. Obama's earmarked only $4 million towards enforcement.  That's significantly less than…

[caption id="attachment_19558" align="alignnone" width="600"] Naomi looks to buy her first shotgun for home defense in Utah.  Getty Images photo.[/caption] The Washington Times has the story of Americans buying guns in record numbers because they know gun ownership is a net positive to their home safety and security.  Yes, on a…

The New York Post (of all places!) exposes the myth that killer cops are a threat to everyday Americans - and particularly to young black men. They report on what we all know (at least those of us who live in the real world):  The "Black Lives Matter" mantra is…

Police in Dayton, Ohio are facing tough questions after not responding to an attempted burglary call for over an hour - at a house that was burglarized only a week before.  Inquiring minds are curious to know if it was the same burglar coming back for seconds. If it was…

by John Boch Executive Director, Guns Save Life There are a couple of legislative moves by gun grabbers that have some gun owners and activists worried, aside from the all hat, no cattle threats from Barack Hussein to enact gun control via Executive Orders. The first, at the federal level,…

Final toll in Chicago for 2015: 499 homicides, narrowly missing that 500 mark.  We have no doubt Rahm breathed a sigh of relief as 499 sounds like a lot less than 500. 2995 people were shot. Is that because there's a lot of guns in Chicago?  Hardly. There aren't a…