We Defend Your Right to Defend Yourself
Our friends over at The Center Square try to walk on eggshells, given they try to provide fair and balanced coverage and the political class in Illinois are by and large just a hint left of center. They just published a story about how court rulings against gun control schemes…
Kwame Raoul (not pictured at the top, that's Senator Don Harmon) didn't finish at the top of his legal class. The people Raoul's hiring have not dazzled the courts defending the Illinois Firearms Ban Act that Gov. Pritzker wanted so badly. Lord knows Kwame's attorneys haven't impressed us even when…
Gun ownership represents freedom from both oppression and bullies. If you own a gun and know how to use it, you’re a free person. If you own guns, people have to convince you do things. They can’t intimidate you with threats of unlawful force. Meanwhile, most people don’t give a…
Mark Twain once famously noted that the only certainties in life are death and taxes. And in modern day Illinois, one can add increasing violent crime. While a few of us might escape becoming the victims of violent crime, we’re all going to die someday - some of us sooner…
Every bank, pawn shop, grocery store and gas station would be required to have at least one armed guard on premises during regular business hours under a bill introduced by Rep. Thaddeus Jones. HB-1231. Because the Mayor of Chicago has defunded the police to the tune of tens of millions…
We filed Guns Save Life's lawsuit a couple of weeks ago. We filed it in conjunction with the coalition of gun stores, gun clubs and gun rights organizations known as the Illinois Gun Rights Alliance. Very late in the day yesterday we filed a motion for a preliminary injunction blocking…
Past performance is no indicator of future results. At least that's the usual disclaimer you get from investment firms. With legislation and regulation though, history may not always repeat itself, but it certainly rhymes. At least it does for those wise enough to listen and watch. To the surprise of…
You have to love "charity" bond funds who pay the bail for bad guys who can't afford to pay their own bail after suffering the indignity of getting arrested for committing crimes. The charity bond funds allow the release of arrestees so they can go victimize more people back to…
The arrest numbers for Chicago suggest that those committing serious crimes face only a one in twenty chance of getting caught. Factor in a Soros-funded state's attorney that drops about a third of cases police present to her and, well, the number of criminals suffering consequences is nil. Wirepoints has…
Chicago isn't safe. Not even for decent people living in "decent" neighborhoods. For example, in one neighborhood just east of Chicago's O'Hare Airport, an 80-year-old man faced down a pair of drug-abusing career criminals, and ended up shooting both. However, dumb luck or good fortune cheated Mr. Darwin. [caption id="attachment_34353"…
