We Defend Your Right to Defend Yourself
The same strategy issues apply to gun rights activism... by Desiderius Erasmus, a GSL member You may be wondering why the pundits in the media always seem to get it wrong predicting winners and losers in wars or how long these wars will last. It’s because they only look at…
Don Tracy from Springfield, IL wrote fantastic piece that appeared at Real Clear Politics in recent days. It's a hard-hitting piece and worthy of the three minute read. I'll share a tease and then some analysis afterwards... Again, from Real Clear Politics. Illinois is more than its elected officials. Each…
Self-defense is legal everywhere in America. Even in Chicago. Even if you’re black, Latino, gay, transgendered, Muslim or maybe all of the above. But no matter where it happens, the color of your skin, who you worship or who you sleep with, the legal aftermath of using force in self-defense…
by Justin Thyme, a GSL member Imagine a scenario where all internal combustion personal vehicles were banned. Due to excessive injuries and fatalities attributed to gas-powered personal vehicles, our government has enacted a ban on these vehicles. Remember, this is for your safety and to fight climate change! Among other…
[caption id="attachment_32388" align="alignnone" width="770"] Notice how this police officer in Juarez, Mexico has no sights on his AR.[/caption] The Mexican government cannot keep its military firearms out of the hands of desperados in their nearly failed state, but they thought they could sue American gun makers for a king's ransom. …
Seeing an advertisement from New York State Attorney General Letitia James asking for "unwanted" firearms, a courageous man named “Kem” put his thinking cap on and got to work. He used a $200 3D printer to "print" plastic "guns" to turn in at a Utica, New York gun buyback very…
by Desiderius Erasmus, a GSL memberPart of our monthly "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king" series... The “typical” gun owner is often characterized by non-gun-owners as a right-wing, red-neck, beer-guzzling, low-IQ Neanderthal who is just itchin’ to unleash his trigger finger. But times have changed,…
For some people, not only don’t you need a gun, but I prefer you didn’t get one by Desiderius Erasmus, a GSL member A while back I wrote about various groups of people who need to own firearms. More recently, I saw an eye-opening Quinnipiac poll that got me thinking…
[caption id="attachment_32375" align="alignnone" width="770"] Sangamon County Sheriff Jack Campbell spoke at the Sangamon County GSL meeting.[/caption] Sangamon County, Illinois Sheriff Jack Campbell addressed about eighty gun owners at a Guns Save Life meeting in Springfield Monday evening. He talked about the Land of Lincoln's upcoming effective date of the so-called…
[Editor: Long ago, John Ross (author of Unintended Consequences) gave us permission to reprint his piece on The Semantics of Manipulation. (CLICK HERE for the original.) After watching some of the pro-gun speakers at the July 2022 Naperville Village Council meeting, we’re reprinting excerpts and adding some updates to help…
