THREE STOOGES? Champaign, IL “National Day of Action” event turns up three people. Briefly.
[caption id="attachment_18158" align="alignnone" width="482"] Lauren Quinn, Moms Demand Action Champaign, IL member.[/caption] WCIA Channel 3 in Champaign was the only local news outlet that got suckered into reporting on the great "National Day of Action" event being held in front of... WCIA Channel 3 studios in Champaign! How or…
PEOPLE OF THE GUN: SCRA becomes Guns Save Life’s Sangamon County chapter!
[caption id="attachment_18153" align="alignnone" width="600"] GSL's Charleston Co-Coordinator Justin Bawcum, left, with monthly gun drawing winners Joyce Tarver and Dave Clark at the Charleston, IL Guns Save Life meeting Wednesday, September 9th. Joyce won a steel plinking target (donated by an anonymous Guns Save Life member in Pontiac) and Dave Clark…
PEACE ON EARTH: A “Day of (Meaningful) Action” …or substance over symbolism
[caption id="attachment_18142" align="alignnone" width="600"] Chrystal T.'s day of action. Note her bracelet as she practices shooting around a barricade. Click for larger image.[/caption] Peace is good, but having options when bad guys with evil in their hearts come around is even better. Today is the "National Day of Action"…
THANKING GOD SUCH MEN LIVED: Rocky Schoenrock
[caption id="attachment_18137" align="alignnone" width="650"] Rocky Schoenrock at his desk at the State-Journal Register. He worked as an artist, among other jobs, and painted beautiful churches in Central Illinois that graced the Christmas Morning front page of the State-Journal Register for about twenty consecutive years. SJ-R phot.[/caption] by John Boch General…
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THE DIVIDER: Police union won’t pose as props at Obama’s Labor Day event in Boston, issues scathing boycott instead
A courageous police union in New England snubbed Obama yesterday at a Labor Day event in Boston. Why? Read on... Via Boston Herald: Jerry Flynn, a Lowell cop on leave while serving as executive director of the New England Police Benevolent Association, said his organization’s executive board has chosen to…
WAR ON COPS: Good people stepping up to watch out for our police officers
Not one, not two, but three good Samaritans got involved when they saw a police officer in trouble in Pol County, Florida in recent days. They probably saved the life of the cop that was attacked by a member of America's criminal culture following a traffic stop. Given that…
‘NOW THE NATION KNOWS HE’S A HERO’: Fox Lake Police Lt. Gliniewicz funeral
The funeral for the Fox Lake policeman killed by a thugs a few weeks before his retirement was yesterday. It was an impressive turn-out of many thousands of upstanding people to honor a good and honorable man who gave his entire career to protecting good people, and was killed…
CORNERED CAT HOME RUN: What does training do?
The Cornered Cat has a great piece about the value of training. In it, they explore the safety aspects learned in good training. It's a great piece. As a trainer of almost twenty years and a training junkie myself, I agree whole-heartedly with the author. Cornered Cat John Johnston, of…