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Illinois has a violent crime problem because we don't put bad guys in prison where they belong. Example #Eleventymillion: 19-year-old Raul M. Ybarra. After THREE juvenile convictions for burglary, and unlawful use of credit card, telephone harassment and public indecency charges in adult court, he was sentenced to a year…
Sports Authority files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection (USA Today CAUTION autoplay video) - Big-box chain Sports Authority lost its bid to remain in the retail game without a dramatic restructuring as the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Tuesday. The retailer — owned by Los Angeles-based private equity firm Leonard Green &…
Gun silencers are useful, not scary by Bob Owens More than 100 years ago, inventor Hiram Percy Maxim created two almost identical products to accomplish the same goal in two very different industries. The divergent ways we treat those products today reveals the irrationality driving our national firearms debate. One…
Too smart by half or just an attention whore? That's what we want to know about the University of Texas at Austin's longtime architecture dean Fritz Steiner. He stomped his feet and very publicly announced he's leaving his position over his irrational fears of card-carrying good guys having…
Bad guys’ strategies evolve. Yours should as well. Defending Against a Home Invasion by John Boch Rocco Wlodarek from Black Flag Firearms Training delivered a presentation on defending against home invasions. Wlodarek introduced himself with his credentials. He started his training over ten years ago in the law enforcement…
The Tennessean ran a click-bait illustration of the glittering literary jewel of colossal ignorance pictured above. An open letter to gun advocates by Barbara Sanders Dear gun advocates, [blah blah blah snipped.] Please help us all understand your thinking, feelings or logic. And then, maybe we can have a safe and honest conversation…
Nicely formatted and written up by our friends at Illinois Carry. Call to Action Witness Slips Needed Witness Slip Instructions Previously scheduled in committee, HB3160 Lethal Violence Order Protection again appears on the House Judiciary Committee calendar after the earlier hearing was cancelled. In it latest form, the bill…
[caption id="attachment_20306" align="alignnone" width="600"] Mike Lave, left, won his choice of a .380 Bersa or a 12-gauge social shotgun. He's pictured with Alfreda Keller, our Chicago Coordinator and Rocco Wlodarek, our main speaker.[/caption] Great meeting last night at Guns Save Life Chicago. Great new meeting location at DA's Deli…
From Breitbart: According to The Independent Journal’s congressional reporter Joe Perticone, the man holding the camera in the video below is a journalist. Perticone writes, “Secret Service agent choke slams reporter. ” The video doesn’t show that, but it does show this reporter kicking the agent from an apparent…
Gangsters and criminals in Chicago busied themselves with the warmer weather this weekend, pushing the 2016 year to date numbers up to 102 homicides and 484 shot. Now, that conflicts with ABC7 claiming only 95 homicides. Here's what the Second City Cop says about the 7 corpse discrepancy. Quite frankly,…