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by John Boch Op-Ed. Right out of the gate: I support the rule of law and law-and-order. I'm an even bigger advocate of individual civil rights. When it comes to police misconduct, Qualified Immunity needs to be reformed, perhaps radically. Alternatively, states could pass legislation to allow victims of police…
by John Boch I get that “Where’s the NRA?” question a lot. It seems my peer at the Illinois State Rifle Association gets the same question. Our answers, however, remain starkly different. ISRA’s Rich Pearson wrote this in a January 12th email “update”: Lots of folks seem to think that…
The February 2024 issue of GunNews, the monthly journal of Guns Save Life, is now available for public download. You can get yours HERE. Feel free to share the link or to download the publication and email to your circle of friends, family, co-workers and anyone else. For those living…
An Afghanistan "immigrant" saw an adolescent girl asleep in a hotel room in Las Vegas. So what does he do? Cops say he took his pants off and started grind on the 15-ish-year-old girl. Maybe that's how they do things in Afghanistan, buddy. But you're not in Kansas anymore, pal.…
Rockford PD lost a K-9 in the line of duty Sunday, chasing a domestic violence suspect. The suspect, Malik Trotter, pulled a gun and fired three shots at the dog. Moments later, he also fired at the dog's police officer handler. The handler, Officer Vargas, did the only polite thing: …
Last week, we covered a brand new gun rights organization to the Illinois scene. The "Illinois Firearms Association" claims to be the only "No Compromise" gun rights organization. Hardcore right? You bet. They claimed in the second paragraph of their fundraiser mailing sent weeks after their registration with the Illinois…
Folks have to pay attention to their surroundings while driving, especially in urban and even suburban locales. What do you look for? Anything outside of the baseline of normalcy. What's more, if you see three "outside of the baseline of normalcy" behaviors from a particular person/vehicle, watch out. It can…
Mayor Brandon Johnson, taking time between hospitalizations for panic attacks when things don't go his way, announced that he supports removing all Chicago Police School Resource Officers from the Chicago Public Schools. Why does he and the left hate the little people? Because NOTHING bad ever happens in and around…
The publicly cocksure of himself Democrat Rep. Bob Morgan has increasingly shown he's an angry little man in private. He's incensed that law-abiding gun owners by the millions are ignoring the gun registration mandate in his pet gun control bill that Gov. JB Pritzker signed on January 10th of last…
We're written about the not to well-kept secret of thousands of Hamas and Hezbollah sleep cell agents in America, thanks to our porous border. Everyone agrees that if the US gets into a shooting match with Iran, that the cells are likely to activate. Right now, American forces are likely…
