CHICAGO CLOWN SHOW MADNESS: GSL Executive Director’s Update
by John BochGSL Executive Director Oh, the joys of the stomach virus going around. It's put a lot of normal stuff on hold and had the washing machine going round-the-clock. The Illinois General Assembly updateThe General Assembly returns for the fall veto session as this issue goes to press. The…
ILLINOIS PASSED THE ‘ENERGY BILL’ THIS SUMMER: You need a backup source of electricity
Modern utilities in America, outside of California at least, provide mostly reliable electricity to consumers. However, things can happen. And when they do, you need a backup plan. Cables fail, trees fall and transformers do go bad. Ice storms and tornadoes also happen, along with politicians. Yes, politicians. On peak…
Watching the Rittenhouse Trial Unfold
photo credit: KCRA.com I have tuned in to an awful lot of Court TV this week watching the Kyle Rittenhouse trial kicking off up in Kenosha Wisconsin. I am keenly interested in this trial, and as it turns out it is getting nationwide daily headlines. This is one of two…
GOODER AND HARDER: Chicago blows right through 700 homicides well before November 1st.
[caption id="attachment_30896" align="alignnone" width="583"] Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot - aka Groot (far right in the ill-fitting suit coat)- remains vertically challenged.[/caption] The incompetence among the political leadership of Chicago shines brightly as America's formerly second-largest city blew right past 700 homicides for the year two weekends ago (or was it…
Baldwin Shootings Looking More and More Like Manslaughter Under New Mexico Law
Famed self-defense attorney Andrew Branca has written a piece over at Legal Insurrection that analyzes the Alec Baldwin movie-set killing of his Director of Photography and maiming of his Director on the very low-budget Rust film. What's more, Branca has found legal precedence in the Land of Enchantment that negligently…
GOOD RIDDANCE: Adam Kinzinger announces his ‘retirement’ in face of certain election drubbing
Bless his heart. Really. Bless his little heart. Poor never-Trump neo-conservative Adam Kinzinger announced he's "retiring" from Congress today. Would someone please pass the tissues? Kinzinger, the guy who campaigned as a pro-gun sorta guy who then stabbed gun owners in the back with support for one anti-gun proposal after…
LATEST NEWS & INFO: Guns Save Life November issue of GunNews, Schedule of upcoming grassroots meeting dates & locations. JOIN US!
If you're a first-time visitor to GunsSaveLife.com, welcome! We're posting this current issue of GunNews (November 2021) for our friends, co-workers, neighbors and other like-minded folks to enjoy and share with their friends. Download this issue, read it and share it with your friends. If you enjoy it, please…
She single-handedly stopped a school massacre, but it hasn’t been ‘happily ever after’ for Angie McQueen
For the September GSL meeting in Charleston, we welcomed local hero Angela McQueen as our main speaker. Back in 2017, she thwarted a massacre at the Mattoon High School by wresting a .40 S&W pistol from a deranged student. She initially shunned the spotlight, but word of her heroic response…
Exec Dir Report: Unlike the Biden administration, the Russians aren’t stupid
by John BochGSL Executive Director(Originally published in mid-September 2021)You’ve probably read by now that our pissant potentate President Joe Biden banned the importation of Russian-made ammo, firearms and the like. Allegedly Slow Joe took this action to penalize the Russians, but in reality, we all know Biden acted to…
THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS: The movie that influences revolutionaries and street gangs.
In regione caecorum rex est luscusIn the Land of the Blind, the one-eyed man is Kingby Desiderius Erasmus, a GSL member What if I were to tell you that a black and white movie, with a budget of only $800,000 made in 1966, was so profound that it significantly influenced…