WHY CARRY? BECAUSE DENIAL HAS NO SURVIVAL VALUE: Suspect nearly kills rape victim’s entire family
[caption id="attachment_17629" align="alignnone" width="534"] Brittany Irish.[/caption] There is evil in the world. Denying the existence of evil is a fool's game. Denial has no survival value, right? Most people are good people. A few are ethically, morally, otherwise challenged. And then there are some who are sociopaths (or psychopaths). The…
DON’T FALL FOR IT: Media peddles lion distractions while Americans face real threats
The mainstream media in America, along with social media is all excited about the Minnesota dentist who shot some lion in Zimbabwe as part of a big game hunt. Meanwhile, they ignore the threats to American from illegal alien criminals that continue to pour into America, committing hundreds of thousands…
MODELS WANTED: Casting call for anti-gun reality show for low-information viewers
As if America isn't already awash in trash, pop culture producers are looking to add more. The "people" who brought us Project Runway, Bad Girls Club and Keeping up with the Kardashians are casting for another trash TV reality show: an anti-gun reality show to profile anti-gun advocates. It should…
MORE TAURUS TURDS: Taurus signs $39M defective pistol case settlement
Taurus USA is spending big bucks - 39 million of them, at least - to settle a class action lawsuit involving many of their most popular semi-auto pistols, including: PT-111 Millennium; PT-132 Millennium; PT-138 Millennium; PT-140 Millennium; PT-145 Millennium; PT-745 Millennium; PT-609; PT-640 and PT-24/7. It is estimated that 100,000 pistols could be affected. The problem? Some…
RELATIONSHIPS: GSL with Darin LaHood & Scott Walker
by John Boch Presidential candidate and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker made an appearance smack in the heart of Guns Save Life territory Monday afternoon, stopping at Chuck's Harley-Davidson in Bloomington, IL. [caption id="attachment_17611" align="alignnone" width="600"] Darin LaHood does one of many interviews prior to Walker's arrival.[/caption] Walker was stumping for…
CHICAGO CULTURE? Destruction of evidence at a crime scene in Chicago.
We're speechless. Not sure which is worse, the cavalier nature of black thugs trashing a crime scene, including stealing spent shell casings, to obstruct justice or the cops unable or unwilling to do anything about it. Chicagoans walking through a crime scene, kicking shell casings & evidence markers at…
PENTAGON’S CHANGING TUNE: Call the police to please stand down to sandbags?
[caption id="attachment_17601" align="alignnone" width="600"] A military recruitment center office in Manchester, Tennessee. Pull up a chair, please.[/caption] The Obama administration trotted out a directive last week ordering military recruiters who encounter armed civilians watching over their officers to report those individuals to the local PD as a security threat.…
PEDDLING SNAKE OIL: Sell feelings of safety as reality in “gun free” cinema
Does "feeling" secure translate into "being" secure? Hardly. That doesn't stop some folks from blurring the line between the two to confuse people, including one movie theater owner in Woodridge, IL from selling snake-oil as effective medicine. "We have 40-plus cameras throughout the perimeter of the building... We have alarm…
IMPACT: Local protests supporting disabled veterans making a difference
[caption id="attachment_17594" align="alignnone" width="546"] A screen capture of the News-Gazette online headline about protests at the Champaign County Fair.[/caption] It was a public relations migraine headache for a county fair board in the middle of Middle America. Earlier this year, the Champaign County (IL) Fair Board tossed out the…
SUPPORT OUR VETERANS? Local county fair board pushes Disabled American Veterans group out of beer tent fundraiser; protests start tonight
[caption id="attachment_17588" align="alignnone" width="658"] Marty Poling, the commander of the local DAV chapter, locked out of the beer garden at the Champaign County Fairgrounds that the DAV members built using volunteer labor and materials. Note the weeds growing and general lack of upkeep since the veterans have been locked out. …