Guns
Poll: Americans think that tougher laws won’t make us safer
The Washington Times reports that a CNN poll taken this past weekend among 1,000 Americans, 61% don’t think that tougher gun laws will reduce violence; Six in 10 Americans say having stricter gun control laws would not reduce the amount of violence or the number of gun-related deaths in the country, a new CNN/ORC poll […]
Germans discuss personal defense
While I was looking for today’s feel good story, I found this one from Hamburg, Germany about an elderly man who fended off two folks who tried to force their way into his home. He shot one of them and that feller died nearby. It’s much less common in Germany than it is in the […]
More Thoughts on Guns and Murders
A comment by one of our regulars (VOV) the other day – along with a video posted by another reader in a different discussion – got me thinking. And it led me to look at a few numbers. I know that’s a huge surprise. Try to get over the shock. (smile) What I ran across […]
Army plans to replace M9
Someone sent a link to Guns & Ammo which reports that the Army is making moves to replace the M9 Beretta service handgun currently in use since it’s introduction in the mid-80s. On June 17, the Army released a new draft solicitation on the Federal Business Opportunities website that laid out the service’s plans to […]
Obama: “We don’t have all of the facts, but….”
Wednesday night, Dylann Roof spent an hour among church goers in Charleston and then pulled out the gun that his father gave him for his birthday recently, and murdered nine people. So, yesterday, the President blamed the instrument that he used to commit that horrendous crime and he blamed legal gun owners. From the National […]
LACSD and “accidental” weapons discharges
The LA Times, whose habit is to blame guns for problems rather than the operator of a firearm, blames the gun for what they call accidental discharges among LA County sheriff deputies since they changed their duty weapons to a Smith and Wesson M&P9. After reading the reports of the weapons discharges, they seem more […]
Jim Cooley and the 2d Amendment
As you can imagine, I’ve had quite a few emails about this Jim Cooley guy who dropped off his daughter at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport while he was carrying a scary black long gun strapped to his bony chest. Mr. Cooley was confronted several times by law enforcement, even though the Georgia legislature last year […]
Judge strikes down DC’s “good reason” gun law
According to Fox News, U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Scullin Jr. called unconstitutional the District of Columbia’s requirement that an applicant for a permit to carry a concealed weapon must have a “good reason” in order to qualify for the 2d Amendment right. “For all intents and purposes, this requirement makes it impossible for the […]
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