When a heavily-armed gang of criminals who traveled from their home base in Missouri tried to stage a daring daylight bank robbery in Northfield, Minnesota, their raid turned into a bloody rout leaving two of the gang dead and three others seriously wounded because armed citizens fought back…140 years ago today. The infamous James-Younger gang […]
Did Chicago Police Supt. Just Agree With Gun Groups?
The Chicago Sun Times reported that August ended with 90 more homicides on the books, bringing the total to this year’s body count to 469, surpassing the death toll for all of last year, and now Police Supt. Eddie Johnson is demanding what gun rights groups have been saying for years. “Where we need help […]
Toronto Mass ‘Lethal Killing Machine’ Was A What?
Three people are dead and a suspect is in custody in Toronto, and a columnist for the Toronto Sun has unleashed a tirade calling the weapon of choice a “lethal killing machine,” but to the potential surprise of gun rights activists, he’s not talking about a firearm. The apparent murder weapon in Thursday’s attack was […]
What Venezuelan Police Just Did Should Thrill Gun Prohibition Lobby
Police in Venezuela just did what America’s gun prohibition lobby would like cops in the United States to do: On Wednesday, they “crushed and chopped up nearly 2,000 shotguns and pistols,” according to Reuters. The news agency reported: Interior Minister Nestor Reverol said the event marked the renewal of efforts to disarm Venezuelans, through a […]
What This HuffPo Writer Said Explains Problem Of Gun Control
Writing in the Huffington Post Monday, self-confessed “radically-moderate” New Yorker Mark Ellis perhaps unintentionally highlights the problem with gun control, or at least its advocates. One viewpoint of this New Yorker, whose life appears to have been spent in the Big Apple and thereabouts, along with a stint at college in Philadelphia, is that firearms […]
Chicago Slaughter Continues Despite Tough Gun Laws
It was the bloodiest July in ten years in the Windy City, according to the Chicago Tribune, where 65 people were killed in a metropolis that stubbornly has battled against gun rights advances in Illinois including concealed carry. As the month ended, the newspaper noted that July wasn’t as bad as June, when 72 people […]