In the midst of mayhem, a resident in the Rancho Tehama Reserve community of Northern California where a Tuesday morning shooting rampage ended with the slaying of the gunman, reportedly told the Los Angeles Times, “It’s not the gun, it’s not mental illness. It’s not anything, it’s just life, unfortunately.” The quote was attributed to […]
Armed Private Citizen Fired at Texas Church Shooter
An armed private citizen reportedly engaged the shooter who killed more than two dozen people Sunday at a rural southeast Texas church, and then chased the suspect several miles along with another man, various news agencies have reported. The Washington Times identified the killer as Devin Patrick Kelley, 26. When authorities investigated, they found several […]
Research: Background Check Laws Had ‘Little Effect’
Updated: So-called “Comprehensive Background Check” (CBC) laws passed in Washington and Colorado have had little effect, and that may be because “citizens simply decided not to comply and there was a lack of enforcement,” according to a story in The Guardian. The report appears in Injury Prevention, a medical journal. A third state, Delaware, did […]
Anti-gunners Raising Funds from the Las Vegas Blood Stains
The Seattle-based Alliance for Gun Responsibility is asking for contributions with an email fund raising effort that some in the gun rights community have long described as “dancing in blood” because it appears to exploit the tragedy in Las Vegas in order to advance an anti-gun political agenda. Declaring that “gun violence is preventable” by […]
When Guns Are Wrongly Destroyed, Should Cops Pay or Replace?
Buried in a Wednesday Fox News story about how police sometimes wrongly seize firearms from people was a reference to a California case in which the Torrance, California Police Department wrongly destroyed 21 firearms that were family heirlooms taken and then held despite two court orders. According to Fox, and the Daily Breeze, in the […]
For Teachers, Learning to do it FASTER May Save Lives
A growing number of teachers and school administrators are learning to use firearms under an ambitious program launched a few years ago in Ohio that has now reached educators in several states. Called FASTER (for “Faculty/Administrator Safety Training and Emergency Response”), this project was profiled by Fox News, and it has been discussed at the […]
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