Once again, the annual FBI Uniform Crime Report reveals that rifles and shotguns are used in a fraction of homicides involving firearms, re-kindling the question gun prohibition lobbying groups have not directly answered: Why should any rifle or shotgun type be banned? Expanded Homicide Data Table 11 in this year’s spread sheets details “murder circumstances […]
Advice to Advice Columnist: Don’t Offer Advice on Guns
Syndicated advice columnist Amy Dickinson has ignited something of a tempest by publishing a hysteria-laden inquiry from the father of a 24-year-old woman who, he discovered, owns a handgun and hollowpoint ammunition, which Dickinson incredibly suggested is “explosive.” So bizarre was this exchange in Dickinson’s June 12 column, which ran in the Washington Post, Omaha […]
Seriously, A Majority of Dems Think Obama Improved Economy?
An astonishing 67 percent of acknowledge Democrat voters in a recent Rasmussen poll “still think (Barack) Obama is to thank” for the surging economy, while 82 percent of those who said they are Republicans give credit to President Donald Trump. According to Fact Check.org, those Democrats may have a point. It depends upon whether one […]
Apple Changes Handgun Emoji And This Group Bristles
The announcement by Apple that it is replacing a cartoon emoji of a revolver with a cartoon squirt gun brought a blistering reaction from one of the nation’s leading Second Amendment organizations. The Second Amendment Foundation called the decision “a combination of childishness and anti-gun demagoguery.” SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb […]
