The Seattle Times and other local news organizations are reporting that a majority of the City Council supports “a high-level proposal” to slash police department funding by 50 percent, igniting an uproar among citizen critics. Sentiment among some respondents to the Seattle Times story can be summed up in two reader reactions. One reader suggested […]
‘Defund Police’ Demand Could Have Deadly Consequences
The Seattle P-I.com is reporting that “Atlanta police officers called out sick to protest the filing of murder charges against an officer who shot a man in the back,” while in the Jet City, protesters—many of whom have taken control of several blocks on Capitol Hill—are demanding that the city defund the police. Second Amendment […]
Uproar Over Arrest of Released FL Inmate for Murder
The arrest of a Florida inmate who was released last month in an effort to slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus behind bars is racing across social media as authorities in other states prepare to release prisoners due to the pandemic. Fox News is reporting the arrest of Joseph Edward Williams, who was released […]
In Panic, Second Amendment Right Not Outmoded After All
A rush on gun stores across the country to purchase firearms and ammunition shows that during a period of national panic, Americans fall back on the Second Amendment for reassurance, say some in the gun rights community, but in two American cities, officials are saying gun shops are non-essential businesses. The San Jose Mercury News […]
Armed Intervention, not ‘Gun Reform’ Stopped TX Church Gunman
Swift intervention by a legally-armed parishioner abruptly stopped Sunday’s tragic church shooting in White Settlement, Texas, not gun control by any of its pseudonyms, and one of the nation’s leading gun rights advocates says the incident exposed a myth perpetuated by the gun prohibition lobby about armed citizens. The unidentified killer fatally shot two parishioners, […]
‘Gun-Free’ Military Base: The Ultimate Insanity?
In the aftermath of last week’s shooting that claimed three victims at Naval Air Station Pensacola, questions are being raised anew about the wisdom—or absence of it—of prohibiting the ability of military personnel, on a military base, from carrying firearms. The same questions were raised in the aftermath of two shootings at Ft. Hood, […]
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