Firearms Owners Against Crime
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Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Pa. legislature becomes test bed for shifting sands on gun control :: 04/15/2018
For more than a decade, the Pennsylvania legislature has been the place where gun control bills went to die. If that changes this year, it will be further evidence that the recent spate of mass shootings - and the new waves of public advocacy it has unleashed - are moving the political needle in America.
DRGO: Guns and the Children's Crusade :: 04/14/2018
The mobilization of youth in response to the Parkland High School shooting has similarities to the Children’s Crusade and must not end the same way. There was a sense of exasperation and failure within Europe at the beginning of the thirteenth century. For over one hundred years, the European powers had been engaged in the Crusades. Their great endeavor was to wrest the holy land away from “Saracen usurpers”. Despite the best efforts of powerful kings with vast armies, the forces of Christendom had, for the most part, failed.
Pittsburgh Gun Ranges Set Sights On Customer Experience To Attract New Business :: 04/14/2018
Sales associate Dale Benner adjusted his stance, peering through two layers of reinforced glass. Less than 10 yards ahead, a soft “pop pop” barely registered over the low hum of classic rock piped overhead.
Britain's Knife Control Is A Bad, Real-Life Parody Of Gun Control :: 04/13/2018
If you set out to write a parody showing the folly of gun control, it might look something like this.
Gun control groups actively registering teens to vote :: 04/13/2018
A pair of anti-gun groups and an environmental advocacy PAC have joined forces to fund a drive to register young people in key states to vote in November.
Pa. House continues its exploration of gun law changes :: 04/13/2018
Requiring background checks for all gun purchases and requiring anyone with a final protection-from-abuse order imposed on them to surrender their firearms were labeled by one representative as a good place for Pennsylvania to start if it wants to change its gun laws to improve public safety.
Pennsylvania school district gives teachers tiny bats to fend off intruders :: 04/13/2018
Another Pennsylvania school district adopted an unorthodox approach this month to fighting back against armed intruders — this time, in the form of tiny wooden bats.
Senator slams bank gun policies, threatens consumer complaint :: 04/13/2018
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. senator on Thursday criticized Citigroup Inc and Bank of America Corp’s restrictions on lending to firearm makers and sellers, saying the new policies were wrongly politicizing banking services.
To Suggest An 'Amicable Divorce' For America Is To Talk Civil War :: 04/13/2018
Federalist contributor Jesse Kelly recently wrote an article suggesting that political divisions in the United States may now be so extreme that the country should be peacefully divided into two separate countries. He is wrong, and his advocacy that we should divide effects by negotiation flies in the face of the political values that have dominated American political thought for centuries, especially among Republicans and conservatives.
Gun Rights Should Be Defended by Progressives :: 04/12/2018
Last week’s shooting at YouTube’s California headquarters is certain to add momentum to the push for more gun control. Even before the shooting, YouTube was working to undermine gun rights by banning videos promoting firearms, including videos teaching safe gun usage.
One In Three Democrats Support Second Amendment Repeal :: 04/12/2018
Anti-gunners constantly tell us that no one is coming after our guns. They love to say that they support the Second Amendment, but…
Pennsylvania Firearm Rights in the Crosshairs - The Rights That Stand to be Infringed :: 04/12/2018
Starting this week, at the direction of Chairman Ron Marisco, the Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee held week-long “Public Safety – gun laws and violence” hearings regarding numerous pending firearms-related bills, which seek to restrict firearm rights in Pennsylvania in every regard from outright banning all semi-automatic firearms and high capacity magazines to banning any part that “accelerates the rate of fire of semi-automatic firearm[s].” More disconcerting than Chairman Marisco’s scheduling of these hearings is the fact that seemingly in violation of Article 1, Section 20 of the Pennsylvania Constitution, even though he acknowledges that they are “public hearings,” he specifically precluded interested parties in testifying regarding these bills and stated to Bobby Lawrence (former US Senate Candidate) that if others want a voice then let them do it through e-mails to legislators or by Letters to the Editor.
Should the U.S. adopt gun control as in the British Commonwealth or Japan? :: 04/12/2018
Following the Parkland high school mass shooting on Valentine’s Day, gun control has once again been pushed to the forefront of political discussion by gun prohibitionists exploiting each and every tragedy to carry on their not so hidden agenda. This time they have even recruited teenagers, who understandably fear not only deranged madmen carrying out shooting rampages but the endemic violence in their schools.
Student Journalist Says Discipline Policy Hurt School Safety Before Shooting :: 04/12/2018
While the media continues to focus on gun control in the wake of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, one area student has dug into his school’s policies and found them wanting.
We Need to Update the Second Amendment :: 04/12/2018
The ‘militia’ clause confuses modern Americans. Let’s clarify it to secure the individual right to keep and bear arms.
What Does Well Regulated Really Mean? :: 04/12/2018
The interpretation of two words should be simple, shouldn’t it. On the surface, the answer is yes. Except, in this case, this surface can be a bit on the thorny side because we are talking about the Second Amendment.
Bank of America cutting ties with some makers of military-style guns :: 04/11/2018
Bank of America will stop lending to business clients that manufacture military-style weapons for civilian use, becoming the latest U.S. financial institution to break ties with gunmakers following the mass shooting massacre at a Florida high school.
CPRC: Let's save lives by putting more guns in the hands of teachers-Dr. John Lott :: 04/11/2018
The polls indicate that Americans support more gun control right now, but are also very skeptical that more gun control will reduce violence or mass public shootings. We typically see such increased support temporarily after mass public shootings. To win the debate, proponents of the right to self-defense must explain how their proposals are practical. They must explain how gun control actually makes people more vulnerable to attack.
DRGO: Gun violence is not an epidemic and firearms are not viruses that need to be eradicated! :: 04/11/2018
The public health establishment, supported by the medical journals, has renewed its call for the need for more gun research to be conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and funded by taxpayers. In other words, public health researchers want more taxpayer’ money to tell us that guns are a disease that must be eradicated. But as many critics have pointed out, including this author, gun violence does not fit the public health model of the disease-vector-host interaction. Moreover, criminals, not guns, are the causative factor for violence, and they are more amenable to study by the criminological and sociologic models of crime and violence. Let’s examine why.
Louisiana bill to raise age to buy 'assault weapons' rejected :: 04/11/2018
A measure to put many popular semi-auto firearms out of the reach of those 18-to-20 in Louisiana was easily defeated Tuesday in the state Senate.
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