Firearms Owners Against Crime
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
African-American Gun Rights Group Grows In The Age Of Trump :: 04/02/2018
Gun rights groups, including the NRA, have seen a rise in membership since the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., in February. But one group in particular has had a major increase well before that. The National African American Gun Association’s numbers tripled after the inauguration of President Trump.
DRGO: Gun Laws vs. Firearm Suicides :: 04/02/2018
A paper in the January 2018 Journal of Surgical Research attempts to show that the right to keep and bear arms is a cause of suicide. According to the authors, “Weaker gun state laws are associated with higher rates of suicide secondary to firearms”.
Gun Violence Studies Biased, Used to Force Agenda :: 04/02/2018
One of the common talking points that liberals throw around in the gun debate is that Republicans have banned even studying gun violence. So you get headlines such as “Lift the Federal Ban on Gun Violence Research” (the New Republic), or “Why Gun Violence Research Has Been Shut Down for 20 Years” (the Washington Post’s Wonkblog), or “GOP Chairman: Congress Should Rethink CDC Ban on Gun Violence Research” (The Hill), or “What’s Missing from the Gun Debate. It’s Simple: Science” (an op-ed in Politico).The reality is different, and it illustrates two contending views of how America should be governed.
Irrational Fear of Mass Shootings Can't Justify Unconstitutional Gun Control :: 04/02/2018
Americans are now more likely to be shot to death than to die in a car accident," Margaret Renkl declares in a New York Times op-ed piece calling for more gun control. Since Renkl is talking about mass shootings, which she says "are no longer so unthinkable," the implication is that the risk of being murdered with a gun is on the rise. But that risk is in fact much lower than it was in the 1970s, '80s, or '90s.
NPR Reports Violent Crime Rates Have Dropped Since 1993 :: 04/02/2018
With our current incarnation of the gun debate, we who support the Second Amendment are constantly bombarded with claims that we don’t care about the violent crime epidemic. We’re told our world is too violent, our people are too violent, to be allowed legal access to firearms.
Prominent GOP donor forms gun control PAC :: 04/02/2018
A prominent Republican donor bankrolled the newest political action committee dedicated to gun control on Capitol Hill.
Yes, They Are Coming for Your Guns :: 04/02/2018
The anti-gun movement has held out the falsehood that they are not coming after people’s guns as a central core of their effort to hide their existential goal. The lid was blown off that charade when a 97-year-old man who previously occupied a position at the top level of our country (retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens) advocated for the abolition of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in the paper of record – The New York Times.
Gun Control Movement Is Polar Opposite of the Civil Rights Movement :: 04/01/2018
Covering the pro-gun control March for Our Lives in Washington, CNN ran a headline that read, “They’re marching through the same streets as Martin Luther King Jr. did—hoping for similar change.”
Gun Rights Actually Are a Civil Rights Issue :: 04/01/2018
It is becoming increasingly fashionable for those who support gun control to compare the post-Parkland, student-driven movement to the civil rights movements of earlier generations.
London murder rate beats New York for month as stabbings surge :: 04/01/2018
London became a bit more like New York City in February, but it's not a distinction to be proud of.
Reagan was shot 37 years ago today. Every young American should hear what he had to say about guns :: 04/01/2018
The words of America’s 40th president on the Second Amendment are perhaps more relevant today than when he first spoke them.
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Gun Control :: 03/31/2018
The Socialists and their donors decided to push gun control and firearms confiscation. That didn’t turn out quite the way they planned. Our culture is changing faster than our politics and our politicians can follow. Public perception is changing more rapidly than polls can record opinions and faster than the media can spin their agenda.
A liberal case for assault rifles :: 03/31/2018
I am on the political left. I hate the National Rifle Association. I do not own a gun. I have been a victim of firearms violence. (Shot breaking up a bar fight at the age of 20.) And I am strident supporter of keeping “assault” weapons available and leaving the Second Amendment exactly as it is.
Rostraver chief doesn't condone off-duty armed officer at rally :: 03/31/2018
Rostraver police Officer Martin Palla had a right to stand armed with an AR-15, while off-duty, across the street from a March for Our Lives rally in Greensburg, his chief said Monday.
Students at Florida high school stage walkout in support of Second Amendment :: 03/31/2018
A group of students at a Central Florida high school walked out of class Friday as part of a protest in support of the Second Amendment.
The AR-15's popularity - and an argument by the late Justice Scalia - may help save it from being banned by Congress :: 03/31/2018
Not all gun control advocates demand it, but there is growing support for semi-automatic rifles such as the AR-15 to be outlawed at the federal level.
Why Second Amendment should not be repealed: John F. Brinson and Jack Iannantuono :: 03/31/2018
All creatures on earth have a natural right to self-defense, and defense of their offspring. And all creatures on earth exercise that natural right, from the lowest little creatures to the highest and mightiest. This natural right was not created by law. It was and is a natural right, inherent in the existence of every being on earth, including humans.
Dear Parkland Activists: You Admit to Bullying the Shooter, But Have the Gall to Blame Guns and the NRA? :: 03/30/2018
Dear Parkland Bullies, We interrupt your national, media-sponsored cryfest for a brief and simple lecture. No notes needed, I’ll provide.
Gun control advocates expand support for student groups with an eye to November :: 03/30/2018
Although the March for Our Lives event has come and gone, national anti-gun organizations are stepping up their support for youth-based gun control initiatives.
In High School, I Fervently Supported Gun Control. Now, I'm An NRA Member. Here's What Changed :: 03/30/2018
When I was 16 years old, I would have voted to take your right to own a gun away. The Columbine massacre happened in April 1999, when I was a junior in high school. While not the first school shooting, it was the first to rage across the country and the world instantaneously in the new digital age.
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