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Guns In The News

Only in the last few decades has the problem of mass shootings become a cultural issue. This truth would seem to point to something other than gun availability as the problem in our society today.

Gun owners and Trump supporters alike are voicing their concern over the president’s new push for stricter gun control legislation in the wake of the Florida shooting.

Gun control isn’t a policy. It’s a moral panic. Like prohibition, it’s a xenophobic reaction to a different culture that shares the same country with them. Guns have come to embody a rural conservative culture in the minds of urban leftists the way that alcohol once embodied foreign immigrants to prohibition activists and the way that drugs represented urban decadence to rural America.

Instead of protecting the children at a Florida High School, a school officer went up on the roof and pretended to shoot the children below.

A potentially deadly mass shooting in a church of 100 people was foiled this week by a hero citizen who then became the victim of trigger-happy cops who shot the wrong man.

Imagine getting a phone call like this from your high school aged child. “Mom, there’s been a shooting. I’m running.” Those were the chilling words heard by a mom in Kentucky yesterday when her son was fleeing from a classmate who killed 2 students and injured 17 more. The two …

Washington DC comedian Tim Young has changed his stance on gun rights after he robbed at gunpoint. Young not only had his cell phone stolen, but he said several people who witnessed the armed robbery did nothing to help him. Young now has plans to get trained and go through …

It’s the textbook description of the modern day terrorist. White American Female – 19 years of age – long blonde hair – bright blue eyes – classic jihadi. Really – Diana Durkin, sophomore at Texas Tech University – a terrorist? Well, that’s what she thought as a TSA official (official …

If you haven’t seen Star Wars: The Last Jedi, don’t worry, I’m not going to give away any spoilers! But it’s comical how close-to-real-life a Science Fiction movie can be.  And, how it can hold significant warnings for American gun owners. In The Last Jedi, two of the resistance fighters …

When news that a “concealed-carry reciprocity law” had been passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, gun owners all over the nation rejoiced. But what most people didn’t realize is that there had been a last minute change to the bill that could substantially increase the number of Americans that …