Man charged with two counts of attempt first degree murder with a firearm, two counts of aggravated battery with a firearm to a police officer, and four counts of Armed Violence because of a reckless police raid. The jury acquits: That battering ram was only a few feet away from Officer OT. Instead he and […]

England looking at cracking down on social media sites over the recent violence. Just like other oppressive regimes. Stop calling violent riots flash mobs. Self defense in the UK. Take back your right to arms.

Ooh, pick me, I know this one. Because only racist, right-wing tea-baggers are violent, silly.

DOE says it wasn’t for defaulted student loans. They won’t say what it was for, other than ongoing criminal investigation. Now, what sort of crime could one commit that DOE would be the one investigating? Nothing violent that I can imagine and none that warrant a SWAT team decked out in their best ninja outfits.

They seem to advocate treating guns as a public health problem. And seem to endorse legislation: There are a variety of ways of dealing with the problems caused by guns in society, and legislation is one of the methods most commonly used. Franklin Zimring has noted that laws that regulate gun use fall into three […]

Caught wind of this story on the local affiliate of vast right wing conspiracy radio. In Colorado, an 8 year-old boy acted out. Became violent. And the police pepper-sprayed the kid to control him. Now, my first thought was OMG! THE COPS ACTUALLY PEPPER-SPRAYED A KID. But reading further, this story is chock full of […]

Sean has a look at some numbers.

There were rumors that the border agent that was killed had a bean bag gun. The government denied those rumors. Except that they’re true. Also, who really thought it was a good idea to send someone to the violent sections of the border armed with a glorified paintball gun?

Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership Board Member, Joan Peterson: I give you the argument of the guys with the “man pants” on ladies and gentlemen-” We’re saying that we’d rather have more gun deaths and lower overall violent crime, than zero gun deaths and higher rates of violent crime if given the choice” And […]

Bucking that national trend of decreased violent crime, homicides up 15% in New Jersey. They should pass some gun laws or something.

There is only one gun store in all of Mexico. It’s on a military base and the rules are pretty strict. And they have some of the toughest gun laws in the world. Which is why it’s such a wonderful, non-violent utopia.

Gun ownership climbs, violent crime decreases.

Court rules state has no compelling interest in prohibiting a person with non-violent misdemeanors related to drugs from owning a firearm. More of the limited impact that Heller and McDonald are supposed to have on gun rights, I guess.

Breda on trolls. I largely agree, though I do occasionally bring out the ridicule when they comment here. You know, shut up, he adults are talking kind of stuff. But that’s because it’s my house. And, thus far, we’ve mostly been free of trolls. But she’s right. They are not worth the time or effort. […]

Some off-kilter, easily-influenced person is convinced to engage in some sort of violent action by federal agents. Person sort of acts on it and the feds swoop in and arrest the poor schmuck who probably never would have come up with that idea on his own. The .gov calls it a success. A decade or […]

You know, in the abstract. Not so much really punching them. If you’re an advocate of firearms rights like open carry, then dragging a lady to the ground because she’s acting like an idiot is not the way you go about telling folks that we gunnies aren’t violent. Those actions will be generalized to the […]

According to the FBI report: According to the figures released today by the FBI, the estimated number of violent crimes in the nation declined in 2009 for the third consecutive year. Property crimes also declined in 2009, marking the seventh straight year that the collective estimates for these offenses dropped below the previous year’s total. […]

Larry Correia brings it. I’m still laughing: Sadly, Russia’s leader would kick our leader’s ass in a fight, and that’s just sad. They’ve got the final boss fight from a Chuck Norris movie and we’ve got Steve Urkel. There’s more: Meanwhile, a bunch of left wing hoodlums are burning stuff at the G-20, just like […]

Less crime: statistics from the Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report show that all forms of violent crime were down in 2009 from 2008, with homicides showing the greatest percentage decline (7.2 percent).

This is my shocked face: A conservative think tank and criminal defense lawyers are forming an unusual alliance to try to get Congress to quit writing criminal laws so loosely that they subject innocent people to unjust prosecution and prison. A new study by the Heritage Foundation and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers […]

That guns cause crime: I mean, guns were all over most every state capital this past week, and nobody busted caps, so what’s your problem? You keep tearing at your hair about this blood in the streets that keeps not happening. For heaven’s sake, get a grip on yourselves, okay? Everyone with a gun is […]

In Oregon, a man gets fired from his job at the DOT. He’s disgruntled. He goes out and buys some guns. So, the police send a SWAT Team to raid his house since he was reportedly disgruntled and because he bought guns. They took him into protective custody. People are a bit alarmed at the […]

Richard Daley, in light of the Supreme Court’s pending McDonald decision, has decided that he should push the state to pass a lot more gun control while the getting is good: “The aggressiveness of the gun advocates is just one reason it’s more important than ever that we work for common-sense gun laws focused on […]

Remember, you don’t need guns in parks because the odds of you running into a violent criminal or wild animal are slim. Except that part where Mexican drug gangs are commandeering land in the parks to grow marijuana: Not far from Yosemite’s waterfalls and in the middle of California’s redwood forests, Mexican drug gangs are […]

On The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership: The Brady Bunch are starting to see the writing on the wall and they have grown desperate. The evidence over the last 10 years have proven their every argument wrong. Gun control hasn’t worked. Gun rights have. States that have the least restrictions tend to also have […]

Joe notes the origin of the gun control and bigotry meme. And, of course, Clayton Cramer’s Racist Roots of Gun Control is a good read. Also timely is David Kopel’s post on How the right to arms saved the non-violent civil rights protesters: I was beaten and arrested many times and hospitalized twice. This happened […]

Liberals and guns: In the city’s attempt to preserve its weapons ban, it proves too much, essentially urging the Supreme Court to find that protection of the Bill of Rights and other fundamental liberties against state infringement has no basis in constitutional text or history, and is instead achieved solely by judicial implication. To make […]

So Danny Westneat is all upset that some guy who used guns to kill people had guns. He notes the courts took the cop killers car away but not his guns. And some news source points out that the shooter owned guns legally. I’m not sure how he owned them legally since he was the […]

At the LA Times: First, we need to recognize that guns are present in more than 40% of all homes in this country — like it or not. Any credible discussion of this issue must acknowledge that reality. Second, gun owners and non-gun owners alike are in universal agreement in this country that violent, predatory […]

Some idiot: Guns Didn’t Save Their Lives and Guns Won’t Save Your Life That statement makes sense, if you’re a moron. Because, if you’re a moron, you think we gun rights people walk around saying that guns make us ten feet tall and bulletproof, which we don’t. We say that a gun is the most […]