Cops have killed 23 citizens in past 4 years. What began as a largely peaceful demonstration against police brutality in Albuquerque on Sunday afternoon was abruptly ended soon after midnight as security forces fired tear gas against protesters. Local outrage was sparked after James M. Boyd — a homeless, mentally ill man — was shot dead ... MORE
Here’s a pitch for a procedural: Cops track down the number of
police shootings in the United States in a given year. Why should that
require any detective work? It’s that there are currently no national
statistics on how many people are shot by police each year. In some areas, such as Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia and ... MORE
Epidemic of police violence is largely ignored. The story of a shooting on Capitol Hill last Thursday unfolded in the typical way. Reports of “shots fired” led to speculation of a mass shooter. Local police, in this case the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP), ordered a lockdown “requiring” members of Congress and their staff to “shelter in place.” ... MORE
by John W. Whitehead. Here’s a recipe for disaster: Take a young man (or woman), raise him on a diet of violence, hype him up on the power of the gun in his holster and the superiority of his uniform, render him woefully ignorant of how to handle a situation without resorting to violence, train him well in military tactics but allow him to be ... MORE
Forget gun control. America needs government control. Have you noticed the common thread among several mass killings and homeland security incidents lately? Time and again, it's the control freaks in Washington who have fallen down on their jobs, allowing crazies, creeps and criminals to roam free and wreak havoc while ignoring ... MORE
More hollow rhetoric from the ruling class. If you ever doubted the inability of the federal government to protect you from harm, events of the past few weeks should have been a clincher. While Congress was dithering about a background-check-for-gun-buyers bill, President Obama was out on the hustings — in full campaign mode — trying to gin up ... MORE
by Miranda Green. If you live in Arkansas, you can now carry a concealed gun into a bar, or a liquor store—or a church. College staffers can bring guns on campus. Folks with a permit from other states can pack heat in Arkansas without filing any paperwork. These are among the half-dozen legal changes in the state that passed only four months ... MORE
The master opportunist strikes again. "This is about doing the right thing for all the families who
are here that have been torn apart by gun violence," President
Obama
declared on Monday, promoting his "common-sense gun safety
reforms" in a speech at the University of Hartford, where the
audience included parents of children who ... MORE
Sometimes, the best defense is a good offense. In 1983 when President Reagan ordered the deployment of missiles in Europe as part of his "peace through strength" strategy to counter the Soviet Union, the very liberal town of Takoma Park, Md., declared itself a "nuclear free zone." City officials passed an ordinance known as The Takoma Park Nuclear ... MORE
Freedom isn't the problem, people are. In April of 2007, a mentally disturbed student showed up at the campus of his school, Virginia Tech, brandishing two semi-automatic pistols, and murdered 32 students, teachers and school employees and wounded 17 others. Then he took his own life. It was the one of deadliest mass shooting incidents in American . ... MORE
Whistle while your raped. Freshman lawmaker Joe Salazar, (D. Thornton) became an embarrassing distraction for the liberal juggernaut in Colorado last week when he blurted out what he really thinks of the Second Amendment, the right of self defense, and the faculties of women in peril. Hint: His views are appalling. As backlash developed, Salazar ... MORE
Overzealous cops in the Dorner pusuit. "It's 100 percent clear that they had no idea who was in that
vehicle and just lit it up," says attorney Christopher
Driscoll. Driscoll is representing Maggie Carranza, 47, and her mother,
71-year-old Emma Hernandez, the two women who were
shot on Thursday, Feb. 7 in Torrance, CA by LAPD officers. The
officers ... MORE
The crisis is the government power grab. It didn’t take long for the megalomaniacs and opportunists in Washington to exploit the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut, as a pretext for another attempt to annul the Second Amendment and expand their power. Never one to let a good crisis go to waste, President Obama signed a series of executive ... MORE