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Hollywood’s Mantra: Guns for Me, Not for Thee
From the outside looking in, Hollywood may seem like a magical, gilded fantasyland, but it’s more of a disastrous disconnect from reality … on many levels. The “us” versus “them” mentality is very…
Continue Reading →Hands Up, Kid!
My first job was to clean an office complex — back before political correctness ran rampant and a “sanitary engineer” was just called a janitor. After hours of “engineering,” I would ride my bike…
Continue Reading →Buyback Sleight-of-Hand
According to Wikipedia, a gun buyback is “instituted to purchase privately owned firearms. The goal … is to reduce the number of firearms owned by civilians and provide a process whereby civilians…
Continue Reading →Tell Your Kids About Gun Safety … Then Tell Them Again
We all hate reading about children injured or killed in incidents involving firearms. But this particular case of gun safety (technically, the lack thereof) has a disturbing twist. The headline tells…
Continue Reading →Why Ben Shapiro Wants You to Join the USCCA
“There’s a pretty good reason why they’re the fastest growing community of responsible gun owners in the country” – Ben Shapiro Ben Shapiro is a household name to many responsibly armed Americans —…
Continue Reading →Shoot Yourself … Go to Jail!
This type of story makes me so angry, but I use it as a cautionary tale. Don’t be like the Arizona man who SHOT HIMSELF in the groin and is now facing criminal charges. He is charged with recklessly…
Continue Reading →Making It Legal Doesn’t Make It Safe
The transgressions of our youth should probably remain in the past. (What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas and all that.) I’m thinking especially of recreational chemicals like marijuana and LSD that…
Continue Reading →Shoot Yourself … Face Charges
While shopping in a local Walmart on Nov. 27, 2018, an Arizona man negligently shot himself in the groin. According to local news reports, the man was carrying his handgun in the waistband of his…
Continue Reading →True Stories — November/December 2018
Tooth and Nail: Utah Man Forced to Shoot Hammer-Wielding Uncle A Pleasant Grove man was at his father’s house when his uncle, who was known to have mental problems, approached the home with a claw…
Continue Reading →Constitution? Which One?
Most gun owners understand (and appreciate) the United States Constitution. We know that attacks on our rights will continue. Our Founding Fathers clearly understood that the protections afforded by…
Continue Reading →Alabama’s Thanksgiving Tragedy … Too Close to Home
I guess in some ways I feel slightly obligated (or maybe compelled in some way) to comment on the tragic events that took place in the Riverchase Galleria in Hoover, Alabama, on Thanksgiving evening.…
Continue Reading →In the Clear: Are Handguns Really the Best?
If you’re a regular reader of my column in the USCCA’s weekly digital newsletter The Concealed Carry Report, you may have picked up on the fact that when I discuss AR-15s or other defensive rifles,…
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