A growing number of teachers and school administrators are learning to use firearms under an ambitious program launched a few years ago in Ohio that has now reached educators in several states. Called FASTER (for “Faculty/Administrator Safety Training and Emergency Response”), this project was profiled by Fox News, and it has been discussed at the […]
Should Travel Ban Critics Also Oppose CCW Restrictions?
What’s the difference between opposing travel restrictions on people from six Middle Eastern nations and opposing restrictions on concealed carry in California and other states? One is about allowing foreign nationals into the country and the other is about that inconvenient old Second Amendment right of individual U.S. citizens to keep and bear arms. Both […]
Stopping Gun-Related Violence the King County Way: Bust ‘Em!
In King County, Washington – the Evergreen State’s dominant “blue” county where politics habitually falls off the left edge – law enforcement has come up with an interesting approach to fighting gun-related crime: Bust the bad guys and leave the good guys alone. It’s called Operation Quiet Nights, and last week it produced 26 arrests […]
‘Disfavored Right?’— SCOTUS Denies California Carry Case
The U.S. Supreme Court has once again avoided an opportunity to rule on whether the Second Amendment protects a right to bear arms outside the home, with Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Justice Neil Gorsuch, writing a blistering dissent. “We should have granted certiorari in this case,” Justice Thomas wrote. “The approach taken by the […]
Armed America: 26% of Handgun Owners Carry, Says Pew Research
Just over one-in-four Americans who own a handgun carry a sidearm “all or most of the time” when they are outside the home, and that ratio jumps to slightly over 40 percent among people who live in what they consider an “unsafe community,” according to a newly-released Pew Research report. The same survey revealed a […]
Colorado Teachers Arming Up, Anti-gunner Offers Tired Arguments
A group of Colorado teachers is taking firearms training to provide an extra layer of security for school students, and already an anti-gun organization is trotting out “scare” rhetoric to argue that this is a wrong move. According to AOL.com news, the group of 17 instructors is taking an three-day course at a Weld County […]
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