“Ain’t nothing left here.” A man interviewed on camera during last night’s chaos in Minneapolis warned that rioters are planning on “coming to the suburbs” if they don’t get what they want. The twin cities were once again rocked by a night of absolute bedlam as more stores were looted and rioters set fire to the 3rd police precinct building,…
No single person can possibly know every law in a given state. I get that. However, if you’re going to speak authoritatively about a subject, you should at least try to know what the hell you’re talking about. It’s one thing to have different opinions, but you don’t get to have your own facts. Yet in a report on a…
It was a long night for some business owners who decided to spend the entire night defending their property. MINNEAPOLIS — Riots broke out on Lake Street in Minneapolis Wednesday night in response to the death of George Floyd. Local business owners say they were expecting demonstrations and unruly activity, but they weren’t prepared for the destruction they saw Wednesday…
Right now, there hasn’t been nearly as much election coverage as one might expect in the lead up to a presidential election year. That’s because COVID-19 has killed a lot of campaigning efforts, particularly the more spontaneous moments that tell you what a candidate might really think on various issues, such as guns and gun control. However, campaigns do actually…
Scott Kane went 38 years without ever touching a gun. That streak would have continued had it not been for the coronavirus. In March, fearful of the harassment his wife and child experienced over their Asian ancestry, Kane found himself in a California gun shop. His March 11 purchase of a 9mm would have been the end of the story,…
Earlier this week, we told you how Dr. Jennifer Rager-Kay had gone viral — and not in a good way. The Doctor made a facebook post referencing ‘re-open protestors’ in Harrisburg, PA. In the post, Dr. Raging, er, Rager said that she would use her legally permitted handgun to shoot and kill anybody who came within six feet of her…
Louisiana legislators will likely take up four pro-Second Amendment pieces of legislation this week, but one pundit in the state claims that lawmakers have waited until the coronavirus crisis to do so in order to sneak the bills by the public. WWL-TV political commentator and editor of The Gambit newspaper Clancy DuBos says the bills could have waited until life…
It is only the last decade or two when those who want a disarmed population in the West have started to stress “suicide” as a reason for disarming the population. The early pushes for population disarmament were predicated on the excuse of reducing violent crime, particularly homicides. The actual motivation had nothing to do with crime. The original motivation was…
Firearms makers have resisted Silicon Valley-sponsored digital innovation that could transform public safety. Smith & Wesson still feels the wound it suffered two decades ago when it decided to invent smart guns. The idea was to invest heavily in the development of personalized weapons that could be fired only by a single person: the gun’s owner. This was considered a…
By Joe Bartozzi U.S. Sen Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) joined Everytown for Gun Safety’s vice presidential webinar forum where she trotted out her yarn about gun laws and Uncle Dick in the deer stand. It’s time we get Uncle Dick down from there. First of all, deer season has been over for months; now, he’s just poaching. Second and most importantly,…
