CHRISTMAS COMES EARLY IN ILLINOIS
For some time now, Illinois has been the last state in the union with no provision in law for the ordinary citizen to carry a loaded gun in public to protect self and loved...
AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS COME
In the last entry, I promised to discuss some historical matters here, unless something more newsworthy came up. Something certainly did.
I recently received the following from the office of Senator Kelly Ayotte of New...
Part 5: The PERF-etrators
When I first saw the Police Executive Research Forum’s “30 Guiding Principles” in their “Use of Force: Taking Policing to a Higher Standard,” I showed it to my significant other. She’s not LE herself,...
THE TWISTED VALUES OF MAYORS AGAINST ILLEGAL GUNS
We’ve known for years that many of the “antis” inflated their “gun violence statistics” by including criminals killed by intended victims in self-defense. Now we see it starkly on the national stage as the...
Part 6: An Explanation
From the beginning of this blog, I’ve made one entry at a time. A confluence of scheduling circumstances in coming days demands that if I’m going to get the whole promised series on the...