Month: December 2015

SUBSTANCE VS. SYMBOLISM: Front page coverage of GSL debate with ICHV in Bloomington, IL

[caption id="attachment_19274" align="alignnone" width="620"] Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence Executive Director Colleen Daley talks policy before the debate. Guns Save Life Executive Director John Boch stands at her side. Bloomington Pantagraph photo by Lori Cook.[/caption]   Yesterday, I attended a debate sponsored by the McLean County Diversity Project, an organization…

DISINGENUOUS? CA Dem. Senator Barbara Boxer on day after terror attack: “Sensible gun laws work, we’ve proven it in California…”

California's rabidly-anti-gun Senator Barbara Boxer made a rather ill-considered comment yesterday:  “Sensible gun laws work, we’ve proven it in California, and we’re not gonna give up.” Yes, indeed.  Those California "sensible" restrictions on Californians' right to keep and bear arms certainly saved all those people dead and injured from Muslims…