ILLINOIS CARRY BILL INTRODUCED…
It's here. Folks, there's a lot to like here. Todd Vandermyde did well on this bill. Guns Save Life stands behind this bill. We look forward to seeing it passed onto the governor's desk within 45 days, tops.
HuffPo: Firing guns made him feel invincible. What happens when he has sex?
Jon Hotchkiss, a TV producer and creator, wrote on the Huffington Post (fair warning: it's an anti-gun hit piece that will make you hurl in your shorts, complete with a compensating for small penis comment) that firing the AR-15 and a Glock made him feel invincible. Firing the AR-15 [Rifle] Made…
Gun-haters lament being surrounded by Champaign-Urbana’s “NRA Stronghold”
Last night, at a local restaurant in downtown Champaign (one with a flair a little left of center based upon clientele in general), we overheard an interesting conversation. It was five university-types sitting around. One with a Brit accent seemed to be getting quizzed by four others. Our ears perked…
Champaign County ICHV: Perfecting the art of irrelevancy
[caption id="attachment_5296" align="alignnone" width="600"] Nicole Anderson-Cobb, left.[/caption] Champaign, IL (Guns Save Life) - The Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence’s ivory-tower hired-gun Nicole Anderson-Cobb, PhD, decided to have a sing-a-long for a group activity for the Champaign County Grassroots Chapter of the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence at the Champaign Public…
Solutions to Violence: Making things worse or making things safer
Some folks are thoughtful in their decision making, looking at empirical evidence, and applying logic and reason before coming to a solution. Other people rely on their emotional response and often emotions are driven by fears. This is particularly true for gun control. Folks who haven't looked at…
Bloomberg has thin skin (and won’t disarm HIS security)
[caption id="attachment_5320" align="alignnone" width="514"] Maybe it was the big soda that irritated Bloomberg?[/caption] So isn't it hypocritical that he demands you disarm your own ability to protect your family? At the US Conference of Mayors in Washington D.C. recently, a reporter asked Bloomberg if he would be willing to…
Don Gwinn | Urging caution
[caption id="attachment_5290" align="alignnone" width="550"] Don Gwinn addresses a crowd at the January 2013 Sangamon County Rifle Association meeting.[/caption] From the January 2013 Sangamon County Rifle Association meeting... Don Gwinn addressed the audience at the Monday SCRA meeting and urged caution as far as our excitement over the recent Seventh…
HYPOCRISY: Media Matters anti-gun founder conspired to arm his bodyguard illegally
Media Matters founder David Brock, a man who has wrestled with mental health issues for years, really did arm his bodyguard with a Glock 9mm handgun according to a story and documents uncovered by the Daily Caller. That bodyguard, Haydn Price-Morris, carried that gun in Washington, D.C., California and a…
PUSH BACK: “Buyback” hijacked into gun show; range closed to anti-gun city’s cops
Barack Obama told his people to "hit back twice as hard". Gun owners have taken that advice to heart. In Seattle, the city held its first gun "buy back" in twenty years this weekend. The city fathers got people coming out to trade their unwanted guns for $80,000 worth…
Today’s gun owners: Parallels to Jews in Germany in the 1930s
[caption id="attachment_5240" align="alignnone" width="500"] Photo courtesy ushmm.org.[/caption] Propaganda about gun owners has reached a fever pitch in America today, leaving American gun owners feeling like the Jews in Germany before the Second World War. What is propaganda? From the US Holocaust Memorial Museum: Scholars, journalists, and politicians have…