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Guns are good.  Firearms are tools and they protect children.  Guns save life.  Gun owners know these truths.  At the same time, Scott Tallyn of Tallyn's Tactical Solutions in Peoria thinks that increasing the purchasing age for long guns to 21 "might help" reduce school massacres and violence.  That's like a…

"Today we need a nation of minute men; citizens who are not only prepared to take up arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as a basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom." — John F. Kennedy,…

by Richard Fairburn Originally posted at PoliceOne.com.  Reprinted with permission. Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, has now joined the list of schools forever linked to school attack massacres. Sadly, this school shooting in Florida was COMPLETELY PREVENTABLE! The police response to such events must be better, both left…

by Lee Williams If you’ve turned off your TV in disgust over coverage of the Parkland massacre, let me catch you up: It’s the gun’s fault. It’s the President’s fault. It’s the NRA’s fault. It’s the FBI’s fault. It’s Gov. Scott’s fault. It’s DCF’s fault. It’s the (standard capacity) magazine’s…

"Kill the NRA": That's the message that a sign company says vandals put up on I-65 in Louisville this past weekend.   Courtesy the Courier-Journal... A vandalized billboard along a major interstate in Louisville is calling out the National Rifle Association following the recent school shootings in Kentucky and Florida. The sign along Interstate 65 northbound…

Optics Planet, the Northbrook, IL company that employs 1600+ with sales of over $261M just shot themselves in the foot.  With an email, they've cancelled orders for full capacity magazines to civilians otherwise legal to purchase them.  In the email, they cite a recent policy change, saying they no longer…

Some folks get a vastly over-inflated sense of importance in the world over time.  Take Al Hoffman, Jr. who made a career in real estate development in Florida.  The mainstream media - specifically the New York Times - has worked themselves into an excited frenzy over this nobody.  Why?  Because…

  The Answer “When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion.” – Dale Carnegie   by Frank Sharpe Fortress Defense Consultants On Monday, parents across the nation will once again send their children into the care of others, all the while suppressing…

Photo Credit: CNN.com By Mike Keleher On Valentine’s Day 2018, we all watched in horror as the media reports started rolling in about an awful school shooting in Parkland FL at a large high school. Seventeen dead and at least 14 injured in another spree conducted in a gun free…

Welcome to the modern age of civility from the left.  A far-left Facebook page, Milkshakes Against the Republican Party posted an encouragement for their fellow lunatic leftists to commit mass assassinations of Republicans.  And they wonder why we cling to our guns? And that was not just a one-off. Yeah, they…