[caption id="attachment_4304" align="alignnone" width="562"] Screen capture from USA Today online.[/caption] Note the USA Today's playing fast and loose with their graphs. Here it is without the "creative" scales which change wildly depending on the topic. Without changing the scales, the graph has an entirely different meaning, does it not? A…

by Bonnie Garrett Former Guns Save Life Corporate Secretary I don't know about anyone else, but I was rather annoyed that the NRA appeared to be paralyzed after the recent massacre in Newtown.  If they've since found their voice, it hasn't been loud enough for me to hear it, much…

The latest stunt by freedom-hating leftists to stigmatize gun owners as people to be shunned. (CNN) -- An interactive map showing the names and addresses of all handgun permit holders in New York's Westchester and Rockland counties has infuriated many readers since it was posted Saturday on a newspaper's website.…

  If guns are so dangerous, why then do we have a dozen plus armed guards, in addition to U.S. Secret Service agents at the Sidwell Friends School campus, where the Obama children attend school? (Breitbart.com) - Some interesting news has broken in the wake of the latest push for…

[caption id="attachment_4237" align="alignnone" width="672"] Was Congressman Himes (Democrat-CT) a loner as a child? Was he a loser? Why, you ask? We'll tell you why: We certainly don't see it heroic to advocate leaving our children defenseless.[/caption]   Second City Cop nails it. Entire post here, but the Pièce de résistance…

Best Christmas Light show 2012?  It's the best we've seen.  Turn up the sound and set it to HD. Merry Christmas.  

  Greetings from Nicole Anderson-Cobb, PhD, ICHV Outreach Coordinator: With commentary from yours truly, non-ivory-tower non-PhD. 1.  Thanks to all who came out to the "Silent Nights: Contemplating Peace" program last night.  It was a WONDERFUL opportunity to remember, share, explore the real challenges of gun violence in our society…

Whenever there is a tragedy involving a gun, gun owners have been vilified as extremists.  Questions are asked. Why do these people need military style weapons? Why do they need guns that fire so many bullets? What are these wackos afraid of? The answers are simple, the responsible parties for…

[caption id="attachment_4216" align="alignnone" width="640"] Picollo and his Seeing Eye Cat.[/caption] Picollo, the fellow in Pennsylvania many of us know as the guy who had the Seeing Eye Cat stories, offered up an interesting blog entry that nailed it on several levels. I report excerpts here for your edification. Check 'em…

  Why Are You Losing Your Freedoms? The Semantics of Manipulation by John Ross Semantics: the historical and psychological study and the classification of changes in the signification of words or forms viewed as factors in linguistic development What is wrong with Conservatives and supporters of the Second-Amendment? Why, in…