Chicago cop shoots pup, then goes home safely…

CHICAGO (FOX 32 News) - A North Side family is furious over what they claim was an unjustified police shooting of their 7-month-old miniature bull terrier, Colonel Phillips, known to the neighborhood as "The Colonel."...But on Saturday afternoon, the Colonel became a target himself. He was shot by a Chicago…

Guns Save Life coming to Effingham Thursday night!

SAVE THE DATE! Thursday, December 6, 2012. Guns Save Life continues to grow.  Starting in December, we're bringing exciting Guns Save Life meetings to a third venue each month - the latest location in Effingham, Illinois on the First Thursday of each month at the Elk's Club in Effingham. Join…

Chicago: The orgy continues

[caption id="attachment_3785" align="alignnone" width="600"] Scene of a quintuple shooting in Chicago Monday night. Photo by Chicago Tribune.[/caption] The orgy of violence, that is. A quintuple shooting Monday evening. Welcome to the Windy City. Try to to catch a stray bullet. The story: CHICAGO (Sun-Times Media Wire) - Eleven people were…

RAHM: Buying a “Code of Silence” in Chicago

hat tip to Second City Cop for title. [caption id="attachment_3782" align="alignnone" width="430"] Karolina Obrycka takes a reporter's questions after a jury awarded her $850,000 in compensatory damages as a result of a 2007 beating she took from former Chicago police officer Anthony Abbate, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012, in Chicago. Caption…

ROCKFORD, IL: Don’t bring a pellet gun to gunfight

[caption id="attachment_3768" align="alignnone" width="738"] Police at the scene where a 17-year-old aspiring armed robber was struck down in his prime by a store clerk.[/caption] Rockford (Guns Save Life)  - A 17-year-old aspiring armed robber and soon-to-be father Brandon Pierce of Rockford, IL was struck down in his prime while robbing…

An open letter to Bob Costas and Jason Whitlock

  Alexandria, aka "Alexthechick" at Double Plus Undead posted a superlative open letter to Bob "The Lightweight" Costas and Jason "Mr. Couple inches of pain" Whitlock It starts with a bang: Gentlemen: I see that you have chosen to use the horrific crime of the murder of Kasandra Perkins to…

The truth about Costas and Guns…

by John Lott (FoxNews) - Did Jovan Belcher, the 6’2” 228 pound linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs, need a gun to kill his girlfriend Kasandra Perkins? How about to commit suicide? Apparently some think that Saturday's murder-suicide tragedy in Kansas City wouldn't have happened if he hadn't had a…

Merry Christmas! From front page of the News-Gazette today…

[caption id="attachment_3751" align="alignnone" width="600"] Brothers Gabriel,4, left, and Michael, 5, Bambenek, Champaign, smile at a gingerbread ornament at the The Junior League of Champaign-Urbana's 17th Annual Festival of Trees at the Hilton Garden Inn in Champaign on Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012.Photographer:Robin ScholzPhoto by News-Gazette.com.[/caption]   John Bambenek, one of our…