“What’s wrong with requiring a background check to buy a gun?” I wish I had a dollar for every time somebody asked me that question, but a story that surfaced this week might help provide a little clarity. When a NICS background check is submitted for approval, one of the possible responses is “denied.” In
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Sometimes, what seems like good advice at the time is proven later to be not so great. The record shows that decades ago, when more adult Americans smoked than not, popular magazines carried ads in which physicians endorsed this or that brand of cigarette. Brand A was an excellent aid to digestion after meals, one
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Crime is on the increase in Los Angeles. Violent crime was up 20.2 percent and and all crime was up 12.6 percent when 2015 is compared with 2014, according to Los Angeles Police Department data. Why is anyone’s guess. Some have blamed prison realignment that sent offenders to local lockups with shorter stays. Others say
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(RINF) – All over America, rates of violent crime are absolutely soaring. As you will see below, violent crime overall shot up by 20 percent in Los Angeles last year, and the police are telling people that “they need to be able to protect themselves” because the police may not be able to get there
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LOS ANGELES, Calif. (FOX 11 / CNS) – A 12.6 percent rise in the number of crimes from 2014 to 2015 in Los Angeles was driven by increases in gang-related and domestic violence crimes, Mayor Eric Garcetti and police Chief Charlie Beck said Wednesday. Violent crime alone was up 20.2 percent last year, while the number of
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Did you vote in the last election? Consider this: The statewide voter turnout for the November, 2014 registered election in California was 42.2 percent. That is so low that if even half of firearm owners in this state had registered to vote and actually voted, gun owners would have gained a majority in the state legislature
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Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh helped pass the state’s assault weapons ban as a member of the state senate. (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post) A federal appeals court on Thursday cast doubt on the legality of Maryland’s 2013 ban on semiautomatic high-capacity assault weapons that passed after the mass shootings at a Newtown, Conn., elementary
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