Year: 2017

To enter the U.S. Capitol, one must walk through a metal detector, flash an ID badge, put any bags or purses through a scanner and pass several armed police officers. Outside those marble halls, however, hundreds of members of Congress and their staff have no security whatsoever—unless they hold one of a handful of leadership positions. “When

Alabama’s Mo Brooks was on the scene of today’s terrible attempted massacre in Virginia. He was in immediate danger and rendered first aid to victims while the shooting was underway and helped Representative Steve Scalise after the shooting stopped. He gave a harrowing account of the attack to CNN: That’s a remarkably clear and cogent statement from

A suburban Houston police officer who was ambushed at a gas station was shot 15 times, Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson said in court Monday. Shannon J. Miles appeared briefly in state District Court in handcuffs and shackles and said very little, other than to answer the judge’s questions. He is being held without

(CNSNews.com) Rep. Mike Bishop (R.-Mich.) was at the field in Alexandria, Va., where a congressional baseball team was practicing for a charity game and was attacked by a gunman on Wednesday morning. In a remarkable interview with WWJ radio in Detroit, Rep. Bishop described how many more of those attending the practice would have been

Leslie Fuhrer-Friedman: Watch this video of the assassination attempt this morning — where the shooter shot for MORE THAN FIVE MINUTES — and ask how it might have gone down if concealed carriers were nearby.  

Excerpt from Active Killer Incidents: A Guide for the Armed Civilian by Scott Kirshner. The term “Active Shooter” needs to be replaced with the more descriptive and more accurate phrase “Active Killer” as the term ‘shooter’ is not always accurate. There have been many killing perpetrated with knives, bombs, pressure cookers, and even vehicles. Additionally,

Dean Baquet, the executive editor of the New York Times, said that the left wing in American politics doesn’t want to hear “thoughtful disagreement,” during a panel at Code Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, on Tuesday. Baquet was defending the New York Times decision to hire conservative journalist Bret Stephens, who is a climate

Coming up: Increased call for even more restrictions on law-abiding citizens access to guns, size of magazines, etc.

Scalise has the good fortune to have a security detail. Who of us has a security detail?

My definition of “bi-partisan unity”: Congress unanimously undoes the restrictions on the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens. With a standing ovation.