What makes you proficient at your particular skill set for personal defense? How did you get to your level of knowledge or skill? How do you plan to improve upon your personal defense plan (PDP)? At some point your search most likely included: 1) Obtaining useful knowledge of said weapon (firearm, knife, hands, feet, knees,
Read MoreMentally ill shouldn’t have a gun. That’s the category Democrats fall into. H/t Ed Anderson
Read MoreBomb threats shut down three L.A. synagogue locations on Shabbat
Three Los Angeles synagogue campuses were shut down following a series of online bomb threats, disrupting normally scheduled Shabbat activities on June 10. The Glazer and Irmas campuses of Wilshire Boulevard Temple as well as University Synagogue in Brentwood were closed shortly after 8 a.m., according to Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Officer Mike Lopez. By
Read MoreI’m in complete agreement with Bob J. Taylor’s recent letter (“Gun-violence epidemic a myth,” June 8). Taylor is absolutely correct in stating criminals are, in fact, criminals because they do not obey the laws. They couldn’t care less about more gun-control laws. As a law-abiding citizen and a gun owner, I have no problem with
Read MoreInstead of taking away our guns, why not arm law-abiding citizens as protection from an attack?
To the editor [Los Angeles Times]: The Times Editorial Board again mistakenly focuses on one instrument use to commit violence — firearms — rather than the underlying causes of violence. It seems doubtful that absent a firearm, those who decide to commit suicide would not find other means, and many of the U.S. homicides committed
Read More“It is true that a victim who fights back may suffer for it, but one who does not almost certainly will suffer for it. Jeff Cooper
Read MoreJews are armed rather than defenseless. I am weary of excusing myself for breathing. Let them hate us as long as they fear us.” – David Goldman
Read MoreSt. Louis police sell surplus weapons, including Tommy guns, for $1.2 million
The St. Louis Police Department is selling a stash of guns that bring to mind Prohibition-era gangsters for cash to put new a handgun in every officer’s holster, plus arm the department with a number of AR-15 rifles. The rifles and about 1,525 new 9 mm Beretta handguns will be paid for largely by the sale
Read MoreAfter London Attack, British Gun Activists Call For Right To Bear Arms
British activists are advocating for looser gun laws in response to the Saturday night ISIS terror attack that killed eight people and wounded nearly fifty others in central London. “These tragedies may have been the eye opener to just how ineffective our laws are,” Dave Ewing, a representative from the gun ownership advocacy group, Firearms-UK, told Vocativ. Firearms-UK,
Read MoreThe Second Amendment protects some bladed weapons, and not just firearms
The New Jersey machete decision is important because it rejects a “spontaneity” requirement for arming yourself at home (the state’s theory that you could pick up a weapon against an imminent attack, but you can’t come to the door with the weapon just in case). But it’s also important because it reaffirms that the Second
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