Month: April 2018

SALEM, Ore. — A group of petitioners based in Portland have filed with the Oregon Secretary of State to produce an initiative aimed at banning ‘assault weapons’ throughout Oregon. Initiative 42 was filed on March 19, 2018. The initiative was filed with the subject “Promote Public Safety for All Through the Reduction of Assault Weapons

This is an open letter to Steve Hemmert who posted the following to social media: With some hesitation born of nostalgia, I turned in two AR style rifles to the Miami Police Department as part of their gun buy-back program today. As a former U.S. Army Infantry officer, I was well trained in the use

As a community, we tend to obsess over the latest and greatest gun, bullet, holster, or other item that we believe may give us some advantage. In the realm of personal defense, what gives us the best advantage is our ability to understand which threats are most likely to occur in our neighborhoods, workplaces, and

“No. There is no fundamental right to safety. You have fundamental right to protect yourself from danger. Civil entitlements are not fundamental human rights. Words matter particularly when dealing with people who want to rationalize control of every aspect of your life.” ~ Greg Maxwell Original post: Every place that has been banned guns (either

Bullying is a hot topic in the wake of the Parkland, Fla., school shooting. Everyone wants to know if the shooter was bullied to the point of violence. Schools certainly spend a lot of time and money on anti-bully seminars and programs, but what good are they, really? Has any of the bullying stopped? It

GREELEY, Pa. — An AR-15 semiautomatic rifle sits perched on a rack, higher than all the other things that decorate Justin Moon’s office in the Poconos. He built the rifle himself, and it rests above his diplomas from Harvard and the University of Miami and shelves jammed with thick economics textbooks and business guides. Last

Hollywood = Hypocrisy Version without song and expletives… Let’s see if I can lay this out for you people: 1. Hollywood celebrities took part in this gun control ad because murdered children and guns are bad. Right? Still following me? 2. They make millions from an industry that thrives on gun entertainment and films that

Among the nine films nominated for “Best Picture” at this Sunday’s Oscars, two portray the crisis Winston Churchill faced when he became prime minister in May 1940. “Dunkirk” recounted the miraculous evacuation of more than 300,000 soldiers from France, barely ahead of the Nazi forces advancing to annihilate them. “Darkest Hour” portrayed the run-up to

During the case of District of Columbia v. Heller in 2008, the Supreme Court stated that the right to self-defense pre-existed government, which had already been confirmed by U.S. v. Cruikshank in 1875 and never overturned. The court went further in Heller, and it articulated the right of the individual to use firearms, that are

Via Allen Miller Obama announced that he would be fundamentally transforming America. This figured into those plans. And I will say this again and again. People get away with things because they are not stopped. For the full 8 years of his reign, those charged with stopping him failed. The Justice Department under Barack Obama