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CLEVELAND, OH — A teenage punk attempted to carjack an older woman in her own driveway, Cleveland.com reports. He didn’t know her grandson was visiting, and he was packing heat. The young thug was carrying a gun, but he didn’t want anything approaching a fair fight — he just wanted a car. The grandson drove…
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CHICAGO, IL — A ride-share driver was thrown into the fight of his life when a pair of men he picked up decided they’d like to have his car, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. He was able to save his own life, but he took the conflict out beyond what it needed to be — and…
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We’ve talked a few times about how members of the media can really hurt American civilians partially because of their own ignorance, and partially out of a drive to misinform the public — where individual reporters fall tends to be based on their own understanding of the firearms community and the Second Amendment. We share…
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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — Any loss of life is tragic, and it’s something that we never want to see. When the lives of others are in danger, however, there is sometimes the need to defend oneself against that threat. A man who was shot and killed by police had hundreds of protesters come out, and they’re…
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Sacha Baron Cohen is best known for his characters Ali G and Borat, and has now struck the gun industry with his new series called Who Is America? Among those interviewed by Cohen disguised as Israeli Col. Erran Morad, an anti-terror expert, were Virginia Citizens Defense League President Philip Van Cleave and Executive Director Emeritus of…
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Abstract: The Gini Coefficient is the single greatest known predictor of violent crime. Understanding the Gini Coefficient can help us understand murder rates better than analyzing gun ownership rates, gun laws, or any other commonly debated variable. Background: If you are a gun owner and you occasionally peruse social media, you have no doubt encountered…
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In the sunny city of San Bernadino, California, a police-involved shooting left one officer wounded and one suspect down for the count. Although that’s a report of its own merit, the story, originally covered by CBS Los Angeles and now deleted, contains a gun “fact” so ridiculous that it may have beat every misnomer, goof,…
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ATLANTA, GA — A Georgia man is lucky to be alive after an encounter with two muggers that left the firearm he was carrying change hands not once, but twice. The guy couldn’t hold on to his gun — but neither could his assailant. As the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: According to police, the man called…
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Via TTAG John Dingell III writes: Insurance is one of the most regulated industries in America, but its regulation is almost entirely at the state level. That regulation extends to the risk profiling of insureds, due to the various mechanisms to buy and sell risk amongst insurers. The most important mechanism governing the risk profiling…
