Opinion
Deerfield Illinois Board Bans Some Semi-Auto Firearms, To Issue $1,000/Day Fine
UPDATE: As of 6/13/2018 a federal judge has issued a block to Deerfield’s ban. We had a saying in the Marines when something was overly stupid, excessively complex, or just didn’t…
Read MoreDoes The Bump Stock Ban Test The Waters For Confiscation?
This has been getting a good amount of coverage, lately. But, as I usually do, I wanted to take a different approach on it. Some background, if you weren’t aware,…
Read MoreWith Safety Paramount, Legislators Raise the Legal Age for Everything to 21
This is a satire piece, not to be taken literally. No doubt you have heard about Dick’s Sporting Goods and other companies instituting policies barring 18 through 20-year-olds from purchasing…
Read MoreMaryland School Shooting on March 20th Illustrates 4 Points About Gun Control
On March 20th a 17-year-old student went into a high school in Maryland and fired a semi-automatic handgun injuring two other students, one of whom has passed away from her injuries.…
Read MoreHas it Become Acceptable to Exploit Children?
Are there really two sides to every story? If you watched the media’s coverage of the #Enough Nationwide School Walkout that occurred March 15th, you would have seen the youth of…
Read MoreHoly Smokes! A Good Guy With A Gun Stopped A Bad Guy With A Gun!
In what can only be called a severe case of, “I told you so,” the recent shooting at a school in Maryland can do nothing but prove our point that…
Read MoreAftershock of the Gun Control, School Walkout.
Those children and adults participating in March 14th’s #Enough Gun Control Student Walkout were depicted as courageous, intelligent and a representation of all Americans’ opinions on gun control. Using children…
Read MoreThe Oath We Take
Here is the Oath of Enlistment I spoke when I joined the Marines: I, Joshua Gillem, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United…
Read MoreNow is Not The Time For Political Complacency
I just returned home from a rally for second amendment rights. We gathered, around 1,100 strong in front of the Statehouse Building in Columbus, Ohio, in response to an abhorrent,…
Read MoreGun Control Both Sides Can Get Behind?
The anti-gun rhetoric continues, and no we are NOT getting behind any anti-gun anything, at any point, ever. Some ideas are harsher than others are, but make no mistake: The…
Read MoreDear President Trump, It’s Not The NRA Politicians Should Fear
With all that happened around the country this past week with guns and politics, there is something that I’m dying to get off my chest. Before we get to my…
Read MoreHow The Trump Tax Bill Will Impact Firearms Dealers
By Scott Hawksworth There’s been plenty of ink spilled about the politics of the Trump Tax Reform bill (the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act”) passed in December 2017. This isn’t one…
Read MoreThe NRA Is Killing Our Kids?
Not only is shouting and disparaging someone not a great way to persuade them, it often times has the exact opposite effect. Galvanizing them in their opinion and reaffirming…
Read MoreDo You Want to Argue Politics, Or Make Our Schools Safer?
The solution to ending school shootings does not rest in the hands of Congress. Again and again I hear there needs to be a ‘conversation’ about how to prevent school…
Read MoreWhy College Aged Brooke Carries A Gun, And What She Overcame To Do So
By Brooke Villella *Editor’s Note: I urge you to read her whole story, because she had some things to overcome.* So the question was posed to me, “Why do you…
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