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In the ongoing study of the effectiveness of handguns as a defense against bears, there are over 200 documented cases. Of those, 184 involve only handguns. The others are combination situations where other deadly force was used in addition to handguns. Of the 184 cases, 161 include information about the number of shots fired. In 23 cases, the number of shots is not known.The data is likely skewed by unavoidable selection bias. The data is limited to cases that are documented. There is a strong selection bias against cases that do not involve dramatic outcomes or human injury, or that...

His manifesto had some of the angry talking points fed to the public by Democrat politicians and the media...Last Wednesday, Hakeem Jeffries said, "Maximum warfare, everywhere, all the time. We're in a war right now to save this country. And so you have to be willing to do whatever is necessary in order to save the country."Ted Lieu constantly calls President Trump a pedophile, for which there is no evidence whatsoever.Tim Walz keeps hoping to wake up to news of President Trump's death.Tim Walz and Chris Murphy went to Spain to trash the President. That is what traitors do.

The gunman who opened fire outside the White House Correspondents' Dinner called himself the 'Friendly Federal Assassin' in a chilling manifesto he wrote before the attack. Cole Allen, 31, sent the eerie anti-Trump writing to his family members just 10 minutes before he fired shots at the hotel in Washington, where the ritzy press gala was taking place on Saturday night. The harrowing writing was given to police by a relative, a US official said. According to the New York Post, Allen's manifesto read: 'Turning the other cheek is for when you yourself are oppressed. I'm not the person raped...

Appears to be a teacher. People have his pictures in replies

Nine people were wounded in a mass shooting near the campus of Indiana University in Bloomington early Sunday morning. Gunfire erupted as crowds of revelers were celebrating the famed “Little 500” college cycling race on the popular strip of Kirkwood Avenue just after midnight, WTHR reported. Police responded to the 400 block of East Kirkwood – a block from Indiana University – where they found “multiple wounded individuals.” Nine people were taken to local hospitals, including six by ambulance, as of 3 a.m., the outlet reported. Officials did not give their conditions or types of injuries. Witnesses said a fight...

Just hours after President Donald J. Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, and key members of his Cabinet were rushed to safety during a shocking shooting scare at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner last night, one Democrat Wisconsin brewery owner couldn’t hide his disappointment. Minocqua Brewing Company – a far-left operation in Minocqua, Wisconsin – allegedly took to Facebook (his Facebook post has now been deleted) to share his outrage that the latest attempt on President Trump’s life didn’t succeed. They even dusted off their disgusting “free beer all day the day he dies” promotion, with posts...

It’s bad enough when leftists lie. It’s worse when they openly tell the truth. Leftists are no longer hiding their plans to take your guns if they ever gain power. That means it’s time to get activated in defending freedom. The gun-grabber ghouls of the left have always played a little game incrementally demanding more control over a commonsense and constitutional civil right. Though they used to occasionally say the quiet part out loud, things have changed. They’ve never been as blatant about it as they are now. In the past, the ghouls had the advantage that history had yet...

President Trump and first lady Melania were dramatically evacuated from the White House Correspondents' Dinner less than 30 minutes after arriving. It was unclear what happened, but there were reports of a shooter.

During and after the American Revolution, there was no registration of firearms in the colonies that were to become the United States. There is good evidence that handguns were commonly owned during this period.One of the primary sources comes from records of the occupation of Boston by General Gage, both before and after the battles of Lexington and Concord. The history of these engagements was meticulously recorded by Richard Frothingham in the History of the Siege of Boston, published in 1873. Frothingham used original sources, particularly the Boston Town Meeting Minutes of 22-28 April, 1775, for the numbers of weapons.After...

It starts with a crusade against ‘ghost guns.’ It ends with government bureaucrats able to see everything you do. One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one’s house.” —James Otis, patriot. As an American citizen, whenever legislators deploy the ever-flimsy progressive banner of “public safety,” I feel decidedly unsafe. Newly proposed and enacted legislation targeting 3D printers and CNC machines would impose restrictions more severe than those the Supreme Court rejects for actual guns. In conjunction with restrictions on tools, states would create a category of computer source code illegal to possess. The excuse?...

The fatal victim of a Louisiana mall shooting which left at least five more injured has been identified as an innocent 17-year-old private schoolgirl. Martha Odom, a senior at Ascension Episcopal School in Youngsville, was killed on Thursday afternoon at Baton Rouge's Mall of Louisiana after being struck in crossfire when two groups began shooting at each other, authorities said.

The police just came to my office and confiscated all my firearms. Just happened.

A millionaire US big-game hunter was ambushed and killed by five elephants whilst hunting small forest antelope in central Africa. Californian vineyard owner Ernie Dosio, 75 - who owns a vast collection of exotic animal heads in trophy rooms at home - was trampled to death. He was being guided by a professional hunter in the thick forest of Gabon on a £30,000 stalk for a shot at the elusive yellow-backed duiker. Over the decades he has hunted elephants, leopard, rhino, buffalo and lion across Africa and back home in the US he has hunted almost every species of wild...

In 2025, the number of officers feloniously killed fell to its lowest level since 2020. According to the Crime Prevention Research Center’s review of FBI LEOKA data, 53 officers were feloniously killed in 2025, down 17.2% from 2024. Early 2026 data also point lower, with 10 officers feloniously killed in the first three months of the year, compared with 15 in the same period of 2025 and 14 in the same period of 2024. The FBI’s LEOKA system relies on voluntary reporting from participating law enforcement agencies. The Officers Down Memorial Page (ODMP) appears to have more complete data than...

The Baton Rouge Police Department confirmed at least 10 people are hurt, including two in critical condition, following a shooting at the Mall of Louisiana. According to Chief TJ Morse, there is no threat to the public at this time. The shooting happened around 1:22 p.m. on Thursday, April 23, near the food court area. Morse said it is not a random act of violence, but rather two groups of people who got into an argument inside the food court and started shooting at each other. “Unfortunately, there were some innocent people that were in the area that might have...

A gunman who fatally shot a Canadian tourist and wounded more than a dozen others atop a historic pyramid in Mexico on Monday has been identified, according to officials.Authorities identified the gunman as 27-year-old Julio Cesar Jasso, a Mexican national, according to a state official who spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to discuss the case publicly.

Two men armed with assault rifles robbed a Brinks truck and got away with cash Tuesday morning, Philadelphia police say. Police said officers responded to the 7200 block of Torresdale Avenue around 9:45 a.m. for a robbery in progress. Police sources said a car pulled up in a parking lot, two armed masked suspects jumped out and robbed a Brinks truck that was making a stop at a check-cashing business. Surveillance photos from a nearby camera show two men dressed in black, wearing masks, running out of a blue car. The person in the front appears to be pointing an...

Maryland police are looking for a woman who allegedly shot a gas station convenience store worker during an attempted robbery over the weekend. Surveillance footage inside the store shows the woman calmly walking up to the counter at a Shell station in Columbia around 7:43 p.m. on April 17 and producing a silver revolver from her purse, which she aims at the clerk off-screen while appearing to order the employee to open the cash register.

Wyoming lawmakers introduced a bill this year that would have given real protection to people dragged through the criminal justice system after using lawful self-defense. House Bill 14, titled Protecting self-defense-reimbursement and amendments, would have required counties to reimburse defendants who were found not guilty, had charges dismissed, or were otherwise released from prosecution because they reasonably used defensive force under Wyoming law.But the bill did not make it out of the House. HB0014 failed introduction on February 10, 2026, by a 29-32-1 vote.HB0014 was aimed at one of the most abusive realities of modern self-defense law: even when a...

🚨 UPDATE: The migrant who KlLLED a DHS employee and attacked multiple other people has been found DEAD in his jail cell — let in under Biden Good riddance. We need to STOP importing this trash!