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Instances of defensive gun use save lives every day, but the stories get very little news coverage and the negative gun use instances are often covered by the national news media for days on end. As during a Texas church shooting on Sunday, guns save lives, so supporting the Second Amendment is pro-life. Abortion, on the other hand, takes a life every single time. Studies on incidents of defensive gun use range anywhere from an absurdly low 55,000 to a high of 4.7 million per year. The most commonly cited and widely accepted is the 1995 study by Gary Kleck...

SAKHLAWIYA, Iraq - (KRT) - The fighters came to Fallujah last year with piles of cash, strange accents and a militant vision of Islam that was at once foreign and fearsome to residents emerging from nearly 30 years of Saddam Hussein's secular regime. Yet out of custom and necessity, tribal locals offered their Arab guests sanctuary and were repaid with promises to help keep American forces out of the town. This week, with U.S. troops battling their way through the Sunni Muslim stronghold, several Fallujah residents said it had been a grave mistake to trust the foreigners who turned their...

They once called apartheid "separate development"; black South Africans were at one stage referred to as "plurals"; the apartheid state's military death squad was called the "Civil Co-operation Bureau". That's weird enough, but then, pre-1994 South Africa was a weird place. But have you ever heard, in the New, post-1994 South Africa nogal, a whites-only town built on the pillars of old-style apartheid being called a "progressive society"? And that on national television, and not even during a comedy show? That's what The Presenter - I can never again refer to him as a reporter or a journalist - called...