“Whether you’re in law enforcement or a private citizen, you take a life, you’re going to go through something,” [former LEO Brian] Warner said. “We don’t do enough to combat that.” Aliza Luft agrees. She’s an assistant sociology professor at the University of California, Los Angeles who has studied war and violence in countries like […]
In 2018, there has been a total of 307 mass shootings, and possibly more undocumented, according to a database by the Gun Violence Archive. Survivors, as well as friends and families of those killed, have been bravely outspoken about the effects of gun violence on their lives– the pain of losing a loved one, the […]
“Most gunmen are smart enough to know that they can kill more people if they attack places where victims can’t defend themselves. That’s one reason why 98 percent of mass public shootings since 1950 have occurred in places where citizens are banned from having guns. “The national media tend to ignore case after case of […]
“Duplicating laws already on the books as Gavin Newsom and all anti-gun advocates want is, and I quote, ‘Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.’ “Do you want to reduce shootings? Educate. No young person I have ever known who has been taught proper gun safety and taught […]
“Our love affair with guns has nothing to do with tyranny, or militias, or self-preservation. Just ask any NRA member the following: If Jesus Christ himself were to come down off the cross and grant you one wish, would you opt for a world without guns — or the one we live in now? If […]
Because we could use some wisdom from the late Pat Rogers right about now. “While shooting is relatively easy to teach, fighting isn’t. This is especially true for those who have never experienced an emergency, been in a fist fight and whose exposure to a fight is theoretical.” “Just because you’re shot, doesn’t mean you’re […]
Early results from the 2018 California Safety and Wellbeing Survey shows 10 percent of gun owners in the state own about half of all firearms. The majority of gun owners, about 54 percent, have one or two firearms, according to the survey. What’s more, the survey found that a quarter of respondents said they did […]
What about the more than 250,000 people who die each year due to medical malpractice? Perhaps doctors should be concerned with those numbers. “’Do you have any idea how many bullets I pull out of corpses weekly,’ wrote a San Francisco-based forensic pathologist. ‘This isn’t just my lane. It’s my f—ing highway. Who do you […]
“Discretion, (Daniel Webster) argued, allows police to wade into that middle ground even when the law might not explicitly ban a person from owning a gun. One example: Perhaps a person’s wife recently told a police officer that someone has suicidal or homicidal thoughts. If that person then comes in and tries to get a […]
“To those who believe a weapon of war should be purchased with the same ease as a bottle of aspirin and left loaded where children can readily access it, the new law is a nuisance. But Washingtonians decided that keeping powerful weapons out of the hands of children and the unfit is a priority higher […]
“I think of the crowded school library in which my son died. I try to imagine a librarian drawing her Glock and returning fire.” “What if I’d been in that library in 1992, charged with keeping my son safe?” “I put the question to a man I know, a retired Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent […]
Speaking as a die-hard yogi…yeah, I do manage to have a firearm within reach during yoga, actually. And no one in my classes knows or needs to know. “Should the women at that Tallahassee yoga studio have been strapped while they assumed the Downward Dog? Should the college kids at the Thousand Oaks’ Borderline Bar […]
