(UPDATE: This story, which originally ran yesterday has been updated to include a video at the end, which shows the referenced shooting by Officer McBride of a knife-wielding man. It is shared to provide better context to the insinuations presented by Los Angeles City Attorney Aneta Freeman in an L.A. Times article. See the end … Read more
The Left in America loves to champion “Criminal Justice Reform.” Running that slogan through the universal translator, that means not putting criminals in jails or prison, emptying prisons bad bad people already there and and end to cash bail. It also includes legalizing drugs and decriminalizing crime through legislation. Of course, these lead to more … Read more
By Lee Williams The Los Angeles Times is a real newspaper, unlike USA Today, which most people step over while leaving a hotel room. During its more than 140 years, the Los Angeles Times has earned 48 Pulitzers. It has a daily print circulation of 1.2 million readers, and a weekly print and digital circulation … Read more
“No one should say ‘this is a great place to raise kids’ about neighborhoods where even one person has an assault rifle.” — Los Angeles Times opinion columnist, Virginia Heffernan …and introduce a meaningful tax on guns and gun violence. No one should say “this is a great place to raise kids” about neighborhoods where … Read more
From the Bloomberg School of Public Health study that concluded “assault weapon” bans don’t actually work to Dr. Garen Wintemute’s finding that California’s extensive gun control laws have done nothing to curb homicides or suicides by firearm, there is a slew of empirical information available demonstrating that gun control doesn’t work. Of course, that’s probably … Read more
The Second Amendment sanctuary city movement continues. The city of Needles, California has become one of the most recent local governments to proclaim itself a Second Amendment sanctuary city. The gun sanctuary movement began in Illinois a couple of years ago and has spread like wildfire. Now the Los Angeles Times has profiled the man … Read more
The apparently never-ending George Zimmerman saga continues, having stepped off The Streetcar Named Self-Defense and boarded the Wives And Girlfriends Crazy Train. Officials have just released a list of the five guns that police removed from Zimmerman’s home after his latest arrest on November 18th . . .
It’s open season on open carry in California. Post Hermosa Beach Open Carry clean-up demo, Golden State gun control advocates are girding themselves for battle, as the legislature attempts to pass a law banning the practice. Can California Dems over-ride Governor Schwarzenegger’s inevitable veto? IS it inevitable? Watch this space. Meanwhile, here’s a letter to the editor from yesterday’s LA Times, representing majority opinion on the subject. Well, the effete intellectual snobs and nattering nabobs of negativism thereabouts . . .
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