Dangerous Games 

As the saying goes, play stupid games, win stupid prizes, but some are deciding to take this mantra to a whole new level of dim-wittedness. As someone who has never played Fortnite or dominoes, perhaps I just don’t understand the stakes or raw emotion involved, or maybe heavy drug usage and hearing voices in your … Read more

Off-Duty Atlanta Police Investigator Fatally Shot During Attempted Break-In 

An off-duty Atlanta police investigator was fatally shot by a homeowner during an attempted break-in early Friday morning in Douglas County, Georgia. Authorities have released video footage and additional details regarding the incident, which occurred around 5:08 a.m. on Orkney Way in Winston, a community just west of metro Atlanta. The deceased, identified as Aubree … Read more

Take My Gun, Please!

By Robert B. Young, MD With all due respect to Henny Youngman, King of the One-Liners, I mean exactly that in certain cases. We fight hard against any form of confiscation that denies us our natural right to keep and bear arms in self-defense. That includes opposing all the “red flag” laws so far enacted and … Read more

Mental Illness, Stigma and Guns in America

By Larry Keane As the firearms and ammunition industry, we make and sell a legal, heavily regulated products to background-checked citizens. We are not experts on mental health. What we do care about, however, is keeping our communities safe by ensuring that those who are prohibited by law from possessing guns do not obtain them. … Read more

Everyone’s Happy to DO SOMETHING After a Shooting, As Long As It’s Done to Someone Else

The quote of the day is presented by Guns.com If, after decades of speechmaking about hunting and tradition and rights, Republicans roll over because they happen to have someone in the White House who doesn’t actually care much about those things, it’ll be the most perfect encapsulation of the party’s ideological hollowness since George W. Bush … Read more

Many Believe More Mental Health Spending Will Reduce Firearms Deaths. Don’t Be So Sure

A reader who prefers to remain anonymous writes: One of the areas where the pro and anti gun sides agree in many cases is the presumption that somehow mental health remedies can produce fewer deaths and injuries that result from firearms, especially mass shootings (events where large numbers of victims are involved, but the term … Read more

Don’t Stigmatize Those Who Are Coping With Post Traumatic Stress

In the wake of the shooting last night where all of the mainstream media outlets are assuming the attacker suffered from PTSD I want to make something very clear. Coping with post traumatic stress, anxiety, depression, etc., doesn’t necessarily mean you’re a danger to yourself or others. That’s a common misconception that, in many cases, prevents … Read more

Daily Digest: Shining a New Light on Fast & Furious, Ghetto-izing NYC and APD Armors Up

The cleansing power of sunshine . . . Under Trump, ‘Fast and Furious’ probe will expose truth – “During the Michigan presidential Republican primary in March of 2016, then-candidate Donald Trumppromised both Kent Terry and Michelle Terry-Balogh, siblings of Brian Terry, if elected he would get the truth and answers regarding both Fast and Furious … Read more

Mental Health & the Right To Keep And Bear Arms

  By an anonymous member of Guns Save Life, MD/PhD The Obama Administration consistently attempts to limit firearms rights, and frequently does so by shrouding those schemes in the apparently laudable goal of keeping firearms out of the hands of “mentally ill” people. So, what’s the problem?  The Newtown shooting was carried out by a … Read more