Gun Control

Father who killed Oregon school shooter speaks out for first time

We’re learning more about the extraordinary bravery exhibited by a dad who heard gunshots and ran toward them inside a Bend, Ore., elementary school and stopped a murderer. And there are more heroes to celebrate in this tragic story. Sadly, however, we’re not learning much from the politicos in that largely leftist state whose default position is to blame the gun and not the malicious and sick person who murdered three children and at least one teacher and wounded others at Silver Rail Elementary on Thursday.

Those who manipulate crime data can shape the political debate. The Trump administration has reversed some serious data manipulation that occurred during the Biden administration when it comes to crime.

At the request of gun control advocates, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) removed data from its website. The Trump administration has now restored the data, but it went a step further, correcting an important error in the original post.

A woman in Toledo, Ohio, used a shotgun to fend off two men who police say were fighting a member of her family.

Officers responded to a home on Pinewood Avenue, not far from the city’s downtown, early Tuesday morning, where they found the woman holding a shotgun… and holding two young men at bay.

No self-respecting shopper pays for anything without looking at the checkout total first.

But Prime Minister Mark Carney and Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree are moving full steam ahead with their gun ban and confiscation project without being transparent with taxpayers about the full cost.

In July 2023, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) filed an access-to-information request with the RCMP for all projected costs to confiscate firearms.

Folks depending on the New York Times for news probably don’t realize how often armed citizens use firearms in self-defense across the country. The Times doesn’t devote much attention to those incidents. Gun owners behaving badly, on the other hand, apparently make for more compelling copy.

Having a weapon gives you a clear advantage in an altercation. It’s why we view introducing a weapon into an argument or fight as something pretty serious. The thing is, not all weapons are created equal. There are less lethal weapons, obviously, and lethal ones. Even among lethal weapons, though, there’s a hierarchy.

The anti-gunner lobby isn’t going to be happy about the findings of the 2026 National Firearms Survey, which destroys some of the most common arguments they make in favor of gun control.

The survey was conducted by Dr. William English of Georgetown University.

Oh, for the glory days of the CDC’s anti-liberty/gun “research!” They used to have the unrestrained ability to treat the Second Amendment as a contagion and spent untold millions producing “research” that treated gun ownership as a deadly public health threat. Needless to say, the conclusions of that sort of research were predetermined. But in 1996, Congress rained on that anti-liberty parade ...

The gun debate is one of those things where both sides are trying to take advantage. I’d call it a game if the stakes weren’t so high. Both sides make arguments, and the other side tries to punch holes in them.

This is reasonable and natural, even if I don’t like how the other side carries out their part.

Still, fair is fair, I suppose, and free speech means they have a right to say idiotic things. That’s just how it has to be.

Gun sales go up year after year. The Bruen decision meant that subjective permitting requirements were unconstitutional, scuttling generations of oppressive anti-Second Amendment laws. Through it all, though, we were told how every bit of our rights being restored would result in our society becoming less safe.

Never mind that all of this happened after the spikes in homicides in 2020 and 2021, which suggested the status quo wasn’t exactly helping.

Student op-eds are…interesting.

These are younger people who haven’t really lived much of their lives yet, but who have strong opinions on a great many things. That’s fine, obviously, because they have that right. Yet, because many of them lack real-world living experience, their arguments on things like guns can be baffling. Especially when they end up defeating their own argument.

Gun licence applications are on the rise in the Greater Toronto Area. Between 2016 and 2025, the number of applicants for possession and acquisition licences, or PALs—the permits that allow Canadians to buy firearms—have increased by nearly 50 per cent. In some parts of the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, like the eastern suburb of Peel, they’ve more than doubled. And southern Ontario isn’t the only place where this is happening. The number of PAL licence holders across Canada is quickly nearing 2.5 million, the highest count on record.

We’re gonna need em.

About halfway into a chilling New York Times feature detailing how the “right to kill is growing” in the United States, investigative reporter and three-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Mike McIntire drops a popular myth. The Constitution’s text, he contends, “says nothing explicitly about an individual right to have a gun for everyday self-defense. Locating that right in the Constitution became the grand project of the modern gun lobby.”

The very first rule of gun safety is “treat every gun as if it’s loaded.” The second rule of gun safety is “don’t point your gun at anything you’re not willing to kill.”

RSO clocked them so fast. pic.twitter.com/iiYix8avpw

— Doc Strangelove (@DocStrangelove2) August 6, 2026