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There was once a shepherd who found a wolf caught in a snare at the edge of his pasture.
The wolf begged to be freed.

“I was hungry,” it said. “That is all. Spare me, and I will remember your mercy!”

The shepherd cut the rope. The next night, three lambs were gone.

Again the shepherd found the wolf. Again it pleaded. Again the shepherd convinced himself that mercy was proof of his goodness.
By winter, half the flock was dead.

An old farmer finally asked him, “Why do you keep freeing it?”
The shepherd answered, “Because I refuse to become cruel.”

The farmer looked at the empty field and said, “Then understand what you have done. You were not merciful to the wolf. You were cruel to everything that trusted you to keep them safe.”

That’s the lesson.

Mercy without judgment isn’t virtue. When someone openly intends to destroy what has been entrusted to you, endless forgiveness doesn’t make you righteous. It makes everyone behind you pay for your vanity.

Concealed carry holder shoots suspect during altercation in North Lawndale
Chicago police are investigating after a CCL holder shot an alleged assailant during an incident in North Lawndale

A concealed carry license holder shot an alleged assailant during an altercation in North Lawndale Sunday morning.

According to Chicago police, the 23-year-old man was walking in the 3100 block of West Cermak at approximately 10:25 a.m. when he was approached by two individuals.

A physical altercation then unfolded, and the 23-year-old, who has a valid CCL and a FOID card, pulled out a weapon and fired shots, striking one of the alleged assailants.

That suspect was taken to an area hospital, where they were listed in critical condition according to police.

Chicago police say they are speaking to a person of interest in connection with the shooting, and Area Four detectives are investigating

Yes, Armed Civilians Can — and Do — Stop Mass Shootings

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October 23, 2026 6:30 AM

Data ignored by the FBI show the importance of defensive gun use in bringing down active shooters.

Two days after last week’s attack on an Oregon elementary school, the Associated Press opened a news story with a familiar claim: “Few mass shootings in the U.S. end like the deadly attack on an Oregon elementary school: with an armed civilian opening fire on the gunman.” NPR also noted “how rarely an armed civilian ends an attack like this.”

Yet since January 2025, the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) has documented 16 defensive gun uses in which police credited armed civilians with stopping what otherwise might have become mass public shootings, as in the attack in Oregon. During that same period, five mass public shootings occurred in the U.S. and Puerto Rico.

The AP bases its claim on data from the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training (ALERRT) Center, which the FBI uses for its active-shooting reports. But the story ignores detailed challenges to those data that have appeared in such places as the Washington Post, Washington Times, and RealClearInvestigations.

The FBI defines an active shooter as someone actively killing or attempting to kill people in a populated, public area. An incident can qualify even if a gunman fires at just one person and misses. The category includes mass public shootings, but the FBI generally excludes shootings connected to other crimes, such as robberies or fights over drug turf.

I encountered problems with these data firsthand. Until January 2021, I served as senior adviser for research and statistics in the Justice Department’s Office of Justice Programs, where my responsibilities included evaluating the FBI’s active-shooter reports. I discovered that the reports omitted or misclassified numerous cases in which armed civilians stopped attacks.

The problem persists. From 2014 through 2025, the FBI identified 408 active-shooter incidents but credited armed citizens with stopping only 16 — just 3.9 percent.

The CPRC, however, has identified numerous additional cases and maintains an updated list. Our research tells a dramatically different story. We identified 615 active-shooter incidents from 2014 through 2025 and found that armed citizens stopped 225 of them. We excluded another 35 cases in which law-abiding armed citizens stopped attackers before they could fire a shot.

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US switchblade law violates Second Amendment, appeals court says

A federal appeals court said in a ruling Wednesday that the U.S. restrictions on switchblades are unconstitutional.

Under the Federal Switchblade Act, it is illegal to sell, transport or manufacture the knives across state lines.

“We determine that switchblade knives qualify as ‘Arms’ and are covered by the ‘plain text’ of  the Second Amendment,” U.S. Circuit Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod wrote in the ruling. “Because the regulation implicates the amendment, the government bears the burden of establishing that the FSA comports with well-established principles of the Second Amendment and its regulatory tradition. The government fails to meet its burden.”

Reuters reported that the three judges who made the ruling were appointed by Republican presidents.

Knife Rights, the organization that brought the suit against the Department of Justice, celebrated the ruling in a statement.

“This is a significant judicial recognition of what Knife Rights has argued for years,” Knife Rights said. “The Second Amendment protects knives, not just firearm