2023 data: Other causes of death to minors are still more than firearms.
For those under 18, vehicle deaths are consistently greater than those from firearms. When you use the FBI murder data, the vehicle deaths exceed the firearm deaths for 2019, 2020, 2022, and 2023 and likely 2021, though the FBI data isn’t available for that year.
About 72% of the firearm murders for those under 18 involve 15, 16, and 17-year-olds. So that would be 40% of all the firearm deaths. About 57% of those involving 16 and 17-year-olds. That is 32% of all firearm deaths. These deaths are largely gang-related and even banning guns is unlikely to stop drug gangs from getting a hold of guns to protect their extremely valuable drugs.
Two upper-crust student athletes from tony Montclair, New Jersey, are accused of participating in an ISIS-inspired terror ring — with one of the suspects allegedly plotting a Boston bombing-style attack, the feds said Wednesday.
Tomas Kaan Jimenez-Guzel and Milo Sedarat, both 19, were arrested on Tuesday, with both teens living in $1 million-plus Victorian houses in the manicured New York City suburb.
The accused yuppie jihadis both grew up in privilege before allegedly turning to ISIS.
Jimenez-Guzel’s mother, Meral Guzel, serves as head of the United Nation’s Women’s Entrepreneurship program, and Sedarat’s father, Roger Sedarat, is an award-winning Iranian American poet and a professor at Queens College in New York City.
Guzel has been with the UN for more than a decade working on women empowerment projects, according to her LinkedIn account, with the mother previously working in the finance sector.
Neither parent could be reached for comment on Wednesday.
A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie.
— VLADIMIR ILYICH LENIN
November 7, 2025
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— Emilia H (@Emilia__writes) November 6, 2025
A study was done on mosques in America
The research surveyed 100 randomly selected mosques across the US
“81% of the mosques that he surveilled were in some way or other preaching jihadism and hatred of non-Muslims” including establishing Sharia Law in America
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— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) November 3, 2025
SCOTUS Slates Several More 2A Cases for Consideration in Conference
The Supreme Court has already granted cert to two separate cases dealing with Second Amendment issues, and I think there’s a strong possibility the justices will agree to hear at least one more 2A-related challenge this term.
So far the Court has decided to address the constitutionality of Hawaii’s “vampire rule” prohibiting concealed carry on private property unless expressly allowed by the property owner and the federal law barring unlawful users of drugs from possessing firearms, but next week the justices will also consider four cases in conference that all have to do with the Second Amendment rights of 18-to-20-year-olds.
The lawsuits involve challenges to the federal prohibition on handgun sales to adults under 21, Florida’s law banning all gun sales to under-21s, and Pennsylvania’s ban on concealed carry for under-21s (which turns into a total prohibition on carry for young adults when the state’s open carry law is suspended during a state of emergency).
Given the circuit court splits on the issue, I believe there’s a real possibility the Court will hear one or more of these cases. But there are other live issues pending before Court, and the November 21 conference will feature almost a half-dozen of them.
Four of the cases slated for the November 21 conference are prohibited persons cases; not challenges to Section 922(g)(3) and its ban on unlawful drug users owning guns, but taking on 922(g)(1)’s prohibition on gun ownership for anyone who has been convicted in any court of a crime punishable by more than one year’s imprisonment; and 922(g)(5)(A), which bars unlawful aliens from possessing firearms.
In addition, the Court has scheduled Duncan v. Bonta for its November 21 conference. That’s the challenge to California’s ban on so-called “large capacity” magazines. The Ninth Circuit has upheld the law, including the provision requiring existing owners to destroy their magazines, turn them over to law enforcement, permanently modify them to comply with California’s 10-round limit, or remove them from the state.
The appeals court, though, has stayed enforcement of that portion of the law. If the Supreme Court denies cert, it’s almost guaranteed that the Ninth Circuit would lift that stay and California could start prosecuting anyone found in possession of “large capacity” magazines, even if they lawfully purchased them.
I’d love for the Court to hear each and every one of these cases, but that’s not a realistic possibility. The Court could end up holding on to one or more of these cases pending the outcome in Wolford v. Lopez and U.S. v. Hemani, though I don’t know that either of those cases would have much of an impact on the constitutionality of California’s mag ban.
In one final bit of SCOTUS news, the lead attorney challenging Hawaii’s “vampire rule” in Wolford v. Lopez is asking for help from gun owners in order to “pay for historians, documents, affidavits, and the mountain of legal costs” associated with a Supreme Court challenge. If you’d like to help attorney Alan Beck and the plaintiffs in Wolford, you can contribute to a GiveSendGo campaign. As of Wednesday afternoon Beck had raised nearly $40,000 of his $65,000 goal, and more than 400 patriots have contributed to the cause. Hopefully we can add to the number of donors and fully fund the campaign so that Beck can deliver the strongest arguments possible in the upcoming round of briefing and oral arguments next year.
Almost 1.3 Million Background Checks for Gun Sales in October
According to national background check data, Americans picked up over a million firearms last month, again.
October saw no less than 2,289,774 background checks logged by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System. That is on par with the 2,298,383 checks done in October 2024.
After the National Shooting Sports Foundation crunched the data to remove gun permit checks and rechecks, the adjusted figure for likely retail sales stood at 1,299,312, which remains on par with the October 2024 NSSF-adjusted NICS tally of 1,302,857.
It should be noted that last October was on the cusp of the 2024 general election cycle, putting Presidents Biden and Trump, along with a swath of congressional, state, and local candidates, on the ballot amid concerns over gun control and political violence.
Firearms industry experts told Guns.com that the data is telling.
“October’s figures of nearly 1.3 million background checks for the sale of a firearm at retail are an encouraging sign that America’s desire to exercise Second Amendment rights remains strong,” Mark Oliva, public affairs officer with the NSSF, told Guns.com via email. “Historically, firearms sales during the fall hunting seasons are robust, and October’s figures hold true to that trend. Firearm manufacturers continue to produce the high-quality tools that today’s gun buyers have come to expect, and these figures bear that out.”
One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that, no ordinary man could be such a fool.
-George Orwell
November 6, 2025
Math teacher says he was called ‘ideologically violent’ for supporting standardized testing
Key Takeaways
- The author recounts his college experiences facing backlash for supporting standardized testing and watching a professor get berated for her response to the George Floyd incident.
- His book, which critiques the ideologically driven focus of higher education, recently won a Maxy Award.
- Yellow Heights, a former software engineer turned teacher, emphasizes the need for objective assessment in education.
While studying at one of the “top” higher education institutions in the U.S., a new author recalls how he was described as “ideologically violent” for arguing in favor of standardized testing.
This incident and other concerns about diversity, equity, and inclusion in education inspired him to write a book.
His book “Unbalanced: Memoir of an Immigrant Math Teacher,” written under the pen name “Yellow Heights,” raises concerns about the ideologically-driven focus of higher education.
“Unbalanced” was released on Amazon and recently won a Maxy Award, an honor for indie and self-published books. The book also is partially available for free on the author’s substack.
Yellow Heights describes himself as a “former climate researcher, software engineer, investment manager, and high school math teacher.” He also is a first-generation immigrant from China and father of two. He writes under a penname and requested anonymity due to concerns about political and job discrimination due to his views.
“This book recounts his Kafkaesque experiences at education school, where he was labeled a white supremacist simply for asking questions,” according to the book’s Amazon page. “He shares firsthand accounts of teaching math at a public and a private school, offering a panoramic view of the issues surrounding wokeness, coddling, and the lack of accountability in education.”
The College Fix spoke on the phone recently with Yellow Heights about his book, his experiences going back to college to become a teacher, and his views of the current American education system.
After working as a software engineer and manager at Microsoft, he said he decided to go back to college in the late 2010s to become a math teacher. Although he did not name the school, he said it was one of the top 10 education institutions in the U.S.
Yellow Heights said he wanted to teach math because “I just take a great joy in seeing other people learning math and find math interesting. I want to basically make more people see the beauty of math and also the practical side of it.”
Around 2020, his experiences at college grew increasingly concerning.
Once, he said he and a fellow classmate asked some “learning related questions” only to end up “being labeled white supremacists by the instructor and the students.”
In another case, after the George Floyd protests, he said one “very kind, very well intentioned teacher” encouraged the students to continue class after giving them about 20 minutes to mourn — “and she was attacked. She was accused of lacking empathy at all and she was made to cry.”
Another incident occurred when Yellow Heights defended standardized testing. “I didn’t say it’s perfect. I just said we probably need some objective assessment of learning outcomes and we can improve it rather than just say it’s … evil itself.”
In response, the author said he was called “ideologically violent.”
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. – H. L. Mencken
New Yorkers elected their first socialist mayor Tuesday, handing far-left Democrat Zohran Mamdani an historic victory — as he claimed a mandate for his potentially budget-busting progressive agenda and all but declared war on President Trump.
The Associated Press and NY1 called the race for the 34-year-old Mamdani about 40 minutes after polls closed at 9 p.m., inspiring cheers from his supporters at his campaign’s Brooklyn watch party.
“New York, tonight you have delivered a mandate for change, a mandate for a new kind of politics, a mandate for a city that we can afford and a mandate for a government that delivers exactly that,” he said, taking the stage after 11 p.m.
He then taunted Trump, prompting cheers from his fired-up crowd.
“So Donald Trump, since I know you’re watching I have four words for you: turn the volume up,” Mamdani said.
Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, carried 50.4% of votes to independent candidate Andrew Cuomo’s 42% at 12 a.m., with nearly 98% of precincts reporting, the city Board of Elections said. GOP nominee Curtis Sliwa came in third with a rock-bottom 7.1%.
The Uganda-born Mamdani will be the Big Apple’s first Muslim, first South Asian and first socialist mayor, as well as one of the youngest.
Behold: The Dumbest Argument for an Assault Weapon Ban So Far
I can’t call anything the dumbest possible reason for trying to justify an assault weapon ban, but mostly because anti-Second Amendment folks seem bound and determined to take that as a challenge and roll out an even stupider one.
However, I can still point out where the bar is at a given point in time, and ladies and gentlemen, we have officially hit a whole new low.
I get that not everyone favors modern sporting rifles even existing, much less being protected by the Second Amendment, but the truth is that they do, and they are.
Yet if you’re going to try to convince me that a ban is justified, you have to do better than this.
Imagine a person making the decision to die by suicide via jumping off a bridge. Successful attempt or not, who is responsible in this scenario? The person? They simply fall. The bridge? It is just doing its job. The factor that is truly bringing that person’s life to a end? Gravity.
That person, even if they lack any knowledge of what gravity is or how it works, has an inherent knowledge that jumping equals falling. And that knowledge is true because of gravity. Not jumping. Not the impact. Not the water. The individual’s decision is executed by an additional factor.
It almost sounds like I am in agreement with the “Guns don’t kill…” statement. But wait. According to my previous paragraph, it’s not the person or the gun. So who is it? That is a matter of deeper study (and a much longer writing piece).
What I can state is studies show that even the least bit of resistance (in the form of a barrier) causes a decrease in the likelihood of someone following through with the decision to jump from a bridge. This could be a fence and/or a net. Even a failed attempt can result in the decision not to not try again — also backed by research.
So the correlation; if guns weren’t so easily accessible, the decision to harm others could still be made, but without the additional factor present. Even if they chose a knife-bat-etc., these are far less lethal and much easier for the everyday citizen — children included — to defend themselves from.
So his “correlation” is really him comparing apples to oranges, and then expecting you to swallow that they’re both bananas.
Baltimore store owner’s fatal shooting of burglar ruled self-defense
(WBFF) — The Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office ruled that the fatal shooting of a suspected burglar by a jewelry store owner was an act of self-defense.
The decision, announced Monday by City State’s Attorney Ivan Bates, follows a review by the office’s homicide unit.
The incident happened on Oct. 16, just after 2 a.m., when the store owner, who lives above the business on Fleet Street in Canton, opened fire on 39-year-old Richard Rolfe, killing him.
Christine Wilson, a neighbor, recalled the early morning gunfire. “I heard it right outside my window. And so, kind of nervous about, called 911,” she said.
Under Maryland law, self-defense or defense of habitation can be claimed by meeting several factors, including:
- If a suspect attempts to enter a property
- The owner believes the suspect intends to commit a crime leading to death or serious injury
- The owner reasonably believes force is necessary.
The investigation revealed that the store owner believed Rolfe was armed, although it was later found that Rolfe did not have a gun. “Based on the facts of this case, we believe that this shooting meets the requirements of self-defense in the state of Maryland,” Bates said.
Wilson expressed relief at the decision, saying, “That is fantastic news. That is great news for all of us in this neighborhood.” She added, “It’s sad that a life had to be lost at all and there are people grieving for that person. So, it’s not really a celebration but it’s just like, ok, great, the system works.”
The store owner, who declined an on-camera interview, did say he was relieved and satisfied with the ruling.