This is part of the anti-American legacy of President Auto-Pen

She actually said:
“replacing them with loyalists and people who don’t know anything…”
Anything she ever says again should be ignored forever.

Yes, but this statement is even more dangerous:
“these issues should not be in presidential control”
She is placing the bureaucracy above the constitution.

Crime Prevention Research Center Releases New CCW Data

The Crime Prevention Research Center has released its annual report on concealed carry in the U.S.

By Dave Workman

Editor-in-Chief

The Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) has just released its 2025 Concealed Carry report, and while the numbers are down, the figure is deceiving because of the increase of permitless (“constitutional”) carry in 29 states.

The report acknowledges the number of permit holders fell by 0.59 million, for an estimated total of 20.88 million citizens who are licensed to carry. But the CPRC quickly notes, “The primary reason for the decrease is that permit numbers tend to drop gradually in Constitutional Carry states, even though it is evident that more people are legally carrying.”

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Homeowner wounded but fights back in possible home invasion | HPD searching for second suspect

GALENA PARK, Texas — A late-night gunfight during an attempted home invasion left a homeowner and one of the suspected intruders wounded, and Houston police are now searching for a second suspect who is still on the run.

It happened just after 1:20 a.m. Tuesday off East Avenue J in the East End near Galena Park. Investigators said two men approached a home and were possibly trying to force their way inside when they were met by the homeowner and gunfire erupted.

Homeowner drove himself for help
According to HPD, the homeowner was shot at least once but was able to get into his vehicle and drive himself about a mile and a half to Houston Fire Station 23. Officers located him there and took his statement. Police say he is now listed in stable condition.

One suspect taken into custody, one still missing
About two blocks from the shooting scene, on Avenue L, police say one of the suspects knocked on a door and asked for help. Officers responded and found him with multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken into custody and transported for medical treatment.

The second suspect has not been found. Investigators believe he may have left the area in a vehicle.

Robbery Division now leads the investigation
Houston police confirm the Robbery Division has now taken over the case, classifying it as an attempted home invasion.

The investigation is ongoing, and detectives are working to determine the relationship — if any — between the suspects and the homeowner, and whether the house was specifically targeted.

Analysis: What to Make of New DOJ Second Amendment Section

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced plans to create the first-ever dedicated Second Amendment section within the agency’s Civil Rights Division. But thus far, the agency hasn’t been too eager to talk about it, and the reported rollout date for the new section to begin operations has already come and gone without any movement.
Officials from the DOJ only publicly confirmed the existence of the planned section for the first time on Friday night after more than a week of media reports.
“The 2nd Amendment is not a second-class right. After the prior administration’s campaign to infringe on Americans’ gun rights, the Justice Department is strongly committed to undoing the damage,” Attorney General Pam Bondi (R.) wrote in a social media post. “This unit within our Civil Rights Division will advance President Trump’s pro-2nd Amendment agenda and protect the right to bear arms for all.”
Details about the move were first reported by Reuters last week, though the plans for the new entity appear to have been months in the making. In a September interview with an alumni publication for her alma mater, Assistant Attorney General and leader of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon announced that plans for the new section were already in the works as early as this summer.
According to planning documents provided to Congress and obtained by Reuters, the proposed new section would be tasked primarily with “investigating local laws or policies limiting gun rights,” and it would carry out that work “using existing funds and personnel.” The documents also identified December 4th as the new section’s expected opening date.
However, the DOJ has yet to formally announce the new section beyond Bondi’s social media post, and it remains absent from the Civil Rights Division’s organization page.
The DOJ also has not responded to The Reload’s requests for comment on details about the new division.

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Concealed carry holder shoots car burglar on South Side: CPD

A concealed carry holder shot a 17-year-old boy who broke into his car in Roseland early Monday morning, according to Chicago police.

Officers were dispatched around 3:43 a.m. after 911 callers reported gunfire and a car alarm ringing in the 9400 block of South Indiana Avenue. A short time later, a woman called to say her boyfriend had shot someone trying to steal their car.

When officers arrived, they found a 17-year-old with gunshot wounds to his right forearm and left knee, CPD said. Officers applied a tourniquet to control his bleeding until paramedics took him to the University of Chicago Hospital, where he was listed in fair condition.

Police said the 58-year-old car owner heard his alarm sounding and stepped outside to investigate. He found the driver’s side window of his white Honda Accord shattered, and two males inside the vehicle. One of them displayed a gun, prompting the man, who has a valid FOID and concealed carry license, to fire, according to CPD

The second offender ran east and got into a gray Dodge Caravan that continued east on 94th Street, police said.

Psychology Today Thinks Answer to Suicides is Gun Control Not, You Know, Psychology

Psychology is a fascinating subject to me. Understanding how the human mind works is something that I think is of the utmost importance, and we need to devote a lot of resources toward that. The fact that there’s a replication crisis in psychology isn’t evidence that the study should be abandoned, in my mind, but that we need to figure out what the problem is so we can get stuff right.

But psychology has more problems than being unable to replicate studies.

It seems at least some psychologists think that psychology isn’t all that useful in preventing things like suicides, apparently.

So, where does all this leave people in the U.S.? Do we continue to accept an increasing number of firearm suicides, homicides, and mass shootings as the cost of living—and dying—in America?

We don’t have to. Several steps can be taken to reduce gun violence in this country, particularly gun suicides. One is universal background checks. Another is implementing a 10-day waiting period to buy a firearm. A third is enacting “red-flag” laws that enable police and immediate family members to remove guns from people who pose a threat to themselves or to others. A fourth is requiring gun owners to store their weapons safely. A fifth is banning the sale of high-caliber assault weapons.

None of these takes away the existing weapons of responsible gun owners or prevents them from buying more handguns and rifles. None infringes on their rights to protect themselves, to hunt, or to shoot recreationally. Their purpose is to ensure that firearms are used safely, the same way that traffic codes exist for drivers to operate motor vehicles safely. Is that too much to ask?

Let’s look at the last paragraph first. That argument, such as it is, looks familiar. “We’re going to ban you from buying certain things, throw in a bunch of hoops and red tape, and make it as hard as possible for you to buy or own a gun, but we’re not infringing on your rights.”

But look at the second paragraph for a moment. Especially where it says, “Several steps can be taken to reduce gun violence in this country, particularly gun suicides. One is universal background checks.”

So, to prevent suicides, instead of psychologists doing their jobs, we should have universal background checks that wouldn’t do anything at all to reduce suicides? Seriously?

Now, I think I get what the author, John Bateson, is trying to get at when he follows that up with a 10-day waiting period. If you have a universal background check law, then people would be forced to wait the 10 days, no matter who they buy the gun from. But that’s me having to guess as to where he sees the relationship. He sure as hell did lay it out for anyone.

And I’d like to point out that every study I’ve seen on waiting periods impacting suicides has focused exclusively on “gun suicides.” They’ve never looked at the impact of waiting periods in comparison to the overall suicide rate. If 100 people kill themselves in Year A, 50 of whom use a gun, and in Year B, only 25 use a firearm, it’s not exactly an improvement if 105 people commit suicide.

They never look at that. I wonder why?

Before getting to this bit, Bateson outlines the response to mass shootings in countries like the UK and Australia, but he fails to note that all of them keep having mass shootings. While they might not be on the scale of something like Port Arthur, nothing before then was on that scale, either. The status quo being maintained after an outlier is far from proof that the gun laws work.

What really gets me is that psychology is the one science that has a chance of not just reducing suicides of all causes, but any mass murder as well. They’ll never eliminate them–nothing will, unfortunately–but they could reduce them significantly. Only, instead of doing that, they’re pretending the issue is that the gun laws aren’t strict enough.

This is why academia has such little trust these days. Instead of actually looking at their wheelhouse and focusing one what they can do within that context, they want to infringe on our rights and use their appeal to authority to try and facilitate that.

No wonder they can’t figure out why they’re unable to replicate any of their studies. That would require effort.

The Capitol, Washington D.C. 12:30 p.m., EST December 8th, 1941

Mr. Vice President, Mr. Speaker, Members of the Senate and the House of Representatives:

YESTERDAY, December 7th, 1941; a date which will live in infamy. The United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

The United States was at peace with that Nation and, at solicitation of Japan, still in conversation with its Government and its Emperor looking toward the maintenance of peace in the Pacific. Indeed, one hour after Japanese air squadrons had commenced bombing in the American Island of Oahu, the Japanese Ambassador to the United States and his colleague delivered to our Secretary of State a formal reply to a recent American message. And while this reply stated that it seemed useless to continue the existing diplomatic negotiations, it contained no threat or hint of war or of armed attack.

It will be recorded that the distance of Hawaii from Japan makes it obvious that the attack was deliberately planned many days or even weeks ago. During the intervening time the Japanese Government has deliberately sought to deceive the United States by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace.

The attack yesterday on the Hawaiian Islands has caused severe damage to American naval and military forces. I regret to tell you that very many American lives have been lost. In addition American ships have been reported torpedoed on the high seas between San Francisco and Honolulu.

Yesterday the Japanese Government also launched an attack against Malaya. Last night Japanese forces attacked Hong Kong: Last night Japanese forces attacked Guam. Last night Japanese forces attacked the Philippine Islands. Last night the Japanese attacked Wake Island. And this morning the Japanese attacked Midway Island.

Japan has, therefore, undertaken a surprise offensive extending throughout the Pacific area. The facts of yesterday and today speak for themselves. The people of the United States have already formed their opinions and well understand the implications to the very life and safety of our Nation.

As Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy I have directed that all measures be taken for our defense.

But always will our whole Nation remember the character of the onslaught against us.

No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.

I believe that I interpret the will of the Congress and of the people when I assert that we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost but will make it very certain that this form of treachery shall never again endanger us.

Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory, and our interests are in grave danger.

With confidence in our armed forces with the unbounding determination of our people we will gain the inevitable triumph so help us God.

I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7, 1941, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire

Eighty-four years ago today, on Sunday, December 7th, 1941, the Empire of Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor and other military installations around Oahu.

Events leading up to the attack:

Several key events foreshadowed the attack in the early morning hours:

  • 6:10 a.m. — The USS Condor, a minesweeper, spots a periscope.
  • 6:45 a.m. — The USS Ward fires on a Japanese submarine, marking the first shot fired by American forces in World War II.
  • 6:53 a.m. — Ward radios Navy HQ, but decoding processes slow down its reception.
  • 7:02 a.m. — Radar station on Oahu spots an unidentified aircraft, but reports are ignored because a B-17 from California was expected to arrive.

The Imperial Japanese Navy, launching 414 attack and fighter aircraft from the fleet carriers, Hiryu, Soryu, Shokaku, Zuikaku, Akagi and Kaga, carry out what appears to be a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet, Army and Marine air and ground forces at Pearl Harbor, and elsewhere on Oahu island, Hawaii.

The Somali Welfare Fraud Scandal Is Even Worse Than You Think

“We believe the Somali fraud operation in Minnesota is the single greatest theft of taxpayer dollars, through welfare fraud, in American history.”

‘nonpartisan’
My opinion is that anything concerning the 2nd amendment can not be ‘nonpartisan’. There is no middle ground when it comes (as Justice Thomas called it) the unqualified statement: “SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED”
I’d like to see the actual curriculum that is going to be taught. That being said, two of the three directors, Ashley Hlebinsky and David Kopel are well known for their pro-RKBA stances.

Dept. of Education to fund nonpartisan 2nd Amendment high school curriculum

The U.S. Department of Education has awarded the University of Wyoming nearly $1 million to develop what the college calls a “historically grounded” school curriculum on the Second Amendment. The university’s Firearms Research Center said the initiative will give educators nationwide tools to better understand the constitutional right to bear arms.

The two-year, $908,991 grant stems from the department’s American History and Civics Education Program tied to the country’s 250th anniversary celebrations. In September, President Donald Trump redirected $137 million to the program that’s directed by what The New York Times called organizations “closely aligned with the president’s Make America Great Again movement.”

The National Second Amendment Initiative’s aim is to give teachers sources, instructional videos and access to academics that the university said come from various perspectives on the lightning rod issue of firearms in America.

“Our project will honor the nation’s 250th anniversary by allowing educators to engage with the complexity and nuance of the country’s founding documents,” Ashley Hlebinsky, executive director of the Firearms Research Center, said in a release.

Because it’s not named as a role of the federal government in the Constitution, the Department of Education cannot force the curriculum on school districts. The restriction is also described in the 1979 law establishing the department. It can only ensure schools are obeying federal education laws like the Civil Rights Act and conduct the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Why Wyoming?

While the U.S. has myriad schools focusing on constitutional law, colleges and universities with a specific focus on the Second Amendment are far and few between. Beyond Wyoming, Duke University’s Duke Center for Firearms Law is one of the only major collegiate programs that focuses on firearms law, but not from a gun violence prevention perspective.

Wyoming’s law school positions itself as the “premier law school for practitioners who serve the legal needs of all those who produce, employ, own, and regulate firearms.”

What happens in the classroom?

While the federal government cannot dictate curriculum and states set broad educational requirements, the teacher still controls the classroom.

The National Education Association, the country’s largest teacher union, has long been outspoken on its advocacy for gun control laws.

In an issues section of the union’s website, the association focuses on school violence due to the country’s proliferation of firearms and advocates for laws that would place restrictions on gun possession and locations where they can be carried.

The union did not respond to a request for comment.