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DETROIT – I volunteered to get pepper-sprayed last month because, well, I just wanted to know what it felt like, I guess. Plus, it makes a story, so it’s a painful win-win, kind of. So I joined in on the training where the military police in my National Guard unit were getting sprayed with oleoresin […]

Iowa (KWWL) – The new fiscal started on July 1, meaning dozens of new laws are in effect for the state of Iowa. One of the new laws allows college students in Iowa to carry a stun gun on campus. Stun guns are often used for self-defense. They can cause an attacker’s muscles to become

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York state’s ban on personal ownership of stun guns is unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Friday in the latest in a series of court decisions that have led to the loosening of restrictions on the weapons in several states. The decision came in a lawsuit filed by Matthew Avitabile, of Schoharie

Protestor grabs a political sign from woman and gets pepper sprayed in return. A pretty graphic look at what happens when pepper spray is applied near the face area.

Back in the mid-1970s Col. Jeff Cooper introduced the world to the concept of the “Four Color Code” for awareness-of-mind of the potential dangers around you. Many people (including the government) have taken his ideas far beyond the simple Code that Cooper envisioned. While some of the current teaching is fine as it is, the

Our Constitution makes it very clear that there should be a hands off approach to any entanglement between government and churches. The Supreme Court has amplified it through the years and the lawmakers have pretty clear direction that if they make any laws impacting churches there must either be (1) a darn good reason why,

Two certainties pop up on a regular basis when the subject of gun control, or its lack, gets discussed on the Internet. One is that a pro-gun-freedom poster will state that there are “20,000 gun laws already on the books” and the other is that it will only take a moment for a pro-gun-control poster

I was given this years and years ago as it passed around the net from person to person. I wish I could give credit to the proper author but it was lost in the mists of time and I can’t. Nevertheless, it doesn’t take away from the absolutely critical information contained herein. I don’t necessarily

[A missionary friend of mine, Rev. Mac, wrote this for a small group of people who were studying the issue of what the Bible had to say about self-defense.] This question comes up every so often and I’d like to hit it from a slightly different angle. When discussing any topic and using the bible

Professor Eugene Volokh of the The Volokh Conspiracy takes a look at a critical issue surrounding stun guns in his article, “Are stun guns protected by the Second Amendment?” Hawaii, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, and Rhode Island, and cities such as Baltimore, New Orleans, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C., all ban the possession of stun