The Violence Policy Center

Let’s Thank the Violence Policy Center for Illustrating How Law-Abiding Those Who Legally Carry Guns Actually Are

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The VPC’s Concealed Carry Killers project tracks mass shootings by concealed carry permit holders. Learn more here: https://t.co/esK3lhCCcO — Violence Policy Center (@VPCinfo) August 25, 2023 The Violence Policy Center gun control organization maintains a database of “mass shootings” carried out by concealed carry permit holders. They naturally jumped on the incident last week in … Read more

Good Friday Protest at Philladelphia’s Shooter Shop

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The Huffington Post never met a gun control article it didn’t like. As home for Josh Sugarmann of The Violence Policy Center and Paul Helmke of the The Brady Campaign Against Gun Violence, you’d think the Post would have the whole anti-gun thing covered. But no, publishing gun control rants just comes natural (like the first breath of a baby). So, to mark Good Friday, the HuffPo presented a piece by Shane Claiborne: Death Be Not Proud: The Easter Gospel of Non-Violence. The headline’s taunt sets the tone for a strange blend of traditional Christian proselytizing and a major mea culpa-–which clears the deck for more sanctimonious lecturing. The editorial was designed to explain the Easter protests outside Lockheed Martin and Philadelphia’s Shooter Shop gun store [defended by the flag waivers above]. And so it does, in its own special way. First, the gospel . . .

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Mexican President Calderon: U.S. Should Crackdown on Drugs, Guns

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So what’re we doing now, making chopped liver? Seriously. How can Mexican President Felipe Calderon call for “more cooperation” between the Yankees and their neighbors to the south to combat the drug trade and gun running when the U.S. is spending a $1.3 billion program launched in 2008 to help Mexico and Central America fight drug cartels? Not to mention the fact that our efforts are running into a brick wall of Mexican corruption. First, the BS [via businessweek.com]: “Calderon said that 10,000 gun shops operate in the U.S. near the border with Mexico and that 80 percent of weapons seized in Mexico in a sampling made a year and a half ago were illegally imported into Mexico from the U.S.” Ten thousand? According to The Violence Policy Center (of all people), America boasted (my word) 50,630 federally licensed gun dealers in 2007. So one-fifth of all U.S. gun dealers are engage in illegal cross-border gun running? That hardly seems likely. Don’t ask, don’t tell U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton . . .

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