How to Survive an Active Shooter: A Practical 2026 Guide
How to survive an active shooter using Run-Hide-Fight, what the data really says about armed citizens, and how situational awareness keeps you a step ahead.
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In-N-Out Shooting: How Two Armed Citizens Stopped the Twin Falls Gunman
Two armed citizens fought back during the Twin Falls In-N-Out shooting, and police say they saved lives. Here is what happened and what every carrier can learn.
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Don Lemon Gun Hypocrisy: Arm Against Feds Now?
The case of Don Lemon’s gun hypocrisy provides a striking example of changing positions. The former CNN anchor once advocated for a system where only government officials would have access to firearms. Now, however, he is encouraging Black and Brown communities to obtain legal guns specifically to confront potential threats from ICE agents…
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Brooklyn Shooting: Gun Control Fails, 2A Needed!
Brooklyn Shooting: Another day, another tragedy in gun-control paradise: Up to four thugs unleashed hell in Brooklyn’s Taste of the City Lounge, killing three and wounding nine in a gang spat. Police found 42 shell casings, yet New York’s ironclad laws did zilch to stop it. Mayor Adams calls it out after removing over…
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Independence Day Couldn’t Have Happened Without Armed Citizens
Elizabeth Willing Powel asked Ben Franklin, “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” He replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.” For 249 years, We the People have kept our precious republic. But we’d never have won it in the first place if it hadn’t been for the armed Colonials…
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We Already Knew, BUT: NRA Exposes Shocking 911 Call
We here at Freedom’s Lodge join the NRA in our unapologetic pro-law enforcement stance, BUT: Our nation’s law enforcement agencies are designed and staffed by human beings. Human beings have some problems that we simply can’t escape. For example, we’re bound by the space/time continuum and cannot be in two places at once. If the…
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NRA-ILA: NYC Subway More Dangerous Than the Gridiron
Ever read “Bonfire of the Vanities”? As the unofficial center of the free world, New York City has also represented a gun-banner’s daydream since it adopted the Sullivan Act over 100 years ago. When its mayor takes a tough-on-crime approach, as Rudy Giuliani did in the early ’00s, life in the city isn’t all that…
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Grassroots Gun Rights Godfather Massad Ayoob: How To Sway an Anti-Gunner
When Massad Ayoob talks gun rights, people listen. He’ll tell you how to do the same. He’s the author of In the Gravest Extreme, which is one of the Ur-texts of gun rights and self-defense. He’s been teaching self-defense techniques since 1974. For those not old enough to recall the 1970s and 1980s, it wasn’t…
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Here’s Why Dems Think There Aren’t Any Good Guys with Guns
Why do otherwise intelligent-seeming Americans think there’s no such thing as “good guys with guns”? That question haunts a lot of Second Amendment advocates, including me. I’m not talking about anti-gun mouthpieces, but ordinary citizens who have become convinced that having a gun makes you umpteen-diddly-thousand percent more likely to hurt yourself with it than…
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Dear Seattle: Told You So. Signed, America’s Gun Owners
For all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: “CCRKBA Was Right Again.” It’s been said that the four most hateful words in the English language are “I told you so.” Thing is, sometimes you just have to say them, especially if the thing you told them would have prevented a tragedy…
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A Tale of Two Countries (& How Anti-Gun Laws Endanger Them)
This is why we cannot let individual crimes affect our individual right to self-defense. Last night, a maniac in Lewiston, Maine committed a disgusting act of mass murder. All right-thinking Americans–all right-thinking human beings–condemn this senseless, revolting violence. Everyone, that is, except the anti-gunners, who began calling for more gun control even as the victims’…
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Vile Hamas Attacks Prove We Need the Second Amendment
Ever seen “Red Dawn”? It was a controversial film when it was released in 1984, and it still is. Those who support the Second Amendment recognize it for what it is: Sheepdogs banding together to protect the herd from Russian wolves. Gun-grabbers like to cite it as a conservative fantasy that could never happen here….
