POINT MARION, Pa. — An 85-year-old woman boldly went for her gun and busted a would-be burglar inside her home, then forced him to call police while she kept him in her sights, police said.

Connecticut-- Supposedly the only state to have a law that allows the confiscation of a gun BEFORE a crime has been committed. Orwell anyone?

Gun control organizations often insinuate that the assault weapons ban caused a decline in violent crime, but violent crime peaked in 1991 with an overall rate of 758.2 (per 100,000 population), while

Here is my feature article on Oregon Firearm Federation's website.

Read the entire article. Don't judge an article by its title.

There is little doubt that this will be the most controversial column I've written to date. But sometimes when working in a university environment one is exposed to ideas that one simply cannot repudiate. And this requires a modification of views -- even if those views are deeply held -- or very fun, or both.