The nation is now engaged in a deliberation about school safety, deadly weapons, mental illness and a popular culture extolling violence. As concerned Americans with law enforcement, legislative and technical understanding of the intricacies of firearms, law making and the convoluted politics of the firearms debate we offer our expertise,...

Every state recognizes the absolute right of its citizens to use deadly force when confronted with an immediate threat to their lives or those of their loved ones. Most states, starting with Florida twenty-five years ago, re-visited their concealed carry statutes giving practicality to this agreed upon right....

Six months from now, we decide who will be the president of the United States (POTUS) until January 2016. We only get one vote and that's unfair, because it comes down to take 'em or leave 'em.

Will the next POTUS attempt to marginalize the Second Amendment through Federal...

Gun rights activists, anti-drug police zealots, community watch patrols, civil libertarians, drug gangsters and marijuana legalizers don't usually talk much to each other, much less connect the dots between their pet causes and net effects in a multidimensional, cohesive, thoughtful and analytic way. The knee-jerk perceptions of these different advocacy...

Gun rights activists are generally perceived as coming from the political right while marijuana reformers are typically thought of as belonging to the political left . Ironically, if they can get past their reflexive distrust of each other, the two groups would discover that their pursuit...

This evening HBO will air a controversial new documentary film, four years in the making, entitled Gun Fight. Crafted by the acclaimed Academy Award-winning director Barbara Kopple, the film certainly illustrates one all too obvious truth about the gun debate in America: polar opposites continue to exist on both sides....

I'm an endowment member of the National Rifle Association (NRA) -- that's one step above the venerated "life member" status. Most of the time I agree with NRA's stand supporting the rights of gun owners over the regulatory authority of the government. Mistakes can be made either way, but when...