We’ve spent decades hopping from one armed conflict to the next, yet somehow we’re supposed to believe danger politely waits overseas. It doesn’t. It rides the subway, boards the plane, walks into the grocery store. Terror isn’t a foreign concept. It’s a daily risk, and pretending otherwise is how people get killed. So here’s a thought the political class hates: stop disarming the very people who can stop it. Off duty police officers and trained military veterans are treated like liabilities instead of assets. That’s backwards. Those are the people you want in the room when something goes sideways. They should be empowered, not sidelined, especially when traveling. An armed, trained citizen is not the problem. He’s the solution politicians refuse to admit exists. And let’s talk about the Second Amendment. Not the watered down, bureaucrat approved version. The real one. The one that doesn’t come with fine print written by career politicians who move with armed security while telling ...

Orlando, FL --In light of another mass casualty shooting this time in a crowded Gay Bar we have little choice but to plan ahead for more of the same. Our ignorant politicians nearly always respond to this kind of threat with every type of failed gun prohibition, TSA style checkpoints and of course those Gun Free Zones.  We've learned on thing we can’t deny.  Nearly everyone of the active shooter events are stopped either by gunfire by a good guy or suicide of the gunmen. The are only stopped by the type of force they inflict on others.  As for the TSA style checkpoints at venues, they are a total farce.  Putting unarmed, untrained, un-vetted marginal people in pseudo police uniforms to stop terrorism is laughable.  Additionally this type of faux security makes a mockery of our Fourth Amendment rights to be free of unreasonable searches.  Any determined armed terrorist/criminal need only display their weapons to totally defeat these search...

Chicago, IL —It happens again and again, a forgetful or preoccupied traveler is found to have a firearm in a carryon bag at Midway or O’Hare Airports .  Zero tolerance kicks in and the hapless traveler is hauled off to jail.  They are forced to miss their flight along with the weddings, funerals and business meetings they planned on attending. That happened to the late retired Chicago cop and actor Dennis Farina seen in the above photo being handcuffed by police at LAX in 2008.   Everyday thousands of   travelers are similarly found with lotions, potions, perfume, liquor or various objects that just appear harmful.   Thousands of other forgetful or preoccupied people with the prohibited liquids don’t face arrest, just the confiscation of their sometimes-expensive property.   The point is that no person with criminal intent would ever knowingly place a bag on a conveyor belt for TSA inspection that contains a gun!   We all know our ...

New York, NY —With the capping off of the symbolic tower that replaced the World Trade Center I thought I’d show you the latest TSA folly.  It’s in the picture above. No matter how you analyze the September 11, 2001 terror attack on America it was the result of FAA ’s fear of armed pilots and off duty cops.   Then there was the cultural weakness of Americans in general. First I blame the new American Nanny Culture that seemed to dictate that American plane passengers must sit and wait for authorities to deal with crime instead of resorting to self-help for survival.  Many passengers actually thought they were really doing something helpful by calling 911 from their doomed aircraft. Politicians honored the “heroic” actions of the brave young men on Flight 93 .  Actually they too were brainwashed by the Nanny Culture because their actions only came after the cockpit was breached. They did nothing until after they took votes among themselves...

Los Angeles, CA —I should have written this sooner but the negative experience I had with this airline has been continually relived in my mind.  Better I do this late than never!   It was well over a year ago I had to take a short notice flight to Chicago.    I searched for the cheapest fare, which was anything but cheap. Spirit Airlines came in at the lowest fare but not by much.   This was my fist and hopefully last flight on this carrier.   What went wrong you might ask?   To begin with Spirit is following the competition in doing the things I hate like those confusing nickel and dime schemes over baggage fees.   I want to be charged a single price and be left alone. Because of the fees overhead  bins are always overstuffed and the loading and unloading of passengers is painfully slower than need be.  From the boarding counter to exiting the plane their clerks and crew were unfriendly and downright mean.   I ne...

Washington, DC —The basic Human Rights Protections given to us through the blood of patriots and tyrants in the Bill of Rights are all but dead. Should you try and obtain a copy of the simple and plain English version by an Internet search it will be quite a challenge.  Instead you will get paraphrased versions with lots of “explanations” by so-called legal scholars. The actual text is far too dangerous to publish.  People would certainly be “misled” into believing our government has become lawless and tyrannical. Essentially the Far Left Wing of our academia all want us to believe that the words don’t mean what they say.  They want us to accept that only intellectually superior people like them can understand simple words. The authors of our Bill of Right deliberately made tampering with this important human rights document very difficult.   A simple majority vote cannot change our Constitution.  The Left Wing hates our Constitut...

Los Angeles, CA —What to you call a sinking boatload of TSA bureaucrats and screeners?  It’s an excellent beginning!   Do I absolutely abhor the TSA?  That’s an understatement at best.  When I see them in their quasi police costumes I always view them as nasty Nazis.  They are simple minded, poorly trained goons that lack minimal tolerance for anyone or anything. Too many of them are thieves stealing valuable passenger’s property every day. Factually, the TSA’s totally tyrannical mission is a violation of travelers Civil Rights under the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution.   The courts have wrongly held that travelers “voluntarily submit” to the searching and that somehow justifies the privacy invasion and seizures of property. I say there is nothing voluntary about most people traveling by commercial airlines.  Americans must travel in order to earn money to feed themselves and families.  There really is no alternative.  M...