Category: Good News for a change!
A report from the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) shows that states with stricter control lead other states in adolescent firearm deaths.
NSSF based their findings on a June 2025 study published in the Journal for American Medical Association Pediatrics (JAMA Pediatrics).
The title of the study is, “Firearm Laws and Pediatric Mortality in the US,” and its authors categorized states into three groups, “Strict,” “Permissive” and “Most Permissive.” The authors then claimed, “…permissive firearm laws contributed to thousands of excess firearm deaths among children living in states with permissive policies; future work should focus on determining which types of laws conferred the most harm and which offered the most protection.”
Establishment media outlets like the New York Times, ABC News, and CNN ran with the authors’ claim, leaving NSSF to note that the outlets never asked why the “study’s authors manipulate the data by using estimated, predicted and crude-rate adjusted figures instead of analyzing the real incidents.” NSSF responded by noting that a simple look at raw Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data tells a completely different story.
According to the NSSF:
Rebuilding the data set using the same time, population and mechanism parameters established by the authors using CDC’s data tells a different story entirely.
The eight states the authors rated as “Strict” and having the most restrictive gun control laws – California, New York, Maryland, Rhode Island, Illinois, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Jersey – on average saw more unadjusted adolescent firearm mortality than the 11 “Permissive” and 30 “Most Permissive” states.
“The firearm industry isn’t deterred or distracted by biased studies that push political narratives,” NSSF added. “For decades, the firearm industry has brought forward effective and proven firearm safety initiatives to keep firearms beyond the reach of those who should never have them. That includes unsupervised children.”
(File this one under the “No Shit Sherlock file” Grumpy)
From Splendid Isolation:
If you’re anything like me, you’ll be wanting a cigarette after reading this lovely little story — even if like me you don’t smoke.
An intruder who used brass knuckles to beat against a front door and break a window just before midnight Friday in Missouri was shot multiple times by the homeowner and killed.
KFVS 12 reported that the homeowner, Austin Glastetter, was in the house with his wife at the time of the incident.
Glastetter told the suspect, 31-year-old John Fisher, that he was armed, but Fisher allegedly responded by saying, “You’ll have to kill me.”
Wait, wait, hold it in for just a minute…
Glastetter then shot Fisher multiple times.
And:
The Scott County Sheriff’s Office issued a release noting that deputies arrived on the scene to find Fisher deceased.
Smoke ’em if you got ’em…
On this day, 80 years ago on April 2nd 1945, Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg met Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler at the Hohenlychen sanatorium in Lychen, Germany; Himmler was unsuccessful in convincing Bernadotte to help seek a peace between Germany and the Western Allies.
In 1943, Bernadotte was appointed head of Sweden’s Red Cross.
He wasted no time using his contacts and his humanitarian platform to try to help some of those most in need: prisoners of war (POWs) held by Germany.
By the beginning of 1945, Bernadotte had managed to secure the exchange and safe passage to Sweden of thousands of Allied POWs. But rather than withdrawing after a mission successfully accomplished, Bernadotte dramatically upped the ante. Contacting Heinrich Himmler, he proposed that the Swedish Red Cross be allowed to bring concentration camp inmates to Sweden, too.
It was a brazen suggestion, but it worked. Himmler gave Bernadotte permission to retrieve some 8,000 inmates, primarily Danes and Norwegians, from German concentration camps.
To ensure that Allied bombers didn’t target the evacuees, Bernadotte secured permission for the inmates to travel in 36 buses (donated by Volvo), which had been painted white with a red cross on their roofs. Because incarceration had left the inmates in perilous health, the buses also carried medical equipment. Some 250 Swedish Red Cross helpers accompanied Bernadotte and the concentration camp evacuees in what soon became known as Bernadotte Convoys.
With these evacuations underway, Bernadotte presented Himmler with another humanitarian rescue scheme: he wanted permission to free non-Scandinavians; Jews and others, from concentration camps and bring them to Sweden. On April 21st, Himmler agreed. Bernadotte Convoys managed to bring some 12,000 other concentration camp inmates to Sweden, including 7,000 women from Ravensbrück, around half of whom were Jewish.
When the war ended, Bernadotte had rescued at least 15,500 concentration camp inmates
The Trump administration will again begin allowing sales of 1911 pistols through the Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP), U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Saks) announced on Monday.
Interested buyers can order the surplus pistols here.
The CMP 1911 Program offers U.S. military-issued, field-tested M1911A1 pistols. Each firearm is inspected and test fired, “ensuring collectors and enthusiasts receive a quality piece of American history,” according to the CMP.
The lifetime purchase limit of 1911 surplus pistols is two.
Rogers said on Monday, “I am pleased to see that the Trump Administration has decided to release 10,000 surplus pistols and to allow the CMP to resume sales.”
A Houston homeowner called her father and a neighbor for help Monday night when an intruder refused to leave.
Around 11:15 p.m., the stranger appeared at the door. According to Click2Houston, the homeowner did not expect him and he refused to leave.
Montgomery County deputies issued a report on the incident.
Call the Off-Duty Cop For Help
“Feeling threatened, the homeowner contacted her father and a neighbor for help,” the deputies said.
The homeowner’s father is a retired officer from the Houston Police Department. The next-door neighbor, a homicide officer of 9 years with the HPD, was off-duty when she called.
When the father and neighbor arrived, the intruder was still there. The police have not determined what happened when the two officers arrived. They confronted the intruder.
Shots Fired
The conflict grew, and both the father and neighbor shot at the intruder. He received multiple bullet wounds.
The homeowner attempted to help him before the deputies arrived. Sheriff Dolittle said they escorted the suspect to nearby Memorial Hermann Hospital.
After treatment, officials said the intruder is expected to survive.
Investigation Into the Off-Duty Cop and Father
The Sheriff’s Office, HPD, and DA’s Office are investigating the shooting now. They placed off-duty officer on standard administrative leave while the investigation is underway.
Charges are pending against the “prowler,” Dolittletold Click2Houston. Dolittle thanked his deputies in a social media statement.
“I am grateful for the diligent efforts of our Deputies, who work tirelessly day in and day out,” Dolittle said.
Authorities have not reported whether the homeowner, her father, or the off-duty officer were injured.
A United Community Is Better
A study conducted by the Pew Research Center discovered that 60% of American citizens are concerned by the crime levels in our country. Other studies, on the other hand, claim that our crime rates are dropping.
Whether crime rates rise or fall, the problem remains.
(The Folks in Texas tonite Grumpy)
