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... And now, we can thank Georgetown professor Bill English for dealing a devastating blow to the gun control narrative — with hard data.

English’s 2026 National Firearms Survey (now available online) is a massive, comprehensive analysis of gun ownership and gun use trends in the United States. And the numbers tell a remarkable tale about the importance of the right to keep and bear arms.

Among other key findings, the survey estimates that, on average, American civilians defend themselves or others with firearms a staggering 2.2 million times every year. Just over 37% of American gun owners are estimated to have used a firearm to protect themselves, their families, or their property at least once, and a majority of those have done so on multiple occasions.

Most of these defensive gun uses will never even make it into a police report, much less national headlines. Gun owners report having to fire their gun in fewer than one-in-four defensive scenarios. The survey also found that 70% of the time, the defensive gun use was so successful that “no crime remained to be reported to police.”

An update for DUmmie applegrove:

HUGE Jobs Report for August! Democrats Most Hurt.

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/09/04/huge-jobs-report-for-august-democrats-most-hurt-n4956886

My emphasis. Under LIEden, revising previous months numbers downwards was the norm, sometimes adjusting downwards more than just once. Recent adjustments under Trump have been upwards, so August's 162,000 jobs may be similarly adjusted upwards. Somebody, back on 8/10, suggested such an upward adjustment was likely, .

America's economy just handed Democrats their worst Friday of the year, mere weeks before the midterms.

The Labor Department's August 2026 jobs report dropped Friday morning, and it left the doom-and-gloom crowd on the Left with nothing to say. Employers added 162,000 jobs last month, crushing what economists were predicting and delivering exactly the kind of number Democrats have spent all summer insisting Donald Trump's economy couldn't produce. The new jobs were actually triple the expectations.

It gets worse for the left.

The report didn't just beat expectations for August; it rewrote the story of the entire summer. The Labor Department revised July's initial estimate of a 23,000-job loss up to a 21,000-job gain, and it revised June's payroll numbers higher, too. The "stalling economy" narrative Democrats have been pushing for months just collapsed under its own weight.

My guess is that these are Haitians who came to the US after the 2010 Port-au-Prince earthquake with Temporary Protection Status.

Temporary means TEMPORARY unless Trump does it, then it's racism or some other evilism.

bigtree (95,635 posts)

I'll never forgive this



...someone needs to be held accountable for this and their life upended like they've destroyed the lives of these innocent people who came this country looking for safety, shelter, and opportunity.

The Trump regime is an abomination against humanity. The government we all pay for is a terrorist; a white supremacist cabal of klansmen.

Look at the precious humanity being treated like dirt in that photo. Might as well be me.

I'll never forget the horror of watching my government get away with this. I completely understand now how millions of my people were enslaved in this country.

Most people literally did nothing but gawk at it; most people doing the same today.

Why? I can only guess.

https://democraticunderground.com/100221484046