“Liberal Gun Owners represents a much needed alternative to standard gun ownership rights groups, and I have had the privilege of collaborating with the membership and leadership of the organization. LGO’s president, Randy Miyan, has thoughtfully and prudently moved the 2A conversation forward and away from the polarizing talk that occupies so much of the American dialogue.”
Introduction to The Liberal Gun Owners Lens
"If LGO's mission is to be the Swiss Army Knife of the nexus between gun rights and public safety, then the LGO Lens Publication is the main blade of the knife." The Liberal Gun Owners Lens can be described as a three part entity: 1. The primary part is a four-section...
Simultaneous Proponency and LGO Being The Swiss Army Knife of the Gun Rights/Public Safety Nexus
Simultaneous Proponency is the essential, core concept of the Liberal Gun Owners Mission. The mission embraces the idea that only an organization who professionally engages in the full support of both firearms ownership and public safety can gain the advanced...
Blogroll on Pause
I have currently put the blog roll on hold as there have been breakthroughs in research and all of my time needs to be spent there.
Liberal Gun Owners Featured in Recoil Issue #67
In late 2022, I was contacted by Recoil writer Lars Smith about doing an interview article for an upcoming issue of Recoil magazine. Lars' treatment was great and Recoil gave me way more space than I thought they would. It was a very rare and precious opportunity. There is...
Deputy District Attorney Hunter Starr Joins The LGO Lens Podcast
Recently, Kern County California Deputy District Attorney and LGO Developer Hunter Starr joined The LGO Lens Podcast to give a sneak peak into the foundational ideas that will be in the LGO Lens Jurisprudence Pillar. Mythologies about the actual effectiveness of law are...
Tactical Fitness Austin’s Ron Grobman Joins The LGO Lens Podcast
Ron Grobman, LGO501c4's official instructor and owner/operator of Tactical Fitness, joined The LGO Lens Podcast to talk about his experiences as a soldier and professional instructor. Ron Grobman on The LGO Lens Podcast You can find all that Ron is invoved in through the...
Jon Magnuson Joins The LGO Lens Podcast
We recently recorded a podcast series with the LGO community's wizard of MILSURP, Jon Magnuson. Jon is a biochemist by training (PhD, 1993) and a Staff Scientist at a contract research laboratory. His research focus is on fungal biotechnology, developing organisms to...
Professor David Yamane Speaks at The 31st Annual Gathering of The Lutheran Ethicists’ Network
In January of this year, Professor David Yamane spoke at The 31st Annual gathering of the Lutheran Ethicists' Network. The topics were American gun culture and gun violence. David's talk was split into three sections: Gun Culture Properly Understood Gun Violence...
Rob Pincus Joins The LGO Lens Podcast
Rob Pincus recently joined Miyanovich, in-studio, to discuss all things Avidity Arms and its new offering The PD-10 pistol. The PD-10 is a unique offering to the pistol market and Miyanovich's proximity to the Avidity HQ has given him a special road to the inside baseball...
Trevor Smith Joins The LGO Lens Podcast
Trevor Smith is the former producer of the The Gun Shop Show - a unique radio and streaming gun-talk show hosted by Liberty Tree Guns in Carthage, Missouri. Miyanovich and Smith discuss Miyanovich's appearances on the show in addition to a wide array of gun-related topics....
Miyanovich Joins Pincus and the Team at Avidity Arms to Test Fire the PD-10
Miyanovich was recently invited by Rob Pincus to Avidity Arms Headquarters in Western North Carolina to do some endurance testing on the “soon-to-be-on-the-market-no-for-real-this-time” self-defense pistol, the PD-10. Looks like 2023 might be the year. More to come on this...
Black Bottom Gun Club President Chad King Travels to Wake Forest University to Lecture on Guns and Race
In November of 2022 LGO was proud to sponsor Black Bottom Gun Club President Chad King’s trip to David Yamane’s Sociology of Guns class at Wake Forrest University. Chad delivered an excellent lecture on the history of guns and race in America. We are looking forward to...
History Channel Winners Cheng and Davenport Join The Liberal Gun Owners Lens Podcast
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens Podcast ended its 2022 interview schedule featuring two titans of the firearms competition world. Chris Cheng is History Channel’s Top Shot Season 4 champion, a stalwart gun rights advocate, and an ambassador for gun ownership in the both the...
“Projectile weaponry is uniquely human and culturally universal. We are the only species that uses projectile weaponry, and no human society has ever abandoned its use.”
-Dr. John Shea, Paleoanthropologist-
…gun ownership is normative, not deviant, behavior across vast swaths of the social landscape.”
-James D. Wright, Sociologist-
“The right to self-defense is a genuinely pre-societal right that evolved in the absence of the state…the right to personal self-defense can be best described as a right Sui generis under international law.”
-Dr. Jan Arno Hessbruegge, Human Rights and International Law Expert –
“What is the meaning of our retinues, what of our swords? Surely it would never be permitted to us to have them if we might never use them. This, therefore, is a law, O judges, not written, but born with us…”
-Marcus Tullius Cicero-
Sociology Professor
A Light On Guns
“The problem is normality is not newsworthy. It is not of concern to social scientists. It is even hard for me at times to write in an interesting way about something that is unremarkable. And yet it is my dominant experience of guns and gun owners.”
HOT TANK BRASS: THOUGHTS FROM THE LGO THINK TANK
“Laws are terrible preventatives. Their ability to affect deterrence is, generally, on the light side of moderate and this effect is always context dependent. At the level of politics, laws are used as totems and their efficacy is often oversold. Moreover, our fellow progressives seem to be entirely out of touch with the idea that you do not give governmental authorities total control over important matters. If one of our goals is to properly consider legislation as a potential means to gain capacity towards mitigating gun-related death, and if our historic analysis shows us the tendency towards governmental abuse, then the whole scheme needs to be congruent and tailored to the task while not allowing the balance of power to shift to the governmental authorities.”
“When gun people continue to display the attitude that absoulte rights mean they can do whatever they want, wherever they want, however they want – alongside a casual, indifferent, or at worst, jubilant attitude about loss of human life…they actively create anti-gun people from those who were previously indifferent. We have observed this among friends and my wife admits freely she has been pushed in that direction by what she sees in the news and the typical, desensitized, gun-people reactions to it. The attitude about ‘fuck around and find out,’ ‘got what they deserved,’ ‘muh rights’ makes other people get to a point where they’re okay with those rights just going away.
That part of the culture has to change for gun rights to survive.”
“Projectile weaponry is uniquely human and culturally universal. We are the only species that uses projectile weaponry, and no human society has ever abandoned its use.”
-Dr. John Shea, Paleoanthropologist-
…gun ownership is normative, not deviant, behavior across vast swaths of the social landscape.”
-James D. Wright, Sociologist-
“The right to self-defense is a genuinely pre-societal right that evolved in the absence of the state…the right to personal self-defense can be best described as a right Sui generis under international law.”
-Dr. Jan Arno Hessbruegge, Human Rights and International Law Expert –
“What is the meaning of our retinues, what of our swords? Surely it would never be permitted to us to have them if we might never use them. This, therefore, is a law, O judges, not written, but born with us,—
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which we have not learnt or received by tradition, or read, but which we have taken and sucked in and imbibed from nature herself; a law which we were not taught but to which we were made,—which we were not trained in, but which is ingrained in us,—namely, that if our life be in danger from plots, or from open violence, or from the weapons of robbers or enemies, every means of securing our safety is honorable.”
-Marcus Tullius Cicero-