“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.”
The Launch of the Student Threat Assessment Advocacy Group
It is within the LGO501c4 mission to be involved intellectually, socially, and financially with the mitigation of Firearms-related Injury and Death (FRID Mitigation). We have FRID issues split into 8 categories. We are working in each category to develop networks,...
The Beverly Ann Blount Memorial AR-15 Video
In April of 2022, at LGO501c4's annual company training, we were able to debut the use of our memorial AR-15 build for dearly-departed LGO community member, Beverly Ann Blount. Beverly was a transgender woman who was fiercely dedicated to both LGBTQ+ rights and guns. This...
The Wake of The Robb Elementary Shooting and Stopping Targeted Acts of Violence in Schools
We are two decades in to this new reality in America where we see impactful, targeted acts of violence on a regular basis. These events happen in the general public, in schools, and in houses of worship. It would probably be surprising to most Americans that scientific...
Racially Motivated Targeted Violence in Buffalo / African Americans Please Start Training Now
Unfortunately, we have an ongoing problem with both mass, targeted violence and xenophobic violence in this country. On May 14, 2022 we had another stand-out event in Buffalo, New York. Ten people were killed and three people were wounded in a Tops grocery store. Most of...
The LGO Lens Podcast Presents Series on the Murder of Ahmaud Arbery
In May of 2022 we kicked-off our series analyzing the murder of Ahmaud Arbery. This series was created not only to highlight the facts of the murder (and the ongoing, egregious history that America has with vigilantism, its derivatives, and xenophobic violence) but...
In-mission Donations from Liberal Gun Owners to Organizations that Impact Gun-related Negatives
Each year, as a part of our mission, we donate money to different organizations that deal with issues related to firearms-related negatives. For multiple reasons, we thought it fit to do one of these donations this month. This donation to The National Domestic...
The 2022 LGO Developmental Training
Every year Liberal Gun Owners holds an internal company training for what we call our Firearms Development Group. This group has a mission to achieve the following points (not an exhaustive list): 1. Build a company core of responsive, professionally responsible...
Liberal Gun Club Executive Director Ed Gardner Joins The Liberal Gun Owners Lens Podcast
In April of 2022 LGC Executive Director Ed Gardner joined Miyanovich on The LGO Lens Podcast to talk about the latest with The LGC, trends in liberal gun ownership, and the problem with toxic, unstable "patriots" in the American gun-owning reality. Ed is a security...
Rabbi Hillel Norry: The Pro-armed-defense Rabbi Joins The Liberal Gun Owners Podcast
Rabbi Hillel Norry recently joined The Liberal Gun Owners Lens Podcast to discuss martial arts, the realities of Synagogue security, and the realities of armed self-defense for The American Jewish Community. You can find out about Rabbi Norry at his website by clicking...
Professor David Yamane: The Liberal Gun Sociologist Joins The Liberal Gun Owners Lens Podcast
Photo by Ken Bennett, January 13, 2017. Professor David Yamane recently joined us on The Liberal Gun Owners Lens Podcast to discuss a wide array of gun-related topics. Stay tuned for much collaboration between Yamane and Liberal Gun Owners. Bio: David Yamane is...
Chad King: The President of The Black Bottom Gun Club Joins The Liberal Gun Owners Lens Podcast
In March of 2022 Chad King joined the Liberal Gun Owners Lens Podcast for an in-depth discusison about African Americans and the right to bear arms. Chad is the owner of Apex Defense Solutions, The President of The Black Bottom Gun Club, and a founding partner in 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-