For years, gun owners pointed people to the CDC’s own website when talking about defensive gun use.
Then the number disappeared.
Now it’s back.
The CDC’s firearm injury page once again lists a defensive gun use range of 60,000 to 2.5 million defensive gun uses per year.
Same range. No changes.
And the reason it ever came down is the part that tells you everything.
Emails showed gun control activists pressured the CDC over the 2.5 million figure, with one email saying that number needed to be “killed, buried, dug up, killed again and buried again.”
Not disproven.
Not beaten with better research.
Deleted.
And here’s the part they hate: I don’t even need the high number. Even the low-end estimate still changes the whole argument.
The page is live again. The range is back. Screenshot it, save it, and send it the next time somebody says defensive gun use is made up.
Flock cameras are just another step towards a security state.
And frankly, I am rather disgusted by so many "conservative" influencers coming out in support of them.
Huxley’s Brave New World imagined a society in which technological control became so normalized that people ceased to recognize it as control at all.
Brave New Flock has an added irony: some of the loudest defenders of a privately operated, nationwide surveillance infrastructure now call themselves conservatives.
There is nothing conservative about teaching Americans to accept ubiquitous cameras, centralized databases, automated tracking, and the routine recording of innocent people’s movements simply because the technology is sold under the banner of fighting crime.
A conservative instinct once began with suspicion of concentrated power, especially the power to watch citizens who had done nothing wrong. Apparently, for a new class of “conservative” influencer, that principle is negotiable.
Dish Network is about to be extremely unpopular
Dish Network technician confirms they are the ones doing the majority of the Flock Safety Camera installs across America
Dish Network is installing the Flock mass surveillance network
Dish was picked as a partner to do the installs because Dish has a large national force of outdoor technicians experienced in pole mounting, cabling and similar work with satellite TV installs. Flock’s own materials say they use third party for installs. Looks like we found who
It’s time to Bud Light Dish Network
Quick heads-up for anyone early voting:
This weekend at the Condon School in South Boston, some voters were handed the wrong ballot. City officials say it was an isolated human error by a poll worker, the voters were given the correct ballots right away, and the numbers matched up afterward.
When you vote, take a moment to double-check that the ballot you receive is the correct one for your address and precinct before filling it out.
Federal election monitors are also present in Boston for this primary, which adds an extra layer of oversight.
Climate Chief Melissa Hoffer is leaving the Healey administration. She will become president of Vermont Law and Graduate School beginning December 1.
In 2023, Hoffer made an economic analysis of the costs of Net Zero by 2050 a top priority and aimed to complete it by the end of 2024. In February 2026, a Healey spokesperson said the report had not been filed. In June 2026, published reports said it still had not been made public. Hoffer said it was still under review. Taxpayers are still waiting.
Why hasn’t the public seen that report? Is there a date when it will be released?
Governor Healey says she will name a successor before Hoffer leaves. Will that announcement come before or after the November election?
The city of Greer, South Carolina is suspending their Flock Safety Cameras program
Multiple officers have been found to be using the cameras for unauthorized searches and putting in fake reasons so the logs look legitimate
The cameras have been covered with plastic bags while they do a 90 day pause on their Flock cameras
- Cpl. Kareem Lynch (28) repeatedly searched the plate of a fellow officer he had previously been in a relationship with (a subordinate). He logged the searches as “welfare check” or “city planning.”
- Officer Sebastian Echeverry (29) searched plates of several residents over months and logged the reason as “Alcohol Offense Non-DUI.”
There was also another officer in South Carolina that who was fired after searching an ex’s plate roughly 170 times and logging false reasons like welfare check, warrant, traffic stop
Leftist Ms. Rachel: "Black people don't hang themselves from trees"
Raleigh Police Chief: There's a video showing him hanging himself.
Another race hoax
Every. Single. Time.
NSA WHISTLEBLOWER WARNS: FLOCK CAMERAS ARE BUILDING A 24/7 SURVEILLANCE GRID
NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake warns that Flock cameras are not simply crime-fighting tools. They are becoming the backbone of a surveillance network capable of tracking ordinary Americans in real time.
By outsourcing the infrastructure to private companies, government agencies can claim they are merely purchasing a service while gaining broad access to data that can monitor entire populations with far less oversight.
It goes beyond license plates. Bluetooth signals, wireless transmissions, phones, smartwatches, and in-vehicle systems can all become digital beacons.
Combined, those signals can map where you drive, who you visit, the events you attend, and how you move through your community.
That data can be stored, searched, and shared far beyond the local police department that collected it.
@Thomas_Drake1 explains how license-plate readers, Bluetooth, wireless transmissions, and connected-vehicle systems are converging into a de facto tracking grid for every American.
And when private corporations operate that grid instead of the government, the constitutional guardrails become even weaker, creating a quiet backdoor for unchecked data collection and abuse.