In an effort to do so they’ve hatched a new #8CantWait campaign, which highlights 8 policies that they claim can reduce police violence by as much as 72 percent.

“They were here to take advantage of the opportunity of police not being able to be dispatched and address the normal crime,” explained Hinsdale.

“Instead of standing there and teaching a cop when there’s an unarmed person coming at ’em with a knife or something to shoot ’em in the leg instead of the heart is a very different thing,” explained Biden.

“It turns out these guys are out here with machetes and shattered windows trying to keep looters out of the businesses ’cause cops can’t get in here,” said one of the men to MNReformer reporter Max Nesterak.

The Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund put out a list of the U.S. House Candidates it’s endorsing in the upcoming election cycle.

But the underlying point he was making is that knives are used more often in violent crimes than firearms are in the Great White North, according to data from Statistics Canada.

A bill that would allow more responsibly armed residents to carry in church is on its way to the Louisiana Senate.

A House committee approved a bill this week that would allow residents to carry concealed firearms without a permit.

Authorities in Houston are concerned about the rise in gun jugging, local media reports.