The Civilian Gun Self-Defense Blog

The Civilian Gun Self-Defense Blog

For almost five years, my co-bloggers and I have been putting a good bit of work into the Civilian Gun Self-Defense Blog. We never did it to get rich. (If that was our motivation, we would have needed our heads examined.) We did it because it was a valuable tool for demonstrating that the anti-gun claim that civilian gun self-defense is actually quite rare is incorrect.

If we were running a similar service to make gun owners look bad, we would almost certainly have received a $20,000 a year grant from the Joyce Foundation or some other non-profit for "contributing to the dialog about the problems of gun ownership in America." We've received a few very small contributions from gun owners over the years, and there are few businesses that have advertised there--for which we are very grateful.

Increasingly I find myself wondering if continuing this effort really makes any sense. We've made some efforts to engage NRA with this--with no success. There must be some wealthy gun owners or people in the gun business who can see the advantage of what we are doing, and would be willing to provide some limited funding to justify the effort. But if not, the temptation is very strong to stop putting the effort out on this, and let it die.