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Statistics
May
18
Rethinking Bellesiles and Arming America
May 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment
You remember Michael Bellesiles. He created a stir a few years ago with his book, Arming America, that purported to show that private firearms were not prevalent in the early days of the American Republic and that the Second Amendment referred to the militia as a mere creature of the several states. Bellesiles [...]
May
17
Our first clue that family film critic Michael Booth was a bit out of his element when he attended the Fort Morgan Machine Gun Shoot was when he referred to a magazine as a clip. (A magazine has a spring-driven follower that feeds rounds into a weapon. A clip is a device that [...]
May
16
Just a quick description of a liberal misnomer and a dash of opinion in the culture war regarding guns:
“Assault Weapon”-a liberal demonization of any semi-automatic firearm or self-feeding firearm that will fire one round with one pull of the trigger. Semi-automatic firearms are not the “bullet hoses” protrayed by the left. These guns [...]
May
15
Order of Battle in the Culture War Over Guns
May 15, 2008 | 1 Comment
Using the “metaphor” that we are engaged in a “war” with the hard left over our natural right to self-defense against crime and tyranny, I am going to profile from time to time the organizations involved in this fight. This almost certainly has been done better elsewhere, but I am going to take literary [...]
May
14
The late U.S. Senator Everett Dirksen is quoted as saying “When I feel the heat, I see the light.” It is axiomatic in psychology that to be effective, behavior modification, that is, reward or punishment, has to change behavior. If you can’t change behavior, you have no real power to influence an organism, [...]
May
13
McCain can win. Barr and Paul can not.
May 13, 2008 | 5 Comments
Bob Barr has announced for President. Ron Paul continues to run. We can afford to support neither in the general election.
John McCain is far from my favorite politician. I like Bob Barr and Ron Paul much better on Second Amendment issues, even though I disagree with them regarding the War on Terror. [...]
May
12
When surveyed, do you admit that you own a gun?
May 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment
The banner headline on the Violence Policy Center’s website is “A shrinking Minority, The Continuing Decline of Gun Ownership in America.” In the article which follows, the VPC, a virulent anti-Second Amendment organization details survey results that purport to show a precipitous decline in gun ownership among U.S. citizens. The VPC seems to [...]
May
11
Murder in “Gun Controlled” Mexico
May 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Presumed drug gang members apparently assassinated Mexico’s pro tem federal police chief in his home on May 8th, 2008. According to the AP story on Page 15A in the May 9th Denver Post, Edgar Millan Gomez was shot ten times.
I guess the gangsters didn’t get the memo about Mexico’s strict gun control laws and [...]
May
10
Voting Democrat Could Destroy Your Gun Rights
May 10, 2008 | 1 Comment
Last night, I watched part of Mel Gibson’s movie, Apocalypto, about internal corruption and destruction in the Mayan Civilization. In the movie, a group of ragtag refugees approaches a band of hunters in the jungle. The leader of the refugees tells the hunters that his land has been “ravaged.” The leader [...]
May
10
Deleted Comments
May 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment
I just deleted two comments referring to a writer named “Coffeypot” and my recent post on the best electable pro-gun candidate. The comments referred to another site. Clicking on links brought me back to this site. Since the comments added nothing to the conversation on the Second Amendment, I deleted them. [...]
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