Sep

28

British Boy Scouts ban pocket knives. What can you say?

September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment

I don’t know what to say about the latest British example of hoplophobia (fear of weapons).  I have struggled with this issue for several weeks trying to think of some compassionate comment  about the unreasoning nanny state mentality that has apparently gripped our Anglo Saxon allies by the throat and various other parts of their anatomies.
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Sep

21

Is S. 2099 a deliberate red herring?

September 21, 2009 | 1 Comment

S. 2099 is harder to kill than a vampire with a metal breastplate and a tanker truck full of spf 10,000 sunblock.  The NRA and GOA have put out information that this thing is a relic of the 2000 Federal Legislative Session, yet it still lives on the Internet!  (See my post dated 06-07-09, “All together [...]

Sep

11

Obama’s Original School Speech-Zero Tolerance for Dissent-The Audacity of Expectations

September 11, 2009 | 4 Comments

The Left is nothing if not clever in the way they frame the ideological debate between Conservatism and their “Progressive” ideology. The “Zero Tolerance” policy regarding weapons on school grounds is a classic example. The Educational Establishment, made up of Left-wing administrators and teachers’ union members, forbids discussion of, artistic portrayal of, or display of [...]

Sep

4

Oh! The angst over CCW in National Parks!

September 4, 2009 | 1 Comment

There is no dearth of political commentary in newspaper comics these days. Prickly City has taken on the dreaded “Birthers.” Doonesbury is comparing Afghanistan to Vietnam. This comparison, by the way, may be apt, in that I believe the Left wants the enemies of America to win in Afghanistan, as they did in the earlier [...]

Sep

1

Those zany Brits! What’s next? No scissors?

September 1, 2009 | 3 Comments

You gotta love the British Government!  They banned handguns.  They are collecting sharp-pointed kitchen knives.  They made a gardner take down a barbed wire fence, because he might have scratched the theives that were stealing his vegetables.  A Britsh judge declared that burglars are a class of citizens who deserve protection from irate homeowners.  A class of [...]