Category: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
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Another Transparently Worthless Argument that Justifies the Questioning of Motives
From my Facebook page, three years ago, today. Dick Durbin (D-IL): “I’m going to take you back in history for a moment. When that Second Amendment was written, we were talking about the likelihood a person could purchase a muzzle-loading musket.” The implied conclusion, of course, is that the Second Amendment does not protect…
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I don’t live by the sword . . .
. . . but I aim not to die by one either; so I need a sword.
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Trump’s Executive Order re: 2A
I had been toying with the idea of heading to the range tomorrow morning; this 2A news just in, I am now going for sure to celebrate the Executive Order with a bang. One hundred rounds worth. The Bill of Rights is just so much 18th century parchment unless and until backed up with Pb.…
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A Girl Gunsplainin’
Using the NATO 5.56 round as her example, she does a good job of explaining its 'anatomy.'
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Rights and Needs
You can have a right to a thing whether or not you have or will have a need for it. So the best response to the leftist who asks, "Why do you need a gun?" is wrong question! Stop the pointless conversation right there. "The question is not whether I need one; the question is whether I…
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To Stop Mass School Shootings: End Gun-Free Zones
Massad Ayoob
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Are You Investing in Precious Metals?
“The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed — where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies…
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Defensive Gun Use Without a Shot Fired
Texas man defends family from machete-wielding home invader with his 9mm semi-auto. A quartet of questions. How would you repel a home invasion? Would you vote for a political party they leaders of which intend to violate your right to self-defense? Would you lay money on the proposition that the miscreant depicted in the article…
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Chicago under Democrat ‘Control’
Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Born in Chicago I was born in Chicago in nineteen and forty oneI was born in Chicago in nineteen and forty oneWell my father told meSon you had better get a gun. True then, truer now. And you still be ridin' with Biden? How stupid can you be? How self-destructive? How willfully…
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Reading Now: The Blake Bailey Bio of Charles Jackson
Bailey has been called the literary biographer of his generation. That strikes me as no exaggeration. He is fabulously good and his productivity is astonishing with stomping tomes on Richard Yates, Charles Jackson, John Cheever, and Philip Roth. I have yet to find a bad sentence in the two I've read. Jackson's main claim to…
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‘Woke’ Home Defense
Helpful tips. About three minutes long. But wait, there's more: a case for pre-natal squatters' rights.
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Decent Man, Manly Man, Otherworldly Man
No morally decent man wants ever to have to take a human life. But no manly man will be unprepared to defend against a lethal attack using lethal force, or hesitate to do so if and when circumstances require it.* The first proposition cannot be reasonably disputed; the second can. How might one dispute the…
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Kathy Hochul, Leftist Idiot
Head over to Malcolm Pollack's place for some sensible commentary. Meat quote: Political thinkers from Hobbes to Schmitt have understood that the fundamental principle that legitimizes the power of the State is the reciprocal obligation of obedience and protection. We cede to the State the awesome power of coercion by threat of violence, and in…
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Leftists Regularly Abuse Language
Example du jour: 'Gun Buy Back' Top o' the Stack.
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Topical Insanity
One type of temporary insanity is topical insanity. I explain it at the top of my Stack and apply it to the case of firearms.