Category: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
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Dog Shoots Man
With all the mindless hyperventilation of dumb-assed liberals over gun control in the wake of Orlando, we need some comic relief. Herewith, a repost from 27 February 2013. ………………… What the hell's going on in Florida? The other day an oven shot a woman, and now a dog has shot a man, with an 'unloaded'…
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Larry Correia on Gun Control
One of the better essays I have read on the topic.
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Three Defining Features of Contemporary Liberalism
Here: The three defining features of modern liberalism are an intense aversion to the Constitution, a denial of objective truth, and a penchant for intentionally abusing the English language with an aim to mislead the public. No issue exemplifies these three features better than the “debate” about the AR-15 and “assault weapons.” Well said, my…
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The Problem: Gun Culture or Liberal Culture?
This is a repost, slightly redacted, from 2012 to help stem the tsunami of folderol sure to wash over us from the orifices of the mindless gun-grabbing Left in the wake of the Islamist Orlando rampage. ……………. Without wanting to deny that there is a 'gun culture' in the USA, especially in the so-called red…
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Deriving Gun Rights From the Right to Life: Short Version
This is a summary of a much longer and more carefully articulated 2009 entry. Humans possess a natural right to life. This right entails the right to defend one's life. The right to defend one's life entails the right to acquire and possess the appropriate means to the defense of one's life. Appropriate means are…
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What I Am Reading Now
At any given time I am reading a half-dozen or so books on a wide variety of topics. I'll mention three I am reading at the moment. Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Introduction to Christianity, Ignatius Press, 2004, trs. J.T. Foster and Michael J. Miller. German original first published in 1968. Outstanding. Ratzinger has a good probing…
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It Depends on the Question, Hillary
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People, Guns, and Reference
I had the pleasure of Dale Tuggy's presence here for a couple of days. He got off a neat comparison that hadn't occurred to me, but one I fully endorse: Just as guns don't kill people, but people kill people using guns, so too words don't refer to things, but people refer to things using…
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Saturday Night at the Oldies: Christmas Tunes
Merry Christmas everybody. Pour yourself a drink, and enjoy. Me, I'm nursing a Boulevardier. It's a Negroni with cojones: swap out the gin for bourbon. One ounce bourbon, one ounce sweet vermouth, one ounce Campari, straight up or on the rocks, with a twist of orange. A serious libation. The vermouth rosso contests the harshness…
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Thinking Clearly About Terrorist and Non-Terrorist Gun-Related Deaths
Robert Paul Wolff writes, Fourteen people were murdered in San Bernardino, and almost two dozen were injured, several critically. That is perfectly awful. Since September 11, 2001, I believe almost three score people have been killed in the United States in similar terrorist attacks, or so one television commentator asserted. The number sounds about right.…
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Time to Join the NRA?
I am not now, and never have been, a member of the National Rifle Association. But that might change, and for the same reasons detailed by a former Jewish lefty, or rather Jewish former lefty, Roger L. Simon in How the 'New York Times' and Loretta Lynch Made Me Join the NRA. Did you catch…
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France Needs Stricter Gun Control . . .
. . . so that events like yesterday's massacre in Paris never happen again. Yes, I am being sarcastic, and doubly so. First, stricter gun laws would have had no effect on yesterday's events. Second, the silly phrase "so that it never happens again," beloved of politicians, insults our intelligence and erodes their credibility even further.…
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The First and Second Amendments
There is an old saying which is perhaps now out-of-date. If liberals took the Second Amendment as seriously as they take the First, they would demand that gun ownership be mandatory. The point of the jibe was to highlight the absurd extremes to which liberals take the First Amendment. But now the First Amendment is…
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How to Keep your Home a ‘Safe Space’ and Issue a Reality-Based ‘Trigger Warning’
Loaded with double-aught buckshot, the instrument of home defense depicted below has the power to separate the soul from the body in a manner most definitive. Just showing this bad boy to a would-be home invader is a most effective way to issue a 'trigger warning' in a reality-based sense of that phrase. But let…
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Divine Light, Sex, Alcohol, and Kerouac
If there is divine light, sexual indulgence prevents it from streaming in. Herein lies the best argument for continence. The sex monkey may not be as destructive of the body as the booze monkey, but he may be even more destructive of the spirit. You may dismiss what I am saying here either by denying…