Category: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
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Violent Chicago
I was born in Chicago in nineteen and forty oneI was born in Chicago in nineteen and forty oneWell my father told me, "Son, you had better get a gun." Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Born in Chicago The problem is not guns, but liberals and blacks. See The Real Gun Violence Problem. Chicago is living,…
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The Ultimate Hiccup Cure
A panacea that cures all your earthly ills in a manner most definitive. Life in the fast lane often leads to a quick exit from life's freeway. You may recall Terry Kath, guitarist for the band Chicago. In 1978, while drunk, he shot himself in the head with a 'unloaded' gun. At first he had…
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Gun Control and Speech Control
A reasonable person advocates both, but limited versions of both. Liberals, however, tend not to be reasonable. If they interpreted the Second Amendment in as extreme fashion as they do the First, gun ownership would be mandatory.
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Joe Biden on Shotguns
Joe Biden is a contemptible clown — did you watch the Veep debates? — but in this video he says something that is approximately true. In the wake of natural disaster or social unrest you are better off with a shotgun than with a semi-automatic rifle such as an AR-15, advises Joe. Well, when it comes to…
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Unintended but Forseeable: Feel-Good Legislative Rush Job Makes NY Cops’ Mags Illegal
Way to go, Cuomo. Ten-round magazines are now illegal for everyone in New York state, included active duty cops. This requires no commentary. File it under "Liberal Stupidity." An amendment is in the works, but will it exempt retired cops? Story here. Related articles Feel-Good Liberalism, High Capacity Magazines and High Capacity Soft Drinks
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Obama’s Abuse of Power
From an article by David Harsanyi: The president, who has often said he will work around Congress, also justifies his executive bender by telling us that Americans are clamoring for more limits on gun ownership. So what? These rights — in what Piers Morgan might call that "little book" — were written down to protect…
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Feel-Good Liberalism, High Capacity Magazines and High Capacity Soft Drink Containers
If you need further proof that leftism is emotion-driven, consider the latest Obamination, the call for a ban on high capacity magazines, an abomination which the fascist-in-chief may try to ram though under Executive Order. I take it that these are magazines the capacity of which is in excess of seven rounds. (By the way,…
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Welcome to Fascist Amerika
Leftists like to call conservatives fascists, but it is the fascism of the Left that is taking hold. Two more pieces of evidence as part of a massive cumulative case: Obama Willing to Use Executive Orders on Guns At a news conference on Monday, exactly one month after the school massacre in Newtown, Conn., Mr. Obama…
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Newtown and the Bipartisan Police State
This article, by Anthony Gregory, is well worth reading although it gets off to a somewhat rocky start: I think the most conspicuous problem is the glorification not of guns or fictional violence, but of actual violence. America is a militarized society, seat of the world’s empire. The U.S. government is always at war with…
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On the Right to Keep and Bear Nukes: Slippery Slope Arguments
Kevin W. writes and I respond: A fellow philosophy friend has been making the argument that we have a conflict of intuitions concerning the Second Amendment. He argues that if it is the case that the Second Amendment allows citizens to arm themselves in order to defend against a tyrannical government, then citizens ought to…
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Abdication of Authority
According to a news report I just heard, the Taft High School shooter targeted a bully. Rather than blame an inanimate object, the gun, which makes no sense, one ought to blame the parents, teachers, administrators, clergy, and other so-called 'authorities' who have abdicated their authority and allowed bullying to become a serious problem in…
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On ‘Socially Conscious’ Investing: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
Should one be bothered, morally speaking, that the mutual funds (shares of which) one owns invest in companies that produce alcoholic beverages, tobacco products, and firearms? I say no. 'Socially conscious' is an ideologically loaded phrase, like 'social justice,' and the loading is from the Left. Alcohol For some, alcohol is the devil in liquid…
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I Will Not Be Intimidated
By Steve McCann. Excerpt: According to the current incarnation of the American left, who traffic constantly in victimhood and noble intentions, I should be in the vanguard of the mandatory gun control and confiscation movement. That somehow it was the inanimate object this soldier was holding and not him that was responsible for the attempt …
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Quick and Dirty: Ten Random Notes on the Gun Debate
1. Is anybody against gun control? Not that I am aware of. Everybody wants there to be some laws regulating the manufacture, sale, importation, transportation, use, etc., of guns. So why do liberals routinely characterize conservatives as against gun control? Because they are mendacious. It is for the same reason that they label conservatives as anti-government. Conservatives…
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Should Newspapers ‘Out’ Those With Whom They Disagree?
Which is morally worse, killing a pre-natal human being or keeping a loaded gun in the house for self-defense? The former, obviously. Both abortion and gun ownership are legal, but one would have to be singularly benighted to think that the keeping is morally worse than the killing, or even morally commensurable with it, let alone…