Category: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
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The Defense Mechanisms of the Anti-Gunners
Raging Against Self Defense: A Psychiatrist Examines the Anti-Gun Mentality (Hat tip: Seldom Seen Slim)
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The Hypocrisy of the HollyWeird Gun Grabbers
Here is the 'viral' video in case you haven't seen it. Violent content. As I argued earlier, the problem is not gun culture, but liberal culture. I listed four characteristics of liberal culture that contribute to violence of all kinds, including gun violence: Liberals have a casual attitude toward criminal behavior. Liberals tend to undermine morality…
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And the Award for Gun Salesman of the Year Goes to . . .
VDH comments: There is a new-year stampede developing that we have not seen for a long time. Gun stores are swamped with panicking customers. They are looking for handguns, semi-automatic rifles and as much ammunition as they can afford. But buyers are not just camouflaged hunters, conspiracy theorists and gun hoarders. Instead, many of those…
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Why the Second Amendment?
Walter E. Williams gives us a little history lesson. The piece ends thusly: Here's the gun grabbers' slippery-slope agenda, laid out by Nelson T. Shields, founder of Handgun Control Inc.: "We're going to have to take this one step at a time, and the first step is necessarily — given the political realities — going…
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Gun Control: When is Enough Enough?
Suppose a federal ban on the manufacture, sale, transfer, etc. of semi-automatic rifles is enacted in the coming year. And then suppose another mass shooting occurs. Will liberals call for further gun restrictions? Of course. You can be sure that they will exploit the next mass shooting just as they exploited Sandy Hook. Suppose they call…
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Nassim Taleb’s Argument for Banning Semi-Automatic Weapons
Just over the transom an e-mail from someone who wants me to review Nassim Taleb's latest book. So I asked Mr. Google to tell me who this Taleb fellow is and he referred me to Nassim Taleb's Super-Simple Argument for Banning Semi-Automatic Weapons. After reading this incoherent Facebook posting of his, I decided that time…
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What the Gun Debate is Fundamentally About
At bottom, the gun debate boils down to a conflict of visions, to borrow a phrase from Thomas Sowell. This is well-explained by Mchael Medved in The Liberal God Delusion. Excerpt: Consider the current dispute over the right response to gun violence. At its core, this argument comes down to a visceral disagreement between relying on self-defense…
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On the Illicit Use of ‘By Definition.’ 2012 ‘Gun’ Version
What follows is a reposting of an entry that first appeared in these pages on 19 July 2010. The reposting is prompted by the following surprising statement by Joe Nocera: "But it is equally true that anyone who goes into a school with a semiautomatic and kills 20 children and six adults is, by definition,…
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U. K. Experience Proves It: When Guns are Outlawed, Only Outlaws Have Guns
Two Cautionary Tales of Gun Control
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More Gun Links and Observations
Isn't this a delightful topic? But it is important that you inform yourself and do your level best to form correct opinions about these matters. Liberals routinely pose the rhetorical question, Why would anyone need a semi-automatic rifle? You need to have an answer at the ready. When 'Assault Weapons' Saved Koreatown William Spengler, the…
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Why Would Any Civilian Need a Semi-Automatic Rifle?
Well, you might be a rancher on the southern border whose property is routinely overrun by drug smugglers armed with AK-47s. Actual examples here. Surely a man has the right to defend his life, his family, his property, and his livelihood from domestic and international criminals. Having that right, he has the right to appropriate means for…
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Gun Lovers and Abortion Lovers
One often hears liberals refer to gun owners as gun lovers. Would they refer to pro-choicers as abortion lovers? I don't think so. Why the differential usage? Is it just liberal bias? If you are pro-choice, then you stand for the right of a woman to have an abortion. You want abortion to be legally…
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The Problem: Gun Culture or Liberal Culture?
Without wanting to deny that there is a 'gun culture' in the USA, especially in the red states, I would insist that the real problem is our liberal culture. Here are four characteristics of liberal culture that contribute to violence of all kinds, including gun violence. 1. Liberals tend to have a casual attitude toward…
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John Pepple on Guns
John Pepple has posted a number of interesting entries on guns. Here he writes, . . . we are repeatedly told by multiculturalists that we must respect other cultures and that we must “understand” them, even if we find them repulsive. Yet, there is nothing about the current rage of progressives against gun lovers that…
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Double Indemnity, 1944
I took a welcome break from the cable shout shows and the gun 'conversation' the other night to watch the 1944 film noir Double Indemnity, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, and Edward G. Robinson. The Stanwyck character talks an insurance agent played by MacMurray into murdering her husband in order to collect on a double indemnity policy. …