Category: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
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Of ARs and Cattle Cars and Geraldo Rivera
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Tulsi Gabbard on the Second Amendment
Tulsi Gabbard is quite the political phenomenon: personable, very intelligent, courageous, and sensible in her views. Here she explains how her views on 2A have changed and indeed improved. Around 9:25 Gabbard quotes from the recently-imploded ACLU: "Racism is foundational to the Second Amendment." That's just insane for so many reasons. I'll leave it to…
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Losertarian Update
A tip of the hat to Dmitri Dain for sending us here where we read: Libertarian Marc Victor dropped out of Arizona’s closely watched Senate race on Tuesday, encouraging voters to cast their ballots for Republican Blake Masters in his challenge to Sen. Mark Kelly (D). Polls had shown Victor garnering support in the low single digits, but his…
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Ethnomasochism
Rod Dreher on The Racial Masochism of the Left: Where does the Left and all its institutional allies — which is to say, every major institution in American life — plan to go with this? Do they really believe that all whites, Asians, and Latinos can be trained to accept brutality from black criminals? Do…
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Citizenry, Government, and Firearms
You say you don't trust the citizenry with firearms, but you do trust the government with them? If "the government is us" as Barack Obama and Joe Biden have said, what you say makes no sense. For if that were so, there would no difference in point of trustworthiness between the governors and the governed. …
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Divine Light, Sex, Alcohol, and Kerouac
Substack latest.
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Word of the Day: Peritus
Merriam-Webster: "an expert (as in theology or canon law) who advises and assists the hierarchy (as in the drafting of schemata) at a Vatican council." I was sent to the dictionary by this communication from Tony Flood: Bill, I remember Lonergan and other Vatican II periti refer[ring] disparagingly (in their writings) to the "theology of the manuals,"…
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Accidental or Negligent?
An important distinction: . . . an accidental discharge is when lightning strikes your firearm in such a way as to cause it to fire. Just about anything else is a negligent discharge. Any unintentional discharge of a firearm can usually be traced to negligence on some individual’s part. Not knowing the proper manual of…
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ARs and Cattle Cars
Those who wield the former are less likely to be forced into the latter. Orwellianisms come naturally to totalitarians. Arbeit macht frei reads the inscription over the Auschwitz concentration camp. "Work makes one free." So you are most truly free when you are worked to death as a slave. The unarmed man is a defensively…
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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…
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Thomas Jefferson on Shooting as Bodily Exercise
The following, snagged from an outlying precinct of cyberspace, sounded bogus, so I put Snopes on the case: A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with…
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An INDIVIDUAL Right to Keep and Bear Arms
>>In District of Columbia v. Heller the Supreme Court held in 2008 that the District’s handgun ban violated the individual right to keep and bear arms. The opinion clarified that to “bear arms” means to “carry arms” and has no exclusive militia context. And it rejected the view that the right could be dismissed or…
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2A and the Origin of Rights
Your right to defend your life with appropriate means is not conferred by the State and would not be affected by repeal of 2A. That right is no more conferred by the State than the right to life from which the right to self-defense follows. The same holds for all of the rights specified in…
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A Gun is not a Talisman and a ‘Liberal’ can be a Bigot
A gun is not a talisman. Its mere presence won't protect you. To paraphrase Col. Jeff Cooper, owning a gun no more makes you armed than owning a guitar makes you a musician. You will need to get training. In the course of this training and numerous trips to the shooting range and gun stores…
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Real or Fake, Leftists Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste
The Left not only exploits real problems for its political gain, it also manufactures problems for the same purpose. COVID-19 is real and so is Putin's war against Ukraine. But both are being used by the left to advance its agenda. We may reasonably differ about the extent to which these unfortunate developments have been…