Category: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
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The Contribution of Hollywood Cultural Polluters to Violence
Our contemporary media dreckmeisters apparently think that the purpose of art is to degrade sensibility, impede critical thinking, glorify scumbags, and rub our noses ever deeper into sex and violence. The liberal fetishization of freedom of expression without constraint or sense of responsibility is part of the problem. But I can't let a certain sort…
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Why Do You Need a Fire Extinguisher or a Smoke Detector?
I have functioning smoke detectors in my house and two, count 'em, two well-maintained fire extinguishers in my kitchen. One's a backup in case the other fails. But of course I don't need any of this stuff since if a fire broke out in the middle of the night I would certainly wake up in…
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Disagreement Runs Deep
Chris Hedges on Guns and Liberty. Harry Kazianis, The NRA Doesn't Kill People; It Saves Lives.
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Why I Carry a Gun
Mirabile dictu, not everything The Atlantic publishes these days is left-wing crap. Never-Trumper David French explains why he carries. (HT: Bill Keezer) It is rather curious, though. Here is a guy who not only supports Second Amendment rights, but also exercises them by keeping firearms in his home and bearing them on his person. And…
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Why the Left Opposes Arming Teachers
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For a ‘Liberal,’ Gun Control = Gun Confiscation
Suppose there occurs some horrendous incident of roadway carnage. Nobody says, 'We need traffic laws.' Nobody competent in English says that because it conversationally implies that there are no traffic laws. What a person might sensibly say is that we need additional traffic laws, for example, laws outlawing texting while driving. So why do liberals…
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Sorry Hillary, It’s Not About Hunting
John Daniel Davidson: Here it must be said that the Second Amendment was not meant to safeguard the right to hunt deer or shoot clay pigeons, or even protect your home and family from an intruder. The right to bear arms stems from the right of revolution, which is asserted in the Declaration of Independence and…
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AR-15 Sales Up
Way to go, liberals! You've done it again. You've driven up gun sales and shot yourself in the foot to boot. You can talk about gun confiscation all you want, but it is not going to happen. There are just too many armed, liberty-loving Americans. You only galvanize the opposition with your emotion-driven tirades. Argumentatively,…
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Guns and Rights
Do you have a right to life? Yes. If you have a right to life, do you have a right to defend your life? Yes. If you have a right to defend your life, do you have the right to acquire adequate means to self-defense? Yes. Do you understand that this implies that the law-abiding…
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School Shootings: It’s the Culture, Stupid
It is not guns that are the problem, but the culture that liberals and leftists have created. We've got plenty of gun control; what we need now is liberal control. The contributors to the piss-poor pages of the NYT's Op-Ed section need to STFU and listen to someone with sense such as Andrew Klavan (emphasis…
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Fake News: 18 School Shootings Since January 1, 2018. The Importance of Definition
The question of how many school shootings have occurred in a given place over a given period of time is an empirical question. But to answer the empirical question, one must first have answered a logically prior question, which is non-empirical. This is the conceptual question as to the definition of 'school shooting.' What counts…
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Is the Problem Gun Culture or Liberal Culture?
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Smokers as Contemplatives?
Now that's a stretch to elicit scorn, but this article does make some good points pushing back against the extremism of the tobacco wackos. The most absurd view of smoking known to me is the one that was the party line of the Rand cult. See Is Smoking a Moral Obligation? wherein I quote Murray…
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Cigarettes, Rationality, and Hitchens
Let's talk about cigarettes. Suppose you smoke one pack per day. Is that irrational? I hope all will agree that no one who is concerned to be optimally healthy as long as possible should smoke 20 cigarettes a day, let alone 80 like Rod Serling who died at age 50 on the operating table. But…
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Edmund Husserl, Tobacco-Logische Untersuchungen
Real philosophers smoke. Excerpt: I. Materials (from Husserl’s letters)1 Husserl asks Johannes Daubert to order cigars from tobacconist Rennert in Munich (November 11, 1906): For Saturday (for an evening of pleasant company) I would need a good import, say around 40 or 45 DM per thousand, but only a small box of 25. It is…