Category: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
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Planning to Carry?
Then read this. Leftists want to strip you of your Constitutional rights. The arguments they employ are worthless when these emotion-driven dopes argue at all. You may think to resist them by exercising your rights. But grave responsibilities attend their exercise. Know the law. Leftist shysters will surely try to use it against you should…
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Why Would Anyone Ever Need an AR-15?
Stephen Willeford has an answer for you.
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Wonder Lost
I fanciulli trovano il tutto nel nulla, gli uomini il nulla nel tutto. The child finds everything in nothing; the man nothing in everything. And knocking back a couple or three Fanciulli cocktails won't help matters.
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Reading Now: Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
Undoubtedly the most Joycean of the booze novels. This is not what one could call a 'page turner.' Not suitable for beach or bed reading. But it looks to be a deep work that will repay the close attention it demands. Under the Volcano was originally published in 1947. Two other booze novels from the…
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Why Do Leftists Blame the Weapon Over the Wielder?
I spoke of . . . the bizarre liberal displacement of responsibility for crime onto inanimate objects, guns, as if the weapon, not the wielder, is the source of the evil for which the weapon can be only the instrument. What explains this displacement? A reader proffers an explanation: Maybe they displace responsibility here because, if we…
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What Do Gun Violence and Systemic Racism Have in Common?
Neither exist. (William Tingley calls me "the pithy Maverick." How are you doing these days, Bill?)
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The Gun Issue in a Few Sentences
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 the means to self-defense? Yes. Do you understand that this implies that the citizen…
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Come and Take Them, Bret Stephens
David Harsanyi's refutation of Bret Stephens' call to repeal the Second Amendment begins like this: The idea that gun-control advocates don’t want to confiscate your weapons is, of course, laughable. They can’t confiscate your weapons, so they support whatever feasible incremental steps inch further towards that goal. Some folks are more considerate and get right to the point. Exactly right. …
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The Unserious ‘Serious’ Discussion About Guns
George Neumayr is one of the few who is talking sense on the issue. What follows is a fine complement to what I say in The Problem: Gun Culture or Liberal Culture? I have bolded some passages. …………………. The philosophy underlying liberalism is at once totalitarian and relativistic. It proposes more government and less morality.…
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Larry Correia on Suppressors
On guns, Correia knows whereof he speaks. First read this 'viral' post written in response to the Sandy Hook shooting. He lists his credentials. Then this on suppressors. If there is any need for suppressors, they need to take the form of muzzles for Hillary, Dianne Feinstein, Nancy Pelosi and the rest of that pack…
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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 washing over us from the orifices of the mindless gun-grabbing Left in the wake of the Las Vegas rampage. 'Liberal' is elliptical for 'contemporary liberal.' I am not speaking of classical, 19th century liberals or JFK-liberals. It is not 1960…
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Hillary’s Gun Tweets in the Aftermath of the Las Vegas Shooting
1) "Our grief isn't enough. We can and must put politics aside, stand up to the NRA, and work together to try to stop this from happening again." Note first Hillary's hypocrisy. She preaches that we must put politics aside, and then goes on to politicize the shooting. Or perhaps she has a curious notion…
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Equanimity, Arizona Style
The Brits may want to rethink their gun laws in the light of recent events. Katie Hopkins lays into Sadiq Khan, mayor of London. Keep calm and carry on? Keep calm, and carry one! By the way, are there any cities or towns in Muslim countries that have Christian or non-Muslim mayors or other government…
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Power Tools
Serendipitous! I spent the morning out in the desert practicing with my handguns. When I logged on afterward I found that Bill Keezer had referred me to an entry entitled Power Tools by Malcolm Pollack in which the latter quotes Col. Jeff Cooper. I want the quotation for my files: Weapons are the tools of…
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Should Liberals Buy Guns?
It might not be in their best interest. Buy guns and ammo and the accessories and you support those industries and the lobbying efforts of the National Rifle Association. The NRA, however, played a key role in getting Trump elected. The NRA takes decidedly anti-leftist stands on crime and the nanny-statism liberals hold dear. …