The following was a letter submitted to the Inquirer in response to this letter.
A recent letter challenged anyone who has studied history to identify even one founder who would have agreed with Justice Scalia on guns. I’ve studied our history and here are just a few.
James Mason: “to disarm the people is the best and [...]
A letter to the editor in today’s Inquirer complained about a previous article that referred to hunting as a sport. The author wrote that “a sport involves two equally matched teams on a level playing field”. Oh yeah? Clearly she’s never watched a 76ers game. They’re 5 and 14 as of today. I’ll bet the [...]
I returned to my car which was parked in a restaurant’s parking lot, and discovered the car next to me also had an NRA Life Member sticker on it. Two people willing to admit they are NRA Life Members at the same time in the same place in NJ? I’m surprised there isn’t a state [...]
Bitter was kind enough to include me in a local gun bloggers’ confab today. It was a splendid event. The first of many, I hope.
One year ago the Supreme Court confirmed what should have been obvious: the right to keep and bear arms is an individual right that actually means something. We still have a long way to go in rolling back the many unconstitutional restrictions on our gun rights and Heller will be an important piece of that. [...]
In addition to being a Civil War general, a U.S. president and someone in my family tree, Ulysses Grant was apparently a president of the National Rifle Association. I knew I liked him.
Wayne LaPierre and Ed Rendell locked horns this weekend over reinstating the assault weapons ban. Rendell is a good debater but this one was no contest - LaPierre won easily. The facts are not with Fast Eddie on this one.
One thing that stuck out was the issue of “high capacity” magazines. LaPierre pointed out that [...]
Here’s a great overview from Dave Hardy of key data that’s been assembled on post-Columbine mass shootings.
incidents last about 8 minutes
the murderer deliberately targets and ambushes defenseless victims
the murderer has no interest in hostages or negotiations
the murderer “typically fold[s] quickly upon armed confrontation”
All of these underscore the fact that people who are armed and able to defend [...]
A quasi governmental group called the Missouri Information Analysis Center has published a list of warning signs that someone may be part of a militia.
Here are some highlights:
People who supported former third-party presidential candidates like Texas Rep. Ron Paul…[and] Bob Barr.
Uh-oh.
Would this be an inopportune moment to admit I was a Paulestinian who eventually voted Libertarian?
Other potential [...]
We often here anti-gun activists argue that should depend on the police to keep us safe. They also say if we have a specific security concern we should get a restraining order.
So how, then, do they respond to incidents like this? A woman was murdered by her estranged husband despite the fact that she had [...]
And he is damn funny too. Hat tip to Breda.
UPDATE: Check out his other videos on You Tube. He is unbelievably funny.
Howard Nemerov recently made devastating use of the UN’s own gun data against the UN’s antigun arguments. He broke countries into quartiles based on firearms ownership per capita. He then compared per capita firearms ownership to their homicide rate.
The results are best demonstrated in a table and it wouldn’t be right for me to lift [...]
Conceal carry holders are basically state certified good guys.
Tom Gresham on Tom Gresham’s Gun Talk
Yet another Philly cop was shot and killed on Friday night. We’ll soon be treated to more calls for gun control by people who want more government control of pretty much everything. They’ll try to argue that if we just restrict the rights of legal owners, then fewer guns will flow through the black market [...]
There has been a fair amount of discussion in the blogosphere about debating anti-gunners lately. Newbie Shooter has chimed in with some suggestions to make it a little more fair for the antis (a noble gesture). No doubt they will ignore him since their position isn’t based on rational analysis but emotion and power.
I actually [...]
It’s standing room only at my local range/gun shop. They frequently have an hour’s wait to get a lane.
So says Newbie Shooter. I don’t seem to have that problem in NJ.
It turns out that being poor doesn’t mean you have to give up your constitutional rights. San Francisco, leftwing paradise, has magnanimously decided to bring its policies back in line with the constitution. That’s big of them.
Good job NRA.
Seems like an odd idea, doesn’t it? Yet, I couldn’t help but draw that conclusion after reading this article. Basically the National Academy of the Sciences released a study that says a strong solar storm would inflict significant, if not catastrophic, damage on our power grid and communications systems. It wasn’t entirely clear from the [...]
I sent this to the Inquirer in response to this editorial. It doesn’t seem like they are going to publish it, so…
The recent editorial (1/6/2009) supporting New Jersey’s push to enact one gun per month legislation complained that State Senator Stephen Sweeney “seems to be quoting from the NRA’s bullet points”.
That is a rather amusing [...]
When Michael Nutter hired a new police commissioner he promised a new approach to fighting the city’s high murder rate. Well, the homicide rate was down by 15% in 2008 (without new gun control laws I would add). It’s amazing what you can accomplish when your anti-crime plan doesn’t consist of whining about how you [...]