I have always wondered why feminists support gun control. Guns, after all, are the ultimate tool of the weak against the strong. I was reminded of this when I recently came across some international crime data.
Since their gun bans were enacted, the UK and Australia have seen an enormous jump in rapes. Rape in the [...]
I was reminded recently of the U.N.’s efforts to violate our gun rights. From a U.N. report on small arms:
The principle of self-defense has an important place in international human rights law, but does not provide an independent, supervening right to small arms possession, nor does it ameliorate the duty of States to use due [...]
I posted the following on an Ohio gun owner’s blog in response to his contention that Obama is not anti-gun. His YouTube video is here.
Scott,
I must respectfully disagree with your assessment of Obama’s gun record. You make two very specific statements in your video.
First, you say he does not want to prohibit the manufacture, possession or sale [...]
A columnist responds to Mayor Nutter’s (predictable) call for more gun control following Officer McDonald’s recent murder.
Here’s a quick lesson in the law. If you’re a convicted felon, as Giddings was (and a very dangerous one at that), you can never legally buy a gun again. Never. That means that the weapon he used to [...]
I was recently chatting with an uncle about his choice of a particular firearm. The following is close to verbatim:
Uncle: You should check out [brand x]. I like mine. When I was trying to decide which to get I asked our minister and that’s what he recommended.
Mr. Manifesto: Wait…you asked your minister for a recommendation [...]
An interesting article in the Philadelphia Inquirer recently argued for a decentralized approach to national security and the war on terror. It drew a number of parallels with the natural world, discussing adaptation and semiautonomous organisms as problem solvers. It was interesting, if tangential at times.
I wonder, though, whether the authors or the editors at [...]
I read a magazine article recently that criticized the methods used to derive estimates on the annual cost of gun violence in America. I did a little poking around and, sure enough, the Brady Campaign (formerly Handgun Control, Inc.) cites an estimate: $100 billion annually. Not surprisingly, this number is very bogus. Read an more detailed critique [...]
There was a self-defense shooting recently in PA.
“Banning guns is an idea whose time has come.”
Sen. Joe Biden
November 18, 1993
A neighborhood decides to take charge. I say good for them.
I think this clip says it all. In choosing Sen. Biden as his running mate, Sen. Obama has demonstrated to gun rights supporters what his policies will really be.
An 85 year old woman defended herself with a gun in her home recently. This is exactly the type of thing that groups like the Brady Campaign (formerly Handgun Control, Inc.) fought against in the Heller case. Fortunately for potential crime victims like her, they lost.
The Inquirer weighed in on the Mary McFate story recently. They gave their usual free publicity to Bryan Miller at CeaseFire NJ (the NRA has to pay for advertising you know). The editorial didn't have too much to say other than this charmer:
"To the extent that disrupts their important work fighting gun violence, the alleged [...]
According to Bryan Miller of Ceasefire NJ the right to defend yourself or your family is a bizarre and dangerous idea. Yeah Bryan, it's really bizarre to want to protect your family. Predators never target the weak right? Hat tip to Cemetery.
Because this is always the sort of thing that happens. What good is freedom if it can be bureaucratically mangled? Hat tip to Sebastian.
I sent the following to the Inquirer today in response to a letter ("Blame for Shooting") that was published yesterday.
To the editor:
A recent anti-gun tantrum published in the letters may not have gotten a single fact right. First the author wrote that Justice Scalia's Heller decision supported the "right of would-be criminals to buy a handgun". Is [...]
The ACLU has long had a hypocrisy problem when it comes to the second amendment. It continues to hold that the second amendment "protects a collective right rather than an individual right". The same ACLU that takes a very expansive (translation: "without historical or factual basis") view of what rights are protected by the constitution continues even [...]
“If guns kill people, can I blame misspelled words on my pen?”
Al Qaeda, it seems, may be rethinking its tactics. There are signs of a shift to smaller, more frequent attacks similar to what has been seen in Israel.
Recommendations include "kidnappings, the holding of hostages, the use of women and children as human shields, exhibition killings to terrorize the enemy, suicide bombings and countless gestures that [...]
Daniel Vice, an attorney for the Brady Campaign, recently had this to say about gun owners: "getting a concealed weapons permit just means you haven't committed a crime, yet."
Yeah, Dan, I guess a lawyer is just someone that hasn't been disbarred yet.