Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
As far as the New York Times and the rest of American Progressives are concerned, those Americans who insist that they want to exercise their Second Amendment rights for self-protection are delusional and, quite possibly, nascent psychopathic killers. Guns are bad. Really, really bad. The evidence is irrelevant because .
Continue readingNational Review Online is running hot today, because it’s got two great articles on gun control, both of which clearly express what I was trying to tell those Marin-ites around me who are absolutely certain that (a) gun control saves lives and (b) the Second Amendment is stupid or misunderstood.
Continue readingBecause this is Marin and I am not a hermit, I frequently find myself in conversation with Democrats. It was to be expected, therefore, that conversation over the Christmas holiday would end up revolving around gun control. These conversations were disheartening on all sides. My friends concluded that I support
Continue readingI’d be surprised if you haven’t already read the post advocating against the imposition of Democrat-style gun control. The author is Larry Correia and, as a nice Jewish grandmother would say, he knows from guns. In other word, he’s writing from a position of factual strength. Correia’s post is a
Continue readingNicholas Kristoff is very excited about the opportunity the Newtown shootings present to advance a gun control agenda. (By the way, have you noticed that the media narrative is that the Progressives are not politicizing a tragedy when they use it to advocate everything from gun control to higher taxes,
Continue readingIn America today, especially in America’s media, the worst thing you can call someone is “racist.” In our Obama-era people who oppose Obama are racist; people who support the Constitution are racist; people who use the word “Chicago” are racist; people who comment about the president’s lean physique (unless they’re
Continue readingA liberal accused me of being un-empathetic — indeed, utterly heartless — because I continue to support the Second Amendment as written and because I think it’s a dreadful idea to ban all guns but for revolvers. (Incidentally, did you know that the Dunblane shooter got around the problem of
Continue readingI recognize that my mind makes strange, often counter-intuitive connections, but as I hear Progressives rail against guns, I can’t help but think of slut walks. What?! You don’t know what slut walks are? Slut walks are the latest manifestation of the feminist/Progressive rule holding that a women has no
Continue reading(I find that I’m too thrifty not to get the most mileage out of my writing. People who get my newsletter — and if you don’t, you can fill out the subscription form to the right — will have seen this post already, but I couldn’t resist a slightly wider
Continue readingI grew up deathly afraid of guns. This wasn’t like my fear of snakes and spiders, which seems to be pretty atavistic. Instead, this was a learned fear: Guns kill people. Guns also kill innocent animals that should, instead, die nice clean deaths in factory farms, before being sliced up
Continue readingI had a delightful reason for my blog silence today: I had a pistol safety and training class, followed by an instructor supervised hour at the shooting range. As you all know, on November 28, 2009 — exactly three years ago — I went to the shooting range with my
Continue readingThe International Liberty blog points out, correctly, that this video is so funny because it accurately describes the way the anti-gun mavens, all real-world evidence to the contrary, believe anti-gun laws work: Repeat after me: 1. An armed citizenry is the only bulwark against a tyrannical government. 2. When seconds
Continue readingHere’s today’s Facebook find: This poster, of course, comes from a liberal. What the liberal doesn’t realize is that Mitt was riffing right off the liberals’ own beloved New York Times when he said that the best way to deal with gun violence is to promote marriage. Just this July,
Continue readingBest of the Web posts a 2004 interview with Cathleen Falsani of the Chicago Sun-Times in which Obama defines sin, not along traditional Christian or Muslim lines, but along self-referential lines: Falsani: Do you believe in sin? Obama: Yes. Falsani: What is sin? Obama: Being out of alignment with my
Continue readingHere’s the video in which Eric Holder ends by saying that we have to “brainwash” young people into new attitudes about guns: I am no Eric Holder fan. I think he’s very busy now trying to destroy both the Justice Department and the abstract notion of justice within the United
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