Tag Archive 'Self Defense'
Bookworm on Feb 19 2013 | Filed under: Second Amendment
Tweet Colorado State Rep. Joe Salazar’s ham-handed, even troglodyte, advice for campus women worried about rape came as no surprise to me. My experiences at UC Berkeley thirty-odd years ago left me fully prepared for this Leftist approach to females and true self-defense, an approach that hides both misogyny and an overriding fear for the [...]
Bookworm on Jan 06 2012 | Filed under: Crime and punishment, Second Amendment
Tweet I’ve got a new post up at the PJ Tatler: For the past few days, the internet has been buzzing about two amazing self-defense stories, each involving young people. The first to hit the wires was the story of 19-year old Sarah McKinley. On Christmas Day, McKinley’s 58-year old husband died of cancer, leaving [...]
Bookworm on Dec 26 2011 | Filed under: Crime and punishment
Tweet Not only is this a beautiful example of self-defense (watch Derek Mothershead move in smoothly, disable the robber’s gun hand, and throw a powerful left hook haymaker at the robber, landing him on the floor), I just love Mothershead’s money quotation about this serial criminal: If he wants money. Get a job. Work, like [...]
Bookworm on Dec 25 2011 | Filed under: Second Amendment
Tweet I finally figured out the Second Amendment when Hurricane Katrina struck. I mean, I’d always known before that the police can’t be everywhere and that they often show up to mop up after a crime, because the criminal and done and gone so quickly. The knowledge that they’re out there is certainly a deterrent [...]
Bookworm on Dec 19 2011 | Filed under: Second Amendment
Tweet One of the blessings of blogging is that I’ve met so many wonderful people. I haven’t met most of them in the conventional sense — that is, I haven’t been in the same physical space with them — but I’ve corresponded with them over the years and feel I know them as I well [...]
Bookworm on Dec 04 2011 | Filed under: Education
Tweet We spend a lot of time talking here about the way our Progressive culture infantilizes young people. Just think about the way the whole liberal world had a collective head explosion when Newt suggested that young people get jobs to learn the value of discipline and achieve the satisfaction of wages. But all is [...]
Bookworm on Nov 20 2011 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Tweet I used to love Star Trek : The Next Generation. I still get a kick out of the time-space continuum episodes, but the neocon in me cringes at the relentless Leftism that some of the plots display. Still, there were the moments. This was one of my favorites: That line (“if you prick me, [...]
Bookworm on Jan 09 2010 | Filed under: Britain, Crime and punishment, England, Second Amendment
Tweet One of the most basic principles of Anglo-Saxon common law is a homeowner’s right to defend himself against intruders. Oh, wait! That’s not quite true anymore. In England, which practically gave its name to the notion that “a man’s home is his castle,” homeowner self-defense is against the law (emphasis mine): Myleene Klass, the [...]
Bookworm on Oct 08 2009 | Filed under: Military
Tweet I took my daughter to the doctor today for what turned out to be a sinus infection. The pediatrician is a lovely man — kind, skilled at his work, and (obviously) good with children. I trust him as a doctor. As a deep thinker, though, well . . . the jury won’t be out [...]
Bookworm on Jul 16 2009 | Filed under: Freedom, Judges
Tweet This clip of today’s Sotomayor hearings may just have hit upon the most important constitutional question that faces us all as we confront our devolution into the Obamatopian State. In this segment, Senator Tom Coburn (R., OK) asks Judge Sotomayor whether she agrees that Americans have a basic right to self defense. The ensuing [...]
Bookworm on Feb 21 2009 | Filed under: Crime and punishment
Tweet The title of this post is the cri de coeur of a father whose son died in his arms. We can all sympathize with how he feels — except that it gets a little more complicated when you read the story about how his son died. You see his son, armed with a gun, [...]
Bookworm on Nov 23 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Tweet Here’s the story: A security guard shot and killed a man wielding two Samurai swords Sunday on the grounds of a Scientology building in Hollywood, police said. The unidentified man approached three guards around noon in the parking lot of the Scientology Celebrity Centre, Los Angeles Deputy Police Chief Terry S. Hara said. The [...]
Bookworm on Jul 15 2008 | Filed under: Britain, Crime and punishment, England
Tweet In a bizarre act of unexpected intelligence, the British government passed a law allowing Brits to defend themselves in their own homes (and on the streets) without fear of reprisal — not from the burglars within, but from the government forces without: Home owners and “have-a go-heroes” have for the first time been given [...]
Bookworm on Jun 09 2008 | Filed under: Holland
Tweet My earlier post about the knifing atrocity in Japan, which seemed to happen without any citizen attempts to block the attack, garnered a lot of interesting comments. Danny Lemieux now sent me the perfect follow-up link to Bruce Bawer’s blog. (I can’t find any permalinks there, but just land on the June 9, 2008 [...]
Bookworm on Jun 08 2008 | Filed under: Israel, Japan
Tweet There is a horrific story out of Japan today about a man who crashed a truck into a crowd of people, and then proceeded to complete the carnage by stabbing as many of them as possible. The story says that the man ended his spree only when surrounded by police: A witness told NHK [...]
Bookworm on Feb 15 2008 | Filed under: Silly Stuff
Tweet As I mentioned earlier, I’ve returned to martial arts after a ten year hiatus. I wasn’t good then, and I’m worse now (and definitely more rickety), but oh! how I love it. One of the things I’m learning at this dojo, which I didn’t learn in my last go round at martial arts (since [...]
