Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I thought it would be useful to assemble in one place factual data refuting the Left’s instinctive demand for gun control in response to the Newtown tragedy. In no particular order, I’m setting out their arguments and the factual counter arguments: 1. America’s out-of-control guns make it the most violent
Continue readingDespite being fairly decent at both sympathy and empathy, I truly cannot imagine what the survivors of the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, are experiencing, and that’s true whether I think of the ones in the line of fire or the family and friends whose loved ones were at the
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 readingIf I recall correctly, the NRA was cautious in 2008 when it came to Barack Obama. It campaigned against him, but without vigor. That tentativeness is gone this year, as demonstrated by the official 2012 NRA campaign slogan: “All In.” To this end, the NRA has created a page called
Continue readingAlthough the MSM has been ignoring it assiduously, people who do not limit their information consumption to the MSM know that Eric Holder, amongst his many sins, presided over Operation Fast and Furious, which shipped untraceable guns into Mexico. These guns were subsequently responsible for the deaths of hundreds of
Continue readingThe Drudge report is masterful at using news headlines to create mini-advocacy essays. As I read this little trio from today’s Drudge Report, Matt Drudge is suggesting that law-abiding citizens would do well to arm themselves:
Continue readingPerhaps I’m misunderstanding things here, but as I read this article, five British police officers got badly mauled by a single dog because none had a gun. It wasn’t until a SWAT team arrived that the attack ended. In America, the police are minutes away when seconds count. In England,
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
Continue readingGuns are the great equalizer — and nobody on the Left likes equality. This is why the Left twists itself in knots to avoid the implications of the 2nd Amendment. Here are Penn & Teller with one interpretation: There’s a differing interpretation of the 2nd Amendment that also sees the
Continue readingI find William Shatner quite amusing. I have no idea what show this clip is from, but I find this amusing too: Hat tip: Michal
Continue readingI’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
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