The entire logic of people who oppose free ownership of guns is that gun ownership causes crime. They seek to restrict and control who can own guns and what sort of guns people can own, on the basis that the fewer the people who own guns, and the fewer the guns that are owned, the safer that society will become. But there is no evidence to support their contention. Quite the opposite – there is [...]
If you ever find yourself deciding to use deadly force to protect yourself or your loved ones, you have a second decision to make immediately subsequently. How many times should you shoot the bad guy? Once? Twice? Five times? Ten times? (Note – this is assuming you are using a handgun. If you’re using a rifle or shotgun, one shot may be enough.) The sad part of this question is that the right answer is [...]
I keep seeing accounts in the news about people who answer a knock on the door only to have an intruder (or possibly multiple intruders) use surprise and violent force to immediately rush through the door and overwhelm the person who innocently and unpreparedly opened the door. Here’s a very typical story here. This is a risk that is both surprisingly commonplace and hard to defend against. Say you have a concealed weapon somewhere on [...]
A woman was having a shower, and upon stepping out of the shower – naked and defenseless – she discovered an intruder with a knife in her bathroom. No, this story isn’t going to suggest you should keep a ‘waterproof’ gun in your shower next to your soap (although you’ll have my respect it you do!). But it will make two very important suggestions. First, let’s complete the story. The man started beating the woman [...]
Okay, so this might seem like a trivial question with an obvious answer, although perhaps asking if the government can force General Motors to do something is a bad example; being as how these days GM translates more to ‘Government Motors’ due to the massive bailout and shareholding in GM by the federal government. Maybe they truly can force GM to do something as crazy as to open a Cadillac dealership in a depressed downtown [...]
You probably read one of a dozen different accounts of the Osama take-down, many of them including this picture, showing our illustrious President, together with Biden, Clinton, and various others all intently watching something out of the picture. We were told this picture was taken as they were watching the realtime events unfolding at Osama’s compound. Here’s a video clip of John Brennan (White House Counter-Terrorism advisor) talking about the group, depicted allegedly ‘monitoring the [...]