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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
For sure, George Bush was a controversial President and attracted a huge amount of criticism (and, alas, not all of it unjustified). But do you ever remember reading a headline ‘Left Wingers Continue to Mean-Spiritedly Nitpick at President Bush’? Now look at this article, prominently featured on Yahoo and elsewhere, but with two key words […]
I recently asked the question, How much ammo do you carry (ie on your person). What about a similar question – how much ammunition do you keep for your various firearms? I’ve asked that question of friends, and have received answers back ranging from ‘a few boxes (of 50)’ to one person who proudly […]
Here’s a video that should make your blood boil. A private citizen – Mitchell Crooks – was filming police activity. He was on private property at the time. Filming the police is perfectly lawful, on public or private property. A police officer approaches him, demands Crooks stop filming – something he has no right to […]