“Assault rifles are only good for killing a lot of people rapidly, and we don’t want anyone in our state to be able to own one…but please keep making them here because we love the tax revenue from selling those death machines.” –Connecticut’s Gov. Malloy (paraphrased)
Category: masters and servants.
demonstrably wrong, laughably ignorant, and deliberately deceptive.
(Note: This post is largely directed at my liberal and progressive friends. Yes, I have those, just like I have Libertarian and conservative friends. If your entire social circle shares one political viewpoint, you don’t live in the real world, you live in an echo chamber. Conservative friends: please refrain from “LIBRULS ARE TEH STOOPID!!!1!!ONE!!…
derputy herpyderp.
There are a few things I know for sure about Officer Reverse Eotech: He has never been to the range to properly zero his carbine. Probably took it out of the box, loaded it up, mounted the sight improperly, and put the whole thing into the trunk of his cruiser. He went to a hot…
the nanny state marches on.
Tomorrow, New York City’s ban on large sugary drinks goes into effect. The ban’s purpose is not to reduce the obesity rate like Bloomberg claims. Its purpose is not even symbolic, a sign that the city is seen “doing something”. That ban is a prime example of “Hat on a Stick” legislation. What’s “Hat on…
a thought on the LAPD manhunt.
Only the police should have guns. Because with qualified immunity, they’re not personally liable for turning uninvolved trucks into Swiss cheese in the middle of a residential neighborhood. If you think that the LAPD shooting up random pickup trucks in pursuit of a single threatening suspect is almost comically excessive, think about what would happen…
a suggestion.
“Assault weapons”. “High-capacity magazines.” “Military-style rifles”. The Department of Homeland Security buys 1.6 billion rounds of small-arms ammunition in just a little over a year, and 7,000 fully automatic machine guns for “personal protection”. Police departments all over the country have tanks and drones, and you can’t tell the difference between a police SWAT team…
a left argument for gun rights.
I’ve had an essay in the works for weeks now. It’s mostly for my liberal and left-leaning friends and lays out in great detail why opposition to civilian gun ownership is fundamentally un-progressive, historically and philosophically speaking. And out comes The Polemicist with an article that precisely lays out the argument for gun ownership from…
he didn’t see the “no violence” sign.
Rachel Lucas wins at Internets again, this time for her spot-on assessment of the effectiveness of restraining orders. Of course, if the woman in the video gets a gun and a carry permit to protect herself from a violent psycho who thinks nothing of beating the shit out of her in the middle of a…
the amazing morphing definition.
When you or I have them, they’re called “assault weapons”, and they’re made for nothing but killing large numbers of people rapidly, and totally useless for self-defense besides. When law enforcement officers have them, they’re called “patrol rifles”, and they’re the best tool for protecting innocent citizens from violent criminals. When the government orders 7,000…
the right to own and drive cars.
Forty thousand people die on American highways every year. Do we just shrug that number off as the price of freedom? Why is it perfectly legal to buy a 500HP Corvette capable of 180MPH top speeds in a country where no state has a legal speed limit higher than 75 or 80MPH? And you can…