Chi-raq!
3 Sept 16 “The shallow believe in luck. The strong believe in cause and effect.” Emerson “Chi-raq” is the movie name bestowed upon the City of Chicago. Although proved shockingly true on a daily basis, Mayor Emanuel, reverting to type, forbids the term in his presence. If the mayor were a Republican, Chicago’s tail-spin into […]
Political “law?”
1 Sept 16 Comments on the latest 9th Circuit decision on marijuana and firearms purchases, paraphrased from several lawyer friends, and me: I’ll preface comments by saying that I’ve personally never used marijuana, nor any other illegal drug, at any time in my life. In addition, I have never consumed ethyl alcohol. Nor, do I […]
Deliberate Ignorance
30 Aug 16 From our current Secretary of State today: “No country is immune from terrorism” Oh, please! Tell me something I don’t know! And then this gem of wisdom: “Perhaps the media would do us all a service if they didn’t cover it quite as much. People wouldn’t know what’s going on.” I’m sure […]
Hypocrisy!
28 Aug 16 “Your hypocrisy insults my intelligence.” Toba Beta Missing guns? Hundreds of thousands of US-manufactured rifles, pistols, LMGs, as well as untold quantities of ammunition have been literally “dumped” into Iraq, Afghanistan, and other places in the Middle East over the past decade by the US. It is all ostensibly to aid our […]
Everything but Guns!
26 Aug 16 Technology will save us, when we’re unwilling to save ourselves? American military installations throughout Europe are receiving a highly-publicized “security upgrade,” as a response to now almost daily Islamic terrorist attacks on the Continent. Security-related technology updates include sophisticated new explosives-detection equipment, among other unspecified enhancements. All wonderful, of course, but there […]
Learned Helplessness, in Action!
25 Aug 16 American University in Kabul, Afghanistan attacked by ISIS yesterday: The apparently unguarded, undefended American University was overrun by ISIS fighters yesterday. Fighting lasted ten hours. As expected, many unarmed students and faculty were killed and wounded. As if we needed to keep restating this: Terrified and unarmed staff and students sending desperate […]
All yell it!
23 Aug 16 They’re all yelling “Allahu akbar,” as they attack their victims! Last Saturday evening in Roanoke, VA, an American Moslem named Wasil Farooqui attacked with a kitchen knife, two people he didn’t know. One is still in the hospital. The other has been released. The attack took place in an apartment complex where […]
Pol Pot again?
18 Aug 16 President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, a resurrected Pol Pot? In addition to jailing journalists, Erdogan is currently emptying his nation’s prisons of violent criminals in order to make room for hoards of newly-arrested “intellectuals,” who are resistant to “re-education.” All will be quietly murdered! Putting violent criminals out on the street […]
Cruise?
16 Aug 16 Stay on the ship! This from a friend who just returned from a South American Cruise: “We went on a fifteen-day, canal-crossing (Panama) Cruise. We stopped at several foul-smelling cesspools! Watched interminable piles of trash and garbage washing up on beaches, and raw effluent from sewage pipes spewing onto the ocean beach […]
Faith of Fools!
15 Aug 16 Never believe them! On 11 July of this year (Monday), South Sudanese troops went on a four-hour looting/raping/murdering rampage within a well-known gated residential compound near the City of Juba that is popular with foreigners, particularly American aid workers. Sudanese troops broke in, murdered at least one journalist, then publically gang-raped a […]
The Election!
15 Aug 16 The election: “‘Necessity’ is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants, the creed of slaves.” William Pitt “The creator stands on his own judgment. The parasite follows the opinions of others. The creator thinks. The parasite copies The creator produces. The parasite loots. The creator’s […]
“Ordeal” or “Adventure?”
11 Aug 16 “Every day is ‘ordinary,’ until it isn’t!” Bernard Cornwell From a friend in NY: “While driving last evening, I saw a massive pillar of smoke erupting from neighboring Lockport. A large fire had broken-out at a tire-recycling plant. It was massive and resulted in emergency evacuations of hundreds of surrounding homes for […]
Nation of the Future?
10 Aug 16 Brazil, the “Nation of the Future,” and always will be! Summer Olympics in yet another “socialist paradise!” Down in Rio, armed robbers are having a field-day in the “human wild-dogs” versus “stampeding unarmed human wildebeest” competition! Despite “extreme security,” the Olympic “security chief” himself was attacked by four knife-wielding armed-robbery suspects directly […]
“Happiness,” Unto Death!
5 Aug 16 “Sissy State” “Don’t wish me happiness. I don’t expect to be ‘happy.’ Wish me courage, strength, and a sense of humor. I will need them all.” Anne Morrow Lindbergh On the current state of Western Civilization, from a friend in the UK: “Our population’s ‘thinking’ has degraded to such an extent that […]
This is it!
3 Aug 16 “In any free society, conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.” Kathleen Norris HRC is “actively campaigning against the lawful commerce in arms,” says Ruger’s CEO today. This is good news: gun-company CEOs publically speaking out against HRC’s and the DNC’s current campaign to obliterate our Second […]
2016 Democratic Party Platform
28 July 16 2016 Democratic Platform on Americans and our guns: You can ever count on Democrats: Always accurate, but never specific! “We will: 1) Expand and strengthen background checks and close dangerous loopholes in our current laws 2) Repeal the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act to revoke the dangerous legal immunity protections […]
Frist Lady’s Speech
26 July 16 During the First Lady’s speech at the DNC Convention last night, the media fell all over themselves heaping complements upon her, as usual. But, here is the way I heard it: “I watched our girls, just seven and ten years old, pile into those black SUVs with all those big men with […]
So Many “Incidents!”
25 July 16 One “incident” per day now in Europe! From a friend in the UK: “In Munich, an eighteen-year-old Islamic punk, with an illegally-possessed Glock pistol, attacks innocent children at a local MacDonalds, murdering several, and bringing Munich to a standstill! As always, heavily-armed German Security Forces were ‘everywhere,’ but nowhere near the incident […]
A Pistol?
19 July 16 “With only a little practice, and some intelligent instruction, the pistol (at the time, the 1911 45ACP) can be mastered well enough to be an effective short-range weapon. But as a rule, the soldier does not get enough practice. Shooting in the Army is discouraged. Too much bother handling the range; use […]
Lessons:
15 July 16 Lessons: From recent terrorist incidents, several lessons emerge: 1. Don’t head for the restroom! Restrooms are dead ends. There is likely no exit from the restroom. You’ll be trapped there. When you don’t see another eligible exit, head for the kitchen. The kitchen always has a back door! 2. Have a rifle […]
Gun industry legends Dave Spaulding, Massad Ayoob, Mike Boyle, and John Farnam join Fernando Coelho to dive deep into the history of the gun industry, shedding light on how firearms and firearms training have transformed over the decades. They discuss the dramatic shift from traditional print reviews to the digital age of internet forums, social media influencers, and YouTube personalities of the industry.
