Yes sport shooting. And I couldn’t agree with the man more. In case it wasn’t clear, Jefferson who pretty much wrote a good chunk of the Constitution, and the other Founding fathers meant for us to have an individual right, not a group one. And its not a right to be lightly abrogated by […]
Alternet has an article decrying the glacially slow movement to allow guns on campus here.
I firmly disagree with it for the following 4 reasons I posted there.
#1 The notion that it deters anyone who means harm to someone else. I’d think Virginia Tech and the innumerable spree shootings in areas w/o concealed weapons laws would […]
A great many people are too stupid to have guns. You can bet your bottom dollar that these people will always have guns. The only cures are education and funny enough more guns in the right hands.
The way I figure it the Supreme Court did a decent enough job on this issue. 5-4 in favor on an individual right of sorts.
Personally I would have would have preferred that they had gone farther and said anyone who isn’t in state custody (jail, prison, some kinds of supervised release) […]
Since owning firearms is a right it behooves us to keep our gun laws simple.
My suggestion is if you are an adult not under state supervision (jail, parole for certain offense, some forms probation,a few conditions of bail or in a mental hospital) you may own or carry whatever you like. Its up to you […]
If you believe that safety trumps choice and freedom here are some sobering stats
from National Institute of Justice surveyed year 1994:
44,000,000 Americans owned guns (127 million rifles and 65 million handguns)
1,356 accidental deaths occurred, equaling an accident rate per owner of 0.0031%
—or—-
An accident rate per gun of 0.0007%
Vs. Automobiles
There were 235,331,000 cars in […]
The real solution to future Virginia tech incidents is press control, not gun control.
Put serious limits on how the press may report on these things and we take away future psychos reason for doing it.
We can allow them a few paragraphs just enough to get the gist across but no more. This sos […]