Can anyone explain to me what this is? Whenever I read anything about gays and the political battles surrounding them, there are always a few dudes who come out of the woodwork and start yelling about, “THE RADICAL HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA!” I would love for anyone to explain to me just what this is or means, [...]
I finally got around to firing my shotgun for the first time over the weekend. It’s pretty embarrassing, but for about four months I owned it, the thing had just been sitting in my closet. For all I knew it wouldn’t even fire! The story of why involves a legal interlude. Skip the next section [...]
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I just read about an art exhibit in New York City created by a shooting enthusiast trying to bring a fresh perspective to a city that seems dominated by the meme that someone else will protect you so you don’t have to. Alas, it was only open for one day a week ago, but I [...]
I was at the shooting range and an unbelievably cute asian couple set up in the booth next to mine. The husband noticed that I had a 10/22, the same gun he had, and he started up a conversation. I looked over at his, and noticed it had a folding stock. And a pistol grip… [...]
1. The drug war has failed. We all know about the social problems, but fundamentally, drugs pose an economic problem because selling and transporting them is a relatively easy way to net hundreds or thousands of dollars that requires no special skills or large time commitments. For people who live in poverty and hold down [...]
Any time I read the writings of a member of the Judicial branch, I cannot help but feel terribly outclassed. Everything is meticulously reasoned and supported using the most sophisticated language, and the justices themselves often inject a usually acerbic wit into their arguments; consider the following reasoning from a minority opinion in K-mart v. [...]
Not many people realize how entwined the histories of gun control and racial discrimination are. I recently found an eye-opening article, originally published in the Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy and reproduced online with permission, that exposes the sordid truth. I feel it really pulled together a great deal of disparate facts on [...]
They’re all nonsensical supply-side arguments to complex problems. Fundamentally, they all argue that demand can be controlled by supply, or, more simply, that “supply finds its own demand.” The corollary to this is that a high demand can be curtailed by controlling the supply. In modern economics, the supply-side school is one that argues that [...]
I just got finished with Armed America: Portraits of Gun Owners in Their Homes, and it was a fascinating read. The premise is really quite simple: photograph armed American families of all types in their homes with their firearms. Making up these families are were white people, black people, Asians, Jews, women, children, lesbians, soldiers, [...]