To ‘eliminate the requirement that instant check records be destroyed within 24 hours’
Friday, July 1st, 2016A version of the The following column appears in the July 10 edition of “Firearms News” — formerly “Shotgun News” — on newsstands now.
Archive for the 'Big Brother' Category
Stacked to convict
Wednesday, June 29th, 2016Ever been called for jury duty?
The right to secede
Tuesday, May 31st, 2016I’ve been reading in Thomas DiLorenzo’s 2012 hardback from the Ludwig von Mises Institute, “Organized Crime: The Unvarnished Truth About Government.” The book features brief summary chapters, with useful references, from the Loyola University economics professor, Research Fellow at the Independent Institute, and member of the Mont Pelerin Society, weighing in on such topics as […]
Is Donald the GOP’s Doctor Doom?
Wednesday, May 18th, 2016A friend who’s a Republican (hey, no one’s perfect) writes to ask: “In your opinion, with The Donald at the GOP’s helm, are we doomed? I say nay, but others say oh hell yes. I think Hillary is too unsavory for most to support while the Donald’s brashness appeals to the lowest (voting) common denominator. […]
They’re ‘NOT in jail for possession of marijuana or any other harmless, non-addictive, plant-derived substance’
Wednesday, May 18th, 2016A reader of my May 10 column in “Firearms News” (formerly “Shotgun News”) — the one headlined “Donald Trump On Guns” — wrote in: “The column started off great, but as we got closer and closer to the end Vin apparently got wound up listening to his own rhetoric.
What was the difference? They had ‘guns’
Sunday, May 1st, 2016(A version of this column appeared in the April 10 edition of “Firearms News,” formerly “Shotgun News.”)
Who was it who initiated the wrongful use of ‘force, fear and violence’ in Bunkerville?
Sunday, April 24th, 2016(A version of the following missive appears in the summer edition of CJ Hadley’s Range magazine, on newsstands May 1:)
Are really old Social Security recipients to blame for crime wave?
Monday, February 29th, 2016(A version of this column appears in the March 10 edition of “Firearms News,” formerly “Shotgun News.”) America is not in the midst of a big crime wave. Gun ownership is way up, and violent crime rates are down across the board (See “Gun homicides, violence, down sharply in past 20 years”, http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/08/us/study-gun-homicide/index.html , and […]
Cherry-picking their data
Friday, January 1st, 2016(A version of this column appears in the Jan. 10 edition of Firearms News (previously “Shotgun News.”)
OK, let’s talk about the ‘staggering human toll’
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2015Columnist Scott Lemieux, who teaches political science at the College of St. Rose in Albany, wrote on Aug. 26 for the left-leaning, British-based newspaper “The Guardian”: “After the 24-year-old television reporter Alison Parker and her 27-year-old cameraman Adam Ward were killed while on camera from a lake outside of Roanoke, Virginia . . . the […]