The movie boys keep trying
Tuesday, January 10th, 2017(A version of this column appears in the mid-January issue of “Firearms News” — formerly “Shotgun News” — on newsstands and in mailboxes this week.)
Archive for the 'Self defense' Category
A good election for gun rights
Friday, December 9th, 2016A version of the following column appears in the Dec. 10 edition of the magazine Firearms News (formerly “Shotgun News,”) on newsstands and in mailboxes now. The best news for gun rights in 2016 was, unquestionably, the election of President Donald Trump.
An election about immigration . . . and guns
Friday, September 30th, 2016(A version of this column appears in the Oct. 10 edition of Firearms News — previously Shotgun News — on newsstands now.)
What they’re talking about when they’re talking about Australia
Sunday, September 25th, 2016Regular readers may recall I’m not a member of the National Rifle Association, because I strongly disagree with one of that organization’s most basic modern stances: that all existing “gun control” laws should be enforced.
All Mohammed’s children love a gun-free zone
Monday, August 1st, 2016(A version of the following column runs in the Aug. 10 issue of “Firearms News” — formerly “Shotgun News” — on newsstands this week.)
A Summer For Caution: Extreme Caution
Friday, July 8th, 2016Readers are probably familiar with the hacked BLM (as in Black Lives Matter, not the other BLM we’re more prone to post about here) leader’s Twitter account, in which plans are discussed for a “Summer of Chaos.” (See here for that conversation.) It looks like that has already begun, with the Orlando Pulse night club […]
Other candidates talk about guns
Tuesday, May 31st, 2016(A version of this column, filed for an early April deadline, appears in the June 10 issue of “Firearms News,” formerly “Shotgun News,” on newsstands now.) A regular reader asked why — since I mentioned Donald Trump’s position on gun rights recently — I haven’t mentioned other presidential candidates who might honor the Second Amendment.
Donald Trump on Guns
Friday, April 1st, 2016(A version of this column appears in the May 10 edition of “Firearms News,” formerly “Shotgun News,” on newsstands this week.)
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 […]