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Recommended Listening 0
Bob Cesca’s interview with Cliff Schecter centering on the Uvaldi shooting, though other topics are discussed.
It sheds light on how the Second Amendment has evolved has been morphed into something that the Founders could not have imagined and never would have countenanced.
(I rephrased that last sentence a bit to make it more accurate.)
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another responsible gun owner exposes children to politeness.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another child is sacrificed on the altar of the National Riflemakers’ Association*.
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*The phrase is not mine, but I can’t remember where I first heard it.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another responsible gun owner gets a leg up on politeness.
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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another accidental negligent shooting, yet another life cut short.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Once more, politeness becomes child’s play.
Aside:
If you have taken driver refresher classes, I have (to get a break on my insurance rates), you may have noticed that the instructors do not refer to automobile “accidents.” They refer to “crashes.” One instructor told me that this was a purposeful change in terms, to emphasis that almost all vehicle “accidents” could have been prevented if the driver or drivers, depending on how many vehicles were involved, had done something differently.
I hold that the same applies to shootings. A shooting may be intentional or it may be negligent, but it cannot be “accidental.”
Real Big Men 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., runs the numbers.
The Common Denominator 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini notes what it’s not.
It wasn’t a covert CIA operation.
It wasn’t pornography.
It wasn’t video games.
It wasn’t anti-depressants pushed by “Big Pharma” or the “lecturing” of dominant women or the influence social media.
Follow the link to see what it is.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society,” Originalist Sin Dept. 0
Michael Paul Williams has some qualms about “original intent” as interpreted by the current majority of Supreme Court:
Follow the link for context.
A Tune for the Times 0
Mangy comments at the Youtube page:
America leads the world in one category in which no one else would desire that leadership, mass shootings. By making weapons of war available to damn near everyone, we provide significant numbers of unstable folks with the ability to kill large numbers of people with stunning efficiency, all to prop up gun manufacturers’ profits, which is shared through lobbyists with politicians for their complicity in the sales scheme.
Elsewhere, Michael in Norfolk observes that we are becoming a nation of hostages.
“Ban Ladders” 0
David discusses the ridiculous pretzel logic that gun nuts use to pretend that the proliferation of firearms is in no way related to the proliferation of persons using firearms to randomly rub out large numbers of persons (warning: short commercial at the end).