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A few days ago, I demonstrated that the hypothesis of “more guns equal more deaths” is false, according to numbers accumulated by the CDC and BATFE. However, at the time, I presented that information in a text-heavy, long-winded post, and realized a short, sweet, simple summary might be appreciated … [...] A little over a week ago, my city’s council decided to “opt out” of the new Tennessee law allowing law-abiding, licensed, trained, background-checked individuals to carry their firearms into city parks. I was not amused. Apparently, though, I am not alone: [...] When you get right down to it, PayPal is effectively the only game in town when it comes to online money transfers. [...] When a house’s MLS listing includes specific, close-up, non-Google-Maps aerial photographs of the structure, it is probably outside of my price range.… [...] Words have meanings, folks:
[...] Over the past six months, our Glorious President has been trumpeting the numbers of “jobs created” by his various “stimulus” plans. As always, the exact words a politician uses are important, and you should always pay attention to them, because using specific vocabularies basically allows politicians to bend the truth… [...] Just when you think the internet cannot get any more stupid, Robb goes and resets the metric. [...] I am shamelessly stealing this list from Kevin. Deal with it already.
[...] Headline: Military Poised to Help FEMA Battle Swine Flu Outbreak. [...] … and here are the pictures from the recent Hero Gear Hero-15 focus group meeting and shoot: Head over here if you want to see the full-size images. I am certainly no Oleg Volk, but you will have to make do. Feel free to use them to your own … [...] One specious myth that crops up from time to time when dealing with hoplophobic anti-rights advocates is that, as the number of firearms owned by citizens increases, so too does the number of firearm-related deaths. On the surface, this myth seems to hold water, simply because it is natural to … [...] If you ever needed something to read for a few hours or so, this should suffice. Granted, it totally demolishes some of the near-and-dear weapon systems of the sci-fi genre, but it does so in a wonderfully compelling way, and miles of illuminating equations. [...] Everyone today is all over the NFA Handbook changes that have suddenly turned thousands of rifles into unregistered SBR tickets to Club Fed. [...] There are times (more and more of them, recently) when the American government really gets on my nerves… like, for example, when it turns an entire subset of citizens into criminals overnight, on the basis of an arbitrary, whimsical rule-change:
[...] As a follow-up to the bar shooting in Tellico Plains, it is looking like the shooter really, honestly, and truly did not have a handgun carry permit:
[...] In the previous post (which I was going to talk about before he beat me to it), Linoge said:
[...] Back on July 14th, it became legal for law-abiding, licensed, trained individuals to carry handguns into restaurants that serve alcohol here in Tennessee, making Tennessee the 41st state to allow such things (with Arizona following closely along as the 42nd). Friday night, one person was killed and another wounded in … [...] And for today, Marko wins the internets:
[...] This should serve as a warning to all egomaniacs with aspirations to being President: if you successfully make it to the Oval Office, do not follow the gameplan our Glorious President seems to be following, especially given how is popularity seems to be dropping. Fast:
[...] Yesterday, I drove six hours, round trip, to spend about seven hours hanging out with some cool guys and bad-ass hardware. [...]  |
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