Jimmie on December 12th, 2009

According to this AP article, the Second Amendment is back in vogue in state houses around the country. I’m glad to see the trend is moving back toward common sense and individual freedom. In a free and orderly society like ours, we should always lean toward more liberal gun laws because moving the other way [...]

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Jimmie on November 11th, 2009

This is some Olympic-class snark from my friend Paula.
Really, the old saw, “Guns don’t kill people; people kill people” is one of the dumber things you can say in an argument about the propriety of firearms. Like Eddie Izzard says, “the gun helps, you know?”
Guns do kill people and, as it happens, they kill people quite [...]

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Jimmie on August 16th, 2009

I’m sure there are people who would see this picture and immediately look around for someone to apologize to. I’m not one of them, though.
Charlton Heston pretty summed up my personal philosophies a long time ago — on guns and damned dirty apes.
Also, Good Lord is theblogprof an enormous man!

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Washington, D.C. has been behaving rather strangely. No, I’m not talking about the usual suspects who inhabit the Federal buildings whose strangeness is becoming incredibly tiresome. I mean the city itself. It’s been a year since the D.C. City government was forced by the Supreme Court to give residents their Second Amendment rights back yet [...]

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Jimmie on June 11th, 2009

Today, a white supremacist and anti-Semite named James von Brunn, walked into the lobby of the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, pulled out a gun, and started shooting. He mortally wounded a guard before the other armed security guards shot him in the head and neck, killing him. The murdered guard’s name was Stephen Tyrone [...]

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Jimmie on March 16th, 2009

This is a fun little quiz.
I am a: Glock Model 22 in 40 calWhat kind of handgun are YOU?
Kathy Shaidle is apparently illegal in her own country.

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Jimmie on February 15th, 2009

If I lived in South Carolina, I’m not sure I’d be very happy right now. Yesterday, the state had a big “guns for stuff” turn-in program where you could give the authorities your gun and they’d give you a rose and a Best Buy gift card. You’ve seen programs like this before. They have varying [...]

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Jimmie on December 31st, 2008

I’m not sure I can count all the silly things contained in this article, but I can put all of them in a basket marked “anti-gun buffoons”.
The upshot is that the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, the groups that has decided that since one guy was shot by a lunatic who should never have [...]

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