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It all sounds great, until you whip out a calculator

It all sounds great, until you whip out a calculator

Presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren, the astonishingly White senior Senator from Massachusetts, has unveiled a new plan to reduce gun related deaths by 80%. Sounds great, right? Unfortunately for Sen. Warren, there’s this little thing called Math.

Let’s look at the numbers, shall we?

Don’t panic! Triple integrals aren’t involved. You can get through this, as I suspect Sen. Warren can.…

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When the sympathy runs out

When the sympathy runs out

In the previous two posts, we talked about some common anti-gun themes. Now let’s talk about a common pro-gun theme: Lamenting the state of affairs in countries that don’t respect the right to keep and bear arms. We use them as cautionary tales, but we’re usually quite sympathetic to the plight of foreign gun owners. It’s not their fault that their ancestors surrendered their rights.

But, that…

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Arguing with history, Part II

Arguing with history, Part II

Attempting to re-litigate Heller‘s treatment of the prefatory clause isn’t the only hobby enjoyed by the anti-gun Left. Another is to argue that “arms” couldn’t possibly have meant “assault” weapons. The more brainless of these arguments is that the 2nd Amendment only protects flintlocks. (The brighter Leftists understand that this line of reasoning would result in the conclusion that the 1st…

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No right answers

In the wake of the Las Vegas shootings people are asking “what could have been done?”. The answer might be unsettling. The solution to a problem, of course, depends on the root cause of that problem. If your transmission is having a problem, fixing the brakes won’t help. To find a potential solution in this case, we need to understand the root causes of the event. Some people are suggesting that…

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More of those unintended consequences

More of those unintended consequences

Readers of these pages don’t need to be told that California recently passed new “assault weapon” regulations into law. (Why the quotes? Because, as the new laws themselves demonstrate, the term “assault weapon” has no fixed meaning. It’s a legal chimera.) Those laws are the subject of legal action, but, pending lawsuits do not relieve the Department of Justice from from its obligation to issue…

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Fake news? Or are they just willfully ignorant?

Fake news? Or are they just willfully ignorant?

You sometimes have to wonder why the MSM is so consistently wrong on subjects such as guns. Are they simply stupid? Are they being willfully ignorant? Or are they just lying? It really could be that last one. But what I don’t get is how they think that they can away with it. It’s not like it was back in the good ol’ days. They can’t tell a lie and then expect it to be months or years before…

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Gun control's temporal paradox

Gun control’s temporal paradox

No, this isn’t the same sort of paradox as the bootstrap paradox. I’m talking about the weird, nearly simultaneous arguments that anti-gun types make claiming that we pro-gun types are either stuck in the past or not stuck in the past. We’re told, on the one hand, that the 2nd Amendment is an outmoded document. We’re told that it’s a relic of a bygone era when most of the country was lawless…

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Idiots in black robes (No, not the 9th Circus)

Idiots in black robes (No, not the 9th Circus)

Watch out 9th Circuit! The 4th is a-comin’ fer ya! San Francisco’s 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has the dubious distinction of being the most overturned court in the Federal judiciary. Over 80% of 9th Circuit rulings reviewed by the Supreme Court get tossed. Not to be outdone, the 4th Circuit issued this ridiculous ruling in the Kolbe case. The court’s en banc panel held that, and I’m…

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