by Peter Venetoklis | May 23, 2017 | Guns
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is one of a series of articles on gun rights. Each addresses a common anti-gun trope. This article follows up GRL #378, which discusses the musket argument. “No one needs such a powerful weapon!” This anti-gun argument is...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 20, 2017 | Culture, Health, Opinion
The other day, I had an extended… lets call it a “discussion…” with a couple socialized medicine advocates on the Internet. Yes, yes, silly me. Arguing on the Internet is like (per Google’s third suggestion) playing chess with a pigeon....
by Peter Venetoklis | May 17, 2017 | Guns
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is one of a series of articles on gun rights. Each addresses a common anti-gun trope. This article builds on Gun Rights Lesson #488, which discusses mass shootings and offers a list of incidents where an armed civilian successfully acted...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 11, 2017 | Election, Opinion, Politics
In a move that set the political world into a frenzy and the blogosphere on fire, Trump fired FBI director James Comey yesterday. Chaos ensued. Skyscrapers collapsed. Earthquakes swallowed Tokyo, San Francisco, Manila and Jakarta. Tidal waves wiped out low-lying...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 9, 2017 | Culture, Education, Guns, Opinion
The latest entry in the OFFS files comes from Edgewood Middle School in Ohio. A student clicked the “like” button on an Instagram photo of an Airsoft pellet gun posted by another student. Both students were suspended by the school, because “we act on...
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