by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 9, 2019 | Guns, Opinion, Politics
Consider this oddity. In New York, if you purchase one bagel at a bagel store, it is not subject to sales tax… provided you purchase it intact. A bagel with cream cheese, or butter, or even simply sliced in half is subject to sales tax. Why is this? Because an...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 8, 2019 | Economics, Guns, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
Today I’m going to take issue with two phrases from contemporary political discourse: “wealth redistribution” and “gun buybacks.” Both are popular ideas on the Left, and both carry the same insidious deceit, one that is both wrong on its...
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 29, 2019 | Guns
The aftermath of every national-news shooting in America produces a standard refrain: People who are anti-gun make strident demands for more regulation, and people who are pro-gun resist such demands. The former insist we have to “do something” to address...
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 12, 2019 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
Yesterday, on the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the New York Times posted and deleted an odd tweet: 18 years have passed since airplanes took aim and brought down the World Trade Center. Today families will once again gather and grieve at the site where more...
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 6, 2019 | Guns
Erstwhile progressive darling Beto O’Rourke recently sought to jump-start his going-nowhere presidential campaign with a Hail Mary declaration that, if elected President, he’d ban “assault weapons”: Americans who own AR-15s, AK-47s, will have...
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