Lee on Jun 14 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Covertress gives us 21 reasons why gun owners might be justifiably doubtful (and not a little alarmed) about Barack Obama’s commitment to their constitutional right.
Sphere: Related ContentLee on Jun 02 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
It might sound like a bad t-shirt from a gun show, but I’m afraid it’s entirely true: Pat Regan, a prominent British anti-gun rights campaigner, who worked for years to abolish the private ownership of firearms in Britain…has been stabbed to death. Although I hate to make a political point on the back of a senseless and tragic murder, it is necessary to point out that crime and violence can and will always find a way. Violence thrives in a vacuum of values, not an abundance of bullets (or blades).
Sphere: Related ContentLee on Feb 08 2008 | Filed under: Culture, Firearms, Lee's Page, Society
There’s a moment in Mark Steyn’s book America Alone, where he relates the truism that we’ve all experienced conversations with a mild-mannered, educated and seemingly rational person from the Arab world, where quite unexpectedly they say something nutty in the most casual way. “Of course the Jews planned 9-11″ for instance. As Steyn notes, when this happens it’s a peculiar form of media and culture-shock, and you’re not quite certain what to say in response. But this strange cultural dissonance can also be experienced between Europeans and Americans just as easily on certain issues.
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