Insecure Security Guards
This wasn’t on my recent blogging to-do list, but it hit my radar and I had to vent a little. I just got a case involving an armed security guard who was shot in the face by somebody robbing the…
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Category: Police and Guns
Eclipse
How anxious am I to dive into the Philando Castile drama? I’ll put it this way. I have spent the last few days watching and re-watching all five movies from the Twilight saga. I think I watched Eclipse like three…
read more →Only A Little
“Seulement un peu, mais pas très bien.” That’s all I could muster when the server asked, “Parlez vous Français?” But, I’m in Germany! I have no idea why the waiter spoke French or why he had the slightest hope that I would too. But I felt the same way I always do when I travel overseas: Kind of like a centrist American douchebag for not being multi-lingual like the rest of the educated world.
read more →Thoughts on Black Lives Matter
I hate obnoxiously long posts. So, I apologize for this one.
read more →Take the Gun Away
I had the dreamiest weekend ever! I was surrounded by vocal Second Amendment advocates at the Second Amendment Foundation’s 31st annual Gun Rights Policy Conference. This year’s conference was held in Tampa, Florida. That meant I enjoyed the luxury of…
read more →Patience, Though I Have Not
Are there lots of thoughts fermenting in my head about the week from hell? Yes. Do I have all the facts? No. So I wait. Wait, watch, and listen. I really wish some of the newly-minted cyber-sages and Facebook philosophers would do…
read more →Abort! Abort!
Let’s consider everybody’s most cherished entitlement: Fundamental Right X (“FRX”). Suppose FRX is guaranteed by the Constitution, as confirmed by the Supreme Court. But local policymakers aren’t big fans of FRX. They think it disrupts public safety, conflicts with their…
read more →Dear Tamir…
Dear Tamir, Today is my nephew’s birthday. He’s a millennium baby in the truest sense: born 01/01/00. Isn’t that neat? That makes him a tad older than you would have been, but when I see your picture I think of him…
read more →Fire and Ice
Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To…
read more →The Constitutional Carry Query
So, the other day I was finishing up a set of ass cheek squeezes (my physical therapist calls them “gluteal contractions”), when the doorbell rang. Oh, joy! Lunch is served! After pacifying Ike and Tina (Why is it that doorbells drive dogs…
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