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One ruling (on abortion rights) to bear them, One ruling (on voting rights) to ban them, One ruling (on gun rights) to kill them; and in the chaos (appellate lawsuits) deny them. In the throes of the Roberts Court where even justices lie. The Supreme Court’s infamous ruling that the Second Amendment grants Americans the… Read more.
Just last week, a (typical) white gunman allegedly sought to exorcise his demonic sexual impulses by shooting up three massage parlors in Atlanta, killing eight, including 6 Asian women. This week a (bogeyman) Muslim allegedly sought to avenge his schoolyard bullying by shooting up a supermarket in Boulder, killing 10, including a police officer. Here… Read more.
A 9-year-old girl at a shooting range outside Las Vegas accidentally killed an instructor on Monday morning when she lost control of the Uzi he was showing her how to use… In a similar incident in 2008, 8-year-old Christopher Bizilj shot himself to death with an Uzi at a Massachusetts gun show organized by a… Read more.
Affirmative Action Weren’t the past 40 years of affirmative action intended to rectify the lingering consequences of slavery and Jim Crow? Never mind that white women and wealthy Blacks were the ones who benefited most…. Enough already! (“Senate Apologizes for Slavery; Blacks Say, ‘Show Us the Money (Reparations),” The iPINIONS Journal, June 19, 2009) This… Read more.
The Second Amendment specifically refers to ‘A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State.’ No doubt the framers thought it necessary because the American people might have to mount a second revolution if their own government became too tyrannical. But I suspect they thought this militia was necessary primarily to… Read more.
The response in each case plays out like a macabre version of Groundhog Day – complete with swat teams showing up brandishing their big guns (oblivious to the obvious irony) long after all of the killing is done; politicians mouthing patently hollow words about gun control; and reporters emulating the Bill Murray character by repeating the… Read more.
