2nd Amendment

Vendor: “The Blastomatic 3000 is the ultimate solution to your tactical needs. It is ideally suited to take down a knife-wielding mugger at bad breath distance or a Hadji at 1000 yards. It slices, it dices, and it’s made from 100% distilled hippie tears. Ambulance Driver: “What’s the chance of me getting one for T&A for a month or so?” ...

Conservative estimates of roughly 70,000 attendees, and 620 vendors. Attendee count may be as high as 100,000. Our President would have us believe that 90% of Americans support expanding background checks, yet only five people could be found to stage an anti-gun protest. Seriously, they were well outnumbered by the press filming and interviewing them, and the small gaggle of ...

Just checked in to the World Congress of Bitter Clingers NRA Annual Meeting in Houston, picked up my press credentials, and will be headed to the show floor in a few moments. Picked up TOTWTYTR at the airport yesterday and took him to the trap range for a brief wingshooting tutorial. A few things became immediately apparent: Wobble trap is ...

From Pravda MSNBC: Senators: Deal Reached On Background Checks. Two key senators have reached a deal to expand background checks to firearms sales at gun shows and on the Internet, sources close to the negotiations said early Wednesday. Um, guys? You already can't buy guns on the Internet without a background check. Go to one of the Internet sellers, Gunbroker, ...

Here’s a couple of 10-year-old girls with one of those scary AR15 rifles that are too complex for women to operate: For a weapon too complex for women to operate, they were certainly having fun perforating Coke* cans with it, and doing so safely. I’d have given them a double-barreled shotgun to learn with, but it kicks too much for ...

The child had grown a bit disenchanted with shooting the past couple years. Between her attempts to compensate for her weak eye and the lucky fin, it was difficult to hit the target without a lot of help. And she’s smart enough to know when Daddy is doing most of the work, and proud enough to be insulted by it. ...

At the Nebraska EMS Association spring conference this weekend, while chatting with a few new friends over beers, one medic lamented that his spouse had imposed a “buy one, sell one” restriction for new guns in their household. If he bought a new gun, first he had to sell one of his safe queens that he never shot. Said spouse ...

My last patient was carrying a gun. Scary-looking biker type, complete with beard, bandanna and leathers. I saw him hand the state trooper his Louisiana Concealed Handgun Permit along with his driver’s license, just like he’s supposed to. The trooper’s reaction? He asked my patient if he was currently carrying, which my patient answered in the affirmative. “Fair enough,” the ...

… I give you this snippet from a comment thread on Kevin, MD. Molly RN: The weapon of the day when the 2'nd ammendment was written was the single shot musket. I believe in the right to bear a single shot musket and that is the only weapon allowed under the 2'nd ammendment, if you want to be a strict ...

I hope that the post title at least captured the attention of my anti-gun readers, and keeps you reading. Those of you who read this blog know my political views. I'm a  socially liberal, fiscally conservative libertarian, although the pelt of my Wookie suit is not quite so full and glossy as some. I am a Christian who supports the ...

Gun control is the complementary and alternative medicine of public health policy. It is homeopathy and acupuncture and chelation, and what little positive benefit we see from it is more wishful thinking of the placebo effect than actual results. It never fails to astound me how so many educated, intelligent people who purport to believe in evidence-based medicine can still swallow this snake oil from the hucksters and carnival barkers who peddle it.

It's a hot-button topic, provoking visceral reactions from people on both sides of the issue. People seem unable to discuss the issue dispassionately, so much so that some blogger friends of mine have dashed off blog posts vehemently disagreeing with a position I didn't take. Go. Read. I invite your comments – either pro or con – but keep them ...

Well, to be precise, it wouldn't be granting anything. More properly, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell is considering recognizing a human right that supercedes any state regulation. Continuing the general regulatory trend started by Governor Mark Warner (D), and continued by Governor Bob McDonnell (R), Virginia is continuing to strike more state regulations banning gun carry. This time it's Old Domination ...

Physicians advocating social engineering under the guise of public health. Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who ...

I took KatyBeth and her little brother to a movie matinee on Wednesday. As she often does, she asked me, "Why are you carrying your gun to the movies, Daddy? Nobody's going to hurt us in there." This is why. 12 families lost loved ones. 59 more lie in wait. Out of respect for the dead, I will say no ...