Can we all agree on a few “facts”? Tucker Carlson is an unscrupulous, racist rabble-rouser. Tucker Carlson had nothing to do with the murders in Buffalo. Black nationalists and other “woke” folks frequently picture white, “capitalist” civilization as the worst and most oppressive in history, entirely worthy of violent overthrow and, quite possibly, only remediable…
Tag: gun control
It could happen to anyone! Anyone who got drunk and went dancing with a loaded gun stuffed in his waistband
Over at the National Review, Andrew “Mad Dog” McCarthy, stalwart defender of all things Donald, has these words of sympathy for the plight of FBI agent Chase Bishop, who accidentally shot some dude while dancing and, as a consequence, could even lose his job! “It’s a shame. None of us who has a rap sheet…
Liberals, conservatives, and guns. Liberals, conservatives, and guns, and the elephant in America’s living room.
Which elephant, you say? Why, the elephant that’s always there. The elephant of race. It was the assassination of John F. Kennedy that first brought liberals’ long-running distaste/discomfort/hatred of guns to the fore. However, it was the race riots of the sixties, and the dramatic increase in violent street crime among young black men that…
Democrats hold a Tea Party
From all accounts, Democrats in the House of Representatives are delirious over their defiance of decorum, their recent all-nighter on the House floor, where they pushed the envelope to the extent of shouting down House Speaker Paul Ryan, perhaps the most pummeled personage in the history of this blog. Well, I have a hard time…
The Politics of Dead Children
I wish I had a better headline, but the truth this week is not pretty. I don’t know how many children die by accident every day—I’m sure it’s more than twenty—but when death is heaped on us like this it’s impossible not to stagger under the load. I’m one of those liberals who regard gun…
The Guns of Aurora
The recent murders in Aurora, Colorado had no more impact on the possibilities for new legislation regulating firearms than a snowflake on the bosom of the Potomac, as Everett McKinley Dirksen might have said. The NRA definitely had the bit between its teeth with the infamous “Fast and Furious” “scandal”—which I strongly suspect is a…