Arizona was a “Territory” till 1912, and certain folks there are yet to stop riding mules and seeking gold in ghost mines. Quaintly, Phoenix’s “Historic” district are homes built in the 1930s and ‘40s. This is also the Arizona that nearly lost a major college bowl game a few years ago for outlawing Martin Luther […]
Archive for the ‘Guns Control’ Category
Arizona in the Crosshairs
January 11, 2011Life in a Hail of Bullets
June 27, 2009LIFE IN A HAIL OF BULLETS “War between gun owners and police is more likely than a U.S. war against Iran or North Korea” How many more casualties must we have, and times to be told, that guns are bad things in a civilized society? Since last utterance on the topic in this space, a […]
Let Me Get My Gun
June 13, 2009Why are some people stockpiling dangerous weapons after the election of a black president? Nothing fans public outrage like the issue of gun control. It makes some people want to, well, shoot someone. Why else stockpile such weapons after an election; when a black man becomes president; or someone calls for reasonable controls on their […]
Gun Shy
June 7, 2009Given human nature, a fully armed populace would be a disaster of immense proportions. That’s what I am, regardless that I hail from the Southern U.S. where guns were common and I fired highest score in my National Guard unit with both carbine and M-1 rifle. But in very few years and with a gun […]
America Without Guns
June 7, 2009Given human nature, a full armed populace would be a disaster of immense proportions. That’s what I am, regardless that I hail from the Southern U.S. where guns were common and I fired highest score in my National Guard unit with both carbine and M-1 rifle. But in very few years and with a gun […]