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Archive for the ‘Guns Control’ Category

Arizona in the Crosshairs

January 11, 2011

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 […]

Mosque-ing the Truth

September 9, 2010

Anything Obama says or does will be criticized by the radical right, who are masquerading as “conservatives,” though not worthy of the name. It warmed my heart to see him give voice to religious freedom in regard to the mosque center–and he did not “back off” or “qualify” that stance the following day. Whoever can […]

Life in a Hail of Bullets

June 27, 2009

LIFE 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, 2009

Why 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, 2009

Given 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, 2009

Given 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 […]