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The Second Amendment is Not Sacred Scripture

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August 2015

August 12, 2015

Good to Have Clarity

August 08, 2015

Five Reasons Even Gun Owners Should Hate the NRA

Creepy and funny.

July 2015

July 27, 2015

We don’t have a nuke problem with Iran

Rush Limbaugh, America's Truth Detector writes: Thousands Rally Against Iran Deal in Times Square --...

June 2015

June 27, 2015

Two a Day

US police have shot and killed two people every day for the past five months....

April 2015

April 23, 2015

Some Trust the Trinity and Some in Jesus…

...but we will trust in the aim of the gun our god. Gobs of "faithful" Catholics...

April 07, 2015

Peter, put up thy sword

...for all who live by the sword shall perish by the sword.

September 2014

September 20, 2014

Mass Slaughter? Whooptidoo.

A leader in gun culture offers rationales for maintaining the status quo so tortured that...

June 2014

June 12, 2014

When even the NRA acknowledges the existence…

...of Insane Gun Culture and begs them to dial it back and stop acting like...

June 06, 2014

Another Maniac Exercises His Sacred Second Amendment Rights

...in my backyard, a few hundred yards from people I know and care about. Everyone...

May 2014

May 07, 2014

The Single Most Important Fact about our Gun Culture

...is 30,000 corpses each and every year. There are a lot of other secondary considerations....

June 2013

June 17, 2013

Prayers for the People of St. James the Just Parish in Ogden

Friend of the Blog Fr. Erik Richsteig had a shooting in his parish during Mass. ...

May 2013

May 20, 2013

Perhaps it’s time to revisit that whole “well-regulated militia” part of the second amendment

...cuz the whole 22:1 ratio thing doesn't look healthy to me: [E]every time a gun...

April 2013

April 23, 2013

Things I Don’t Get

I get charging the Boston Bomber with using a weapon of mass destruction. What I...

February 2013

February 15, 2013

My friend John C. Wright…

co-founder of the extremely exclusive Wright/Shea Mutual Admiration Society raises some objections to my somewhat...

February 12, 2013

Americans Suddenly Favor Limiting the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

TEST #3: 'Miniaturized, lighter'... Japan's PM Calls Urgent Security Meeting... Pyongyang orders troops to prepare...

January 2013

January 30, 2013

Here’s an idea. Let’s see if the Church has any input

International Conference on Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in all its Aspects

January 29, 2013

Meanwhile, the Gun Lobby Continues to Impress

Fresh from the public relations coup of "Guns Across America" for Martin Luther King's birthday,...

January 23, 2013

So what would I suggest about guns?

First, of course, I would suggest that it is perfectly true to say that the...

January 23, 2013

As the Boy Who Cried Wolf Discovered…

...when you scream "HITLER!" every time something doesn't go your way, you wind up having...

January 12, 2013

Mystical Arguments I Think are Rubbish

After every incident of mass murder with a gun, I can reliably count on my...

December 2012

December 21, 2012

A reader thinks he disagrees with me

...and he writes to gripe at me for not trying to provide some "explanation" for...

December 21, 2012

Everything is Just Fine With America’s Gun Culture

This work of genius was an ad for Bushmaster guns. Bushmaster makes the gun used at...

December 20, 2012

The Irenist Summarizes My Thoughts

What I’m hoping for... is for us to learn to think of gun crime (and...

December 20, 2012

Noodling American Gun Culture Memes

This meme, and hundreds like it that pop up every time some massive outrage with...

December 19, 2012

Common Sense

The totalitarian fiends in Rome who want to leave Real Americans[TM] prostrate before Leviathan teach:...

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