Op-Ed

I was at a gun store recently. The clerk behind the counter showed me a gun I wanted to see. He said, "she's a beauty, isn't she?" Got me to thinking . . ....

Henry and I were schmoozing on the way back from the range. We'd just fired a few hundred rounds through Steven's 1903s, and then a hundred or so more through my Glock 19. I...

5. "I have enough guns" - TTAG writer Martin Albright made this observation yesterday. As much as it keeps American companies busy, the idea of never-ending gun buying is a extremely disturbing for people who...

Helen Thomas, doyenne of the White House Press Corps (or "Corpse" as the O-Man would pronounce it) since...um...the dawn of the Industrial Age has been unceremoniously dumped by her employer the Hearst Organization, following...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A 24-year-old West Side woman was raped in her bed Monday morning by an armed robber who broke in through a window. The robber and rapist also broke into another home in...

I caught this post over at democraticunderground.com. In the interests of "fair use," I'm excerpting it here. Please click over to the site for the full text. My one comment: I'm aware that the...

The AK is the epitome of the sexy/scary “assault rifle” genre. With its sinister angles and scythe-like Magazine, the weapon just oozes danger and coolness. In contrast, the SKS is an ungainly, plain-Jane looking...

Wendy Cukier really, really, REALLY wants Canada to keep its Long Gun Registry. The gun control activist has been hyper-active, leaving no rhetorical stone unthrown in her relentless campaign to save the ineffective, intrusive, unpopular...

Just a quick thought: why should there be ANY preconditions for purchasing, owning or carrying a firearm in any state in the United States? You know: save citizenship. You don't have to take a...

I dunno. Where manufacturers already have (some) products that would ostensibly appeal to women (guns with reduced recoil, smaller grips, easier disassembly for cleaning) their marketing is...well.. kind of Neanderthal. Hey, baby...look at this one. It's a girls gun...you can tell because it's PINK. Um...not so much. Most women I know are far more concerned with features like weight, recoil, and stopping power ratios, far more than what color the bloody thing is. You know. Just like men are.

Do you feel pistolized? Canadian sociology professor James Sheptycki created the term “Pistolization” to describe the phenomenon of a society that integrates hand guns into commonplace daily life. It’s a more elegant and pointy-headed way...

Anyone who has seen the pate of my head lately will know that I suffer from chronic frustrations that cause me to pull the hair from my head.  Take, for instance, the road near...