Question of the Day: Will You Be Able to Think in A Gunfight?
Props to the straight man. Dean Martin. Moe. Bud Abbott. Without a great straight man, the funny guy isn't nearly so funny. Although the relationship between the two trainers at firearms.atactv.com is extremely tight, it must...
CJ Chivers on a Moral Dilemma That Isn’t
New York Times war correspondent CJ Chivers offers insights into the Afghanistan conflict that are uniquely perceptive. That said, his most recent dispatch left me thoroughly perplexed. "At 11:48 a.m., a fourth Afghan appeared, pedaling...
AOL Grabs Gun Grabbers, and Vice Versa
Now that Dan Baum has left the building (moron that later), I feel free to use the term "gun grabber." (Dan had threatened to de-bookmark us over the term.) Fox News (oh this IS...
WAVY to Expose Lax VA CCW Permits. Or Not.
Gun control advocates argue that firearms are too dangerous for what Bill O'Reilly unctuously calls "the folks." The average Joe is too mentally unstable and, well, klutzy, to handle a handgun. The idea that someone...
Discovery Channel “Kidnap and Rescue” Tomorrow, 9pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cimi_pk4SIQ
Scientific American: Socialism Stops Gun Deaths
It's not very scientific and it sure ain't American. But John Horgan at scientificamerican.com just up and goes for it in a rant entitled A modest proposal for curbing homicides: Socialism. Well, not at first....
Gun Owners! NPR Wants YOU! Or Not
Dear Mr. Farago:
I work for the NPR program On Point with Tom Ashbrook and I'm writing to ask if any of thetruthaboutguns.com's contributors would be able to speak as a guest on Monday, January...
Baum Blasts Times’ Temerity
Not to pick unduly on The New York Times, but its editorial of 11 January, referring to “the visceral evidence that the groups have made the country a far more dangerous place,” is beneath the dignity...
Richard Cohen: “It’s the gun that did it.”
Wooly Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen weighed in on the Tucson shooting that resulted in the death of U.S. District Judge John Roll and five others during a botched assassination attempt of Rep. Gabby...
Free Barrett .50 Caliber Rifle When You Buy a Viper ACR
Make that a free Barrett sniper rifle "if" you buy a Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR. I would NOT recommend it. It's loud, hot and inherently dangerous. The car that is. The rifle's a big...
Gabe Suarez Calls TTAG “fagsaboutguns”
After our post Gabe Suarez is Insane questioned the trainer's suggestion that there may be times when it's advisable to hold an adversary at gunpoint with your finger on the trigger, the gun guru...
Question of the Day: Should the Media Show Gruesome Gun Gore?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgxAJ8x3x8k
In these days of dashcams and cell cams, more and more gun violence is caught on tape. Yet the mainstream media censors the resulting material to "spare" viewers ghastly images of gun gore. Why?...