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U.S – Mexico Border: Send Lawyers, Guns and Money. Mostly Guns.

April 28, 2010 by ttag

Unless you’ve had your head buried in the the sand, you’ve likely heard about the little law they passed way out West in Arizona. WHAT you’ve heard depends on where you get your news. If you listen to ABC/CBS/NBC/CNBC/MSNBC or read most daily newspapers, you’ve heard that a bunch of bigoted, narrow-minded, provincial, pig-headed, anti-poor, anti-immigrant yahoos passed a law that will force a bunch of jack-booted thugs in police uniforms to racially profile, round up, beat the crap out of and then deport a host of honest, hard-working undocumented aliens, who are guilty only of wanting the same things you and I want. If, on the other hand, you get your news and information from Fox or Talk Radio, you will have heard that Arizona has passed a law that will force the United States to enforce it’s very own Constitution, treating illegal aliens as . . . well . . . illegal. As always, the truth lies somewhere in the middle.

Editorial: Does the 2nd Amendment Go Far Enough?

April 8, 2010 by ttag

Looking at the feedback we get here at TTAG, it’s hard not to notice how passionate the discussion has become regarding the Constitutionally-protected right of individuals to bear arms. Even the previous sentence is enough to get the blood boiling of any card-carrying Progressive on the issue – because the left and right fundamentally disagree on the very meaning of the words of the Second Amendment. It’s that troublesome subordinate clause at the beginning that has triggered the same kind of furor that Christians and Jews find when arguing about the true meaning of the Sixth Commandment (Thou Shalt Not Murder vs. Thou Shalt Not Kill). For the record, here’s the complete, verbatim record of the 2nd Amendment:

A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

27 words that might as well be carved out of a tablet made from C4 when it comes to soothing the troubled waters of political discourse. But never having been one to run away from a fight, nor avoid using a can of gasoline to put out a blaze, I have a modest proposal that I think might change the entire landscape vis a vis gun issues. We should consider passing a law that requires each citizen to own – and be trained in the safe operation of – a firearm. Are them’s fightin’ words? Hear me out…

(Un)willing Suspensions of Disbelief

February 2, 2025March 30, 2010 by ttag

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyZc_aY1vnE

Entertainment. The opium of the masses, if you wanna get realistic about it. Movies. TV. Even Al Gore’s InterWeb. They’re all filled with moving pictures that allow us to escape from our very own realities for a few precious minutes, and wallow about in someone else’s idea of a good time. Like most of the rest of humanity, I enjoy some escapist fare from time to time. And like a lot of other guys, I’m partial to action movies, thrillers, cop shows and detective stories. But something happened a couple of years ago, and it changed the way I watch – and the way I appreciate (or don’t appreciate) what I see. I learned something about guns. And in the process, my suspension of disbelief is no longer so willing.

Bang, Bang . . . You’re Dead.

February 2, 2025March 25, 2010 by ttag

When I was a kid, I had what I guess you’d call a good childhood. Two parents that loved me. Good school. Three squares a day. The usual. A big part of growing up revolved around my toy chest, which was filled with guns. Toy guns. Back then, that was not unusual. I had six-shooters and a lever-action carbine (in my “Cowboys & Indians Native Americans” phase), a nifty .38 snub-nosed revolver (my “hard-boiled detective” phase), a bazooka that shot a column of air across the room and a Matel M-16 Marauder (in my “Army” phase). I also had a collection of G.I. Joe action figures that was the envy of the neighborhood. (And, quite possibly, the root of my life-long fascination with Jeeps.) The crown jewel of my firearm collection: a Matel-made Remington cowboy belt buckle that featured a cap gun derringer in what looked like bas relief.

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