Originally posted on Stately McDaniel Manor:
The recent Jihadist slaughter of Americans in Orlando is a crisis Mr. Obama and his sycophantic minions are determined not to allow to go to waste. Accordingly, he has come up with a typically Obamite plan to deal with Islamist terror: disarm law-abiding Americans who pose no threat to anyone.…
I find advertising in general extraordinarily interesting. I was a devoted follower of the TV show Mad Men and I teach about advertising in my classes. Advertising is a major part of our culture, and of course it is a major part of gun culture as well. When I watch gun TV shows, I am … Continue reading
When I think about this question, the first thing that comes to mind is the passage from the Beatitudes, in Matthew Chapter 5: “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.” I have to confess that I remember this mostly because of the scene from Monty Python’s “Life of Brian” in … Continue reading
I’m not really sure whether to shake my head in amazement that the New York Times has discovered that assault weapons kill very few people in America, or to be happy that they finally figured it out. Either way, on September 12th the Times published a “news analysis” by Lois Beckett, who writes for ProPublica, … Continue reading
I really have more important things to be doing right now, but in my morning check of social media I saw some references to a big to-do on Rolling Stone magazine’s website about “America’s Gun Violence Epidemic.” I don’t read Rolling Stone, but I did not have high expectations for a series on guns based … Continue reading
“Did the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban Affect Mass Shootings? A Time Series Analysis,” a paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology by Ivan Birch (University of Texas at Dalls), Grant Duwe (Minnesota Department of Corrections), and Tomislav Victor Kovandzic (UT-Dallas) Mass public shootings are defined in this paper as … Continue reading
Walking through my department over the winter break earlier this year, I was startled to see a flier with an image of a bleeding bulls-eye target and two guns on it. Looking more closely, I saw it was advertising an exhibit at Inter_Section, a local art gallery. The image (below) was of a painting by … Continue reading
