I have a large backlog of posts I need to get to from my trips to the USCCA Concealed Carry Expo, the U.S. Shooting Academy in Tulsa, and the NRA meetings in Louisville. I haven’t been able to get to those posts, however, because as soon as I returned from my trip to Tulsa and … Continue reading
I was watching the Bravo TV show “Watch What Happens Live” recently and was interested to see former San Francisco Mayor, current California Lieutenant Governor, and California Gubernatorial candidate Gavin Newsom on as a guest. The guests are typically actors, entertainers, and reality TV stars, so it was not clear what Newsom was on to … Continue reading
Nikki Goeser was a late addition to the speakers at the 20th anniversary dinner of Grass Roots North Carolina (GRNC) last weekend in Charlotte. I vaguely recalled her name being mention in Kathy Jackson’s The Cornered Cat, but I could not remember the specifics of her story. Having heard her story first hand, it is … Continue reading
Back in December 2012, shortly after taking Massad Ayoob’s MAG-40 class, “Armed Citizens’ Rules of Engagement,” the case of Byron David Smith of Little Falls, Minnesota was brought to my attention. Smith is the man who on Thanksgiving Day 2012 shot and killed two individuals — Haile Kifer and Nicholas Brady — who broke into … 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
Although the British government imposed various gun control measures throughout the 20th century, the most dramatic moves followed two mass shootings. In1987, 27 year-old Michael Ryan dressed up as “Rambo” and carrying (among other weapons) an M1 Carbine and a Chinese version of the AK-47, shot to death 16 people (and himself) in and around … 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
