I haven’t had much interest in writing lately but every now and then the urge hits me – this is one of those times. I recently came a across an advice column written by Amy Dickinson that I simply can’t not comment on. What caught my eye was this letter and reply on firearms: Dear […]
Shooting
9-Year-Old Girl Accidentally Kills Shooting Range Instructor
From Time: A nine-year-old girl accidentally shot and killed a shooting range instructor in Arizona, police say. Charles Vacca, 39, was instructing the girl on how to use an automatic Uzi on Monday when the girl, who was accompanied by her parents, pulled the trigger and then lost control of the weapon, the Mohave County […]
Ms. Magazine Pulls Plug on ‘My Month with A Gun’ Blog
Ms. Magazine editor Michele Kort has apparently decided to pull the plug on Heidi Yewman’s three part ‘My Month with A Gun’ blog because “gun blogs” had discovered series and were highly critical of Ms. Yewman’s actions: “So, Heidi,” began the email to Heidi Yewman from Michele Kort, her editor at Ms. Magazine. “I wanted […]
Ms. Magazine Mocks Gun Owners with ‘My Month with A Gun’ Blog
I’ve been enjoying a blogging hiatus, but when I spotted this link to Heidi Yewman’s Ms. Magazine Blog series titled ‘My Month with A Gun’, I decided to interrupt my hiatus and weigh in with my two cents. Ms. Yewman is a career anti-gun activist, from Vancouver, WA, she’s doesn’t like guns or people owning […]
12 Year Old Girl Thwarts Home Invasion
From KWTV, News 9 Oklahoma: News9.com – Oklahoma City, OK – News, Weather, Video and Sports | BRYAN COUNTY, Oklahoma – A 12-year-old girl took matters into her own hands during a home invasion in southeast Oklahoma. It happened on Wednesday when the girl was home alone. She told police a stranger rang the doorbell, […]
The Stupidest Law Ever Proposed
I’ve seen a lot of dumb ideas put forth by politicians on both sides of the isle, but a bill introduced in the New York State legislature by Assemblymen Annette Robinson (D-Bedford Stuyvesant) and Darryl Towns (D-East New York) is probably the single stupidest law ever proposed… anywhere! From the New York Post: City cops […]
Sgt. Kimberly Munley: Hero
The word hero gets tossed around a lot these day but Sgt. Kimberly Munley, the civilian police officer who ended the Fort Hood gunman’s violent rampage has certainly earned the title: The hero cop who ended the bloody rampage at Fort Hood by pumping four bullets into the crazed gunman even though she was wounded […]
Breaking: Two Shot Inside Holocaust Museum
A gunman opened fire in the lobby of the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C., wounding a security guard before other officers returned fire. Fox News reports that gunman has been identified as 88 year old James Von Brunn: The gunman has been identified as James Von Brunn, FOX News has learned, a man with apparent […]