The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion this week revealed that the second-most annoying phrase in casual conversation is “fake news,” but the college overlooked the fact that falsehoods posing as facts seem to be abundant from a variety of sources, not the least of which is the gun prohibition lobby. No better example of […]
Planes, Trains, Anarchists And Twitter- The Anatomy Of A Tragedy
The southbound journey by rail from Seattle to Portland is supposed to be a graceful and coordinated ballet of the best of what the Pacific Northwest has to offer, with sweeping vistas of Puget Sound, river valleys and rolling hills carpeted by deciduous and evergreen trees. In the most unfortunate and tragic of circumstances Monday, […]
Suicide Prevention Effort at Washington Gun Show a Home Run
UPDATED: The stereotype of a gun show as gathering of single-minded “gun nuts” took a beating over the weekend in Washington State when volunteers from the Safer Homes Suicide Aware project found themselves surrounded by interested members and visitors to the Washington Arms Collectors’ (WAC) monthly gathering at the Puyallup Fairgrounds. It didn’t hurt at […]
On ‘Bill of Rights Day’ What Have You Done for the 2nd Amendment?
It is Bill of Rights Day, celebrating this date in 1791 when, according to a history found on Wikipedia, “specific guarantees of personal freedoms and rights, clear limitations on the government’s power in judicial and other proceedings, and explicit declarations that all powers not specifically delegated to Congress by the Constitution are reserved for the states […]
On 5th Sandy Hook Anniversary, Anti-Gunners Still Don’t ‘Get It’
Today is the fifth anniversary of an American tragedy, the senseless mass shooting of 26 people, including 20 children, at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, yet with the passage of time the “common sense” that gun control advocates continually demand about gun laws still seems to elude them. Killer Adam Lanza would not have […]
Seattle Legislator Will Target State Preemption in January
It is a perennial target of anti-gun liberal Democrat lawmakers, and once again Washington State’s model preemption law, on the books since 1983 and upheld in court, is in the crosshairs of a Seattle legislator. State Rep. Nicole Macri (D-43rd District) announced during a Tuesday preview of gun control legislation at a gathering sponsored by […]
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