tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51028542007-10-12T08:07:38.069-04:00GwenBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5102854.post-1167604812836752782006-12-31T17:40:00.000-05:002006-12-31T17:40:12.840-05:00

Snoop Dogg has called for, if you can believe it, a world gun amnesty.That's right -- an amnesty.He wishes guns would go away, so no more lives would be cut short unnecessarily.I find it odd that he wishes guns would go away, yet he is asking for a gun amnesty. Why do I find it odd? It's his choice of words: Let's look at the definition of "amnesty": 1 an official pardon for people convicted of

Gwentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5102854.post-1158514273265233632006-09-17T13:01:00.000-04:002006-09-17T13:32:52.090-04:00

Predicting the DuQuesne University Response Yes, there was Yet Another Shooting at an educational institution. At DuQuesne University near Pittsburgh, PA, shots were fired during a dance, injuring members (or soon-to-be members) of the basketball team. The story so far is that there was a fight over a girl involving persons who were not students, objects were thrown in anger, then a gun was

Gwentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5102854.post-1146232543242526092006-04-28T09:15:00.000-04:002006-04-28T09:56:25.803-04:00

Proliferation My Ass Today's my birthday. But heck, I can't sleep late. I woke up at my usual time, got up, went to the john, and turned on the tube to catch the news while my partner got ready to go to work. (Just for a class, then she's coming home to spend the rest of the day with me. Yay!) Now, a lot of people rip on Fox News for being "right wing", but you wouldn't know it for watching

Gwentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5102854.post-1142904422019748492006-03-20T20:03:00.000-05:002006-03-20T20:30:31.126-05:00

Mr Grimason said: "Arms control is close to my heart after losing my son, Alistair to a gun. This was said by the father of a little boy killed during the Dunblane Massacre in Scotland 10 years ago, during a UN media circus on arms control. Once again, we see a tragic juxtaposition: a dead child or loved one, and a woeful lack of perspective on the part of the survivor. It is horrible that

Gwentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5102854.post-1118713885778172342005-06-13T21:51:00.000-04:002005-06-13T21:51:25.780-04:00

Gwentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5102854.post-1066747234607545472003-10-21T10:40:00.000-04:002003-10-21T10:40:34.263-04:00

"Spray Fire" These are words to conjure with, words to join "Boogeyman" and "Baba Yaga", and other terms of evil juju that parents tell children to scare them into behaving. They started out as something with real meaning, but got corrupted, turned into folk legends, and thence, into scare legends suitable for terrorizing babes in the night. It used to refer to the use of fully-automatic

Gwentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5102854.post-1062009746121824132003-08-27T14:42:00.000-04:002003-08-27T14:42:26.136-04:00

"Are you serious?" That's what Senator Alan Cropsey, R-DeWitt of Michigan said, when told about the GLBT shooters' organization the Pink Pistols. He actually thought the formation of a chapter just outside Detroit was a "publicity stunt" of some kind -- as if an organization with 38 chapters in 28 states needs to stage "stunts". I'm certain there was also a certain amount of, shall we say,

Gwentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5102854.post-950354752003-05-29T10:45:00.000-04:002003-05-29T12:35:44.000-04:00

One of the loudest voices screeching against so-called "assault weapons" is Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA). Sen. Feinstein is one of the authors of the original 1994 Assault Weapons Ban and one of the "usual suspects" in the continuing and compelling saga of fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Senator Feinstein is a True Believer. She Truly Believes that simple, semi-automatic rifles -- that fire

Gwentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5102854.post-949007162003-05-26T12:06:00.000-04:002003-05-26T12:26:31.000-04:00

This whole argument about "Assault Weapons" just makes me angry. The people who scream that "assault weapons are military weapons", and that they should be kept away from civilians, that they have no civilian use, don't know what they're talking about. They have been fooled. There has been a Big Lie told that is worthy of Goebbels, worthy of the Big Lie that Jews are the source of

Gwentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5102854.post-931892792003-04-24T13:46:00.000-04:002003-04-24T13:49:36.000-04:00

It's sad. Where have all the cowboys gone? There was a song by that title a few years back, bemoaning the lack of "Lone Rangers", happy endings, and other romantic figures. Now, Citizens of America is singing the Blues and shutting the doors because of a distinct dearth of angels. The anti-gun movement has all too many of them. They seem to be popping out of the woodwork, more than

Gwentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5102854.post-919195632003-04-03T10:54:00.000-05:002003-04-03T11:02:10.000-05:00

"The most common "weapon" confronted by police officers was automobile, which accounted for 32 cases of police firearm use. This was followed by knives, at 11 cases. There were four cases where police officers were confronted by bars and other blunt instruments. ...the NPA said there were only three cases where police officers were confronted by suspects armed with firearms when

Gwentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5102854.post-914850262003-03-27T10:48:00.000-05:002003-03-27T11:01:03.000-05:00

Hey, now...THIS is a great idea! I am so cheesed off at the liberal bonehead Michael Moore, that I have been looking for a way to express my righteous ire, but hadn't found the perfect way until now. Join the "Buy A Gun For (In Spite of) Michael Moore" campaign on April 15, Tax Day! Yes, really torque off this Brie-eating, limo-driving, baseball-cap-wearing troglodyte by going out and

Gwentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5102854.post-897905292003-02-26T14:53:00.000-05:002003-02-26T14:53:02.513-05:00

One of the most infuriating phrases in all anti-rights rhetoric has to be "stop gun violence". This phrase triggers my ire in so many different ways. It is so blatantly manipulative, it makes me ill, and at the same time, it threatens to be one of the most undeniably effective memes ever concocted by the opponents of the Right to Bear Arms. And that is exactly what it is, a meme. In case

Gwentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5102854.post-897420962003-02-25T19:04:00.000-05:002003-02-25T19:10:14.000-05:00

Here's a new look for The Range Bag. I decided that the old software, a program called Safari, just wasn't doing what I wanted. It was hard to use, clunky, and not well suited to my purposes. It was really designed for building newsletters, not a blog, and that's what this is now. Hence my change to using Blogger for this site. It's free (at least until Google decides to change the

Gwentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5102854.post-897386692003-02-25T17:58:00.000-05:002003-02-25T18:18:57.000-05:00

Just one. We hear that exhortation a lot, as a statement of minimal acceptable value or maximum acceptable outrage. "If it helps 'just one' child...", "If we can get rid of 'just one' gun...", these are examples of how it is used by those who spread Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt , drawing Just One Line to hem us in. If we take Just One Step out of line, they'll take Just One Cut between our

Gwen