by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 21, 2020 | Economics, Election, Guns, Health, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
Fans of a certain genre of music may recognize the title of this article from a Metallica song. It popped into my head as I read the Democrats’ recent plans, threats, and promises. Some of these are born of the Republicans’ plans to fill the Supreme Court...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 18, 2020 | Culture, Guns, Opinion, Politics
This past December, a “good guy with a gun” stopped a mass shooting in a northeastern Texas town, putting (again) the lie to the anti-gun dismissiveness about civilians stopping crime. Right on cue, nanny-billionaire Mike Bloomberg chimed in with his...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 22, 2020 | Guns, Opinion, Politics
There’s a public argument phenomenon that gun rights defenders and Second Amendment defenders are quite familiar with: “gotcha” questions written by the ill-informed. Step into any on-going debate over gun rights, and you’ll almost invariably...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 5, 2020 | Guns, Health, Politics
The riots (and more germanely, the looting) that have come to dominate the George Floyd story have added to a societal paradigm shift initiated by the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing lockdowns. People’s easy complacency about daily life is being shattered, and...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 2, 2020 | Culture, Guns, Opinion, Politics
The response to the killing of George Floyd by police has morphed from protests to violence. Looting is rampant across the nation. Reports (and videos) of assaults on shopkeepers and bystanders are swamping social media. Protestors, police officers, and unlucky...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 31, 2020 | Culture, Drug Policy, Guns, Politics
The protests (warranted) and riots (unjustifiable) prompted by the horrific death of George Floyd under the knee of a police officer produce all sorts of stupidity masquerading as truth-to-power armchair wisdom. This morning, I found my email in-box loaded with half a...
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