Day: May 17, 2016

SACRAMENTO (Reuters) – Two of the most powerful politicians in California are advancing the same basic gun control agenda – yet they are at loggerheads in a political duel that could preview an ugly race to replace the state’s popular Democratic governor, Jerry Brown. The spat among ambitious Democrats took a serious turn this week,

Hot off the e-press, from Tuesday morning’s Grace v. D.C.: Matthew Grace and the Pink Pistols (“the world’s largest GLBT self-defense organization,” with the motto “Pick On Someone Your Own Caliber”) have just won a preliminary injunction against D.C.’s provision that, to get a gun carry license, the applicant must show a “good reason to fear

One of the differences between moderate advocates of gun control and prohibitionists is in their attitudes toward self-defense. The former are willing to recognize that defensive arms in the right hands can be socially beneficial. The latter deny that firearms do in fact save lives. A good example is Katie Couric’s new TV special “Under

Eagles of Death Metal recently finished a Canadian tour and I got to sit down with vocalist Jesse Hughes and discuss the Bataclan attack in Paris that killed 89 of his fans. You’d think he’d want to avoid the topic, but he was actually eager to get into it. He sees it as a catharsis.