Not long ago, on a summer afternoon, I found myself in Las Vegas with nothing much to do. My flight back home wasn’t until the next day. The $20 I was willing to throw away on gambling didn’t last as long, so I needed something to do. Luckily, over the last decade or so, Las
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During a September 22 appearance on Fox Business’ Varney & Co., conservative columnist Lawrence Jones said there is a great freedom to exercise free speech on Texas campuses because the students have guns. Jones said this when asked to compare campuses in Texas to UC Berkeley. The segment began with a guest host recounting the money Berkeley
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A gun control activist in Chicago got a gun and justified it by saying her community is too dangerous to live in without one. The activist–Camiella Williams–got a concealed carry permit too. According to NPR, Williams grew up living on Chicago’s South Side and was personally impacted by violence at age nine, when she was hit
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Introduction I think one of the most daunting things when I first started looking for a gun was what size bullet to get? At the time I figured all bullets kill just fine so it was just a matter of what gun I like. Ah, I was so young and naive back then. As time
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The Associated Press reports: The new statue of Mikhail Kalashnikov cradling his signature AK-47 assault rifle unveiled Tuesday in Moscow commemorates one of Russia’s most renowned and reviled inventions. By some estimates, the AK-47 and its versions account for about one-fifth of the world’s firearms …. The AK-47’s distinctive profile with a banana clip makes it
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“People with guns kill people” is an apparently sensible heading for a report on “gun violence” by a professional organization that regards firearms as dangers for which availability and access should be restricted. Gun Violence: Prediction, Prevention, and Policy was presented in August by the American Psychological Association (APA) at its annual meeting. It rightly calls attention to the
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If you’ve ever been to the shooting range, you’ll recognize at least a couple of these classic characters. How many have you experienced? 1. Guy who keeps his ear protection on during ceasefire And…it’s super effective. Kudos for being safe but you’re kind of loud. 2. The guest We were all one of them before so
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You’re a civilian concealed carrier, out and about on a typical day. You stop into the grocery store, turn to grab a box of Wheaties and hear screaming coming from the front of the store. Unsure of what is going on, but knowing you are armed, you now have to make a decision … investigate
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