Recent content by DangerousSubvert

Biased research I once talked to a Brady guy about a decade back. He basically made the same arguments to my face -- that simply owning firearms meant you were at risk for all sorts of other behavior, and were in general an all-round bad risk type. I own twelve legal firearms. I have a...

"You're the great humanitarian? You want to save the world? PICK UP THE GUN." -- The President's Analyst

People like to use the Vietnam example -- but that unhappy nation is the source of another example as well. Two years ago I had the privilege of meeting an elderly Vietnamese gentleman who had participated in the Saigon uprising of 1945, which was led by dissident, non-Moscow directed...

Actually, I would be shocked and amazed if that wasn't EXACTLY what's going to happen in Iraq -- except for one thing -- the oil companies that are now getting their hands on the previously-nationalized Iraqi oil won't allow it. A U.S. pullout would mean they lose that oil and frankly I don't...

Wow. I guess I'd have to say I'd want to be in Richmond around 1862 or so with something with a scope and take out a certain wannabe president... or a few years later to be in that corridor leading to the box at Ford's Theater and shoot that damn secesh actor... As far as just watching...

My sweetie's favorite Well my better half's favorite is a Walther PPK, but she also has a Taurus 357... she teases me about my single action saying "There have been some advances in firearms in the 20th Century, ya know."

anti-self defense Actually I think I'd have to agree -- word-parsing it and hair-splitting the meanings are ridiculous -- it's anti-self defense propaganda.