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Guns & Hunting Thread (12-30-2012)Gun Control's Self-Refuting Arguments Damn Dirty Rino sent along a link to this great piece at PJM. I personally believed in civilian disarmament until an acquaintance in law enforcement challenged my gun-banner’s assumptions with questions and points I could not rebut. This began a research journey limited only by my decision to exclude any data cited by the NRA. At the time, I was convinced only caring people like the Brady Campaign would present the truth. Oh, did I mention it was a nut stomping of a piece by WaPo wunderkind Juicebox Klein? No? Well that's just an added bonus, so read the whole thing. This point really jumped out at me: Fiction 3: “Gun Violence” Gun control is racist. Tell all your liberal friends. Or acquaintances. Whatever. Also, somebody tell this clown. Another good read by someone applying logic instead of emotion: A Reluctant Vote in Favor of Armed School Guards Most Americans agree that dramatic steps must be taken to prevent the recurrence of a horrible event like that of Dec. 14, 2012. Just what steps should be taken is a matter of disagreement. After considerable thought I have sadly concluded that Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, is correct when he advocates for armed security in the country's more than 100,000 schools. It's really not that hard, is it? Like LaPierre said, the only thing that'll stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. The only problem the left really has with this is that the proposal was made by the NRA. When Bill Clinton said largely the same thing after Columbine, it was the most brilliant thing ever. Journalists and Guns Lots of fun was had at the HQ this week in pointing out how ignorant journalists are of gun laws. You'd think they'd recognize this deficiency and seek to address it, but you'd be wrong.
I wonder, though, whether they're any more ignorant about guns than they are about any other topic in general. It's at this point that a reminder of Michael Crichton's Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect is in order: Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know. See also: Ezra Klein. Gun Of The Week What's this Semiautomatic Assault Pistol? ![]() Marksmanship Award
Gun Of The Week - Answer That picture, of course, is of the ultra-modern Borchardt C-93. And by 93, they meant 1893. To listen to the news, you'd think semiautomatic firearms were invented around the time the iPod was, not well over a century ago. And as we all know, the semiautomatic handgun was perfected in 1911. Christmas Guns A great collection of ads via commenter 'RWC' on Christmas eve. ![]() Tips If there are topics you're interested in seeing in the gun thread, please send them to AoSHQGunThread at gmail. You can also send them to me on Twitter at @AndyM1911. | Recent Comments
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