Profiles in Apathy

We have no shortage of expectations and strong opinions about what we want. But when it comes time to step up to the plate, things get awfully quiet.

"Profiles in Apathy," my Rights Watch column for the January 2007 issue of GUNS Magazine, is now online.

Plying a Seamy Trade

An early December Associated Press story out of Atlantic City caught my eye. "Prostitutes arm selves as body count rises," read the headline...

I scanned the whole story, interested to find out how easy it's proving for the East Coast ladies of the evening to arm themselves for their own defense. Way down in the ninth paragraph, I read of "Christine, 37, who works out of a cheap motel on Pacific Avenue near the entrance to several casinos," who "bought a canister of pepper spray after the bodies were found in the ditch."

That's it? A can of pepper spray?

Yes, that's it. And the sadistic bondage and discipline/dominance perverts who run the government and enforce its freaky edicts wouldn't have it any other way.

Vin Suprynowicz is one of our most articulate and clear thinking liberty writers. Anyone who does not regularly read his columns is cheating themselves.

Everybody here has read his last book, right?

Wayne Fincher Update: January 3

From Paul W. Davis:

There are several documents relating to Wayne's case that have been added to the webpage. Most important of the documents are the transcript of the Bond Hearing, and the Preliminary Jury Instructions for both the Government and the Defense.

You will find these documents in Adobe Acrobat and Wordperfect format. The Bond Hearing is the additional format of HTML (please excuse the HTML as it has not been reformatted to appear as the printed document)

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In Search of the Second Amendment

My review of David Hardy's new DVD should be in next month's (March) issue of GUNS Magazine. I'm not going to post it here before it hits the newsstands, but I will give you my concluding assessment:

David Hardy has given us an important tool to use in educating ourselves and others.

Click on the title link to learn more, including how to get your own copy.

We're the Only Ones Rooty Tooty Fresh and Shooty Enough

An Alexandria police officer who shot and killed a teenager last year will be disciplined, but not fired, police officials announced on Tuesday.

Officer Carl Stowe was working as a security guard when he fired shots, killing 18-year-old Aaron Brown in a Duke Street IHOP parking lot on Feb. 25.

Only "The Only Ones" could get away with stepping in front of a car and then claiming it was coming at them so they had to defend themselves.

Oh, and about the title to this post? I'm really sorry. Truly, I feel bad. I'll try not to let it happen again.

Have You Sent YOUR Email?

Some of you have, most of you have not. The fewer who take the minute to do this, the greater the likelihood those who wish to see this resolved will be ignored.

What have you got to lose?

This Day in History: January 3

In a stroke of strategic genius, General George Washington manages to evade conflict with General Charles Cornwallis, who had been dispatched to Trenton to “bag the fox” (Washington), and wins several encounters with the British rear guard, as it departs Princeton for Trenton, New Jersey.