Massad Ayoob on Guns
WHO REMEMBERS…?
I ran across something on YouTube that gave me a flashback to my boyhood.
Who here is old enough to remember plastic models? Mine were mostly planes and ships, with a string of the Aurora...
AN AMUSING TAKE ON “GUN CONTROL”
Satire from the Babylon Bee:
https://youtu.be/ytyms4cNSbo?si=5qCGEv4ZH9ZVmn8P
HOW THE MEDIA DISTORTS SELF-DEFENSE INCIDENTS
My old friend Attorney Andrew Branca is the author of “Law of Self-Defense,” which I strongly recommend that you read, and also stars in an excellent regular YouTube channel of the same title.It’s worth...
ONE IN, ONE OUT
Interesting day on the expert witness side of the house. Learned that the new prosecutor has decided to drop a years-old criminal case against a police officer in a clearly justified furtive movement shooting...
WHAT TEACHERS LIVE FOR
That’s a much younger me on your left in the photo, but I’m here today to talk about the man on the right.
He recently sent me that photo of us taken 33 years ago...
A LESSON FROM HAITI
What’s happening now in Haiti reminds us why we have the Second Amendment.
Armed gangs raided Haiti’s prisons, releasing some 4700 convicted criminals.
Rape, kidnapping, and murder are rampant. The people hide behind closed doors wondering...
FASHION TIP UTILITY TIP FROM AN UNLIKELY SOURCE
Old guy here dresses for comfort, not style. I only wear suits for court, weddings, funerals, and teaching CLE. (I think of the business suit as my shinobi shozuku, my ninja suit…it lets me blend with...
STAND YOUR GROUND, ONE MORE TIME
A few states still have laws on the books requiring crime victims to attempt to retreat before using lethal force to protect themselves from deadly danger.
Nebraska lawmakers, understandably, saw a need to change that...
WHAT’S THE STORY ON THE GLOCK SWITCH?
The so-called “Glock switch” is an attachment which fits on the rear of the slide of a Glock semi-automatic pistol and makes it capable of fully automatic fire. It essentially turns it into an...
