Same Fear, Different States- Constitutional Carry and Letting Our Neighbors...
It is more dangerous when honest men and women face criminals barehanded, and safer when the good guys are armed. That isn’t hard to understand. It is easy to calculate the additional lives we’d save...
View ArticleClear Thinking About Taxing Guns
We are strange creatures. We see the world and build mental models of how the world works. Soon, those models become more significant to us than reality itself. That is dangerous when so much of our...
View ArticleAre Gun Grabbers or Gun Owners Empathic and Distrustful?
Both sides of the gun debate feel that their position is correct. Both sides agree that horrible people do horrible things. Both sides of the debate want to stop that. That small point of agreement is...
View ArticleThe First Week of June, 2022
My writing and posting has become sporadic here at SlowFacts. I appreciate that you read what I post. That means I have to deliver good ideas in a clear and concise form. There has been plenty to say...
View ArticleWill We Choose Hard Work or More Clickbait to Protect Our Children in School?
Set aside what you imagine about guns and protecting students at school. Keeping our kids safe is hard work. It is ugly and almost always unappreciated. We don’t want appreciation for what we’ve been...
View ArticleWhat Should We Do When the Police and Politicians Leave Our Kids to Die?
We will see policemen stand still during a violent attack when they should move forward to protect our children. It has happened many times before. It will happen again. What should we do if we are...
View ArticleProgress and Magic are Different
There are two ways to change the world. One way assumes that magic is real. The other way assumes that people will do what is best for them. We’re facing that test today in the United States. In the...
View ArticleWe’re Smarter Than Our Politicians.. and we need to be
We want police officers to protect our children at school. Most of us take that for granted. Now that we think about it, the firearms instructor who taught the police officer, is that instructor...
View ArticleREPOST- Why Our Florida Legislators Need Help with Constitutional Carry
(I wrote this last winter but the Florida legislature is reconsidering constitutional carry today. Time for a repost. RM) The Florida Legislature passed a Constitutional Carry bill out of a house...
View ArticleTeaching us to Hate Guns and Despise Gun Owners
We all know how to sell something. We also know how to discredit an idea or action. All we have to do is ignore its benefits and inflate its costs. Are those lies exactly? A comedian can lie to us,...
View ArticleFree Speech is Good Because..
I believe in free speech because I believe in free thought. I don’t have the right to tell you what to think. The only way I test my own thoughts is to put them into the world and see how they work....
View ArticleDefending Our Children with Trained Staff
I met some amazing people and I’m grateful for it. I’m thinking of the people who protect our children at school. I’ve met teachers who volunteered to be first responders. I’ve met firearms and...
View ArticleWho wants more “gun-free” zones?
You must have seen the news stories about the attack outside a shopping mall in Texas. If you didn’t read the whole article, at least you scanned the headlines. It was awful that innocent people were...
View ArticleWill “Better” Defenders Cost Lives in Schools?
It is bad enough when another narcissistic idiot with a gun kills innocent victims. It is worse when the mainstream media gives the murderer a multi-million-dollar publicity campaign. That is crudely...
View Article“Progressives” Promise Perpetual Sympathy but Deliver Injustice
The practice of intersectional victimhood is fascinating. It is the ultimate bait-and-switch con game. Everyone is invited to play, and almost all will lose. Like most manipulations, it loses its...
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