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Texas Hold ‘Em From Plain Sight
Soon, schoolteachers in a small town in Texas may be wielding guns along with their chalk and red pens. Though Texas law does not permit the visible possession of guns on school property, a legislature-created loophole now allows those bearing concealed handgun licenses to freely transport their weapons on campus.
The New York Times reported [...]
Granny and the second amendment
Gun control means nothing as long as people are stupid. Stupid enough to, say, sit your 4-year-old granddaughter down in a Sam’s shopping cart right next to a purse that contains a loaded gun.
I wish it was a bleeding heart hypothetical. But it’s not. Instead, it’s a 4-year-old girl with a bleeding heart.
In law, they [...]
Nine years spent learning, but what have we learned?
4/20/2008: It’s been nine years since Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold decided to honor Hitler’s birthday their way. Nine years since they made a mockery of school safety by barging into Columbine High School with shotguns, slaughtering 12 and wounding 23.
And has anything really changed? Sure, I mean of course things have, but have they [...]
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