Olbermann just described the NRA’s “Eddie Eagle” program as “Joe Camel with feathers” (meaning, I guess, that it’s pro-gun propaganda aimed at children). I’m no fan of the NRA, which is actually a (“moderately”) pro-gun-control organisation and a Republican PAC, but this particular charge is a bum rap. As a former NRA member I’m quite [...]
Going through a box of old papers, I found this letter I wrote to the Chapel Hill News back in my North Carolina days; I don’t recall whether it was published. 18 May 1994 To the Editor: The current debate over gun control is the latest, and perhaps the last, skirmish in a centuries-old conflict [...]
So the media outlets all seem to be saying that Amy Bishop shot six of her colleagues before her gun “jammed,” whereupon she was “pushed out of the room.” We haven’t heard what model gun she was using, but don’t most handguns have just six shots? If so, why not assume her gun ran out [...]
The Mohawks want to ban guns in their territory. Canadian border agents want to carry them. Details here. A simple solution: the Mohawks should secede from Canada and the U.S. Next, any gun-friendly Mohawks should then secede from the seceders. There, all solved. Well, I didn’t say the implementation would be simple ….
Although this article on the Free State Project is partly (albeit not entirely) hostile, it still seems like fairly good publicity. I thought it was amusing that the Globe considers it “bizarre” to protest intrusive government by publicly performing manicures without a license – but doesn’t seem to find it bizarre that there is such [...]
What’s wrong with this story? Andrea Phillips, the wife of Capt. Richard Phillips of Underhill, Vermont, said her husband had sailed in the waters off Somalia “for quite some time” and a hijacking was perhaps “inevitable.” … Merchant crews aren’t supposed to fight pirates, short of using high-pressure hoses to try to stop them from [...]
Just saw some talking head on tv defending gun control; he said: “People talk about the 2nd Amendment, but the 2nd Amendment doesn’t give you the right to go out and gun down a bunch of people. We need stricter laws.” You mean it isn’t already illegal to go out and gun down a bunch [...]
The Empirical Me
I’m Roderick T. Long, Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University. I’m an Aristotelean/Wittgensteinian in philosophy and a left-libertarian market anarchist in social theory. (More about me here.) This blog, Austro-Athenian Empire, is a continuation of my earlier blog, archived here.
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