As the spring dance recital season is coming to a close--just one more weekend--I'm beginning to fill up my summer schedule for those interested in the courses, "Firearms 101" and "Biblical Cosmology". They will be taught in my home. I prefer to teach the former one-on-one, so I'm willing to schedule it multiple times. (I'll certainly consider very small groups, though.) The latter is better with small groups and will also be highly interactive--the first to respond gets to choose the preferred date. » read more »

Dial 911 and die.

"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."

-- Cesare Beccaria (On Crimes and Punishment, quoted by Thomas Jefferson in Commonplace Book)

Helga has a Remington model 870 pump-action shotgun with a five-round magazine, fully loaded. She expends two rounds defending herself from an aggressive polar bear she encountered on her way home from school. How many more rounds can she fire before she must reload?

This word problem is not one likely to be encountered by American schoolchildren. (For that matter, American schoolchildren may never see a word problem in what passes for curriculum these days... but that is another subject.) But it would be second nature for the students described in this article. » read more »

This is outrageous! I will boycott this film as proposed.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0...

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Vox makes some good points:

I have never understood why so many otherwise intelligent individuals have such a difficult time understanding the fact that, by definition, criminals pay no attention to the laws. » read more »

Vox defends the Second Amendment quite well:

Of course, the fact that the Founding Fathers, a group of men engaged in violent armed rebellion against their legal government, would have wanted only the government's soldiers and policemen to be legally armed is so deeply and willfully stupid that it still boggles my mind that anyone brain-dead enough to make that argument can remain conscious long enough to articulate it. » read more »

Pellet guns are dangerous. They can put your eye out. Of course, if your intention is to rob a house whose owner has a .38 revolver, you might consider something more dangerous than a pellet gun. These guys didn't, with a predictable result: they lost.

From CNS News:

"There are laws on the books that restrain people from carrying concealed firearms because the public policy benefits outweigh the possible costs of the extremely rare times when having a concealed weapon prevents somebody from being injured." Peter Hamm, communications director for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.

The facts are:

• There are about 2 million successful defenses using a firearm each year, most without a shot being fired. (Source)
• There are about 16 thousand murders per year, 10 thousand of them using firearms. (Source)

With 10 thousand offenses and 2 million defenses annually, it seems Peter Hamm is colossally stupid. » read more »