In comments here, Lissa Kay says: I used to count myself amongst the ‘antis’ and it was truly based on emotions. A fear reaction, for sure. When I was 16, late one night I found myself on the wrong end of a gun being wielded by an old perv that wanted to have his way […]

I gave Tom King of Gun Talk a bit of a hard time for banning commenters and deleting comments here noting that we should: let them say those things. And link to them to show what vile disgusting people they are. Let their vile flummery stand to show what their side is like. They’re losing […]

Heh: With the outbreak of Reasoned Discoursetm over at Paul Helmke’s Brady Blog to Prevent Gun Ownership you might think that there’s no way to inject facts into the debate anymore, well at least not with Paul Helmke. However that is not the case. I am not the first to notice that the Brady Bunch […]

Laura Washington thinks that, since we’re winning, anti-gunners should get active on the internet since begging isn’t working. She says: To defeat the gun lobby, gun-control activists need to get out of late-night local cable and embrace the Internet They’ve tried. And they can’t stand the heat (google up reasoned discoursetm or search my archives). […]

Breda on trolls. I largely agree, though I do occasionally bring out the ridicule when they comment here. You know, shut up, he adults are talking kind of stuff. But that’s because it’s my house. And, thus far, we’ve mostly been free of trolls. But she’s right. They are not worth the time or effort. […]

In response to Mike Mallowe making this stupid comment: Philadelphia Police officer John Pawlowski was not killed by Rasheed Scruggs — he was killed by the .357 pistol that Scruggs was using. Phelps responds with: C’mon guys, give him a break. He didn’t even write the article. His computer did. Heh.

The Christian Science Monitor has a long tradition of being anti-gun and un-christian and un-science. After all, making stuff up isn’t very christian or very sciency. But I digress. The latest is this tripe (careful with that link, it may hijack your browser) from their blog: Obama’s views on gun control align with battleground areas’ […]

Sebastian has a bit on Reasoned Discoursetm: I think the reason for the vitriol is that we have unwittingly hit on a nerve. The LA Times article presented gun owners in a human light. For those who have their identities wrapped up in who they are not, which is ignorant, paranoid, rednecks compensating for some […]

Chicago Tribune Staff Report (and by that, probably Eric Zorn): Gun-control advocates are weak. Whether they’re badly outnumbered by gun-rights advocates, lazier than gun-rights advocates or simply don’t have the statistical or philosophical ammunition to keep up with gun-rights advocates I’m not totally sure. But the undeniable truth is that, whenever this subject bobs to […]

Bernd Debusmann writing at Reuters notes that gun culture in the US is fading. And by notes I mean re-prints Violence Policy Center propaganda. In fact, here’s a link to their study. And by study, I mean a reprint of data from other sources. But it beats their usual method of calling Google searches studies. […]

You’ll recall that no pro-gun people in Seattle were invited to attend a gun violence summit. After all, even though we pro-gun folks oppose gun violence, we still don’t oppose gun ownership and that’s what this shindig is about. Well, turns out some folks in the area are calling out the kangaroo court.

Is they’re living in the 90s: After all, polls in the early 90s consistently showed that crime was an important issue and 60% support for tighter gun control laws. Yet Dems are essentially done trying to push gun control laws because of the perceived efficacy of the NRA in both 1994 and 2000. This is […]

Laura Washington: It looks like the petulant, gun-toting NRA stalwarts have won the first round. I smell Reasoned Discoursetm coming! Last time, I used this space to ask where you stand on the issue of gun control. A torrent of e-mails later, it’s clear: Gun-control advocates were outgunned, four to one. The gun lovers were […]

Seen at DAMIT’s: This is such a divisive issue. I’m a little surprised that the third option didn’t get more votes. It seems that gun control is SO divisive, people can’t be rational about it. Seems to me that according to recent surveys and your own poll (with only 3% calling for gun control) that […]

Reasoned DiscourseTM will soon be a gunblogger meme along with PSH. Update: BTW, pro-gunners meet pants-shitter. This is funny: As anyone who has spent five minutes browsing it knows, the Internet is filled with people who cannot be bothered with facts, who know almost nothing, and yet who insist on throwing their lack of knowledge […]