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Category: Gun Control

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Crazy Like a Liberal

It seems like more and more often, I find myself shaking my head and wondering how anyone can think the things that some people think.  I’ll admit, my political views tend to lean a bit Conservative, so most of the time the people whose thinking I’m thinking about happen to

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Guns N’ Noses

I’m sure everyone has been hit up by various organizations asking for your political opinion.  The ones I hate are the ones that ask a question like: “How good of a job do you think the governor is doing?”.  Then, they only allow you to choose from one of the

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PonkaBlog Shorts #4

You can also listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! It’s time for another episode of PonkaBlog Shorts. Today you get four short articles instead of one long one. It’s the same amount of snark, just in bite-sized chunks. Alec Baldwin Let’s start with a pop quiz.  If someone

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Context and Perspective

You can also listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! 80 million sounds like a pretty big number.  That’s because in most scenarios, it is.  For example, let’s say we were talking about 80 million inches.  That’s a lot of inches.  In fact, 80 million inches is about the

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Armed With Knowledge

You can also listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! Sometimes things don’t work out the way you think they should.  You might end up getting where you want to be, you just take an unexpected path to get there.  The Law of Unintended Consequences states that when you

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Less Crazy by Comparison

Now you can listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! Years ago, before Jimmy Fallon and before Jay Leno, a guy named Johnny Carson hosted The Tonight Show.  If you’re old enough, you might remember him.  Johnny’s faithful sidekick was Ed McMahon.  They had a shtick where Johnny would

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Preventing Violent Crimes

There are almost 400 million civilian-owned guns in the United States.  And not one of those weapons has ever killed anyone on their own. By contrast, here are a few examples of what people do to each other on a regular basis: According to the FBI, in 2019 (2020 was

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In Defense of “Assault Rifles”

Each time some whacko goes off the rails and kills a few people, there are more calls to ban “assault rifles”. Because, apparently, they’re a huge problem. The Liberal assertion is that if we banned “assault rifles”, we’d save a whole bunch of lives. Let’s see how big of a

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