We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/a_little_more_o.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:51:46 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification ...other than the ability to hit your target. Professor James Q Wilson (He, with George Kelling, of "Broken Windows" fame) on the futility of ever more and tighter gun control. First, his mistake of fact, to get that out of the way: Leading British, French, German, Italian and Spanish newspapers have blamed the United States for listening to Charlton Heston and the National Rifle Assn. Many of their claims are a little strange. At least two papers said we should ban semiautomatic assault weapons (even though the killer did not use one); another said that buying a machine gun is... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/a_little_more_o.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/a_little_more_o.html Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:13:30 -0600 I'll give up my piece when everyone who is bigger, younger, stronger and meaner than I am magically disappears. I don't have a citation for it, but I believe that some scholar claimed that the murder rate went down, a bit, after effective firearms had been invented. They don't call 'em equalizers fer nuthin! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/a_little_more_o.html#comment-59281 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/a_little_more_o.html#comment-59281 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 23:57:32 -0600 The genie is out of the bottle. There's no putting it back. We have to, all humanity, learn how to deal with a broad range of situations. Bans work in certain select situations, just as aggressiveness works in the proper context. People are confusing what 'ought' to be for what it. Major mistake. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/a_little_more_o.html#comment-59279 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/a_little_more_o.html#comment-59279 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 22:37:48 -0600 And thats 100% the reason I haven't written anything in regarding to VT. I wasn't there, it sucks yes, but the media has turned it in to a 3 Ring Circus with everyone making their own determinations less than 24 hours after the fact and with their own take. One news anchor even attempted to make a joke as to why they were called "Hokies"....while the names of the dead scrolled across the bottom of the screen, here in Dallas. One more example of America selling T-shirts of national disasters, for folks to scramble to make a profit off the disaster of others. Be ready for the bumper stickers, the signs, the magnets and more T-shirts in the up coming weeks. And one more reason that I'll shake my head in disgust and walk away. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/a_little_more_o.html#comment-59255 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/a_little_more_o.html#comment-59255 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:48:40 -0600 Well said... as usual. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/a_little_more_o.html#comment-59250 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/a_little_more_o.html#comment-59250 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:47:49 -0600