Massad Ayoob's Blog, page 66

SCHUMER WANTS YOU MORE VULNERABLE THAN EVER

Charles Schumer, D-NY, has long wanted to reduce private American citizens’ rights to defend themselves: modern semi-automatic sporting rifles, full-capacity magazines, etc. are all on his want-to-ban list, and he’s not too happy about you carrying concealed handguns legally in … Read more

OVERLOOKED HYPOCRISY FROM GUN BANNERS

Presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke rails against mass incarceration in America. Yet this past Thursday, he demanded a ban on private ownership of semiautomatic rifles. Well, let’s crunch some numbers. According to Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun organ The Trace, there are 15 … Read more

MIDSUMMER CONCEALED CARRY

After recent mass murder atrocities, the public is in more than the usual fear of someone visibly armed.  Witness the recent debacle in Missouri, where a self-styled “Second Amendment auditor” was taken at gunpoint by an armed citizen and arrested … Read more

PRESIDENT MICHELLE OBAMA?

A couple of months ago, after we had finished the audio version of Michelle Obama’s book, I told my wife “I wouldn’t be surprised if she wound up being drafted as the next Presidential nominee by the DNC.”  It turns … Read more

KLEPTOCRACY

From the Merriam-Webster dictionary: kleptocracy  noun klep·​toc·​ra·​cy | \ klep-ˈtä-krə-sē  \ plural kleptocracies Definition of kleptocracy : government by those who seek chiefly status and personal gain at the expense of the governed also : a particular government of this kind I have belatedly been reading the Pulitzer Prize-winning … Read more

LESSONS FROM WARRIORS PAST

Born shortly after World War II, I was a “boomer baby,” and a little boy when the war in Korea broke out.  In school I would later be taught that it was a “conflict” or a “police action,” but my … Read more

PRICES, VALUE, AND TIME…

On the road with a day or two off between classes, I found one of those libraries where they sell the old books cheap. I left with a copy of the 1989 Stoeger Gun Bible that I bought for a … Read more

HOME DEFENSE SHOTGUN LOADS

There’s a lot of crappy gun advice out there.  One example I hear all the time is, “Load your home defense shotgun with birdshot. It’ll mess up the home invader, but it won’t go through the walls and endanger your … Read more

GETTING IN THE POOL

If you’ve followed my work for any length of time, you know that I constantly compare the defensive firearm to a fire extinguisher. Each is a piece of emergency life-saving rescue equipment, designed to allow first responders to stave off … Read more

71, 17…MEH.

Well, waddaya know – I turn 71 today. There are days I feel every bit of that, but there are also days when I get up feeling 17. Which makes me wonder…am I elderly and dyslexic, too? Aah, what the … Read more