Massad Ayoob's Blog, page 81

PERSPECTIVES…

  For the last month, I’ve been blogging about the heart-breaking atrocity at the high school in Florida, and the misguided assault on gun owners’ civil rights which followed it.  I thought I might escape that grimness at the Rangemaster … Read more

ON A SAD ONE MONTH ANNIVERSARY

It has been a month since the atrocity in Florida that triggered so much legitimate national grief, and so much misdirected anger and hatred. Here are some profound words from a victim of a madman’s criminal gunfire: or view video … Read more

LOGICAL REACTIONS

We are hearing a great deal from certain people who were almost killed, and lost friends and classmates, in a horrific mass murder.  Their reaction has been to stridently demand that millions of law-abiding people who have never hurt them … Read more

THE FALSE HOPE OF LIMITED CAPACITY MAGAZINES

Florida Senator Marco Rubio is among many being told that ten-round magazines will mitigate deaths in mass murders, and create the opportunity for courageous unarmed citizens to jump the killer while he’s reloading and disarm him. That has actually worked … Read more

NEW REVELATIONS ON MASSACRE FURTHER ERODE THE ARGUMENTS OF THE PROHIBITIONISTS

Those who are using the national grief over the recent school shooting to promote their gun-banning and rights-eroding agenda must be very unhappy at some of this week’s revelations. When they ignore the laws of time and space and tell … Read more

CHANGING THE BALANCE OF PUBLIC OPINION?

Recent revelations have changed the narrative of who bears responsibility for the atrocity at the Parkland high school.  Of course, the primary responsibility is upon the twisted young man who performed the evil deed. But there were failures in the … Read more

AND THE PREDICTABLE BEAT GOES ON

The “town meeting” on CNN that was supposed to be a debate was, as many of us suspected it would be, a monstrously one-sided setup for the prohibitionist viewpoint. It should go down in history as one of the great … Read more

MORE SANE RESPONSES TO ATROCITY

Here’s what Newt Gingrich has to say about preventing more atrocities like the recent one at the Florida high school: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/0....   Of course, certain elements of major media don’t want to hear anything that doesn’t fit their agenda: https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2018/02.... … Read more

WHEN ATROCITY MEETS NAIVETE, POLITICAL IDENTITY BLINDNESS, WISHFUL THINKING, AND LIES

A mad dog runs loose and murders seventeen helpless victims in a high school in Florida.  Helpless onlookers all over the world cry, “We have to do something!”  And, as always, that turns into “We have to blame someone!” And … Read more

A QUESTION FOR ALL Y’ALL ABOUT KNIVES IN YOUR EYES

Gang, I don’t usually ask the readership here for favors, but I could use some input for personal reasons.  Looks as if the old guy here will soon be putting his eyes under the knife for some cataract surgery. A … Read more