Until recently, we were a world filled with single-purpose items. Each magnificent item was a masterpiece of talent and design. These items performed one specific task, and they performed it well and without exception. What made for their uniqueness was not that they were of excellent quality and made to last…
Black Friday 2009, the traditional annual barometer for the health of the United States’ shopping season, received pleasant boost from South Carolina sportsmen and women. For a 48-hour time frame, which began at midnight on November 27, 2009, firearms were tax exempt. State lawmakers called the weekend shopping spree the “Second Amendment Weekend”…
One of the first fallacies taught in debate class is that there’s no logic in an appeal to tradition – that just because something has always been done a particular way, it always should be done that way (argumentum ad antiquitatem).
According to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, Steve Sanetti, the president of the Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers’ Institute, addressed the United Nations Open-Ended Working Group in early August. His objective was to explain the legitimate use of firearms and ammunition for sporting purposes and hunting, pursuits practiced by millions of law-abiding citizens nationwide…
An alchemist is credited for saying “everything that happened once, will never happen again. But if it does happen again then it will continue to happen.” One day, an ordinary hunt changed in an instant, and I’m hard-pressed to believe it will ever happen again. But I hope it does.