It looks like California’s so-called assault weapon ban is numbered. A federal judge overturned the state’s law banning such weapons as a violation of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. From the Associated Press: A federal judge Friday overturned California’s three-decade-old ban on assault weapons, ruling that it violates the constitutional right to bear...
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Why does the Hagerstown Police Department need 33 AR-15 rifles? (Update)
I was reading The Herald-Mail newspaper Monday when I read a piece about how the Hagerstown Police Department is obtaining 33 AR-15 “patrol” rifles from the Washington County Sherrif Department. They were purchased by the Washington County Narcotics Task Force. In other news, Washington County evidently has its own narcotics task force. In a former...
Read MoreThe official hat to wear after a mass shooting
I think I've found the perfect hat to wear during the aftermath of a mass shooting. I call it the "Thoughts and Prayers" hat....
Read MoreWhy new gun control laws will not work
Congress could pass sweeping new gun control laws that would change gun ownership in this country as we know it. And it wouldn’t make a bit of difference if the authorities failed to uniformly uphold and enforce these new laws. Case in point, look no further than what happened during the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas...
Read MoreWhatever we are doing to stop mass shootings is not working
Nikolas Cruz, a 19-year-old white nationalist walked into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School located in Parkland, Florida armed with an AR-15 style assault weapon and murdered 17 people, including both adults and children. It seems pretty obvious to me at this point that whatever we’re doing to stop these mass shootings isn’t working. Maybe...
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