Negative Space: self-defense
- ACLU Encourages Police State
- By arguing against a right of effective self-defense, and by encouraging people to rely on the police for their protection, the ACLU ensures that voters will clamor for a police state.
- ACLU supports the right to bear arms?
- Does the ACLU now support the right to own and carry weapons, or does it think that this power has been stripped from the military and police?
- Always Trust a Criminal
- Franklin said that those who give up freedom for a bit of temporary safety will lose both. But we now know that restoring freedom can give us true safety.
- Anti-War Fliers
- If you want to end the war and shit you’re gonna have to sing louder! Anti-drug war and anti-gun control fliers and posters.
- Brady activists: abstinence, not prevention, answer to violence
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What message does it send our children when they see men and women use firearms as tools to protect them? Violence is never the answer, especially when it comes to protecting children. A child protected by a handgun might as well be killed for all the mental anguish it causes his parents. Abstinence from self-defense is more important than prevention of murders.
- California arson and the Great Filter
- The California arsonist is the wave of the future, unless we return to a society of “laws, not men.”
- Congressional action against self-defense
- Text archive of congressional action against self-defense and firearms.
- Easy targets
- Fifty-seven-year-old Margaret Johnson, coming out of her Harlem apartment building in a wheelchair, must have looked like an easy target to the ex-con loitering outside.
- Firearms Essays
- Negative Space text archive of files on /pub/Firearms/Essays/
- Firearms Politics
- Firearms safety, second amendment scholarship, and other firearms links.
- Firearms Politics archive
- Negative Space text archive of files on /pub/Firearms/
- Firearms Safety & Preparedness
- Web pages about firearms safety and training.
- Firearms Sites
- Web pages dealing with firearms and the second amendment.
- Has welfare failed us?
- Has welfare failed us, or have we overwhelmed the welfare system through other policies that encourage dependance and discourage economic development?
- The institutional forgetfulness of the press
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We no longer have to rely on the press as our institutional memory. The Internet has made it harder for the left to pretend the past doesn’t exist, or to say one thing here and another there.
- Law Enforcement & Self-Defense
- Negative Space text archive of files on /pub/Firearms/Data/Polls/Law Enforcement/
- McCain’s success is not surprising
- Is McCain’s success really a surprise given the available candidates? I don’t think so. Ditto for Huckabee. Their success may be simply that voters are still paying attention to the issues. Objectively speaking, McCain is a stronger conservative candidate than Giuliani and Romney.
- More liberal than the ACLU
- If the people in the second amendment really means “state organizations”, what do the people in the first amendment mean?
- My Friend Sarah
- She’s a control freak and exhibits all the symptoms of a pathological liar, but Sarah Brady still wants to be my friend.
- Necessary to the Security of a Free State
- We cannot have a free state when citizens are not encouraged to be responsible for their own defense.
- New Jersey bans everything
- I’ve got your gun show loophole right here: New Jersey has implemented a de facto ban on gambling and driving, and anything else that requires a license or a registration, such as firearms purchases.
- Politicians keep promises
- Why the House Gun Ban Repeal will fail in the Senate.
- Racism and Gun Control
- Minorities and the underclass will always be the first victims of gun control.
- Self Defense Data
- Graphs, reports, and studies regarding the effectiveness of self-defense and the utility of gun control.
- Self-Defense Polls
- Results of various polls, biased and unbiased on firearms, firearms ownership, and voter perceptions.
- The self-defense Tuskegee
- Killing the poor with misplaced kindness. President Clinton cries “Never Again”, but that’s just newspeak for “ASAP”.
- Slaves in their own fucking country
- It’s time to open the letters bag again. Is there still slavery in America, and is literary merit necessary to end it? Uncle Tom would be proud, but Solzhenitsyn takes it on the ear.
- Throwing Gas on the Fire
- If any incident hilights the violence of prohibition and the futility of gun control, the six-year-old killing in Mt. Morris Township, Michigan, is it.
- What can we do about Hong Kong?
- Hong Kong has a bill of “rights” that depends on the kindness of strangers. There’s one right that can’t be taken away by a despot’s pen. But can the democratic country which now controls Hong Kong allow them to exercise that
- Why don’t gun owners trust the left?
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If you have a Democrat in the house, you are eight hundred times more likely to die from statistical misrepresentation. Forty-three times more likely? Three times more likely? Would you believe smug mathematical innumeracy?
- Woman to Woman
- “Woman to woman, I say, the cops aren’t around to defend us. Men aren’t around to defend us. We have to do the job ourselves, always have. My mother carried a pistol her whole life, as her mother did before her, and her mother before her. I carry my grandmother’s pistol with pride.”
More Information
- Gun Control and Economic Discrimination
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“While melting-point legislation prevents many of the nation’s poorer citizens from legally protecting themselves, no convincing factual, public policy, or legal arguments justify this outcome. Preventing those who have a legal right to protect themselves with a handgun from doing so on the basis of socioeconomic considerations simply cannot be the solution… A compelling argument can be made that melting-point laws (1) are arbitrary in determining which handguns they ultimately remove from the market; (2) may have a negative effect on the ability of the police to track down criminals through the use of ballistics tests; (3) do not…”
- Public Health Pot Shots
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How the CDC succumbed to the Gun ‘Epidemic’ (Reason Magazine, April 1997) Can bad science make good policy?
- RKBA.ORG
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Featuring more political information than you can shake a stick at, focusing on the right to keep and bear arms.
- The Value of Civilian Arms
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From the American Journal of Criminal Law. An overview of the value of civilian firearms ownership in reducing crime. Full title: “The Value of Civilian Arms Possession As Deterrent To Crime Or Defense Against Crime”, by Don B. Kates, Jr.
