A compromise on the “terrorist watch list”
A lot of the gun control talk in recent days following the Orlando attack has centered around the “terrorist watch list”, a covert list of individua...
Category: Due process
Regarding the Brock Turner case…
Defending principles is extremely difficult. But necessary. On this blog and in other venues, I’ve defended the outcomes of the Casey Anthony and George Z...
Reply to Nicholas Kristof
Nicholas Kristof is a writer for the New York Times focusing on human rights, women’s rights, health and global affairs. As part of the SundayReview colum...
Road Trip: A renewed view of the Second Amendment
Recently I had the great opportunity to take a road trip with my wife to southern Nevada. Being a freshly-renewed permitted carrier of a concealed weapon from M...
Revisiting due process and firearms
Perhaps my expectations are too high. I don’t think they are. Just as I would expect a programmer to understand the fundamental concepts of the languages ...
Talking about rape
Let’s talk about rape. Rape is forced sexual performance or sexual performance that occurs while the person — the victim — has been coerced, i...
Reply to the New York Times Editorial Board regarding gun laws
I will say up front that I have a concealed carry permit lawfully issued under the laws of the State of Missouri. I’m also up for renewal later this year....
Due process and the Second Amendment
In his FAQ on violence, question 15, Sam Harris said: It now seems to me that there are two ways of approaching this [discussion about guns and gun rights] that...
Holmes and Tsarnaev – revisiting due process
Watch the comments to any article detailing the trials of James Holmes — the accused in the Aurora theatre shooting — and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev — ...
Who is actually racist?
Anyone who tries to tout that the NRA doesn’t like the idea of blacks carrying guns is absolutely ignorant. For one, the NRA News has a commentator by the...