History On Repeat
I spent a few minutes last night going through my social media posts from four years ago, and pretty much all of them are focused on two things: The restrictions placed on our lives based on the fear of COVID…
Know Your Lane, Know Yourself and You Will Be Invincible
A cursory search on the Internet will turn up articles spouting off about how the training done by military veterans and experienced law enforcement officers is far superior to that done by armed citizens. To quote one of the more…
A Calm Center In The Storm
Anyone who's ever debated guns from the pro-Second Amendment side of things is familiar with the phrase "have a conversation about guns." What this usually means is that those of us who believe in the individual right to keep and…
… because shut up, they explained.
David Yamane is somewhat amazed that elite, left-leaning publishing houses had little to no interest in his new book. “These book editors — and other liberal cultural elite gatekeepers like those at the WaPo, NYTBR, Atlantic, and New Yorker — are…
When Fast Becomes Fashion
The people behind the wackdoodle Area15 immersive experience are creating a “John Wick Experience” in Vegas. Guests will step through the doors of the Las Vegas Continental and into the fantastical world of the billion-plus grossing franchise movies, where they…
Life’s A Niche And Then You Die
One of the more interesting things to come out of SHOT Show 2024 was the continuing interest in revolvers and thermal vision and the resurgence of lever-action rifles. New AR-pattern rifles were few and far between at this year’s show.…
First Time At SHOT Show
I'm into double digit SHOT Shows (which pales in comparison to some people), but I've attended it as low-level media, mid-level buyer and now higher-level media, so I have a fairly broad experience with this event. It's tempting to think…
Phyle Driver
Just like the author of this article, Neal Stephenson’s “The Diamond Age” has been a big influence on my vision of the future, as was Stephenson’s earlier novel, “Snow Crash” and the works of William S. Gibson. And also like…
Open Carry Is A Deterrent… Or Is It?
Should open carry be legal? Of course it should. It’s useful in lots of different ways, and banning it is a restriction on the right to keep and bear arms, and that's a bad thing. But should you do it?…
The Year Of Wrath
Sherman, set the Wayback Machine for January 2016. Donald Trump was inaugurated as President, which torched off (literally) weeks of protest. Then came the 2017 Charlottesville attack, the riots in Kenosha and Minneapolis and January 6th. Add it all up,…