Word: gunness
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Cole also claims that the night after the arrests, officers returned in response to reports of a gun in the apartment but then did not search the entire duplex. Swomley maintains that this indicates that the report was either fabricated or was not taken seriously by the officers...
Evans said Byrne has been transferred to a lighter duty situation, and that his gun has been taken away—a typical response to police brutality allegations...
...right to observe that executions are savage, that some militia members are paranoid menaces and that many burger-munchers are metamorphosing into disgusting human gastropods. But pointing out these follies is a bit like hunting cows with an assault rifle. No one, including most educated Americans, thinks serious gun-nuts are more than a negligible fringe, and in 2001, it’s an awful waste of breath to treat them as if the sanity of their position were an open question. Isn’t this just stating the obvious? Yanks tend to be very fat, and they like...
...early chapters, Laxer shows every sign of breaking through this ignorance: He takes a firearm safety class in Massachusetts. Rates of private gun ownership in Canada are low enough that even this act might be viewed as radical. He listens patiently to the instructor, and he offers the obligatory commentary on the loopy bunch that signs up for these classes. Anyone who has handled a gun before, or who has seen the thrilled glint in the eye of a liberal appreciating for the first time the heft and power of a loaded nine-millimeter, is now waiting for the description...
...right to observe that executions are savage, that some militia members are paranoid menaces and that many burger-munchers are metamorphosing into disgusting human gastropods. But pointing out these follies is a bit like hunting cows with an assault rifle. No one, including most educated Americans, thinks serious gun-nuts are more than a negligible fringe and in 2001, it’s an awful waste of breath to treat them as if the sanity of their position were an open question. Isn’t this just stating the obvious? Yanks tend to be very fat, and they like...