PolitiFact calls Everytown’s “school shooting” map “mostly false”
From “Have there been 74 school shootings since Sandy Hook? A closer look at a tricky statistic” A statistic calculated by Everytown for Gun Safety, and shared widely on social media, said that there...
View ArticleOn Fundraising Strategies
My strategy for political fundraising is pretty simple: like many people, I join membership organizations that are aligned with my position on a particular issue1, keep my membership up to date, and...
View ArticleMid-Term 2014 roundup: that went well.
Overall, the election seems to have gone well for the pro-freedom side: Republicans (who are typically, but not always, pro-gun-rights) have a substantial majority in both federal houses....
View ArticleLooking at Hillary Clinton’s gun control proposals
Hillary Clinton just released her proposed ideas for gun control that, if elected, she says she will implement. As expected, they’re nearly all politically-motivated non-starters. Also, she cites...
View ArticleSocial media roundup, part 2
Back in late 2013 I checked how popular various pro- and anti-gun groups were on Facebook at Twitter. I figured I’d repeat the analysis to see how things have changed in the intervening years....
View ArticleKnowing so many things that aren’t so.
Ronald Reagan once said, “It isn’t so much that liberals are ignorant. It’s just that they know so many things that aren’t so.” Every day proves that statement to be more and more true. In looking over...
View ArticlePredictions for today’s march
So, today is the March for Our Lives, the multi-city Bloomberg-funded gun control march. Here’s my predictions for today and the time following the march. Anyone want to bet on how many are true, or...
View ArticleHow’d I miss this?
Gun rights are winning and nobody has realized it. I missed this when it first came around earlier this year. Fascinating and heartening read.
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