Here’s a clue for Hasbro
It is with great regret that I learn of Hasbro’s plans to market the game of Clue without the revolver. That little gun was one of my favorite game pieces of all time, second only to the iron in...
View ArticleI got rid of that gun too soon
I've been thinking about buying a piece. You know what I mean: A rod. A heater. A gat. A roscoe. A nine. No? OK then: a gun, for the love of Mike. A handgun that shoots real bullets. Last gun I owned,...
View ArticleWhat sort of guns should lunatics own?
Another young lunatic grabs up some semiautomatic weapons and starts killing people at random. Once again, the discussion afterward is not about what can be done, but what can’t be done. Specifically,...
View ArticlePeople kill people. With guns.
I suppose it’s true what the gun nuts say: banning semiautomatic weapons with high-capacity magazines would not have prevented this latest gun massacre. It would only have infringed on the survivalist...
View ArticleMurder at the matinee
A dispute over texting quickly escalates to murder. It figures that this would happen in Florida, where personal restraint has never been considered a virtue. And it figures that the immediate result...
View ArticleCoulda been worse
Here’s one thing I learned this week: If you’re going to encounter a homicidal lunatic, it’s really a lot better if he has a kitchen knife instead of an assault rifle. I know: the NRA will certainly...
View ArticleAin’t a thing we can do
He looks like they all do: geeky and vacant and profoundly weird. After all these mass shootings, you look at the pictures of the suspect and think, “how in the hell did that asshole get a gun?” But...
View ArticleThey’ll be back
The gang in Oregon really wanted a martyr and they finally got one. Now, of course, they’re variously claiming that LaVoy Finicum was ambushed and shot in the back and lying on the ground and also...
View ArticleDangerous toys
Back in the day we used to have these indoor dart-gun fights. A company called Placo made spring-loaded guns that shot rubber-tipped darts. The rule was, if you got hit by a dart, you were out of the...
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