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February 4, 2023 by Dave Knadler

We were tracking that Chinese spy balloon here at the Warehouse. But now it’s been shot down off the Carolinas. Biden says U.S. fighters took care of it, but did they? We don’t trust the government. We trust MAGA and Marge Greene.   Yes, the balloon was at an altitude somewhat beyond the range of […]

Filed Under: american life, firearms, hoaxes

Dangerous toys

June 15, 2016 by Dave Knadler

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 game until the next round. If the guns were new and their springs weren’t worn out, […]

Filed Under: american life, firearms, politics

They’ll be back

January 28, 2016 by Dave Knadler

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 somehow had his hands up. Next tweet you see, they’ll say he was singing “Amazing Grace” and passing […]

Filed Under: american life, crime, firearms

Ain’t a thing we can do

June 18, 2015 by Dave Knadler

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 then this is America and acquiring a semiautomatic weapon is the least of a young psycho’s […]

Filed Under: american life, crime, firearms

Coulda been worse

April 10, 2014 by Dave Knadler

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 cast the Pennsylvania stabbing incident as another case where an intrepid teacher could have blown away the […]

Filed Under: american life, firearms

Murder at the matinee

January 15, 2014 by Dave Knadler

tampa theater shooting cnn

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 would be a virulent internet flame war about guns and cell phones. Two sacred objects. Both seem to bring out the worst […]

Filed Under: american life, firearms

People kill people. With guns.

December 14, 2012 by Dave Knadler

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 fantasies of law-abiding citizens. That’s just another thing to mourn about this: We can’t stop it. We can’t even slow it down. Not […]

Filed Under: american life, firearms

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