2A's Lighter Side
The gun world with the gloves off. Satire, send-ups and sharp commentary on the people, ads and headlines that make a gun owner laugh or wince.
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He’s the gift that just keeps on giving…like herpes. Ah, good ol’ Sideshow Joe Biden: Between his folksy, aw-shucks schtick, his creepy-uncle behavior with the ladies, and his complete cluelessness about anything involving gunpowder, he’s been a real boon for sarcastic gun writers. Not so much for actual gun rights, I’m afraid, but up until…
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The embattled retailer seems to have slid right into Everytown For Gun Safety with ease. Today, in “how the Hell did I miss this when it first happened” news, we have the following information, courtesy of Breitbart: Apparently Dick’s Sporting Goods Richard Stack has joined Everytown Business Leaders For Gun Safety. As you probably already…
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The perfect is the enemy of the good. In a recent column about how concealed carry saves lives, I related that one of the armed citizens we profiled had his openly carried firearm taken from him by his attacker. In a bit of a throwaway comment, I mentioned that the incident seems to bolster a…
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There are fools out there, and they have money. Let us part them. If you ever had any doubt that anti-Second Amendment activists are people with more money than sense, please take note of this recent article, courtesy of the NRA. In it, we learn that the producers of the Broadway revival of Oklahoma! have…
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Let’s not “reward” the mysterious armed citizen who saved a stranger’s life by ruining his… On January 28, we were treated to a wicked pissah tale of road rage from–where else?–Massachusetts. According to this news report from Fox, it all started with a typical ‘Pike event: a minor crash. The two drivers started to argue,…
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Here’s all the weird gun-related news we missed while we were in Las Vegas… There are two types of people who read the news: Those who skip straight to the “news of the weird” entries, and those who pretend they don’t. Thanks to the SHOT Show, we have to admit that in the last week…
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Lubricia’s back with another reader letter! Hello, lovers! I’m Lubricia Cosmoline, your hoe-stess of “After Dark.” As a long-time aficionado of everything that goes “bang,” I seek to offer a platform for all of your most intimate, personal experiences in the world of guns and hunting. I’ve seen it all—a .50 BMG can’t go too…
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I played with toy guns as a kid, and I bet you did too…but there is a pro-gun argument against toy guns. On a windswept hillside, I had finally brought my enemy to bay. He turned to me, hair a-tangle and knees a-scabbed, and said, “At last, it’s come to this.” He brought his weapon…
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Once upon a time, when I was just a wee Munson, I used to answer these in earnest. Not anymore. Have you ever noticed that so many of the average anti-gunner’s commentary regarding gun rights seems to all come, not just from the same playbook, but the same photocopied handwritten crib notes your frat passed…
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It’s simple, it costs nothing, and it’ll work better than what we’re doing now. Hear me out… What’s always struck me the hardest after each headline-grabbing mass shooting is that murder of this type really seems to be the only kind of crime in which the public’s reaction is to blame all of the people…
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Every gun owner meets at least one of these in their lifetime… If you own firearms and you don’t mind letting people know it, sooner or later one of them will ask you if they can borrow one of those guns. Although there are about 300 million people in America, and every one is a…
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Projection isn’t just a way to get your voice heard… …Projection is, of course, a psychological term used to describe a maladaptive way to process feelings that make us uncomfortable: “projecting” them onto someone else. That’s what has always struck me the hardest about some of the things that anti-gun activists will say in unguarded…