Haiti hasn’t always been a completely disorganized craphole. For now though, the Caribbean island nation shows us a real-time example of just how the veneer of civilization is thinner than most people think. With a…
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The tradition of arms for Black Americans has always been different. “Black codes” were implemented in many states, which were designed to keep Blacks from exercising their right to keep and bear arms. In Florida,…
A video from the last day of 2023 at the Task & Purpose YouTube channel gives a pretty good summary of the kinds of war our world saw in 2023. Not only does it show…
There’s an old saying, supposedly from Mark Twain: “Never argue with idiots. They’ll drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.” Such it is with identity politics. The idea that Americans…
One very troublesome aspect of human psychology is normalcy bias, our hesitance to believe that the way things are right now is how they’ll always be, and how they always were. In many ways, that’s…
A recent survey among likely voters found strong support for gun ownership (Photo: Chris Eger/Guns.com) A new survey among likely voters in 18 key battleground states found the number one reason for firearm ownership is…
Courtesy Jeff Hulbert What makes embracing “gun owner” as an identity difficult for me? For one, in certain quarters — notably on university campuses and among sociologists in particular — gun owner is a stigmatized…