The Truth About Guns

“Allowing employees to have near, immediate access to firearms, at work, creates an element of risk that is unacceptable.” Mark Hogan, vice president of security for FedEx, quoted in Guns-in-Parking-Lots Foes Speak Their Piece [2012 via tnreport.com]

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My father survived four years of starvation and slavery to raise a family and build a thriving commercial enterprise. Peter Farago’s advice on business: take in more money than you spend. His advice for life: persistence. That’s it. Just that. If you want something, keep after it. That’s how Kirsten Joy Weiss approaches shooting. She logged hundreds of thousands of hours training to become the NRA small-bore National Champion. When it comes to “trick shots” KJW keeps after it until she gets it done. No editing out misses to make it look easy. Because it isn’t. Persistence never is. But it does make success that much sweeter. You know, eventually.

“Nowhere else in the world do the laws on firearms become the playthings of politicians and lobbyists intent on manufacturing cultural conflict. Nowhere else do elected officials turn the matter of taking a gun to church into a searing ideological question. But then, guns are not a religion in most countries.” – E.J. Dionne in The gun supremacists’ folly [at washingtonpost.com]

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