Bad Investments
What would you tell a friend who asked you if they should stick with a financial advisor who had made 20,000 bad investments for him? If that advisor had in fact never made a good investment? Would advise your friend to let that advisor give it just one more try?
It's All About You
Occasionally they will slip up and tell you what the real objective of their "commonsense gun safety" and "good first step" gun laws really is.
Pay No Attention...
Pay no attention to the story behind the headline…unless you want to understand what really happened.
Minority Report, This Isn't
In our recent debate over both the constitutionality and effectiveness of red flag laws, there have been a lot of comparisons to the movie Minority Report. In case you’re unfamiliar, Minority Report is a science fiction film set in a future world where technology exists which allows for the prediction and prevention of crime…thus the comparison to red flag laws.
No Mass!
I was thinking about the recent string of mass shootings, and how eager some are to correlate a single factor (the gun) to the incident…and then advocate for the elimination of that single factor in order to end mass shootings.
Bycatch
Here we are on the heels of three horrific mass murders, and the topic of the day seems to be what are commonly referred to as “red flag” laws. These laws are intended to provide a tool for intervention when someone is feared to be a potential (not actual) violent actor. There are two major problems with that.
Everybody Knows
El Paso
In the coming days there will be plenty of time to dissect the particulars of the horrible murders which occurred there today.
Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em...
For the record, I really don't care about weed anymore. Never used it, don't plan on it, don't care if you do.
That's Crazy Talk
I was recently listening to a talk given by my friend Cheryl Todd of Gun Freedom Radio on the topic of “red flag laws,” and she said something that caught my ear. She was explaining the difficulty that trained psychology and psychiatry professionals have in predicting violent behavior, and said “we suck at it.”
So Simple
Another mass shooting. In a “gun free zone.”
Wayne's World
Up until now, I’ve deliberately avoided addressing the situation at the National Rifle Association. Since I didn’t feel like I had a very good handle on all of the ins and outs of the fight(s) between the NRA and Ackerman-McQueen, Wayne LaPierre, Oliver North, and the Board of Directors, I thought I ought to keep my mouth shut and listen to those more savvy than me.