Articles with mass shooting

Adulthood and the Rite of Passage

When is an Adult an Adult? A consequence of the recent atrocity in Uvalde, Texas is the typical, left-of-center, knee-jerk reaction wherein “we need to do something” morphs into, “we need more gun control.” As…

by Syme Antipathic
Posted on June 2, 2022December 1, 2022

Mass Shooting or Massacre?

Prologue I am, unapologetically, a constitutional conservative. As a nation, I believe we have strayed from our constitutional republic roots in the pursuit of “progress.” That said, I slept, when I did sleep, only fitfully…

by Syme Antipathic
Posted on May 25, 2022May 29, 2022

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court 1812-1845
(Youngest Justice [age 32] ever appointed to Supreme Court)

“The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them. . . . There is certainly no small danger, that indifference [to the right to keep and bear arms] may lead to disgust, and disgust to contempt; and thus gradually undermine all the protection intended by this clause of our national bill of rights.”

Liberty Letters, 1833