Category Archives: guns

Another school shooting–will anything change?

Posted on 24 February 2018 by Steve Caplan

It is becoming increasingly difficult to keep one’s nose to the grindstone and carry on in America of 2018 as though everything is okay. That’s because it isn’t. I have to be optimistic—and despite Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman’s wariness of … Continue reading →

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Guns + ammunition

Posted on 13 January 2014 by rpg

Just after I started shooting I was listening to a couple of the old(er) timers bitching about their recent poor performance. One of them blamed the ammunition they were using. The other pointed out that while shooters often blame the … Continue reading →

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Gunning for a better life

Posted on 28 December 2013 by Steve Caplan

It’s been over a year since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and little remains of the resolve that seemed to develop within the American public to “do something.” I was taking advantage of glorious weather … Continue reading →

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Out of control

Posted on 23 December 2012 by Steve Caplan

The tragic, premature and incomprehensible loss of so many young lives due to the horrific shootings recently in Connecticut are a blight on American society. Unfortunately, this is not a new thing, although the massacre of children so young may … Continue reading →

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