This is a column of mine, published at Girls Just Wanna Have Guns. Here’s the link: http://girlsjustwannahaveguns.com/2013/04/heart-of-a-lion/ I was getting ready for work one morning, around 6 am, when I heard soft footsteps on the stairs. My youngest … Continue reading
This is a link to my column at today’s Girls Just Wanna Have Guns. http://girlsjustwannahaveguns.com/2013/04/rights-and-responsibilities/
This is my column in today’s Greenville News. Hateful words do damage. http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20130421/OPINION/304210012/Ed-Leap-Hateful-words-do-damage?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|Opinion|p Recently, two deaths shed remarkable insight into the human capacity for cruelty and hatred. Early this month Matthew Warren, the 27-year-old son of noted American pastor and … Continue reading
Yes I do need a hight capacity magzine! Here’s why… Who needs a high capacity magazine? Who needs a weapon capable of firing more than ten rounds? These questions echo across the airwaves and in the pages of magazines, … Continue reading
It’s not so simple to stop gun crime, it seems. Even on an island with cameras on every corner and self-defense virtually illegal. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1223193/Culture-violence-Gun-crime-goes-89-decade.html Edwin
I remember the way 9-11 petrified my family. The way my heart sank and my mind reeled. The way my children, accustomed to unshaken parents, saw the fear in our eyes as the news feed rolled on. I remember wondering … Continue reading
Here’s an interesting link about violent crime in Australia and the UK. http://voxday.blogspot.com/2012/07/mailvox-aussie-logic.html The problem with so much in politics is that there is no negative feedback loop. When politicians institute ideas that are dysfunctional, they don’t retract. They increase. … Continue reading
We honor the fallen by not forsaking their values (This is my column in today’s Greenville News) http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20120527/OPINION/305270004/Honor-our-fallen-by-not-forsaking-their-values?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|Opinion|s&nclick_check=1 Ask any emergency room physician like myself what he or she thinks of Memorial Day, and you’ll probably see them roll their … Continue reading
My children and my wife turned me on to Suzanne Collins’ book, The Hunger Games. The original and the sequels have become family favorites, right up there with Ender’s Game, Skullduggery Pleasant, Harry Potter and many others. We saw the … Continue reading
What if the serial numbers on the shooter’s ‘AK-style weapon’ showed that it was released in operation Fast and Furious? Just saying… http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/11/16/bullet-hit-white-house-window-secret-service-confirms/ I’ll bet the investigation would proceed a little faster, don’t you? Just joking. We’d never hear about … Continue reading