Better safe than sorry

Barack Obama said yesterday that gun-owning Americans needn't stock up on guns and ammo before he's sworn in next month.

I say, better safe than sorry.

Buying your first handgun

Dick Clark (no, not that Dick Clark) over at LewRockwell.com offers some useful tips this morning on the in's and out's of purchasing your first handgun. Legally. Be advised: if you don't want Uncle Sam to follow a paper trail to your door, you may want to pursue alternative methods.

A perfect combination

I think I've known all of you long enough now to let you in on this little secret: I'm a very big Jodie Foster fan. Yep. Always have been. Ever since those Courtship of Eddie's Father days on TV. Sadly, I don't think Jodie's appeared in a good movie for almost a decade. But this one, which I missed during its recent theatrical run, I'm definitely gonna see. I love Jodie. I love guns. I'm off to Netflix it right now. And don't anyone try to stop me.

Tammy and "Snuffy" Bruce

A few years ago, I spoke here of my affection for author and radio talk show host Tammy Bruce. A “lifelong Democrat” and former president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization for Women, she campaigned in the early 1990s for Bill Clinton, Diane Feinstein, and Barbara Boxer. But as Tammy herself writes, she's now “an openly gay, pro-choice, gun owning, pro-death penalty, voted-for-President Bush authentic feminist.” I was a Tammy Bruce radio listener when she started moving rightward and away from contemporary liberalism during the late 1990s. She calls herself a “classical liberal” and says she believes in individualism, free markets, and "minimal government," so hooray for that. But 9/11 turned her hawkish; she supports the so-called War on Terror, closed borders, and other neoconservative agenda items.

Ah well... Tammy’s still a blast to listen to, and she’s oh so politically incorrect that I’ve just gotta love her. (And she’s cute, too.) The accompanying photo of Tammy with trusty “Snuffy Bruce” just made its debut on her official website. She writes: “A Chick with a Gun and a Microphone. Yes, the two things that make the establishment the most upset. Well, three things if you include the chick. ... There has been some controversy over the fact that I have my finger on Snuffy’s trigger. Yes, I know that is politically incorrect firearm etiquette, but this is a photo and I wanted it this way for the dramatic impact. It’s that simple. It’s a portrait, not an instructional photograph.”

Love it! I’m just hoping that soon, Tammy will fully understand what it really means to be a classical liberal and turn her back on the powers of darkness.