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POPSNo-Fly List = No-Guns List: McCarthy's Crusade Continues Rep. McCarthy was elected to Congress on a wave of sympathy over the murder of her husband and injury of her son during a mass murder on the Long Island Railroad. She has dedicated her career to a seemingly obsessive effort to restrict legal access to firearms by civilians (but not by government officials). Her sponsorship of H.R. 2401 adds fuel to charges that McCarthy's hostility to private firearms ownership overrides any concerns she might have about due process or simple justice.
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POPSNew York's Operation SNUG But other than that, it's basic common sense. "Commitment to SNUG" will "put a stop to that deadly trend"? Really? How? I mean aside from coming up with an insipid, meaningless acronym? This initiative developed is modeled after the highly successful Cease Fire Gun Violence Prevention Model currently used in Chicago. Chicago? That wouldn't be "gun-free" murder capital Chicago, would it? I guess New Yorkers are about to find out what Malcolm Smith and Kathleen Tice mean by "highly successful."
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POPSThe Battle of San Jacinto At close range, the two little cannon, drawn by rawhide thongs, were wheeled into position and belched their charges of iron slugs into the enemy barricade. Then the whole line, led by Sherman's men, sprang forward on the run, yelling, "Remember the Alamo!" "Remember Goliad!" All together they opened fire, blazing away practically point-blank at the surprised and panic-stricken Mexicans. They stormed over the breastworks, seized the enemy's artillery, and joined in hand-to-hand combat, emptying their pistols, swinging their guns as clubs, slashing right and left with their knives. Mexicans fell by the scores under the impact of the savage assault.
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POPS20/20 Off Target With Shooting Experiment Well, hold on. Let's take a closer look at that experiment. The victim wore a helmet and bulky gloves. Obviously there was a safety issue, so the helmet is understandable. But why the gloves? They appeared too large. They certainly made drawing and firing a handgun far more difficult than it should be. The victim carried an unfamiliar gun and holster. Is that the gun he would have actually carried? Is that the holster he would have used? The video showed the holster placed in an awkward position and at a difficult angle, not likely the way the young man would have carried the gun in real life.
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POPSProtect Children, Not Guns To validate the “for the children” gambit, there should especially be some link between gun prevalence and child murder. Examining the Centers for Disease Control fatal injury data reveals the truth. Looking at total fatal injuries, between 1994 and 2005, the overall fatal injury rate for ages 15+ (non-children) rose 4.6%, but it fell 26.6% for children (ages 0-14). Overall homicide rates (murdered by any means, e.g. firearms, strangulation, poison) for ages 15+ fell faster than for ages 0-14 (-35.6% to -28.2%), but firearms homicide rates fell faster for children: -53.0% to -38.0% for ages 15+. This variance shows that while non-children are relatively safer when looking at overall homicide, children became much safer from firearms homicide.
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POPSKarnes' Crowbar - Heroic Account of Texas Revolution Pinned down in the streets of San Antonio in 1835 by Mexican muskets and cannon, Henry Karnes, a 23 year-old Tennessean, led his company by example. The soldados occupying the house had no desire to face such a determined enemy.
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POPSForts Crumble Into Trenches Period photographs of Sumter show what appears to be total destruction. Yet it was in fact an impenetrable redoubt. And we're left with a remarkable example of how technology informs us. Masonry was no protection against the new rifled cannons, but pulverized walls were. Southern ingenuity was alert to that lesson. By war's end the South had reinvented defensive fortifications. The old masonry forts lingered another half century, but they never again played any important role in war.
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POPSRich Dictator, Poor People Chávez imposes his Bolivarian curriculum, which intends to promote Chavista ideology and eliminate the democratic history of Venezuela. Instead of focusing on educational standards, schools today are becoming miniature military boot camps. It is no surprise that literacy rates are dropping.Children with green uniforms and red berets are handling guns and shouting, “Fatherland, Socialism or Death.” This horrifying phenomenon is fueled by Chávez’s determination to condition the Venezuelan youth into believing his own skewed interpretation of history, through which they will likely become little soldiers for his cause.
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POPSMedicine Rock After a year of effort, though, they finally arrived in Louisiana. The men turned down several offers for the meteorite and shipped it to New York, where a chemist found that it was made not of platinum, but of iron. The explorers didn't profit from the meteorite, which was named the Texas Iron. But their foray prompted Spain to step up its patrols. And the meteorite was one of the first to receive extensive scientific review. Today, it's on display at the Peabody Museum at Yale University.
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