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Clayton Cramer who describes himself as ‘I’m a conservative with libertarian sympathies (getting more conservative as my children get older)’ says “Oh, you mean the laws don’t work when criminals want guns?” to somehow explain that Britain should not be so restrictive with guns. Well Clayton, even with the terrible increase in crime in the UK, gun related homicide rates are still 150 times less than in the US.
Do a favor for the safety of your children and drop the illusion.
Nick Denton rails against Islam again, but is it really a question of the secular US against Islamic fundamentalism, in a country where 90% of the population regularly attend religious ceremonies.
Christopher Hitchens Interview “Why is the United States so prone to any kind of superstition, not just organized religion, but cultism, astrology, millennial beliefs, UFOs, any form of superstition? I’ve thought a lot about it. I read Harold Bloom’s book The American Religion: The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation (1992) about the evolution of what he thinks of as a specifically American form of religion. There was a book by Will Herberg in the 1950s called Protestant, Catholic, Jew where he speculated that what was really evolving was the American way of life as a religion. And that this was a way of life that wasn’t at all spiritual or intellectual but in a sense believed that all religion was valid as long as it underpinned this way of life. Somehow religion was a necessary ingredient. In other words, religion was functional. I think that’s true but it’s not the whole story.”