Tag: gun control
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The Illogic of a Passionate President
President Obama has finally taken action on gun violence. Billed as one of the most cerebral presidents in history – jokingly compared to Spock on more than one occasion – he has apparently gotten in touch with his human half. The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and numerous other news outlets ran photos of […]
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Guns In the Garden of Eden
Schools Should Not Be Afraid of Armed Guards In 2008, I moved back to Texas after living some 20 years on the East Coast. Eager to contrast the two cultures, I did not always find the differences I expected, but on the matter of guns I was not disappointed. Apart from occasional references to hunting, […]
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Fear and Ignorance at the NRA Convention
The National Rifle Association is holding its annual meeting in Houston this weekend. It’s about twenty minutes from where I sit. I won’t be going. That’s not a political statement. To the contrary, I am an NRA member. I just hate fighting crowds and they are expecting 70,000 people to turn out for the convention. […]
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Ad Misericordiam and Machine Gun Preacher
One of my favorite elements of teaching Logic is finding good and bad reasoning out “in the wild” as I like to say. Looking at argument forms or fallacies in the classroom is not unlike looking at pathogens or organisms in a lab. Finding them in their native environment is, for academics like me, something […]
Reflection and Choice 