In All History The Only Bright Rays

Anger, As Long As It Is Controlled Anger, Is No Obstacle To Efficiency. Self-control Is One Thing The Sociopath Does Not Usually Possess. Use Yours To His Undoing.

We Thought Everybody Knew By Now That Barrel Length Has Almost Nothing To Do With Accuracy. I Believe The Myth Of The Superior Accuracy Of A Long Rifle Dates From Colonial Days, When The Only Way To Extend Sight Radius Was To Make The Barrel As Long As Possible. It Is Interesting How Long It Takes A Myth To Die.

The Conclusions Seem Inescapable That In Certain Circles A Tendency Has Arisen To Fear People Who Fear Government. Government, As The Father Of Our Country Put It So Well, Is A Dangerous Servant And A Fearful Master. People Who Understand History, Especially The History Of Government, Do Well To Fear It. For A People To Express Openly Their Fear Of Those Of Us Who Are Afraid Of Tyranny Is Alarming. Fear Of The State Is In No Sense Subversive. It Is, To The Contrary, The Healthiest Political Philosophy For A Free People.

The Decay Of The Late, Great Country Of South Africa Is Beginning To Become Apparent. The Name Of The Transvaal Has Been Officially Changed To 'gauteng.' (one Of Our Friends Has Suggested That In View Of This Its Inhabitants In The Future Should Be Referred To As Oranggautengs.) ... And Now There Is A Move Afoot To Wreck The Kruger National Park, One Of The Wonders Of The World, On The Notion That A Good Bit Of Its Land Was 'taken From The Blacks.' This Idea Is Somewhat Akin To Giving Yellowstone Park Back To The Blackfeet.

One Correspondent, Who Is Into Psychology, Notes That In His Experience People Who Are Hoplophobes Are Nearly Always Nutty In Other Ways, Too. Hoplophobia [fear Of Guns], Of Course, Is Not Simply An Attitude But Rather An Aberration In Which The Sufferer Clings To An Idea Which He Himself Knows To Be Unsound, Such As The Idea That Inanimate Instruments Have A Will Of Their Own Or That Lawbreakers Abide By The Law.