Bryan Strawser

Musings from the land of winter & road construction

Zell’s Response

In today’s Wall Street Journal, Senator Zell Miller has a few words for his critics: But for David Gergen and this newspaper’s Al Hunt, among others, to call me a racist was especially hurtful. For they know better. They know I worked for three governors in a row, not just one: Carl Sanders, Lester Maddox [...]

Single Issue Voter

Until 9/11, I voted based primarily on one issue: gun control. So, based on that statement alone, in most years, I would not support Kerry simply because of comments like this: Kerry said renewing the assault weapons ban would not interfere with the Second Amendment rights of gun owners. Idiot. Please have him go back [...]

The Assault Weapons Ban is History

The fabled “assault weapons” ban expired this morning, reports CNN: Ten years after it was born out of the carnage of three California mass shootings, the federal assault weapons ban is fading out of existence Monday. This is a horrible law – born out of emotion and reactionary thought rather than any criminological theory. I [...]