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The FBI Is Undercounting Firearm Self-Defense IncidentsDo you carry a gun? Bad idea, says Hollywood. Civilians with guns are fools. You are more likely to hurt yourself than the bad guy. “Leave it to a good guy with a gun to really screw things up,” says a cop on ABC’s The Rookie. Liberal politicians agree. “A good guy with a gun will stop bad guys with a gun?! It doesn’t hold up,” smiles New York Gov. Kathy Hochul. “An adolescent rescue fantasy,” adds an “expert” on CBS. Now, I’m not a gun person. I was raised among lefty gun haters. I assumed Hollywood and “experts” were right. When I saw economist John Lott’s book, More Guns, Less Crime, I rolled my eyes. But now I understand that Lott makes a good point. “A couple million times a year, people use guns defensively,” he says in my new video. “When a…

What I Saw on the January 6 CommitteeDays after the January 6 attack on the Capitol, I joined the legal team supporting Representative Jamie Raskin and the other House managers as they prepared for President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial. At that point, relatively little was known about the origins of the attack. What was visible to us, as we scrambled to draft a presentation to the Senate, was a grim yet simple truth: Trump had set a violent mob upon Congress in order to stay in power. Later, I became part of the House January 6 select committee as an investigative counsel on a team examining how domestic violent extremism had contributed to the insurrection.In those two roles, I was at the front lines of congressional efforts to make sense of the attack. Throughout these investigations, the question I wanted to answer wasn’t so much what had happened on…

How Gaza Showed Up, and Didn’t, in the DebateSalma Hamamy wasn’t even watching the presidential debate when former President Donald Trump attempted a familiar verbal jab against Vice President Kamala Harris. “I’m talking now if you don’t mind,” said Trump, as Harris grinned. “Does that sound familiar?” The line hearkens back to a moment in the 2020 vice presidential debate, when Harris responded to an interruption from Mike Pence with the curt retort “I’m speaking.” The catchphrase, since then, has become a calling card for Harris; an indication of her toughness as the first female vice president. But it has not always been completely effective. Earlier this summer, when Harris had just become the de facto Democratic nominee, she gave one of her first addresses on the trail in Detroit. Moments into her speech, she was heckled by Hamamy—a recent graduate from the University of Michigan—and other protesters clamoring for…

You Think You’re So HeterodoxIt’s a Tuesday night in downtown Austin, and Joe Rogan is pretending to jerk off right in front of my face. The strangest thing about this situation is that millions of straight American men would kill to switch places with me.Centimillionaires generally pride themselves on their inaccessibility, but most weeks you can see Rogan live at the Comedy Mothership, which he owns, in exchange for $50 and a two-drink minimum. About 250 tickets for each “Joe Rogan and Friends” show go on sale every Sunday at 2 p.m. central time, and disappear within seconds. When you arrive at the Mothership, the staff locks your phone in a bag, which both ensures that you cannot leak footage online and makes you think you’re about to see some really forbidden shit.You are not. What you will see is four comedians, plus Rogan himself, with routines that might shock…

The Real Problem With EmojiAs my daughter and I bobbed in our pool floats, I wondered when my wife, still inside the house, was going to join us. I’d left my phone ashore, so I tapped into messages on my smartwatch. I navigated carefully to the emoji interface, then scrolled to find the swimming pool. But no such emoji exists. Instead, there is a person swimming (🏊). It would be sufficient; I tapped the tiny icon on my tiny screen, only to then be presented with a choice of skin tones for my swimmer: light, medium, dark, or Simpsons-yellow. I picked one and sent the message, which ultimately did what I intended: signal to my wife that we were in the pool. (Later, I discovered that I had actually selected the “man swimming” emoji; separate emoji depict a woman and a gender-neutral person swimming, which unfurl into their own menus…

‘He cared for you hard’: Remembering Ricky Aspinwall’s impactFriends, coworkers and players remember Ricky Aspinwall, the Apalachee High School defensive coordinator killed in a mass shooting at the school. …[TheTopNews] Read More.ESPN – Sports | Sports & RecreationThu, September 12, 20246 hours ago