ESSAYS

This page contains links to essays explaining my thinking about various topics. Many of the topics are controversial, and I don’t expect that people with deeply held views that oppose the ideas expressed here will be convinced by them (or by anything else, for that matter). They are intended to lay out my thinking so that I can simply refer people to these essays rather than writing them out again and again each time a topic comes up. I have chosen this method of expressing my views since I am not interested in getting into arguments and do not like forums or social media, which inevitably devolve into such unproductive conflicts. These essays will be updated from time to time as my thinking evolves. They do not represent the views of any organization or employer I am now or ever have been associated with. If you like them, great. If you don’t, that’s your right, too. Go create your own website and see if you can lay out a set of views as logically and empirically strong as these. I don’t expect everyone who reads these essays to agree with them. As the great American humourist Josh Billings famously observed, “As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand”.

What should be done about gun control in Canada?

http://www.tallteri.com/guncontrol.htm

Some of my favorite quotes

http://www.tallteri.com/quotes.htm

The hypocrisy of so-called “Progressives”

http://www.tallteri.com/progressives.htm

Why do people like “military-style” guns?

http://www.tallteri.com/militarystyle.htm

Don’t firearms owners care about the victims of shooting rampages and other violence involving firearms?

http://www.tallteri.com/caring.htm

Is it fair to speak of the firearms community in the same way as racial and religious communities, and to demand that they receive the same respect and legal protection?

http://www.tallteri.com/community.htm