More about guns
Regarding my column from Friday -- http://www.thepilot.com/news/2012/apr/27/whatcha-doin-with-that-gun-in-your-hand/ -- the website ended a rather interesting string of comments about gun control and gun safety. I wanted to continue the discussion. The column is merely a first-person observational piece about my evening on the gun range with some peers and the Southern ...
Taking aim
I am not a gun person. I have fired both a handgun and a rifle, but I’m the type of person who calls ammunition “bullets,” instead of “rounds.” I first held a gun in college. It was on a date, and the girl, perhaps trying to impress me, wanted to ...
Tommy Davis and the 911 tape
Most of today has been given over to dealing with a 911 tape and an incident that happened April 4 at the home of state Senate candidate Tommy Davis. That evening, police were summoned to Davis' Aberdeen home. The report from the Moore County Sheriff's Office said Davis had threatened ...
A song for our times
I'm not really a political guy. I'm pretty middle-of-the-road and cross party lines frequently in the voting booth. While my job as the editor of this paper calls for me at times to weigh in on political matters for our editorial page, I don't generally throw around my personal viewpoints. ...
Commenting on Trayvon rally
Yesterday, we posted a story about the Moore County chapter of the NAACP holding a rally and vigil in Trayvon Martin’s memory this coming Saturday evening at the Southern Pines Pool Park. As short stories go, it's fairly innocuous: who, what, when, where and why. But when I was asked ...
