YOUR TURN
There is no gun problem in Virginia
The first swipe to ban guns/magazines in the Virginia legislature failed. Still, the core philosophy by which Democrats desire to govern demands unflinching dependency on ...
Karl Schmidt, Author at Farmville
YOUR TURN
The hidden truth about guns
Seems every few weeks there is a mass shooting that dominates the headlines. Although these shootings are mostly conducted with an automatic rifle, automatic rifles ...
by Karl Schmidt, Thursday, September 12, 2019 7:00 am
Columns
Dying for freedom
When these mass shootings happen, everyone looks for solutions or something to blame. Many accuse the availability of guns along with the mind poisoning effects ...
by Karl Schmidt, Tuesday, August 13, 2019 4:09 pm
Columns
Spotting gun grabbers
What’s the difference between a gun and a car? Although both can be extremely deadly, there is no constitutional right to own a car. The ...
by Karl Schmidt, Thursday, February 28, 2019 2:39 pm
Columns
Politics rules the day
Let’s face it, everything in America has become political. From kneeling football players to stores refusing to sell assault style guns to where one decides ...
by Karl Schmidt, Thursday, July 19, 2018 12:03 pm
Columns
American laws should be applied equally
If an American citizen brought their children along during the commission of a crime being caught by authorities, this criminal parent would be arrested and ...
by Karl Schmidt, Thursday, June 21, 2018 9:39 am
YOUR TURN
Setting the record straight
Although the assault against assault rifles has tapered off, it will be back just prior to the fall elections. The present psychology of the anti ...
by Karl Schmidt, Wednesday, May 2, 2018 10:20 pm
Recreation
Phases of deer hunting
Having started my life of whitetail deer hunting in the late 1960s in southern Maryland, eventually drifting to its Eastern Shore where the sika deer ...
by Karl Schmidt, Thursday, October 26, 2017 9:07 am
Columns
Generals not ‘traitors’
In response to Mr. Peca’s column, “Removal is not destruction” referred to General’s Lee and Jackson as “traitors” because they took up arms against the ...
by Karl Schmidt, Tuesday, October 17, 2017 11:34 am
Columns
‘The distortion of the truth’
Study the Revolutionary War or the Civil War and by comparison, what’s brewing today really isn’t so bad.People still lose lives over philosophical differences now ...
by Karl Schmidt, Thursday, September 7, 2017 1:51 pm
Columns
Schmidt: ‘History is being rewritten’
American Civil War history is being rewritten. Although most couldn’t guess, within a decade when the Civil War began and ended (much less on the ...
by Karl Schmidt, Tuesday, May 23, 2017 10:32 am
Columns
‘We cannot all fit the same mold’
There is increasing talk from all across the southern (Confederate) states to remove statues and flags that pay homage to the Confederacy. The complaint is ...
by Karl Schmidt, Thursday, April 27, 2017 1:32 pm
Columns
The disarming of America
Oregon is a conservative and pro-gun state unreceptive to Washington politics. Still, President Barack Obama has a deep compulsion to pass one new layer of ...
by Karl Schmidt, Wednesday, December 30, 2015 1:26 pm
Columns
Guns get a black eye ‘when misused against innocence’ in America
It may be said America has a gun culture, but does one person in 100 understand firearms? That small percentage falls off sharply among our ...
by Karl Schmidt, Thursday, December 10, 2015 11:44 am
Columns
Hunting policy defies rational thinking
Being a devoted deer hunter for 45 years — mostly in Maryland — I became a resident of Virginia in 2004 doing most of my ...
by Karl Schmidt, Thursday, September 24, 2015 11:50 am
Columns
As Flags And Atrocities Go, Southern Banner’s History Is Tame
Before the Confederate flag is surrendered up for the second time in this country, another flag or two and what they represent needs to be ...