Bunch: After 18 Months of Pandemic, America Has a Murder Crisis
A couple of things do seem clear. One is that too many Americans are using guns in situations that don’t call for firepower — like moving the gifts at a baby shower, or getting…
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America’s 100 Million Gun Owners – Not the NRA – Are Why Democrats Can’t Pass Gun Control
NRA membership hasn’t grown in eight years. In 2020, it mustered only about half of what it spent in 2016 to elect Donald Trump. Leaked financial documents indicate that its revenue dropped by more than $80 million…
ACLU: We Need to Restrict the Second Amendment to Preserve the First
The America Civil Liberties Union, which has never been able to count to ten and remember to include number two, is apparently unaware that more than 40 states have either shall-issue or some form…
Biden Administration Files Supreme Court Brief Supporting New York’s May Issue Gun Control Law
New York’s longstanding proper-cause requirement does not violate the Second Amendment. A. The Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms, but that right is not absolute. For centuries, legislatures in England,…
CNN Discovers the Contrast Between Risky Freedom and Peaceful Slavery
The two countries’ opposite approaches [to gun control] are especially striking given both nations were born from armed insurrection — the US winning its independence in the Revolutionary War in 1783, and the Chinese…
Hayden: America Should Be Scared of Scared White Guys With Guns
I once lived next door to a guy in Memphis who owned more than a hundred firearms, some of which were strewn around his two-bedroom house and even lying on the kitchen counter. I…
College Students Learn About American Society Through a Trip to a Gun Range
Professor David Yamane teaches a Sociology of Guns course at Wake Forest University. Part of the curriculum includes a trip to a shooting range for the class’s students. After the range trip, students are assigned…
Gun Control Isn’t About Crime, It’s A Battle In America’s Culture War
If we cared about keeping guns out of the hands of felons, we’d be locking up straw buyers. We’d be prosecuting prohibited “lie and try” buyers who falsify their ATF paperwork. And we’d be…
Gail Collins Isn’t Happy At All About the Biden Administration’s Progress So Far On Gun Control
Let’s take a look at how well Joe Biden is doing with his gun safety agenda. We call this gun safety, people, because “gun control” makes a lot of politicians nervous. And really, what the…
Media Calling Shootings ‘Gun Violence’ Shifts Blame From the Criminal to the Tool
Philadelphia had more murders in the first half of 2021 than the entire year from 2013 to 2017, denoting the grim reality that neither elected nor appointed leaders have a plan to stop the rise of…