“This bill would remove one of the few protections that we currently have in place to stop dangerous people from buying handguns,” said Sen. Natasha Marcus, a Mecklenburg County Democrat. [Governor Roy] Cooper’s office didn’t…
By Olivia Rondeau and Hannah Cox The ACLU fired shots on Twitter last month, claiming that the Second Amendment is “racist” alongside an article and podcast episode that posed the question “Do Black People Have…
Just spoke with the Regional Arts & Culture Council. George Washington statue in Portland will be removed by crane TODAY and put in storage. No long term decisions made regarding reinstallation. Spokeswoman for RACC says…
I once tried to get a carry permit in New York. First, I had to read 60 pages of instructions about irrelevant things like “metal knuckle knives” and “kung fu stars,” fill out a confusing 17-page form,…
Civil-rights leaders of the 19th and early 20th centuries also lamented that the right to self-defense was denied them. Fredrick Douglass reacted to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 by editorializing that the best remedy would…
[Carol] Anderson’s [book, The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America], however, is wanting in important respects. She argues unconvincingly, in the face of formidable scholarship to the contrary, that the aim to…
It’s difficult to overstate the power of the media’s ability to manufacture consensus on issues like gun control. A recent study in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence found that the “perpetuation of potentially inaccurate stereotypes not only…
By Larry Keane U.S. Rep. Burgess Owens (R-Utah) took to the floor of the House of Representatives with a reminder to the politicians pushing gun control. Those proposals have their roots in a racist past…
By Dan Wos When I was a kid, my Dad took me out hunting and target shooting. He loved anything having to do with guns. Me, not so much. It just wasn’t my thing. I…
(AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams) Maybe this is why people like Shannon Watts and Kris Brown have suddenly shifted their messages to social justice, police reform and defunding or eliminating law enforcement. New York’s Sullivan Act…