Donald Trump's Listening Session With Mass Shooting Survivors Was Really Powerful
The president showed empathy, engagement, and leadership in a way that will surprise many of his critics and supporters alike.
The president showed empathy, engagement, and leadership in a way that will surprise many of his critics and supporters alike.
Are "gun violence restraining orders" the answer?
The benefits and flaws of policy disputes get sidelined when activist movements adopt kids as human shields.
The president may want to act, but he may need Congress to go along.
The once obscure device may not be long for this world.
Since the mid-1990s (and despite mass shootings), popular opinion in favor of gun rights has increased. It's unlikely the Parkland massacre will change that.
Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman, Robby Soave and Nick Gillespie talk gun violence, immigration politics, Russian electoral interference, and Black Panther.
"The right to keep and bear arms is apparently this Court's constitutional orphan."
Such orders can easily be used to take away innocent people's Second Amendment rights.
Looking back a few years after hypothetical new restrictions on semiautomatic weapons in private hands, we see a country grown more divided, but no less armed.
Young Americans don't fit into dying 20th-century culture-war tribes.
The Fox News host offers good-faith ideas worth engaging.
There are no plausible options that offer more than the faintest prospect of preventing the next massacre.
Even a narrower approach, focused on purported risk, deprives many innocent people of their constitutional rights.
Policies favored by both experts and the public would not have prevented the Florida shooting.
Congress can't "stop the killing...by changing the law."
Shooting revives deliberately misleading talking points about a bad regulation both the NRA and the ACLU opposed.
California's gun registration program is a mess.
Some pundits want school security to be as pointlessly intrusive as airport security.
His Ghost Gunner and 3D printing are destroying the concept of gun control.
The state's 1,000-foot rule made accidental felons out of people carrying firearms for self-defense.
Just because something looks like a gun doesn't mean it needs to be regulated like one.
Their attempts on the dark web had a less than 25 percent success rate
Given the arbitrariness of federal criteria for gun ownership, the public safety benefits of background checks are dubious.
The bill dramatically liberalizes concealed carry laws nationwide.
Citing state law, Honolulu's police chief tells them to turn in their guns.
The legislation mostly reminds federal agencies to follow the laws already on the books.
In a politically polarized America, gun control is destined to be obeyed primarily by its advocates.
A false sense of security is worse than no sense of security at all.
Hint: It's the same way you should talk to them about kidnapping.
A 2014 animal cruelty charge prevented the Texas church shooter from obtaining a concealed handgun license.
We have to do something about mass shootings. This is something. Therefore, we must do this. Or something.
The New York Times columnist's irrelevant gun control proposals are now accompanied by snazzy graphics.
Politicians have too much faith in background checks and extreme vetting as defenses against terrorism and mass shootings.
Nick Gillespie talks with National Review's Robert VerBruggen about the Texas church shooting.
His conviction for domestic violence legally disqualified him from buying guns.
So, too, have the politicians who said they really, really wanted a ban on the firearm accessory.
Robert Bork, majority rule, and District of Columbia v. Heller
The ATF has no legal authority to restrict the controversial firearm accessory.
The leader of the Congressional Second Amendment Caucus explains why prohibiting the suddenly notorious gun accessories is rash and dangerous.
Current owners of newly prohibited devices could go to prison for keeping them.
The bill, sponsored by both Republicans and Democrats, would ban much more than just bump stocks.
The video hosting website falls prey to a hysteria.
If you strip away legal protections for rights valued by millions of Americans, you're just going to make them angry to no good end.
Prohibiting the accessory used by Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock will require new legislation.
Confirmation bias is one of the great obstacles to making the practical case for liberty.
The misguided call to "repeal the Second Amendment."
A response to New York Times columnist Bret Stephens and his call to "repeal the Second Amendment."